Harlepolis said:

i dont care what the word stands for to be fair, its the action my dad used to get me the ebony magazine and i read it and didnt understand why something had to be put as a 'black magazine'
if a magazine came out that was called 'ivory' and treated the news of whites superior to the news of blacks and deliberately contained no black people then media would be all over their ass

I'm curious, all: To what other black periodicals do you subscribe? To which have you subscribed in the past? Which are/were great? Which suck(ed)?

Zinzi said:

that's funny, because considering the ownership, amount of white writers, and white readership, the rest of the magazines on the newsstand mightas well be called "Ivory"

Cinnie said:

and considering the minorities to the majorities your gonna get about the same population of blacks in magazines as you are on the average street

Zinzi said:

Right! So, what's wrong with having a magazine like Ebony again?

Cinnie said:

because its deliberate

white magazine companys arent picking whites to mainly feature in the magazine because they are white, its because their are more of them so its more likely to be in a magazine

Zinzi said:

So what's wrong with having a forum for us? You're still young, so I understand if you just can't understand the other side of it.

sammij said:

She's trolling. She has already acknowledged that there is a minority population. Now we're just debating about JUST HOW MUCH under-represented this group is in the general media.

Zinzi said:

So what's wrong with having a forum for us? You're still young, so I understand if you just can't understand the other side of it.

how can you represent a whole race in media anyw..
oh wait a minuite of course, steryoptyping

didnt you mean ''a thread'' for whomever ''us'' is?

being young has nothing to do with misunderstanding common sense

Zinzi said:

You sound white

Zinzi said:

and stupid You think "a forum" means prince.org?

Zinzi said:

Cinnie said:

wahey you were dumb (shouldnt play ''were'' so much but..''
when you were young so everyone else should be

Zinzi said:

Your profile says you're 19. Your grown ass shouldn't still be this ignorant

Cinnie said:

whatever ignorance clouds not condoning segregation

Zinzi said:

or silencing minorities by comparing them to small hate groups within a majority.

Wow, I have subscribed not to them for years... but I will get subscription tomorrow for Ebony.

I never liked Jet. Too small and almost tabloid with it's "people talking" column... and Star does the tabloids...so much better.

Anyhoo.

I am supporting Ebony because I really like seeing beautiful Black people on the magazine covers who LOOK black, wearing hair and make up that accentuate their beautiful ethnicity. I like seeing women wearing lipstick with colors like "Raisin" and "Blackberry"... not "Iced Peach" and "Perfectly Tanned."

This along with ariticles about Black families, Black music groups helped me feel a sense of belonging in America.

I did not identify with a family outing to a baseball game or going to a hoedown or square dancing... As a Black girl, I identified with driving down south for family reunions, and back yard barbeques and house parties. To read strategies for families doing THOSE activities were more relevant to me.

Now internet takes up more of my time so that I don't read many magazines... but if I decided to pick up a copy to find out the latest on Ericka Badu or yes even Prince... I know that I will get an interesting article and GREAT PICTURES in Ebony or Essence magazine.

You got to support them or all we will have left is a tiny one column story in People (very seldom a cover story unless there is a scandal to captialize on), or those crappy (can't spell or write a grammatically correct sentence) hip hop "magazine".
[Edited 8/21/09 18:40pm]

Harlepolis said:

What's the Org history? Trolls who play genuinely-yet-provocatively naive invariably and fairly successfully play the role of the schoolkid who throws the first punch.

Again, not saying Zinc or whatever our Org friend is named is a troll. I'm just saying again that it's not worth it. Entertainment takes a lot of different forms on the Org.

I'm curious, all: To what other black periodicals do you subscribe? To which have you subscribed in the past? Which are/were great? Which suck(ed)?

ThreadBare said:

Especially for tro . . . I mean users with new accounts.

Lammastide said:

Emerge, Black Enterprise, Code and Ebony Man (though, on that last one, I don't think I subscribed). I occasionally picked up "Honey" because it was co-helmed by someone I knew and -- even though I wasn't in the target demographic -- I wanted to throw her some support. They seemed like they were shooting for a hipper Essence deal without sacrificing depth or sophistication.

Code didn't last long enough for me to get a true sense of its market or, rather, how it would find a way to connect with that market long-term. Ebony Man was so-so. They found the midpoint between traditional Ebony-caliber articles and the crop of black men's magazines that have been around for the past decade or so (that I never read).

Emerge was wonderful. And, I found Black Enterprise to be only so-so. I read so much online now every day, I no longer subscribe to print products. Not worth the expense. I know this contributes to -- if not hastens -- the demise of my former love, the print news media. But, alas, someone said "parties weren't meant to last..."

and RIP to SUEDE magazine from years ago I really liked the direction it was taking ! not only that lot's of magazine are now online hurting the print business even more

SCNDLS said:

or just people with common sense

Zinzi said:

Wow, you asked for someone to explain it to you so you can understand, then you take issue with their explanation and choose to remain ignorant about it. take your ass to a newsstand. look at how many minorities are represented on the front of the more popular publications and then ask yourself if black people are under represented.

Either you are not a black person or I have another reason to believe that our youth is not being taught ALL history.

SCNDLS said:

or just people with common sense