The problem with the Black in America series is that it left out one fundamental concern I have…The reason why Black America and America is suffering as a whole is cuz we forgot one thing…GOD…When Black folks didn’t have anything..no education, no money, living in 2 by 4’s, not competing with the Jones’s we had only 1 option…GOD ALMIGHTY…nowadays…God is on the backburner…Get it right before its too late…

In general…Every dynasty has an endpoint…Rome overextended itself and crumbled…The British had rebellious colonies…will u be ready before the end of America comes…cause its coming….

THESE PROGRAMS PUT BLACK PEOPLE AT A DISADVANTAGE IN OUR SOCIETY. OTHER GROUPS KNOW ALL OUR BUSINESS, BUT WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ASIANS/PUERTO RICANS/WHITES/AFRICANS/CARIBBEANS AND ALL THE OTHER GROUPS TRUE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE WITH THE GOOD AND THE BAD.

ALL OF OUR DIRTY LAUNDRY IS LAID OUT FOR OTHERS TO USE AGAINST US. KNOWING YOUR ENEMY IS AN IMPORTANT TOOL OF SURVIVAL, AND THEY KNOW ALL ABOUT US, BUT WE KNOW NOTHING TO PROTECT OURSELVES.

I enjoyed it. It was informative, and I hope that at least a few white people got a better understanding in the complexity of being Black in America.

I watched the 2-part series and i do think it was a good show, however i dont believe it did much … one i think they basically tackled the stereotypes black ppl face…they just showed america what back people deal with, While it should b no surprise, im sure some people who tuned in that were not black left with a better understanding of what black ppl face on a day to day basis …but as a black person watching the show i just said to my self “ook i already knew that” i didnt gain any new info …maybe a few statistics that i didnt know but hat was about it. I also feel like the show focused more on what negative things go on, rather than the positive…they would show a prison yard full of black men and then back it up with a mouth full of statistics about how our men are behimd bars, how few of them go on to college and so on. then they would show about two or three very successful, intelligent black men and how they are different …. so i think th enetwork could have done a better job at balancing the view of what is is to be black in america with some more positive statistics and showing what we ARE doin rather than what we ARE NOT doing, or how we have progressed as a people …

They always show us poor and struggling… What about the Upper Middle class blacks, the CEO’s the Doctors, the college students at HBCU’s that are making a difference…There was so many things un touched….

Yeah I saw some of the Black Man portion. It was interesting. I might have to get it on DVD.

@ #155 (Gift from a Virgo) - What show did you watch?

You said:
“They always show us poor and struggling… What about the Upper Middle class blacks, the CEO’s the Doctors, the college students at HBCU’s that are making a difference…”

Here’s just a short list of the upper middle class people that were in the show: a District Attorney, music executive, ER surgeon, cardiologist, economist, college professor, college president, screen writer, school superintendent, teacher…

It seems to me that some people only focused on what they perceived to be negative aspects of the show. One thing that I think this program did well was show a variety of people: nuclear families/single parent families; working people/people looking for jobs; high-school drop outs/college students or graduates; inmates/non-incarcerated people; people who choose to date outside their race/people who don’t; single women with no kids/single women with kids… I would go on, but I think I’ve made my point.

I said it once and I’ll say it again, it doesn’t matter what CNN put together, some people only choose to see the negative, never the positive.

One problem I think SOME of us have is acting like the behavior that SOME black folks exhibit is overstated. The reality of it is if you are black you probably have a black friend or relative that: has more than one child from more than one person, is in jail or has been to jail, is living with HIV or AIDS, does not value education, etc. The problem that SOME of us have feel like if somebody talks about it (and God forbid on a major cable news network), then they’re doing something wrong to us instead of being real about some of the problems that are plaguing our community and choosing to do something about it. There are people of every other race that fit into every category that I mentioned above. However, just because we can say “that other race does it too” doesn’t make the stated problems untrue and doesn’t mean that we don’t have some collective and individual changes to make.

Just my opinion…