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Old 03-20-2002, 02:27 PM
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This is truly sad. To see black people so money hungry as to ignore outcries from the community in which they claim to have established an institution is rediculous. Let's look at the numbers from the report (I am a sociologist in training )BET is offered in 71.4 million households in America, of which only 9 million are black. That translates into 12.6% of the subscribed homes are black. They average 347,000 viewers. If we double the proportion of that viewership that is African American (what we call over sampling), we see that about 85,000 viewers on average whatching BET are black, which means the rest are mostly white. This goes to show you that BET is minstrel TV, Bamboozled all over again. I do not think that many black people actually watch the stuff that gets the ratings (like Cita and Comic View) the numbers just do not add up. BET's viewership is mostly white, just like rap music fans, this is the reason why they have to show the destructive stuff, because that is the image that whites find acceptable of us. Even if we as blacks stop watching BET, it wouldn't effect the bottom line rating that much at all. But if we as the NPHC called for the actual boycott of advertisers, then their bottom line would be effected, then we will see some changes.
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