Black Scholar Calls "Empire" ‘Ghettofied’ ‘Coonery’
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Cooning is going out of the way to assure white people approve/are comfortable.
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this post caught a few nosigns, but this the very context in which several posters on here use the term. others use it in the way Charlamayne defined it in the Vlad video.
i think the term is over-used on here though. like some of these posters love calling another black person '? ' and never pass up an opportunity to use it.. i don't understand that. -
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I said that to my wife as well. And Tyrese's character was a beast in the comics too, so they really did him ? .
Being a black and powerful man is too much for white america to handle apparently. They love anything that emasculates black men. And all the better if we do it for them. Hence why this show is so successful.
I only read the comics for now. Are u telling me they made tyrese into a ? on the show?
Not tyrese, lock him in a room full of zombies for days, if u c him vs a horde of zombies pray for the zombies tyrese?!
Not tyrese that'll ? his white ? , chill for a second then go get some throat from samurai bad ass michonne? !
That's the ? they emasculated on the tv show.......smh foh with that.
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Can someone tell me what's abusive about this gif?
If the muthafuckas that flagged me say it's because he ain't wearing a shirt, I'm gonna direct them to the wrestling & boxing sections of this website that are full of shirtless ? . -
Racism is profitable
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Nischelle turner is fine
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Haven't watched it, looks intriguing from the previews...def was planning on binge watching when I get a weekend off.
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yep and I dig the walking dead but only one black male had ? on the show. T-dogg had 15 lines in three seasons and died saving a white chick. Out of the three black inmates in the prison, the biggest one was a ? , the next biggest was ok, the last was a piece of trash. Tyreese started off as a G, but then somehow after being in a zombie apocalypse for 2 years, he became a ? who couldn't handle it. Morgan may get a little shine but that's if he ever catches up with the group. Sasha and Michonne are far more stronger than any black man on the show.
Black men in the majority of tv shows/movies are either cowards, ? , comic relief or sidekicks. They will all die trying to save a white chick. You can pick damn near any show or movie and the above will be the formula, unless they are just on some straight ignorant ? like in the majority of these ratchet ass "black" shows. Whenever I tried watching Empire i was just amazed at how badly its written and how our people are being portrayed. What family has three sons that all appear to be ? , but the oldest "successful" brother is a nut who dates a white chick, the middle brother is ? for no reason, the younger son is a caricature. I understand some folks are saying its like Dallas, but the problem is, damn near ALL of our shows are like Dallas. Where are the positive images of our people? We don't all sing and play sports. We are engineers, scientists, educators, doctors. We are not limited to this ridiculous ? being pushed on the big screen.
Media will also not show black couples. It PAINS them to show black excellence. Every sister falls over herself for a white guy in just about every show i've seen. That's one of the reasons its hard to watch Sleepy Hollow. Apart from it getting lame, the two sisters on there goes nuts over white dudes. Flash? Iris is in love with every white guy on the show. Its sad. Our children can't see black excellence on the big screen, but they can find some ratchet ? wherever they look -
Like Water wrote: »
I said that to my wife as well. And Tyrese's character was a beast in the comics too, so they really did him ? .
Being a black and powerful man is too much for white america to handle apparently. They love anything that emasculates black men. And all the better if we do it for them. Hence why this show is so successful.
I only read the comics for now. Are u telling me they made tyrese into a ? on the show?
Not tyrese, lock him in a room full of zombies for days, if u c him vs a horde of zombies pray for the zombies tyrese?!
Not tyrese that'll ? his white ? , chill for a second then go get some throat from samurai bad ass michonne? !
That's the ? they emasculated on the tv show.......smh foh with that.
The trades>>>>>
Tyreese became so soft it was laughable. This dude died reminiscing about kids he doesn't even know. One of the silliest deaths on the show. -
? Empire and ? anyone who watches that ? .
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my opinion on the Wire, is while it had its share of portraying (and probably very accurately) hood imagery, the show had substance where Empire (as entertaining as it may be) does not.
By the time the wire went off, people wanted to see spinoffs of the wire in other areas of the country. Empire could go off today or tomorrow and im pretty sure no one would give af
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No need to post ? pics fam...
I would have banned you if I was a mod...
And that's why your ? isn't a mod, because you don't understand a relatively simple concept such as "context." Ya boy and Zombie are the most vehemently anti-? people on this broad. So this the ? picture that was posted wasn't gratuitous or for shock value. The picture of the ? suckers was posted in regards to the overall theme of the thread, which is is, Empire a ratchet show? Not trying to incite an argument, but dude if you don't have the ability to discern whether or not something on the broad is germane to the conversation, then you have absolutely no business whatsoever being a moderator on this message board.Lmao so now there is difference between a Uncle Tom and a ? ?
Actually there is. I made this thread a few months back, The History of Negative Black Stereotypes, The Brute Caricature (Warning LONG ASS READ!) http://community.allhiphop.com/discussion/524980/the-history-of-negative-black-stereotypes-the-brute-caricature-warning-long-ass-read/p1 and it gives an origin and the breakdown of negative black stereotypes.
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Man the word "? " has been used and watered down so much lately I can't even tell you which is which these days outside of the BLATANTLY obvious cases( I think I'll make that the topic for the week 13 video). Starting to sound like something folks use to say when someone else disagrees with you. Whatever, I watch Empire, and I know that PLENTY of white people like it too. Had some old lady(I'm talking senior citizen) come up to me at work and say my hair looks like the young guy's on Empire.
Showing black folks as dealers, stealers, killers, and vandals/
Yet praised 6 seasons of Walt White bustin' out the bando ~ Shenco
Idk how that last line fits this whole thing, but it does. -
Don't watch TWD if you don't like it. I don't watch Empire cuz it's on some ? ?
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Maximus Rex wrote: »No need to post ? pics fam...
I would have banned you if I was a mod...
And that's why your ? isn't a mod, because you don't understand a relatively simple concept such as "context." Ya boy and Zombie are the most vehemently anti-? people on this broad. So this the ? picture that was posted wasn't gratuitous or for shock value. The picture of the ? suckers was posted in regards to the overall theme of the thread, which is is, Empire a ratchet show? Not trying to incite an argument, but dude if you don't have the ability to discern whether or not something on the broad is germane to the conversation, then you have absolutely no business whatsoever being a moderator on this message board.
I'm learning that some of these goofy ? simply flag a post when they don't like the poster or that poster ethered them in another thread. The content of what you post here doesn't matter more than the poster's username that's posting.
Not one of the people that flagged my post in this thread could give a reason why the post should be flagged......LOL.
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This is a legit question not trying to be funny or nothing (never watched Empire) but is there a difference between Empire and a show like Modern Family in terms of the ? characters?
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Ok so we are comparing the Wire to Empire??...smmfh. ...not even close in terms of content or characters....damn ? doing anything to defend this Empire ? ...
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I'm glad the show is doing well, a all black cast on tv breaking records is going to do more good than bad. With that being said it is coonery and pushes the same stereotype over.
Problem is a lot of blacks these days are so ? stupid and caught in their emotions to see the bigger picture. As long as the same theme is being recycled black actors and actresses are going to be pigeon hole into roles when competing against whites. Breaking the mold and showing diversity is important. Empire is cool and glad it's having a good run it's first season, but I'm relieved to see others agreeing and seeing the bigger picture on here. -
Power is the OG show made by the OG 50
Kys for watching a show on fox
