Every time I flip through the channels, I see some woman desperately searching for "her baby daddy." Some of these women have tested 20 different men! Does it do a disservice to the black community to perpetuate this stereotype? And why haven't black leaders stepped forward to tell their women to stop degrading themselves by going on these shows.
2007-09-02 07:06:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
For those who mention jerry Springer, that show is rarely (if ever) about people doing paternity tests. Those folks are definitely nuts, but at least they know with whom they are sleeping (so what if it's their brother!).
2007-09-03 07:50:23 · update #1
don't take it personal, but most of the people who go on those shows are at the bottom of the social status ladder who have absoulutely no idea what couth, scrupples, self respect ,self worth, dignity or shame is. They want their, "5minutes, or is it 15minutes of fame/" (I guess it's 60 minutes of fame since that's how long the shows are.) Their IQ is teetering on borderline of 70, give or take a # or sixty. :-) A lot of them have not graduated from highschool and if they did, they paid absolutely no attention to the biology teacher. i saw one show where a grown azz man 40+ brought his son on the show to say that his 15 year old son was not the father of a girl's baby because his sperm was not strong enough at his age to meet up with the egg; guess what? he was the, "baby daddy" :-) lol... (i couldn't help but laugh at his ignorance because he was truly serious and the scary/funny part is that noone could explain life to him because he lacked skills of understanding and reasoning.) These shows don't just focus on blacks. it shows whites, (especially on Jerry Springer,) and hispanics. what's scary is that we have a lot of ignorant people in our society and these shows highlight it. So if anything, these shows make our country as a whole look bad, not a particular group. Imagine a foreigner coming into our country for leisure or business for the first time, turning on the TV and getting a shock of his or her life?
Think of these shows in a positive light; You don't have to pay to see a commedian if you feel like laughing in the daytime. Also, just when you thought your life sucked, there is someone way worse off than you:-)
and like my mama said when we were growing up; "just because you are poor in the pockets, does not mean you have to be poor in the mind." and "just because you are poor does not mean you have to be dirty."
2007-09-02 07:54:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They do DNA tests for white women as well. And I doubt anyone is watching those shows and becoming a racist a**hole because of it. These women are degrading themselves, but at least they are taking steps to find out who the father of their children is. DNA tests are expensive - if she has to embarrass herself a bit in order to get those tests paid for and make sure her child has a relationship with its father, then I personally admire her for being willing to do so.
2007-09-02 07:21:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
maybe and know that paper maury reads each time. I caught a glimpse of it twice and it tells him exactly what to say. It's no test paper. Judge hatchet is slightly better than Maury. These shows sucks and over dramatize everything. It makes them look very, very stupid.
2007-09-02 07:14:23 · answer #3 · answered by l2wh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the ones on the show. And if they want to degrade themselves on those shows, who am I to say they can't.
2007-09-02 07:12:34 · answer #4 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, but i also watch Jerry Springer and see mostly white folk on there. is this good for the white community?
2007-09-03 05:02:18 · answer #5 · answered by Bore sum 1 else w/ ur question! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