ABC's Welcome to the Neighborhood
[Email transcript.]
Welcome to the Neighborhood is a new television reality show... [It] asks seven families of diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds to compete against each other to secure the approval of three neighbors to win a four-bedroom house in Austin, Texas. The judges are three white families who say the neighborhood "supports the President, traditional Christian values and wants people like themselves" to live in the neighborhood.
The premise of the show is that the white residents of this "picture perfect" community will have the right to select their new neighbors. The families competing for their approval include families who are African American, Hispanic [ie, LATINO], Asian American, a white gay couple with an African American child, and a family with non-traditional religious beliefs--all groups protected by federal or state Fair Housing laws. ABC is sponsoring a program that contradicts these families' legal rights under the federal and state Fair Housing Act.
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If you want to join the protest, email me and I can forward you the info.
Welcome to the Neighborhood is a new television reality show... [It] asks seven families of diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds to compete against each other to secure the approval of three neighbors to win a four-bedroom house in Austin, Texas. The judges are three white families who say the neighborhood "supports the President, traditional Christian values and wants people like themselves" to live in the neighborhood.
The premise of the show is that the white residents of this "picture perfect" community will have the right to select their new neighbors. The families competing for their approval include families who are African American, Hispanic [ie, LATINO], Asian American, a white gay couple with an African American child, and a family with non-traditional religious beliefs--all groups protected by federal or state Fair Housing laws. ABC is sponsoring a program that contradicts these families' legal rights under the federal and state Fair Housing Act.
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If you want to join the protest, email me and I can forward you the info.
posted by Rex at 4:15 PM
1 Comments:
This is stupid. Why didn't they reverse the roles? That would have been more interesting.
For example, take a bunch of white families from different socioeconimic backgrounds and have them compete to get into a ethnically integrated community. Now that would be worth watching.
Rather than just having one show, it could be a series, where each season is a different slice of the American experience, e.g. a cool condo in the Castro then an Arab neighborhood in Dearborn, Michigan, the following season.
Instead, they seek to bring back the notion that minorities need to compete to be part of the white America and are therefore some how not fully entitled to everything a citizen deserves. We spent the last forty years trying to make this kind of thing unacceptable.
Not only is this going to be a loaded weapon handed to white supremacists, it’s Un-American.
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