ABUSIVE, PERVERSE, AND EXPLOTATIVE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

Recently the whole world gasped in shock when a famous athlete was accused of engaging in dog fights but in Africa human beings are treated worse than animals sometimes and the whole world watch in amusement.

IT IS TIME FOR ALL ARICANS AND MEN AND WOMEN OF CONSCIENCE TO STAND UP AND FIGHT PERVERSE, DEGRADING AND EXPLOITATIVE  ENTERTAINMENT BY CALLING MTN AND IT BIG BROTHER SOUTH AFRICA REALITY SHOW WHICH IT HAS PROUDLY DUBBED ‘THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH’  TO ORDER

It is sad that this show is coming from South Africa, a country with a history of apartheid and racism and the cast of the current ignominious show is black and colored.

HOW THE SHOW GOES
A dozen young men and women of diverse backgrounds are cramped into a very tiny apartment.
1. They are tapped and wired with all manner of electronic gadgets like animals  and all their actions and discussions right from the bathroom through the bedroom through to the garden are monitored and beamed to the out side world. Their genitals and most intimate discussions are abused and regarded as fair game.
2. Debauchery and pornography is encouraged to titillate their viewers
3. Twenty-four cameras are trained on them twenty-four hours a day. It is an offence for an inmate to switch off his or her microphone.
4. They pay for their food with money earned in the house from menial labor prescribed by their jailer called Big brother
5. They cook and clean by themselves
6. They are plied with alcohol to loosen their inhibitions and libido so that they can provide more “entertainment”
7. While this is going unintuitive and abusive messages are flashed on the screen on the inmates.
8. They are totally secluded from the outside world – no radio; no television; no phone calls, nothing. So they are totally oblivious to the outside world.
9. One frustrated member asked to go and we are told he was asked to rethink. Another publicly declared his intention, to check out, we do not know what ‘persuaded or pressured’ him to stay.
10. At least one member visibly cracked up before our very eyes and even a fool can see the stress and trauma these inmates or trauma these inmates were going thorough.

Their Big Brother condescendingly asks: Do you need a psychologist? Is this called ‘entertainment?’ Let us take some steps back.

If television had been invented long ago and a multinational company or a rich business man puts a camera in the concentration camp and beams the agony, degradation torture and annihilation of the Jews to the whole world and called it Reality TV, the greatest Show on earth, what would you do?

If there were cameras in the galleys of the slave ships, Will you be titillated by seeing slaves matting or watching their unclothedness?

Don’t tell me they volunteered or signed contracts WE know. Those youths who risk their lives and die in the deserts and oceans of Africa in search of greener pastures outside Africa volunteered too. They were forced by poverty to volunteer to die or make it.

THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER EXPERIECED POVERTY HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE IT EFFECT ON THE HUMAN MIND.

THE REWARD
 The declared winner in this morbid experiment gets one hundred dollars – repeat one hundred dollars
 The eleven other participants get nothing.
 MTN laughs all the way to the bank with proceeds from ‘The Greatest Sow On Earth’
 Listening to conversations by inmates they genuinely believe the exposure is their ticket to a better life, employment or fame.
 They reel out names of pas inmates who got jobs etc after the show. We do not hear of those whose fortunes got worse.

PEOPLE ARISE – TAKE ACTION NOW

 MTN must be called to order. When they held the same reality show in Nigeria, there was no nudity because the Nigerian Government put its foot down. It is un-African and it violates and tramples on the cultural and religious sensitivities of most African countries except maybe South Africa. Since the programmed is beamed through cable they do not have the know-how, resources or ability to block it. They grumble Helplessly
 This is the twenty first century and some countries relish pornography but the artistes are PAID in cash
 Let every man and woman picket, institute lawsuits, boycott MTN services, boycott their sponsors, petition their Governments to push MTN out of their country, ostracize their Staff , do anything you can within the law to drive your point home until we achieve our Goals which are:

GOALS

 Respect the cultural and religious sensitivities of Africans by avoiding nudity and obscene language. They can do it the way they did in Nigeria
 Heartless exploitation of African poverty has to stop.
 Pay all Inmates or Housemates. We suggest:
 The winner gets one hundred thousand dollars.
 The second place winner, seventy thousand dollars.
 Third place winner, fifty thousand dollars
 The remaining nine housemate, two thousand dollar a week depending on how long they stayed in the house.
 In addition, they should be paid a percentage of the profits plus royalty.

LET US FORM INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL NGO’s TO FIGHT THIS CAUSE.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. AFRICAN DIGNITY MUST PREVAIL INSPITE OF OUR POVERTY.

Africans, What do you have to say on the above?