Does "Sex and the City" Hate Brown People?

We like the color black…you Black people, though? Questionable…

I must say I am surprised at all of the people who have been “shocked” and “disappointed” that the Sex and the City 2 movie did not live up to expectations.  For everyone who asked why the movie was so insensitive to Muslim culture, I “couldn’t help but wonder”:  did you actually watch the show?  After all, the series — and the first movie — made no secret  of the fact that it doesn’t think very highly of Black people. Why would the franchise treat Brown people any differently?

I’ll skip over the fact that Carrie and the girls live in the kind of colorless New York City that only the Klan could appreciate, and get right down to the more blatant manifestations of what the writers and producers must really think about Black people.

Exhibit A: Season 3, Episode 5, “No Ifs, Ands, or Butts”

In this episode — the “Black” episode, if you will — you finally see a little color on the show.  And these colored people happen to be particularly successful:  Adina Williams is the chef and owner of a 5-star soul food restaurant that the girls have decided to patronize, and her brother, Shavon Williams, is an artist rep for Tommy Boy records. Shavon becomes enthralled with Samantha, and brings her into his realm: ghetto New York clubs, complete with metal detectors and Black women screaming “back of the line, mutha-f**ka!”  Samantha seems right at home, and starts running around New York using “Black talk” (or, “African American talk,” as Charlotte asserts) such as: “that’s whack!” and “I got to get me some of that!” And, of course, Shavon has a big black penis that everyone has to know about.

Shavon and Samantha have a great love affair, until the angry Black woman, his sister Adina, has to ruin it with her bigotry. Adina tells Samantha not to date her brother anymore because Samantha is White and could “never understand this. It’s a Black thing, O.K?” (The nerve of this Black woman to be so intolerant of other cultures!) There is finger waving and neck rolling galore (because everyone knows that’s how Black women act).  But when Samantha refuses to back down, Adina (the successful chef and business owner, please keep up!) takes matters into her own hands — quite literally — and snatches handfuls of Samantha’s hair, In the middle of the club. (Not even V.I.P.?!)

Shavon has to step in and break up the fight, and how does he do it?  By yelling: “come on, guys! Keep it real! Keep it real!”

At this point, I’m wondering, do these writers even know any Black people?! I can’t decide who is more disappointing: Michael Patrick King for writing this blatantly effortless attempt to portray a Black story, or the actors who were so far down to their last paycheck that they took on these roles.

But, I digress.

Exhibit B: Blair Underwood as Supersex man

In Season 5, Sex and the City introduces its only recurrent Black character:  Blair Underwood as Dr. Robert Leeds.  Sticking with the theme that Black people are only successful in the entertainment industry, Robert is a doctor for the Knicks. He also simply can’t get enough of Miranda, and — surprise! — he has a big Black penis (because, what else are Black men good for?). It is consistently referred to throughout Underwood’s tenure on the show.  When the look how tolerant we are interracial charade is over and Miranda dumps Robert for Steve, her baby’s daddy,  Robert’s parting shot to Miranda is how no one could match the depth of his big Black penis.

Even after the messy break up, when Steve confronts Robert — who is supposed to be in mourning over the loss of Miranda — Robert is seen in a terrycloth bathrobe with three half-naked women running through his apartment. I mean, everyone knows that the only thing that can quell a Black man’s insatiable sexual appetite is a menage à four.

So, they’ve covered the hypersexualized Black men stereotype and the ghetto-no-matter-how-successful angry Black woman; what other stereotypes could they drum up?

Ah, of course.

Exhibit C: Jennifer Hudson as Country Mammy

Despite the number of Black women who love and patronize SATC, the franchise refused to return the favor in the first movie.  As Carrie’s personal assistant, Jennifer Hudson’s sole responsibility was to take care of Carrie and bring her “back to life.” And just like a mammy-god-mother should, she twitches her rented Louis Vuitton and disappears back into the country when her work is done.

