Fuckery

I will be sooooo glad when reality shows like The Real House Hoes Of Atlanta, Basketball Bitches and Love And Who Aint Hip Hop would stop being aired! In my opinion, these shows depict African Americans in the worst possible way. These people DO NOT represent me in any way, shape or form. I'm grateful that my kids don't like foolishness or they'd try to watch it just like many other youth. Is this really the example that, we as black people, want to put out there to represent us? I guess nobody cares as long as a buck is being made by someone. There are people that lobbied against gangsta rap and the stigma that it carried but I guess this bullshit, that is considered entertainment, is ok for everyone until it spills into the upper class communities. What happened to the real shows that had to have talented writers to carry it for years at a time? I really don't give two fucks about what a celebrity has going on in their life. A celebrity's job is to entertain me with an illusion of some sort then go home to their own private life to live. I don't care about where they shop, eat, vacation or none of that. Who cares who they are arguing with? Hell, if the media would keep their drug use out of the lime light then maybe so many kids wouldn't think it was ok to get high since they are doing it. It seems as though our society is being ruined by a contradictory, ass backwards, misguided way of thinking. Everyone wants a better life and wants everything to get better but yet nobody is teaching and instilling any standards, morals or self respect into our youth. Why doesn't Fox News report that? I'm just tired of it all! I suppose my kids along with a few others will be the only ones that have that!

This is really bigger than the fuckery that is found within the African American shows when you think about it. Look at the show 16 & Pregnant, Redneck Weddings and Jersey Shore. Is society so fucked up that all of this has became the norm? I don't blame all of society's problems solely on television but in my opinion it has a lot to do with it. Our kids spend more time watching that idiot box than they do anything else, other than probably facebook and twitter but they are probably doing them both at the same time.

Just remember that kids emulate whatever they are exposed to the next time you think it's cute to watch some bullshit while your child is in the room instead of finding something more appropriate for them. That goes for the things that you do and/or say around them also. I say that because folks kill me acting surprised that their kids turn out to be bad seeds after they exposed them to all the elements that made them that way.

This is not meant to judge anyone. I wrote this hoping that I may make someone put some thought into things and hopefully put some things into perspective. It's never too late for change and if we don't start with ourselves then where will we start?