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I mean don't get me wrong.. I think the fact that it's called 'black' entertainment television has always rubbed me the

 

wrong way.I've watched it a few times for comedy specials, hiphop, and some movies classics, but I guess the concept

 

and the way the channel is marketed just kinda makes me nautious.

 

you need to read up on history. there was such thing as jim crow and then deeply ingrained systematic oppression and racism to the point where black people were forced to just come up with their own shit. the fact that no other station will play coreys stuff (he makes movies for all audiences - the stuff with majority of white actors get no love, too) ...is evident that its still needed today.

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you need to read up on history. there was such thing as jim crow and then deeply ingrained systematic oppression and racism to the point where black people were forced to just come up with their own shit. the fact that no other station will play coreys stuff (he makes movies for all audiences - the stuff with majority of white actors get no love, too) ...is evident that its still needed today.

 

You're starting to sound like a mammy.

 

"Take a knee chil' and I shall tell thee about the great race riots of 1992, and our cherished Saint Rodney King."

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Look I don't want to get into an internet argument brawl or whatevah.. I'm well versed in history.

 

I have enough native american blood to say my grandfather was born on the res.. I look and try

 

to identify as a white boy though.. I digress. My point is just hearing a modern day black person

 

talk about oppression kinda makes me want to roll my eyes and go the other direction.

 

That sounds like a bunch of bullshit anyway. If you actually are well versed in history and well..

 

You shouldn't even have to be to know there has been countless black entertainers even dating

 

back to the days of slavery and during the period of intense racial tension after the emancipation

 

that have gained worldwide popularity and got their content out there without your glorious BET/

 

TLDR I know it's coming..  entertainment executives have always only cared about one color if

 

you ask me, and that's green. When was BET even established? It was Probably the 80's when

 

AA culture was exploding through the entertainment industry anyway.  :|

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