Comments on: Discovery Channel http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/ | social justice | higher education | technology | Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:20:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Flint J. http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-18033 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:54:51 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-18033 I don't assume that a reason for the lack(pure non-existence) of non-Caucasian hosts is based on a racial discrimination. I’ve fully viewed things from a perspective of there being just a greater selection of qualified candidates that ‘happen’ to be Caucasian, but I can’t help to abstract my perspective to the lack of any ‘positive’ discovery of the ‘black scholar’ and the adventurous spirit that lay within. I sometimes consider it to be a simple product of blacks(should I say ‘African descendants’?) failure to have a proactive role in centuries current(combating for racial equality doesn’t count..). And ( I choose to start sentence with conjunction) it reflects strongly in ‘American culture’, but is it wrong? Really, BET(and media outlets alike) could change from giving into /teaching popular culture what it ‘is to be black’, but from within Black-American perceived culture is broken; better I say, displayed with a highly incorrect bias. Nevertheless, I’m not complaining on the overview in which ‘we are view’, in all honestly MOST of it is correct (statistically, even when view on a global base.) I figure…if blacks want equality in all the different sectors in this age, it/we/they probably needs to start with an infrastructure designed, cultivated, and implemented in the African nation…not from the derived cultures in where blacks find themselves scattered throughout the world today…It may not be fair in social order sense… however fair is not a noun, it is a level of respect bestowed in the arena of competition…and Africans/blacks should put their track record(as a whole)on the table…then ask themselves honestly…to they/we match up. I say we don’t…and the handicap that is assigned to us therein is a fair one… Did that make any sense…[shrug] -Flint I don’t assume that a reason for the lack(pure non-existence) of non-Caucasian hosts is based on a racial discrimination. I’ve fully viewed things from a perspective of there being just a greater selection of qualified candidates that ‘happen’ to be Caucasian, but I can’t help to abstract my perspective to the lack of any ‘positive’ discovery of the ‘black scholar’ and the adventurous spirit that lay within. I sometimes consider it to be a simple product of blacks(should I say ‘African descendants’?) failure to have a proactive role in centuries current(combating for racial equality doesn’t count..). And ( I choose to start sentence with conjunction) it reflects strongly in ‘American culture’, but is it wrong? Really, BET(and media outlets alike) could change from giving into /teaching popular culture what it ‘is to be black’, but from within Black-American perceived culture is broken; better I say, displayed with a highly incorrect bias. Nevertheless, I’m not complaining on the overview in which ‘we are view’, in all honestly MOST of it is correct (statistically, even when view on a global base.) I figure…if blacks want equality in all the different sectors in this age, it/we/they probably needs to start with an infrastructure designed, cultivated, and implemented in the African nation…not from the derived cultures in where blacks find themselves scattered throughout the world today…It may not be fair in social order sense… however fair is not a noun, it is a level of respect bestowed in the arena of competition…and Africans/blacks should put their track record(as a whole)on the table…then ask themselves honestly…to they/we match up. I say we don’t…and the handicap that is assigned to us therein is a fair one…

Did that make any sense…[shrug]

-Flint

]]> by: Angel H. http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-16628 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:27:18 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-16628 dsf: So let me get this straight: White guys can appropriate Black culture (and do it badly), but Black guys can't host tv documentaries, i.e. step into "White man's shoes"? dsf: So let me get this straight:

White guys can appropriate Black culture (and do it badly), but Black guys can’t host tv documentaries, i.e. step into “White man’s shoes”?

]]> by: Dennis http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-16614 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:26:57 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-16614 Dsf - the wealth of one's parents almost always provides for greater chances to succeed (tutors, good schools, good colleges) than those of students whose parents have nothing. To say nothing of access to health care, good food, good rest, a 'good' neighborhood, etc. Dsf - the wealth of one’s parents almost always provides for greater chances to succeed (tutors, good schools, good colleges) than those of students whose parents have nothing.

To say nothing of access to health care, good food, good rest, a ‘good’ neighborhood, etc.

]]> by: dsf http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-16610 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:49:22 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-16610 "the wealth of their parents has never been equal." Um, so what does that have to do with anything? As for diversifying Discovery Channel, isn't the white guys doing rap bad enough? At least they know when to stop. “the wealth of their parents has never been equal.”

Um, so what does that have to do with anything?

As for diversifying Discovery Channel, isn’t the white guys doing rap bad enough? At least they know when to stop.

]]> by: Dennis http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-16282 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:06:45 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2007/10/07/discovery-channel/#comment-16282 Rachel S., I agree with you 100% about <i>Deadliest Catch</i>. It's a sociologist's dream. Rachel S.,

I agree with you 100% about Deadliest Catch. It’s a sociologist’s dream.

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