Black History Month and BET, What do you think? Options

[MissFits]

So. Adrienne Curry (America's Next Top Model) posted a blog HERE and a rebuttal to said blog HERE .

What's your opinion on Black History Month and BET. Are they racist?

[LOWinSKANK]

if there was WET, it would be called racist.

but BET is just fiine, right?

i don't see any logic in that.

[brooklyneast05]

if there was WET, it would be called racist.
but BET is just fiine, right?
i don't see any logic in that.

then answer my post above
what are they going to show on WET?

[NoSex]

what are they going to show on WET?

Yuppies moving into town.

But, seriously, popular modern "black culture" has served to really hurt the African American population in my opinion. Have you ever watched BET? Have you ever listened to the radio? In the same way that rock music has been designed to make little white kids think being sad is cool, mainstream rap has been built to ensure little black kids that spinners, bitches, forties, and broken English are cool. It's embarrassing really.

[Kill a rock star]

P.S. Watch This Video. That This Aired On BET Is Certain Irony.

Oh, am I getting a bit off topic? Yeah.

[brooklyneast05]

Yuppies moving into town.
But, seriously, popular modern "black culture" has served to really hurt the African American population in my opinion. Have you ever watched BET? Have you ever listened to the radio? In the same way that rock music has been designed to make little white kids think being sad is cool, mainstream rap has been built to ensure little black kids that spinners, bitches, forties, and broken English are cool. It's embarrassing really.

i'd agree, in my personal opinion BET is a failure anyway. it typically displays only one type of people. i watch some shows on there some but not that many because i don't really relate the black people they usually show, and i'm not a fan of the main stream rap they play.

but i don't think BET is "racist"
it's there for a target audience just like every other channel out there
it's all about the name i guess, if it was called anything else then i don't think people would be concerned with it being racist


black history month
we spend the majority time in history learning about what white people did...
it's the same thing to me, WET and white history month, what's going to be different on that channel or that month? nothing, we already have those channels and we already study about white history constantly.
so u can say
OMG IF WE DID THAT U WOULD CALL US RACIST!!!!!
yea maybe so, but who cares because that's never going to happen because there isn't a need for either of those, they already exist, they just don't have the word white pinned to them
i think ur opinion on if we need black history month comes from ur personal experience, if in ur history classes u went in depth about black people in history then yea black history month seems pointless. but for me, black history month is the only time we really did that.

[NoSex]

i'd agree, in my personal opinion BET is a failure anyway. it typically displays only one type of people. i watch some shows on there some but not that many because i don't really relate the black people they usually show, and i'm not a fan of the main stream rap they play.

Word.

but i don't think BET is "racist"
it's there for a target audience just like every other channel out there
it's all about the name i guess, if it was called anything else then i don't think people would be concerned with it being racist

This is my argument: BET once served a serious and meaningful purpose. In a time and place where blacks were not being given fair representation in the media, BET was a beacon for a better future. However, that future has been hijacked by sponsorship advertisement and Viacom fat cats. BET has turned into an exploitative and oppressive force. It demeans, belittles, and stereotypes the people it is intended to uplift. It's awful. The problem is that the target audience has been created as a consumer audience. BET no longer serves any meaningful purpose aside from making rich white people richer.

Man, where is William Greaves when you need him?