16 posts tagged “pbs”

Please check this child's profile on fuzz here

You see that tagline??

This on here:

Fuck A Nigguah..Money Make Me Cum!! Treal Bytch!

Instead of me complaining about the situation, I am the one who wrote that comment to her as 2Serenity. I am wondering how she will respond or if she will respond.

If she disses me then that is a lesson lost but if she wants to learn how not to be that way then she may have a new friend?

I have no idea.

My friend in Germany directed her to me for he was concerned about how she was portraying herself too.

As a black woman seeing a younger black woman act like that I could not stay quiet. I could not stay on the sidelines saying what ifs. That is why I had to jump in and share.

I am asking any of you who may see something like that and if it hurts you see it, to please address it but to be gentle with the individual. I could not go to bed tonight knowing that at least I did not say something about it.

God gave us all a brain. Let's try to use those gifts to make this world a better place.

Let's be that change we want to see in the world as Gandhi said!

UPDATE:

The young lady responded. And here is what she said:

LOL.....gotta let ppl kno

xoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoox

Sad. I am not even responding. At least I shared how I felt. PARENTS please know WHERE your children are online.
This is not acceptable in my book. I know you cannot monitor everything but at least know your child's presence online to monitor how they are portraying themselves.

This past Saturday, I went to Podcamp in Washington, DC and in one of the seminars we discussed was internet privacy. Situations like this one above are documented and kept online forever. At least her real name is not shared but still if someone recognizes her and sees this, people will wonder WHY she said this. I am keeping record that she realizes what she is doing but you see her response is that she thinks it is funny.

Some of these children online are making idiots of themselves. I honestly am at a lost of how to reprogram them to let them see how idiotic they are portraying themselves. But, then it is not even children who are acting this way but adults too.

There was a documentary on PBS' front line about the digital age and children.

I highly advise that you go through this link below and see what people are saying and how families are being affected with the online world: PBS - Frontline Growing up in the DIGITAL AGE

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Then the young lady did say to me publicly:

y3a i h3ar u....but how am i portraying mahself do u think?? i think im jus sayin wat i feel!

2nd UPDATE

This was the private message I sent to her through fuzz:

There is a guy in Germany who contacted me asking me what did your tag line meant. Although he thought it was funny he did not know what it meant. So he asked me. When I tried to explain it to him he said, that he knew it was wrong but that he was worried that you may be attracting the wrong people.

So that is why I reached out to you to let you know that:

1. people will assume that you are unapproachable
2. people will assume that you are mean
3. people think that you are not smart
4. people will think that you are have no value in yourself

I was shocked what I saw on your profile and had to share with another friend of mine and this is what she said to me about your profile (she is black too and this is her: http://tiffanybbrown/about)

She said this in a private conversation to me:

some folks are just trife like that and then wonder why they get treated like trash, but i digress.

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For me, I know you are not trash although I do not know you but I just do not want others taking advantage of you and hurting you. Know that God protects you when he can.

Be good, sis.

And this was her response:

------- Original message (Apr 22 at 3:35 pm) -------

yes i understand completely wat u are saying.but i dont think dat ppl should judge me wen dey dont kno me...so they cant say that im trife or anything else because dey dont kno me...and i dont really care wat other ppl think yakno...and i dont get taken advantage of...and i am not a mean person, but i am unapproachable if u cant come at me right...ppl luck at that and think what they want, i have learned not 2 ckare, and im ok wit that!! and i dont allows mahself 2 get treated like trash, that no tolerance

What am I going to do?

See the new update
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3rd Update [public for everyone to see]

This is what I said to her:

i aint disrespecting anybodi...and i use nigga as it was used in those days..callin us blacks niggas meanin that we are ignorant and wateva else, but u kno...da dudes out here 2day are ignorant, and dey didnt respeckt me, so dey dont get nun...if dey think i am talkin about them, then they have a guilty feeling towards demselves...i am a very intelligent young lady, and people who take da tyme out 2 get 2 kno me instead of judging me about wat VERY LITTLE dey kno ABOUT ME..then that problem would not occur!!!! callin mahself a b, ok i got chu dere, but i thought i had changed that a while ago...but thanks for trying 2 ckare!

This is what I said back to her:

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My reaction to all of this. Stop watching TV. Turn off your cable. Watch PBS and come together and join the NAACP and join the Enough is Enough Campaign.

People are going to criticize forever but if you truly use the brain that the Lord has given you, do the best thing and turn off the TV and listen to the radio such as NPR. Support your local PBS station for I support channel 13 here in NY which produces many of the documentaries that you see on PBS. There are many wonderful documentaries on African American culture and many other diverse issues. Check out PBS' retail store online for you will be surprised of the wealth of knowledge you can get at PBS.
 
I have cable for the news and another channel here in New York which is NY1. If I could just have CNN, PBS and NY1, I am set. Sometimes I watch other channels such as The History Channel, Discovery Channel and the TLC Channel. But, otherwise it is all news.

For 20 years (since I was 13), I have been a member of the NAACP. So, if you truly want to do something about the negativity in the world, be about something and stop allowing the images to be seen or read or in your house. Turn the TV off. I would stop watching TV all together, but I need the news to know what is going on. My priorities are to know what is going on or I feel disconnected to what I may be getting myself into when I walk out the of my home or even in my office.

These are just suggestions that I follow so be informed that some of us in the world do not allow these degrading images into our lives. The only reason why I discuss it here is that other people ask me these questions all the time because they think all black people watch and appreciate these images which is not true. I always go back to my law school classmate who wanted to call me the N word because of what she saw on In Living Color TV Show in th early 1990s. She thought it was appropriate for anyone to call each other the N word. I have already addressed this issue in this blog on the N word. And, if you want to know my opinion or how I feel please go to: www.abolishthenword.com