Tavern, Warwick City, Rhode Island, Mount Hope neighborhood.

The TV screen that had been hanging above the bar for years had now become a hole, through which the remains of the electronic components could be clearly seen crackling and sparkling from time to time.

The culprit, Wilson, the best employee of Hawker Shipbreaking Yard for many years, threw the shotgun to Keith, the bartender and bar owner, after a shot exploded the TV screen, and then stood in the middle of the bar, looked around at the drinkers who were all looking at him at the moment with a clear, stupid and fearless gaze, opened his hands in confusion, and asked everyone, "What's wrong?" ”

"Well done! Wilson! ”

"Help Wilson get a glass of high-end goods! I please! ”

"That's what I want to do! Smash that guy's head! ”

In the bar, a group of white rough men clapped their hands after an initial stunned start.

"I'll send you a new TV, Keith, I swear, and I promise it's going to be more advanced and bigger than your second-hand machine that was shot dead by an angry Wilson." Colin lowered his head and took out a cigarette and lit it in his mouth, glancing at Jenny, the barmaid who was bending over to clean up the scraps, and then said insincerely to Keith, who was hanging the shotgun back on the inside wall of the bar.

After Keith put away the gun, he turned around and took a bottle of whiskey from the wine cabinet, poured a glass for Colin and pushed it in front of him: "You have to be clear, Colin, compensation is not equal to a gift, it is compensation, not a gift." ”

"Of course it's a gift, everyone can see that it was Wilson who destroyed this TV set that is older than you, not me, I did it out of kindness." Colin took the wine and shook his head, insisting that he was a generous gift.

"Why is Wilson crazy because your precious son shows him a lump of poop, NiggerBoss, that's what Tommy did, are you sure he's your species? God, how can a take down a few strong white men? No kidding, let that come to my bar, it doesn't take a few, just me alone to send him to hell. Keith handed Colin the wine, didn't bother to talk to him again, and turned to get busy.

Colin sighed, drank all the whiskey, then walked over to the landline and dialed his son's phone: "Tommy? ”

"Dad, after watching the pilot episode, have everyone's emotions been mobilized?" On the other end of the phone, Tommy asked with a smile.

"Very good, forty minutes long, forty minutes, the swear words in the bar have not stopped, and finally Wilson couldn't help but pick up Keith's shotgun and smash the black man's face and TV screen when he saw the end of this episode, when the black boss took a black rogue lawyer and relied on legal loopholes to break into the white man's territory, and fought back and beat the white man in self-defense, rescued a black girl and got away with it perfectly." Colin took a cigarette in his mouth, and his tone was full of puzzlement:

"Son, you make me a enemy in the eyes of the Hope Mountain neighborhood, I told them, my son Tommy made a TV series, which is very exciting, invite them to appreciate your talent, and then, they saw that in the TV series you filmed, the seems to be exactly as smart as a human being, and he actually knows how to bring a lawyer and understand what legal loopholes...... Damn, we white people don't understand, how can niggas understand? ”

Tommy's voice was filled with a satisfied smile: "Well, as I expected, I had people try it out inside Baltimore, some of the places in Philadelphia that has a small black audience, and the reaction was the opposite of you white people, and the black audience thought the series was too exciting." ”

"Son, I'm pretty sure I watched you get carried out of your mother's belly by a white nurse, and you were born with absolutely no chance of exposure to black people, so what the hell happened to you in California?" Colin exhaled his smoke and said to Tommy, "And how can a white man be as vicious and stupid as you are in that piece of, but there are some plots that everyone is a little familiar with." ”

"I don't know about the white elite, and I don't have a voice, but I promise that the white characters in that show are all the character prototypes I provided, and Warwick City is full of such white people, Dennis, Pam, Tommy, Colin, Tony, Wilson, Maureen, Hull, ......" Tommy heard his dad ask and said proudly: "I am paying tribute to everyone in my hometown." ”

"Where did we in our hometown offend you, son, and want you to pay tribute in this way?" When Colin heard the phone call and Tommy said to pay tribute to everyone with familiar details, he asked with some confusion:

"So the foolish son of the white villain goes to the gate of the city government every day to excrete, is it a tribute to Dennis? There is also an old guy who shows half of his ass, thinks he is charming, but in fact looks stupid and ugly, and he doesn't know how to seduce women, and the image comes from your dear father? Son, you have so much respect for your father. ”

Tommy heard his father's words and comforted: "Don't be like this, I love you and everyone, that's fake, it's just to fool people and make money, you can play them another episode of "Looking for Daddy America" to liven up the atmosphere, I promise, this show is black and white, and many white people think it's funnier than a talk show after watching it." ”

"I love you too, just because I love you, and the advice to you is that it's best not to go back to Warwick if there's nothing to do in the past six months, lest everyone see you unhappy and drag you to the alley and beat you, you lose the face of the Hawke family and the Hope Hill community, oh my God, you came out of the whitest neighborhood, and actually filmed a show touting, I'll try, wait for a new TV and show it to them, goodbye." Colin finished chattering, and then hung up the phone.

