SMH: Oxygen Orders Up a New Reality Special Titled ‘All My Babies’ Mamas’
See, this is why we can’t rise as a people…
According to Deadline Hollywood, Oxygen Media, the channel that brought us the Bad Girls Club and Eva Marcille’s Girlfriend Confidential LA, recently ordered up another reality special that is sure to raise a few eyebrows.
Aptly titled All My Babies’ Mamas, the one-hour special will follow Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo and his 10 baby mamas. According to reports the show will center around “the complicated lives of one man, his children’s mamas, and their army of children, capturing the highs and lows of this extreme ‘blended family’ as they navigate their financially and emotionally connected lives.”
I just have a few questions:
All My Babies Mamas FINAL 10.1.12 by dm_50db96d297d08
- Who is Shawty Lo and why do we need to see his baby mama drama played out on TV?
- Why is Oxygen, which once touted Oprah as one of its partners, working on a show that seems more suited for a Love & Hip Hop Atlanta storyline?
- Who thought ‘All My Baby Mamas’ was a good idea?
- Why am I glad the show’s producers, Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley, are not black? (But why am I also horrified they think this is what black audiences want to see?)
- When are trashy reality shows going to jump the shark?
Help me out, Clutchettes…can someone give me some answers?
[Via The Jasmine Brand]
None of these women are seen as special or worthy of their own special partner, they just revolve around one silly dude and they seem fine with that. That’s what’s most disturbing to me about these scenarios!
When will American finally realize that this sort of nonsense and open gutter level ratchetness is making your country a sad punchline and laughing joke to the rest of the world. This is not entertainment; it’s an insult which perpetuates the negative immoral stereotypes of African Americans.
People in the rest of the world have no room to talk. If they feel that strongly about it they can stop using our IPhones and other technology, stop listening to our music watching our movies wearing our clothes talking like us and taking our foreign aid.
Those that have no idea that they are in bondage cannot be emancipated….
We need some type of incentive against ignorance. Ignoring it isn’t working.
*that sinking feeling when I see how many daughters this fool has
Exactly. Is this what these women want to teach to their daughters?
Are we forgetting this is the same network that brings us Bad Girls Club?!?..Once you realize that this show shouldn’t come as a surprise…