****WTF is wrong with 'READ A BOOK' video?****

[Mr. Met]

I'm no BET fan, but can folk get off their high horse?

When are people going to stop expecting others to raise their kids?

So they get rid of this, what's next?

You're kids will sneak off and get this shit off BGOL.

And where's Paula Zahn?

Let's get brothers to argue about dumb shit as usual.

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[JD Walker]

Nothing is wrong with it. Since the advent of "Coon-Hop" this video was much needed.

 

[moblack]

I saw this on once at a friends house. I said wtf is that? IS that a joke or something ? Just shameful this is on tv. Parents wanting a tv to raise a child or not. Just pathetic

 

[NativeSon]

Nothing is wrong with it. Since the advent of "Coon-Hop" this video was much needed.

 

[Furious Styles]

Nothing. This video is great. it's sending a positive message to our children. Who cares how its packaged. If some one gives you $100,000 covered in shit....your gonna wash the shit off and take the money. The power is in the message.

 

[NinjaspiT]

When i first saw the video,i didnt know who made it.I then heard it was on BET,and knowing BET is owned by VIACOM white folk,i decided the video was a little pungent when it got to the the breath part.However,after watching the motives behind the video,and knowing who actually made the video,i have concluded that the video is very well called for.


Notice how they used a black interviewer to ridicule the makers of the video who were black.If anybody has a problem with this video,YOU are apart of the problem.That is all.

 

[PLASMA CANNON]

nothing wrong with tha vid

ps.... iz that tv reporter 4 cnn not the biggest coon around you see that shit how he going at the young brotherz

 

[NativeSon]

obviously this uncle tom doesn't know what the fuck he was talking about...this video is one of the best videos out rite now (next to chamilionares hiphop police). and YES, if u don't think so then u ARE apart of the problem. don't fool urself, this is the world we live in today. kids see and do worst shit than this by the age of 10. w/ all the negative messages fed to them by the other videos this is EXACTLY what is needed.

 

[outdablu]

i dont know if this is satirical or what? Ive seen it many times, but i dont know...if it was a skit on Dave Chapelle it would have a diverse effect, but for BET...i dont know where it coming from or where its going. Is it trying to envoke or enrich?

i just dont know...

 

[maddcat]

Dang people aare just talking about this video ?...Let
me check ther date on this thread.

 

[Bebop Johnson]

Nothing is wrong with it. Since the advent of "Coon-Hop" this video was much needed.

cosign...

if catz can't see the sad state of hip-hop and "family" television today...


...points out a bigger issue with viacom and black exploitation television. seems like the creators just couldn't say... "i hate the bitches i work for"

 

[gutsbrown]

They missed the chance to say (Going to jail is not cool, pull your pants up, real women love smart men) Thank GOD I had proud extended males in my family (yea daddy was not there) that showed me real values. Not these packaged, coon idiot values.

 

[jedi517]

How else are you gonna grab the attention of the kids who are now more sensory than any other time in human history. Shake that ass... and read a book. Its simple and efficient. Shit I know this kid who puts his study notes to hip hop instrumentals and aces every exam he takes. Do what you gotta do to shine.

 

[Dante Blane]

Nothing. This video is great. it's sending a positive message to our children. Who cares how its packaged. If some one gives you $100,000 covered in shit....your gonna wash the shit off and take the money. The power is in the message.

You are a sure shot coon ass house nigga your damn self. Go hang yourself. Matter of fact read a book, then hang yourself. "Power is in the message" my ass.

 

[Costanza]

How else are you gonna grab the attention of the kids who are now more sensory than any other time in human history. Shake that ass... and read a book. Its simple and efficient. Shit I know this kid who puts his study notes to hip hop instrumentals and aces every exam he takes. Do what you gotta do to shine.

Nothing. This video is great. it's sending a positive message to our children. Who cares how its packaged. If some one gives you $100,000 covered in shit....your gonna wash the shit off and take the money. The power is in the message.

I care how its packaged, it's a "positive message" capsulated with adouble coat of shit... You can go ahead and pop that pill in your mouth if you want to, look past the shit-Kool-Aide you're making with your saliva to the vitamins...

