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People working for a mainstream service like Netflix are wrapped in maintaining their job and catering to white people. Having a separate streaming service wit
by blackgirldev 5y ago
People working for a mainstream service like Netflix are wrapped in maintaining their job and catering to white people. Having a separate streaming service with curators from the Black community means more opportunity to express unpopular ideas. This means less Harriet Tubman bios and more current culture/expression.
edit: I should add that having watched a few shows like Jack & Jill (which I had never heard of until now)...I am reminded that when you have white people choose the Black actors/actresses of a show (even if they have Black employees' advice) limits the range of beauty. I forget how many gorgeous people are overlooked because they don't fit the mainstream idea of what "we" are supposed to look like in order to be seen as attractive. It's a subtle thing that permeates our children and culture and really makes a difference in perspective.
Also, the portrayal of middle and upper class Blacks is soooooo limited. I am so tired of hearing about up-and-coming poor Blacks. What about privileged assholes like me who always had a great life with plenty of opportunities? We are out here and we have stories.
- Uzo0312 5y agoThanks for your thoughts here! I'm definitely on the same page with you! Don't love labeling ourselves this way, but by having the "gatekeepers" of what goes on BlackOakTV look like the viewers we're targeting, it opens the door for a very differentiated content and platform experience.
- blackgirldev 5y agoI am wishing you all the best and just bought a subscription. If you need software developers I can help. I am telling everyone I know about it as well. Getting the word out and early support is key!
- jxramos 5y agoyah I second that sentiment, that range of beauty palette on the launch page really struck me with its "novelty" if you will. A smorgasbord of eye candy with great variance we never get served with. I love it.
- risky_opinions 5y agoI'm White. I'm not racist. I agree with your opinions of wanting more black stories. The fact so many people are capitalizing black and lower casing White is such a deliberate act of divisiveness. Stop doing this. You're turning moderate people into enemies. Everything is being turned into race and division to the point it's making my Asian partner and a lot of her friends in the Asian community mad at the black community. Can't we all just get over the tiny number of genes that separate us? I mean this in love and honesty. And I'm sorry I didn't capitalize Black. Let's capitalize it all.
- tptacek 5y agoYou capitalize "Black" for the same reason you capitalize "Spanish" or "Polish". It's a distinctive ethnicity and culture; it isn't simply a broad description of people sharing a skin color. You can read John McWhorter --- no friend to wokeism --- talking about how much better capital-B Black is as a description than any of the other weird terms we've come up with in the last 20 years. Nobody anywhere on this thread is freaking out when people fail to capitalize "black". The people who do capitalize it are simply making it unambiguous that they are referring to American Black culture.
- whoaisme 5y agoLOL what a load of nonsense. Spanish and Polish are capped because Spain and Poland are capped. This woke garbage is so obsessed with remaking reality in the face of the self evident it's no wonder why no one takes it seriously.
- tptacek 5y agoAh, yes, such bastions of wokeism as The Chicago Manual of Style.
- kasey_junk 5y agoAnd Jewish is capitalized because Judea is…