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The Top 5 Coon Shows That That Shame(d) The Black Community…

June 6, 2011 by  
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5.) Flavor of Love  

 
If the term “sell out” means you’ll do absolutely anything for money/you sold your soul to the devil/ lost all your moral fiber/ made your family look bad/ made your race look worse/pimp and exploit black women because white men told you too/ then yes Flavor Flav has all the basis covered. After the first season of ‘Flavor of Love’ and Flavor Flav still hadn’t been banished to Coonsville, the general consensus throughout white Hollywood was that   black folks don’t get embarrassed; wrong. Buffoons don’t get embarrassed; black folks actually do. And believe me there’s a difference. This VH-1 reality show was about a washed up hype man from a popular rap group trying to find a wife out of a host of half naked, scandalous, manipulating and manipulated women from around the country. The producers, with Flaver Flavs help of course, pit the women against each other while he pretended to search for the perfect one to marry. The show provided lots of fodder for water cooler conversations and made Flavor Flav the most popular of all the California raisins.

4.) Meet the Browns/House of Payne

Until I saw ‘Meet the Browns’ I didn’t think it was possible to get that much ‘buck dancing’ into one half-hour show. But Tyler Perry did it! He was able (with the help of over 2 million Negroes strong) to bring back stereotypes and set black television back 60 years. Do you want to know why there are no black dramas, mystery’s, game shows, documentaries or detective series on TV and maybe only one or two on cable? Because of Tyler Perry and people like him; indirectly of course. Why do you think good shows get cancelled? “Under Covers” starred Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as CIA spies. But thanks to decades of Amos and Andy style comedy no one wanted to believe two black actors could be spies. If they weren’t falling down, farting or calling on Jesus no one wanted to see them. It seems like these days, black folks are only on television to make white folks laugh at them, not with them; there’s a difference. The low- brow humor in these black comedies help pave the way for the cancellation and phasing out of anything other then buffoonery. Trust and believe me when I say that the world actually does view you the same way as they see you on television. Now, give yourselves a round of applause!

3.) The Jerry Springer Show

Throughout the 90’s ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ became a household name and a feeding frenzy for homosexuals and gay activists across the country. More Black males “came out of the closet” on The ‘Jerry Springer Show’ then any other forum in the world. And Jerry Springer was more than happy to laugh, jeer and joke every guest who set foot on his stage- searching for their15 minutes of fame. Most of his black guests were either on the down low, cheating, prostituting or hiding some cross dressing secret. It’s a fact, no news was good news if you were on the ‘Jerry Springer Show’. Despite that fact there was never a shortage of  black folks waiting back stage to give or receive shocking news. For his part Springer was clever at creating a circus atmosphere that culminated in a gladiator environment that literally put guests at each other’s throats. But don’t worry, at the end of the show Jerry would sit down and give a brief commentary on why his guests had to be exploited. And guess what? It was for their own good.

2.) The Maury Show

When he’s not playing guessing games like “is it a man or woman?” in which he giggles as transvestites kiss all over him while the audience guesses if they’re male or female, Mo-rri (as they call him in the hood) is busy exploiting black folks; most of whom are too ignorant to even know they’re being exploited. While Jerry Springer’s raunchy, skanky exploitation seems evenly distributed between both races; Maury’s sophisticated brand of exploitation is overwhelmingly black. His show takes usury to a whole new level. ‘The Maury Show’ directly targets a black demographic and brings them on the show to makes them appear loose, stupid and ‘ghetto’. Of course he does this under the pretense of helping them find their ‘baby’s daddy.’ Unlike Springer who will tell jokes at his guest’s expense, Maury will pretend to be concerned even offering  counseling after the show. And the younger the guest the more he and his producers are able to manipulate and play off of their immaturity. Maury becomes tickled pink every time a black man comes on stage calling the potential mother of his child “hoes, sluts, and bitches.” The high point of his show is when the distraught mother of a child runs from the stage after she finds out the man she thinks fathered her child is actually not the father. For a guy who couldn’t make it as a serious journalist Maury Povich was sure able to make black folks take him seriously.

