No “All My Babies’ Mamas’ after all on Oxygen
ATLANTA - JUNE 19: Recording Artist Shawty Lo backstage at Magnum Live Large Project at Phillips Arena on June 19, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Trojan)
Loading ...Oxygen backed down on airing a special featuring Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo called “All my Babies’ Mamas” after a torrent of protests about the content and title of the show.
The network just released this statement:
“As part of our development process, we have reviewed casting and decided not to move forward with the special. We will continue to develop compelling content that resonates with our young female viewers and drives the cultural conversation.”
Shawty Lo was placed in a house with 10 women he had babies with, along with 11 of the kids. Many bloggers began petitions, protesting the entire premise and how poorly it reflected on blacks in general. Tens of thousands of people signed the petitions. The Parents Television Council, which usually focuses on violence and overt sexual content, also threw in their two cents, telling Oxygen to shut it down.
Oxygen originally sent out a release last month saying the special would air later this year. Sometimes networks will air specials as a test to see if it’s worthy of becoming a series. (TLC’s ‘Extreme Couponing” is an example.)
This was a rare case where the show’s description was so offensive, the network was forced to pull it.
In related news:
1/4/13: The original news report I wrote about the protests against the show
1/8/13: My prediction that the show would never see the light of day.
1/15/13: Oxygen has no problem airing “Bad Girls Club Atlanta.”
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86 comments Add your comment
Quantavious Sagetavious Barkaveous Jones
January 16th, 2013
9:29 am
I’m sure you guys know that I’m white/caucasian, sorry if I offended anyone……I thought it was a funny joke.
levelhead
January 16th, 2013
9:29 am
What kills me is that ladies love this lyrical porno and thuggish lifestyle, then try to pick and choose what comes out of it.
RCH
January 16th, 2013
9:30 am
Graphite,
Do you have to ask? LOL
RCH
January 16th, 2013
9:31 am
Graphite,
You have to be kidding. Do you really have to ask? LOL
Mortimer Cuthbert
January 16th, 2013
9:36 am
As dirt poor as so many black people are I can’t for the life of me understand how they can’t at least figure out how to use condoms, birth control, or just PULL OUT at the right time! Or just go to the clinic and flush them suckers while they’re still in the womb!
Ignorance breeds ignorance breeds ignorance breeds ignorance…
The welfare system of the federal govt has contributed the destruction of the Black American Family. Dad doesn’t worry about how his kids will eat because Uncle Sam will provide so he’s like Heck, I’ll just go party with the boys! And this keeps happening and then we have the situation above come to life and when the young boys get frustrated because they don’t have male figure to show them how to live life they start joining gangs and killing people like it’s nothing more than a fist fight.
pebblebeach
January 16th, 2013
9:42 am
Levae it alone BET…
pebblebeach
January 16th, 2013
9:43 am
Leave it alone BET…
No
January 16th, 2013
9:44 am
Ok to laugh at white-trash H -Boo Boo but shine the light on some stoopid “ghetto dwellers” , can’t have that now can we.
Michael
January 16th, 2013
9:51 am
Rodney please delete Quantavious Sagetavious Barkaveous Jones. This person is being very racist.
Terry with the Tea
January 16th, 2013
9:59 am
@ Mortimer Cuthbert- You should’ve took a bullet for the poor children in Newton, CT. You are such the expert on Black Men, Why don’t you write a book on how your ancestors stole, purchased, raped, beat, abused, and murdered the Blacks your family owned? Talk about what you truly know about, Mortimer you don’t know a darn thing about the day in the life a real African American Man.. unless you are one and from your ignorant statement I greatly doubt that.
mugglemikki
January 16th, 2013
10:02 am
LOL @Quantavious! Hilarious! I got the joke…unfortunately it’s also steeped in reality…
levelhead
January 16th, 2013
10:05 am
This show should have been made a documentry. The sad thing is it will continue and just canceling a show is not going to solve the situation. Some girl right now at this moment is skipping school (because its raining) and ready to lay in bed with (her boo) without protection. no cancel TV show will ever stop that.
Statick
January 16th, 2013
10:10 am
People on here, screaming about it’s “reality”…
It may be reality for you. Not for me. Keep that BS off the TV.
DON928
January 16th, 2013
10:18 am
As you can see by some of these dumb a** posts, some ignorant people love these types of shows which is why the maurey show is so popular with the nitwits that don’t go to work every day, live in low income housing and have all of that time on their hands to watch stupid ish like that all day and stay online *shaking my head*
Jay
January 16th, 2013
10:43 am
I am black and I am very disappoint that the black elites don’t speak out about this garbage. Mayor Reed, John Lewis, Andrew Young, etc where are you? Speak up about how we are killing our own community. It appears that you all are only concern about yourself and the next election rather than the good of the community.
I encourage our community to vote all of those clowns out of office if they can’t speak out about such trash on tv.