Seeing that the other drinkers were looking at him at this time, Colin smacked his lips in frustration, and then spoke:

"Tommy just said, I'm so sorry to let you see a piece of, he sent the wrong tape, and in order to apologize, he told me to make sure I had a round of wine for him, as a blood pressure drop compensation for the spike in blood pressure after watching that episode, and Wilson, you can enjoy two rounds."

"I thought again that Tommy couldn't have gone so far, it turned out that his worker had sent the wrong tape." Wilson heard Colin's explanation and nodded abruptly: "I should have thought of it a long time ago, your explanation dispelled the suggestion I was about to say." ”

"What advice?" Colin asked, sitting down next to each other.

Wilson poured a sip of wine into his mouth: "Let you and Tommy go to the big hospital for a paternity test, I just now he was born with dark skin, but you have been helping Tommy paint white on his body in order to hide it." ”

……

"My dear dad must have been so disappointed in me that he hung up and said goodbye, not even saying a word to Tommy or his dear son." Tommy put down the phone, looked at Earl Rush across from him and said with a smile, "The people in that place can't accept the fact that blacks beat whites. ”

Earl Rush wore a bright blue casual suit with a gold and white shirt underneath, and instead of a tie, he wore a tiny gold chain, which made him black, but looked a little more lively and fashionable, and he did not echo Tommy's words, but picked up a stack of papers and handed it to Tommy:

"This is material about the small A-rated TV stations in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami, New York, Chicago and other cities that focus on the black community, and they also have the pilot programs that we have prepared on the TV stations, and there are a lot of viewers who call them to ask when the official version will go live, and they will like it, but the only problem is that they think the way to work together is better than the JSA co-sell agreement, not the LAM local marketing agreement that we want."

These two professional terms mentioned by Earl Rush are the second common cooperation methods used by various television networks in the United States to expand their networks, and there are some other ways of agreement, but most television stations will choose these two when they join the television network.

JSA joint sales agreement, simply understood, is that BT TV provides programs, the other party is responsible for broadcasting, and the revenue earned is divided according to the proportion finalized by negotiation, this kind of agreement is generally in the top three TV stations in the local ratings, will adhere to the cooperation method, like these A-level small TV stations in the information are now proposed to cooperate with BT TV in the form of joint sales, obviously because in their eyes, although BT TV has money to make its own programs, but it is just a rookie who has just stepped in, as an old bird, Of course, the lion opened his mouth.

LAM local marketing agreement, the same simple understanding, is that BT TV station rent, full-time or time-sharing lease the other party's entire TV station, the other party does not need to do anything, only need to follow the schedule given by BT TV station to broadcast the provided programs, as for whether to sell advertising, whether to make money, it has nothing to do with the other party, that is, the other TV station is the landlord, rent the TV station to BT TV station like a house, there are only two issues to consider, one is how much the rent, the other is the way of leasing, A time-sharing lease is a rental to BT TV for a certain period of time every day, like an hourly room, and a full-time lease is the entire 24-hour lease, which is owned by BT TV.

Generally, small TV stations that cannot make ends meet will be willing to choose this way to cooperate with TV networks, so that they don't have to do anything every year, they have a stable income, and even their employees can be streamlined by half and save expenses.

"A-grade TV? Need to work with the JSA protocol? Tommy took the information handed to him, and as he flipped through it, he burst out laughing: "Earl, how do you deal with your fellow blacks who own small, half-dead television stations?" You're not a beggar to come and beg, buddy, you're the savior who saved them from fire and water. ”

Generally speaking, due to the limited power, the coverage of this kind of TV station is only 25 to 30 kilometers, that is, it covers the audience groups of several communities.

And in big cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, this kind of small TV station is living in dire straits.

