It’s Black History Month, tune in later

Lifetime Movie Network is showing "Sins of the Mother" – with Jill Scott – tonight at 8PM.  But they've been promoting the hell out of the movie all month on all Lifetime channels.  I love miss Jilly and I'm gonna watch, probably.  But why do I have to wait until February 21 to see a Black person on Lifetime?

Since "The Golden Girls" went to Hallmark I've stopped watching Lifetime.  I'm not a fan of bad interpretations of Nora Roberts novels (the books are always better) and badly-acted TV movies starring C-level actors. I'd rather watch…almost anything, but my cousin Lisa is a big LMN fan so I'm forced to endure hours of betrayal, introspection and sometimes murder at the hands of the blandest, Whitest women on TV.  Nary a person of color.  That is, until this week.  Instead of sprinklng in a few Brown faces all year, Lifetime is blowing their wad promoting "Sins of the Mother".  So in the middle of your "white women victim" movie or a "Will and Grace" rerun comes a promo featuring Black folks in church and the ubiquitous soulful music overlay.  And don't forget "Lifetime celebrates Black History Month" moments with Jill Scott and Wendy Davis, the other Black woman starring in an original Lifetime production. 

Lifetime Networks is saying, "yeah, we LOVE Black people, and we've employed a bunch of them, but you'll have to wait 'til tonight to actually watch 'em."  A celebration, indeed.