(World News Trust) -- Parody means to make a spoof of or make fun of. BET's recent Read a Book PSA is a parody the state of Black America. But what explains the uproar over Viacom owned BET airing a parody of the Black communities warped value system? What explains the CNN backlash at the two black males that produced the animated spoof? The CNN anchor actually tried to discredit the creator.Why is calling out bad behavior taboo in the black community? Why are two intelligent black males placed on CNN to answer for making such an offensive animated video meant to cause the Black community to think about its behavior? There is an interesting problem here. Why does CNN attack people that want to bring about positive change while ignoring people that actually promote the problem?
The picture above shows Snoop Dog walking two black women on leashes at an awards show. There was very little media coverage or backlash from within the Black Community. This real life event begged to be spoofed and called out for the B.S. that it is. So why is there so much outrage over the Read a Book PSA? Below are two pictures of white college students spoofing black behavior and culture. There was very little media coverage and hoopla over these hood parties taking place on college campuses. The current ghetto fabulous, thug life, street culture is a joke. It needs to be done away with. The black face and the gang dress reflect the general contempt for present day Black America. These students are no different than previous white generations with their fascination and mockery of black stereotypes. The ghetto stereotype is a 21st century Sambo, who now steals cars instead of chickens, who drinks forties instead of eating watermelon. The black female Sambo is now seen as a bitch on a leash. The 21st century Sambo is packaged and sold worldwide by rappers who are still willing to play the nigger to make a buck. It seems that CNN, White America, and Black America are comfortable with the Sambo image and call any attempt to condemn this behavior politically incorrect. Personally, beginning to think that both White America and Black America like to believe that behavior is race specific. When CNN covered Read a Book they were saying its wrong to call out such behavior because Black people can't help how they act it's innate.
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When white college students hold parties mocking the 21st Century Sambo, it's simply a venue to reinforce their idea of innate white superiority, or white divinity. Why couldn't they just buy a keg, get drunk, and have anonymous group sex like they normally do on college campuses? It is because America will always need niggers of some sort. What I'm saying is that America's caste system of White and Black is a uniquely American tradition. America will always need people who supposedly can't do better, that have inborn behaviors and pathologies that cannot change. It's kind of like having Native American sports mascots, the noble savage stereotype that dances around at football games and says "How" on cue. America likes race specific caricatures that can't be taken seriously.
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The 21st Century Sambo allows America to marginalize its historical sins. It's a business arrangement in which people such as Snoop Dog provide a 21st century Sambo which Black America can use as social leverage while also providing White America with an opportunity to make fun of historical inequities and atrocities by blaming the victims innate inferiority for their predicament or behavior. It's a sick symbiotic relationship in which both Black and White America seems quite comfortable. It would best be called the nigger comfort zone. This nigger comfort zone is what got shaken when two young Black American males called for reform within the Black Community by producing the Read a Book PSA. When members of the Black community call for their members to grow up and demonstrate responsibility and self-determination, it breaks the idea of believed innate inferiority and kills the idea of superiority. Black America is a parody of itself, but its parody by choice.
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Eran Reya was born in 1971 in Virginia. Both of his parents worked for the Federal Government in Washington D.C. His summers as a child were spent with his grandparents in the countryside. From these experiences he was influenced by rural African-American culture and learned outdoors skills such as farming, shooting, and horseback riding.
In second grade he was diagnosed with a learning disability and placed in special education for three years. The teachers found that he had a love for learning and quickly completed his class work by mid-day. As a reward they allowed him to spend the remaining half of his day in the elementary school library reading. At the library, Eran began reading about the Civil War which led him into his life-long study of African American history.
While attending college in Virginia, Eran continued his independent study of African American literature. It was also in college where he began to see the identity issues and social problems of the Black Bourgeoisie and the Black masses. During his college years, he read works by authors such as: Carter G. Woodson, E. Franklin Frazier, W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, and slave narratives.
In 1994, after graduating from college, he ended up in Atlanta, GA working full-time and writing screenplays and short stories in the evenings. This is also when he began his study of the Bible. In 1995, Eran witnessed Freaknic and Dayton’s Black Beach Week. The events he witnessed on those trips troubled him and lead him to a deeper study of the Bible in an attempt to better understand human nature. It was at this time that he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
{mosimage} After relocating back to the Washington D.C. area, he began working in television production for a major news network. He continued writing screenplays and short stories which were never sold or published. While working in D.C., he watched the continued decline of the black community. In 2006, he began research to understand the root causes of the decline of Black America. He found that the biggest problem affecting Black America is the identity crisis of Black males. The Death of Black America is his first published book.
He currently resides in Virginia with his wife and two sons.
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