So actress Rashida Jones.
Now you know Rashida Jones is the legendary Quincy Jones daughter,
and she's on this show with Kenya Barris called black. You know, Alf,
I'm not going to say the rest of it,
but that's the name of the show is basically a nother form of black is just more
vulgar, right?
So many people was complaining that Rashida Jones is playing the wife,
and she's being looked at as being black because of Rashida Jones.
She said kind of person that has a white parent, black parent,
but she could pass.
And that's the issue that more so they're looking at not so much.
Let's say if she was a black person that couldn't pass,
then maybe they wouldn't say much about it,
but because she looked like she can pass,
she has played roles where she's been considered white and not black.
That's how much does she could pass. But so she playing this role as you know,
Kenya Barris is a wife,
but if you kind of look at his family is literally mirroring what his family is
based on the makeup from his wife to you,
no way Rashida looks et cetera. But a lot of people you know,
had an issue with that. They felt that wait a minute,
receded Jones as a represent black women. You know, what is this?
Why is it they trying to put the most racially ambiguous looking woman up there
to say this is his wife, this is black women. Um, and you know,
that is a legitimate argument in a lot of ways.
It is a legitimate argument because you know,
they make sure when they say somebody is white,
they don't try to find someone like Rashida all the time.
It's put her as the white woman as the star of something.
They usually don't do that. They try to find a white woman that's white.
You know? Now when it comes to black women, of course, black women come from,
like they say Ebony to ivory,
they come in many different looks and features, et cetera.
So you can't just say black women look a certain way. But I,
I understand the argument, I do understand it,
but at the same time,
part of her lineage is black and can you bears as the one selected her for that
role. But some people you know, took issue with that.
So in this particular article they posted a lot of pictures of you know,
Rashida Jones is definitely had one with her father. You know,
Quincy and you know, there's many different ones from her mom, etc.
But when we look at issues in Hollywood, TV, etc.
We shouldn't more so focus just on one role.
I believe that we all should participate.
We all should create our own shows there where we can put whoever we want to put
in our shows. Right? We could put someone that looks, you know,
very visibly black, right. Visibly black American,
African Caribbean. We can put that in a show.
I say it would be cool to get a show where you know, you have basically,
you know, how you had that modern family. You can, well of course not.
Some of the aspects of what they put in that modern family.
I ain't talking about that, but I'm saying just basically you could have,
you know, your, your black African family, you could have your African American,
you can have your Caribbean family, uh,
you can have your Afro Latino family.
And to see like how those different families, you know,
live their life and kind of dramatize some of that and all kind of made them,
well let me not put this whole idea out here for these folks up here and tried
to take this idea and flip it to something else.
But what I'm trying to say is we need to do our own shows and that's to show
that he chose to do based off of it. It looks like off his own family,
just based off of how the character set up. But we need to set up our own shows.
If ISA Ray can do it or other folks can do it, you can do it. You understand?
I mean, we have to maybe save our money and get with some people, you know,
give us some writers. I mean, we could do it on a low scale.
Now we don't have to have a big Hollywood production.
And if I show is good enough, maybe a Netflix, I want to pay you,
you know, to produce content for them or maybe a HBO or whatever else.
I'm not seeing you giving away your sins, your shows to nobody.
But you can do like partnership deals where you just basically using their
network and they going to get a cut,
but you going get a bigger cut and a bigger audience in some cases. Right?
But the sky's the limit. When you create things,
this is the time to create our own shows.
So you don't see too many assessors on TV like Kalita Smith from the Bernie Mac
show. You don't see too many. You see dark skin women getting rolls. Right?
Are you, that's why some of it, where it's coming from or even, you know,
you have some roles. I know Pam's character was being, or you know,
rag on constantly. And that's the way that was set up. Um, of course, you know,
you had Gina with Martin and, and that dynamic.
But we don't even see that anymore. Now is, is all, you know,
when the shows that,
you know black folks or with white folks or mostly black and white.
Cause of course, you know, that's an agenda they're pushing.
And I can talk about that. And,
and with just one video this one woman had put out talking about they get with,
uh, black men in order to survive.
But that's a different story for a different day.
But we should just focus on creating our own shows because we can't depend on
Hollywood, which is highly weird to do it for us.
But let me know in the comments, if you've seen the show before,
if you've seen it, you've seen the dynamics of it, you know,
let us know in the comments. And if you had had a show,
who would you cast to play the husband and wife, the kids, et cetera,
because Hey, we all got our ideas right.