At one time of my life I loved B.E.T. I couldn't wait to get home to see 106 & Park with A.J. & Free, watch Rap City: The Basement with Tigger, and even Hits from the Street. But overtime BET started showing alot more negative stereotypes surprisingly as more people started watching it. At one time BET had News and responsible mature conversations about sex, violence, and the things that affect the African American community. But after BET was sold to Viacom(MTV,Nickeloden,CMT,VH1 yes Viacom owns all of that) BET started being used as a broke version of MTV. Every horrible show MTV makes BET recreates with a special "blackface twist" You have Cribs here's How I'm Livin'. You have the Real World here's College Hill( which makes a joke out of great HBCUs). You have The Hills and Laguna Beach here's Baldwin Hills(easily the worst show I've ever seen on any network. Sidenote: Have you ever watched that show? The dialogue is so horrible it make it look like them damn kids can't read a script as well as act.) BET also is responsible for putting the worst hip-hop and R&B in America on the air. Think about this Bow-Wow has more retired videos than Kanye. Wtf is that? And if I see another Video about an abstract idea, imma scream. But as Spike Lee would say the "Coonery & Bufoonery" is not totally on BET. Tyler Perry has made almost billions off it. Now I'm not knocking a man for making money. But at what cost dude do you sell your soul? Every play, movie, and show depicts the ugliness of our community: Violence, Drugs, Promiscuity, and Ignorance without solutions but with laughter. Now are they funny? Yeah I guess but the bigger problem is what does this say to people who arent black? Some don't present Black people as bad for instance, Why Did I Get Married?( which happens to black ppl and white ppl) but not enough of his work shows positive black people who are successful. Why? You have the power to change situations but instead you become part of the problem. The problem is to people who are not black or from urban areas, black people are what they see on TV. And what do they see on TV? Ignorance. So when I meet some of those people they say: Wow you talk so proper. Then I'm stuck thinking....What the Fuck you expect me to talk like? Am I supposed to say ask like ax. I guess I'm supposed to start rapping and dancing in mid-sentence too huh? And instead of black people showing how ridiculus that is we add to it. So in the end are we putting blackface on ourselves. When we start taking responsibility for what we portray. Because I can tell you this, Pres. Obama, Oprah, and even Jay-Z are better examples of the black people I know than Gucci Mane, Lil' Wayne, and Katt Williams.....HOLLA think about it
