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Cable TVs Oxygen channel was founded in part by Oprah Winfrey, but it appears to have finally jumped the shvartze with a proposed program called All My Babies Mamas. Originally slated to appear in the spring, the one-hour special now hovers in reality-show limbo due to a torrent of protest from outraged Pundits of Color. Their chief lament is that the show unfairly attacks, demeans, and stereotypes the black community despite the fact that it is, well, a reality show starring real black people. Really black people.
Atlanta-based rapper Shawty Lo (born Carlos Walker) is the man whose loins produced all those babies from all those mamaseleven babies and ten mamas, to be exact.
According to Wikipedia:
When he was a teenager, he sold drugs and mugged people. By the age of 15, Carlos had fathered his first child .After a decade of selling drugs, Walker decided to turn his attention to music and began performing as Shawty Lo.
Mr. Lo is currently dating a 19-year-old girl whose womb has yet to sprout forth with the rich, humid fruit of his seed, but to be fair, shes roughly the age of his oldest child, so give the young lady some time.
One segment of the promotional trailer (the full version was yanked from YouTube shortly after the media blacklash occurred) shows Shawty struggling to remember all his chilluns names.
In a press release that was pulled from their website after the controversy erupted, Oxygen had described the show thusly:
This bold new series shows every second of the drama-filled lives surrounding a unique modern family unit, as they navigate their financially and emotionally connected lives. As the household grows, sometimes so does the dysfunction, leaving the man of the house to split his affection multiple ways while trying to create order but sharing your man with several opinionated women is bound to create issues.
The resultant blacklash was even funnier than the shows description. Boyce Watkins in the Huffington Post called the program an insult to Black Parents Everywhere, adding that 11 children with 10 women is like spraying your sex organs in every direction without thinking much about the target.
And the Chicago Tribunes Clarence Page offered up an exasperated Lincoln freed us for this?
Another change.org petition, this one by yet another outraged-by-reality black woman named Sabrina Lamb, starts off with the all-caps injunction ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Sadly, Ms. Lamb seems to mean there are too many TV shows like this rather than pondering the idea that Shawty Lo has too many children with too many women. She calls the program a ministrel [sic] show that exploits and stereotypes Black children and families.
Part of this may be due to the fact that these variants on All My White Children represent a relative cultural raritywhite women produce fewer children per capita than black women, and while only a quarter or so of white babies are born out of wedlock, the black quotient hovers somewhere around 70%. While some might attribute the latter statistic to the unpleasant legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, this doesnt explain why the black illegitimacy rate was only around 22% in 1960. But one must never question whether the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and the ensuing perpetual welfare state may have played a role in destroying black familial solidarity.
So it appears that the outrage has little to do with the show being unrealistic and everything to do with it being far too realistic. And therefore it must never see the light of day, lest people get the wrong ideain other words, the right idea.
Here Comes Honey Jigaboo Boo - Taki's Magazine
Atlanta-based rapper Shawty Lo (born Carlos Walker) is the man whose loins produced all those babies from all those mamaseleven babies and ten mamas, to be exact.
According to Wikipedia:
When he was a teenager, he sold drugs and mugged people. By the age of 15, Carlos had fathered his first child .After a decade of selling drugs, Walker decided to turn his attention to music and began performing as Shawty Lo.
Mr. Lo is currently dating a 19-year-old girl whose womb has yet to sprout forth with the rich, humid fruit of his seed, but to be fair, shes roughly the age of his oldest child, so give the young lady some time.
One segment of the promotional trailer (the full version was yanked from YouTube shortly after the media blacklash occurred) shows Shawty struggling to remember all his chilluns names.
In a press release that was pulled from their website after the controversy erupted, Oxygen had described the show thusly:
This bold new series shows every second of the drama-filled lives surrounding a unique modern family unit, as they navigate their financially and emotionally connected lives. As the household grows, sometimes so does the dysfunction, leaving the man of the house to split his affection multiple ways while trying to create order but sharing your man with several opinionated women is bound to create issues.
The resultant blacklash was even funnier than the shows description. Boyce Watkins in the Huffington Post called the program an insult to Black Parents Everywhere, adding that 11 children with 10 women is like spraying your sex organs in every direction without thinking much about the target.
And the Chicago Tribunes Clarence Page offered up an exasperated Lincoln freed us for this?
Another change.org petition, this one by yet another outraged-by-reality black woman named Sabrina Lamb, starts off with the all-caps injunction ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Sadly, Ms. Lamb seems to mean there are too many TV shows like this rather than pondering the idea that Shawty Lo has too many children with too many women. She calls the program a ministrel [sic] show that exploits and stereotypes Black children and families.
Part of this may be due to the fact that these variants on All My White Children represent a relative cultural raritywhite women produce fewer children per capita than black women, and while only a quarter or so of white babies are born out of wedlock, the black quotient hovers somewhere around 70%. While some might attribute the latter statistic to the unpleasant legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, this doesnt explain why the black illegitimacy rate was only around 22% in 1960. But one must never question whether the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and the ensuing perpetual welfare state may have played a role in destroying black familial solidarity.
So it appears that the outrage has little to do with the show being unrealistic and everything to do with it being far too realistic. And therefore it must never see the light of day, lest people get the wrong ideain other words, the right idea.
Here Comes Honey Jigaboo Boo - Taki's Magazine