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Originally Posted by ProduccionFrescos
[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]If BET can get away with it, I don't see why anyone should complain.[/color]
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Originally Posted by ProduccionFrescos
[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]If BET can get away with it, I don't see why anyone should complain.[/color]
Originally Posted by ProduccionFrescos
[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]If BET can get away with it, I don't see why anyone should complain.[/color]
Originally Posted by mytmouse76
whether you like the rappers or not isn't the point...point is there is a market for it and BET is out to make money not "save us"
Originally Posted by AirAnt23
YO! I wouldn't be bothered by the name or slogan... but at this point, I'd be bothered by the fact that it'd be created out of spite.
When, as 360 mentioned... there are hundreds of "White Entertainment" networks.
DF!!!
couldn't have said it any better.Originally Posted by The Wizard
But keep in mind, the time and climate of when BET was created. 1979... you wasn't Michael Jackson, you got no love on any other network. The network has been important for Black music. It's obviously not the network it once was... but, honestly, none of them are.Originally Posted by AirAnt23
YO!
No, I wouldn't trip at all. I just find it comical that in 2008, a channel like BET, which kinda suggests inequality, still thrives. Yet if there were to be a launch of a channel FOR whites, there would be an outrage.
It's silly to stretch the meaning and intention of things such as a BET or a Black History Month. There are so many "privileges" that the majority is afforded simply due to being born the race that they are. To cry over a few things in which their inclusion is not mandated comes off as incredibly silly and trivial.
DF!!!
Originally Posted by aubstuh86
wheres my AET? (asian entertainment television)
There you go. BET was supposed to have a lineup that was determined by black management. The black presence in Hollywood is VERY weak. WET wouldbe redundant, probably very comical.Originally Posted by PrurientSole
Psssh, you act like those shows are on par with the quality programming that BET puts out...Originally Posted by Club29
Didnt the Hughleys and the Cosby Show and Good Times and Sanford & Son and the Jeffersons all air on so-called "white" networks?
Honestly, what do people want from these so-called "white entertainment television" stations?
They've given a show to damn near every black comedian over the past two decades who wants one: Bill Cosby, D.L. Hughley, Steve Harvey, Thea Vidale, Martin Lawrence, every Wayans brother that you can think of...
This is, of course, in addition to family shows that appealed to a black audience in general, such as Roc, Family Matters, Sister Sister, Fresh Prince, Everybody Hates Chris... I mean, %!%!, they even gave BRANDY her own show.
Yes, the majority of the programming on the major networks is "white", but, if those stations don't have enough "black" shows to suit some of your likings, it's certainly not for lack of effort.
Originally Posted by infamousod
CMT is the one that really comes to mind
and "WET" would fail horribly because nobody wants to be white, everyone wants to be black...unless they had a WET: Uncut which would have a 90% black audience and ratings would skyrocket
//hreadOriginally Posted by IM A HELION
I honestly don't think I would, iBlink...BET makes me sick. All it exists for is to perpetuate stereotypes about black people, and some people of other races think that's how all of us act.
WET? White Star Power? I say create it, and watch all the hypocritical people of our race catch feelings.
We were on the right path in the early years of the last century...conking our hair, wearing bowties and doing polite jigs in public. Then we started trying to establish a new collective group identity and attempting to self-determined. Thats when all the problems began
DF!!!
no hate but you're kind of over thinking it and going about it the wrong way imoOriginally Posted by IM A HELION
Roll your eyes all you want.Originally Posted by jordanpheen
care to explain your opinion in detail???Originally Posted by IM A HELION
All those channels you guys listed do not serve the same purpose that BET does for blacks.
It's 2008...how many times does BET need to make it clear that there channel is for the empowerment of black people? How exactly are they empowering us? Like I said in my original post, all it does is make us all look like uncultured fools. And since it's owned by Viacom, all the shows are damn near blatant rip offs from channels like VH1 and MTV.
You don't see MTV being all racially exclusive to the extent that BET takes it. If MTV or VH1 put "white" in front of everything that they did, they'd be accused of being racist...but BET gets a pass because it's for black people.
Shall I go on? Or is that enough detail for you, good sir?
Originally Posted by RIPyzyz
btw, tvone is that piff
Just to refrest your memory & other people making comments about all the white TV stations...Originally Posted by eNPHAN
like dude said, for WET, just check out all of the OTHER 199 channels your cable provides....
just like people who complain about black history month...
"we don't have a white history month..."
well, duh, idiot...
Originally Posted by TBONE95860
Just to refrest your memory & other people making comments about all the white TV stations...Originally Posted by eNPHAN
like dude said, for WET, just check out all of the OTHER 199 channels your cable provides....
just like people who complain about black history month...
"we don't have a white history month..."
well, duh, idiot...
The U.S. population's distribution by race and ethnicity in 2006 was as follows:[sup][22][/sup][sup][23][/sup]
- Total population: 299 million
- White alone: 74% or 221.3 million
- Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, of any race: 14.8% or about 44.3 million
- Black or African American alone: 13.4% or 40.9 million
- Asian alone: 4.4% or 13.1 million
Originally Posted by raptors29
As Blacks, we don't need BET.
No I ain't missing the point.Originally Posted by kix4kix
By that logic 13.4 % of television should be directed at black audiences.Originally Posted by TBONE95860
Just to refrest your memory & other people making comments about all the white TV stations...Originally Posted by eNPHAN
like dude said, for WET, just check out all of the OTHER 199 channels your cable provides....
just like people who complain about black history month...
"we don't have a white history month..."
well, duh, idiot...
The U.S. population's distribution by race and ethnicity in 2006 was as follows:[sup][22][/sup][sup][23][/sup]
- Total population: 299 million
- White alone: 74% or 221.3 million
- Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, of any race: 14.8% or about 44.3 million
- Black or African American alone: 13.4% or 40.9 million
- Asian alone: 4.4% or 13.1 million
Once again, missing the point.
Exactly. I agree.Originally Posted by eNPHAN
usually a product or service that is labeled exclusively "black" is only done due to the overwhelming majority of said products or services being geared towards "america".....or in other words, white....
@this post
Originally Posted by TBONE95860
No I ain't missing the point.Originally Posted by kix4kix
By that logic 13.4 % of television should be directed at black audiences.Originally Posted by TBONE95860
Just to refrest your memory & other people making comments about all the white TV stations...Originally Posted by eNPHAN
like dude said, for WET, just check out all of the OTHER 199 channels your cable provides....
just like people who complain about black history month...
"we don't have a white history month..."
well, duh, idiot...
The U.S. population's distribution by race and ethnicity in 2006 was as follows:[sup][22][/sup][sup][23][/sup]
- Total population: 299 million
- White alone: 74% or 221.3 million
- Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, of any race: 14.8% or about 44.3 million
- Black or African American alone: 13.4% or 40.9 million
- Asian alone: 4.4% or 13.1 million
Once again, missing the point.
This country is predominately white.... of course most TV stations are going to be geared toward WHITE people
PLUS the people running all these stations are WHITE people.