BET is a channel I have rarely
watched. The majority of what I hear
about BET is mostly things like “That’s trash!”
and “Who watches that stuff?”.
Due to these typical reactions of the people that surround me, I have
never had any sort of drive to watch BET or any of the black cultural shows
that were broadcast on BET prior to the company being taken over by a large
conglomeration. I always figured that I
would not enjoy any of the programming because it was not aimed at a white
middle class male and if I did watch the programs on BET I would immediately
feel alienated by them. I feel that the
majority of white middle class, people like me, feel the same way about BET
because after all the channel is called the Black Entertainment Television
channel. From what we discussed in
class, BET was meant to televise black cultural television, not Tyler Perry’s
horrible sitcoms. Black cultural
television has a purpose, Tyler Perry’s sitcoms do not. I have caught myself watching a Tyler Perry
show once and I was immediately turned off by the amount of characters that
overplay their “blackness”, which caused me, as a member of the audience, to
feel alienated. But this might be the
primary purpose for the BET network. The
network is primary meant to draw the African American audience, rather than the
total population.
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