Exhibit D: SATC 2, in which clowns with dreds and loud outfits are the only Blacks who speak

In the second installment, during the pointless karaoke scene in which the girls sing some random female empowerment song that nobody knows, the only Blacks with speaking roles in the entire film are two dreded buffoons wearing sunglasses and loud outfits who are shuckin’ and jivin’ on the stage over the women from America.

Kind of makes me sorry I complained about mammy in the first movie.

And, What?

It might be terrible to say that I love a series that just might hate Black people.  But, welcome to Black reality.  In our world, the options are to: (1)  ignore the fact that we are not adequately or realistically portrayed in Hollywood by Whites or Blacks (Thanks, Tyler Perry!);  or (2) turn off the T.V. unless Shonda Rhimes wrote it, and don’t watch movies unless Spike Lee made it. That’s just 21st Century America.

So, to answer the question posed by the title, I don’t know if Sex and the City hates us and our brown cousins.  What is obvious, however, is that the franchise is consistently insensitive to minorities and makes dismal attempts to understand our cultures — because we let them.  We still watched the show, copied the fashion, bought the DVDs, had SATC marathons before each movie, and spent hundreds going to the actual premieres, in spite of the fact that we have not been — and likely will never be — realistically portrayed and explored in-depth by this franchise.

To answer the other gripe I heard about the film – Do the SATC producers “think we’re stupid?” — of course they do.

And they just might have a point.

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  • Ms. Jackson

    I LOVE Sex and the City and I too felt the same way- its like being in love with someone knowing they don’t love you back… it’s foolish and you know it but you do it anyway.

  • Ms. Diva,

    You are right on the money on so many levels. Movies like this though, make you appreciate entertainment creators like Shonda Rhimes even more. One day, Ms. Diva, your story will be told to the masses and better believe it, it’ll be done tastefully and respectfully done. I know longer worry about the goons who write about us distastefully, instead, I take the unabashed optimistic approach. Don’t get me wrong, I am never one to bury my head in the sand, but goodness prevails always, once those of us are aware that we need to keep working towards the positive end.

  • ANONYMOUS

    Great insight. But isn’t this seen in anything with blacks/browns represented in it? This is also why people around the world see all blacks/brown in the light that they do. It’s unfortunate, but this is how they see brown/black people and it probably will never change and you know it.
    So, as a people, you continue on until someone like yourself yells out at them to hopefully grab their attention enough to wake them up to see that not everyone that loves them is stupid!!! It’s like someone who keeps blatantly, stepping on your toes lightly and you feel it but ignore it. They may do something to express sorrow but continues unless you say enough is enough! With more expressions like this, as with everything else in this life, maybe more change will come one episode at a time. (One day at a time). One day…maybe.”

    Anonymous

  • cherdaria mack

    I don’t feel the same way. I love the show and the first movie. Sex and the City portays many stereotypes. If you take a look back into the series you see Samantha dating married guys who hate their wives, young guys who are stupid, older men who only date young women, older men who are sex crazed, men with small or large penis’, actors, lesbians, etc. She has dated them all and I feel that all of them were sex crazed, but because therer were only two real black male characters it might have seemed like they were sterotyping. As far as Louise from St. Louis, I might can understand you on that one but have we been so brain washed into thinking that evry black role in a while show or movie will be stereotyping us?

    • SATC does portray many stereotypes, but here’s the thing: no one is going to look at Samantha and believe that is how all White women act, for the simple reason that there are 3 other White women on the show who do not act that way. There is a counterbalance. Are there Black women who wave their fingers and roll their necks? Sure. Is that an adequate representation of Black women? Of course not. Will some people who have only been exposed to that same negative stereotype walk away from that show with a reaffirmed position that Black women as a whole are ghetto, no matter how successful? Yes, there is an element who will walk away with that. Therein the problems lay. And it’s at that point where we should be asking ourselves if we should hold the writers/producers/actors responsible, or just let it slide and pick our battles? (That’s assuming that we are even aware enough to pick up on the impact these images have on society).

