TV Talk: Chad & T.O.

TV Talk: Chad & T.O.

Aw shoot! If anyone still knows me they know or they will know that I have a little thang for Ochocinco a.k.a. Chad Johnson. Not a football fan whatsoever (Bball chick over here) so it's not about his game I just find him to be beautifully designed in every aspect so naturally I was stoked about this show. Now I was not really excited about the idea of him having a dating show but just because I can see more of him, that's basically it, I think dating shows take away the celebrity of the actual celeb...it cheapens them.

In a nutshell this show was a sleeper. Of course though, like every black woman watching it, I noticed the extreme lack of black women in the final rounds (only two or three made it). Which makes me question that quick rumor that was out about him not wanting that many black women on the show. No shade at all, that's his preference. I'm not about to sit over here and lose my cool or sleep over it like some will. Furthermore, these chicks are kind of boring and I get them confused with one another because they all look the same (making this show a sleeper). I do have favorites though like Rubi and the chick that ran track. Other than that... Zzz.

The T.O. Show opened with Kanye West's Coldest Winter which was an instant win for me in my eyes. Mo & Kita should mind their business at all times. Real Brief:I was waitin for T.O.'s lips to get crusty in that cold ass snow. & This dude doesn't know where the hell his heart is Buffalo or Cali, hotel or Mo & Kita's houses, chick 1 or chick 2, he doesn't know what to do...and that's what makes the show a little interesting. SMH at him sending a package of his own stuff to chick two's house just to see her...somewhere someone watching that picked up that idea.

i used to fake sick for this

i used to fake sick for this

Because when I would come home Nick Jr. just was not on. Mom would pick me up from daycare at in the evening and of course there were times for Rugrats and the like but shows like Little Bear, Franklin, and especially Blue's Clues were crack to me back then and made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside when I was a little girl.

No doubt when I was actually sick it was the best thing on earth. Bed, Nick Jr., mom's catering to me. Yes.

The feeling I got knowing faking my sore throat worked when the nurse called my mom to pick me up was euphoric. I would sit on the cot and just smile to myself, yes, I get to go home.

Moms would pull up and I'd try so hard to fake it, get in the back seat of her then Mitsubishi and ride home. She would see me smiling and ask "why you smilin? you aren't sick." Whatever, we're home already. Hopped in the bed watched Nick Jr. and when that went off it was onto BET for the music videos :) Back then when it was channel 23.

Black People, what was that?

Black People, what was that?

Some things should not be discussed on national television.
Although I was working while it aired, I get disgusted at things like this.
Our culture is way too exploited sometimes. Blacks are in a dire need of cultural privacy.
This is not the first time I've heard about a debate airing on national television about "black issues"and most of the time it's a debate regarding black men v. black women.
Whose bright idea was this and how is this helping the black community?
What about a show consisting of a panel discussing black on black crime, why it's so high, and what we can do to put a stop to it?

This airing on television is not going to miraculously bring a companion to these "successful black women who cannot find a man", this airing on television is not going to solve anything. It is only going to encourage more finger pointing and ignite more arguments about how "black women don't do this" and "black men don't do that". To be honest with you, I did not even know this was an issue until the media hype began, then I kept seeing television segments with 3-4 "successful" black women" explaining that they cannot find a man. Now all of a sudden ALL successful black women have this problem and now we have ABC doing a damn segment on it as if it is really that important! Which brings me to this question: Why is it EVEN an issue? There is a reason the media keeps beating this dead horse. There are so many more issues going on within the black community that this being top priority is just silly.

What is even more silly is that usually [if not always] there is a non-black person behind these specials. What really irritated me is when I saw the headline followed by the question "whose to blame?" Really? Why must that be the object of the debate? I'm tired of networks exploiting "black issues" for money. Aside from CNN's Black in America segment, these debates airing are nothing but a play on the black community's insecurities (particularly black women) and will do nothing but divide us even more. The people who participated are even more at fault. I am not saying the argument is not reasonable, but it should not be discussed on national television because more than half of the people that tuned in don't give a damn about black women being single or black people in general, it's all for their entertainment. It is entertainment.

Cmon now, the least we can do is have this type of "face off" (as they called it) on a black channel such as TvOne. I'm sayin!

I have so much more to say about this, I will later but bottom line:
Talk to me when a debate about how to stop certain issues that endanger the black community is discussed rather than whose to blame between black women and black men for these issues.