News broke yesterday from MTV that Randy Jackson’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” reality TV show, which pitted dance crews against one another in a contest to create and execute weekly themed dance routines, has been cancelled after seven seasons. The show launched several Asian American dance crews to popular fame, including UC Irvine’s Kaba Modern and Season 1 winners JabaWockeeZ.
It’s sad because ABDC singlehandedly proved to America at-large that Asian Americans, too, have rhythym.
So, it’s with a heavy heart that we say good-bye to ABDC and its unspoken mission statement to showcase the incredible cool of Asian American dance crew.
And, in a completely unrelated note, this morning, the number of Asian Americans on television mysteriously and precipitously plummeted.
