Why does the things shown on BET focus on the bad things about Black America rather than the good?
146611
The same reason rapers do. They think there keeping it real, drugs,women,sex,money,cars,dubs,kills, going to jail, living in projects,drinking and smoking. There just sowing a seed of generational curses.
278363
What would be the point? I think that it is cool that african americans took the powerof hate out of the word. Now instead of it being a form of hate it basically is the equivallent of "dude" "bro" "boy" "man" that is the best part of the word niggah
987559
The main reason is pure ignorance of the black culture.  Plus the negative stereotypes of black men ie (thugs, dope dealers, etc) from medias such as newspapers, tv and music.
1158785
There's nothing particularly "bad" about either one, it's just that some individuals see things more in "black" or "white" than others, which would put them on one end of the spectrum or the other as far as politics.  The irony of the matter though is the answer to a lot of issues that "conservatives" and "liberals" often fight over is often in the middle of all this clamoring.  In the end, this is part of what makes America great...the fact that you CAN have any opinion you want about anything, regardless of which side of the political spectrum you are on.  There are many other nations around the world that having an opinion outside of the majority or what is in the government's interest isn't even a remote thought in the minds of the people.  I'm thankful to be here whether I agree with everyone about everything or not.
624931
College Hill.  Just what American needs to see.  Instead of showing hard-working, self-respecting African-American college students, BET once again chooses to uphold and support stereotypes instead of revealing and educating and enlightening mainstream America. \n\nThe show is so ghetto, I can't even begin to think of a word that fully describes it.  If there is a God in heaven, there won't be a season four.
185968
OK, see the confusion begins...!\n\nFirst of all, there is no such place as "Africa America".  \n\nSecondly, Black people were given the "politically correct" name "AfricaN AmericaN" by Jesse Jackson less than (or about) 20 years ago.  Non-Black people (especially those in high positions) and some Black people, prefer it because the word "black" was given negative perceptions ("Black" is bad, based on the meanings of certain words, like "black-listed", "black-balled", "blackmailed"...).  I have even heard of some silly Black people saying "Well coal is BLACK. So since I'm not that color, I can't be "Black".)  Crazy.\n\nWhat you teacher probably said was "African American" (listen in class!).  It is seen as OK, because Black people in american can find their origins in Africa, for the most part (some, from the Carribean).  Like "Arab-american", or "Irish-american", and so on and so forth.\n\nToo much denial for ME.  I prefer to be called what we have always been: BLACK.\n\nLM
958149
I think it means that Blacks need to stop blaming other people, generally whites, for not doing better. Blacks today have more opportunities than at any other time in history except, perhaps, immediately following the Civil War, yet instead of taking advantage of these opportunities, they insist that they are unable to because "Whitey is still holding them down." That's a victim's outlook, not powerful people who are able to determine the course of their lives. They need to seize that power and run with it and achieve whatever it is they want to achieve.
846575
Black people feel that because their ancestors were the victims of slavery & oppression, they have the right to complain about what white people do. I feel sorry for the whites today that have to constantly watch what they say around us. It causes white people to act more hostile towards blacks. I think black people need to have a sense of humor & stop gettting offended when whites open their mouth to say something...life is just too short to harbor any resentments.
922176
Its called racial profiling.....Black Americans also suffer the same....Sad to say.....
642195
im black, but it has nothin to do with my answer. I enjoy rap, but i do understand what you gettin at. The rap game is not...the rap game anymore. Nothin happened to it really, money happened to the rap game. Its millions of dollars in this buisness. And when money gets involved with anything, it becomes fake, fraud and corrupt i learned. Rappers sell shoes, clothes, and yeah...grills to uphold their record sales..And people are all into this hip-hop image that they seem makes them "cool" or "hip". But really people forgot who they really are as "people". And i dont see anything getting better here, cuz mostly (african-americans) are gettin influenced and gettin pumped by these songs. I dont really think there should be stereotyping: "man since he dresses "gangsta" i'm threatened or scared of him". It all started on the block, just havin fun wit it, and then all hell broke loose. But once again like i said, the rap-game has millions of dollars in it. And only a memory will remain of the "real" rappers.
586711
i think the problem with modern black people in america has nothing to do with noah but a lot more to do with inheriting a crisis of wealth disparity,\n\nexample,  home ownership in black america is significantly less then the overall american average, american average is like 75% and the black american average is like 55% -60%.  So the first thing blacks did in america was get out of slavery,\nthe second thing was political freedoms, like not riding in the back of the bus and not being denied their vote, and becoming members of the jury,\n\nnow there is an economic problem that blacks face.  Financial independence.  Many go to get good paying jobs and home owners.  Others turn to a life of drugs and crime and end up dead or in jail.  One doesn't have to be white or black to notice that at some places they just don't go at night because theres a creepy guy at the door that every few minutes someone comes running up to.\n\nThe problem of drugs affects whites and blacks.  The problem of the home owndership, this is specific to blacks, and they will need to address this in their own community.  Why and what is the solution I dont know.  To suggest a myth of someone named noah or his son has anything to do with modern society, this I know isn't part of it. ANd it weakens the effort to fix the disparity.
259742
I could go on for hours but, until most people are educated in history, politics, respect and self worth. That goes for black, and any other race in this country. It's not so much that blacks should be upset with whites because our ancestors  bought them from their own people and now some want everything handed to them along with other financial reparations. It's that, if you look at factual history, all of us (every race) were slaves at one time to some great empire. Blacks were just the last! I do not think it is fair  that Americans should live in a fantasy world and show over 50% blacks in advertising campaigns, music, TV programing when they only make up for 16% of the US population of which that number actually about 11% due to incarceration.
617490
Some people do not know they have a good life until ruined.\n\nThen there are some who might be too greedy to take a risk to have a better life and that bet went south.\n\nThen there are others who ruin their good (in other people's view as good) life when they might not be satisfied with their life.
236111
It's a black on black insult used to accuse a black person of selling out or otherwise betray his race. It's a reference to Uncle Tom's Cabin by Hariet Beecher Stowe. \n\nIn recent times, it has been used by blacks or whites to refer to those blacks who might be conservative or Republican.
1098646
because people are ignorant. that's all there is to it. we make things out to be a big deal, instead of acting like black people are just like everybody else. take black history month for example. kids are forced to learn stuff only for a month about the contributions of black americans. it should be integrated all the time and treated no differently than anyone else.
943544
This is just my opinion, but as far as media is concerned, especially T.V. reporters have a habit and a lot of times a bad habit of latching on to negative things;they dont report the good things as much. So you could say we've in good part tainted our own image; and media a lot of times will make it worse by always portraying in a negative light and in a negative way. so agian t.v. people will a lot of times portray black people as being criminal, thieves, tryna be hard or other things like that. \n     I would say it as affected us in that younger people who are just comming up have watched a lot of that type of telivision programing and though some of them may know better, they still conciously or maybe even unconciosly act the way they've seen us portrayed; which is not very good.
780235
Because them Hatin' kinds of blacks are Scared that Hate will find THEM!\n\nEqual Opportunity Destroyer