- 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.
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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. - what we ve been able to do in atlanta, as a community,
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