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If the Earth
were only a few feet in
diameter, floating a few feet above
a field somewhere, people would come
from everywhere to marvel at it. People would
walk around it marveling at its big pools of water,
its little pools and the water flowing between the pools.
People would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding
it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would
marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the
ball, and at the creatures in the water.
The people would declare it as sacred because
it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not hurt. The ball would be the
greatest wonder known, and people would come to
pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know
beauty and to wonder how it could be. People
would love it, and defend it with their lives
because they would somehow know that
their lives, their own roundness, could
be nothing without it. If the
Earth were only a few
feet in diameter.
-author unknown

change from time to time…
I consider this a necessary consequence of having an open mind.
This weblog is intended to provide a semi-permanent point in
time snapshot and manifestation of the various memes running
around my brain, and as such any thoughts and opinions expressed
within out-of-date posts may not the same, nor even similar,
to those I may hold today.

Sigh.....where do I begin?

I think its safe to say that among other reasons, BET was started for the purpose of giving African-Americans a channel were they saw folks who looked like them and were going through the same trials and tribulations as they were. Shows like "Good Times," "Sanford and Son," and "The Jefferson's" allowed us to relate and gave us a chance to take our minds off our own troubles.

The idea was nice, I'll give it that but at the end of the day the bottom line is.....money.

Can we say buyout? Yep...the all mighty dollar became too powerful and BET was sold.

Let the coonery commence!

We now arrive to the present spectacle that is BET in today's age. Full of booty shaking videos and ghetto reality shows.

Now when I say ghetto....I do mean ghetto. Lord I knows I love my people, but some of us can act like straight fools.

And this is exactly what the new owners of BET want. They know if they put us on t.v. yelling, fighting, and being all types of crazy, it'll sell. People will watch.

And not just other African-Americans, no....surely not. Other races are watching us act out and this is where they get their outlandish ideas from. Where the stereotypes are formed. Its so perfectly clear.....so why does it seem like I'm the only one who sees it?

Shows like "College Hill," "Tiny and Toya," and "Neffie and Frankie" do not do us justice as a people. These shows depict us as coons to be perfectly honest. As if we as a race lack class, dignity, and the ability to act accordingly in public.

It truly disturbs me to see what this channel has become, so far from the channel it once was. And it saddens me beyond means that instead of there being an outcry from the black community, we actually tune in and watch this garbage....feed into it like we can't get enough.

We're promoting our own self destruction. Simple.

I've said this before in a previous blog, we've got to wake up people! Open up our eyes to the way our culture, our self respect, is being tore down before our eyes.

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