nevertheless, one can’t reallly expect them to discuss the majority of issues we as a people face — even if they tried to focus on the major ones alone, 4 hours just ain’t gonna cut it. still, CNN deserves a clap for tying. i also heard there were discussions w/ HBCU students. did anyone catch that? maybe i should watch that 2nd tape…

@ lamesabassman: I told y’all I love my readers. You guys are all funny, witty, interesting, though-provoking, etc. I should do another Reader Appreciation Day soon.

@ tiffany: GREAT comment!!! :)

maybe it’s me, but in a show about “Women & the Family,” i’d expect to see some conversations with WOMEN about their role in the family and what they want for their sons and DAUGHTERS.

i mean 2 hours and they hardly touched on:
* the economic issues women face — that are tied to marriage rates in many cases
* health, beauty and weight issues
* staggering HIV rates despite similar rates of sexual activity (i.e., promiscuity ain’t the problem)
* why many black women are (or seem to be) opting out of marriage and children
* black women’s education attainment relative to men and what this means for marriage
* rates of sexual abuse and violence and sexism
* our dominance in the church pews, but not the pulpits
* how many black women are starting businesses

and in a special about the family, there was NOT ONE MENTION about the decline in black fertility rates.

they basically half-assed the first 2 hours. And only 3/4 assed the last two.

i mean dang, what about rural black poor? lots of negroes in cities in that special. what about black folks moving out of the northeast IN DROVES to resettle in the southeast — and almost never in the west? what about the connection between black men in prison and political power since in many states, ex-cons can’t vote?

hell, we know the stats. even white people know the stats. now take us beyond those statistics and show us something else.

lamesabassman… coming up next.. the X-Doodlius Files… it’s not TV, it’s HBO..

It seems to me that they couldn’t FIND any black women to interview. It seemed like they found like six of y’all and asked like two questions each, shot some b-roll of a chick driving, chicks toasting at a “girls’ night out” party and a chick sitting at her desk, working… oh, and one black chick that had one date with one black guy in some kind of low-budget suit, and that’s all they could find. :/

Sorry… For a TWO-HOUR-SEGMENT about black women, they should have come up with a whole hell of a lot more than that.

BUT …. Obviously, they forgot some of us are greedy little brown-skinned chicks who date white (Asian, Latino and others along with black) dudes out of PLEASURE not desperation. ;)

I just watched the show(s) last night on DVR. I had heard it was a 3-hour show, but the listing said it was two 2-hour shows, so that’s what I recorded.

I happened to watch the one about the guys first. When I went to the one about the women, and I’m FFing through it, I was thinking “Did I record the entire show?… There’s not a lot about women here.”

First of all, they called it “women and family” and second, they spent the beginning of that show talking about men. I believe they even had a MALE DOCTOR working on a MALE PATIENT and running a support group for INNER-CITY MALES at the end of the women’s show (I could be wrong).

The only think I recall them saying about black women is that y’all can’t get men and should consider dating white guys, but look out for what relatives might say about your kids. :D

Oh… And that y’all might catch AIDS @ 19 years old and then not many people will want to hear you talk about it when you try to do community outreach.

At least they showed y’all lampin’ in nice cars and houses with prestigious filmmaking careers! :D

@ dan-E: We were discussing my green panties. ;)

@ Brenz: I thought it was interesting. It wasn’t particularly earth shattering, and I think it was unnessarily slanted toward negative stuff. But, most importantly, I didn’t think it provided any NEW information (you know, that whole “NEW” part of the word “NEWS”) My $0.02. Catch it on reruns and/or watch in online in 20 parts on YouTube. ;)

@ Fredric: And, I’d love to have to guest post!! :) I love your site, too! You’re on my feed reader.

@ Baba Doodlius: Cliff Notes are online everywhere. :) Google: CNN Black in America. Ooh, and, let me know when the green video is up. :)

@ Phoena: THANKS for the details about the show! And, yeah, I soooo don’t do internal site searches on random webpages. I use Google for everything.

@ Roddykat: Jay Smooth ROCKS!!! :) Not sure if I’m gonna do HNT. Desiree has AWESOME HNT on her site, def check it out!! :) http://www.baserinstincts.com [NSFW]. She recently did one with fishnets!!

@ mahoganydymond: Thanks for the comments!! :) I missed part of the second one, but I’m catching it on the rerun!