OK, so my roommate and I were discussing TV shows and we happen to bring up shows that we seriously believed the whole message was to display black people at their worst and at the top of the list is a clay animation called the PJ’s. Now I just recently saw this show but it’s centered in the projects and is about these black people (plus an Asian and Mexican singular) that live in this run down building. This show is a piece of racism at its max and I mean I sit there and ask myself does everything that come out these characters mouth have to make me feel stupid. I mean the main role model is a Don King looking guy that is a janitor, also the only person with a job on the show he steals from friends and family, he is constantly lazy, he dodges bills, got a hoe for a niece, neglects his wife and spends most the episode pissing me off. The kids are stupid failing out of school, they got a whore, a crack head that lives outside, African voodoo click clack woman and other bunch of other stereotypes that are to display black people in projects. See I could bear this show if it had some balance but the only positive character is a stay at home wife that mainly wants her husband to sex her up and usually ends up going along with whatever shit is happening.
Every good black comedy cartoon or real people have a least one positive role model and it can still throw in some black humor that shit could be funny. Fresh Prince a successful Uncle and Will Smith character and even Jazz are both from hoods of Philly yet they manage to throw in a flavor while not setting blacks to look stupid to their audience. Boondocks this show cracks me up and they play off a lot of black stereotypes yet the Grandfather is successful and they have the main thing a balance that allows them to do humor without making us look like a bunch a failures.
I grew up around mainly black people and until my high school years I didn’t really meet and mix with any other cultures and a lot of my first impressions of other races were at first based on TV or things I heard. So its works the same way kids watching the PJ’s get a view of blacks off TV especially when you don’t live in a racially rich area. You forget that there is no particular way that someone acts you act based on where you grow and how you live. But instead it creates people that are racially stupid and never learn that people act in different lights no matter their color. Dumb ass shows like PJ’s gives off every black in ghetto projects are certified dumb ass from birth. They just need to add a few good models or at least give a good message; TV shows do the teaching for parents who are to lazy to teach their kids.
P.S (directed to Eddie Murphy)
So Eddie Murphy creator of PJ’s, Eddie Murphy a famous black comedian Eddie Murphy who has done some great black comedy. Don’t make us look like idiots causes that show you put together is some ole bullshit. Us African American as a culture are so rich man, as people we are Proud no matter where we are from Eddie.
