B.E.T. Beautfiully Entertaining Toes

Let's talk about BET ~ Black Men & The Women Who REALLY Don't Want Them

The context of this blog originates from an email I received about a promising teenaged young lady, Janita Patrick who wrote to Black Entertainment Television (B.E.T.) about their programming, quoting the co-founder of BET, Sheila Johnson, who said that she "really doesn't watch" the channel anymore.

I witness Blacks Embarrassing Themselves, I agree that Buffoonery Exists Today and I feel that many people who represent the African American life on BET and the media (music, TV, film, radio, internet, print) have no clue of how the damaging the insults to the culture are.



We live in a society where Black men tend to routinely ridicule their own Black ancestors, sisters and mothers, as if they were born from foreign beasts who deserve no respect. They discard their own women and settle for a non traditional way of life with non Black women rather than promote or benefit and support the diaspora of ancestral family units who suffer the most. There is no soul in this activity and because of that, the Black man always eventually returns to a Black woman, who takes him in from either pity, stupidity or both. Leaving once again, he resumes his life worshiping the women who enslave and use him like a work horse or mule.

This is the time when an undervalued Black woman would prefer to avoid interpersonal OR professional interactions, be celibate, experiment sexually, or explore the options of romance with other nationalities rather than remain in an empty state of being reduced to repeated judgments, like "She's too Black", "She's too fat", "She's not Black enough", "She's not cultured" or are simply tired of being compared to other cultures, where there are also plenty of historical trait flaws.

But I digress - as for myself, patronizing many composers of so called BLACK Art (in Music, TV, Film, and print media) in any form is out of the question when I am focused. My decision is because often, underneath the COMPENSATED ART WORK or CRAFT, lies a BLACK person who is a willing puppet for someone else who pulls the strings and paints a picture of me (an obviously Black woman) that is not me, but rather blindly perpetrate hegemony in a society that expects to see a certain "me". Sassy, mouthy, sexy, full hips, lips and full of racial stereotypes.

Likewise, honesty, commitment, faithfulness, passion for craft and intimacy with one of these descendants of African warriors is unlikely and at best expect a selfish, and over rated event to result. My suggestion to anyone reading this: steer far from the ones who seems to have it most together. This admonition includes the francophones as well as his American urban cousin "CUZZ or BLOOD", and everyone of his Black brothers in between.