(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that there are not too many positive images of black relationships & black families in today’s media because it’s been discarded for psychological poisonous images of black relationships & black families.
Today’s media loves to promote & glorify the worst of what black women could be in the form of being portrayed as bedwenches, side chicks, angry messy violent women, baby mamas, degrading themselves by calling one another bad b*****s & saying derogatory statements that perpectuate the toxic anti-family images in today’s Media when they say “These n****s ain’t shit”.
I have a severe contempt for VH1, what I like to call “The Evil Reality TV Empire” because they are the biggest culprit in perpetuating the negative, toxic, & destructive images as shown on Basketball Wives & Love & Hip-Hop.
Here are the 7 ways in which reality TV negatively affects young black girls & women.
1. Toxic Dysfunctional Relationships – when they see black men & 
women together on those shows, they’re often arguing & fighting amongst one another which can make young black girls think that
way.
2. Negative Decision Thinking – It influences many of our young girls to make negative decisions by engaging in very destructive behavior that could either get them severely hurt or locked up.
3. Negative Role Models – Many young black girls these days look up to these negative role models wanna emulate all the ignorance & buck dancing on those reality TV shows.
4. Mass Media – Many young black girls minds are negatively influenced by the mass media’s promotion of these toxic & destructive images that make them wanna go out & fight & do all this other crazy stuff.
5. The Fake It To Make It Approach – They are influenced by what they see on those shows that would make them wanting to “fake it to make it” to be “successful” on reality tv & in life.
6. Fighting – Instead of dealing with situations by having an honest intellectual conversation to end the situation, reality tv makes them think the “best way” to deal with a situation is to fight.
7. The Turn Up Lifestyle – Another thing I noticed is that many of these reality tv shows also promote and glorify one of the most destructive forms of behavior that is very common in our community and seeing these images of our young men and young women turning up every weekend and engaging in financial ignorance by making it rain at the club and buck dancing by listening to songs that are very toxic and destructive to the minds of many young black people in this country.
The Solution – The best way to make sure our girls become decent people in life is to not expose them to these negative, toxic, & destructive images of black women that big corporations like VH1 love to promote & glorify.
Staff Writer; Joe Davis
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