      Absolutely, Black writers and directors have internalized racism and perpetuate negative stereotypes about Black people, as well, and I definitely hold Black writers and directors to a higher standard when it comes to portrayal of Blacks. I hold myself to a higher standard. In my college thesis I found that there is an element of Black people who have positive self images, but at the same time harbor negative images of Blacks as a whole. How does that even happen?? The stereotypes we are constantly exposed to through the media play a large role in this, and can deeply impact our subconscious and our conscious selves. We have to be able to 1) recognize these images as stereotypes 2) filter them out 3) hold others responsible and 4) alert as many people as we can to it.

      It’s an exhausting responsibility.

  • cherdaria mack

    Plus what about the black movies like Something New in which Sanaa Lathan plays a successful woman from a successful black family who falls for a white man who owns his own business, or her brother who can only impress a girl if he tells her he is a music producer, however he is an intelligent law student. In the show The Game, the portray the only white woman as a somewhat gold digging alcoholic athlete”s wife!

    I don’t think we saw a lot of black people in Sex in the City because they weren’t in there circle. They had a show on BET that followed an all black cast of friends that were successful with their jobs or in their lives and I don’t think I saw one whiter person. Don’t get me started on the major stereotypes Tyler Perry has in his films, lol

    So I don’t neccessarily think Sex and the City hates brown people, the show just hits on what people are use to seeing or what they like.

  • Nigerian

    The guys may have acted up in the movie, but they were speaking with NIgerian accents. Outside of them being energetic, I do not recall them shucking or jiving… But the rest of what you said was on point.

  • Christine

    Great post and I could not agree more!

  • Kendrick

    OMG!! I cannot believe I did not connect the dots. It was right there in front of me all the time. I will admit I did wonder how these women lived in NYC without seeing some black people, but I totally dismissed it. I guess my mancrush on SATC was too strong. I was too busy looking at the cool outfits and wishing and enjoying Carrie’s puns….I guess i drank the kool aid and that is what the producers have come to expect. Well no more, the next SATC episode or movie I watch, I will be more critical…Thanks for opening my eyes DC District Diva….

  • Star

    Great POV. I was never a fan of the series. I’ve lived in NYC all my life and always wondered where these writers got their ideas & concepts from? NYC is not like this I would say to myself… I appreciate fantasy and whimsical writing but c’mon!

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  • Me

    I am a black British woman and they never show black women of other cultures in any of these films or televison shows because they can not stereotype us. NYC is full of black women from Africa, the West Indies, Brazil and Europe, I would like to see them open the borders a bit.

  • PBG

    This is exactly why I never was able to get into this show. I couldn’t relate to them because they didn’t seem like the type of women who could relate to me. I gave it a try when I saw Blair Underwood was on and I was done with it after maybe two episodes. I saw how it was going and decided I didn’t need to see those stereotypes played out once again.

    What I’ve failed to understand is why so many Black women live and breathe for this show? I just do not understand the attraction.

  • Awesome post, Diva! As a Black fan of SATC, it really got my wheels turning – I’ve even shared your post with my blog! Fabulous!

  • Lisa

    You were so on point with the, “No If, Ands or Butts” episode. The only thing you forgot to point out was all of the excessive jewelry they made the black stud wear. Two earrings, yeah, but what upper-record company exec YOU KNOW or have seen wears all that jewelry???? They even gave him a thumb ring…..are you SERIOUS?! A THUMB RING! Not ever have I seen Berry Gordy, La Reid and Baby Face, Russell Simmons, nor P. Diddy (in the height of his shiny-suit-man days) look or dress the way this guy did.

  • GB

    @DCDistrictDiva I'm sending ur blog 2 my sister @sydmosley She's a great writer as well. http://www.dcdistrictdiva.com/?p=573

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  • @MsTerryMcMillan did you read my post? Does Sex and the City Hate Brown People? http://www.dcdistrictdiva.com/?p=573

  • Chloe

    Girl, you are trippin! Season 3, Episode 5, “No Ifs, Ands, or Butts” is funny as hell! There are so many other things to worry and to write about other than race. If you want a change the world, talk about the education in most black communities or better yet, what about all that damn oil in the ocean?? Peace and yes, I’m black. :^D

  • Can I just say, this is the best line in the entire blog: “(2) turn off the T.V. unless Shonda Rhimes wrote it, and don’t watch movies unless Spike Lee made it. That’s just 21st Century America.”