1.) B.E.T. (Black Entertainment Television) 

Literally ruined about  two-three generations of black children. At the time B.E.T. was the only place black folks could turn to and see images of themselves. It was also the one place artists could get their videos and faces seen on television. And knowing this Bob Johnson and company allowed the raunchiest, degrading, ignorant, ghetto images of black life to be showcased like never before in the history of America. From sagging pants and gold chains, to the booty-butt cheeks on young teenage girls; nothing was off limits. And anyone who complained was either hatin’ or lacked vision and if you worked for him; fired. Pay-offs, kickbacks, hosts barely getting paid, homosexual harassment, sexual harassment; it was blacks exploiting blacks at its finest. Eventually all the news and education forums were removed until nothing remained but 100% degradation of black women and money, cars, clothes and hoes for black men. After his grand exploitation of millions of black children, Bob Johnson sold B.E.T. to white folks and left town. However his legacy of teaching consumption, hoochiefied dress and behavior, sagging pants, self devaluation, and a backwards culture still thrives. Thanks B.E.T. and Bob Johnson, thanks.

Honorable Mention:

Most Black Reality TV Shows-Reality shows are serious cash cows for studios. They pay very little to its participants but rake in huge profits. White producers zero in on the biggest idiots and dysfunctional black families in America knowing that they will provide the train wreck people can’t take their eyes off. Take the show ‘Real and Chance’ for example. They are a cross between Laurel and Hardy and Step- n- fetch it. These two brothers should literally be in a cage somewhere with Flaver Flav getting bananas tossed at them three times a day. And it doesn’t get much better with  ‘Being Bobby Brown’, ‘For the Love of Ray J’, and  ‘Basketball Wives’. Who cares about a group of jump- offs that a bunch of washed up basketball players use to date? Yet their classless, shameless, Godless exhibition keeps us all hoping whites folks are watching another channel every time they come on. But no, they’re not.

The Source Awards – The most flagrant display of ignorance and stupidity you’ve  ever seen on an awards program. It gave the term ghetto new meaning. The only awards show in history that came with saggin’,endless gold teeth, cussin’, hollerin’ and beat downs. They sure had the vast majority of stereotypes covered that night.  

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air – Oh Come on! I understood the ‘fish out of water’ storyline. But in actuality it was a show about a young black male, who goofs off in school, clowns around all day but succeeds in the end. Meanwhile Carlton, the other young black male, gets good grades, dresses conservatively and wants to go to college; but he is considered the big joke. Carlton doesn’t like rap music, isn’t street savvy and is considered generally unpleasant. But Will  plays basketball, has a smart mouth, is misogynistic, vain, and he wears his hat backwards; he’s cool! Carlton can’t dance, is scared of girls and is interested in politics. Will can dance and rap so he gets all the girls. Do you understand the messages that was given to our children? But if  I hurt your feelings, you can go have a seat on the shows producer Quincy Jones’ casting couch and tell him all about it.

Written By Xavier James

Official website; http://xavierjamesuncensored.blogspot.com


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13 Responses to “The Top 5 Coon Shows That That Shame(d) The Black Community…”
  1. Coolio says:

    Terry Crews is the the biggest sellout in history.

  2. Luke says:

    You left out my favorite show: The First 48. Every Black person’s favorite TV program. “He could’t have done that–he a good boy.” “The police set him up cause they raciss!” “Hard worker, great with the childrens…He dindu nuffin!”

  3. Wade Wilson says:

    Coon Shows? Part of this is similar to the fallacy of why republicans say white people can’t say white power, but blacks can say black power.

    Every time a White Person is shown acting a fool (Maury, Jerry etc) its only that individual, but when a Black Person is acting a fool its the entire race. (Their are just as many if not more per-portion of whites on there then blacks)

    We need context…stop judging our own race as a whole.

    White people have thousands of “Empire” like shows…black people have 1 and its this “coon” “race-tratior bull crap”. We can’t have a good-scandalous amoral time without being demeaned by our own race as an outsider?

    Bob Johnson?..I don’t blame the him…
    He came up with a product to sell that made money, he did.
    Doesn’t matter, countless inventions today and in the future will also put millions out of a job, as more people get poor.

    Kids dropped out of school, showed no discipline..baby daddy drama bla bla

    And I could care less, either you get rode over by the train of capitalism/greed or you can ride atop it. Either way the train of capitalism/greed will move on no matter what your irrelevant-self has anything to say about it.

