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Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people

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Post by netizen-936824 »

weimerica wrote: post #314
warent wrote: post #277

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The problem is that white Americans don't have the same American experience as black Americans, which is where the divide comes from and it creates another culture. It's been getting a lot better, but there are still two legal systems, two education systems, etc. My perspective as a white man is that when black people create something for themselves like this, it's reclaiming the power. Like how they use the N word w…

> The problem is that white Americans don't have the same American experience as black Americans, which is where the divide comes from and it creates another culture. It's been getting a lot better, but there are still two legal systems, two education systems, etc. It's really more about how much money you have in your pocket, what neighborhood you're in - but please continue driving a racial wedge to further divide…

Even wealthy black Americans get harassed by police more often than their equivalently wealthy white counterparts, sometimes simply for being in the neighborhood where they live.

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Post by endisneigh »

disneygibson wrote: post #152

This just makes me sad. We seem to be returning to a segregated society with separate services for every ethnic group. It’s not the “melting pot” idea of America that I was raised with, where everyone contributes their own unique culture to a unified American whole. That was the brilliance of American identity, which is now fracturing at an accelerated rate.

The lie you’ve been fed is that America was ever integrated.

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Post by yaacov »

disneygibson wrote: post #152

This just makes me sad. We seem to be returning to a segregated society with separate services for every ethnic group. It’s not the “melting pot” idea of America that I was raised with, where everyone contributes their own unique culture to a unified American whole. That was the brilliance of American identity, which is now fracturing at an accelerated rate.

Black people mostly aren’t immigrants and it’s not fair to demand that they assimilate if they don’t want to. America forcibly enslaved black people for hundreds of years, then excluded them from our society and political process for a few generations, it’s not surprising that they developed their own culture.

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Post by nix23 »

HarryHirsch wrote: post #181
nix23 wrote: post #136

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Out of curiosity, do all black people in the US have the same cultural background? Or is it just the skin color?

That's precisely the trouble. In NI, when someone ask you if you are Catholic or Protestant and you answer you are Danish, they leave you alone. In the US on the other hand, you get dragged in no matter what. If you are from Nigeria you still get thrown in with regular "African Americans". That has interesting results, because for university admission purposes, black is black. However, amongst Nigerian immigrants edu…

Thanks! Made it even clearer what the problem in the US is, i lived for >1.5 y in Tanzania Kenya Rwanda and Namibia, and the Culture (Food, Music, Cloth, TV, Soap-operas, Religion etc) is so vastly different as if you would compare Iceland to South Italy.

I think it terrible what the US is heading too (equalizing culture with skin-color)

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Post by toto444 »

bobmaxup wrote: post #272
toto444 wrote: post #140

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What's a black story ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_cinema

I guess what confuses me is that one says a film is French because it has been produced by a French producer for a French audience. French is both a culture and a location.

Whereas in the case of Black products culture and location are not the distinct.

Edit : what I am writing is really confusing and I should have stopped 2 seconds before commenting.

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Post by blackgirldev »

bluedino wrote: post #288
mrits wrote: post #117

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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"

Because rap music is/was the only black music.

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Post by tisthetruth »

f6v wrote: post #2

“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.

I agree. This encourages segregation, which if i remember correctly was a pretty big issue in America. Who would have thought that a movement to treat people more equally has offspring ideas which cause more segregation. What a joke. This is just a greedy attempt to capitalize on the divide in the US and profit off it. How very American of you to put profit against society's current landscape. Carry on. However maybe, just maybe you should focus your efforts on an idea that is more integrating vs divisive.

What's next? Here are a few ideas:

The NBA channel for white people and please only white basketball players on the teams Track and Field channel for asian people with only asian athletes on the teams Chess for dogs channel with only dogs playing chess, poor cats they are not allowed to play chess on this channel Landscaping for black people with only black landscapers on the shows

What i like about the porn industry is there are many sub-genres within it, so one could argue that this BlackOakTV is an attempt at a subgenre. However at a time like this in the US... You know, Edward Bernay's was right in his book Propaganda, create a suggestive environment and people will buy what ever the environment suggests and they will think it was their own idea for wanting to buy it. But who knows, maybe the equality and diversity crowd really is screaming inside for more segregation and preventing all sorts of freudian slips from surfacing.

Actually i have a better idea for the chess dogs, let's only have dalmatian dogs playing chess and keep golden retrievers from enjoying any media attention while playing chess on this channel. This will lead to great narratives in the minds of the niche consumers and dalmatian ownership will skyrocket along with chess board sales.

Anyone want to give me funding?

Good luck with it regardless. More friction in the market means someone is making money. Let it rip.

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