****WTF is wrong with 'READ A BOOK' video?****
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Since money isn't GOD to me. I wouldn't take it, because if someone thought enough of me to give me $100,000, they could have the decency to make sure it's clean.Furious Styles said:
I have this thing called dignity and if someone tries to give me that in that form I wouldn't take because that's showing me what they think of me, which is less than shit.
Get some pride
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DANGEROUSBLACKMAN
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Well B.E.T. Is Owned By White People So They Can Careless What Gets Put On The Network, They Probably Was Glad To Get Something Like The Read A Book Video On There To Make Blacks Feel Low.
hold up. these are the SAME parents that let their kids watch '106 and park?' the video shows the same thing their kids see every DAY on tv. not just bet. ALL tv.
the video sends a positive message wrapped in satire. ease up and enjoy it.
the video sends a positive message wrapped in satire. ease up and enjoy it.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=2435
Here's a recent article about the creator of the video from Washington City Paper. I applaud the brotha. He has a song on his Myspace page called Grown assed man which I think deserves a listen.
Here's a recent article about the creator of the video from Washington City Paper. I applaud the brotha. He has a song on his Myspace page called Grown assed man which I think deserves a listen.
The point is this...
Everything in the "read a book" video, can be found in just about every other video on BET, the cursing, the booty shaking, the materialism, the sexual under and over tones. Yet not one news segment or outrage over those videos. And get this...it was all REAL PEOPLE!!!! :shock:
So one can only conclude that the only reason this video causes a strong responds is because it is a cartoon and it has a message to it...
Why no outrage at the coffee shop video? It has KIDS singing drug odes...
Boy I tell you, people are fucking stupid these days....to put it bluntly
I think the creators got exactly what they wanted, to call people on there bullshit with there misplaced outrage.... this stuff is the corner stone of BET programming, yet now its a problem because its a cartoon saying read a book???
Wait til you see my......
AWWW skeet skeet......
Make it rain on them hoes....
Serve it out the back like the coffee shop....
Superman that hoe...super soak that hoe....
I'm in love with a stripper...
Read a book......JUST TOO MUCH!!!!
Everything in the "read a book" video, can be found in just about every other video on BET, the cursing, the booty shaking, the materialism, the sexual under and over tones. Yet not one news segment or outrage over those videos. And get this...it was all REAL PEOPLE!!!! :shock:
So one can only conclude that the only reason this video causes a strong responds is because it is a cartoon and it has a message to it...
Why no outrage at the coffee shop video? It has KIDS singing drug odes...
Boy I tell you, people are fucking stupid these days....to put it bluntly
I think the creators got exactly what they wanted, to call people on there bullshit with there misplaced outrage.... this stuff is the corner stone of BET programming, yet now its a problem because its a cartoon saying read a book???
Wait til you see my......
AWWW skeet skeet......
Make it rain on them hoes....
Serve it out the back like the coffee shop....
Superman that hoe...super soak that hoe....
I'm in love with a stripper...
Read a book......JUST TOO MUCH!!!!
IT'S A MOTHERFUCKIN' JOKE ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!!
The video is more out of hate for BET than it is anything else. Anybody who doesn't see that is a moron. It's like how The Simpsons are always making fun of Fox News and shit. It was on some straight subversive, "BET is dumbing down kids with their videos shit". Do you see the videos that come on before and after this video? Where's the controversy. The only difference between this video and the others that come on is that it's saying "read a book", so why isn't every other video this controversial that plays at the same time.
This thread reminds me of the thread a few weeks ago about there not being any Black movies like "Superbad", and "American Pie". Black so-called intellectuals see everything as "coonin'" and nobody who's Black can do what Will Ferrell does or what Carlos Mencia does or even what Saturday Night Live does. If a white comedian did what these guys did, making fun of the network that they work for and doing it in a kind of "tounge in cheek" kind a way. Everybody would calll them geniuses, but niggaz gotta hate.
Fukk y'all. Y'all are keeping us enslaved more than crakkkas are.
