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No Black geeks?

posted 17 years ago by rubenrox4
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Why have there never been any Black geeks in the history of this show? I know many a Black male who fit the same mold and educational background as the contestants on this show. This is a clear indicator that many reality show producers are proponents of playing up stereotypes on their shows. When you see an Asian Male on one of these shows, he is an academically adept,yet socially inept,dweeb. If there is a Black male, most of the time he is a street-savvy "player" who can't even structure a sentence correctly. If there is a Black female, she is a belligerent, confrontational drama queen. Evidently, audiences eat this up which is why shows such as Flavor of Love(which I admit, is a guilty pleasure of mine), are still on the air. I just wish people would wake up and realize how detrimental these types of images are.

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[–] kidshicks 15 years ago

apparently society wants to make it look like all black males are "ghetto" and live in the hood. which is not true AT ALL!!

[–] yuna_braska 14 years ago

You guys are reading too much into this. Simply there aren't any blacks geeky enough for this show. I mean they were holding auditions for this in my country at my friend's university and my friend was surprised that her VERY geeky Asian friends didn't make it cuz they weren't geeky enough. You have to be EXTREME geek for this show...and most blacks are too 'cool' to be geeky.

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