I'm going to throw my two cents into this mix. Afterwards y'all dumbass JEALOUS ninjas can eat shyt and DIE!
The reason why this show bothers so many of you ridiculous retards is quite apparent. It has nothing to do with "concern" for black women, black women's image or any of the other TIRED, RIDICULOUS, bullshyt posted in this thread. It has nothing to do with "confronting black women about their hypocrisy " (a stupid explanation if I've ever heard one considering this show is FICTIONAL). No the REAL reasons why this show bothers you ninjas is as follows:
1). You see the white man as a sexual threat. This is evident in the cries about "propaganda." There is a fear that black women and white men might actually view each other in a way YOU, retarded ninjas of Coli, have deemed inappropriate. After all, black women and white men aren't supposed to find each other attractive. Black women and white men aren't supposed to mix. Many black women have become more vocal about their attraction to white men. This shyt scares the fukk out of you.
2). Many of you have referred to the character played by Kerry Washington as a "whore" "bed wench" etc while also admitting YOU DON'T EVEN WATCH THE SHOW (sigh...fukking dumbasses). This policing of black women's sexuality (albeit a fictional black woman) is the only means that a powerless group men have in preventing what they again, see as a threat. Now of course this "shaming tactic" is not only idiotic...but it DOESN'T work. People are going to do what they do. Then there is this...
The reality is a black woman is far more likely to be a "whore" to a black man than to ANY white man. It's not white men out here making black women babymamas and single mothers. The white man's children are growing up in intact families in middle class clean communities, while those black women have by black men are more likely to be living in POVERTY.
By default, the black man has placed black women in the whore, babymamas, single mother, concubine role...because black men do NOT marry. So, it is ridiculous for you morons to try to shame a black woman for supposedly allowing herself to act in this role with a white man.
Truth be told, given the obvious short-comings of black men, black women would do themselves justice to favor being a white man's whore over being a black man's whore. IF a black woman gets knocked up by a white man he will likely take care of his children and perhaps even marry her. The same is NOT true for black men.
The benefits of being a white man whore FAR outweigh those of being a default black man's whore. As crude as that may sound...it is true!
I don't recommend any woman being a whore. I don't see it as something anyone should desire. I don't advocate the position and the only reason I'm mentioning it is because you jealous bitter ninjas have used the term over and over again here.
But let's get real here, if black women fancied playing the role it's best to go for those at the top of the totem pole and not the ninjas under their foot.
Some of you mentioned Edison, the black man, Olivia sidestepped. Edison was detestable. The man was borderline stalkerish (showing up at her apt and letting himself in). His personality was that of a brick wall. There was NO passion between them. No woman should ever force herself to be with a man she doesn't even like...let alone love. fukk out of here!
Fitz and Olivia have CHEMISTRY. They have that magic. It's not because the actor is white. Truth be told I couldn't stand the white guy Kerry played opposite of in Lakeview Terrace (I think that's the name). So, to answer one of the questions here....it's not simply because Fitz is played by a white actor. It's because he is played by a damn good actor. He and Kerry bring that FIRE. And the writing/plots are addictive.
3). Economically black men are the bottom of the barrel. It probably hurts like hell to see the cream of the crop black women getting it in with well-to-do white men. We get it...now just own up to the "hurt" and call it a day. Whether you like it or not, I predict there will more of this in the future.
4). Last but not least, black men hate Scandal and resent black women for loving the showing because the character operates outside of the black community and black men. As one blogger put it,...
"And that’s where the conversation gets controversial. Black men seem to be expressing discontent with Pope not because she’s the “other” in an extramarital affair, but because, debatably, she’s a confusing amalgam of sexual history, sexual modernity, and agency—and a badass wardrobe. She’s powerful, but not ‘loud’. Sexy, but not overtly provocative. Pope has reclaimed a level of humanity. And with this reclamation comes the privilege of complexity—a possible threat to Black male power.....Though she remains in a position of submission, to a White man, Pope has stepped from behind the Black man and cut the proverbial political line. There is this implicit “how dare you?” tone in Black men’s Twitter commentary about the show. Black women have played ‘other women’ to married Black men, for decades. It’s not until now that it’s an issue of morality. The show’s relational dynamics aren’t what we’re used to. And likely, because so much of Black men’s power has come from Black women’s oppression, this shift makes them uncomfortable"
@Rawtid pointed the above out, but you dumbass ninjas on this site are too damn stupid to comprehend.
Anyway, that's my two cents.
Have fun! I'm done with this thread.
Peace!