    Anywhoo, you are SOOOOOOOOOO right. I was so disappointed in the movie and extremely offended by their portrayal of everyone brown in “Abu Dabhi”

    Carrie, had the entire white savior complex and Samantha was just disgusting and shouldve been stoned to the ground.

    Beyond the clear racism there was NO story line. It was big, dresses, shoes, bags, bigotry, dresses, shoes, bags and a big let down, dresses, shoes, clothes and bags.

    And someone please tell me what damn song was that that they song. I didn’t get it. I’m pretty well versed on my “white music” but I was at a loss. I chalked that up to something they sing at their only white women meeting. (Ouch..was that too much? lol)

    Great blog!

  • From one black woman to another, get over yourself and your race. Don’t expect every sitcom and/or movie to cater to your likings. People don’t watch shows because of the amount of people they can relate to (via their race) are featured in it. If you want a sitcom similar to SATC with one black person after the next, watch Girlfriends & call it a day. The few white people in that show suggest stereotypes about their race. You don’t see them blogging, calling the creators of Girlfriends racist, etc.

    While I understand where you’re coming from, I honestly think you’re making something out of nothing.

    • Thanks for reading and commenting! Allow me to respond and make my initial point more clearly: this is not about every show or movie being made to my liking. I even acknowledged in the beginning of the post that I am not going to focus on the fact that there aren’t any minorities even in the background in the NYC they live in. My point is that, when they do attempt to tell a story involving black people black culture and Muslim culture, they don’t even take the time to research or have any sort of honest dialogue about race and cultural differences. Instead, they appeal to the lowest denominator by focusing on rampant stereotypes that do not accurately represent the populations they are trying to portray. These stereotypes are dangerous in that they reinforce poisonous and untrue images of an entire people based on superficialities and no substance. The difference between girlfriends and their stereotypes of white people is that there are hundreds of other shows with positive images of whites to counterbalance those few negative ones. Blacks Muslims Hispanics do not have that same counterbalance. It is about systemic and internalized racism, and positions of power. Girlfriends had no power to shape someones views of white people. Satc on the other hand, merely perpetuates many of the negative stereotypes about blacks and Muslims that are already in existence, thus extending the power that these negative images hold over it’s viewers and it’s victims. Don’t be bamboozled. Thanks for reading and come again. -dd

  • totally agree and now that I JUST got home from SATC2, it’s not sitting well with me. We’re already under-represented, and the last thing I really want to continue seeing is our being cast in roles that stereotypical. Especially in NYC. It’s almost if the writers have zero frame of reference, they write what they know and they know so little. It doesn’t excuse it at ALL, but – it just makes me want to write more. Write novels. Write scripts. Write anything that goes completely against these representations and expectation.

  • KB

    As a black woman, I was able to enjoy SATC, the series and the show, without counting the number of black faces I saw. As far as this comment “turn off the T.V. unless Shonda Rhimes wrote it, and don’t watch movies unless Spike Lee made it.”, I could not agree less!

    I stopped watching Private Practice because the way she wrote Audra McDonald’s character, Naomi, was completely unbearable. When it came to her own daughter’s pregnancy she acted harsh, unforgiving and completely unlovable. Shonda wrote her in a way that her ex-husband had no choice but to run into the arms of Addison, her best friend.

    Luckily, those aren’t my only two choices.

