Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Harsh Truth of the Day

Research shows that white audiences will not watch TV shows or movies which they judge to have too many people of color as characters. A historically accurate version of the Bible, which embraced the demographic realities of the era such as HBO’s epic series, “Rome,” would be a revelation. Unfortunately, many in the American public would be unwilling to hear such a basic truth, for it would be too upsetting for those who have internalized whiteness and white privilege even on matters of religion and faith.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's true. I hate Twitter on weekends because you'll find random complaints that someone won't watch CNN because it's too black.

Bob said...

Further proof of my theory that "people are idiots."

Anonymous said...

All Hebrews were black and so were the Egyptians! Study it yourself don’t watch too much tel-lie-vision.
Moses as well as Jesus fled into Egypt to escape the Romans! If Moses and Jesus were white it would be easy for the Romans to find them!
Let’s go back further when Moses was layed in the basket by his sister Miriam and the Egyptian princes, daughter of pharao Ramses, found him in the Nile river, now how could she fool her father into believing that it was her child if the child was white??
You white people wanna claim everything but when HE returns with hair like lamswool (dreadlocks) and feet as brass as if burned in a oven(black!), you all gonna be very shocked!!!

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