Volume 4: White Devil Chapter 192 Please, Let Tommy Go
Wolf Tucker, president of SBG Black Channel, does not need to ask a doctor to measure his blood pressure. He knows that his blood pressure is definitely at an extremely high level at this moment.
His wife and daughter were sitting on the sofa, watching the BTTV sitcom "How to Marry a Millionaire" on TV, and giggling from time to time.
He knew that this sitcom starring three young black girls was funny, but he just couldn't laugh along with his wife and daughter.
After Tommy left with his team, the temporary team formed for BT TV destroyed Tommy and his hard work, and produced some vulgar and rubbish programs that were full of black stereotypes and relied on racial confrontation to win the favor of the lower-class black people.
He believed that this was definitely not Tommy's idea, because the young man had discussed with him countless times until late at night about how BT TV could better show its humanistic care for the lower-class black people, and they had designed many great program ideas together.
But now, all that has changed.
Without looking up any information, Wolfe remembered the name of BT TV's 6:30 news program. Tommy and he had named it "Everyday", and positioned the host as a lively, smiling black woman to distinguish her from the serious-looking male hosts of other TV networks. She could comment on the news sharply in the studio, or appear in casual clothes on the streets of Los Angeles to conduct live interviews and interact with the audience.
Using this image to reflect the enthusiasm and optimism of black people can also make the anchor more real, more vivid, and more down-to-earth than those white anchors who make sharp comments but are stereotyped and arrogant.
This is what Tommy told him the BT news program originally looked like.
But what is it now? "Black News Today", a fat black anchor who could die at any time, full of foul language, constantly instills conspiracy theories to the black audience in front of the TV through all kinds of useless rubbish news that all black people should pay attention to, that white people are trying to persecute black people, that white people are trying to re-enslave black people, that all white people in the US government are KKK members, listen to what this bastard named Kevin Cedric said, in order to attract attention and think he is funny, he even said in front of the TV that his boss Tommy might be a hidden KKK member...
It is true that BT TV initially hoped to attract black viewers, but the problem is that one day, BT TV will expand its audience base. Now with this kind of crappy news program here, how could any white people be willing to watch BT TV?
What are those white viewers watching? Watching this black man in front of the TV and saying mysteriously, "Hey, niggers, I received a top-secret message that white people are planning to carry out a large-scale secret assassination of black people?"
Wolfe didn't know what kind of damn expression the white man would make, but what Wolfe was thinking at this moment was that if possible, he hoped that the white man would assassinate this bastard black anchor named Kevin Cedric.
The next cartoon to be broadcast was "Black Panther: Jungle Outing". Adapting this superhero comic into a cartoon was a very tacit discussion between Wolfe and Tommy. They both thought of adapting the superhero comic at the same time.
Wolfe hopes that black children will have another famous superhero with the same skin color as them, so that they can increase their racial confidence. Tommy's idea is more direct. He thinks black children should like to COS famous superheroes with the same skin color as them, instead of having to COS white heroes Superman or Spiderman with black skin and then being ridiculed by their white peers.
The comic "Mafia: Jungle Action" was selected by Wolfe himself. When it was launched in the 1970s, its sales were very poor, but its quality was far superior to other white superhero comics of the same period. The reason was that Marvel arranged three of its top editors to create it specially in order to show its support for black equal rights activities.
Sales were poor because many black children could not afford comics, and white people were dismissive of stories about black superheroes.
Although this comic has won numerous awards and has a great reputation in the circle, it ultimately did not live long and ended early. In Wolfe's view, this comic, which condensed the efforts of Marvel's three top white cartoonists, can even be read as a serious novel. The content is very profound, trying to explain the root causes of racial confrontation and telling both sides that everyone is the same human being. There is no need to hurt each other with blood and violence, and they can coexist.
Although the black superhero Black Panther is as cool as those white superheroes, he does not like to solve problems with simple violence and killing like white people. When Marvel designed the Black Panther in this comic, it referred to the images of many black social activists led by Martin Luther King, giving the gangster's conversation more depth.