Because the broadcast spectrum is becoming more and more scarce in large cities with many TV stations, the most common problem encountered by many small TV stations is that if they cannot guarantee that their own programs can be broadcast 24 hours a day, then once they stop pushing, then when the audience opens the next day and wants to watch the program of this TV station, it is likely to find that yesterday's channel has actually become another TV station, and the TV station that watched yesterday does not know where to go.

This is because its spectrum is systematically allocated to large UHF television stations, resulting in it having to be relocated to another new public frequency for external pushing.

In big cities, to be a die-hard viewer of this kind of A-level TV station, you must be mentally prepared to turn on the TV every day and search for the TV station signal first.

In small places, because the land is vast and sparsely populated, there are not too many large TV stations, so A-level TV stations can barely survive by helping local businesses publish all kinds of strange advertisements, such as all kinds of magic drugs, farm tools, car repair shops, etc.

Earl screened several large cities with enough blacks, and the A-level TV stations run by blacks with money, the characteristic is that although the audience often can't find the channel the next day, because there are financiers behind them to eat advertising money, to ensure that they will not starve to death and close their doors, but don't want to be rich and expensive, barely making ends meet.

As for why there are financial owners willing to help, it is very simple, these A-level TV stations are basically equivalent to local black community TV stations, and a dog thrown in the community may be able to appear on TV, and there are often some activities in which black people in the community are guests on TV stations, and black people have a strong desire to perform, relying on free to let them appear on TV, they can basically attract hundreds of hardcore viewers who watch the program at a fixed time, and the purpose of the gold owners is the votes in the hands of these audiences, they are the financial owners of these TV stations, He was also a partner of a black local congressman who was able to get those viewers to support him through these community television stations.

"In addition to reaching out to the TV station, did you visit those black neighborhoods?" Tommy finished reading the information and asked Earl.

Earl took a sip of his coffee: "I visited some of them, the programs of the FOX television network have been very popular with blacks recently, and those small TV stations have been impacted, FOX is the two most popular programs in those black communities, "America's Most Wanted Criminal" and "Women in Prison", you can think of it when you hear the name, in line with the taste of my low-level compatriots, FOX relies on glorifying street gangs and prison life to attract the attention of low-level audiences, which is also the reason why the three major TV networks are very dissatisfied with FOX, it has lowered the style of the TV industry. ”

"It works well, and FOX uses these shows to attract attention and sell half-truths to the audience." Tommy pressed the remote control and turned on the TV next to him.

Inside is an economic talk show interview on FOX, the host uses a lively and interesting rhythm to invite experts to explain what Reaganomic economics is, and how the economic environment in various industries during the administration of President Reagan was relaxed.

"The bottom audience doesn't know how to distinguish the truth from the fake, they don't know at all, Reagan has left office for a year and a half since he took office, and during his years in office, the minimum hourly wage of Americans has not risen at all, and they don't know that the United States has become the world's largest debtor country during his tenure, and they don't know what the bullshit expert in front of the TV said at the moment that the means of deregulation and reform in aviation, automobile transportation, railways, communications, natural gas, banking and other industries are all the credit of President Reagan, and it is an outright lie. That's the effort made during Carter's tenure, and after the audience watches the show they want to watch, they immediately hear this kind of lie, and over time, they will subconsciously feel that Reagan, the Republican president, is not bad, and it turns out that this guy has done so many serious things. Tommy's eyes look at the screen:

"It's not pulling down the style of the TV industry, it's pulling down the historical status of the TV industry, before FOX, all TV networks were neutral, at least on the surface, so if the two parties want to explain their ideas to the people, they have to supply the three major TV networks, but FOX has stood in line since the day it was born, which is the reason why the three major TV networks are really dissatisfied with FOX, but they are helpless, because when FOX does this kind of shameless style TV program like "The Sun", They've lined up to baash it, so they can't immediately become the same outrageous as FOX, which would be the equivalent of conceding defeat on FOX and having an outsider teach them how to make a more engaging TV show. ”

"So, do you think they need a bankable, shameless up-and-comer in the American television industry to step up?" Earl asked with a smile as he looked at Tommy.

Tommy said seriously: "I can't let the country I love, the people I love, be instilled with lies by a hillbilly from Australia, the times are calling us, Earl, this is our mission." ”

"You say that to my fellow black men that they may want to believe you, that I am not within the scope of your brainwashing, Tommy." Earl made a stop gesture, motioning for Tommy to stop instilling in himself the words he usually used to fool his fellow citizens.

