Why the Media Shifted From “Family Matters” to “Love & Hip Hop”

with the. insistence on this divisive race. narrative in america uh that it's it's. important that we spread the blacks. message so i just first want to tell you. guys what is blexit what did i mean when. i meant black exit. there's been a lot of media portrayals. of what started this movement and. it couldn't come more direct from my. heart meaning that i started this. movement because in 2015 i didn't care. about politics at all. i didn't really care much about all the. debates that were going on in the media.

um but i had this i started realizing. that increasingly the media was sort of. insisting on this narrative that the. only black american that was worth. giving a platform to was somebody that. was angry somebody that was divisive and. somebody that believed. that this country is a horrible. backwards racist irredeemable place. and it started to. make me also realize that when i looked. at the portrayal of black americans on. tv it was a similar echo meaning that.

the type of black americans that were. being given platforms that were being. given shows were so far from the type of. shows and black americans i grew up with. when i grew up we were watching the. cosby show we were watching will smith. and the fresh prince of bel-air we were. watching the winslows and family matters. these wonderful wonderful shows that. were at the end of the day about family. right it was all about family it was it. was setting our goals and our minds in a. way that was so positive and so.

inspiring meaning these were doctors. these are doctor huntstables the. families were together it wasn't about. um you know strife and angst and then i. looked up today and i said wow what's. number one black show on tv and at that. time it was love and hip hop i think it. still is. very short amount of time and we've gone. from the winslows to love and hip-hop. right. so you have to realize that at this. moment in time the media is definitely. creating a simulation and deciding upon. what direction they want black americans.

to go into you see this with the grammys. you see this um every basically every. show that they have awards show that. they have the people that are being. honored the people that are being. celebrated are people that have this. divisive vision of what it means to be a. black american while at the same time. when i started examining and looking at. the statistics and while we were being. told to focus on race. all of the other areas that were. completely crippling america. were being ignored so if you were. looking for racism a great place to. start. would be.

maybe at least having a conversation. about why it is that 75 percent of black. boys in california can't pass a basic. reading exam. what is happening in our education. system uh i became fascinated with the. education system and how it was changing. and shifting and you guys are all aware. of that they're now teaching critical. race theory um which is basically. insisting that kids focus all day on. ideas of oppression on ideas of. backwardness and ideas of why they. should hate america why they should hate. the person next to them because of the. color of their skin it's the very. definition of racism when you look at.

somebody in the face and you say. i can look at your color and i know. everything about you right. you are white so you therefore you are. privileged you are black and therefore. you are oppressed i don't think every. black person is oppressed i'm certain. malia and sasha obama are not oppressed. right. i think there's got to be at least a. couple of white people that are living. uh you know less than less than uh that. they're living in a in a poorer manner. than they're living and yet we've just. decided that this is the narrative and. the reason for that is because what the.

media seeks to do right now is to. collectivize our thoughts they don't. want us to see ourselves as individuals. they don't want us to actually get ahead. when you replace hard academics like. reading and writing. and and the is with things like critical. race theory when a kid can tell you um. about white privilege but they can't. they can't do their math homework you're. basically setting up a society in which. we're going to mass produce failures and. we're going to mass produce angry. failures.

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