By shelz.

It appears the Oxygen network has fallen for the okey doke guilt trip and decided to walk away from the show about Shawty Lo and his litter.  I wouldn’t have watched; I find Lo less than appealing, but I wasn’t offended either.  I mean he did manage to lessen his child support payments by getting everyone in his extended family a job.  And drawing one of those NBC Universal checks has to be better than the 1/11^th sliver of Lo royalties they were getting.  That has to count for something.

The people who rallied against the show said it fed into stereotypes about black men, but this isn’t some scripted show with writers and such.  It’s a reality show, and the reality is that he actually fathered (or is under the mistaken impression that he fathered) those kids.  I think it’s pretty weird to suggest the network is making black men look bad when the black man actually did what the network is being lambasted for. 

Oxygen didn’t do the rubberless horizontal mambo with these chicks. Have you seen the family photo?  I’m just saying, on some counts that’s not a pleasing thought.  Besides, the chicks complaining about this outrageous portrayal of the black family are probably the same ones that date dudes with a flock-o-kids, leaving the thoughtful book worm at home on Friday nights because he’s too nice, or too attentive, or some equally dumb shit.

How about instead of worrying about how the black community is presented and perceived by others, we worry about how we treat and present ourselves?  It’s probably hard to make you look bad if you don’t give them the ammo to create the stereotype, but we wouldn’t know because we create ammo as easily as Shawty Lo creates babies. Maybe if the show didn’t have such a ratchet ass title? I don’t know.

I kinda feel bad for those kids now.  Their Emmy hopes have been dashed and they will probably go back to working on an assembly line, bottling that gawd awful cologne Lo has been hawking.   I think that’s a way worse fate than a few minutes of face time on Oxygen. It definitely pays a lot less.  I mean how well can this scent be doing?  Do you want to smell like Shawty Lo? He probably has a multiple random ass tang to him.  It’s just not appealing.