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Originally Posted by Perfect Stu
Is BET exclusive to black talent? (I dont know for sure, but it seems like it)
If a group of blacks want to form a program that represents blacks in a proportionate rate, that's another thing. Making it 'blacks only', well...I dont see how that makes things any better.
And I bring up BET because it's most commonly known, I use it as an example, not because I have a personal feeling towards it specifically.
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Dude, its black cuture, it in no way excludes white people... just the culture. Justin Timberlake, John B, Eminem, N'sync (Why? >_>), Britney Spears, and Christina Agulera get play on the station (Along with a whole host of white acts, some popular, some not so popular) because (some of, and in same cases all of) thier music represents Hip Hop and R&B... If you make a R&B or Rap hit, it doesn't matter what your race is, you get played.
On the same note there are Black country singers and rock bands who get no play what so ever. Its not race, its culture.
If you have cable television, strart from the lowest channel and work your way up. Count how many shows on represent black culture, and if its neutral and doesn't represent any race of people, count it under the race of the first person you see on screen. Black people are definently not equally represented on television, thus there is a need for BET.