Depictions in Hollywood Shuffle

Much like the racial depictions shown in Spike Lee's film Bamboozled, Robert Townsend's film Hollywood Shuffle showed much of the same depictions. Townsend's film shows how black people are portrayed in Hollywood showing how they are supposed to be rappers, dancers, gangsters, pimps, athletes, etc...in Hollywood films. Lee's film showed how people react to black people's action whenever they are told to act stupid compared to just acting sophisticated.

Check a clip from the movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLdDqhtkDNY

Teenage Sex = Hip-Hop? No.

Hip-Hop shouldn't get all the blame for teenagers having sex early. It's the world that we live in. We may hear sexual lyrics and stuff and see sexual videos on T.V., but we also see sexual acts in movies everywhere. Why not question the movie writers? People need to just sit back about hip-hop causing everything and look at the world around them.

Video Game Depictions

Has anyone ever played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? If you have, you'll notice how the majority of the people are Black or Mexican and are portrayed as gangsters and thugs of some sort. They operate heavy artillery and kill at will. The white people are either the innocent people walking the streets of San Andreas or the head boss of a firm or mafia. The game is very violent and a lot of children play this game. Ya'll should check it out if you haven't already. This isn't new news.

Dog The Bounty Hunter's Comments

The Dog said some stuff the other day that almost ended his career. Like Don Imus, Dog crossed the line with using racial words. He was recorded saying racial things about his son's black girlfriend and said that if he stayed with her she would eventually ruin their career on T.V. Here is a link for more info on it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/01/dog.chapman.ap/index.html

Black or African-American?

This issue about race and culture has been going on forever. Black people are considered to be a race or group of people that come from African descent. Not only in America, but all around the Caribbean area and France, there are different types of African descent. America is a melting pot for all kind of races and accounts for a large number of different black people. It is only right to name those people blacks or negroes so people can be identified easier. The same goes for other races as well. I'm black/African-American and I think others like me should be identified the same. I might not have grew up in Africa and then moved to America, but I have African ancestors from the continent of Africa, so that makes me equal to a true African.

Axe Spray Song

Lets face it, sex will always sell no matter what people say or think about it. I agree with what Axe is doing with their campaign. It's a spray designed for men and most men relate with women in a major way. I would use the same strategy if I was on board of the advertising/marketing team. The Bom Chika Wah Wah song and video is funny, but a great marketing tool.

Cleveland School Shooting Coverage

I just read about the school shooting that took place in Cleveland recently and I don't think that there was any justice in the way the writers handled the race issue. In most news articles, you are suppose to first identify what the situation is and then state who is involved. When stating who is involved, you give a accurate description of who the persons are. The writers didn't identify Asa's race until close to the end of the story, but did manage to give the other kids, which were 85 percent black, a bad look as if they were all bad people. They even made Asa, the 14-year-old shooter, look very bad since he did shoot four people. He was probably a good kid that was driven bad, but from reading the story, one wouldn't be able to tell that off top.