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« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2001, 03:33:54 PM »
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I don\'t really see why their should be a channel dedicated to just African Americans.  I mean all the other channels are with both colors.  There is no all white Channel so it is kinda stupid.  They get so many privilages any more and that sooo pisses me off.



TNN was all hite before it was bought and changed?

BTW, just b/c black entertainment is in its name doesnt mean its exclusive. They just target a specific demographic.
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« Reply #31 on: December 30, 2001, 04:19:03 PM »
The only white people I remember seeing on the channel were Eminem and Nsync.... So I guess they do target a specific demographic.
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« Reply #32 on: December 30, 2001, 04:23:05 PM »
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So I guess they do target a specific demographic.


yup, the rap,hiphop, and r&b community.
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« Reply #33 on: December 30, 2001, 07:43:18 PM »
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Basically he has no answer for you, that\'s what I deducted from his statement.


Yep, your just so damn smart, your my hero, and gohan, not a 5 page rant about BET, a 5 page rant about racism and blacks
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« Reply #34 on: December 30, 2001, 08:07:14 PM »
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Yep, your just so damn smart, your my hero, and gohan, not a 5 page rant about BET, a 5 page rant about racism and blacks


so go for it....... like some advice my drunk old polish uncle told me, bring it..or shut-up(not in those words, but close enuff in polish)
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« Reply #35 on: December 31, 2001, 10:18:17 AM »
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Yep, your just so damn smart, your my hero, and gohan, not a 5 page rant about BET, a 5 page rant about racism and blacks
Cool, I was just wondering.

I don\'t see many black people on the Country Music Channel. Is that racist too? No. Its a niche market. At the time that BET was created there were no other channels showing music videos of black artists. So they started their own. WTF is wrong with that? Now it has become a channel that caters to Hip Hop and R&B fans. How is that racist? Because there are more mainstream hip-hop artists that are black? C\'mon now that is bullsh!t and you know it. A lot of you just wanted a little opportunity to let out some of your pent up aggression you have against blacks because apparently you think we get unfair treatment. That is also bullsh!t. Anyone that tells me there is no more racism in American society is a fuking liar and oblivious to the truth. Racism isn\'t as bad as it used to be; but it still exists. And on that note "Reverse" Racism is also out of control. I know a lot of white people that would hesitate to walk down a street in the ghetto after dark just as much as I would to walk down a street in the deep south.

BTW, I keep saying it and no one responds. How is BET racist while CMT is not? I have never seen a black person on CMT. Maybe in a commercial; but I don\'t watch it enough. At least you have seen white people on BET. On that not, isn\'t Telemundo racist? All they have are Hispanic people. Boo @ that. BTW, Just in case you were wondering, or you missed my last post. BET (as well as Telemundo) is owned by white people.
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« Reply #36 on: December 31, 2001, 12:17:06 PM »
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How is BET racist while CMT is not? I have never seen a black person on CMT.



OK, it\'s not White Entertainment Televison.  And if it was I bet you\'d be angry.
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« Reply #37 on: December 31, 2001, 12:28:24 PM »
Call it that, even for a day, and see what happens...

You\'d be seeing the NAACP in court in a hurry.

That\'s just the way it is, kids.
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« Reply #38 on: December 31, 2001, 12:45:45 PM »
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OK, it\'s not White Entertainment Televison.  And if it was I bet you\'d be angry.
So because it says BLACK Entertainment Television it is racist? If it was changed to Urban Entertainment and had the same programming would it NOT be racist? Your logic is flawed. I already explained why it is called Black Entertainment Television yet your vision seems to be clowded. When the channel was founded EVERY music channel, let me repeat that, EVERY music channel was ALL white. Not one black artist. So they decided to make a channel that would showcase black artists. Hence the name. The channel itself has branched out into different kinds of programming and is far from exclusively black. Why is that SO hard for your mind to grasp? CMT shows NO black people and they are not racist? Get your heads out of your asses. Your logic is so terribly flawed that it sickens me.

Its like talking to a brick wall with you guys.
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« Reply #39 on: December 31, 2001, 01:48:56 PM »
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


:yawn:

Wow, man.

How high is this guy\'s soapbox?
Dude, don\'t you remember acts like Prince, MJ, (OK, so he\'s not black anymore...) herbie hancock, eddie grant, run dmc, PE?
They all had videos on MTV at its earliest stages.

Not to throw gas on a (boring) fire, but they weren\'t all, I REPEAT, ALL white channels.
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« Reply #40 on: December 31, 2001, 02:10:52 PM »
^^^See, that shows how much you know. The first Black artist to be shown on MTV was Michael Jackson. Before that not ONE minority artist appeared on that channel. This BTW was after BET had already surfaced. They were not showing the artists you mentioned until a long time after that.
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« Reply #41 on: December 31, 2001, 02:14:05 PM »
Where are you finding this info? I\'d like to read it for myself.
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« Reply #42 on: December 31, 2001, 05:40:22 PM »
It doesn\'t bother me that much. I mean think about it. I have about 115 channels on my TV. I\'m gonna do an experiment right now. I\'m gonna flip through every channel and count the number of black people I see.

*Experiments*

Okay, outta the 115 channels, I saw 2 black people. And about 100 white people. And the 2 black people we\'re on ESPN and BET. So it\'s fair for them to get a target channel.
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« Reply #43 on: December 31, 2001, 09:54:16 PM »
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I\'m not racist either, and I have black friends, but what do you expect with BET, its the same principles as a black guy saying a manager is racist because he didn\'t hire him, from what it seems to me, its not whites separating the races now, its blacks


**remember I meant no harm to anybody in this post**


You probably don\'t have a clue as to how it feels to be black in America. Historically, we have been purposely shut out of every societal institution and prevented from participating in the so-called "American way of life". We have been separated from almost the first day we were brought here against our will during Slavery. There are millions of everyday examples of how we are still made to feel separated. You act as if racism no longer exists in this country. It would be different if racism was abolished along with slavery, but the James Byrd incident didn\'t happen 200 yrs ago. It would take longer than what is allowed in a forum to explain to you my own personal experiences of racism, and you still probably wouldn\'t understand. Some whites still make a distinction between the races, so don\'t act like it\'s just Blacks. Until the harm that was wrought during and after slavery is adressed publicly, this country will never be fully united. Your casual dismissal of real racism in the workforce is a testament to just how separated we really are as a nation.
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« Reply #44 on: December 31, 2001, 10:01:29 PM »
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I don\'t really see why their should be a channel dedicated to just African Americans.  I mean all the other channels are with both colors.  There is no all white Channel so it is kinda stupid.  They get so many privilages any more and that sooo pisses me off.


As a white person living in America, you get far more privilages than I do.
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