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- we didn t know tamar. we didn t know towanda and traci. you got to see a slice of beyond toni singing in her breathy voice. i ll never breathe again. i see why you won t breathe again, toni, all of this drama going on. - don t just try to pinpoint and say it was just you being horrible in a group, tamar, every group you ve been in failed. - in 2006, andy cohen and the folks at bravo started real housewives of orange county , which was featuring very rich women who are all white. - networks like bet and bravo, led the way with black unscripted television. both of those networks realized very early on that the key to reality television was black women, - and really opened a door for the ultimate unscripted franchise. - the real housewives of atlanta was the first time that we got to see affluent black women living their lives, behind gates, and shopping, and just being super fabulous. - fabulous. gone with the wind , fabulous. ....
- so in the mid 2000 s, you had docu-series, you had relationship dating shows, but there was really an absence of representation of the black family. and then, the self-proclaimed king of r&b came and changed all of that, in a way a lot of us didn t see coming. - yeah. (whitney singing) - that show was so successful about the life of bobby and whitney. it got so many ratings. it just launched bravo network. - whitney, you aint gonna do (beep). what are you gonna do, put your hand on me? - at that time, whitney was still one of the biggest stars in the world, and we got this peek into the insane life they were living. - [whitney] no. - [bobby] sure. you can take a picture of me. - [rickey] bobby brown seemed to love the limelight. - i say, no. he says, yes. - whitney houston kind of ran from it. every episode of being bobby brown was crazy. (techno music) - it was followed soon after by braxton family values . - we didn t know tamar. we didn t know towanda and traci. ....
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