The reason I felt the need to comment is all of this blatant racism on this topic. I’m disgusted with this hatred. A lot of people are saying BET itself is a racist network. To that I say flip through every channel you have and tell me and yourself who you think their target audience is. If you’re being honest, it will be white. BET is targeted towards the black audience. Take that away and all there is is espn (sometimes), what used to be UPN (sometimes) and that’s it.

Basically there is no need for a W.E.T. Damn near every channel is catered to white people. You can’t argue that.

These (ah-heemmm) “artists” are put out as our best to the world but are FAR from it. Meanwhile, you have veterans like Joi scrambling for gigs. The downward spiral started when LaFace closed up shop and LA (Reid) moved on to Arista and totally treated the acts that made him like crap.

It comes with the territory of being placed on the map. As a result, you get every talent less fool shooting down here on the first thing smoking and the only talen they have if BSing and so they BS their way into a “career”. Why we allow it, I don’t know. I get at least 5 flyers sent to me a week for celebrity birthday bashes for people I’ve never heard of. They certainly have the marketing down, but forgot to offer something other than hype as the product.

I actually feel sorry for the younger ones because there’s usually a parent or guardian behind it pushing and pimping them. One act on Universal a few years ago, kid act of brothers, were living in their car. 5 kids plus the parents with a single out. I have a feeling the parents smoked up the advance $ from the label. Where will these kids be as adults if they’ve been taught that all they’re good for is to be on stage… education takes a back seat (if even still in the car)… and OMG if they don’t have any talent to begin with… Scary!

As for events that should be supported and televised – An Evening of Respect is next week, but it’s hardly being talked about. http://www.otisredding.com