Denise
January 16th, 2013
10:43 am
It’s time for change. All BS needs to stop and the people have spoken. At the end of the day, parents are responsible for the garbage they allow their children to watch. Then they go to school with that foolishness and the teachers have to deal with it. Adults need to stop acting like children. Grow up!!!
81finest
January 16th, 2013
10:44 am
It would have been like the shows “Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Mob Wives, Real Housewives, Honey Boo Boo, 16 and Pregnant”. Who wants to she that mess? This show is no different than any of the other shows that come on cable.
patricia
January 16th, 2013
10:50 am
I do hope that people will do the same thing with Basketball Wives if they come back this season with that cursing and fighting! We just cannot allow this to continue. As far as honey boo boo, she is a mess and embarrassing at times, but she is not harming anyone.. This baby mama mess is just that… a mess.
Tell me something.. Donald Trump has three baby mamas.. Do you think he would do this show. NO!
NOT HIS BABY MOMMA
January 16th, 2013
11:03 am
GOT TO AGREE WITH GRAPHITE!!! NONE OF THEM IF ANY CLEARLY DONT HAVE A BRAIN….HE CLEARLY DIDNT THINK ABOUT PROTECTION!! THE SHOW SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED E.VERY B.ODY T.ESTED (EBT), HE’S NOT WORKING SO…IT’S CLEAR TO ME THAT THEY ARE WELL AWARE OF THE FACT HE IS NOT PAYING CHILD SUPPORT!! ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE NOT AS THEY PORTRAY US TO BE….WHAT KIND OF EXMAPLE ARE THEY SETTING FOR THE YOUNG LADIES IN THEIR FAMILY!! HONEY BOO BOO IS ANOTHER SHOW THAT IS TRASH, BASKETBALL WIVES(NO WONDER THE HUSBANDS LEFT), MOB WIVES….ALL OF THEM ARE TRASH! TV1 AND BET PORTRAY POSITIVE, HEALTHY, INTELLIGENT FAMILIES AND ROLE MODELS…ALSO TYLER PERRY DOES A GREAT JOB!!!
Miss Spike Lee
January 16th, 2013
11:08 am
@ Ms. T and Really? thanks for the back up! I’m a take it from here. @QSBJones-your folks brought us here so send us back to the richest continent in the world we will deal with it better then we can the trailer park your in. Now down to business. My sisters your disappointing me today. I have not seen one protest for Kenya disrespecting Josea Williams since we know her needy ass never fed a soul or protested nothing except “I need a man”. I have not seen this much protesting going on when these half naked, fake injected, overnight wanna b’s, who get together dressed to the nines to raise nothing but their a**. It was okay for Ocho to use his NFL head as a weapon to head butt his wife. Did you all forget about Ray Caruth killing his beautiful fiance, leaving a child mentally and physically impaired, never knowing why or what happend to his mother. How dare any of you to criticize a man who takes care of all of his. It may hurt a few since you may only have one and he is just not into to you or yours. Remember sex sales and black women have alway been up for grabs. How many of you broke your necks to hear how many time Quentin Teranbuthole say the N word. He is passive agressive towards black culture. Its a concious decision as we all have to make sometimes, like Dave Chappel when he realized it just wasnt that funny for him to sell out. Bad girls club in Atlanta. Hell you can watch that all day on Marta since we are teaching our young women to literally sale themselves cheap. When any white folks get curious and want to see real black women at work. Go to the Shrine of the Black Madonna at the West End. You will never see children as smart as Akebilan where the children speak flent hebrew, and young women are dressed in beautiful African garments. You women that may have made it sure dont look back cause I dont see you voluteering efforts just more of your soccor mom wanna b’s, so-called church going but ask you for a dollar and you would run a homeless person over with your big gas gussler, oh cause you didnt see him due to them bats you have over your eyeballs called eyelashes(yuck)! I woudnt call on Phaedra to represent me in traffic court. Oxygen confronted him I’m sure, along with the title. Black women stop biting the bullet of phonism. Blue eye contacts, weaves galore, cant leave home without it huh? The comments made in Africa–I love Candy but does Candy love Candy. Bad baby daddy, finance murdered in the skrip club, now here comes another. Did you listen to here 11 year old check her about why this man decided to move in so fast…? Shawty is a good brother. He gives to community quite often in fact., but you wouldnt know that because your afraid to go to Bankhead huh? Please- I only know when he walks in he is greeted with respect, maybe that is what his women adore. He encourages my grandbaby to continue her talent. He would be the man that I would want to intervene if he ever saw my grand somewhere doing wrong. Hell they got a BOLO out for Mr. Dragoncon, but how many times did Atlanta allow him to host his predator pedifile crap! We know our percentages of abesentee fathers, we know we need to be more accountable for who you lay down with. Find soulutions and stop talking down about one man who has found his nitch to keep providing for his. In many cultures women share their men, including you women who think your in a monogamous relationship–Now in Shawty’s words “They know”
Realist
January 16th, 2013
11:18 am
Did you know that 1 in every 3 bm has HPV, and 1 in every 14 will have HIV at some point in their life?? Its a FACT! Don’t teach your kids to hate, but teach them the importance of racial pride, it saves lives! Props to all the good black fathers out there who dont believe in beating your women, but u gotta admit… your in the minority!
