Now, before I begin I have a confession to make, I only got a chance to see the 1st part of this 2 part special. The one that I saw was the Focus on the Black woman. Now me being the blogger that I am, I have seen so many mixed reviews for this special. It like anything else was met with lots of criticism and very little praise. There were positive and negative comments surrounding Soledad O'Brien's attempt at giving a view to the world of life as a Black American. What were your thoughts, did the show tell us anything we didn't know? Did it cast a positive light on a society that is always being seen in a negative light? Does it represent you? Do you believe that this special cast a light or gave a face to Americans that are truly struggling and other races believe that its indeed treated equally? So many questions.Some have said that these conditions apply to all races, that it could have been easily named, "White in America", "Hispanic in America" or "Indian in America". Is it offensive that we had to categorized by race in America, while others before us have fought to be looked at as equal?
I myself have mixed reviews in regards to the project. I can see where the intentions where but the project fell a little shy of spectacular. All races have struggles, we all have our crosses to bear, but we by no means should let society dictate our success. Our people have done much more with so much less than we have today. Our circumstances are no indication of our destination, they're only speed bumps in the road.
Did it represent you, did the positive strives we made outweigh the negative.
MochaMom
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