The Huxtables, 2013

Happy New Year folks! Took me a minute to get a grip but I’m with it now so let’s get this year going. Wow 2013 who would have thought, but I gotta ask where the hell are the damn flying cars, floating skyscrapers and space travel. Weren’t we supposed to have that stuff by now? Where’s the futuristic utopia I was promised as a child and I’m not talking about cell phones, iPads and other devices, I want my personal robot dammit. Instead we get All My Babies Mamas, a new reality show from rapper Shawty Lo (who I’m proud to say I have never heard of and what a stupid ass rap name anyway) but seriously All My Babies Mamas? What the hell?? I don’t know where to even begin. Apparently this man has 11 children by 10 different women, none of whom he is married to and felt this senseless stupidity was something he should share with the rest of America. When asked about the criticism surrounding his upcoming show Shawty Lo (just typing his stupid name makes me feel dumbed down) is quoted as saying "You can hate all you want to, I didn't ask for it. It just happened” as if he just tripped and fell into 10 different vaginas…idiot! And just who the hell does he think is hating on him, like we’re all just green with envy and dying to have 10 baby mamas…I think we need to retire the whole hating thing, people just don’t know how to use it properly.

Now before you say it, I know I have a right to not watch this silly mess of a show and believe me when I say I won’t but I need to know whose idea this was and why the reinforcement of stereotypes we’ve been fleeing for decades is suddenly considered entertainment. I don’t have to watch but that’s not the point because I will still be affected by it as we all are by the negative destructive images which continue to depict us in entertainment. Young men who admire this person and want to emulate him (which is a discussion for another day) are being taught its ok to act irresponsibly, reproduce with reckless abandon and generally exude amoral behavior and remain unaccountable. And the women in this are not blameless either. What would motivate you to be this man’s baby mama number 4 or 5 let alone 10? How the hell did that happen? Are none of these people familiar with condoms? The fact is there are plenty of normal, professional, educated intact traditional families within the African-American community. These dysfunctional types of family dynamics aren't the rule they're the exception, so why are we constantly exposed to those which demean us? Of course we all know why, it’s because the money hungry entertainment industry would promote any garbage that increases their bottom line and they’re banking on this nonsense becoming a hit. Unfortunately, people will watch anything so odds are in their favor to get a good return on their investment.

At any rate these so called reality shows and their degrading misrepresentations of African-American men and women are becoming increasingly more insulting and offensive and they must be stopped or more importantly we need to stop watching them. We cannot continue to allow ourselves to be portrayed as shiftless, lazy, morally bankrupt, welfare seeking baby makers and we’ve got to stop flocking to these vulgar disgusting spectacles. No matter how they attempt to glamorize or sensationalize them, they’re still minstrel shows and frankly I’d feel a whole lot better if they just painted their faces black and sang Mammy. And by the way, where the hell are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson when you need them? Oh, and I want my damn space mobile it’s 2013 dammit.