The video is more out of hate for BET than it is anything else. Anybody who doesn't see that is a moron. It's like how The Simpsons are always making fun of Fox News and shit. It was on some straight subversive, "BET is dumbing down kids with their videos shit". Do you see the videos that come on before and after this video? Where's the controversy. The only difference between this video and the others that come on is that it's saying "read a book", so why isn't every other video this controversial that plays at the same time.
This thread reminds me of the thread a few weeks ago about there not being any Black movies like "Superbad", and "American Pie". Black so-called intellectuals see everything as "coonin'" and nobody who's Black can do what Will Ferrell does or what Carlos Mencia does or even what Saturday Night Live does. If a white comedian did what these guys did, making fun of the network that they work for and doing it in a kind of "tounge in cheek" kind a way. Everybody would calll them geniuses, but niggaz gotta hate.
Fukk y'all. Y'all are keeping us enslaved more than crakkkas are.
I could care less about that video.. but where do they find these black anchormen???? There must be a Journalism major at Cooniversity where they are mass producing these cats. I think that is where bromack graduated from, summa cum laude with a minor in yes massaology.
The "READ A BOOK" video is the worst piece of shit I ever seen!! What a Hummer with rims, hoes dancing, and gang members is RELATED to reading books??!!
TAKE THAT JUNK OFF FROM B.E.T. !!
I didn't though that B.E.T. would sink that low!!
I hope Bill Cosby will say something about this!!
TAKE THAT JUNK OFF FROM B.E.T. !!
I didn't though that B.E.T. would sink that low!!
I hope Bill Cosby will say something about this!!
Merely suggesting the video to not have the symbols it utilized is senseless.Without the common symbols(asses shaking,the word nigga being used over and over again,the rims and luxury,gang related gun shooting etc.) the video would not have gotten play.ron2k7 said:The "READ A BOOK" video is the worst piece of shit I ever seen!! What a Hummer with rims, hoes dancing, and gang members is RELATED to reading books??!!
TAKE THAT JUNK OFF FROM B.E.T. !!
I didn't though that B.E.T. would sink that low!!
I hope Bill Cosby will say something about this!!
WhY?
VIACOMM wants symbols to control you,which is why all the videos they play are filled with the very symbols displayed in the READ A BOOK video that you have a problem with.Obviously the words are different,but im sure viacommm didnt even pay attention to the words,as long as the images that sale to people were displayed in the video.
Were it not for the images,nobody would be listening,as images of luxurious rims and ass everywhere etc. currently fill your brain as a normalcy.Take for example,videos by Common,or Talib...(mainstream partials with true school-hip hop content)these videos arent popular and put on a pedastool on countdowns consistently because their videos do not contain these images.
The video did exactly what it was supposed to due.... start a dialog about the ignorance that is being pumped into the brains of the children. If you're angry at this then I can only imagine how you feel about the shit that gets played on rap city, 106 & park and public airwaves in general.
Pieces like this are missing in our community. Every now and then you need something like this to smack the hell out of people in the face and make them wake up take notice to what is really going on around them.
Hip Hop has been taken and turned into coon hop (as one board member so eloquently put it). And this video puts that shit on blast. I bet a few more parent are going to be monitoring BET now to whats going on with that channel. And that alone would make this video worth all the fuss.
Pieces like this are missing in our community. Every now and then you need something like this to smack the hell out of people in the face and make them wake up take notice to what is really going on around them.
Hip Hop has been taken and turned into coon hop (as one board member so eloquently put it). And this video puts that shit on blast. I bet a few more parent are going to be monitoring BET now to whats going on with that channel. And that alone would make this video worth all the fuss.
Or they could do like me and ban that channel from their households period. Black folks don't have a clue about the channel and think it's stillowned by a black person. Or they think they are doing good by suppoting the so called black channel.Chitown said:
Most average black folks are clueless sheep.
ron2k7 said:The "READ A BOOK" video is the worst piece of shit I ever seen!! What a Hummer with rims, hoes dancing, and gang members is RELATED to reading books??!!
TAKE THAT JUNK OFF FROM B.E.T. !!
I didn't though that B.E.T. would sink that low!!
I hope Bill Cosby will say something about this!!
some people dont get sublte suggestions or proof of a problem...
