Television is a medium invented to broadcast visuals purportedly telling the human story, when in fact it has always told the story of white people and their cultural activities. Whether by news bulletin, dramas or entertainment programmes, it reinforces ideologies which keep white people in control of the top of the hierarchy while black people remain confined to the bottom.Black producers in the field of television enter an inherited space dogged by imperialistic dogma. They could either be simple additions to advance preset notions of the way of life, or they could intentionally enter the fray to transform the narrative of how black people's lives are told.Only a few among us will disagree that reality television has become a major cultural activity of the 21 century. However phenomenal reality television has become, it does nothing to challenge social constructs that place certain races at the bottom while other races enjoy the view from their position at the top.Our Perfect Wedding is a television programme aired on Mzansi Magic, produced by Connect TV with several black producers. Given the patronising representation by the show of the black working class, it wouldn't be incorrect to say that the producers have created that show for entertainment purposes and the sole objective of making a profit.Stuart Hall writes, "Cultural symbol is something given in part by the social field into which it is incorporated, the practices with which it articulates and is made to resonate."With this definition in mind, I would like us to examine the effects our contribution of turning Our Perfect Wedding into a success will have on interpreting the dignity of black people.The success of the programme brings with it certain trends which can be best described as cultural practices. The practices entail watching the show on pay TV in social groups and joining in "the big laugh off" on pay per click social media platforms.This means the show is created to entertain viewers who can afford pay TV and internet data and that targeted audience is the black middle class.When the black middle class participates in the buffoonery surrounding the programme they are motivated by the need to show off what they have. Humiliating pictures are taken on big screen television sets, in opulently furnished TV viewing areas with high-pixel camera phones.In just one click the black middle class shows its materialistic superiority while denigrating other black people.All black people alive today automatically serve as symbols of blackness, regardless of the complex distractions of communal, political, religious, educational and economical backgrounds. For history books always bunch up the black experience in the end.Every Sunday night the black middle classes remove themselves from resonating with the conditions of other black people by laughing at them for entertainment's sake.This Heritage weekend, their children will inherit a different meaning of what it means to be a black person and how to treat other black people of lower class.They will learn that laughing at other black people if they are of lower social status is entertainment - instead of the black middle class using their purchasing power constructively by forcing connect TV producers to stop enriching themselves by creating hilarity about black people's deprived condition.Instead of using their education to interpret the broadcasting code of conduct and then forcing MultiChoice to adhere to their demands, they laugh along.While the new trend of the "The big laugh off" becomes a norm, Mzansi Magic is recording its history by archiving its most successful shows. Later they will go back to those archives to retrieve shows to celebrate anniversaries.Each time they pull Our Perfect Wedding from the shelves, they will pull out certain cultural practices that were created by the success of the show, which created the cultural practice of "the big laugh off".After all we shouldn't be taking ourselves seriously; isn't that so? Yet we never find anything amusing when history books laugh at black people's diminished selves...