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WTF Is Wrong With NBC: New Show To Feature Sassy & Ghetto 9-Year-Old Queenetta

Daija Owens stars as a young Queenetta in NBC’s latest sitcom “Best Friends Forever.” A soft-spoken Daija portrays a sassy and ghetto 9-year-old who clashes with her two  white neighbors who have watched her grow up into the stereotype that she is.

In the trailer for the April premiere, Queenetta tells her adult friend that she better let go of her khaki pants now that she is back in the dating field; oh, and that she needs her nails done (conveniently drop a Drake lyric here). 

Queenetta, rolls (her eyes, necks) with the best of them. Her character would be cute if it didn’t depict black females as the loud, sassy, in-your-face, angry type-of-person the media commonly portrays us as. 

All this show does is prove that there can’t be a central character in a major production without he or she falling prey to a company’s lack of sensitivity and limited scope of black people. 

Not only is Queenetta’s name offensive, she clearly has no parents in the trailer (we all know there can only be one black character in these situations). 

Take a look at precious Queenetta: here.

I can’t with NBC. I really can’t.

white people collect your folks.

1. caliguloves reblogged this from crankyskirt
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4. menycandtv reblogged this from blkgirlblogging and added:

   show and I’m not quite sure how I feel about Queenetta. She’s stereotypically sassy, but she was also

5. paleotrees reblogged this from goddessoflight08 and added:

   What the. I don’t even. Hell of offensive bullshit right here. Who would even laugh at this kind of horrific retrograde...

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7. searchingforknowledge reblogged this from native-detroiter and added:

   Why do people keep pretending that black people haven’t criticized the Game and Tyler Perry? Like for real though?...

8. native-detroiter reblogged this from onmyblackgirlshit and added:

   i dont even watch those shows especially the game since bet fucked it up. but the game and lets stay together have all...

9. rayannwilnot reblogged this from queennubian and added:

   Who at NBC thought this was a good idea? This only puts Afro-ethnic...in a smaller box by...

10. kinkycurlyhipster reblogged this from onmyblackgirlshit and added:

    I hate the word ghetto. The meaning is so damn blurred but I guess for the sake of this conversation I guess ghetto...

11. onmyblackgirlshit reblogged this from native-detroiter and added:

    i knew someone was going to get a little tight over my opinion because i’m not just saying fuck NBC like everyone else....

12. lilliansmusings reblogged this from exceedinglytrans and added:

    dumbfucks. *hangs head...kick some cracker ass.

13. ohhmyystarss reblogged this from speakjah and added:

    …& the wonderful people at NBC .. really .. dont see the problem ..?

14. justshe reblogged this from queennubian and added:

    was waiting for someone to say something about this

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17. rhapsody-tardisblue reblogged this from crystalsavestheday and added:

    I’m crying because I’m fucking livid and disappointed. She’s the same age as my cousin. she even looks like her-all...

18. rafeeya reblogged this from blkgirlblogging and added:

    Excuse me?!! Everything about this is absurd.

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    This shit has never been cute or funny. I’m angry but not even surprised… black women in America are never seen as...

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29. letitiakamayi reblogged this from karnythia and added:

    last part about Tyler Perry so true. I don’t care that he got married to a white woman but don’t put black women down!

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31. dreams-from-my-father reblogged this from slutofsubstance and added:

    This is truly DISGUSTING!! But I am not surprised!

32. tyece reblogged this from knowledgeequalsblackpower and added:

    she comes in around 2:33ish so you don’t have to sit through it. But couldn’t they just use her real name? Queenetta...

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    Black shows usually have some balance in representation & don’t just play to the stereotypes. White people having a...

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42. crystalsavestheday reblogged this from youarenotyou and added:

    Not only does the show look SO horrible and screams of white women’s problems, but this is so problematic and racist....

43. youarenotyou reblogged this from madamethursday and added:

    what the fuck.

44. spliffmastergeneral reblogged this from zorascreation and added:

    Congrats to NBC for continuously stereotyping PoC and - even more wrongly - sexualizing a 9 year old black girl.

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    and a hardy fuck you NBC. this shit is TIRING

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