- Feb 28, 2009
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You have to be kidding me. You at once argue that one can distinguish reality from fiction, but then you argue, when no one else is, that reality is depicted in fiction. Come now.
I want to understand what part of REALITY do you not understand?
Do you understand that a television show isn't reality?
This television show sets out to represent a poor intact Black family and it makes the family replete with morons and self-hatred. Beyond that it also encourages any Mis-Leader it can find: Jesse Jackson, NAACP . . ... It's clearly a propaganda outfit and clearly a negative depiction of Black people, yet you want to call it "Reality?" What in the world?
I saw the clip where Thelma rejects the sorority. The father tells his sons not to ask stupid questions. Thelma rejects the the sorority which can be seen as positive, sure, but because the writers were promoting the NAACP among other outfits.
It's so obvious that I don't see why you defend it.
Token positivity. And it remains situational.
There is no REALITY in fabrications, get that through your head.
Let Booker T. Washington instruct you:
“The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to oppress the weak means little.”
Extrapolate for this topic.
It's as much a "reality" as a Black Poor Inner-City Family would be strong, patient, and intelligent. You prefer that the representation is otherwise. You and the Whites whom prefer Black people hold self-hatred. You masquerading weaknesses, impatience and unintelligence as 'reality.' You.
What SUPPORT DO YOU HAVE that the WRITERS of Good Times promoted the NAACP??
Furthermore, this show was set in the 1970s. ---The NAACP, Jesse Jackson and many other VETERANS of the CIVIL RIGHTS ERA were still very active in fighting for, addressing, representing Black issues and needs.
HERE is an April/1974 issue of "THE CRISIS," the official publication of the NAACP:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Jd...ce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
...And what's really so said is that you have actually CONVINCED yourself of this stuff. (smh)
And, there is a difference between "UN-EDUCATED" and "UN-INTELLIGENT."
These URBAN CHARACTER PARENTS (James & Florida) were UN-EDUCATED but NOT "un-intelligent." ---THEY like so many REAL LIFE BLACK PEOPLE were DOMESTIC WORKERS and LABORERS and were DESCENDANTS of those from the SHARE-CROPPING FIELDS of the South.
Black people like the CHARACTERS of these PARENTS weren't from the "TALENTED TENTH."
And this QUOTE you gave from BOOKER T. WASHINGTON is about EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH...
"Democracy and Education"
Booker T. Washington, Brooklyn, NY, 1896.
...The study of arithmetic that does not result in making someone more honest and self-reliant is defective.
The study of history that does not result in making men conscientious in receiving and counting the ballots of their fellow men is most faulty.
The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to oppress the weak means little.
How I wish that from the most humble log cabin schoolhouse in Alabama we could burn it, as it were, into the hearts and heads of all, that usefulness, service to our brother, is the supreme end of education. Putting the thought more directly as it applies to conditions in the South:...
...http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/democracy_and_education.htm
EXTRAPOLATE THIS TO GOOD TIMES and how YOU see it as "MINSTRELING" >>>
...."You’re trying to drive him into a ghetto and make him the victim of every kind of unjust condition imaginable...... Why, you’re dealing with the wrong man, and you’re dealing with him at the wrong time in the wrong way...."
Malcolm X
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/461.html