Precious

Ugh. Family Guy. It’s a terrible, terrible show in my opinion. I still watch it regularly, out of long-held habit. But it’s just. It’s lazy, it’s aesthetically not pleasing. It’s not very funny. And it’s offensive on an consistent, regular basis.

But for some reason, folks really like it, and Seth MacFarlane, its creator, seems particularly proud of it. It’s currently in the midst of an Emmy campaign, and it is promoting itself by mocking Precious:



This is racist on more than one axis.

Several years ago, I read the novel Push written by performance poet, Sapphire.  I remember climbing into bed one night to read it and finishing it at about 5 AM.  Several times I had to put the book down for a few minutes, just to get myself together, to breathe.   Once I put the book down for the final time, I still couldn't sleep: I was emotionally wrung out and deeply disturbed.  It's hard to recover from a book that opens with: "I was left back when I was twelve because I had a baby for my fahver..."