Greetings all, I hope this editorial finds everyone extremely blessed and highly favored. Before I start this piece I want all of you to know that I just came out of a very frustrating personal conversation, so excuse me if my writing is a bit more profanity laced then it normally is.

With that being said, let’s move forward.

There is a strange ass phenomenon going on in American television. I have recently (in the last three months) been smacked in the damn head by television networks trying to feed me their latest batch of reality television.

Whether its mothers swapping families or Amish people relocating to California to live the “city life”, the reality television game has gotten freaking out of control. I understand that next to this low carb diet, that “reality TV.” is currently the greatest thing since sliced bread to many Americans, but it seems as if show creators are reaching too far in their creative genes to create a winner. Because as creative as many of these shows are, they are down right tacky!

To be totally honest with you and “keeping it real", this sh!t (Reality TV.) isn’t real at all. With all these shows that have aired in the past and present maybe 10% have been actually reality.

A message to all television networks: if you really want to create a reality television show, why don’t you follow a young African American male who lives in Newark, Chicago, Harlem, Compton or New Orleans? I’m sure White America would be very fascinated with the way many poverty blacks live. So networks… why don’t you create THAT show? We can call it “Colored Child in Compton” is that too real for you? Is there a possibility that you are frightened that you wouldn’t be able to find behind the scenes staffing (such as camera, lighting men, etc.) to take the job?

Your rationale for not wanting to do this couldn’t be fear of African-American backlash. Throughout the years network television has shown that they don’t give a damn about Blacks anyway. Just like in the premiere of that FOX show about the families switching mothers. In that show there is a young African American child that asks his “new” mother (which is now white) “is a scholarship was a piece of paper?”

Now explain this to me. As much damn editing that is done on these reality shows, why in the hell did they deem it necessary to not keep that piece OFF the editing room floor, other than to make African Americans look like damn ignorant asses?

Getting back on topic, now if the Compton reality show was too much, how about a well documented reality show about young African Americans in college (not that College Hill bullshit that BET created)? Or maybe a show dealing with the trials of young black professionals struggling with the daily grind of corporate America as well as juggling living a life as a Black person? Either one of these shows would be a huge success if done correctly, but all we the viewer can get are Big Brother or The Player.
As much as I thoroughly would like for this reality phenomenon to end I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Therefore if you have to drown us in this mess read and learn the definition of reality and give us something meaningful.

Until next time people, get it together.

Peace

Angree Bruther

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