Comments on: Numbers Don’t Lie Or Do They?

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By: LeAnne

LeAnne — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:11:31 +0000

Some I do believe, while others are simply propaganda. The issues with black women being unmarried is a lot of propaganda. Our views on education is partly true. I’m not so sure about the rest.

Yes, I did watch the show.

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By: Nubianlocs

Nubianlocs — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:06:15 +0000

Never look to white america to give Black americans a solution to anything…..We been here fu-c-ked up for 500 years…WaKE UP!

By: watched it liked it

watched it liked it — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:51:37 +0000

kim h20s…my question isn’t “what does she learn?”, it is how is a special on black republicans going to help her have father in her life and break the cycle in her family? The point I am trying to make is that we can talk about other subjects all day, but the problem is still there. I applaud you for trying to do better, as am I, but we need to be mindful of our responsibility to help our struggling brothers and sisters do better as well. Seems like we are trying to ignore the issues instead of deal with them. If we are sick of seeing it, do something about them so we don’t see it as much.

By: Na

Na — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:41:48 +0000

I thought the first part delaing with the woman and family was better than the black man part. The show was about trying to give a modern overview of black people in society. I think it did a pretty good job at that, would’ve been better if it was longer.

I’m glad they didn’t focus on people living in million dollar houses our the extremely rich because we all know that their are those that have a lot of money, or are well off. The truth is that the majority of blacks are not rich their middle or lower class.

I do wish that they would’ve have tried to help solve, or give solutions to some issues i.e. the brother who had two kids and wasn’t taking care of them. They should’ve hooked him up with someone, and then followed up. I think we all know what the problem are. Tangible solutions are what we need now.

By: kim h20s

kim h20s — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:42:03 +0000

@ watched it liked it,

why is it that every special or investigative piece about black people has to focus on the number of black men in jail or dysfunctional families or single moms? we’ve seen these shows time and time again. for the majority of us who are least trying to get by and do better, don’t we deserve to see news about other issues, rather than just a lecture.

as for the little girl who watches a show on black republicans – what does she learn? she learns about the political process, being an independent thinker or maybe it’s just something new she learns.

By: watched it liked it

watched it liked it — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:58:35 +0000

Appreciate all the responses and perspectives, and agree that there is alot more to black americans than what is portrayed in the special. But…changing the subject doesn’t address the issue. We get bombarded with the negative images because there are negative images out there. If we see it everyday, on the nightly news, on the morning news, in music videos, etc., is showing a special on black republicans going to do anything about the little girl who is going to be the 5th generation in her family to grow up w/o a father? Or reduce the number of black men in jail? Or address the difficulty black men have in finding employment? Not that I can see.

I am so long-winded lol….will try to keep it shorter next time

By: Avg Joe

Avg Joe — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:30:41 +0000

Much of what I was going to say has been said by a few of the folks here. I thought the CNN piece didn’t really do anything more to give insight to the plight of the black community. It just shot out a bunch of stats. And I’m always weary of stats. I need to see more depth into what helped cause the conditions that many black people find themselves in. At the very least, it sparks discussion, so I guess it wasn’t all bad.

By: Nubianlocs

Nubianlocs — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:02:24 +0000

Greetings
I think we need to for real take a retrospective look at ourselves and our place (if any) within the USA. Have we gained any respect here loosing our culture, language and religion,…I see a whole lot of rich slaves, uneducated ni-gg-a-s (excuse my language) and educated fools. We can’t see that “they” are slowly trying to kill us, in Africa, and America. You can laugh, write me off, whatever. If people were dying in China, or MExico, at the rate in which our brothas and sisters are dying in Africa and America we would see the Chinese Americans and Mexian Americans pull their resources together. They would run “them” out of thier country so fast. I mean why do your think that country who was hit with that earthquake (i t hink it was) or that flood, banned American assistance? They didnt care how bad of a situation they were in, no white american medical ot food assistance was allowed…I mean to tell the truth America belongs to us but we are never gonna own it again. Africa belongs to us, but we dont own it. How did we live healthy and strong for 30 billion years as Africans, until “they” came in contact with us, now we’re dying. IT a CRYING SHAME…..RISE UP ONE LOVE

By: TheDad

TheDad — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:58:04 +0000

@ watched it liked it – both sides of images do exist I just would like to see someone play up the other side because that is a reality for a lot of blacks in America also. And please beleive there are negative images in mainstream America also but I bet you won’t see a special on that…

@ kim h20s – thats my point there is such a braoder range of topics they can cover but the same thing you can turn on your nightly news and hear.