Why am I shocked when I hear about how BET is a horrible channel? I can’t find any good in the channel. I guess the only good thing that it is assigned to a pretty awkward number, 54.

I can’t believe that Black Entertainment Television didn’t air Coretta Scott King’s funeral. It seems extremely disrespectful and ungrateful for a channel, supposedly, dedicated to black people to not show such a historic person’s funeral. I wonder who decided that would be a great idea. I always get the feeling the younger generation doesn’t appreciate anything. I feel they don’t understand how much struggle and pain someone had to go through so that they can live more comfortable lives.

That has always been a problem. It’s extremely difficult to have anything dedicated to one race, since not everyone is the same. Also, what is BET trying to say? That black people only like crap rap/hip hop music, misogyny, low-brow ‘entertainment’, stereotype-re-enforcing? BET probably causes people who has never met a black person in their life to react like this when they finally do:

I can also understand how BET is trying to cater to an audience but the content is just BAD, real bad. The blogger does make a point that Telemundo a very popular Latino channel doesn’t degrade Latinos, it simply caters to the Latino audience.

I really don’t know how to say this any better, than the blogger themselves:

They should take the initiative and change the station’s name to Young Misguided Black Men’s Entertainment Television(YMBMET for short), as that’s who 90% of it’s programming is geared at anyway. Would you believe me if I told you that the religious shows appeared immediately after BET Uncut’s 1 hour block. (BET Uncut’s cancellation had nothing to do with protests of it’s content, claims BET.)

2 things said in that quote, the more educated blacks are not watching BET and BET continues to make stereotypes and make black people look like hypocrites.  I don’t think the more educated population is spending time watching MTV or BET and enjoying it. It don’t understand how you could possibly have such degrading content on so many different levels throughout the week and then on Sunday have ‘religious’ shows. (I guess this also points out religious hypocrisy).

I went through some of the comments and someone mentioned Viacom. I keep hearing Viacom in relation to money and the destruction to all that is good.