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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 7:45 pm
Why is the rich guy treating this woman like his maid?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 7:46 pm
And yet has an actual maid who comes in and recleans. Wtf?
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 7:48 pm
Hmmm... let me stay within the guidelines... Because he's acting like an ass?? 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 7:52 pm
hahaha!
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 9:12 pm
This might be the biggest culture shock they've pulled off, to date.
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Stcroix
Member
03-18-2005
| Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 9:20 pm
Wow... those 3 step sisters really need to learn lessons in manners! I feel so sorry for the third one who feels left out--- she's at least quiet and not totally abrasive. I think the newly wed husband is letting them walk all over him. Why doesn't he stand up for the abused daughter-- or I wonder why her natural sister doesnt stand up for her? Maybe peer pressure from the two other new sisters? I liked the Harlem mom and her family-- except little 'Cash Flow' was alittle too Bobby-Brown-waiting-to-happen for me! Her daughter was cute!
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 9:30 pm
Harlem dad left her standing by that gate...not very cool. Although she seemed to not want to help herself either. Harlem Mom, daughter and Cinderella seem to be the only likeable ones. Oh and Harlem big brother...but we really didn't see much of him, maybe I'm nuteral on him.
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Stcroix
Member
03-18-2005
| Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 11:26 pm
Cinderella Maybe Harlem mom will help her come out of her shell and we'll see a happy ending after all for her! I also felt sorry for mom left by the gate. Although noone seemed to be paying any attention to her. I'm wondering how much editing played in that 'desertion' scene. Didn't seem real that the family would just leave her in a strange place where she already felt uncomfortable for standing out.
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Spangs
Member
10-07-2005
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 12:35 am
How scary could it have really been with a camera crew and entourage right there with her?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 9:33 am
Exactly.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 9:52 am
And that man had her picking strawberries. Ok maybe it was just me but I was thinking dayum does he want her to pick cotton too? And those daughters needed a foot in their behind.
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Metoo
Member
02-22-2005
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 10:02 am
I found myself yelling at the TV last night because when the other mom and Harlem dad were sitting on the stoop, she was so afraid to walk 50 ft to a coffee shop. Come on....pleeez! Is she that sheltered, naive or what. I would have embraced being in Harlem...the history, present trends, fast pace of the city, etc. could have really been a learning experience (isn't that one of the reasons for the show). Being naive or whatever is not an reason to miss out on life experiences.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 10:08 am
I'm sure she thought she was going to get jacked.
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Metoo
Member
02-22-2005
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 10:21 am
I could get jacked walking from the front door at work to the parking lot. Things happen at any time, anywhere...but I felt she was too overly self-conscience pointing out many times that she was in the minority. There are times all of us have been that odd person out, but I'm not going to fret over it. Like I said, I'm into life experiences..whether good, bad, uncomfortable..whatever. Gives us a chance to learn.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 10:43 am
I'm not even going to comment on her Malcolm X comment.
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Metoo
Member
02-22-2005
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 10:49 am
Oh yea..I forgot about that when I was posting above. That was the perfect time to educate her but it seemed (or edited to be)that they let that chance slip by.
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Spangs
Member
10-07-2005
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 10:53 am
They obviously played up the imagined Drama. There is much gentrification going on in Harlem, and you see white folks everywhere (The Clinton Library anyone?), and Mocha, I had the same reaction about him telling her to pick the strawberries..I bet his wife never picks berries. This show really angered me last night.
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Spangs
Member
10-07-2005
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 10:58 am
Why should they (the black family), have to educate this rich, seemingly educated white woman. Her not knowing who Malcolm X was is unimaginable to me. And her tone was so condescending in terms of her reaction to life in Harlem. I know many people of all races that would kill to live where that family lives in Harlem (myself included).
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 11:11 am
I found it kinda unbelievable that she didn't know who Malcolm was, I mean she didn't look that old. But then again he's not really talked about much in schools. But that picking ish and the father telling her what chores he wanted done really ticked me off and I was suprised she went along with it. I'd have looked at him like done lost his mind.
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 11:38 am
Spangs, I say why NOT educate!!? I really don't think the white mom is going to go home and research Malcolm X anytime soon. I think the black family had a great opportunity to tell her about Malcolm X, from their point of view and not a textbook. (Sadly, I think the only African American folks I read about in textbooks in school were slaves, George Washington Carver, the Black Panthers and Martin Luther King, Jr. Nice broad spectrum, eh?) At the very minimum, maybe she would have learned that Spike Lee isn't a fan of the X-Files tv show. I grew up in a pretty major metropolitan area in the suburbs of Cleveland. It is much more multi-cultural than where I live now. When DH (Unit), who has lived in an area that is 96.8% white, and I went to Washington DC on vacation, he was amazed at being in the minority for the first time in certain settings. He didn't react like the woman on tv, but it finally sunk in for the first time what folks, who aren't white where we live, may have experienced. IMO, if people had more experiences, a broader education and open communication, I think a lot of opinions would change. In regards to the show, I'm sure editing is a factor, and I give the white mom credit for not locking herself up in the apartment completely shutting herself out from the neighborhood, but she has a long way to go. 
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Spangs
Member
10-07-2005
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 11:46 am
I get your points half, but even she should have at least heard of Spike's movie version of Malcolm X...come on now.
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Chieko
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 12:20 pm
To be fair I think there was a tremendous amount of bias editing last night. The chores that the father had lined out for the new mother were probably things that the old mother would do and he was probably told to show her what the routine around the house was. The reaction to the Malcolm X comment was probably edited to just show the looks of disbelief and not the explanation. The abandonment at the gate of the park looked particularly callous but I don't believe it really happened that way. Maybe we will know for sure next week. It is hard to understand why he would just tell her to stand there and wait for him---too much left out. Although I did get the feeling that the only reason the Harlem family did this show was to promote their son's career and that they had no interest in learning anything from it. Also, the Harlem Mom said she thought she was coming to the new home for a vacation. That isn't really the purpose of the exchange. All in all, I don't think we have a clear idea at all of what really happened in either home. The daughers in the one family are a real piece of work, though. Their swearing and obnoxious behavior. There's no way editing fooled us on that!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 12:48 pm
Oh 1/2 I didn't realize that when yall were here.
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 1:34 pm
lol Mocha... the boy didn't get out much before I met him.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 2:01 pm
hahaha
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