Tommy laughed too, and deftly turned the topic back: "You've reached out to the first round and selected your intended partner, right?" This was followed by a second round of contact. ”

"Reach out to the black billionaires behind those TV stations?" Earl nodded understandingly, "I did collect some people's information. ”

"No, Earl, why are you here?" Tommy shook his head, indicating that Earl had guessed wrong, and then asked Earl.

Earl said frankly, "Because the price you are offering is tempting enough." ”

"No, the times are calling you, you are here for the equal rights of black people, you gave up your job as a lawyer to help black individuals, you came here in the hope of helping the black community through the media, the Black Panther Party no longer exists, but there can be a more moderate black organization, maybe it can be called a gentle name like Sunshine Rainbow, don't fight for political rights, don't bother with public policy, this organization is to help black people fight for welfare and economic support, and receive equal educational opportunities." Tommy said to Earl in a serious way:

"We need to use the influence of TV stations to get the support of the bottom blacks, and then through the bottom blacks, to conquer more TV stations, complement each other."

"The three major black organizations probably won't give me much support, because this kind of slogan has been shouted by too many large and small organizations, and the black people at the bottom are close to numbing to these slogans, and they feel that they are all empty words." Earl thinks Tommy is thinking it all too simply, so he shakes his head and gives the opposite opinion.

"Self-reliance, education, voting rights, affirmative action, employment promotion......" Tommy apparently understood these slogans, and at this point a bunch of words came out of his mouth, but he suddenly stopped:

"Because the people who put forward these slogans are not blacks at the bottom, but elite blacks, why are the blacks at the bottom numb to these slogans? Because it's been shouting for decades, it's useless, and the bottom blacks don't think it's useful to study and get an education! ”

"So, you understand what the bottom black people want? A white man, knows better than me? ”

"Yes, this organization, against President Reagan's Job Welfare Initiative, all the black people at the bottom will support you." Tommy's eyes sparkled at Earl and he spoke.

Earl was looking down to light a cigarette, but when he heard Tommy's words, the cigarette in his mouth fell down, and he burned a small hole in his trousers!

He didn't even bother to check his clothes, slapped off his cigarette casually, and looked up at Tommy: "I know that all the black people at the bottom will support me, but I will lose the trust of the elite black group forever, and you are pushing me down the abyss." ”

The Work Welfare Initiative, which is a government program proposed and advocated by the Republican Party, as the name suggests, is that if you want to receive social benefits, you must contribute to society, for example, if a low-level black single mother wants to receive benefits every week, she needs to participate in a fixed number of hours of social compulsory labor every week to be eligible for it.

This initiative has been advocated not only by the Republican Party, but also by the black elite, because they do not want the bottom black to remain lazy, treacherous, blood-sucking social welfare moths, and want to reverse the stereotype of black laziness through this initiative.

Of course, the black people at the bottom don't want this government program to be promoted, think about it, how can they agree to receive relief or subsidies without having to do anything every week, but now they suddenly have to accept arrangements to do manual labor for more than ten hours a week to get those benefits and subsidies.

So if the group were to raise the banner and promote the anti-work welfare initiative among the blacks at the bottom, Earl believed that the blacks at the bottom would support him, but that would be of little use because he lost the support of the more important black elite.

The black elite group does not want the bottom black people to continue to degenerate, they help the bottom black people to fight for the right to education, looking for various employment opportunities, is to try to dilute the impact of work welfare on them as much as possible, so that they can learn to survive by labor, instead of relying on the wool of American social welfare every week to smear the black community.

"The black man came up with the idea, and the elite black people would alienate him because he was a traitor to the black community, but what if it was a good white man? What about a kind white woman? She is full of motherhood, and she doesn't want those low-level black single mothers to have to take care of five or six children while having to work more than ten hours a week to get their benefits? What do you think of her initiating this organization? But all this she has done, the reward cannot give her a white man, there must be a black man to enjoy the fruit. Tommy's sharp eyes looked at Earl Rush:

"Do you still think there's an abyss ahead?"

New World Foundation...... You're going to let me marry a black wife......" Earl Rush looked back at Tommy and spoke softly.

Tommy nodded: "Marry a single mother from the bottom, stand next to my fiancée, and wait to inherit that sweet fruit." ”

"I understand now that you're right, Mr. Hawke......" Earl Rush let out a long breath, "The times are calling me. ”

6,000 words ~ a little late ~ but finally coded out the number of words for two more ~ (End of chapter)