This is Why I Don’t Watch TV

THE REAL WORLD DENVER

What the hell is this crap they are showing on TV?

Besides the fact that The Real World gives major competition to the folks who produce the girls gone wild video this season’s Real World makes me want to throw up, run, hide and fight all at the same time.

Forget the fact that there are the usual stereotypes in the house. Who cares? MTV knows what kind of people to cast. The only episode I’ve seen made me want to curse. In fact, I did curse and scream at the TV while I watched this Black guy Tyri act an ass confronting the white guy Davis about not standing up for the other Black guy when some club bouncer called him a nigger.

Ok, first of all, other Black guy, if someone calls you a nigger, why do you expect a white boy to take up for you? LOL! Oh my gosh! Are we in elementary school? Dude, you are roommates with this guy, not bestfriends! Why the hell do you expect him to fight for you? Take care of your damn self!

So I’m watching this show with my roommate (she turned it on, not me) and it’s kind of hard to watch and NOT make my usual comments so I decide that I won’t mask my true feelings for her, but ofcourse I won’t be disrespectful. (Lord, please get my internet connected fixed because I would stay in my room the entire time and would never have to interact at all if I had a connection…~sigh~)

So after the other Black guy leaves the club where the bouncer called him a nigger he goes home and tells Tyri that the white guy Davis didn’t stand up for him. Tyri gets all upset and starts jumping around like a gorilla banging on his chest and shit. He goes up to the white guy Davis and demands that he get out of the hot tub so he can talk to him. Davis is in there chillin with some chicks looking like, “What the hell?”

Davis is obviously scared so he complies with Tyri’s demands. He steps out of the tub and Tyri proceeds to scream at him about not standing up for the other guy. I’m like, WTF?

Tyri is like 280 pounds and built like a big linebacker or something and Davis is this skinny white boy who looks like he never got into a fight in his life. I just wanna PUNCH Tyri in the face for acting the way he was. Dude was punching walls- stomping around and shit like a 3 year old throwing a temper tantrum. He even had his hand in Davis’s face.

Davis looked like he was about to cry. Davis stood there, waiting for Tyri to hit him because he knew that Tyri would be kicked out of the house. He even tried taunting Tyri a little bit and eventually got on the phone with someone and screamed, “I’m leaving the house because this nigger is trying to kill me…” or something like that.

I gasped!

My roommate looked at me sideways. “What happened?” she asked me.

“That white boy just called him a NIGGER!” I said looking her straight in the eye.

She looked away and returned to her telephone conversation….

~raises eyebrow~

And get this… at the END of the show, why is big Black Tyri actually seen WALKING UP TO DAVIS and sitting down with him and telling him that he thinks he should stay in the house and they can work it out.

Work it out?!!!

LMAO!

He just called you a NIGGER!

Un-Fucking-believable!!!!

But come on…be for real…if I were Davis I would have probably said the same damn thing! Imagine how many times we’re driving and a white person cuts us off or whatever and we think to ourselves, “Cracka Ass Cracka!” You KNOW you do it!!! We’re all so caught up on skin color and labels that it’s a shame. I’m no different.

I have racist tendencies too.

We all do.

It’s our way of making ourselves feel better about the differences in our cultures. People who put others down, are only trying to make themselves feel better. And with white people (and Black people) I believe racist attitudes are taught from childhood.

When I told my sons that we were going to move to Georgia my 6 year old asked me, “But Mama, don’t they hate Black people there?” He learned this because during Black History Month he saw a video about Civil Rights and learned how Dr. King used to live in Atlanta and how he struggled to help Blacks gain the same rights that whites had.

I had to explain to him about the struggle for equality and I couldn’t help but wonder how tis conversation would shape his personality. Would he grow up like me believing that whites and Blacks can’t truly be friends?

We’re taught that we weren’t valued. We’re taught that we have to fight for equality. By doing all of this “Black History” learning we are actually teaching our children that they have no value and that white people hate us.

We need a new curriculum for instilling pride into our children.

Somehow, some way it’s gotta be done.