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Message Subject how is Black Entertainment Television BET not racist?
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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that is because even during the 80's WHITES would not allow black videos on MTV until Michael Jackson's Thriller DUMBASSES
 Quoting: truthseeker101 14677524


Not allow? You retard there was no BET in the 80's.

And what does that have to with BET anyway? Two wrongs don't make a right, unless your black of course.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1110904


Wow you are a fucking idiot!!

MTV and other channels would NOT show black videos. Part of the reason BET was created was to be able to put black artist on tv because other people would not. The reason the channel had to be made is a lot more racist than the fucking channel (which is not racist because they have always ALSO had white artist on it too).
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12498390
"Black Entertainment Television (BET, part of BET Networks) is an American, Viacom-owned cable network based in Atlanta, Georgia. Currently viewed in more than 90 million homes worldwide, it is the most prominent television network targeting young African American audiences. The network was launched on January 25, 1980"

"MTV, an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981."




How is it that BET was created because MTV wouldn't show Black videos, when BET was launched in early 1980 and MTV was launched in mid-1981. Did they have a time machine?


It's also weird, 'cause I loved MTV when I was a kid and MTV is THE thing that introduced me to:

Michael Jackson
Prince
Cameo
The Mary Jane Girls
Run DMC
Billy Ocean
Chaka Khan
Lionel Richie
Whitney Houston

countless others


MTV went on exposing me to Seal, Public Enemy, Boys 2 Men, Bell, Biv, Devoe, C+C Music Factory, Snap!, Living Colour, Sir Mixalot....thousands of songs by Black artists...




Yeah, that's rough, how those racist MTV execs wouldn't ever play music made by Black people.


I've never understood this complaint about "not enough minorities on TV".
What percentage of White people, in your town, get to be local news anchors?
What percentage of White people get to be famous movie or television stars?

It's an insanely tiny percentage of the whole.

Now, what percent of the citizens are minorities?

Well, by definition, they're a smaller percentage of the whole.

So it makes all the sense in the world that, only a tiny percentage of the people will make it to TV/film, so, in the microcosm...the minorities represented there will still be a smaller percentage OF the tiny percentage that made it to TV/film.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1526634


You tried hard and I appreciate it.

You hung way too long on the MTV thing. The point I was trying to make about that had nothing to do with the release dates. MTV didn't even want to play black music until they were basically FORCED to play Michael Jackson. You are right, MTV did come out after..which should actually show you that what I said is true. BET was created because other stations refused to show black artist and entertainers. Even after BET was created there were networks that still refused (MTV).

There is pretty big difference between having some black people's material shown...and refusing to show any. That was the problem. Nobody even asked for there to be an even amount of each race on tv...that would be a ridiculous request anyway. But when someone says I refuse to show any black material on my channel, that becomes a problem.

Keep in mind that anything that white people have complained about being exclusively black never are (outside of certain scholarships, grants, etc.)Your so called black colleges allowed white students. Your so called black channels, have white people on all the time. White people were never excluded from these things. That is not the same from channels, schools, jobs, etc that white people actually, purposely excluded blacks from.
 
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