Having an opinion is not trolling - I would guess the OP wants honest feedback.

Personally, I'm divided on how I feel about this launch, but if there is a market for it anywhere, it's the US, with its deep-rooted racial divisions and disparities.

The comparisons you are making seem very different, as they are based on language and global geography, rather than skin colour.

"Black" is a culture; it's not merely a skin color. Our country kidnapped millions of people from the African content, stripped them of their heritage and family ties, and randomly moved them around plantations in the American south, then released them and spent 100+ years subjecting them to apartheid laws that they united to fight. It is a whole unique interesting thing (jazz, soul food, the Black church, the Harlem Renaissance), and is as much its own culture as any ethnicity that has a TV station.

For those not in the United States: this is (and I assume the spittle-flecking about "kneeling to BLM" made this a tip for some people, but let's make the implicit part explicit) a very common point of rhetoric amongst slavery apologists and Lost Causers of many stripes.

The idea of permission structures for white Americans being somehow erected because some ethnic groups and communities sold people from other ethnic groups and communities (because, and I apologize if this is obvious to some readers, the compaction of people of African descent into "African-American" is, for obvious reasons, something here and not there) is one of a set of apologetics in common use in the United States designed to erase the complicity of our forebears.

Good luck to BlackOakTV. I look forward to seeing what happens next for you all.

Do you think there aren't Black Germans and Asian Russians?