Please stop the madness. I hope that DL Hughley and CNN never ever believes that we will view such mess. I love DL, but was very disappointed in the first show. It was unbelievable to me that CNN thinks that this type of show will have an audience; it was in poor taste. DL seemed very nervous; probably because he was not confident about the show either. Please do better. I for one would protest. Do better; I know you are smarter than that.

DL Hughley's new show is ridiculous! I am embarassed to be watching it! I watched it the first time because I could not believe he really had a show on CNN. I watched it tonight to make sure that I was being fair to the guy. He is not funny! I never saw him as a "king" of comedy. Having Scott McClellan, Donna Brazile, Al Sharpton (to name a few) appear on the show was a feeble attempt at lending some validity to his views, I am sure. I guess I am just too old, too smart, or too enlightened to subject myself to anymore of this show.

Sorry, DL! Oh, and BTW, I am a SISTA!!!

I very much agree with the statements. I wrote about it similarly on my own blog (http://www.katuwapitiya.com). I can't believe that this stuff can pass for comedy when we're so close to seeing a black man become president.

CNN - you should be ashame, this show is worst than Amos and Andy, sterotyping Blacks in the most degrading manner. I'm sick to my stomach, just when I thought we were moving yet another inch toward racial respect and away from "self-hatred" and attempts to get cheap laughs from negative portrayal of Blacks. PLEASE!! take Hughley show OFF IMMEDIATELY - I'll leave CNN and many others share the same sentiments. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME CNN.

D.L. Hughley surely has misread Black women and their opinions about interracial relationships, especially those involving Black men and white women. Yes, we know all too well that Barack Obama is a mulatto born of a white mother and a Black father, who is Kenyan. Barack Obama is taken for whom he is, for his ideals, intelligence, spirit and all the other factors that constitute his core being. Black women seem to be in appreciation of Obama as a leader, husband, father, etc. We don't hate him, as some whites do, for his birth, of which none of us control.

What Black women do not like and appreciate is being degraded with put-downs, being labelled as non-supportive", when we are some of the most supportive women on Earth. If we hadn't been, our race, and our families, including our men, would not have made it this far. We do not appreciate being made to feel as though we are less than or inferior to the female species of the very people who have enslaved, degraded, denied, denigrated Blacks as a people for hundreds of years. Black women share the history, culture, experiences, language, spiritual leanings of the Black man that no on else has or can. We have real and tribal memory of rape, psychological assault, and negative stereotypical images attached to us by white men who have also emasculated our Black fathers, brothers and husbands in so many ways for so many years. Yes, we do take issue when Black man deals with white women as if his own beautiful, Black woman didn't even exist. There is an element of self-hatred present when someone can only find comfort in someone who doesn't share his history, looks, nor speaks, nor acts, nor shares cultural bonds with them. In many cases, the white female grew up in a family that taught racial prejudice to them since childhood. Black women cannot and have not forgotten the struggle, nor have we abandoned the belief that Black men are kings, and, can rise to their correct station in life with the love and support of a good Black woman.

i like it, i think it's funny. he's doing something new. give it time.

The show is just not funny. I'm sorry....no, actually, I'm not. There is nothing for ME, nor anyone on this board to be 'sorry' about. I'm an educated black man, 40, father, and more. And I just can't watch it, for the reasons that INCLUDE, it simply is not funny.

But I wanted to toss a caveat to Deborah's comments....

Ms. Wells, your remarks ring so true in near totality. But for the very end, where your statemetns became very 'sweeping' and 'generalized' (Self hatred, and the idea that a black man could 'ONLY' find comfort), I was MORE than in agreement and on the VERY same page. For CNN to think that they could mine out, or locate an existing audience that might find this, almost 'new millenium' Minstrel show, entertaining, almost makes me not want to watch CNN anymore, as a primary news source. Over the coming weeks, we will see.

But as to your closing comments, as referenced above, please know first, it is not self hatred, rather for many (trying NOT to generalize) self love, AS, the experience of many black men, is a sense of emasculation by the very Sistas you speak of. Of course, I would imagine, you ARE NOT a part of this group of women that feel necessary to semi-castrate their men, verbally, and sometimes physically, but THEY DO EXIST. As such, some men simply choose to seek out a woman, that shares THIS common denominator.....LOVE.

Secondarily, the idea that this black man might ONLY be able to find comfort (in anyone) in someone, is again shy of the reality. You see, it's not at all that there is a polarity of choice, rather that there IS choice at all. You see many men just want to be happy, and in this new age, new day, with all of our technology, our expansion, globally, and locally, there is now choice, that is socially accepted, giving one the opportunity to find the aforementioned common denominator.....LOVE.

It really is that simple. But to close.....I could never support DL, and those views that you refer to......it's time for ALL men, black, white, Latin, or otherwise, to share the respect that we 'expect'. It's the only way to truly make it in this new era...

God Bless..
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I saw the show for the first time last night and thought it was great. All these negative post, It's really the same content as Jay Leno or Conan O. You guys are too caught up with your own race issues. Don't blame the show...check the facts. Same as always people looking for something to blame. GO D.L. I hope your ratings go up but who know's Bill O'reilly will bring it down.

He seems to have hate for latinos en white people, he seems to want to get only black people, yes I think he is prejudice, us white people cannot be predujice but this guy can, is not right, by the way iam white latino american

I am very pleased to see Mr. Hughley leave CNN. I have been a long-time viewer of the network and was summarily baffled by his selection. I figured it had something to do with the recent banter about the overwhelming lack of Black faces present on primetime news networks. I think Tony Harris, Don Lemon, Dan Lothian, Fredricka Whitfield and the like are wonderful members of the CNN team. They are well-spoken, highly intelligent and do not participate in hurtful or disrespectful banter, especially as directed to their own people.

If CNN had to pick a Black Comedian to host a show, I think D.L. Hughley was a poor choice. His disparaging comments regarding the young ladies of the Rutgers Basketball team amidst the Don Imus scandal alone should have disqualified him from the mainstream media (Google or Youtube: D.L. Hughley, Jay Leno, Rutgers). I, for one, am glad to see that CNN came to their senses and I think the caliber of talent on that network does not equate to that of Mr. Hughley. Yes, he is a comedian, but unlike Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Chris Rock or Bill Maher, he is apparently unable to participate in truly healthy and intelligent discourse as a comedian.