Is this show painting a brutally honest picture of Black life? Is that what we need to wake up the general population to the absolute degradation that has befallen our community?
The Oxygen network announced it’s latest reality TV offering “All My Babies’ Mamas” and before the first show has even aired there has been a whirlwind of controversy surrounding the series. AMBM is apparently about rapper Shawty Lo (I had never heard of a “Shawty Lo” before, but apparently it exists) and his babies…and his babies’ mamas. This man has 11 children by 10 different women and now Oxygen will air a reality TV show about…well, whatever happens to a dude who has happily impregnated 10 different women.
My first reaction was the same as my fellow blogger Nadra (AKA Cap Black) expressed when he first heard of the show: “Pardon me while I exhale a ragged sigh.” However, after thinking on it a bit I couldn’t help but wonder if this might be a good thing. Perhaps the show will be shot as more of a cautionary tale, an expose on the attitudes and practices that have ailed the Black community for far too long.
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