Several bloggers, myself included, have been accused of overreacting to the KFC commercial (featuring a fatherless black family) that we discussed a few posts ago. I don't think that expressing concern about potentially negative images in the media is overreacting, especially since white folk, black folk, single folk, and of course all kinds of parents [...]
I'm not going to bash the film. I actually liked the movie, plus I'm a pretty big fan of all things Eighties. But there were some things that didn't sit well with me. For instance, why Bernie Mac and Anthony Anderson (substantially famous black actors) accepted the two roles they played is beyond me. I'm [...]
"I don't think about Paris Hilton..."Â - Oprah Winfrey (When asked by a correspondent from the show Extra what she thought about Paris Hilton going to jail.) Nuff said.
Would Barbara Walters have fired her a long time ago? A white friend of mine asked me that question yesterday. To her I replied, "What do you think?"
For months I've been whispering to my boss, an educator, that I thought watching TV was helping my son become an even better reader than he already is. (I say that I was "whispering" because my boss has a much stricter TV policy than I do, so I was kind of embarrassed to suggest that [...]