One reason that I haven't watched MTV's "Catfish" is because the original movie seemed rather disingenuous.

It seemed to me that the co-director who was allegedly the victim of catfishing was being willfully oblivious to it for a while in order to further the storyline.

I don't trust the validity of the show either...…

We black people are known for watching Catfish? Really?

Huh, I didn't know that... I guess I'd better program it into my DVR so I'm not clueless at our next group meeting. (That's on the 17th at The Atlanta Marriott, right?)

Fair enough... but I grow increasingly less bothered by white artists who "appropriate" slices of black culture, even ones that come from "certain black people on the fringes of society."

Culture should be (and IS) fluid, and artists build upon what came before them... just because Miley isn't taken very seriously by…

LOL... well, it involves a bit of dog-hugging (your photo makes an appearance), and is basically about the triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity, tragedy, and evil. (And the more you know about the history of the last hundred years, the more resonance it will have.)

I don't watch it very often; usually…

My (black) parents told me a story about a cruise they were on earlier this year, and one of their friends on ship was a white woman around their age (perhaps a bit younger, I don't remember).

One day, when the ship was stopping at a port in Italy, this woman asked my father if this was his first time in the country...…

This photo immediately makes me think of a certain fan-made video on YouTube for Coldplay's "Politik." (Great video.)

It's odd to me when fads and/or lingo that stem from narrow slices of the larger African-American culture are described as "black culture," full stop.

I'm still not sure exactly what the hell "ratchet" means in this context, and I'm confident that more than a few of my fellow African-Americans would say the same.

North Korean media probably don't admit to the existence of Barack Obama or the entire nation of South Korea.