Black Star Power? Yeah Right.

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BET can kick rocks! Why? Because the BET we all knew and loved is looooong gone. Who remembers Video Soul, Rap City and Teen Summit? Classics! Today we have a hot ghetto mess of new programming with some of the most ridiculous shows in reality TV to date. Case in point: Tiny and Toya along with the upcoming why y’all doing this to us Neffe and Frankie to name a few. Wack.

I can’t help but wonder what’s going on in the mind of Mr. Bob “sellout” Johnson considering BET was his baby, making him mad cheddar, (approximately 3 billion to be exact), when he sold the network off to Viacom in November 2000. He was once noted in saying that BET “should be for black media what Disney is to the general media or what Motown was to music”, but it seems to me that vision just slipped between the cracks since he passed the baton.

Maybe I’m still in a state of shock over the coonery and baffoonery otherwise known as the 2009 BET Awards show, or maybe I’m just getting, uhmmm, old(er) because even with talks of acquiring former CW sitcom The Game, I’m still doubtful of any meaningful redemption. If I were Debra Lee, I would hang my head in shame over the mess that’s become of BET. I’m just glad we have a back up in TVOne

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Tags: BET, Reality TV, The Game