Homeless people take what they can get-- meat stuck to a bone, leftovers in the garbage, expired, rotten, horrible shit... Is that where you people are at right now? You've had so much Aye Bay Bay that this shit passes with you???

This dumbass video won't reach anybody and, 9X3 and others, it is exhibit A in the pile of material that expects tv to raise kids!

 

[madscience]

There is no way to argue that more cursing and booty shaking is good for our children. You have to be plum fucking dumb if you think that’s going to make them learn anything. And you have to be a self-hater if you think they’re that stupid. You don’t educate children or [adults] by talking down to them or insulting their intelligence.

 

[Dante Blane]

There is no way to argue that more cursing and booty shaking is good for our children. You have to be plum fucking dumb if you think that’s going to make them learn anything. And you have to be a self-hater if you think they’re that stupid. You don’t educate children or [adults] by talking down to them or insulting their intelligence.

COSIGN

 

[NinjaspiT]

Thing about it is,the videos lyrics are simple,but more complex than everything else BET plays.The words of the song hold more weight than anything EVER played on BET.

 

[Zodiac]

There is no way to argue that more cursing and booty shaking is good for our children. You have to be plum fucking dumb if you think that’s going to make them learn anything. And you have to be a self-hater if you think they’re that stupid. You don’t educate children or [adults] by talking down to them or insulting their intelligence.

I was gonna say it but you said it before me. Co-sign.

The fact that Black folks have to be cursed out, screamed on, and basically insulted to learn something as basic as "read a book" and that it's endorsed by other Black folks who actually agree with it, shows you not only the state of hip-hop but the Black community's learning tactics.

It seems like talking to our children isn't enough. Now instead of RAISING them to our level, you have to LOWER yourselves to theirs. When this method doesn't work, what's next? Take a broomstick with "Read A Book" etched in it and beat the words into their skin? What's worse is folks on here would back that idea too...

-The Zodiac

 

[Thick Johnson]

Nothing is wrong with the video.


Hey nothing is wrong with watching a little porn and jerking off now and then either.

GTFOH

The video should be for adults to laugh at (late night)not for kids to learn from.

 

[NinjaspiT]

I was gonna say it but you said it before me. Co-sign.

The fact that Black folks have to be cursed out, screamed on, and basically insulted to learn something as basic as "read a book" and that it's endorsed by other Black folks who actually agree with it, shows you not only the state of hip-hop but the Black community's learning tactics.

It seems like talking to our children isn't enough. Now instead of RAISING them to our level, you have to LOWER yourselves to theirs. When this method doesn't work, what's next? Take a broomstick with "Read A Book" etched in it and beat the words into their skin? What's worse is folks on here would back that idea too...

-The Zodiac

If the video was done in a more artistic and complex way,would the children understand it?Or look at it as something boring,when what isnt boring has been in the lead for misleading children for many years now.That 'something boring' refers to the mainstream trash that has been in circulation that children are accustomed to as being 'cool' and 'fun'.Introduce something new to these kids;it will be foreign land to them, and they will become uncomfortable and unable to understand the message,unless an adult is there to explain the message.
Wait,but if parents would spend time with their children,disallowing the T.V.'s perception to shape their child/childrens perceptions of themselves,we wouldnt be discussing this.

 

[jedi517]

Nice work to the cat who changed my name to jediclampett. That was funny. What I find even funnier is that black people on this board are coming out against anything that tells our children to read a damn book. Face it, times change. Now if this said go kill someone or alright kids lets not study and instead lets go sell drugs and get those rims or who cares if you read anything then I would be whole heartedly against it. But it says read a book, and its not dumbing anyone down. So I guess the Oscar winning animated short about slaves that came on everyday on that channel is coon shit too cause it dumbs it down. Shit this is on BET of all channels and I think any positive message coming from them in any shape or fashion is a step ahead in the game.

