Crackheads and BET

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I just want to know when will BET cease to exist? When will Debra Lee quit and go home? How many crackheads does one network need? I've got questions that need answers.

They introduced the world to Frankie, Keyshia Cole's mother, and her crackhead antics. They constantly play degrading music videos that leave much to be desired of the generations to come. And now two women who are famous for no real reason get their own show? I'm trying to give Tiny partial credit for her involvement in the group Xscape back in the 90's, but they haven't recorded anything in nearly a decade. She is only relevant because she is the walking womb for the rapper T.I. But Toya, well she's famous because she had a baby with Lil Wayne as a middle schooler. Wow just wow! These are the role models now huh? In the above clip, Toya goes to search for her crackhead mother in the streets of New Orleans where upon finding her she immediately begins to yell at this grown woman as though that's not her mother. I know the situation is probably frustrating to her, but that's not exactly how to reform a person with a drug problem. Tiny goes to her parents' house and it's revealed that her father has Alzheimer's. Her mother yells at him like he's 5. I just can't take it anymore. I haven't been a watcher of BET for quite sometime now and it seems like I won't ever be at the rate their going. But I'm not exactly their target audience anyway.

I just want to know how long can they continue to glorify these derogatory images of us and confirm for the less informed out there that we aren't a people of any depth and that we must surely be monolithic based on the fact that BET seems to only showcase one type of profile within our community. And don't give me crap about College Hill and Harlem Heights. The kids on College Hill all behave as though they were just released from barns and the young people on Harlem Heights were all perpetuating the flashy-living-well-beyond-my-means lifestyle all too prevalent in our community. That show gave no realistic view of Harlem or these people's lives. Don't get me started on the insult to intellect of the blatant product placement (I confess to watching a couple of eps online to see what it was about - Damn you Bowler Boy!) Oh and the star of that show was only so because she at one time dated a rapper. Which leads me to believe that the folks at BET hate women as they will only portray us as sex objects, crackheads, groupies, baby momma's, or round the way girls trying to make it in the world. News flash BET: not all of us fit this mold!!!

I understand that quality entertaining television will require BET to hire truly talented people with brains and at least a half working moral compass, but giving the world stereotype after stereotype for consumption is no way to make a profit. Boycotting BET isn't the answer. Protesting outside the home of their execs isn't the answer. BET, like any corporation, only responds to one thing and one thing only, dollars. If it don't make dollars it don't make sense. Let's start boycotting the sponsors of the programs on BET. Without their sponsor dollars they don't exist. I gotta figure out how to get an online petition started. But I guess I have to find out who sponsors this madness. Anyone know who airs commercials on BET?