It’s Monday, The Black Community, and that means it’s time for our favorite type of programming. Shone TV. Love or hate it, but the TV shows focused on privileged women with loose morals and bad tempers are all the rage in The Black Community. BET never had such good ratings until they started airing “The Game”. It’s about time they showed something other than nonstop reruns of Leprechaun 3. VH1, MTV, and even the “women upliftment channels” Bravo, Oxygen and Lifetime have cashed in on this phenomenon. Damn. It’s the life we all wish to lead, but don’t want to tell anyone. It's easier to just watch it on TV in the comfort of our own living rooms.
It all started with The Game. It’s a simple premise, really. A smart independent Medical Student is aspiring towards a great future. Rather than find a nice guy equal in intelligence to her, with similar goals and aspirations, she finds a professional football player. He gladly adds her to the list of girls whom he’s telling: “You’re the only one”, and hijinxs ensue. And then something happened. Within one season, Black women started eating up the drama and naked men in these shows, and Black men started watching too, if only to get street cred with the ladies, and to catch a peak at scantily clad female actors. As if they actually cared about the “engrossing plotline” (LOL). Now Monday evenings are filled with programming of this type. There’s Real HouseShones, Basketball Shones, and even Single Shones. All categories are covered.
The irony of these shows is that they feature women who are only famous because OF MEN THEY’RE ASSOCIATED WITH. Every new Basketball Wife’s inherit value is determined by the Basketball player they were able to seduce. Oh, you picked up a ninja who plays for the Bobcats? You ain’t real. Bonus points if you got a child from one of the players though. That’s an 18 year paycheck. You know she gonna be living good, unless the paternity test proves otherwise. Damn. If the name of the "Basketball Husband" who's she's with doesn't ring a bell, she's low quality. The women featured in these shows really haven't done anything worthwhile with their lives. What are the accomplishments of the Real Housewives of XYZ City, other than they bagged the ninja that invented Toaster Strudel and became a millionaire? Thus, with all that free time, these ladies have nothing to do but party, drink, determine who’s the “realest” and have arguments and such.
And that is what we The Black Community love to see. These shows have everything we in The Black Community need. There are the fights and the scream fests for pure entertainment. There are the girls doing questionable activities, perfect for us to ridicule and call “basic”. We can judge the living hell out of these females, and they can’t even retaliate by trying to ruin your reputation on Black People Twitter. It’s the perfect power position. There’s the light-skin superheroes taken straight from Tyler Perry movies, shirts missing and all, who look like Gods, but treat women like crap. Just the type of man every girl wants. The men in these shows are the ultimate dirtbags who lie, cheat and steal and provide perfect material for salty girls to complain about during Relationship Forums. There’s even stuff in these shows for guys, with your favorite video vixens (actresses) getting naked every other scene as they portray the life of the “Liberated Woman”. It’s why Single Ladies is so popular. I’m looking at you, Lisa Raye.
These shows give The Black Community the chance to live vicariously through the characters. Nobody wants to study and actually do well in school, that's boring. Why not just get married to some rich athlete, get lifetime support through divorce or a child, and then live it up every night, drinking with your homegirls and smashing every guy in sight, who all happen to look like that guy from the Old Spice commercials? It’s better than staying up every night studying for Chemistry.
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