Wolfe once joked to Tommy that if the series was adapted into a cartoon, it would definitely be eligible to compete for the Emmy Award for Best Cartoon Series that year.
As a result, he had just watched the first episode of the premiere. This visual novel, which was his favorite and had depth, was successfully adapted into a piece of shit by BT TV. After watching the first episode, Wolf knew that this cartoon had lost its depth and instead designed the plot points that were only briefly mentioned in the comics.
To sum up the shitty plot of the adaptation in one sentence, it's the story of the black people of Wakanda fighting against the white Ku Klux Klan under the leadership of Black Panther.
The core of the story has been reversed from the anti-war emphasis in the original comics to Black Panther telling his black citizens: If white people cannot coexist with black people, then let the white people get out of our country. If they dare to refuse, then we should pick up our weapons and kill those white people who discriminate against us.
The lower-class black people will like this Black Panther, and white people will also like this Black Panther who is liked by the lower-class black people, but this Black Panther is definitely no longer a superhero for black people.
Also, Tommy had discussed with him seriously that they wanted to produce a reality show that would focus on black women and be full of humanistic care, with the main focus on helping those women who have experienced family or emotional crises and are unable to recover, so that they can regain their confidence in life. They temporarily named the show "The Lamplighter".
Of course, BT TV has now produced a program that is full of humanistic care for black women, and it really helps them regain their confidence in life.
But Wolfe always felt that it deviated too much from what he had originally envisioned.
Because this show, which was supposed to be called "The Lamplighter", is now called "Searching for Daddy America"...
"Looking for Daddy America", when this name appeared on the TV screen, Wolfe felt the urge to pick up a gun and massacre the BT TV station headquarters!
Is this what a human being would do? They present the tragedy of torn-up black families and black children losing their fathers as a joke to the audience, and even make the parties involved regard this humiliation as a good luck reward, and at the end they are given an interest-free loan, under the euphemism of humanistic care.
Fuck your humanity.
"Nigger Boss" is a very exciting crime drama, the rise of a black gangster, which can be called the black version of the Godfather. Wolf Tucker did not need to wait for the ratings statistics company to release data, he knew that this drama would definitely be loved by a large number of black people, but at what cost?
When black viewers watch this series and put themselves in the shoes of the black protagonist, they will find it very satisfying. Those white bastards are severely punished by the blacks. But in fact, when analyzing the black protagonist's methods of behavior, they are vicious and cruel, with no bottom line, breaking their promises to white people, and using any means to achieve their goals...
Even now, the sitcom "How to Marry a Millionaire" looks light-hearted and humorous, and it invited Lisa Burnett, a young black actress from "The Cosby Show", to play the leading role, but in Wolfe's view, it is actually helping white people solidify the stereotype of black people. Three low-class black girls are vain and materialistic. Their biggest dream is to find a rich man to marry each other, and then live a life of worry-free food and clothing, and lazy and gluttonous. The story always revolves around how the three of them always fail to catch rich men to create laughs. Is it funny? Of course it is funny, if black people don't think.
"I should have stayed at BT and stayed with Tommy. These bastards who only care about advertising fees and ratings don't deserve to have a boss like Tommy." When Wolfe saw that the heroine borrowed money from the bank to change into sexy and fashionable clothes and used sexiness to seduce the audience, he couldn't bear it anymore. He got up from the sofa in the living room, took out a beer from the refrigerator, muttered in annoyance, and then took a big gulp.
He knew that after he brought his team to join SBG, the California regional television network, Tommy immediately hurriedly re-hired a group of people. Now the CEO announced by BT TV is Earl Rush, a black lawyer, and the other persons in charge are all white.
So it's not surprising that BT TV is producing this shit nowadays.
After all, lawyers are profit-driven guys, and money is of course their most important thing. For the sake of ratings, advertising fees can be ignored.
Only white people can produce such a series of rubbish programs full of stereotypes about black people.
In any case, Wolfe felt that as Tommy's friend, he should call Tommy in the near future, sit down and have a serious talk, and let Tommy know that these guys who replaced him ruined Tommy's original intention of creating BT TV station. These rubbish programs may attract many black people, but they are of no help in changing the current situation of black people.
