With so little black folks on television to respresent us, every image hurts us. It would be different if we had as many black faces on television as white folks do, but we don't. The ones that are on television (BET, UPN, movies, rap videos etc.) are negative, ignorant portrayals of us. If we just had a few negative images here and there, I'd have no problem with it, but that's not the case. Even our magazines show us in an ignorant light, so we need all the positive blacks we can get, there is a surplus of ignorance.
The fact is, it gets old the way it's so profitable to show ignorant black folks. We need a balance. Not to impress the white folks, but to let younger black folks realize that's not the reality of life as a black man/ woman.