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TV: "BET is bad for black people"...The Flipside

Khadijah

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Aight, how bout this one....

I hear all the time about how BET is degrading to blacks, etc, from many black ppl but it seems to come more from white ppl....

Its detrimental to black women, to people in the hood, makes them look bad, etc....

Well why aint no one out there complaining that MTV makes WHITE people look bad!?

For real ...think abou tit....

MTV is full of some of the most shallow-ass pathetic, disgusting programming I ever seen. theres the funny shit, like the late night stuff that i sometimes watch like Punkd now and then but for real. sshit liek Real World. Laguna Beach. Which i never seen but unfortuantely seen the commercials for.

All this shit is so crazy. Most if not all the people on there are upper middle class....many many are white....its centered around a certain lifestyle that makes white people look like a bunch of preppy, college, well off, superficial, not so intelligent, sneaky, bitchy, backstabbing, fake, self-interested, vain, bitches and assholes who dont see shit of the world outside them.

Now everybody KNOW it aint really like that, bt again and again i see on TV these rich white families with they cute problems like their teen daughter dating a dude whose from the wrong side of the tracks (read: hes a skater who drinks on the weekend - OH NO!)

I know im over simplyfying, CUZ MTV OVERSIMPLIFIES.

Its a fuckin channel of sound bytes and images flashed together with catchy music thats fuckin got millions of ppl watching it like its fuckin god.

The shows show off the type of ppl that seem to be some of the worse examples of how affluent non minority ppl can act behave and think....

The ungratefulness for shit that some of us would consider it amazing to have, liek when chicks bitch that, Oh, my god, they only got 400$ shoes for chiristmas instead og the 600$ ones they wanted!!! boo hoo!

or the super sweet 16 show, which is just straight up nauseating....9it aint all white ppl too cuz i remember one black chick was on there)

But what im sayin is, a large part of MTVs audience aint black ppl from the hood. ill put it like that.

Just the same, white ppl watch BET. and there is movies and shit that aint all black on that channel too. but people still bitch that its making black people look bad.

So why aint people realizing that the SHIT they play on MTV, from a outsiders point of view (by outsider i dont mean non white cuz im sure yall will clown on that, but i mean not rich, not familiar with the types of lifestyles they show on that channel) is representing something that looks so fuckin fake and shallow and overall disgusting....there is always the exceptions, liek Runs House, which i actually like and even doe they are rich, they pretty down to earth...but the majority of it is rich white people fuckin around like the world is they private playground and they can do whateva they want with it and throw tantrums and bitch and moan abuot the stupidest shit like spoiled little brats.....Why aint people tryina change the stereotypes they show on that show that make white people look bad? or do they not mind looking the way they do and think that its completely normal to be that way?

Anyone else feel me on this one?
 
perhaps we should consider:

is BET good for white people? and conversely, is MTV good for black people?

i for one (broadly m/c, young, white, male) love BEN and OBE, but they're actually Ghanaian and Nigerian orientated british black african channels, so slightly different from BET which is as i understand an african-american channel.
 
Frankly BET is the furthest thing but "black". Oh sure, it's black in the sense of "you live in the hood, listen to hip hop.. and you need to keep it hood" (stay poor and stay tuned in) but that's about it.

I think channels like this are bad for everyone. Any channel aimed at a race, any magazine aimed at a race is stupid and just upholds the cultural divisions amongst people. If we cookie cutter up the world, uphold these divisions through pop culture, they're easier to market to. Consider it a "divide and conquer" stategy, just applied to marketing.

As to the materialism, Vibe, Source, Ebony, BET ..all are guilty of this. They undermine blacks...or b/c of low education levels amongst the poor, do they? Either way they're not helping.

Open up any "black" magazine on tv channel. There will be 5 to 6 times more ads for shoes, clothing lines, cds, electronics, cars, movies, and other shit you don't need in order to say.. i dunno, bring yourself up, than say.. Rolling Stone, Spin, or other non-race restricted magazines (though predominantly white). This to me is a message. A message from the companies of america down to the poor, possibly not as educated, blacks of this nation. And it's called "you're dumb as fuck and easy to hook with marketing, so we're going to bombard you a good 10 times more than we would anyone else. You've been bought and sold..Toby".
 
MTV lost me when they quit being the "music" tv. i dont' know when that was, it's been so long since i've really watched MTV. in my opinion, MTV is generational anyways. i'm nearly 30 and remember its arrival, and i could care less now. my kid might think differently when she's old enough to be allowed to view such crap..if that day ever comes.
 
^^ That would be when Real World and Beavis and Butthead came out.
Around the same time Cobain visited the plastic surgeon and forgot that the shotgun wasn't qualified.
 
Maybe people don't say anything about MTV and white people because it's name isn't White Entertainment Television?

In any case, I'm moving this over to Film and Television.
 
Who cares if they're worthless. Obviously, they each have appeal to a certain population, or they wouldn't still be around. I don't watch either MTV or BET, because I don't have cable or satellite. I'm sure there are both black and white people that find the programming offensive and unintelligent, and would like to see it all cancelled, but in my opinion, they can go suck a big fat cock. If you don't like something, don't watch it. If the shows on BET only portray blacks in a less-than-perfect manner, and enough people have a problem with it, the ratings wouldn't warrent maintaining the specific style of the network. It does kind of suck, though, that in order to see more than just a token african american on a tv sitcom, you need to actually click on a channel which specifies "Black" in the title.
 
vibr8tor said:
It does kind of suck, though, that in order to see more than just a token african american on a tv sitcom, you need to actually click on a channel which specifies "Black" in the title.

you obviously have never seen the WB

=D
 
I aint even get BET on my TV at home. my girl gets it doe. i got cable but not alot of the channels come in...

darth mom: hell nah, i aint watch the WB, but u wanna see black network tv hit up the UPN

Anyways...no one really touchin on the original topic...what yall think bout that

Put aside whether you hate MTV or not, i hate it too, but im still sayin. leave that shit out if you dont like it, but what do you think about the way it portrays white ppl? iknow not everybody out there like the shit they show on that.
yea i kno it aint "white entertainment television" but what im sayin is , everybody on that shits white or rich seems like...and the majority of it is rich white.....

Why is entertainment that is aimed for the white demographic all the same fuckin pathetic shit like desperate housewives (i know it aint on mtv but just a example) real world, etc, crap like that?
 
^^^
Because they go with what brings in the ratings. Lost did killer its first season, so now the networks are jam packed with drama shows that have a supernatural element to them.

The reality theme has run its course, but for a while that's all you could find.

With music related channels (MTV, VH1,...) they all had intentions of playing videos, but found that the experimental other crap did better, so they go with what brings in the money.

I'm sure that if a "Desperate Trailer Trash" drama debuted and did smashing, there would be other shows that copied. Doesn't mean that's what the producers think the majority of the population is comprised of; it's just the winning lottery ticket of the season. Kinda like when Rosanne was number one, and other shows came out with a similar theme.
 
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