Monday, September 30, 2013

Did the Family Feud really set us this far back?

While watching a rerun episode of Family Feud, it is one of the most cringe-worthy episodes consisting of the Brown Family. I know, I know. It is an old episode, but while watching "Punkin" Brown and crew on I just cant help but feel like it was the epitome of every negative black stereotype.  We have The Jack-leg Preacher with the shiny suit and ultra perm dancing; overly loud mother who won't stop hollering; the completely ignorant daughter who couldn't spell "Loin", nor knows the correct words for items; the brother who wants to be called on national TV "lunatic" because he's a rapper; and finally the one with the most ambition and sense(wants to be a Principle) is "Choir Director sweet" but never gets to answer or play for sudden death even though he consistently gave good answers.

If this was an episode of Martin, or another Predominately black TV show, it'd be one that we all partook in the point and laugh at exaggerations of ignorance ignorance... But it would have just been a joke.
If this was an episode of Seinfeld, or Two and a half men, or other predominately white TV show, we would SCREAM racism and blast the characters for their buffoonery. But what do we say about this? This was real life. Yes, we all know a person who fits into a category, but come on now. The "rapper" began break dancing and doing a back spin during taping. The whole time you hear mama Willa hollering over any and all people throughout the telecast. I can only imagine how grueling taping must have been. Steve Harvey did his best to control the scenario, He did also speak about them in his hilarious stand up "Grand Finale".

I'm sorry, America... but this family's appearance was an absolute travesty. Myself being a person of color,  I know I don't have to take on the responsibility of what a person(s) does who is within the same group. If it should bring negative attention to themselves, it shouldn't be a reflection of the whole group. Other races don't worry about "protecting the brand" as much as us, but because we shouldn't allow one person to represent our race, doesn't mean that those outside of the race wouldn't use it to negatively look down on a group. And this family set up a precedent for this situation to happen. here it is a year and a half later, and its still shown and all over the web. I'm quite sure it is safe to say that they probably don't even realize how they looked on the show to everyone else. SMH.

Oh by the way they won a 2 day total of $20,935.


 
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