The Boondocks is always throwing jabs at BET for corrupting the black community. AKA: 
Actually, The Boondocks used to be on BET (ironic, right? Especially looking at how the Boondocks ridicules the types of things BET shows; ie naked women on strip poles, while a rapper with no talent raps about wanting sexual relations). BET took the Boondocks off the air after an episode was very critical of BET directly. I highly doubt BET producers ever took the time to watch the show. Makes me wonder if they pay attention to anything else being aired on their channel.
I knew from the get-go that BET was just absolute trash. After reading an article, I am absolutely stunned. The article’s audience is for parents. I think about entertainment from a parental perspective. I’m already very disappointed in the younger generations. I would like to reverse the crap they’ve been fed. We nowadays watch television for hours. Children are pretty likely to watch BET because everyone else is watching it. I thought BET was bad, but not that bad:
So relentless and constant is this kind of content that the PTC found that [BET] averaged one instance of offensive content every 38 seconds. By comparison, prime-time broadcast TV programming in the 8:00 p.m. hour (itself full of sex and violence) averaged one instance of negative content only about every five minutes.
This is ridiculous. How can such horrible $#@! be shown on TV? I’m puzzled as to how this hasn’t gotten more attention. I think the channel does more damage to the black community than a comment made by Don Imus. Don Imus won’t have much an effect, but BET has obvious and direct influence since it’s part of ‘pop culture’ (which I also dislike). I can’t complain too much because organizations are doing things to lessen BET’s influence. It makes me sick all at the same time to believe that BET is just in it for the money and not value/substance. They obviously don’t care. I think almost everything in pop culture is about money. I really wish I knew where I saw this video, but a man interviewed elementary school students in the mid 1900s about what they wanted to be when they grow up and most of the kids have decent dreams, like nurse, firefighter, truck driver, teacher. He did the same experiment in the 2000s and the most popular response was “get rich”. Is this a sign of culture deterioration? Most definitely.
January 17, 2011
stevenscga
The Boondocks, More Than a Cartoon 
1 responses to “BET: Parental Point of View”
somethingtoessay
January 18th, 2011 at 17:56
A very passionate post! You make your feelings about BET very clear. Do be careful, though, not to rant. You need to slow down and support your opinions carefully.
For example: Why do you “highly doubt BET producers ever took the time to watch the show”? Why are you disappointed BET is “just in it for the money”? What should they be in it for? What qualifies as “value” and “substance”? Why is BET “absolute trash”? What in the article “stunned” you? In order to address all the questions you’re raising, you may need to cover less ground in a post. You are touching on such rich, important, and provocative topics, you need to give yourself enough time to really discuss them. Do let me know if you have any questions about my comments.