Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Jul 16 2007, 10:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Do you think black people have made enough progress.</div>Hell to the no. We in deep trouble. Alot of it's our fault. Alot of it's not.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? We are diggin our own grave.| It's sad for me to say it but it's true from what I see.| it's our youth that I c.....
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (S_Guard @ Jul 16 2007, 09:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>We are diggin our own grave.| It's sad for me to say it but it's true from what I see.|</div> Glad to see someone just flat-out say it.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gentile @ Jul 16 2007, 09:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Hell to the no. We in deep trouble. Alot of it's our fault. Alot of it's not.</div>Yes, there are definitely a lot of factors that contribute to our lack of progress. Related to this topic, I don't think the current state that BET is in is helping at all. We're definitely digging our own grave, but very slowly, and it will take a LOT to change that.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gentile @ Jul 17 2007, 10:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think these kind of discussions are the most helpful thing going. it's what festers underneath that goes unaddressed that keeps the poison moving.It's like having an undiagnosed illness.And I don't think I've spoken hatefully in this thread. I don't think BCB 1 or 2 has either. Or you. Or anybody. You're just explaining your perspective. We can all sing together but we can't talk together. Know what I mean? We should listen. Then respond. Intelligence is nothing but intelligent conversation, dig?</div>DIG well said
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clangus @ Jul 16 2007, 10:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I apolagise for my "sins of the father comment. It was taken in a completely different light than I intended. What I meant is that Black people (god I hate to use terms like that) shouldn't go around hating the white man- same goes in for whities hating the africans americans.We are all people and this type of disscussion does not help!Primetime can I ask you honestly (no offense intended whatsoever). Does it really bother you to be caller Nigger? I mean from a white person- and what is the difference betwen a black person saying it and a white person? I really just want to know- Im not argueing it either way- just let me know!</div> Of course it offends me. Especially coming from a white person. That's like asking if the asians here would be offended if I started referring to them as as communist chinks. The difference between a black person and a white person saying it is that, white people used it to hold us down and in a demoralizing way yet black people tend to say it in a comprehensive way. Either way im not a big fan of the word, and its pretty rare youll hear me say it unless in a joking sense.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PrimeTime @ Jul 16 2007, 11:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Of course it offends me. Especially coming from a white person. That's like asking if the asians here would be offended if I started referring to them as as communist chinks. The difference between a black person and a white person saying it is that, white people used it to hold us down and in a demoralizing way yet black people tend to say it in a comprehensive way. Either way im not a big fan of the word, and its pretty rare youll hear me say it unless in a joking sense.</div>Primetime.Nothing gets solved until people decide to look past getting offended. Mind over emotions baby.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (S_Guard @ Jul 16 2007, 10:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>We are diggin our own grave.| It's sad for me to say it but it's true from what I see.| it's our youth that I c.....</div>The Federales in old Mexico would make bandits dig graves too. No trial. Just a shovel, a cigarette, and a gun to your back.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gentile @ Jul 17 2007, 12:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Primetime.Nothing gets solved until people decide to look past getting offended. Mind over emotions baby.</div>Not true, im never going to accept being put down just because im a black man. You can call it ''being offended'' but it is what it is. I have pride as a human being, and being put dog like a dog will never go well with me even on the internet.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? I think the British should give us money. I am so sick of them calling us Americans Yanks. Once I never hear another British person call us a Yank, then I will finally think bigotry is solved.In other news, BET is a pretty bad channel. Maybe it's a channel owned by white people, but it is clearly a channel run, created, and watched by black people. This guy in the dorm I used to live in would turn it on. Typically the program involved horrible rap accompanied by big black/latino asses in thongs. It's really engaging programming; I must admit.Also, neither UPN or the WB exist anymore. They are CW now. I wouldn't say that UPN was necessarily for black people. They have had a lot of black sitcoms, but also shows like WWE SmackDown! and various Star Trek series. NBC, Fox, and CBS have all had "black" shows. Some of them were very successful and many weren't (realistically, most tv shows are crap... so this isn't a shot at black people).I think BET is a crappy network. Black people can have it if they want it, but it just reinforces black stereotypes and idiocy within the black community. There doesn't need to be a WET because white people aren't really obsessed with the color of their skin.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PrimeTime @ Jul 17 2007, 12:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Not true, im never going to accept being put down just because im a black man. You can call it ''being offended'' but it is what it is. I have pride as a human being, and being put dog like a dog will never go well with me even on the internet.</div> Wouldn't having pride be ignoring the moron who calls you a nigger, and be a bigger man? I honestly don't understand black people who call other black people niggers and white people nigga's as a joke, and then being so goddamn offended when a white person says it in a serious manner, I honestly think it's an overreaction for the sake of being offended....
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Jul 17 2007, 09:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Wouldn't having pride be ignoring the moron who calls you a nigger, and be a bigger man? I honestly don't understand black people who call other black people niggers and white people nigga's as a joke, and then being so goddamn offended when a white person says it in a serious manner, I honestly think it's an overreaction for the sake of being offended....</div>When white people say nigger, its just a reminder. It's not that they're not allowed to use the word, but it's the idea that we thought we've progressed enough as two races to the point where whites would never use the word in hatred. When a white person says nigger, I would be angry; if a white boy says nigga so what. Let them try to be black, no matter how much I look at some of them with disdain. Nigga has been a word that blacks understood for a long time; something that we carried with us after segregation and have taken in as our own. I'm not saying its right and I'm not saying it's wrong, but a lot of people say we need to shake it as if it was given to us from whites to call each other.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PrimeTime @ Jul 17 2007, 01:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Not true, im never going to accept being put down just because im a black man. You can call it ''being offended'' but it is what it is. I have pride as a human being, and being put dog like a dog will never go well with me even on the internet.</div>If you ain't a dog, why respond to the whistle?
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gentile @ Jul 17 2007, 01:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If you ain't a dog, why respond to the whistle?</div>here boy...
Re: Is 'BET' racist? This thread also reminded me of that time when Booker T called Hulk Hogan a nigga, then immediately grabbed his forehead realizing he shouldn't have said that on live tv.
Re: Is 'BET' racist? <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (7Goat @ Jul 17 2007, 03:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>where the hell is the asian network?!</div>It's channel 69 for me. (I'm serious)
