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Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by tootie on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:35AM (#28087716)
Having dedicated cultural venues or channels for a subculture isn't the same thing as like segregated bathrooms. It's more about appealing to a niche audience that isn't lucrative enough for a mass market purveyor. It's not really different from genre channels like sci-fi only or comedy only except that it's geared to an ethnic demographic who want more representation in their media. When a giant company like Netflix is allocating budget for new content, they will get the most returns by appealing to the largest of broadest groups.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by racl101 on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:50AM (#28087936)
Exactly. Nobody complains about the Latino channels on TV. lol
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by nix23 on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:55AM (#28087993)
Out of curiosity, do all black people in the US have the same cultural background? Or is it just the skin color?
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by HarryHirsch on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:07AM (#28088174)
That's precisely the trouble. In NI, when someone ask you if you are Catholic or Protestant and you answer you are Danish, they leave you alone. In the US on the other hand, you get dragged in no matter what. If you are from Nigeria you still get thrown in with regular "African Americans". That has interesting results, because for university admission purposes, black is black. However, amongst Nigerian immigrants education is highly regarded, amongst Americans in general, not so much. One would predict that at top-25 universities, Nigerians are highly overrepresented.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by nix23 on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:45AM (#28088761)
Thanks! Made it even clearer what the problem in the US is, i lived for >1.5 y in Tanzania Kenya Rwanda and Namibia, and the Culture (Food, Music, Cloth, TV, Soap-operas, Religion etc) is so vastly different as if you would compare Iceland to South Italy.

I think it terrible what the US is heading too (equalizing culture with skin-color)

Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by tootie on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:21PM (#28090227)
Most African-Americans, particularly the descendants of slaves, have essentially been forced through a cultural funnel to become a new thing. Up until retail DNA testing, the average AA person would have no idea if their ancestors were from Angola or Sudan or Zimbabwe. Teaching ancestral language and culture was generally forbidden. People from a vast set of backgrounds were forced together. Sometimes bred against their will. We are not "heading to" equating culture with skin color, we did it as a matter of policy centuries ago. And it's produced an incredibly vibrant culture at that. African-Americans are arguably the most significant cultural force in the world through music and entertainment.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by nix23 on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:53PM (#28093194)
>Americans are arguably the most significant cultural force in the world through music and entertainment.

Oh man that's some small minded simpleton-vibes here :)

Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by MattGaiser on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:59AM (#28088050)
Slavery crushed a lot of them into a cultural group with a shared history no matter where their ancestors originally came from or their cultural backgrounds.

There are of course those who immigrated later.

Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by pedrosorio on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:00AM (#28088073)
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by LordHumungous on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:54AM (#28088897)
Yes, except for more recent African immigrants.
Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by nix23 on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:57PM (#28093239)
Ah, the wast minority since 1865?