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To the non-blacks on here...do you watch BET?
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: R-Tistic on April 05, 2006, 08:49:29 AM ---I am just curious if a lot of people who aren't black watch BET. In High School, most of the white people seemed to think it was racist and they were like "Would you be mad if they started White Entertainment TV?" and I was like no, but I'd laugh because it would be called WET. But I have heard a few white guys since I have been in college say that they saw this n that on BET, and I had no idea that they watched it.
If you do or don't, how do you feel about it? Personally, most adults and many blacks in their 20s seem to think it is very stereotypical, and many of us are ashamed to watch some of the shows and videos they watch. We are also mad that they cancelled all the positive shows that they used to have back in the 90s and early 2000's.
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I'm white, I used to watch BET as much as anything. That has changed. For the last couple years I haven't even had a TV up in my apartment. Islam has taught me that this life is too short to waste time watching other peoples lives.
Anyway, I grew up on BET in jr. high and highschool I always watched rap city. You know how we get nostalgic about the old school, back then it seemed it was more about the music then about the bling or the booty shaking. Infact, there's too much ass in the video's today to really even concentrate on the music, the music actually ends up becoming an afterthought.
I also used to watch BET Tonight when Tavis Smiley was hosting it and it educated me to alot of things I may not have paid attention to at the time. I'd say it broadened my perspective when I was younger.
None of that matters now though, Robert Johnson sold the company out a few years ago. The company isn't even owned by black people, Robert Johnson sold it to whites. He's a trader to his race. Now you see one the results of his desicion has been the daily degradation of black women on BET. All it is now is a soft porn network.
BET is BLACK EXPLOITATION TELEVISION.
Teddy Roosevelt:
--- Quote from: R-Tistic on April 05, 2006, 08:33:57 PM ---So yeah...along with those shows, the regular video shows they had such as Carribean Rhythms and Video Soul just had a much more mature and positive vibe to them than most of what they show now. College Hill basically tries to cancel out everything that was achieved on shows like Teen Summit.
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Don't even get me started with College Hill. >:( To any white people on this forum: That's got to be the stupidest and most demeaning portrayal of Black people I've ever seen on BET.
Teddy Roosevelt:
--- Quote from: Islamic Khalifah Sultan Abdul Hamid- 1908- on April 05, 2006, 09:59:23 PM ---None of that matters now though, Robert Johnson sold the company out a few years ago. The company isn't even owned by black people, Robert Johnson sold it to whites. He's a trader to his race.
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How is he a traitor? He sold his company, it's not like you don't see people do that every week. Whoever he sold it to (those fags at Viacom) should be the ones that recieve the blame.
big mat:
My friend has bet and we use to watch the pastor that speak about boxing with god and shit and we were laughing at this shit even though my friend is half black. But i haven't watch it in a while and de description you are making of it dont make me want to pay for that chanel.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Dat Nigga Ted aka The 10th Nazgûl on April 05, 2006, 10:49:36 PM ---
How is he a traitor? He sold his company, it's not like you don't see people do that every week. Whoever he sold it to (those fags at Viacom) should be the ones that recieve the blame.
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Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds? Calling it Black Entertainment Television and it's owned by whites? Black people don't own their own television station, and they don't even own the gas station at the corner of all black nieghborhoods.
With all the problems facing black people, they had an oppurtunity to use media to their advantage. They had their own television station in which they could have aired programming that would have been beneficial to their people. They could have used it as a forum for uplifting the mentality of their people and advertising the more virtuous attributes of their community. Now, you see it's only being used as a soft porn network; they are pimpin their black women.
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