Because the Gangster ideals need to die a good death in the Obama era.
Black gangstas have had their genre now it is time to for Black Bond Villains where a larger and more creative standard is achieved than the same old mundane Boyz in Da Hood routine.
WAIT... are you serious?
Attention Black Community: Freakin Let Go Already!
That lifestyle cost us Biggie, Tupac, Jam Master Jay, Scott La Rock, Tookie and even Suge Knight's once powerful business acumen to all that madness. Gangsterism only takes... it does not give back so good riddance!
Black folks can pack the concert hall to hear Gangsta Rap for hours on end but cannot come to conventions like SIGGRAPH to learn the latest software to create better graphics for our comics book characters, sci-fi movies and animation! I counted a total of seven brothas there (Yes I counted) and still we wonder why our production values as black folks are as low as our expectations!
Stop serving 2 masters and promote black super heroes from now on before your blessings are taken away from you and the Latino Super Hero Community takes our vacant spot.
This is why white fanboys mock us so much... bury that (c)rap and pretend as if it never existed!
If we made a legitimate effort to promote black super heroes without double minded hesitation then it will bring more potential creators and writers out of the woodwork and it would help fund our industry as it has done for Hollywood already.
I would love to submit my vast volume of characters to BET but not if all the funding and attention was focused on Gangsters and their deathstyle lifestyle. I'm not feeling the Dwayne McDuffie at DC treatment I would recieve while trying to convince BET execs that this worked for Marvel, DC, Spielberg and whole genres of special effects projects and should be obvious at this point.
Put your glow in the dark Punisher shirt on and kill every last remaining gangster that you see so that it cannot reboot itself again!
Gangsters are selfish sociopaths that occasionally pass out turkeys on Thanksgivings to poor people or donate their "BLOOD MONEY" to charities but when it comes to uplifting and upholding decent ideals they are useless and will desert you for their own self gratification.
If I was a billionaire I would buy out BET and make it literally rival Disney/Marvel/ESPN/Pixar with all that black talent from here to Africa!
I would burn scripts in front of idea submitters right there in my office and make them come up with way better ISH than that backwater stuck in suspended animation garbage of yesteryear until they rivaled Spielberg or James Cameron with better projects!
DO BLACK FOLKS DREAM BIG ANYMORE?
Y'know.....
I like to flatter myself into thinking that I am fairly bright.
But every time Flex gets on his “Black Super Hero” kick I will frankly affirm
I have no idea what the heck he means.
Next y’all will blame Gangsta Rap for the cancellation of A Man Called Hawk, M.A.N.T.I.S and Fourtune Dane.
If an idea does catch on with the general public either that idea itself was flawed or the execution of it was.
Am I going to blame Jay-Z when my pitch for a T.V. show fails?
Shoot, half of Reg’s plans for B.E.T. didn’t come to fruition. I’m fairly certain Memphis Bleek has little to do with it.
Or, did he?!?!?!
There are bunch of scared nickle and dimers running things at B.E.T.
Period.
And as Jeff noted, as long as airing reruns of say, Living Single isn’t offending the Kente Krowd and its cheap why NOT do it if you are B.E.T.?
Its not that deep folks.
