*Shaunie O’Neal knows her name has been dragged through the dirt since her creation, “Basketball Wives,” has been mutilated by VH1.
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So she’s hoping the film will redeem her vision and give fans a better perspective of what she was hoping to accomplish with the reality show.
“It’s a love story. It’s an empowering story. It’s funny. It’s life,” she told Vibe. “We’ve taken a girl who’s just going into the NBA life and experiencing things and showing the whole story. She learns from the organization. She learns from other wives, and by the end of the story, it’s empowering for women and men.”
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Shaunie assured the film would be nothing like the show. Originally, the former basketball wife envisioned the series to be about independent women doing powerful things. But now it’s just a big soap opera with a sprinkle of Jerry Springer.
“It was important for me to have other outlets outside of ‘Basketball Wives’ to represent myself and who I really am and what I really would like to put out there. Because, again, I did reality TV and can’t control that. I can’t control how everybody acts and what everybody sees. This, I can control,” she said.
standing here blinking…..
LOL!!!!
YAWN!!!!!
So what’s really real Shaunie? Oh, and kiss my ass.
Why would anybody in their right mind pay to see these rachet ass hoes on the big screen when you can get the same type of entertainment and drama at your family reunion…
Shaunie…STFU
Most African American women do not behave this way. Still, if the networks were not aware that there were impressionable minds watching, the shows would air without commercials. Of course they do air with commercials because they know people with impressionable minds are indeed watching. I’m not against reality tv. I enjoy some reality shows just like everyone else, but this one in particular has taken a dark and violent turn.
Critics of the cancellation movement repeat the age-old, “change the channel if you don’t like it” mantra, failing to recognize that the core issue is the perceived disrespect that is inherent in the networks’ refusal to portray productive examples of African American women in their current programming.
http://www.change.org/petitions/cancel-basketball-wives