What Reality TV Has Really Done To Us by MissterRay

Hey Global Grinders, I've been catching up on all these new reality TV shows and I'm in overload! Besides the fact that Ocho Cinco only has two black girls on The Ultimate Catch, Al B. Sure is tryna get with Omarosa on The Ultimate Merger and we clearly see that Brandy likes to cry on A Family Business - what have I missed?

I can remember when the only shows I had committed to memory was Real World because Karamo's sexy chocolate ass, Eva's season of America's Next Top Model, Flavor of Love and of course College Hill because I was on it. Until I recently sat down to clear my TiVo to make some space for new shows did I realize 70% of my space was taken up by various reality shows.

Four years ago I could count on one hand how many black reality shows there vs now we have: Basketball Wives, What Chilli Wants, From G's to Gents, Tiny & Toya, Monica: Still Standing, Keith Sweat's Platinum House, Fantasia: For Real, Daddy's Girls, For the Love of Ray J, Trey Songz: My Moment, I Want to Work for Diddy and I'm sure I'm leaving a couple out. With all these shows for many of us, these are our prime time guilty viewing pleasures.

Me personally, black reality TV has created some interesting dialogue between my friends and I. I know I wasn’t the only one who watched Ray J play Mz Berry on the For the Love of Ray J 2 reunion, watched Sheree check her event planner on The Real Housewives of Atlanta and witnessed Que and Dawn fall in love on Making the Band.