serious thread .... If Bob Johnson never brought us BET our culture would ........

[Rocket Kidd]

someone else would've

 

[laydee]

If Bob Johnson never brought us BET our culture would 'be more refined and less ghetto'

****This doesn't apply to me ofcourse.

 

[usmarin3]

We be more varied, BET reinforces alot of stereotypes and limits our perspective as a race. BET limits black people to rap, r and b, comedy about growing up broke,etc, when truth of the matter is there are alot of blacks who don't box themselves in.

 

[damobb2deep]

We be more varied, BET reinforces alot of stereotypes and limits our perspective as a race. BET limits black people to rap, r and b, comedy about growing up broke,etc, when truth of the matter is there are alot of blacks who don't box themselves in.

I understand yo post but It seems like its 1 of those "blacks are killin themselves" type post.. Steriotypes most have some truth 2 them.. But imo bet is only showin us shyt we can relate 2.. and bet don't limit us 2 shyt.. If more blacks watched hardcore rock I bet b.e.t (lol) would play that too.. It reinforces steriotypes and tries 2 change some too..

 

[DRO]

Bet is the 2nd comin of soul train....

 

[Mally_G]

still be unstable and self destructive.

It doesn't matter if Bobcat Johnson brought us BET, the network only brought us the things that urban blacks enjoyed anyway. BET just was a 24 hour 7 day a week network that exploited our inner city culture and showed it to the entire world. Nothing about BET was groundbreaking. BET lacked educational television when it counted (with the exception of Teen Summit), BET didn't have much of anything. No real after school specials, nothing. BET failed to educate but instead magnified what's going on the in the streets and music. When we got home, we saw Rap City and after that, re-runs of black sitcoms, and 1-2 news programs that came on well after dark.

BET failed to educate, instead, it fed off the desires of the urban youth to run the street and do what they saw on television. TV is called the Boob Tube for a reason and BET just helped make the dumb, even dumber and fascinate about what and who they saw on TV to be like that person instead of themselves. Parents are at fault as well for allowing their children to be raised on TV and not monitoring what garbage was being pumped through the screen and turning their kids away from it to be themselves and get a proper education.

 

[kingblaze84]

What the dude above me said. It has nothing to do with BET. It has more to do with Viacom taking over the station. Because of that, major changes were made, and just reinforced stereotypes. I remember when there used to be interesting things on there that were informative. Now there's very few things that are insightful for people to watch. It's just because Viacom ran what Black images should be.

Nah they went with the ratings........all the "insightful" stuff didn't get much ratings, sadly........

And our culture would have came up with another Black oriented channel.

 

[And Step]

still mislabeled. We really haven't developed a culture yet. We just take the worse of every one elses.

Knowledge and Independence are the prerequisites of any culture. LOL at ItsOver2012 calling BJ a coward. Laughing additionally at the owner and founder of BET, in the first viable Black Candidate's race for Pres stumping for a white lady while simultaneously suggesting the reason he didn't support Barak was because of his questionable past in the hood, when his network did nothing but reinforce those stereotypes in the hood.

Oh the irony! May Yahweh, bring down his chastisement on Bob Johnson, and make his first born and heir, marry a distant relative of George Wallace, who still has that dormant gene of segregationist tendencies that will be activated by loud relatives at a Black Family Reunion.

 

[bless the child]

it probably wouldve still been something exclusive to blacks and latinos