Erika Alexander breaks down how Living Single got screwed over

[NZA]

very intelligent

 

[Wild self]

Nah i'm talking about that decade or more long gap between respectable black television until shonda rhimes popped up

you mean to tell me you get why they just said "nah, we don't need black programming like before"

again, just going by what Erika Alexander SAID in this interview...surely you aren't suggesting you know better that HER and this is her career

After 9/11, it was all about reality TV and expanding VIACOM. This was the time when independent thought or distribution was OVER. That was why BET was sold to white folks and MTV stopped playing actual music videos. They double down on the flashy/ cartoon gangsta one-dimensional characters on music and TV because they wanted to have "universal appeal."

 

[Wild self]

What happened to the Black sitcoms of the 90s is what happened to the Black films of the early to mid 70s. Literally, the exact same thing..

The difference is that whereas the 70s films SAVED the major film studios, the 90s era tv shows helped create and sustain the new tv networks. In both cases, once the companies got their financial footing, they moved on to something else.

It wasn't for the black shows on Thursday nights from 1992 to 1998 on FOX, on top of the Simpsons and Married with Children, the corporation known as FOX would have collapsed.

 

[jadillac]

she looks better now than when she was on Living Single

 

[Barnett114]

If it was to CAC media and c00ns telling Hip Hop, there would be NWA, Death Row Tupac, BIG, portion of Wu Tang, and anything from Jay-Z forward. They would forget about KRS One, Public Enemy, Rakim, X-Clan, Nas, and so forth.

 

[Wild self]

Ask a random Hip Hop head under 25, what do they know about Public Enemy, KRS, Rakim, and so on. Other young followers of every other genre know the OGs, but Hip Hop is cool to shyt on, or erase, the contributions of the past.

 

[Barnett114]

Ask a random Hip Hop head under 25, what do they know about Public Enemy, KRS, Rakim, and so on. Other young followers of every other genre know the OGs, but Hip Hop is cool to shyt on, or erase, the contributions of the past.

That has everything to do with the ignorance our own history. Whether it's pop culture or actual historical figures.

There's people that don't know who Miles Davis is. There's people who don't know who Mansa Musa is.

It's up to the older generations to put the younger people on to our historical figures.

With music for example, too many of us like to throw away our history and label the old music "dusty"

 

[teacher]

Whats to know.....he a light bright.

Dude has said multiple times that he is black and spoken on black issues for years.

W.D. Fard Muhammed looking muthafukka

 

[lotteryplaya]

lol thecoli must not know about her husband.

This. No sympathy for bedwench tears. They get temporarily pro black if it means more money or more roles. Marry your husband because you liked the way he ordered a drink bedwenchettes.

 

[Wild self]

That has everything to do with the ignorance our own history. Whether it's pop culture or actual historical figures.

There's people that don't know who Miles Davis is. There's people who don't know who Mansa Musa is.

It's up to the older generations to put the younger people on to our historical figures.

With music for example, too many of us like to throw away our history and label the old music "dusty"

Nah, that's a Hip Hop thing. If you claim that you follow Rock music and don't fukk with Jimi Herndrix or Freddy Mercury, you would legit get jumped or beaten to death at a Rock concert. If you a Jazz follower and never cared to follow Miles Davis, you could be banned from many Jazz clubs permanently. Every genre but Hip Hop, there are gateways to their culture and a direct violation to that has dire consequences.

 

[Barnett114]

Nah, that's a Hip Hop thing. If you claim that you follow Rock music and don't fukk with Jimi Herndrix or Freddy Mercury, you would legit get jumped or beaten to death at a Rock concert. If you a Jazz follower and never cared to follow Miles Davis, you could be banned from many Jazz clubs permanently. Every genre but Hip Hop, there are gateways to their culture and a direct violation to that has dire consequences.

That has nothing to do with I said about black people throwing away and ignoring our own history. Like I stated previously:

That has everything to do with the ignorance our own history.

There's people that don't know who Miles Davis is. There's people who don't know who Mansa Musa is.

It's up to the older generations to put the younger people on to our historical figures.

That's a microcosm of black culture today, disregarding the old and focusing on the now.

 

[Wild self]

That has nothing to do with I said about black people throwing away and ignoring our own history. Like I stated previously:





That's a microcosm of black culture today, disregarding the old and focusing on the now.

Even so, that is similar to how people forgot about "A Different World" and other positive black shows, its the same for every aspect of media. Erase all the positive contributions of Black media, and flood it with so much negativity that people forget that such a thing ever existed. "Burning the Books" is indeed a real thing.

 

[Mind_Blown]

After 9/11, it was all about reality TV and expanding VIACOM. This was the time when independent thought or distribution was OVER. That was why BET was sold to white folks and MTV stopped playing actual music videos. They double down on the flashy/ cartoon gangsta one-dimensional characters on music and TV because they wanted to have "universal appeal."

Do you think that is when the New World Order came thru ? On some illuminati shyt..?.. Ya Got my tin foil hat on lol.

 

[Wild self]

Do you think that is when the New World Order came thru ? On some illuminati shyt..?.. Ya Got my tin foil hat on lol.

9/11, a lot of personal freedoms were taken away by the Patriot Act.

Basically, the government and corporations are invading privacy in ways you don't know how

Same time they were wrapping up getting rid of all kinds of positive black images in media and doubled down in ignorance. That was when the c00nette Mona Scott Young made those reality TV shows

 

[3rdWorld]

We need to cut ourselves loose from cac media..no, seriously, we must wean ourselves off of these vile stinking creatures.
Id heard Living Single was cut because it put extreme pressure on the cac's favorite FRIENDS..