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Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
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#282I feel like this encourages a divide.
E.g. - Do you feel like the existence of ESPN forces a bigger divide between people who like sports and those who don't?
If not, what's the difference? Each is a cultural group - one just has a history of being violently attacked and suppressed...
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
90% of American men feel like losers. Nothing special about that. Life is boring and hard.
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#284I will never understand why in the USA the amount of melanin in your skin is so important. I will never understand how they plan to fight (and potentially finish) racism by creating more division.
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#285“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
Agreed. Where I work (US-company, but I work outside of US) it is similarly weird to me. We appear to have gone backwards in the past 5-10 years in my view - no longer can you just be "you", but now it feels like we have to be labelled, categorised, and segregated into different groups. We now have to make a big deal and a big song-and-dance to highlight our differences and define what our ethnic backgrounds are (app…
> despite there being various laws (at least in the UK) about this sort of thing being a protected characteristic that you simply cannot talk about during interviews - its weird.
Likewise here in BC.
I believe it is illegal to discuss race, gender, pregnancy, family planning, and so on and so forth during the interview.
Re: Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
#286Is this inclusive?
What's wrong with Nollywood? or Bollywood?
They seem to be doing well and are already on Netflix.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not OP, but yeah the market has clearly changed. Everything we consume today and media in general has been fractured, organized into subcategories, and is now delivered by algorithms. I my opinion the problem isn't that there is no demand for black-focused media, its that its just become another subcategory of Netflix. And because it may not be as popular on Netflix it doesn't get as much production. Look at what Net…
But why would it not be as popular on netflix, amazon, hulu, ect?
Amazon actually produces the highest quality Black content consistently: Underground Railroad, One Night in Miami, Homecoming, Life, etc
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear this argument a lot and people use examples like BET and black churches. But take a step back and look at what led to black-specific things. MTV hardly played black artists. White churches excluded and actively attacked black Christians. White has been the default in America for a long time. Seems like that's slowly starting to change but until it does, there's going to be a need for things specifically target…
When I think of MTV in the early 90s I actually think of LL Cool J.
People pretend there wasn't a show called "Yo! MTV Raps"
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Black" is a culture; it's not merely a skin color. Our country kidnapped millions of people from the African content, stripped them of their heritage and family ties, and randomly moved them around plantations in the American south, then released them and spent 100+ years subjecting them to apartheid laws that they united to fight. It is a whole unique interesting thing (jazz, soul food, the Black church, the Harlem…
Correction: Europeans BOUGHT millions of people from the African contenent FROM OTHER BLACK AFRICANS who had already stripped them of their heritage and family ties! Remember the Democrats little kneeling to BLM while wearing Kente scarves publicity stunt? The irony (or symbolism?) of the Democrats dressing up as Africa's most prolific slave traders was apparently lost on most people.
For those not in the United States: this is (and I assume the spittle-flecking about "kneeling to BLM" made this a tip for some people, but let's make the implicit part explicit) a very common point of rhetoric amongst slavery apologists and Lost Causers of many stripes.
The idea of permission structures for white Americans being somehow erected because some ethnic groups and communities sold people from other ethnic groups and communities (because, and I apologize if this is obvious to some readers, the compaction of people of African descent into "African-American" is, for obvious reasons, something here and not there) is one of a set of apologetics in common use in the United States designed to erase the complicity of our forebears.
Good luck to BlackOakTV. I look forward to seeing what happens next for you all.
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#290“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
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