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"B.E.T."
  by cool_lik_nikki


It’s Black Entertainment
To entertain a certain amount of black people
I believe racist whites enjoy this channel
Way more than we do
Look at them niggers…look at them coons
Are these shows what we have to offer
To educate our kids
When they get home from school?
Let’s put Keyshia Cole’s family
On TV
Since when did a crackhead and a babymama
Become a success story?
There are so many people in the world
Going through the same thing
Do a “True Life” about their life
It would be far more entertaining
I never watch 106 & Park
Freestyle Fridays just aren’t the same
Folks say the firing of AJ & Free
May be the reason for the low ratings
Either way…B.E.T. is to blame
Who creates a show called College Hill
Where you never see a student pull out a book?
Too busy fighting over silly bullsh!t
Like ribs or whose girlfriend someone took
It’s now a channel created for Blacks
To make fun of Blacks
But why even attempt to do it
When VH1 is known for that?

Remember Hit List?
Remember Cita’s World? That was the show
Remember Planet Groove?
B.E.T. doesn’t even show our music videos anymore
Unless it’s on 106 & Park
But it only features music made by coons
“Do the booty doo…do the booty doo”
Making porch monkeys jump off their stoop
Haven’t showered all day
Failed to finish high school
But will jump and do the new dance that’s cool
High ratings go towards shows with wack realities
Tiny and Toya
I want to kill the man who put money into this for it to begin
2 lucky b!tches that got pregnant
There you go…let the season end
Teens going crazy, saying,
“I wish I was married to a rapper”
There’s no glamour to it
And B.E.T. won’t even reveal the true disaster
And even though the music video, “Read a Book”
Was meant to send Blacks a message
But by the way that it was illustrated
It did not receive my blessing

BlackBuster has failed in so many ways
If it’s a movie about a hair salon
Or black people in a gang
Or anything degrading like Soul Plane
It will get overplayed
Why does B.E.T. tend shy away
From true Black Cinema?
“Love Jones” and “Poetic Justice”
Are just a few of the many movies
That we should be proud of
B.E.T. is another Titanic
Slowing sinking
And the people stuck on this ship
Are regular watchers
With their knowledge diminishing
Want to help the black community?
Put on a reality show where people are going back to school
To get their GEDs
Put a on a show that reveals a hard working Black man
Supporting his family
Or a single mother, not on welfare, taking care of her children’s needs
Put on something that shows Black people
Doing great deeds
But no….
Let’s put on reruns of shows
That people don’t care to see anymore
Maybe, that was the reason they were canceled before?
So B.E.T.
You have so much to do
To gain back viewers like me
Who were once loyal to you
Because right now you are putting a check mark
By each stereotype
That other races seem think about us
And they are far from right
They could cancel this channel
As this point, it wouldn’t faze me
I’ve already seem to give up my ratings
To other shows that amaze me
I’m not “Black & Proud”
When it comes to B.E.T.
This is meant to be
The voice of our black people
But this doesn’t express me
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Date Submitted: Jul 24, 2009 (02:22 PM)
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  Drea s
07/24/09 (09:52 PM) 
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