Has anyone here every watched Dead Prez's "Hip Hop" video?
they start with a phat fine ass woman walking, zoom into the ass then pause, bring up the text, now that we got your attention....
BAM into the song
no one would watch a video or listen to a song if it didnt have a hoe booty shaking, so it only makes sense you advertise books on that ass since you advertise everything else on it and its the only thing most people will pay attention to
what do rims have to do with the song? did you even listen to the song?
You didnt think b.e.t. would sink that low? this is b.e.t., the black entertainment channel we are talking about right? just making sure everyone in this thread is on the same page, cause the b.e.t. i know would not only sink very low but would raise the bar as to how low you can go...
what puzzles me is the outrage.. the reporter from cnn made it seem like he supports and lets his kids watch b.e.t in the afternoon..
dumb ass why is booty shaking and hoes and gangstas and rims being aired on bet all of a sudden an issue? isnt this their format?
the song is anti that stuff, so it went the sound of the south and the video of booty and gangsta that everyone seems to enjoy so much to promote the opposite.. again i'm surprised that people are mad at this and surprised that b.e.t. even aired it since it is clearly also dissing them
one last comment
why wasnt this much outrage and questions comming up when b.e.t. dumped the news, dropped tavis smiley and just showed more booty and gansta videos and more college in hill in its place?
oh the hipocracy
Now the real question is this....
If the video was produced by white people, would the same individuals who think it was a "positive message" or a "damn good video" feel the same way?
How about if it was created by white folks and shown on NBC? Would you be ready to hit the streets and march until someone got fired? If so, why?
If you would have a problem with it if it were produced by white people then I would venture to say that YOU are part of the problem. And I don't mean that as a diss to my brothers, but why is SHIT better served to us by BLACK people than by WHITE people? Is it not still SHIT?
When Young Joc makes a song about DRUGS and has CHILDREN singing the hook (Coffee Shop), is that ok with you? If you're 8 year old hears that on the radio, and starts singing along, that's ok with you?
People, wrong is wrong, whether the wrong is committed by black people or white people. Its still wrong. Children have to be protected, and that should be the first goal of ALL people, Black or White. However, I don't think "Read A Book" should be singled out, I think about 80% of what is on BET is garbage our kids don't need to see. But, who cares about our kids, if not us...who?
If the video was produced by white people, would the same individuals who think it was a "positive message" or a "damn good video" feel the same way?
How about if it was created by white folks and shown on NBC? Would you be ready to hit the streets and march until someone got fired? If so, why?
If you would have a problem with it if it were produced by white people then I would venture to say that YOU are part of the problem. And I don't mean that as a diss to my brothers, but why is SHIT better served to us by BLACK people than by WHITE people? Is it not still SHIT?
When Young Joc makes a song about DRUGS and has CHILDREN singing the hook (Coffee Shop), is that ok with you? If you're 8 year old hears that on the radio, and starts singing along, that's ok with you?
People, wrong is wrong, whether the wrong is committed by black people or white people. Its still wrong. Children have to be protected, and that should be the first goal of ALL people, Black or White. However, I don't think "Read A Book" should be singled out, I think about 80% of what is on BET is garbage our kids don't need to see. But, who cares about our kids, if not us...who?
Tripster said:
Everybody can talk about themselves. That's like saying "If you don't get mad when your mama curses you out, then you can't get mad if somebody else curses you out." Duh, Jewish comedians make fun of being Jewish all of the time. So do Mexicans. Women, everybody does it, even gay people. Black people have been sending ourselves harsh messages to each other for years.
You must be one of these dudes who thinks that Black culture starts with the '60s Civil Rights/Love movement. Please, we've always been cutting edge. It's a media falsehood that we were always these "meek" and "non-threatening" people. There have been plenty of Black revolutionaries who'd say what needed to be said to our people no matter how harsh it had to be said.
lol og read moreclayizaiken said:can it be that it was all so simple, then??
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nothing wrong with the video people grow up!
The Amerikkkan Idol said:
And since we are making hasty generalizations, you must be one of those dudes who treats WHITE people better than BLACK people.....hmmm?
