Peace

I have a set up where they get to see any video or part of the American/world youth culture they want. But they have to use unconventional methods to do so.

In doing so, they are not subject to what I believe the owners (past and present) of BET are intent on doing; contributing to the delinquency of the black and brown mindset by dumbing down the programing the station offers so those who choose to just sit there and ASK to be spoon fed that crap, will become desensitized to the fact that ignorant behavior is not “a good thing”.

My unconventional method evolves around my use of broadband and a media center desktop pc hooked up to a projector beamed to a 100 inch screen, equipped with mini wireless key board that has a built in touchpad/scroll pad mouse.

I have not had cable or Sat in my home going on 6 years now. And I never plan on going back to it. Never.

My daughters are 12 and 17 years old. They use Yahoo music to view any video they want without some VJ telling them what’s hip, what’s hot or how they should be dressing.

They get enough of that at school. It’s the control that the marketing media has over EVERYONE that led me to get rid of satellite years ago. I rejected for myself. And I certainly did not want my daughters to grow up allowing the media marketing empire to control their minds.

We get essentially everything via broadband that any household gets via Sat/cable, and more. Except WE control where we go and what we get. After awhile, you get used to it and you KNOW where to find all of the Discovery Channels and network TV shows streams being offered all over the world!

We don’t allow the established, collusioned American Media empire to TELL us what we should be watching by being bombarded by deceptive Ad after Ad after Ad.

I do have an HDTV tuner hooked up to the set up so we get crystal clear 1080p high def local stations that allow us some normalcy.

There are options out there that saves money and allows for the vile intentions of BET to be filtered out of ones environment. You just gotta be willing to ‘cut the cord”.

As for boycotting BET, the fact of the matter is they have an outdated business model that is on it’s last legs. The future of broadband tv is just around the corner (actually, it’s already here, you just got to get the right setup to enter it’s world).

It’s a totally different concept. One that, right now, I see as being led by the efforts of Youtube. The beauty of this is that I expect there to be more offerings for blacks and other minorities under this format or the future format because the internet is so vast and it’s just difficult for collusion of the current main stream media sources to occur and in the age of internet tv.

You’ll see more independently produced black cinema and sitcom like offerings being available for your viewing due to the lowered cost of doing so and not having to bother with dealing with the networks who essentially have an agenda that details what they want you and I to see.

GARBAGE.

You cant be part of the system and just criticize the parts you don’t like. If you want to be part of the system, you have to be out to make capitalism better. But in the end you really don’t have to do anything because somebody will do the work for you. If you don’t want to be part of it, you have to bring about its downfall. Which side are you on?

Years ago when rap gangsta rap music burst onto the scene it was a way for the people that lived those hard lives to speak up. Even for as offensive and disgusting as it was that was the lives they lived. And that is why a lot of people, myself included, would be hesitative to just force them to shup up. But at the same time when those rappers told their stories the big record companies notice that their stories were popular and decided that they had to figure out how to make money off the image and not care if the story was real or how offensive it is.

And somewhere along the line those companies managed to convince people that the gangsta rap image was not only the accurate representation of black people but they managed to convince black people that in order to make it in the music business that was the image they had to put on whether it was accurate or not.

I was so happy when I discovered we had a black owned cable station. I thought WOW..now we will have quality black entertainment where the world can see black people doing something other than performing for “masta”…. then I saw it was the same old cow dung. Cow Dung is still cow dung…it doesn’t matter if its a black cow or a white cow..it’s still dung. The man SOLD_OUT….period. Making millions was more important than being a responsible sentinel of our community at large. We are accustomed to being screwed by the white media but it is particularly painful when it’s done by one of our own.

While at Jury Duty one day day in New York I noticed a lot of black kids protesting on the courthouse steps. I went to see what all the commotion was about and was soo very pleased and proud to see a large group of kids from a church marching with signs and chanting “B E T DOESN”T REPRESENT ME”. They were from a church in Yonkers or Mt Vernon. There were several reporters and camera-men there from several TV stations. I was so happy and proud of these kids. Your post reminded me to search for the flyer and look up this church to find out who is leading and teaching these kids and make contact. This was in the Bronx..not sure why that day or that courthouse. (Does anyone else know anything about this?) I had to rush to court and could not get any further details.

Also… Didn’t Robert Johnson sell B.E.T. or am I confused???

Someone once said about the Holocaust… Evil persists not from those who do evil but from good men who stand by and do nothing…. (or something like that…you get the gist of it

BET should be one in a long list of lifetime boycotts.

I have voted against BET by not subscribing to cable. I can find other more valuable information online and in the print media.

Instead of teachers and parents spending their time rationalizing hip hop culture, they must show young folks that there is more to life than sex, music, and drugs. They, the youth, need to be focused on and engaged in reality.

What the music calls reality is a trap for the unaware who lazily oppose struggle (self improvement) and fall mindlessly in step to the beat that leads nowhere. 4/4 and 6/8 beats delight, but limit what an illiterate person can say. Therefore, much of what I have sampled in that category of music, is infantile and does not communicate ideas. The music is pure emotions masked as ideas and sold to malleable minds and alienated minds. Strangely, most of this music is sold in white middle class suburbs where the emotions that lead to self-destruction are prevalent.

We don’t seem to be able to put our money where our hearts are.