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Reality TV programs are good for black America?

Most fans will tell you that TV reality show began around 2000. The fact is that reality television shows have been around in some form since the invention of the media. Is television based on the lives of people living their real-life dramas, emotional problems and circumstances humorous to an audience watching television. Many situations occur naturally, but there are circumstances that are scripted.

C'mon, admit it. How many times have you gone to zapper finished watching one of these programs? If only to satisfy their curiosity and see what all everyone is talking, looking to settle in while you're kicking you participate in this type of waste classless later. For many critics, black and white Most reality TV shows today in the same format as TV broadcasts many Amos black start and Andy in the 1950s.

In most of these reality shows, blacks are often portrayed as monolithic, innocent, criminals calculation. In most cases there is an obvious lack of intelligence or ability to think critically. In addition to cutting of English, which are devoid of any appearance of morality and compassion, and lacked the cultural traditions or meaning.

One thing you can count on is that they are very good at singing, have good pace, can run fast, while bouncing a ball. Some of these reality TV shows aimed at African Americans have been: Being Bobby Brown, VH1 Flavor of Love Real Chance at Love, and Frankie Hill College and Neffe.

Debuting in 2005, Bobby Brown was announced as a "documentary-style production on the private life of R & B Bobby Brown and his wife Whitney Houston. "The show seemed to embody all the stereotypical attributes mentioned above, even with a few items to a new level. This is obviously a family unit was dysfunctional for the world to see. The show dropped the famous torque to the front of the pack as a laughingstock worldwide.

One of the most controversial reality show Flavor of Love was beginning his first season in 2005. The show featured the rapper Flavor Flav, the group music of Public Enemy, who spent three (profitable) season in search of love. Flavor Flav is in all its splendor, its gates of gold, a huge clock hanging on a gold chain around his neck and rainbow of colors, including a top hat and cane signature. Then there were the women, mostly black but also white, Latino and Asian women. Women's Most have been strong, free and impertinent. One critic, who obviously was a fan of the series, wrote that "girls to see the show capable of covering at least one of Flav potential love interest. "

Another related dating shows and reality shows real chance on love, which revolves around two brothers, Real and Chance, who sought their own love interests. The theme that operate in the same direction as the flavor of love. Situations real and skill are quite predictable.

College Hill is one of reality TV is produced by Black Entertainment Television (BET) and Tracey Edmonds. It revolves around the life nine to 10 students who live together for a semester, while attending historically black colleges. Shows the different dynamics of young adults that Blacks living together including petty arguments, individual struggles and return to the community.

Frankie & Neff, is the show based on the life of mother and sister of singer Keyshia Cole. Its success shows (in terms of audience), The Way It Is, has not been renewed for a second season. So someone has seen fit to spin-off a program for mom and big sister Keyshia. For those of you who are unfamiliar with their origins, Frankie, Keyshia's mother tries to put his life back together after spending three years in prison for drug use.

Neffe is the single mother five children and tries desperately to repair his relationship with his mother. As was the case in which Keyshia shows, the two continue to play out of their dysfunctional relationship in the ranking. Frankie & Neffe debuted on BET in August 2009. In an interview with the Atlanta Constitution, James Dubose, executive producer, series, said: "This will show their growth and independence in their personal lives."

Not all Black reality TV shows are full of negative stereotypes. Home Run is based on the family of Reverend Run of the rap group RUN-DMC revolutionary. The Reverend is the brother of music mogul Russell Simmons. The show won a 2008 NAACP Image Award winner for outstanding reality series. It seems to be an effort concerted effort to portray a family very functional black with a doting father and a mother to feed and support their families. The show has many positive attributes.

There is also the reality show starring former NFL star Deion Sanders and his wife Pilar, Deion Sanders and Pilar: Love primetime. Deion says that her show like this: "We are doing this, really, to support the claim that there are many African American families who live well and (are) not necessarily argumentative in disorder and total chaos. "In fact, it's a plot twist ever.

Although the last two reality TV shows are a sincere effort to bring the energy positive this means, the fact is that the public looks for individuals and families with life styles and very different challenges of their own lives. For example, the Rev. Run took her children to school in a Rolls Royce. Deion and pillar resides in a 40,000 square foot house on 112 acres.

When the stars many of these reality shows television talk about their productions, it seems that the standard line goes something like this: "I created the program because I want to help others not to go to the same way and make the same mistakes I did. "If it can be a small element of truth in the assertion, almost never hear that mentioned the fact that it is a form of spread their brand and a way to bring a lot of money. This brings us to the facts on television and television in general: There is a huge amount of data have shown that watching too much television has negative consequences.

Initiative Media North America shows that African-Americans watched nearly 22 hours television per week than other households in the United States. A study by Yale University, one of hundreds made, suggested that black children, families with incomes above $ 75,000 per year were less likely to be successful school due to watch more television than white students in comparable households.

The evidence continues to increase the direct relationship between television and the level of violence among African American children and young adults. Columbia University Medical School 17 years conducted a study that found that men who were "significant" amounts of television has increased the likelihood of violent behavior 16 116 percent. In this study, "significant" was defined as an hour or more each day. Black children watch more than five hours of television on average every day.

The health consequences of sitting and watching too much television is also evident. Infectious Center of the monitoring reports to see TV can cause many problems with obesity.

With the quantities reliable data on the effects of television, the question is not whether the focus of many reality television programs aimed at viewers The black is bad. The evidence clearly supports this assertion. The more appropriate question might be why that remains the case that the destructive capacity Television has been tested on several occasions. Someone told me that many words and phrases we take for granted in general encoded and have deeper levels of meaning and are understood by few, or privileged information. He took the word "television", and fell to me. That's what I have:

"To say a vision.

While the vision is reality television shows that tell our children watch?

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