Don’t watch Tavis.

hey Destiny Khan…neither does a lot of people…thats his problem….he needs to be seen….

I seen more damaging images to the black Community on social media sites more than likely from the kids of those who are making such damning accusations of the show Empire

Travis is an 1st class Asshole !!!!!!!

Jealousy will get you no where. Don’t like it then don’t watch !!

First the President, now he attacking a t.v show…

Um Tavis Smiley? Continue having a seat, and leave my show Empire alone! LMAO! Nobody’s checking for your hypocritical ass these days!

Loved Lee’s response. That show was not supposed to be as big as it is and it has the industry shook. They wanted to keep perpetuating the lie that a Black cast can’t get ratings. Lies!

Bookmark this post: When the show comes back, all sorts of Lee Daniel tea will ‘leak’ to TMZ and other Black shows will pop up to compete with the time slot.

If Taraji doesn’t get a Golden Globe or Emmy nomination, I hope social media lights them on fire.

He just mad cause he didn’t come up with the idea…

He right why aren’t people saying anything about love and hip hop! Horrible ! Empire us just fine ave we will be watching it

Stfu up I have seen so many haters it’s a good show with real life events I don’t know what part of America he grew up in

I agree with him but not just that show a lot of other shows like Real Housewives (all of them), Love & Hip Hop, Empire etc. It’s no different from Hip Hop/ Rap music either. It’s just sad our own race make us look bad.

I’ve watched every episode of Empire and I can’t wait for the second season. I think it is riveting TV and it’s very entertaining. However, critics of the show have made an observation and it is an accurate one. The show does portray nearly every pathology associated with Black people. To say that it doesn’t would be living in denial. For me, it’s just entertainment. I know how to separate fact from fiction even when the fiction very closely resembles real life. The problem is that many people can’t do that and shows like this reinforce their already warped sense of reality when it comes to Black people. The images and stereotypes in the show help to drive the media’s propaganda machine. So, while I enjoy watching the show because it’s so well crafted and entertaining I won’t deny that the critics are accurate in their assertion that there is a lot of negativity being portrayed. It’s not about changing the channel if you don’t like it, this is really some people just pointing out the obvious. Also, although I think Tavis can be a jackass at times, he’s just the messenger on this one. In the video he talks about what he’s heard, not necessarily what he thinks.

Why must everything be so literal with folks? Clearly, this is art, so an interpretation by the artist is involved! Tavis is not a spokesman for black folk, no more than the cast of Empire! Sit down!!!

That bum beeyatch is probably snuggled up on the couch every Wednesday in his pannies watching it! #pleasehaveaseattavis #haveanentireparkbench

Shut up OL UNCLE TOM !!!!

It is what it is. We need to stop trying to please white culture and do our own thing. The ratings speak for the show!

I reflects the record industry black and white . its how it is cut throat period .

Ummm what about L&HH? That show is ratchet and scripted.It makes black Americans look super messy.Empire shows how issuses in our community are handled and how some families do come into power from the hustle of the mean streets.

i don’t even listen to Tavis and if he had a complaint why didn’t he offer creative counseling for the black experience in true form?

Tavis turning into Bill Cosby more and more each time he opens his mouth

Jeannette Williams if you put game of thrones on that list, I’ll ride with you through the hate the post is about to give you lol

All these black shows/movies out here portray the worst…and wonder why other races have no respect when all they see is ratchet blacks on tv and the dummies that are too ignorant to notice they’re being made fun of.

I see all these people coming forward to criticize. Why not jump on the networks for not giving a greenlight to more positive shows with minority leads. Why not stand and admit that this truly isn’t about Empire or Lee Daniels but rather about feeling a lack of control over the public image of black men. Stop shooting at the wrong targets and say what is really in your heart

Who cares what Tavis thinks?? BYE FELICIA!

The show is real…real struggles of a black family trying to make something better coming out of a bad. Situation reality isnt pretty

Empire perpetuates the struggles and demonizes us to other cultures
It’s not just entertainment
Shows like that keep us sleeping
Instead of wasting an hour of your life being entertained
Do something positive for your community
While y’all being entertained
Other races are being EDUCATED

Complaining privileged ass Americans

Stop trying to put down empire it’s a show black ppl got jobs in the show they making money telling a story that ppl want to point finger about it being a black issue dumb shit we been having issues in our community with all the killings and poverty has nothing to do with empire for our future fall back there has been plenty of movies like this threw out history 50 cent claims empire stole his show I hear no one ever speaking down about his show puffy daddy say it’s his life empire took from and no one getting on him about anything because if it was about him then it supposed to be real what he has done so called but ppl want to go after empire only because they are making money they aren’t doing anything thing wrong but giving us a great performance that we all enjoy we are adults we understand what where watching a bad influence on our ppl wtf that’s dumb only weak mined haters would say some dump shit like that stop the hate and get your mind right maby the haters can come up with a good show we all would love to see until then fall back and continue to watch empire

He really needs to sit down….constantly voicing but he is irrelevant

It’s fUkkin TV!! All it has to be is entertaining (and it is) we have more pressing matters At hand… Damn.

Tavis made an amazing point!

Shut da fuck up

AT THIS POINT I CAN HONESTLY SAY ….I DONT GIVE A FUCK…ITS GOOD T.V…ITS A SMALL ESCAPE FOR WHATS BEING SHOWN ON TELEVISION NOW…EBOLA, FARE HIKES, COPS KILLING BLACKS, BLACKS KILLING BLACKS, WEED LEGAL, FOOD IS KILLING US, WHITE PEOPLE BORED SO THEY FUCKING WITH THE TERRORISTS, SCHOOLS FALLING, GAY THIS AND THAT….CELEBRITY THIS AND THAT…THE WEATHER IS FUCKED UP…IM SICK OF IT…SO IF WE ARE TOTALLY OBSESSED WITH EMPIRE SO FUCKING WHAT STOP TRYING TO MAKE EVERY FUCKIN SINGLE THING ABOUT RACE , POLITICS, OR GENDER AND LIVE YOUR FUCKING LIFE MAN…YALLL SO FUCKING ANNOYING…..

