Humanity 100 Zamboree & Zoom Discuss MTV's MLK Day programming

ZAMBOREE

Zoom, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day MTV eliminated color from their programming. The network aired black and white for 12 hours.

ZOOM

If it's in black and white how did they eliminate color?

ZAMBOREE

It's a symbolic gesture to coincide with Dr. King's conviction of judging character content and not skin color.

ZOOM

You mean race.

ZAMBOREE

No, skin color.

ZOOM

Did you know according to additive color theory black is the absence of color and the sum of all colors of light add up to white?

ZAMBOREE

  So whites are actually colored?

ZOOM

According to the theory.

ZAMBOREE

Is that's what meant by reverse racism?

ZOOM

I'm not sure, maybe multiculturalism, but what did MTV air during the black and white hours?

ZAMBOREE

A campaign called The Talk, MTV engaged viewers in "color brave discussions, and the channel featured "personal reflections on race" from celebrities. 

ZOOM

Color brave discussions?  Isn't MTV the same network that banned Public Enemy's video By the Time I Get to Arizona, a song protesting the state of Arizona's refusal to recognize King Day as a national holiday?

ZAMBOREE

I think so.

ZOOM

What does the M in MTV stand for again?

ZAMBOREE

Music.  What did you think it stood for?

ZOOM

Meaningless.