As for Tommy's desire to make money from TV advertising fees? Wolfe had never thought of Tommy in this way. If Tommy wanted to make money, he would make more money in the software industry than starting a TV station. There was no need to grab . Before he met Tommy, he had already seen Tommy's wealth.
At that time, he had not yet joined BT. His former employer's financial interview program happened to do an interview with the new rich in California's computer industry. Wolfe remembered it very clearly. There were three yellow-skinned Asian young people sitting on the stage. Each of them was no more than 25 years old. They started their own business in college and owned a technology company called Wyse Technology, which was founded in 1981 and is located in San Jose, California. It mainly sells data analysis software and terminals to financial institutions.
When the three people were interviewed, the company had just completed its IPO. At that time, with strong sales data and products spread across financial cities such as Wall Street, London, and Tokyo, the company's market value once approached US$400 million.
Three young men under the age of 25, with a company with a market value of nearly 400 million US dollars. When the host asked them how it felt to achieve financial freedom after their company went public, the three answered that it felt like they were robbed of a lot of money by some asshole investors, but they had no way to call the police and could only keep it in their hearts.
The "bastard investors" mentioned by the three people are referring to the EFF alliance headed by Tommy Hawke and Jason White.
In the words of the three newly rich, if it weren't for their Asian identity, they would have dared to be interviewed seriously on TV with such a small fortune. If it was reported back to Silicon Valley or Stanford University, they would only be laughed at. How could a person with a fortune of at most 30 or 50 million dare to be called a newly rich in the computer industry in California? This achievement would not even be ranked in the top ten of the year in EFF or Stanford. Moreover, no matter how the ranking is done, Jason White or Tommy Hawke will always be ranked first, because the companies in the eight places behind them must have shares held by these two guys.
And no one dared to refuse them. It's not that no company has tried to refuse, but they basically ended up splitting up or closing down. In short, in the eyes of Tommy Hawke or Jason White, small companies in Silicon Valley are like gorgeous girls. If he likes you and you still want to continue working in this industry, then you have to go to bed with EFF, and after that EFF will give you an investment.
Of course, EFF will help you develop company strategies, but at the same time, it will gradually increase its influence in the company and constantly look for suitable opportunities to push the company to go public. It seems that the joining of EFF can make the company develop faster, but for the founder, basically this company is no longer his own child, and he is at most just a surrogate mother.
Such sharp comments on the industry made Wolfe feel that the program would have good ratings for the time being. Unfortunately, before the show was aired, the TV station was visited by a team of lawyers representing the EFF, with a hush money in one hand and a lawyer's letter in the other.
Then, the show was temporarily replaced with an interview with EFF founder Jason White, who told the host the great story of how he sacrificed himself for entrepreneurship, turning a serious financial interview into a client interview of "Pimp" magazine.
According to Jason, the three Asian founders of the company were arranged to go to Japan to explore the more promising Asian market. If they did not want to go to Asia, they could also choose the African market.
That was the first time Wolfe heard Tommy's name. When he actually met him, he found that Tommy was more sincere than the rumors said. He confessed to him that he was rich now and no longer needed to rush around every day to make money, so he wanted to do something that could enhance his own value, such as promoting racial equality, or opening a TV station that truly met the needs of black audiences.
When a person has money, he will start to consider the issue of values. Tommy's words made Wolfe feel that it was very logical. Moreover, Tommy took out real money and delegated power to him, not interfering with any of his decisions.
In this way, he accompanied Tommy to conceive the style of the TV station and design programs. In the end, because Tommy was entangled in studies and other businesses, the work of BT TV station always progressed slowly, and Wolfe needed to be responsible for the team. In the TV industry, if you do nothing but simply collect salaries, the team can easily degenerate into laziness quickly. So in order to maintain the industry competitiveness and influence of his team, Wolfe made the difficult decision to resign, and then joined SBG to start working.
And now, the BT TV station, which he had poured countless efforts into in the early days, has finally started broadcasting, and he is invited to watch the fucking show "Searching for Daddy America".
