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Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by afavour on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:28AM (#28088479)
> What does a Nigerian have in common with a Jamaican, apart from the melatonin in their skin? Why would they have similar tastes in media?

They don't necessarily. Not speaking for the BlackOakTV folks here but I don't think this is trying to target all black people. The US is somewhat unique in having a large population that was ripped from their respective home countries and forced to create their own shared culture under the thumb of slavery. Someone that immigrated from Nigeria in the last decade doesn't have that same experience.

Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by SaintGhurka on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:28PM (#28089409)
> The US is somewhat unique in having a large population that was ripped from their respective home countries and forced to create their own shared culture under the thumb of slavery.

Unique?

"Between 1502 and 1866, of the 11.2 million Africans taken, only 388,000 arrived in North America, while the rest went to Brazil, the European colonies in the Caribbean and Spanish territories in Central and South America, in that order"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Latin_America

Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by anthk on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:39PM (#28089577)
Ths.In Cuba, for example, most people form a Cuban culture for all races.