Does that mean I can say, "Nigga Please" ...in an affectionate, endearing way, of course.
I wonder what the viewer demographic stats look like.
Fox is particularly awful. It appears their goal is to coarsen and debauch anything they touch.
I hate the commercials for the show, so I know I wouldn’t watch it. However from the comercials, it totally looks like black stereotypes from start to finish.
More ‘Made for the Masses’ BS!
Unwatchable.
What’s an “African-American?” Many of these people don’t have any connection to the natives of Africa. Hell, many don’t know the FIRST THING about Africa. Would a white South African coming to America be known as an “African-American” too?
I watched two episodes.
It is certainly a negative portrayal.
The question, really, is whether or not it is accurate.
I think it was Eric Bolling who said Empire is the first show since 1991 to increase viewership in each subsequent episode
This is ‘I am gonna slap yo bitch ass because I am from the hood,’” Watkins insisted.
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I teach in a predominantly Black High School (85% Black, 14% Latino and 1% White and Asian.) and I must say that the above statement is 100% correct. That IS most of this generation of Black America. It’s been “ghetto” for a long time. Now, it is gangsta/thug-ghetto. Fo sho bro.
You mean sorta like the viral videos we see week in & week out of Black Beastie Girls brawling it out.
I wonder if they get upset about BET stereotyping blacks in the movies and shows they have on?
Just how does one "negatively portray" a sub-culture that has in recent years willingly and deliberately degenerated itself into the most sub-human thuggish behavior on the planet? Okay, maybe the second worst, after the muslim sub-humans; but the point needs to be made.
I am so sick of this “race discussion” I could scream....in fact I think I will. :-)
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If so, “Empire” wouldn’t be the first FOX show to depict African-American culture in a bad light.
Isn’t “COPS” still running on FOX?
Does that mean I can say, "Nigga Please" ...in an affectionate, endearing way, of course.
To paraphrase Dann Rather, it’s negative, but accurate.
I’ve been going back and forth on whether I should get a ‘Coonan’ hat and t-shirt, for fear of getting negative feedback from low-information folk. The large .357 magnum, semi-automatic handgun on the shirt should be a clue, but might be taken as some sort of threat.
I believe that is racist. Doesn't matter who said it.
But then again, there is that "pesky" First amendment.
5.56mm
“Coonery”
Now that’s funny!