“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
It's more understandable when you think about the Irish Troubles. The Black-White issue is really an interethnic conflict.
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#42“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
It really is! I'm Asian and have bounced between a few communities over the years. The largest group can act as if the others aren't significant enough to bother with. The other groups constantly have to defend their differences from constant influence and comparison with the majority.
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#43Wow nice way to promote division BlackOakTV. It’s nice to know skin color matters so much to your company. Me? I try to make things more about the person rather than their color.
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#44“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
Thank the media. We weren't obsessed with race until recently. Also shoot every journalist.
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#45Can we replace “black” with “straight white” here?
Don’t think that’s okay?
Netflix and HBO Max is filled with LGBTQ of all races already. To the point it breaks from immersion. What are you talking about being “under represented in Hollywood?” 13% of the us population are black Americans, it’s at least that in shows (likely much higher).
I’m sick of this racism. If I started a “Netflix for white people” I’d be banned everywhere.
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#46”Vid is a subscription video platform serving white audiences by making it easy for them to watch TV shows and movies that feature white stories and characters.” In most of mainland Europe this woukd be against the law
White stories and characters are not under-represented in European media, so this is a non-sequitur.
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#47“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
I don't know what country you're from but if you don't think there are subcultures in your country under-represented by the dominant media I'd assert you're almost definitely wrong. Perhaps it feels a little strange from the outside that such a subculture is definitively "black" but yeah, that's basically how things are in the US. The country has a deep history of racism and black people being literal slaves, in that…
I used to believe that media representation didn't matter. After all, fictional characters are fiction, why should I expect them to look like me?
Then someone pointed out to me that my favourite super-hero was Spider-Man because Peter Parker is a 20-something loser, just like me.
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#48“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
Yes the country has lost its mind. They’re reconstituting segregation in the U.S. at the moment
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#49“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
I wouldn't call it a cultural divide (despite what our media wants), I would call America more a collection of cultures and I love being exposed to multiple different cultures just outside my proverbial front door. That said, this is a great idea and I wish this company the best. I'd love to see something similar for the Hispanic community, as well.
"Netflix for black people" implies that the color of someone's skin determines so much about their personality that they need their own separate streaming service to watch shows on. I don't see how this is any improvement over the existing streaming services that already include a ton of indie content from a lot of different cultures.
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