Top "coon" shows that shamed the black community

After class today, I decided to look up things on Flava Flav and other shows that were degrading to African Americans. Flava Flav is an embarrassment to the black community and should not represent them. I'm not sure why he thinks its okay to act like that, even though it is pretty entertaining lol

I stumbled upon this website that you guys should take a look at

http://thyblackman.com/2011/06/06/the-top-5-coon-shows-that-that-shamed-the-black-community-vh1-flavor-of-love-tbs-meet-the-brownshouse-of-payne-the-jerry-springer-show-the-maury-show-and-b-e-t-black-entertainment-television/

Some of the top shows were:

1.) Flavor of love

2.) meets the browns/ house of payne

3.) the jerry springer show

4.) the maury show

5.) B.E.T

"If the term “sell out” means you’ll do absolutely anything for money/you sold your soul to the devil/ lost all your moral fiber/ made your family look bad/ made your race look worse/pimp and exploit black women because white men told you too/ then yes Flavor Flav has all the basis covered."

This quote from the article is so true about Flava Flav. He acts ridiculous. Placing this in "the top coon shows" was right. The term "coon" is another offensive word for black people.

We already covered how that show stereotyped African Americans so I figured I would talk about some of the other shows. The Jerry Springer show for example would bring black people on and make a joke out of their lives.

"Most of his black guests were either on the down low, cheating, prostituting or hiding some cross dressing secret. It’s a fact, no news was good news if you were on the ‘Jerry Springer Show’."

Like the Jerry Springer Show, the Maury show also made a joke out of black peoples' lives but instead of looking at the cheating aspect or prostitution, He looked at it in more of ghetto terms.

‘The Maury Show’ directly targets a black demographic and brings them on the show to makes them appear loose, stupid and ‘ghetto’. Of course he does this under the pretense of helping them find their ‘baby’s daddy.’

My point is, there are many shows out there like flavor of love that are degrading to blacks. Some people take the stereotypes of these shows seriously because there are not that many shows with black in them. It becomes easy to judge from these sort of shows.