I've got beef with *Proud Family*
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Started by PimpTight™
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Jan 2005
It really reinforces bad black stereotypes.
*Leading females are ALL Light-skindedededed
*The Darkskin female is seen as loud and ghetto with no sense of self-worth because she keeps chasing after the same boy who DOESN'T want her.
*Oscar Proud is the dominant Black Male figure in the house/show, yet he is seen as the Baffoon of the family. His company procduces a product that nobody likes and the women of the family contiue to riducle him. He as a Black Man is not given any respect and he's designed to simply be comic relief (Like all black men on television.)
Seriously, its not that great, I feel insulted when I do watch it. Altho I do chucke when I see the ashy sisters.
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The way i see it as that all shows and comedies are full of stereotypes. At least in this case the overall image of the show is one that is positive.
Not too mention that many of these stereotypes mentioned earlier are across the board. Like somebody mentioned... the dominant male figure usually tends to always be the idiot. I can name countless shows where this is the case... (Al Bundee, Malcom's Dad, Homer, etc...).
It is entertaining and as long as its not a straight up coonfest and detrimental to the race as a whole i think i'mma sit back and enjoy it and give it my RATINGS so we can get more positive shows with black folk on TV.
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Yeah thats being wayyyyy to picky..The Proud Family is a positive show with versatile characters....They got white people, puerto ricans, and chinese........I think thats just over reacting a bit....besides its a kids show...kids are "colorblind" and they only go by what they're taught....not what they see.
atlprincess wrote:I don't watch the Proud Family anymore.....but dang what you are saying totally makes sense.....
