I’m sure that everyone knows how I feel about BET. If you’re not sure, here’s a brief synopsis:
BET is the worst channel on television.
Apparently, BET has come to terms with this and has all but given up on the idea of even looking like a channel that wasn’t programmed by nitwits. Actually the more I think about it, apparently, BET seems as though it is actively attempting to destroy any modicum of positive black imagery and destroy the black public image…
What’s BET trying to prove?
Case in point, HOT GHETTO MESS . What the hell, BET? What the hell? I don’t normally watch BET, but while hanging with my cousins, I happened to look up and catch the commercial or the Hot Ghetto Mess commercial and threw up a little in my mouth.
No, BET. You got to do better.
It’s like BET looked at VH1’s success with Flava of Love and said hey why not just toss out all of the bullshit and get straight to the shuckin’ and jivin’. Let’s just toss out all plot and jump straight into the coonin’ niggas! SHOOOOWTIIIIME! All of this is going to be done under the pretense of “We Got To Do Better”.
So basically, what BET is doing is offering people the chance to get on TV by acting as ignorant as possible. How exactly is this going to help us to “do better”? This is just another thinly veiled attempt by BET to generate content for free by exploiting the African American community.
This isn’t the first time, it won’t be the last.
BET did the same thing with the violent culture of gangsta rap by playing gangsta rap videos all day. They’ve offered anyone with a criminal record and a microphone a chance at infamy through rap videos. They put this lifestyle in front of our children. This lifestyle of killing our brothers and degrading our women to the point of massive rifts in the black community, then they look all confused when the black community is swallowed up by a culture of violence and prison mentalities. The blood is on your hands BET.
I’m done with you BET. At this point, I’m beginning to wonder if BET has been secretly purchased by the KKK or something. This just doesn’t make sense! Is BET entertainment for black people or blacks entertaining?!?! This damn channel is starting to look like a minstrel show!
What we will see is more of this. Just like BET took a small number of gansta rappers and killed hip-hop, it will take this Hot Ghetto Mess show and kill what’s left of the black image. We’ve got Barak Obama running to be the first black president and BET is doing all they can to make us look like a bunch of gold toothed monkeys. I’m tired of playing with ya’ll BET.
Alright readers, time to chime in how do you feel about this obvious betrayal by this our Black Entertainment Television? Or even better, go to the MySpace page or the BET community forums or write a letter to BET and voice your compliant. Enough is enough people.
Sup fellas.
Man, it really has been a minute since I’ve watched BET! And from the description above, not much has changed. However, the deep dark secret is that I really can’t blame BET. In the end, BET is not a channel designed to display all upper- and middle-class telegenic black people “doing things with their lives” in their programming. BET is, well, an entertainment-focused business.
Trust me, if a vast majority of black people who watch BET felt as if the programming was inappropriate and decided not to watch, Viacom would have changed its programming a long time ago. Unfortunately, people make a lot of sound and fury about BET, but nothing really happens. I’ve seen countless BET-watchers bemoan the awful programming, yet they continue to watch it in large numbers. And it cuts across all ages, all levels of education, etc.
I thought shows like Flavor of Love, Real World are crap concentrate–basically I think people watch because of the voyeuristic nature it awakens in people. People like to watch to find out who’s fucking/fighting/playing who. I choose not to watch it, but I have many friends who TiVo it and watch religiously.
Advertisers know people love these shows. Viacom knows that too, so when BET makes all the copy-cat niche programming for an African-American audience, it can succeed because it knows although black people complain, they watch anyway like it’s a bad accident (just like all other races do). It’s cheap, cash cow seedy TV–America at its finest!
What the hell is the motherfu***r doing to that boy she could go to Jail for that s**t.
Thank you brilliantbrown for the article. Those images are just disturbing. You are right enough is enough.