Melissa Haris Perry's INTENTIONS may be good. Her delivery is like nails scraping down a blackboard.

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142. I think it's GREAT so many white DUers dislike MHP. This shows she's doing her job--

Unlike Fox "News", which has way less than 2 percent Black viewership, MSNBC's audience is more than 20 percent African-American, and climbing.

IMO, MHP's and Al Sharpton's shows appeal disproportionately to this segment of MSNBC's audience, although they draw hundreds of thousands of truly progressive Caucasians too.

MHP's and Sharpton's shows are quite different from the rest of MSNBC's lineup. They draw disproportionately on Black journalists, and especially feature lengthy discussions with journalists from NBC's Black arm, TheGriot.

IMO, unlike most of the posters in this GD thread, the vast majority of MHP's intended audience LOVES her cornrows and her outspoken intellectual Black feminist slant on the news, even though they may be disconcerting to many other MSNBC viewers.

IMO this GD thread demonstrates that many white DUers notice the difference between MHP and the rest of the MSNBC lineup and feel disturbed by it. They don't see themselves reflected in MHP and most of her guests.

IMO this explains why so many more have posted here against MHP than ever posted against Pat Buchanan. MHP has been put on MSNBC for the same reason Pay Buchanan was put out to pasture, and IMO MHP is doing an EXCELLENT job.

If you don't like her show, maybe it's because MHP and Sharpton are not meant for you, unlike the other 95 percent of of MSNBC's programming.