Quote from: Matthies on July 27, 2008, 03:45:52 PMQuote from: Eugene Young on July 27, 2008, 02:15:09 PMQuote from: Dr. Derek Shepherd on July 27, 2008, 01:48:26 PMThe woman who hosted it was pretty hot, even though I'm not sure if she was black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or Middle Eastern. Soledad O'Brien. Quite fine. I remember reading somewhere that she's Cuban and Australian.Is she married to Miles O'Brien who used to be CNN's anchor? Nope. Coincidental. According to wikipedia, she's married to an I banker.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_O%27BrienIf wiki's right, this is him http://www.tweisel.com/AboutUs/Leadership/investmentBanking/i feel like a stan.
Quote from: Eugene Young on July 27, 2008, 02:15:09 PMQuote from: Dr. Derek Shepherd on July 27, 2008, 01:48:26 PMThe woman who hosted it was pretty hot, even though I'm not sure if she was black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or Middle Eastern. Soledad O'Brien. Quite fine. I remember reading somewhere that she's Cuban and Australian.Is she married to Miles O'Brien who used to be CNN's anchor?
Quote from: Dr. Derek Shepherd on July 27, 2008, 01:48:26 PMThe woman who hosted it was pretty hot, even though I'm not sure if she was black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or Middle Eastern. Soledad O'Brien. Quite fine. I remember reading somewhere that she's Cuban and Australian.
The woman who hosted it was pretty hot, even though I'm not sure if she was black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or Middle Eastern.
First let me say that I am "white", or rather, not "black".Nothing I saw was new in this report. In fact......I still have had the same question for years which is...."Ok....so what are you going to do about these issues". I have heard so many interviews with black people talking about "what we have to do", and see a rare few doing anything. The only way to move on is to just move on, and do something about it. I am quite sick of hearing excuses and reasons for why people are in such a bad state. Who gave a crap about the Jews? Just do something about it and stop talking about it!Therefore, before this post gets ANY fiery responses from my fellow black Americans, ask yourself what you have done about it, and what you are doing about it.
Quote from: Jonathan-NYC on July 27, 2008, 11:18:27 PMFirst let me say that I am "white", or rather, not "black".Nothing I saw was new in this report. In fact......I still have had the same question for years which is...."Ok....so what are you going to do about these issues". I have heard so many interviews with black people talking about "what we have to do", and see a rare few doing anything. The only way to move on is to just move on, and do something about it. I am quite sick of hearing excuses and reasons for why people are in such a bad state. Who gave a crap about the Jews? Just do something about it and stop talking about it!Therefore, before this post gets ANY fiery responses from my fellow black Americans, ask yourself what you have done about it, and what you are doing about it.
Hopefully you all caught this yesterday and the day before. If not they're re-airing this weekend.http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/For those who saw it - Thoughts?
Quote from: 7S on July 27, 2008, 12:38:23 PMI watched the first one on black women and was sorely disappointed so I skipped the one on black men. I guess the target audience wasn't black people in the slightest. I can say, though, since it aired, white people have been less afraid to ask to touch my hair. Ask? I went through a period in college where people felt the need to rub and or touch my head Every time I got it cut. Nothing peeved me more than that.
I watched the first one on black women and was sorely disappointed so I skipped the one on black men. I guess the target audience wasn't black people in the slightest. I can say, though, since it aired, white people have been less afraid to ask to touch my hair.
Quote from: Burning Sands, Esq. on July 25, 2008, 04:40:49 PMHopefully you all caught this yesterday and the day before. If not they're re-airing this weekend.http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/For those who saw it - Thoughts?To be honest I was quite disappointed with the woman one more than I was w/ the man one but I was disappointed in both. The woman one didn't have very much variety. Therefore I could see some intellectual making the argument that all the problems they were having could be explained by something other than race. But I think in all fairness I built it up in my mind too much before seeing it. They made it seem like it was going to be this groundbreaking thing...and it wasn't.Dyson and his bro was an interesting segment. Although I really couldn't get down with the whole dark skin light skin thing they were trying to do. Bit of a stretch.Quote from: doubledown on July 27, 2008, 01:56:22 PMQuote from: 7S on July 27, 2008, 12:38:23 PMI watched the first one on black women and was sorely disappointed so I skipped the one on black men. I guess the target audience wasn't black people in the slightest. I can say, though, since it aired, white people have been less afraid to ask to touch my hair. Ask? I went through a period in college where people felt the need to rub and or touch my head Every time I got it cut. Nothing peeved me more than that.Word 7S- at least you got asked! I wouldn't even know what to do with myself if I got asked. They just do. But it's slightly better than my own ppl yanking the crap out of my hair and asking me "is that weeve"?
Quote from: cui bono? on July 28, 2008, 12:49:27 AMQuote from: Burning Sands, Esq. on July 25, 2008, 04:40:49 PMHopefully you all caught this yesterday and the day before. If not they're re-airing this weekend.http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/For those who saw it - Thoughts?To be honest I was quite disappointed with the woman one more than I was w/ the man one but I was disappointed in both. The woman one didn't have very much variety. Therefore I could see some intellectual making the argument that all the problems they were having could be explained by something other than race. But I think in all fairness I built it up in my mind too much before seeing it. They made it seem like it was going to be this groundbreaking thing...and it wasn't.Dyson and his bro was an interesting segment. Although I really couldn't get down with the whole dark skin light skin thing they were trying to do. Bit of a stretch.Quote from: doubledown on July 27, 2008, 01:56:22 PMQuote from: 7S on July 27, 2008, 12:38:23 PMI watched the first one on black women and was sorely disappointed so I skipped the one on black men. I guess the target audience wasn't black people in the slightest. I can say, though, since it aired, white people have been less afraid to ask to touch my hair. Ask? I went through a period in college where people felt the need to rub and or touch my head Every time I got it cut. Nothing peeved me more than that.Word 7S- at least you got asked! I wouldn't even know what to do with myself if I got asked. They just do. But it's slightly better than my own ppl yanking the crap out of my hair and asking me "is that weeve"?lol. I guess "is that weave" is the black girl specific to "acting white."
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