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  • @KB,

    I don’t watch Private Practice like that, but Grey’s Anatomy is amazing. I was disappointed this season when the Black Chief of surgery was revealed to be off the wagon and sloppy drunk at work performing surgeries. That infuriated me because we no longer had Burke — the hot, Black “Cardio God,” and Miranda was sinking into this maternal mammy role in the hospital as the go-to person for everyone’s problems. Here’s the difference that I found in Shonda’s characters: they have depth. Miranda is a mother in real-life, so she is maternal with people that she knows, but she is more than that. She is emotional and loving, she is excited about her new boyfriend (who is a hot hot Black anesthesiologist/ “gas Lord”). She is balancing work and life and she is no one’s mammy. The Chief is a recovering alcoholic who lost control of the hospital but he got help, he is back on the wagon, and he took his hospital back. He is brave and he is a good man. He is more than a recovering alcoholic. And Avery, the other Black doctor on the show, is also quite hot, ridiculously brave/smart/calm and quick on his feet. That’s four amazing black characters with depth IN ONE SHOW. Shonda gets props for that. Haven’t seen so many amazingly gifted black characters in one show since the Cosby show. Definitely never on a drama. You’ll have to put me on to the other shows you watch.

  • Mel

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  • IL

    Im sorry but i have to disagree.
    Did Meryl Streep complain about lack of whites on Girlfriends, Living Single ect. NO!
    Did any Black complain about the one Black guy in you got mail (Bafoonery Dave Chapell0 NO..i didn’t.

    it’s a white movie, so what if it’s in NY.. they are not obligated to cast Black actors the same way we did not cast whites in baby boy.

  • IL

    PS.. I LOVEE LOVEE Greys and Private Practice and i don’t see any white people complaining about Adison trying to get with Taye digs and being overly sexual.
    Im not complaining about Taye Digs character messing with his ex-wife’s (white) BFF..then again..he doesnt date “us” in real life so i guess thats the expection to his character.

    Just like media is getting out of contral with the hype of Single black woman.. no one is focusing on single spanish woman, white people dressing up like us, asians dating other races.
    just leave us the hell alone

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    Well said bSyncere!

  • LennyD

    Well as a black person and a Sex & the city fan. God forbid theirs a black girl portrayed as a country girl in a movie. No only a black woman from Yale who speaks proper can be cast in a movie. That’s foolish. Face it, they’re all kinds of people from all over. Michael clever used her background in the storyline and it went well. YOU on the other hand are just feeding the negative stereotype of the angry black person by blogging about this. No?

    • Oh Lenny, where do I begin? First, thanks for reading and for commenting. I definitely appreciate the feedback. Second, I would love to have seen a black character that I, my friends, and the other amazing Black women I know could relate to, not someone in a subservient role or a no-class role. That is certainly not too much to ask. And third, thank you for reminding me that I will never have the privilege that other races of women have who get to express their concerns or passions about issues without being dubbed an “angry Black woman.” No worries, though. That’s why I created my blog, so that my depth can be seen. I cannot be stereotyped because I write 3-dimensionally, allowing the reader to get a full and complete picture of who I am. I don’t pretend to represent all Black women, only myself, and if you’re looking for me to be an “angry black person” to fit whatever agenda you have, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Thanks for stopping by!
      XOXO
      DD

  • jeff

    I think what DD is saying is that if your going to put black people/situations on your show, make them realistic not obviously fake and stereotypical. That’s not too much to ask I guess you ask the same of a black casted show like “Girlfriends” to do the same if and when white characters appear. I’m a huge “Seinfeld” fan and for the most part they did a great job of portraying any minority character as a New Yorker first. Great post!

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  • StopBullying

    I understand your point about stereotypes but for that matter the gay characters are totally over exaggerated and flamboyant. The women especially Samantha are so unrealistic and non sensical that I think you’re looking at a once “trendy” show that I once liked as something people take seriously. I did pick up on the Blair Underwood references to the “big black dick” as stereotypical. But also I think the actors have a responsibility to question these roles. It seems like the media today likes portraying people of color, gays, Hispanic as the bastard step children of America. It breeds and US against them mentality. So on many points I agree but think the bigger problem is the media in the US as a whole.