"Baby, I think you should go back to your room and sleep now. It's getting late." His wife suddenly spoke in the living room to remind her daughter to go back to her room and sleep.
This voice interrupted Wolfe's thoughts. He came back to his senses and walked back to the living room: "Don't be so harsh, dear. It's okay to let the child sleep late once in a while... Baby! Go back to your room right now! What the hell is that?"
On the TV screen, a host was introducing something: Welcome to watch BT TV's late-night family reality show, "Wife Swap Game", where two black families will welcome...
The daughter stood up and walked towards her bedroom holding the stuffed doll. As she walked, she said, "'Wife Swapping Game', Dad, what is that game? It said on TV that black families can participate, so should our family sign up?"
Wolfe's wife also turned her head and stared at him. Wolfe tried hard to control the throbbing veins on his forehead and the ferocious facial expression. His voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth:
"Honey, if our family signs up for this game, I think the consequence is that you and your mother may soon be participating in a show called "Looking for Daddy America."
After his daughter returned to the bedroom with a puzzled look on her face, Wolfe looked at the screen and said, "It takes a shameless black lawyer and a white program director to design such a crazy reality show."
"Although the scale is a bit large, it is indeed refreshing. The name is more like a gimmick. After listening to the introduction, it feels like it is actually about two women who envy each other exchanging living environments, experiencing troubles in each other's lives that outsiders would not understand, and trying to find solutions." Wolf's wife sat on the sofa, staring at the screen, introducing to her husband.
Wolfe nodded slightly: "Really?"
"My God, that woman's new husband looks so strong. It's hard for something to happen if you sleep in the same bed with a man like him at night..." The wife suddenly said happily when she saw the female guest's new family member appear.
Hearing the words coming out of his wife's mouth, Wolfe immediately changed the channel, and then grabbed his hair hard: "You have received higher education, dear."
"But it doesn't stop me from watching this kind of show with gusto. No one says that women who have graduated from college can't like watching this kind of reality show. But I won't watch the shows you produce." The wife put a piece of potato chips in her mouth and said the most threatening words to her husband with a smile:
"Besides, if you don't satisfy me tonight, I will consider signing up for this program."
"I'll go see Tommy tomorrow." After hearing what his wife said, Wolfe said with a wooden face, then stood up and walked towards the bathroom.
The wife asked in a deliberately confused voice on the sofa: "Say hello to Tommy for me. Also, are you going to see him in the hope that he can let me participate in the program through the green channel and skip the registration process?"
Wolfe's wife had met Tommy many times before when he worked for BT and was familiar with him.
"This is not funny, honey." Wolfe stood at the bathroom door, turned his head and looked at his wife seriously.
"If you don't come back to my bed tonight, I'll let you know how funny things will be." The wife said, winking at him.
Wolfe took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and lowered his head: "I always have to take a shower before I can wait for you in bed."
After saying that, he walked into the bathroom, opened his mouth wide, looked ferocious, but did not make any sound. After venting his emotions, he took a shower, and then looked at himself in the mirror: "Earl Rush, you are a damn one-eyed Charlie, "Wife Swapping Game", you are really..."
He walked out of the bathroom, cursing softly at Earl Rush, the culprit who he believed had destroyed the original intention of BT TV. Then he saw that a new program had been changed on TV. Apparently, he still had misjudged the bottom line of BT TV.
Because on the TV screen, a black host was chattering to the camera:
"This is "Almighty Gun Modification King". Our slogan is to spend the least money and use the most powerful products..."
"Does anyone really like to watch this gun modification show?" The wife complained with some dissatisfaction:
"Can't they just do a serial broadcast? What a shame, we have to wait until next week to watch the second episode of Wife Swapping Game."
Wolfe sighed, "I don't know who likes to watch it, but I know that American police officers definitely don't like this show. Tommy's original idea was so good, but now the result is so bad. I think my resignation is largely responsible. If I were still at BT, it would definitely not be what it is now."
"Want my advice?" The wife didn't like watching "Almighty Gun King" and walked towards the bathroom. As she walked, she said, "These shows are pretty good, better than your show on the SBG Black Channel, so please, let Tommy go."
