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‘Empire’ Under Fire: Black Scholar on CNN Calls Show ‘Ghettofied’ ‘Coonery’
http://www.thewrap.com/empire-under-fire-black-scholar-calls-show-ghettofied-coonery/ ^
| March 18, 2015
| Debbie Emery, Anita Bennett
Posted on 03/19/2015 12:57:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey
To: MeshugeMikey
To paraphrase Dann Rather, it’s negative, but accurate.
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:22:38 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: MeshugeMikey
I’ve been going back and forth on whether I should get a ‘Coonan’ hat and t-shirt, for fear of getting negative feedback from low-information folk. The large .357 magnum, semi-automatic handgun on the shirt should be a clue, but might be taken as some sort of threat.
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:22:58 PM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: MeshugeMikey
They reached 17 million last night.
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:23:15 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Free Hugs Today :))
To: rabidralph
Minorities ought to be offended
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:23:41 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: fatima
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:24:01 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: SampleMan
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:24:35 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: TexasCajun
authentic .....crap....great
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:25:08 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:26:17 PM PDT
by
newfreep
("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
To: MeshugeMikey
CooneryI believe that is racist. Doesn't matter who said it.
But then again, there is that "pesky" First amendment.
5.56mm
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:26:49 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: M Kehoe
the party quoted is a self loathing......”thug”? “scholar”?
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:27:50 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
“Coonery”
Now that’s funny!
To: SWAMPSNIPER
How can you coarsen and debauch hip hop?
It’s not about that.
Like so many other issues, it’s about “NORMALIZING” certain aspects of our culture.
To make popular through both consistent exposure and by wrapping an emotional element into the story line.
There’s an old saying in sales, “Facts tell, but stories SELL”
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:28:16 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: newfreep
good thing that racoon isnt wearing any “bling”
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:28:57 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Altura Ct.
get thee to the “coonery”
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:29:29 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey; All
I don’t know. It kind of looked like Dallas and Falcon Crest to me...Night time soaps (and even daytime soaps) all this type of drama.
I figure since some of the actors in Empire have thanked Fox for the show and have said they are proud of their work that it must hit home for someone.
It is silly to pretend that just because it is crazy and over the top that it must be ‘ghettoized’. Some people just are that nuts
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:30:49 PM PDT
by
Nifster
To: MeshugeMikey
I have never seen the show and don't intend to watch it, but I read somewhere that Empire is a variation on the play/film The Lion in Winter, with Terence Howard's Hip Hop mogul standing in for Henry II, and Taraji P. Henson the ex-con wife as a sub for the recently imprisoned Eleanor of Aquitaine, and their children representing the rest of the squabbling Plantagenets. Interesting idea, I guess.
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:31:38 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
To: SMARTY
But they’re not. They seem to love the show.
To: MeshugeMikey
LOL, I’m much more concerned about those watching Bachelor or Bachelorette.
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posted on
03/19/2015 1:36:22 PM PDT
by
dmz
To: MeshugeMikey
Of course it's trash. Most TV is.
It's Black Dynasty thirty years later, right down to the gay son and flamboyant ex-wife and the epic cat fights.
Throw in a dash of King Lear or Macbeth and a lot of hip hop and that's the recipe.
The characters aren't much worse than Joan Collins and she's been decorated by Queen Elizabeth II for services to charity and dramatic arts.
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03/19/2015 1:38:59 PM PDT
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