What do you think about BET's programming ? Too much catering towards the younger audience ? Is it too much based on drama, destruction and stupidity ? Where are the educational shows ? What shows or type of shows would you like to see on BET ? is TVone better than BET ? Is BET trying to compete with MTV ? What are your thoughts and opinions ?

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• BET, as a concept, really appeals to me.  As a concept it seemingly has the ability to shine a positive light on a culture on a race of people who are susceptible to stereotyping.  The programming could serve to show what black people are capable of beyond the entertainment industry.  I was almost outraged to tears to hear that the show entitled "College Hill" might as well be called "Drama Shack for Wreckless Sexual Abandon and Frivolous Nonsense".  I find it even more of an outrage that black people actually see nothing wrong with it and are drawn in by it.  Something blatantly called "College Hill" should exemplify what college is for and what it is suppose to be for the black individual.

 

• "Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being an orphan." Martin Luther King Jr.  The difference, now, in our time is that it is us doing that to us.  The "white" people are out there trying to be politically correct. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."  Just because something is particularly entertaining to black people does not mean that it is good for them.  In some ways if it is particularly entertaining and tasteful you'll get a draw of white people.

 

• Martin Luther King Jr also once said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."  I do believe that we live in this world, but the content our character is not a particularly good picture of what "blackness" should be.  Our rappers are marketing a lifestyle of selfishness and self-centeredness.  Our actors are portraying the smooth, cool kid who goofs off all through school chasing after the women and downplaying the dramatic ramifications of that: tougher time in college, lower-paying jobs, more work to reach perceived high goals.  The constant joking about the absenteeism in terms of fathers in the black community should not be as common as it is in our media. 

 

• BET programming should exemplify character and the building of that character.  The black community doesn't need to see an absentee father on TV, they see it in their own homes.  We don't need to look up to drugs, sex, and alcohol.  The thing we don't see a lot of in our community is accountability, responsibility, respect for others and ourselves.  A lot of what we see of our community is a lot of "common" and a lot of things to break up "unity".  In order to address something, you do not have to pose something as natural.  Just because there are absentee fathers does not meant that that is the way those families are supposed to be.  You can't teach people without a father how to be showing many families where there isn't one.

 

• Marijuana may not be a particularly devastating drug to the body, but it is drug that causes stagnation.  Why would we want to encourage stagnation in our community?  We have been stuck in a rut since our civil rights were rightfully upheld.  We should not support that kind of behaviour regardless of what is popular.

 

• If you start to show black people who they can be instead of showing the destructive stereotypes that would guide them to become what they suggest.

 

• BET should exemplify cultural responsiblity not popularity or commonality.  Truly if the white community can get behind BET entertainment and something on BET actually ends up in a TV awards show or something, that's more of an accomplishment for black people than learning watching the whole club scene "walk it out" or "lean wit it".  Oprah is black and proud.  Oprah is an avid book reader and everybody knows it.  Why isn't a role model like her on BET?  Normally what you see as the VJ's and what-not are beautiful people who don't have to necessarily people of character, but they may have it anyway.  They could be very articulate, but they articulate what is hip today, not maybe what our children need to hear.  I think in a lot of ways the programming on BET is responsible for the black community not growing up.  As adults we still can't behave ourselves and exercise social graces that functional adults are supposed to have.  Again it shows up in the jokes that are made in the shows.  "You know you can't take black people anywhere."

 

• Also, it is no service to black people to show us a black world as that is not the real world.  Sure we love our brothers and sisters, but this world is in fact mostly white.  If we are to function in the middle class of this world, above the GED level, we are going to have to deal with white people, understand that they are not out to get us.  The only reason we feel them looking at us with stereotypes is because we feed ourselves those stereotypes enough that we have almost become them.  Diversity is not a hex on what BET is about.

 

• I think the challenge is finding a way to entertain that really brings out what black people can be and maybe even should be without jeopardizing the entertainment part of it.

I think BET is great!   They seem to have tried to appeal to all age groups. I especially enjoy the award shows.  I know there is slim chances finding Black award shows on any other station.

 

I think that should stick with what is real. I think trying to run neck to neck with MTV is not the best. MTV has set it standards-why should we meet those-BET-cater to your people

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I would like to see black game shows. Real games shows, like where black people win money. Real money. I would also like to see black soap operas. Daytime and primetime. Something like a black Young and the Restless, only it should be "real" like Soul food was. Get some black cooking shows. BET needs to get away from the "reality show" phase, it's getting old. Last, but not least, some BLACK TALK SHOWS, come on BET get with me. Feature old school hip hop and R&B artist whom we haven't seen in a while and let them host some shows. Like Al B Sure, Foxxy Brown, Teddy Riley, Tony Toni Tone, some people we forgot about. Remember Master Ace and Busy B man I could go on for days!

I hate BET now I can't even relate to it anymore or maybe i have matured. i don't know but i do luv watching betj when i can. I would like to see more black cast shows dealing with our life. the good and the bad. I am tired of the reruns on both channels. i liked black men revealed.