 

[PIMPINSINCEPIMPIN]

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[Mad Genius]

There is no way to argue that more cursing and booty shaking is good for our children. You have to be plum fucking dumb if you think that’s going to make them learn anything. And you have to be a self-hater if you think they’re that stupid. You don’t educate children or [adults] by talking down to them or insulting their intelligence.

Co-sign to the fullest. This only appeases self-hating individuals. You can't wrap ignorance around rational thought and expect that the message won't be lost.

 

[Echelon]

Y'all come ons nah. I knows y'all cain't read none to good and I knows y'all too ignant fo me to talk to ya like ya got some learning in ya... Or maybe ya parents and er'body else don' gabe up on ya, so dis heh be the only way we knows how to talk ya youngins. Dis heh video gon' skool y'all niggas on how to get yo shit right. Read a book and wash yo ass. Yeah, I's really laughin at ya, and myself too, cuz I'm too ignant mah damn self to see just cuz it's funny don't always means its good, or right.

OR

Dis heh's funny cuz all the younginis is ignant, and cain't listen unlessn you talks to em like dey'z retarded. Dis heh is social commentary y'all, nothing mo, I swears. Ain't no harm in using the media to demean ourselves, especially when we's all too ignant to see what we's doing... Its okay cuz dis is da best we can do. it's fo the youngins, nigga. Read a book muhfucka, read a book!


To Hell with that video. Would it have been alright if it was presented by a non-black artist?

Even taken as so-called satire, something this completely pointless and crass belongs on the Carlos Mencia show, not a supposed beacon of "Urban Entertainment", regardless of how uabashedly self-degrading that medium itself is. Crude, nonsensical, ignorance is what it is. Is this what is funny to us now; a lack of hope and a willingness to accept that the only way to reach us is to demean us? At best, it was poor execution of a not-so-good idea. Granted, there's a time for place for all forms of entertainment, but we are not at a point in our evolution where we can be lax about something so ridiculous. Complacency has killed our pride.
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[NinjaspiT]

Y'all come ons nah. I knows y'all cain't read none to good and I knows y'all too ignant fo me to talk to ya like ya got some learning in ya... Or maybe ya parents and er'body else don' gabe up on ya, so dis heh be the only way we knows how to talk ya youngins. Dis heh video gon' skool y'all niggas on how to get yo shit right. Read a book and wash yo ass. Yeah, I's really laughin at ya, and myself too, cuz I'm too ignant mah damn self to see just cuz it's funny don't always means its good, or right.

OR

Dis heh's funny cuz all the younginis is ignant, and cain't listen unlessn you talks to em like dey'z retarded. Dis heh is social commentary y'all, nothing mo, I swears. Ain't no harm in using the media to demean ourselves, especially when we's all too ignant to see what we's doing... Its okay cuz dis is da best we can do. it's fo the youngins, nigga. Read a book muhfucka, read a book!


To Hell with that video. Would it have been alright if it was presented by a non-black artist?

Even taken as so-called satire, something this completely pointless and crass belongs on the Carlos Mencia show, not a supposed beacon of "Urban Entertainment", regardless of how uabashedly self-degrading that medium itself is. Crude, nonsensical, ignorance is what it is. Is this what is funny to us now; a lack of hope and a willingness to accept that the only way to reach us is to demean us? At best, it was poor execution of a not-so-good idea. Granted, there's a time for place for all forms of entertainment, but we are not at a point in our evolution where we can be lax about something so ridiculous. Complacency has killed our pride.
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You people are missing the POINT here.The video is NOT targeting all black people.It is targeting HIP HOP.Corporate run hip hop.If you catch feelings about the video than you alone view yourself as apart of that group.

 

[madscience]

You people are missing the POINT here.The video is NOT targeting all black people.It is targeting HIP HOP.Corporate run hip hop.If you catch feelings about the video than you alone view yourself as apart of that group.

dawg, its a cartoon aired a 4:00 in the afternoon, it targets kids. And The corporate hip-hop audience includes children. That type of hip-hop is their bread and butter, and it’s a big contradiction for bet to criticize something they created. Seems like more buffoonery and self hate passed of as tough love and social commentary.

