Kandi Burruss Defends "Housewives"

Singer/songwriter Kandi Burruss is defending reality TV and her show, "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." The show is popular but controversial and a lot of people feel it perpetuates negative stereotypes of Black women. Kandi said those people need to check themselves.

"Before I even joined the show everybody was talking about how it brought down the image of black people and black women," Burruss says. "But I always tell people when you come on a reality show you’re not trying to represent for a whole race, you’re just doing you. You hope people think you’re interesting and people like it. The one thing people don’t give as far as our series, The Real housewives of Atlanta; we are a majority black cast on a network that doesn’t have that many shows featuring African Americans. So for us to be the number one show on that network…..why people don’t give us any props for that, I don’t even understand."

"Yes, it does play into the stereotype of what people say black women are with the neck popping, finger rolling or whatever but I don’t feel like it’s any different than the New Jersey Housewives where it’s mostly Italian Americans on there," Kandi pointed out. "What they do on that show? It’s a lot of hot headed Italians on that show but I don’t see their communities saying “ Oh, they’re not representing us Italian Americans correctly or they’re not representing white women correctly.”

"I feel like we as black people can be very critical of our own race and I don’t even think it should be a thing of 'How are they representing us?'," she continued. "Guess what? If you had a camera on you for six months and they taped as much as they wanted to tape and edited it down, I’m sure they’re going to have some moments where you’re showing out too.: