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nobody wants to be white, everyone wants to be black
More accurately, black people don't want to be white but white people want to be black.
Not all...
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nobody wants to be white, everyone wants to be black
More accurately, black people don't want to be white but white people want to be black.
Not all...
If you'll read what I wrote with an objective eye, I've never once argued against BET.Originally Posted by eNPHAN
i mean, how do you know what goes on behind the closed doors of the all-white exec meetings?Originally Posted by PrurientSole
It's not like the major networks have purposely tried to exclude "black oriented" programming,
what's wrong with a network wanting to attract black viewers with programming directly geared toward them?
More accurately, black people don't want to be white but white people want to be black.Originally Posted by JR Paperstacks
nobody wants to be white, everyone wants to be black
Originally Posted by eNPHAN
Originally Posted by ebayologist
While you certainly have a point. I think this thread has totally derailed from it's originally point and i'm not white so…
But I don't know if you know this but black people in America didn't just come up with their culture out of thin air.The co-opting of culture didn't start with white kids in the 80s, 90s, and 00s jocking urban black culture.
And more to the point "black culture today" is neither all black nor is it what it was, it's a commercialized and twisted shell of what it was.
actually, it started with indentured servants being slowly replaced by slaves from africa...and their cohabitation....but thats beside the point...
so you are really saying that modern black culture isn't black culture?
I hope you know that the connotations behind "Black Star Power", "White Star Power", "Black Power" and "WhitePower" are not the same. At all.Originally Posted by ProduccionFrescos
[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]If BET can get away with it, I don't see why anyone should complain.[/color]
Originally Posted by infamousod
CMT is the one that really comes to mind
and "WET" would fail horribly because nobody wants to be white, everyone wants to be black...unless they had a WET: Uncut which would have a 90% black audience and ratings would skyrocket
1) Chuck Taylor Sneakers man...originally basketball shoes...those are "sports relatedshoes"Originally Posted by eNPHAN
A white kid rocking sneakers. Yes, it could very well be that he likes the sneakers and feels apart of the culture....but the CULTURE is inherently black...created by NYC blacks of the late 80s, early 90s....He may not know that, and it may not even have any sort of impact on his sneaker-wearing, however, the orgins of the culture don't change.....the black people in NYC made it "cool"....and it's still prevalent today...(look at pictures of kids before like 82.....look at their shoes...none of them were sport-related....the actual WEARING of sport-based shoes casually came from SOMEWHERE....SOMEHOW this became acceptable in american culture.....)
White kids blasting rap music out of a car, same thing. Who made that "cool"?
on and on, so on and so forth...
Black culture has always fascinated white America, from Negro Spirituals on plantations to Live jazz music at jazz clubs in the hood to now, rap music....
come on bro, "bling" is in the dictionary.....newscasters use "bling" in their vocabulary.....
just because white people enjoy it and wanna imitate/mimic it doesn't make it "cross-cultural", especially something as inherently black as rap music....
CULTURE, TRY TO GET SOME, and don't try to get it from someone else....
Originally Posted by corporateJP
Where does this crap come from?
I swear some of you guys are not only hypocrites, but just outright racist.
Originally Posted by SneakerHeathen
Originally Posted by corporateJP
Where does this crap come from?
I swear some of you guys are not only hypocrites, but just outright racist.
CO-SIGN....
Originally Posted by lurkin2long
BET isnt even black owned
Originally Posted by ago225
Originally Posted by lurkin2long
BET isnt even black owned
are you serious? interesting....
Huge difference, those are "special interest" channels...Originally Posted by eNPHAN
well, that's because BET caters to a niche audience, whereas the major networks gear towards as many people as possible...Originally Posted by SneakerHeathen
Originally Posted by infamousod
CMT is the one that really comes to mind
and "WET" would fail horribly because nobody wants to be white, everyone wants to be black...unless they had a WET: Uncut which would have a 90% black audience and ratings would skyrocket
I don't want to be either black nor white....
Also....For everyone saying that every other channel is practically WET.......
BET almost makes me feel alienated when I watch it at times....
No other channel (ABC, FOX, MTV, etc) does that....
BTW I'm brown if it matters...
so you don't feel alienated when you watch CMT, Telemundo or the Asian Video Network?
you're brown? what about when you watch the Christian Television Network or the Evangelical Television Network?
my point is that Sanford & Son RULES!Originally Posted by eNPHAN
it's 2008, 3 of the 5 shows you named are older than i am (im 24), the Cosby Show was canceled about 15 years ago and the Hughleys aired for like 3 seasons...Originally Posted by Club29
Didnt the Hughleys and the Cosby Show and Good Times and Sanford & Son and the Jeffersons all air on so-called "white" networks?
these are still 5 shows compared to THOUSANDS.....
what's your point?
EDIT:trapmuzik617,, i likes your avy berry much