how is Black Entertainment Television BET not racist?

That's okay. At least my brain is not fried from watching "Baby Boy" and Tyler Perry's Greatest Drag Hits on BET all day. I can take your criticism just fine because I stand by my words always. Now, if you enjoy BET, there is no need to get mad. More power to you...

Yeah...about IQ's showing and all that

For all those who want to talk about BET and such, they actually had programs such as Teen Summit and other things that were good for the community, but then they were sold and it became a travesty of a channel.

I've seen some amazingly racist posters here and one thing I notice is that they don't actually do much but complain. They don't make points, they don't make you think. They just say blanket statements and don't even try to explain them.

I wonder what goes through some of these people's minds...

Relevant.

"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.

For those who lack common sense and rationale

BET was created to support black music because other programs did not promote their music MTV was just one channel that did not promote black music

Heres a quote

To say it took some prodding to get MTV to play “Billie Jean,” the second track from Michael Jackson’s 1982 album Thriller, would be an understatement, according to some reports. Released Jan. 2, 1983, the single would go on to top the Billboard 100 chart for seven weeks, but CBS Records Group President Walter Yetnikoff had to threaten to remove all other CBS videos from MTV before the network agreed to air the video for “Billie Jean,” reported Rolling Stone.

And yes its not racist because it is owned by whites and is no longer entertaining for blacks!

I asked this at my work too. They said I could join a club or group there, the American Indian group or some otherchoices, none were white. I asked why I cant join the Im white group and why they dont have it. THey all just sat there like in shock that someone would even mention such a thing. I told them I would pass on joining anything till they could come up with something that was more like me.

1st empty life for anyone who wastes their time caring and being outrage about this. Loser.

As far as why it isn't considered racist. Blacks are ten percent of the country, every other channel is geared towards whites, so that's why nobody cares except for those few that I considered losers.

Now if there was a white et then no it would not be considered racist unless they showed racist content since those are things that would be considered racist.

But if some media people wants to show black people dancing around, then who the hell is going to care but some loser that probably recentest that they're not getting attention.

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.

That's fair, but let's deal with what it is now, shall we? Do you really think TODAY's BET is some positive shit for black people? If BET was really concerned with black people they would take those ignorant ass movies off, refuse to play that shit ever, and make if more of a vehicle to inform and promote knowledge.

so has anyone listen to the videos I posted???

they will explain a lot...

I consider myself a liberal, OP, and i wouldnt call BET racist in the core, but in the end it is just as ignorant as how many white conservatives in the USA react on black people.

Hiding behind your skin colour as something that unites you with other people, has never worked for me, wether it comes from white or black people (what about the mixed ones?...)

I can understand the sentiment behind BET, but at the same time it results in something very fake. It might have worked in the 1950's or '60's, when racial issues were very polarized, but nowadays i think its an attrocity, reverse racism by black people IMO.

There is no such thing as reverse racism number one. 2. BET has been around for years. Would it make you all feel better if the name was changed? If you understand the sentiment behind it when it was created, what is your issue with it now?

Do you mean BET should change its name now to make people feel more comfortable? Why? Is this another way for people to try and pretend that racism does not exist? Well you just said in your post it does. I very seriously doubt a station named BET is making it any worse.

Supply and demand, the system is racist so the demographics are isolated, business is business - unfortunately.

Also results in shit like Dancing With the Stars, which one could claim implies racism, also pandering superficial idealism.

A bunch of spoiled sensationalist children in a candy store desperate for advertising money, are you surprised?

BOONDOCKS


FOR THE WIN



White guy who loves boondocks and wishes every person on the planet had to watch and could absorb the deeper messages.

The boondocks episode I posted was banned from appearing on TV in the US. Why? Because BET ...

Because they own by Zionist that use the channel to divide the races and own most of the media. Its still own by Viacom.

Last Edited by loosegoose on 10/04/2012 04:58 PM

Uh, this guy soundly beat you about the face and neck.. he got you.. bullseye.. hit the nail on the head.. sorry, I'm running out of ways to say "you got served," better? You're back-stepping. You said BET was created because predomininantly MTV wouldn't air black artists.. he refuted.. he won. What's the problem with a culture who wasn't about smacking bitches and knocking up ho's being apprehensive about airing that kind of shit? We can't have our culture, because you don't fucking agree with it. You don't want a "dictionary" or "social responsibility" or "morals and values." Look it up, BET would've been relevant in the 50's and 60's, the fact of the matter is it's not relevant now. (jesus christ, leave out the fact that these networks are owned by whites, even though some aren't.. the fact is that I'm not seeing any of that FUCKING MONEY, so how the fuck are ALL white people responsible for a few elitists running things?) It's like a black man going to China and asking "Well what the fuck, every other month of the year is Chinese history" or "every other channel is filled with Chinese people" LMFAO YOU MORONS. What, this isn't our country? Whether you like it or not, was this country not founded by a bunch of old white guys? Like it or not, are there still more dirty evil white people (who have no idea they are either dirty or evil, they just work, raise there families, and feel bad about minorities) than black people, so common sense would dictate MORE WHITE SHIT (dumbing it down for the retards). Jesus christ, your stupidity knows no bounds, and your ignorance and hatred know no bounds as well.. you and people like you make me sick.
And one last point, like it or not, there are MANY black people who are ashamed primarily of other black people, you know, the ones that perpetuate the "Anyone else's fault but mine" ideal. You and everyone like you should die now, so we can move forward as a society.

When you say the system is racist, do you mean there are more whites than black? lmao I refer you to my post about China. You make me sick.. perpetuate away brother.. damn.. what a racist world we live in.. black skin on every commercial trying to sell us shit.. black skin in the heads of almost every law enforcement agency in non-redneck states... black skin in the supreme court of justice.. I mean.. the list of atrocities just goes on an on.
Hey.. where's all the middle-eastern cops.. chinese cops.. spanish cops.. wake up pal, you're living a lie, just so you can get by.
hey look, I rapped :)

Don't forget black colleges, black fraternities, congressional black caucus, etc etc.

Here in Charlotte, city council voted against a budget that would extend the light rail line to JC Smith Univeristy (predominately black). Never mind the fact that it's in a rough part of town and bringing a rail line would not benefit the fiscally-stretched city at all; there were immediately cries of racism, "the white man wants to keep us isolated" bullshit.

We built a black-only area, isolating ourselves, and now we're pissed that you won't spend millions to integrate us.

BET IS RACIST

I hear you. I noted the difference long ago. I feel horrible for the decent, hard-working black PEOPLE that are lumped in with you-know-whoggers's. Just know that some of us do indeed know the difference.

Simple. They are black and can not be racist. Only all white people are racist. Why can't you figure that out?

Is WET racist? White Entertainment Television.

When I watch BET I have to turn on the subtitles to see what they are saying...

Only white people can be racist