    Dismissed.

  4. Joe Assad says:

    all deez niggerz suck!

  5. Bill in Cleveland says:

    These daytime exploitation shows are an abomination to all cultures – and most especially to America’s Black Culture. How they survive is a sad testament to the willing participants and the home viewers alike!

    I wish ending their presence in our lives, and the negative stereotyping of mainly Blacks they promote, was as easy as telling people to stop appearing in and viewing this daytime trash-vision (T.V.).

    But Whites aren’t the only experts at exploitation – Blacks who prostitute themselves for $$$ by appearing and acting like fools on these shows have clearly mastered the art of self-exploitation!

    Wake up People – Honor Your Life!

  6. Dorothy says:

    Somebody smoking Blunts and full is themselves, I’m tempted to cancel Black Doctor, There alway a nigger ready to pull everybody down, and as far as I am concerned, NIGGER (ignorance) think like this and write condescending lies to divide and conquer, Journalism at it worst, totally disgusting. Comedy is comedy! I was going to read the Conyaaaaaya West Whiner article but what every he said or did is minor he no journalist.

  7. riceroni says:

    Ok, as a Jew married to a black woman (thus I have black children) which means I’m also married to a black family. I can say that some of what you say here is legit and true, but also some of what you say it totally opinionated and out of context. Look, my wife is a Dartmouth/Johns Hopkins educated physician, her mother an economist and a her father a judge. These are smart, educated, successful, black people that like to be “entertained” as anyone else does. As I said before that of what you say that is legit (i.e. Flavor Of Love) should be taken into strong consideration. But Fresh Prince of Bel-Air shouldn’t even be an honorable mention, nonetheless taking swipes at people like Quincy Jones who is a civil rights patriarch in his own right. I think it would be also good if you could write about the accomplishments of someone like Tyler Perry who is the ONLY Black major film studio owner.

    At the end of the day, just calm down and chill. Whether Black, White, Mexican, Jewish, Asian, Arab, etc… if there is a buck to be made in it, they’ll exploit it and find many willing participants to partake if the price is right. Believe me, those who know better (like yourself) know it’s bullshit. As for the useful idiots who cares? By the way, I loved that show “Under Covers” I was pissed it got canceled.

  8. Ala Thomas says:

    Oh please. Coons? This is why racism still exists. People like you keep bringing it up. STFU. Im glad I dont have your “issues” and im sorry I stumbled on this ridiculous website. Im surprised its typed in english and not “dis, dat, errbdy” crap. You stereotype yourselves. Get over it

  9. Bianca says:

    Coon shows! Many of the things you mentioned are just that, but shows like the Fresh Prince showed a diverse side of life. Carlton was not the big joke…he was a highlight. He showed that there was another side of life and that you can succeed if you stick your dreams. In the end he got princeton and the best friend in a cousin, and Will until the very last episode was clutching to succeed. Carlton called him the grasshopper to his ant, in reference to the Aesop fable, and in the end Will failed and needed saving, proving to the audience that his way of life isn’t that great. I believe that you missed that lesson when you looked soley at the basics.

    In reference to the comments, Girlfriends showed successful black women in all walks of life, the characters that were created were fictional but not unlike women we know. The same goes for Martin. To degrade the shows that show successful black people who still act like people we know is, in the same sense, asking for something fictitious to be displayed on or television sets. Then we would would be upset for not thoroughly being represented.

  10. Nicholas says:

    These shows are a testimony to the power of White supremacy. Dr. Wade Nobles wrote: “Powere is the ability to define reality and to convince other people that it is their definition.” Each of these shows display the behavior of its participants in the name of culture while they manipulate the prideless and/or greedy to act in ways that the world has come to chalk up to Black culture.

  11. Frank says:

    I forgot, the Parkers.

  12. Frank says:

    Most black shows can be categorized as Coon shows. I don’t think Fresh Prince would be one of them, but you didn’t mention In Living Color, Martin and Girlfriends.

  13. mary cohen says:

    Well theres a time to grow and a time to die. You gotta watch what you write. Might caUse the wrong kind of “inspiratrion.”

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