Real Talker
January 16th, 2013
11:23 am
Fact is the ladies like love Shawty LO. They are Nutt Buckets. Let it play, let the world see the Bottom line… chicks dont run isth but there mouths.
Real.
Pandora
January 16th, 2013
11:36 am
This show should have NEVER been taped period. This is showing African-American people in a very negative light. Oxygen should be banned. I will NOT watch this channel again!
Miss Spike Lee
January 16th, 2013
11:43 am
@Pandora you go! Nothing like your own protest! and that is where is begins. Simple economics supply and demand.
mugglemikki
January 16th, 2013
12:15 pm
Miss Spike Lee has ENTIRELY too much time on her hands!
Fun with Facts
January 16th, 2013
12:42 pm
Enough with excuses to explain away this man’s stupid, self-indulgent behavior. This guy better sell a lot of songz because the lawyers are going clean his clock with child support obligations. I see jail time in his future for failure to pay child support, to 9 women no less! Each one will be gunning for him and deservedly so. Wear a condom next time.
C from Marietta
January 16th, 2013
12:56 pm
@ Miss Spike Lee
Wow. I can’t believe you don’t see this man’s behavior as wrong. Just because he gives them money doesn’t mean he is taking care of them. There is something to be said about having a Mother and FATHER in the same house. The guy is a self indulgent punk. This is serious problem. If you can’t see that YOUR PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Fun with Facts
January 16th, 2013
1:03 pm
Does anybody appreciate irony anymore? Here is a guy who has never worn a condom standing in front of an advertisement for extra large condoms. He has fathered a lot of kids out of wedlock and looks like a life-sized STD / HIV petri dish. Too bad he didn’t use the free samples that they probably offered to him.
SHERLE
January 16th, 2013
1:41 pm
THE SHOW WAS A BAD CHOICE TO BEGIN WITH. ALSO WE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO SWITCH STATIONS IF ITS OFFENDS. I AM GRATEFUL THAT PEOPLE CONTACTED THE NETWORKS AND DID THE WORK SO THAT THE SHOW WOULD NOT GO ON. AS FAR AS REALITY SHOWS, I’M NOT FOND OF ANY OF THEM. THE RHOA IS BORING AND I CAN TELL ALL OF THEM IS THERE FOR THAT PAYCHECK.
NoGovernmentalAssistance
January 16th, 2013
1:46 pm
You can’t imagine how happy I am to see that this trash has been canceled! Sure, you could blame him all day, but what about the females that laid down with him? They are just as guilty as he is and she not be eligible for any type of governmental assistance!
He should be held accountable for all of these kids and jailed if he fails to comply with the child support orders!
NoGovernmentalAssistance
January 16th, 2013
1:47 pm
You can’t imagine how happy I am to see that this trash has been canceled! Sure, you could blame him all day, but what about the females that laid down with him? They are just as guilty as he is and they should not be eligible for any type of governmental assistance!
He should be held accountable for all of these kids and jailed if he fails to comply with the child support orders!
White Men Revolt
January 16th, 2013
7:39 pm
Just another thing that black men can get away with that would get a white guy run out of town by an angry mob of his neighbors and family. Saggy pants showing your entire butt while walking through Lenox would get any white guy arrested on the spot. If a white guy had 11 kids with 10 different women? That would be instant jail time. You want proof – Warren Jeffs in Texas with that weird Mormon sect. The govt shut him down for doing the same thing that Shawty Lo has done. This is reverse racism and we need our own Rev Sharpton to call a press conference about this outrage against the white man.
White Men Revolt
January 16th, 2013
7:47 pm
Don’t know why Shawty is standing in front of a magnum condom sign, since he does not use the product. Besides, he is only about 5′6″ with small feet, so you can guess that his manhood is shawty too and a magnum would fall off his tiny thang. Maybe that is how all the baby mamas got pregnant, since he doesn’t have enough junk to handle a magnum.
Shenia Harriel (BKA) Miss.Kitty
January 18th, 2013
2:05 am
I never Blog anything, Butt tonight you two LADIES did what was needed .God was in there the whole time .U both will be friends at the end. Just keep being who u are always, I can”t stop smiling OMG for real. ~SHENIA~
Shenia Harriel (BKA) Miss.Kitty
January 18th, 2013
2:08 am
My comment was for American idol.
GG
January 18th, 2013
1:59 pm
There is a god!! Thank god this trash will never see the light of day. For them women to give themselves names that end in “babymama” is a disgrace to say the least! Who is the hell looks up to being called a babymama?? How about being pround of being someone’s wife? This dude got it wrong 11 times in his life, having sex with no protection, is careless and wreckless behavior yet along to air this on television as if its a badge of honor. I am glad it got cancelled, don’t need this type of seeds being planted in our younger generations head.