 

[Costanza]

Nice work to the cat who changed my name to jediclampett. That was funny. What I find even funnier is that black people on this board are coming out against anything that tells our children to read a damn book. Face it, times change. Now if this said go kill someone or alright kids lets not study and instead lets go sell drugs and get those rims or who cares if you read anything then I would be whole heartedly against it. But it says read a book, and its not dumbing anyone down. So I guess the Oscar winning animated short about slaves that came on everyday on that channel is coon shit too cause it dumbs it down. Shit this is on BET of all channels and I think any positive message coming from them in any shape or fashion is a step ahead in the game.

What standards.... Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, read a book.

Don't take offense now... I was promoting literacy.

The video is patronizing to black people. The message is "You dumb motherfuckers only pay attention to this shit, so read a book, nigga, read a book."

It perpetuates self-hatred and pure hatred; the fact that it carries a "message" and people actually legitimize it as if to say "That's the only way to reach those people" makes it worse.

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you dumbass ******, read a book.

What I find even funnier is that black people on this board are coming out against anything that tells our children to read a damn book.

 

[ScottyPiffen745]

I think CNN arguement is shitty. The video only comes on on BET. If parents raise their children off BET, then they're already fucking their children up, BET never showed Schoolhouse Rock or Seasme Street. I mean, it's not like BET has any programs for a kids demographic or anything educational/enlightening (except on Sundays). They'd have a good argument if the video came on Cartoon Network at 5 pm but BET is filled with videos and programs with plenty of vulgarity in them and have images that offend plenty of people, all day, everyday. 106 and Park is mostly viewed by teenagers 12 and up. BET don't show Teen Summit no more, they don't even show the news anymore, how you let you kids watch a channel that canceled the only news program? CNN is just basing their arguement over the fact that the video is a cartoon which might attract a kid's attention, because they (CNN) obviously didn't pay attention to the lyrics (besides the cursing which they love to point out). Kids don't buy rims, kids can't buy land, kids don't raise kids, most kids already read books in school, they're (CNN) treating it like the dudes were talking to the kids. So basically the uppity ass anchor dude and the parents were saying, it would be okay if it were like a real video, with a real girl with BOOK on her booty because that's what BET usually shows. BET is not a channel kids (or anybody really) need to be watching and that's the point the director and the song maker were trying to point out.

BET can and should be blocked in all homes IMO.

 

[JD Walker]

What standards.... Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, read a book.

Don't take offense now... I was promoting literacy.

The video is patronizing to black people. The message is "You dumb motherfuckers only pay attention to this shit, so read a book, nigga, read a book."

It perpetuates self-hatred and pure hatred; the fact that it carries a "message" and people actually legitimize it as if to say "That's the only way to reach those people" makes it worse.

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you dumbass ******, read a book.

Yeah, but today's (c)rap music uses the same delivery. You can't knock this video without knocking all the other shit that's out.

You have to fight evil with evil.

 

[Costanza]

Yeah, but today's (c)rap music uses the same delivery. You can't knock this video without knocking all the other shit that's out.

You have to fight evil with evil.

I can and do knock both.

You don't have to fight evil with evil-- some people are weak, morally fickile, and just generaly make excuses... Not saying it isn't easier, but don' call it the only way...

 

[Smakk]

There is no way to argue that more cursing and booty shaking is good for our children. You have to be plum fucking dumb if you think that’s going to make them learn anything. And you have to be a self-hater if you think they’re that stupid. You don’t educate children or [adults] by talking down to them or insulting their intelligence.

Co-Sign... That song is more stereotypical coon shit for white people to laugh at....

 

[london]

WTF BET demographic 18-34????
????
Sad to be 34 and still watching BET

 

[NinjaspiT]

why doesnt this topic get 5 or more pages of discussion,but whether or not another screenname on this site is a gay does?

 

[Jagi]

nothing wrong with the video.. except that i was shocked that bet aired it.. especially since its dissing what bet usually plays and promotes


i liked the song since either early in the year or last year the audio was posted here and on hot ghetto mess website

a good funny song fucked up by b.e.t.