Marcia's Musings

I am stunned, hurt and so tremendously disappointed by the portrayals featured on your highly touted, record-breaking show “The Game.” I knew when I saw the first episode and Tasha Mack was smoking a Black-n-Mild that this was probably not going to be the CW show I once loved, but I was still invested in seeing how storylines would play out now that some of my favorite characters had found a home on your network. Never did I expect the characters, especially Melanie and Tasha, to devolve into such offensive shallow stereotypes of Black women– ghetto, bitchy, loud, bitter, backstabbin’ and even gold-diggin’. You’ve hit on and spun these traits like soft lumps of wet clay on a spinning wheel. Seriously, how can I be mad at “Birth Of A Nation” and not be mad at “The Game?”

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