Okay. I'm Offended
I just saw a promo for a new television program featuring black women working in a hair salon.
At least, I HOPE they're working in a hair salon.
Anyway, it's almost as if this program has evolved out of existing black women stereotypes on television.
Or maybe that should be "devolved" out of existing black women stereotypes on television.
Luckily, I know those black women on television are stereotypes because the other night TVO had a black woman on its panel lamenting the latest campaign in Ontario. She didn't roll her eyes or do that hand sweep or say "Whachu talkin' 'bout, girl?" to Steve Paikin once. Not once. AND the campaign she was lamenting was John Tory's, too.
Of course, she was Canadian, so maybe that's why she wasn't acting... black...
Hey - Condi Rice is black and she doesn't do that eye roll or hand sweep, either - and she's American.
What gives, Dear Reader?
Seriously, there must be another TV black woman stereotype television could hype beyond the eye rolling hand sweeping "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, girl?" TV black woman stereotype that television has already hyped a hundred times since... well... slavery ended, I guess.
Oops. I mean, segregation. Since segregation ended. Er, in real life, I mean. Not on TV. Segregation is still going strong on TV.
