Another difference between the music featured on BET and country music is that country music is not pop music for white people. Hip hop in its most negative variety is black pop music. The first image that people conjure up of white people does not automatically invoke country music images. With us, it is a different story. There was no accident that those idiots at Auburn were trying to show tenets of a bling bling lifestyle in their horrific costumes. Big jewelry, crime, attitude, women as play tings and decoration that you can throw in a pool, rip the top off of or pour your liquor on are the predominant images of African Americans in some white communities. The media images are the only thing to which they are exposed.
Yes, I like hip hop and own some of the albums that gave rise to these videos. But not all, And nothing that comes off of BET uncut
(If you have not seen it, it is the worst of the worst- videos so bad even bet does not show them when decent folks are up and about.) Still, I do not appreciate the lack of diversity in images presented on BET. The lack of balance and counter images sets us up for the misguided attitudes of our young women and men and we will all pay the price in the end.