And Bravo's Real Housewives are the highest rated shows in that networks history. They're no better than Frankie and Neffie, I really don't see your point. "Bad" tv is "bad" tv across the board but you just want to single out the Black folks.
Wow.
That's what you got out of this? I'm giving out passes to Bravo but criticizing BET 'cause I want to single out Black people?
Really?
Here's the thing...The title of the thread is BET Awards 2009, not "Compare/Contrast BET with other cable networks. What Bravo is doing is irrelevant to this particular discussion.
This is always the problem with BET apologists. They always seem to use the, "Well, so-and-so network is doing such-and-such show and it's just as bad as BET's latest racial atrocity." But that's never the argument. No one's talking about other networks. Other networks are besides the point. We're talking about how wack BET is, not how BET isn't so bad because other networks are just as bad. That's like saying "It's OK that my child is a "D" student because all of the other kids are underachievers too." Or, "Why should I keep my home looking decent when my neighbor's cribs look like shanty's?" Or, "Why bother striving for excellence when everybody else is shooting for slightly below average?"
Look, no one is asking for BET to be the Black PBS or CNN (another stupid-ass irrelevant argument apologists use). Critics just want BET to do better. Or at least try to do better. Back in the Video Soul days, Donnie Simpson used to sign off with this quote, and I'll paraphrase:
Shoot for the moon because if you miss, you'll still be among the stars.