Kinda true but that entertainment for you

Sport figures and entertainers are our shows…or so it seems. Not too many thinking or impact roles. But I could be wrong.

Is he for real? Who hasn’t portrayed black culture in the worst way? That’s what the media wants. Obviously, the show is all that because billions of people watch it. Their are still different forms of media that show our good if not every day, often enough.

So Sick of Tavis Smiley,

Tavis need to stop we been stop listening to him

New name, Tavis Frowny!

Won’t Tavis stop putting down black people and come out of the closet

I like the show but Tavis is right. There’s a problem with our culture if the show is representative of our culture.

Tavis needs to take a seat thats all

Please leave this show alone haters

That’s Atavism wanting to hear himself talk since he can’t dance.

These two men are both Gay! Don’t care what anybody says! Re-pressed Homosexuals. BTW, I am gay.

This comes from a man who stopped doing State of the Black Union to do wack television show.

An hour every week from reality is refreshing entertainment. Yet he has a right to his opinion.

Really? Since when?

Had your opinion. Now have yourself a seat. Smh.

Yes I agree! With TS

Years ago they used to be TV shows, now it’s called TV Programming. You write a computer program to control something. Same thing here. TV is straight poison for the mind

Tavis is a hater….and will always be one

I can see if this was a “reality show,” but it’s not. What about the cat fights, murder, sleeping around, and backbiting on Nashville, Dallas, Dynasty, and Knot Landing. It was always good for those shows, but not this. We have Hollywood looking at African American actresses with leading roles. A few months or a year ago, all we had was Keri Washington, but now we have Gabrielle Union, Regina King, Viola Davis, and Tracy Ellis Ross. I can’t remember ever watching television with this much of a variety with women that look like me. Chill Tavis… They are working.

He right, and the only folks getting mad are those who choose to be willfully ignorant. You always see us portrayed as dumb, fighting, ratchet, weaved up, single family homes, men/women fucking over each other, doing whatever for a check, and we give this stupid shit high ratings and call it entertainment. Like we can’t be betrayed as of power, happy, married couples who raised their children properly and promote positivity. So stfu and quit hating on a man who has an honest opinion. Look, yall can’t even disagree without name calling and being disrespectful. Our generations are doomed. How are we cool with being promoted as ignorant. So yall cool with fighting, showing ass, drinking, clubheads with no real direction in life. Families with no fathers. Labels over education?

Offer him a role or cameo appearance and he will change his view

Tavis smiley choke on elephant balls

Travis lost all credibility when he cries over Obama.Empire was a entertainment show. Hope a smart kid will ask What’s an IPO ? And become an investment banker.

Mr. Smiley please have several seats !!

Tavis needs to sit down.. Someone always has something to say when it comes to black movies. If you make a movie about a black family who is living the American dream them people say its unreal. But if you portray a film like empire or a hood flick then its a problem it downs our people. So tell me how should we be portrayed?.

I choose not to watch Empire for the very same reasons Tavis mentions; and I believe there should be more positive characteristics portrayed of our people (of all people, actually). I don’t call it hate, however. I think Lee Daniels is an incredibly-talented man and tells stories of the human condition in America, exactly what he said in the clip. And the problem doesn’t lie with what human condition he chooses to express; it lies with what we choose to see as reality, as entertainment, as acceptable social elements. When we improve or change what we are willing to accept as the human condition, what will be representative of it will also improve or change.

Its just TV peeps chill

Tacos gets on my nerves trying to create a buzz for himself off of other people’s mf shine.

I am too much of a lady to tell you what I really think

Oh GAWD!!!

Shut up , Travis you alway complaining about something, you don,t like something or you don,t like no one, who cares, keep the hating and anger to your self, anything black you don,t like, you look black to me so why are you hating on yourself, reflection of you.

Yea it’s only tv

It’s fiction get off your soap box already…Ridiculous

It’s a show not a documentary . Its no different from any other show of its kind. Stop hating when it comes to another’s success. He did the same thing during Presidents second term of running. It is a pattern now TRAVIS this is not necessary.

It is a scripted show, it is not based on everyday life even though some think it is based on them. Black actors complain all the time about there are not enough roles for them. And when a show comes out that is basically a black show. People complain about the show. Some people will complain about everything, never happy and don’t want anyone else to be happy. Tavis Smiley need to go home turn off televisions and lights and go to bed (habitnate)for a while. Always complaining!

It’s just a TV show! Stop the hate!!!

why are so many people hating on this show?1smh…

If you can’t beat them; pay them more D

Tavis Smiley and his irrelevant show can KMBA He is of that very old school that Black people have to be superniggers. Television doesn’t show only the best of the white community so why do we have to achieve/portray some standard so the white folks will "like" us? More people watch one second of Empire than the aggregate audience Tavis has ever achieved. Go take a double wide seat mofo.

Hell No

I like Empire and I also like Tavis Smiley.

I disagree because for me it’s just a television show as are many others.It’s just that as Blacks we can’t even watch TV in peace as other races do because there are Blacks that take themselves too seriously.If it’s not for you,then don’t watch.

I respect Tavis Smiley because he’s not afraid to voice his views.Many ignorant Blacks hate him just because he calls out Obama and in your very simple minds,you feel that is hating on your "Lord and Savior"…

Keep speaking your view Tavis even if I do disagree.