^^^But once you take away the word "black" BET is irrelevant. People give certain things too much power. I'm careful how I type in these type of threads because members turn your words into more than what you're saying. But.....
For all the emphasis we put on BET. It reaches and effects but a small range of people.
MTV is BET on steriods, watched by everyone, not just black folk and displays us the exact same way BET does, only to an outside audience looking in for lack of better words.
We tend to point at what we can relate to more. BET has no power. MTV runs over them. MTV has no power. These are outlets for entertainment. Media in general that you should fear are sources like MSNBC, CNN, Court/Tru TV. Cause when the "entertainment" stops and "reality TV" is shown we still the main attraction.
Not saying any of it is a conspiracy theory. not making it a "black thang"(I hate doing that, we're all humans). But Truth is, if you watch BET you already know about hip hop. You watch MTV you're there for music or shows about teenage rich kids. You learn inbetween all that of "black culture", that's scarier than tuning in knowing you're seeing b.s.
Now amplify that with CNN, FOX News, NBC, Court/Tru TV. And it is indeed an american thing from what I see. All the news out here subliminally revolves around race and cast systems. BBC doesn't show us killing each other and locked up behind bars as informative news to my knowlege.
They do show Chef Ramsey, and that dude is the most gangsta guy on earth, to hell with rappers and killers, lol.