Please join me in a boycott of the CBS television network. Equally important is to share this message if you agree – please spread the word.
CBS has a show called “Big Brother” where a group of strangers are locked in a house for a couple months; compete to stay in the house and work to avoid being voted out by the other houseguests. The houseguests are televised 24/7 for public joy
An alliance of 6 black players calling themselves “the cookout” has formed this season with the sole purpose of ensuring a black person wins the game. Many people accept the alliance and strategy saying “a black person has never won big brother” or that “there have been all-white alliances in past seasons of the show”. Both of those are true but do not relate to the open racism on display this summer.
The cookout openly celebrates the removal of their “competitors” and gleefully report being one step closer to a black person winning the game”.
If roles were flipped there would be the shit-storm of the century. But there are no such claims. Past white alliances were 2 or 3 people who formed not around race but because of social affinity. And none of these white alliances has ever been accused of racism. These alliances are better described as “buddies”. Similarly there have been MANY more “mixed” alliances
The racism on display at CBS is vulgar and ugly as the Cookout celebrates the removal of one person after another because their skin is not the right color.
There’s more controversy & history to the CBS situation but nothing justifies the willingness of CBS to continue such a grotesque public display