This show is about individuals exaggeratingly praising, commending, applauding, and aggrandizing themselves.
A show about Black America should be about us as a collective people, not as individuals because individual success causes a false impression and notion of
over-all progress, opportunities, and advances for African Americans, as a whole.

It is related, in that it was to serve as motivation to do better through taking advantage of and appreciating what they have here in the US, which is a lot more than what they witnessed in SA.

I know none of these interviewed, profiled, and highlighted, and limelighted negros. They have done nothing for me and anything they are doing does not affect or effect my life in any facet, form, or factor.

what the hell is the point of that series? I’m suppose it is more targeted to non Blacks, as I’m rather sure we are well aware of our experiences in America…. I watched the one that came on last year and it was really a waste of time

Motivation is not derived from grandiloquent rhetoric and ostentatious exploitation of one’s aggrandizement off of or from the plight of black life in America.

i think the point of the discussion about their grades was more about the fact that there was follow-up to the trip and that that’s only a step in the maturation process for these kids.

This show is nothing more than an artificial, superficial, and pretentious profile of the life of a minority of affluent, prominent, and condescending negros who take more than they give, and what they give is merely a meager portion of what they got from exploiting the plight and blight of black life in predominently white America.

Let’s visit the black kids on the street corners, in the gangs, and in the juvenile dententions and meet the people trying to teach them, guide them, reform them.
Let’s see the statistics that show how black men are denied job opportunities because the white man will give an uneducated black woman a job before he gives it to an educated black man.

Let’s see a show that shows how black men are set-up for failure and how affirmative action favors the black woman over the black man because the black woman covers two categories, black and female.

Let’s see a show that shows how and why black women are succeeding where black men are failing because the black woman is elevated above the black man when it comes to being availed professional job opportunities.
Affirmative Action enables the white person to hire a black woman and not a black man or hire mostly black women and only one or two black men; particularly, in management positions.

I am tired of these shows about these artificial card board box negros.

Bev Smith said she is an advocate for black people, Hell I don’t know her!
Her talking mouth don’t do anything to help me; so how the hell is she an advocate for black people and she ain’t creating any jobs, opening any schools, or starting any training programs. She just on the radio running off at the mouth.

The show was a hoax,
“you been duped,
you been hoodwink,
you been bamboozled.”

This Show Was Just Like The Tavis Smiley
State of the Black Union
All-Star Talking Brigade,
You Get Nothing From It,
But Entertained.

“you have to be black and you have to be wealthy…”

“you dont have to be wealthy, you just have to be…a part of the group…”

hmmm…

BLACK IN AMERICA MY ASS!! They mainly featured pale skinned mixed breeds to represent blacks?!! Are you kidding me! Soledad fails again. Try showing some real Blacks next time.

ashley’s ignorant comment highlights another issue in our community. The idea that a certain shade of skin defines authenticity or “true” blackness.
That is just ridiculous.

Mixed breeds are not black! Why feature people that were born from the womb of a white woman to represent blacks? what a slap in the face. And to the thing that said my comment was ignorant,YOUR MOMMA IS IGNORANT, and your probably a mixed breed yourself. This show is lame. Doesnt get to some of the major issues in our community. Going to Africa? cute field trip, but doesnt provide a look at being BLACK IN AMERICA. This show is just like the first one, A failed wasted of airtime.

THERE ARE A BUNCH OF IGNORANT PEOPLE LEAVING COMMENTS ABOUT BLACK IN AMERICA. AND WE WONDER WHY WE STRUGGLE THE WAY WE DO! NEGATIVITY DOESN’T HELP ANYTHING!

All you have to do is take a look at who did the piece: She is not nor does she exemplify anything about being Black in America. She is merely catering to her higher ups who edit and give the final approval of the series…in fact it reeks of the prejudice, conjecture, perceptions and indistinct information (lies) we all endure on a daily basis while being Black in America. Read my blog post on blackplanet.com, titled—-”Being Black in America under the profile tried-n-true….

You people should really get a life! Black people are constantly complaining about crazy stuff! Really, I don’t see any of you standing up for our rights. And those half breeds may come from white women but they get treated like the rest of black people around here! As a matter of a fact, half breeds come from black women too. So what, you don’t consider them black because they gotta white daddy? WRONG!!!! It don’t matter if they daddy white or they mama white……it still don’t change the fact that they’re half BLACK! When you can produce a series about BLACK IN AMERICA…..then maybe you can decide who is black and who isn’t or whats struggling and whats not!

I watched the first Black in America and felt like it was a waste of time and exploitation of Blacks in general. Soledad O’brien is biracial with a Black cuban mother and married to a White man. She doesn’t identify with the Black struggle at all. It’s more like something to put on her resume and exploitation basically. I’m Black, an American, and know what problems we have in the community and what solutions we need to solve. All this grandstanding with bs specials like this aren’t gonna help at all.

It was nice to see the true side of Blacks in our country. I get tired of all the negative press we get fed each and everyday from the press and TV. There is one channel that shows the police have 48hrs. to get an arrest and all the person are minorities that same channel has Intervention on it. All but a few on are minorities and all are white ? The majority are white getting help ? In my family we had our bad apples just as I saw around me in all families white and black alike. Maybe one day we’ll stop the lie’s and face the truth we all no to be out there in our society. We all face problems every nationality …. Thank You Ricardo

This one was better than the 1st one. Westside… Soledad’s father is “black” cuban and her mom is a white immigrant from I forgot where. I do agree though what does she know about the “black” struggle? Since she is mixed she probably has had to deal with some racial struggle though.

I agree with Brother Westside. The Angle they took last yr didn’t even touch alot of issues we face. It was a start thats all, now lets see if they come back on point. I again agree with Westside that unless we show OUR REAL STORIES in depth, I mean the realness of Being black in America it’s alot of bs and Grandstanding.

Even Micheal Jackson sang it in the song “They don’t care about Us.” It’s blatantly obvious from all the corruption, prejudice, racism, and desparitys directed toward My ppl. Just looking at the actions of hatred, profiling, and the “Open Hunting Season” continually perpetuated on OUR race, and its clear. All to clear by their actions “Actions speak waayyyy louder then any words. We are less then animals in this country. Shoot and the only ppl that care about the Animals are Peda, and even they don’t give a rats @$$ about Black Americans.

“The Streets are watchin”

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Correction:

“We are viewed and considered less then Animals”

Kill a Black Man nothing big

Kill a Dog all hail breaks loose.

By Actions alone this is proven every day of the week.

To Ashley118059….you are really ignorant. Ignorance is a part of our problem. Who are you to define what someone is or isn’t? CNN isn’t going to take you to every ghetto to show every problem black people are facing in America if that’s what you were expecting. There are well-educated and successful black people who are making a difference in the community. What are you doing to help?

I think CNN is doing somewhat of a good job, They should focus on how hard it is for qualified blacks to find jobs, They should also focus on the Black women a little more, It’s hard for brothers out here but Extremely for black women, I would focus on middle class blacks as well, They should show some more positive blacks because there are a lot of POSITIVE BLACK PEOPLE making a change in there community.