Do you talk to White people differently than Black people? Do you straighten in your seat when addressing a White person? Do you change your speech patterns when addressing a White person? Because, I could be wrong, but you certainly appear to be one of those individuals.
Do you work harder around White people? Do you put an extra couple of taps in your dance around White people?
Please don't take all of that the wrong way, I'm not trying to diss or anything. I'm just trying to understand why we seem to reserve our BEST for White people, but save BULLSHIT for Black people. Don't Black people deserve the BEST from Black people?
so thas the worst song out right now?
Oh my God that Video is Horrible..... Calling people niggas is really uncool at this point, so it is hard to get a pass from me on that alone, Most kids will scoff it off or laugh at it, so while somewhat satirical, it defeats its point.... This is how misguided the Hip hop Movement has become over the last 15-20 years...... How about BET taking the responsibility of E-D-U-C-A-T-I-N-G the kids after school (and save the videoes for after 10PM instead of patronizing them and capitalizing off of them) I am telling yall, these parts of Hip Hop cant be saved..... the video was pedestrian trash, and the people who made it know that, they are getting payed to defend it....
Also, Viacom released a statement that this video is thought provoking and doesnt insult anyones intelligence....
I would really like to know whotheir core audience is if this video doesnt smite on both
Also, Viacom released a statement that this video is thought provoking and doesnt insult anyones intelligence....
I would really like to know whotheir core audience is if this video doesnt smite on both
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If black people cannot see the meaning of what the video is trying to represent then I guess black people are more lost than I thought but for some strange reason," I don''t know why" parents thinks all the other videos on BET is cool for their children to watch? Doesn't make sense.
Tripster said:
What the fuck are you talking about? How did you get that out of what I said. I'm talking about comedy. About 50% of comedy is self-deprecation. the other half is making fun of other people. How in the hell is that saving "my best for white people". I work for a Black woman, so I don't even have white co-workers.
I do however talk to my friends/family differently than I do people I've never met, and I hope you do too. I call my brother an "jackass" all of the time. Does that make me a hypocrite because I'd whoop somebody's ass if they said the same thing to him? No. Please what is wrong with all of you so-called Black intellectuals who don't understand the concept of context and satire all of a sudden. I guess you'd hate Hollywood Shuffle". There's nothing in that movie but poking fun at Black stereotypes.
I can see their point that this video is not appropiate for the kiddies. But why the fuck is not one pissed about all the other bullshit they show on BET? WTF?!?!?!
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Best vid I've seen all year
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some people dont get sublte suggestions or proof of a problem...
Has anyone here every watched Dead Prez's "Hip Hop" video?
they start with a phat fine ass woman walking, zoom into the ass then pause, bring up the text, now that we got your attention....
BAM into the song
no one would watch a video or listen to a song if it didnt have a hoe booty shaking, so it only makes sense you advertise books on that ass since you advertise everything else on it and its the only thing most people will pay attention to
what do rims have to do with the song? did you even listen to the song?
You didnt think b.e.t. would sink that low? this is b.e.t., the black entertainment channel we are talking about right? just making sure everyone in this thread is on the same page, cause the b.e.t. i know would not only sink very low but would raise the bar as to how low you can go...
what puzzles me is the outrage.. the reporter from cnn made it seem like he supports and lets his kids watch b.e.t in the afternoon..
why is booty shaking and hoes and gangstas and rims being aired on bet all of a sudden an issue? isnt this their format?
the song is anti that stuff, so it went the sound of the south and the video of booty and gangsta that everyone seems to enjoy so much to promote the opposite.. again i'm surprised that people are mad at this and surprised that b.e.t. even aired it since it is clearly also dissing them
one last comment
why wasnt this much outrage and questions comming up when b.e.t. dumped the news, dropped tavis smiley and just showed more booty and gansta videos and more college in hill in its place?
oh the hipocracy
I agree b/c some people do controversial things to get attention and he got his point across. Boondocks does the same thing except they get their positive message across through the character Huey. BET news was a good program b/c it focused on black issues they even had a part about finances. I really think there are more important issues that CNN could cover such as illegal immigration, New Orleans, gang violence, and our broken education system.
It's a cool video to me fuck all the arguments.
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