  • HeteroWhiteManthatsawthewholeseries

    I just finished watching the whole series. Yes, per request of a woman friend. In my opinion, the first few seasons were funny but monotany set in. The Samantha character was one-dimensional, Charlotte was blase traditional, Miranda was the most interesting, and Carrie is like a spoiled teenager and the worst character since she was so self-centered, annoying, of average intelligence, and seemingly ONLY about finding the right guy as long as he acts, responds, etc. the way she wants them to. They don’t show black, Asian (not even a Chinatown episode and a brief opening in one episode about K-town but no Koreans), no Indian people, Arab, Irish and Italian here and there, and per usual with TV/movies plenty of Jewish people. There were very little social and political issues talked about but plenty on fashion which was ad nauseum. One big flaw for me was Carrie was supposed to be struggling with money and yet her apartment is huge, she spends thousands on shoes, thousands on fashion, frequents expensive restaurants and lounges, only meets and knows wealthy people, and is struggling financially despite everyone seeming to love her column, her publishing a successful book, being on bus and magazines, etc.

  • Diana

    Um, you sound ridiculous. The Medina episode with her brother explains it all. Black people can’t stand white people. They can have their own BET channel but god forbid there was a White Channel. STFU with this ridiculous uneducated article. Don’t act like the racism is just one-sided. Think about LA riots and that kind of stuff.

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  • If she sounds “ridiculous” than you sound pathologically stupid. Are you seriously referencing “BET” and the LA riots as examples of reverse racism??? The Black Entertainment Network, was created to counterbalance the fact, of the total lack of entertainment of programs directed towards a black audience. While the network is not necessarily to my taste – I understand what its original intent was. The reason Diana that there is no such thing as a “White Channel” is because MOST OF TELEVISION – is geared towards WHITE PEOPLE. Calling it the “White Network” would simply be redundant. Power does not need to constantly declare itself – it simply is. And if you were to state, that you as a human being, with what I’m assuming to be clear vision, and – although this remains debatable given your above commentary – a sound mind, have not noticed that when you pick up a magazine, turn on your television, look at any billboard, that nearly 95% of what you see are white people, then you may truly have a problem.

    In regards to the LA riots; If you are going to have the audacity to declare that Black people reacting in rage to the fact that several White officers can be cleared of beating a Black men viciously – which was seen on tape – then you need to just state your racism direct, and stop hiding, like so many White racists do – behind your own pseudo perceived notion of “reverse racism.”

    Now in reference to the article, I just want to commend District Diva for hitting it right on the nail, and on writing so eloquently on an issue that many people of color feel about. Unfortunately some of the other commentaries, particularly from Black people, showcase, that many people really have reading comprehension problems. You WERE NOT talking about the lack of Black people, or most minorities on the show, but rather of the lack of an accurate and realistic portrayal of Black people; there is an actual difference. For me I feel that if you are going to engage on an issue, then it should be done correctly. I did enjoy the show, and actually didn’t care that blacks are not shown, because I felt like THAT was realistic, in keeping with these women’s social group. Since when do privileged, superficial, white women, engage in other groups outside themselves; very rarely. That’s an attempt to be PC, and usually that never ends well. But if you are going to create a more rich story line (which Sex and The City was in a serious lack of) then it is in an imperative that you take the time to actually understand the subject matter that you are tackling, and not go for the cheap laughs, that for so many people, are extremely detrimental. Unlike some opinions (ehem…Diana) BET DOES NOT symbolize black empowerment, black domination over the supposed equally oppressed white audience, or even equal opportunity portrayal; it showcases that we as people still have so much more work to do.

    Sex and the City did a few things right, a hell of a light of things wrong, and stereotyped nearly everyone and everything. However that is not the point; the point is that we should and WE NEED to continue to keep having these types of conversations, and I applaud you, for having them. You aren’t an “Angry Black Woman” but an intelligent Black woman; and that is a figure we still have not seen enough of.

  • Thank you so much for reading and commenting cpdesir! I appreciate your thoughtful feedback!

  • MJ8121

    Great post! I just finished re-watching Sex & the City and I was searching to see if anyone had written about the racial undertones. The one that was my breaking point and forced me to resort to Google was when the Samantha’s boyfriend (Shavon) yelled, “Keep it real! Keep it real!” I even replayed it to make sure that I had heard it correctly. Seriously?! Hahaha! I also thought that they had an opportunity to bring Jennifer Hudson’s character in the movie more into the fold. I’m not sure that she even met the other characters. Again, great post!

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