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New York Times: Protesting Demeaning Images in Media -- "Wearing white T-shirts with red stop signs and chanting "BET does not reflect me, MTV does not reflect me," protesters have been gathering every Saturday outside the homes of Viacom executives in Washington and New York City. The orderly, mostly black crowds are protesting music videos that they say degrade women, and black and Latino men."The protesters maintain that negative images of blacks and Latinos are so widespread in mainstream media, "they infect perceptions of ordinary nonwhite people."
Do you agree? What about improving black self-perception? What do you think will be the result of these protests?
I am so very much reminded of the Monty Python skit "Burn the Witch" by this controversy. In the skit, a woman has been brought to the village elder with demands to burn her. Except the villagers (naturally bohunks straight out of Sherwood Forest) have put on the false nose and hat. What follows is the most retarded exercise in logic imaginable in which the woman is placed on a scale which declares her equal to the weight of a duck. This proves, by this twisted logic, that she is indeed a witch.
There is no denying that the same kind of horde mentality is convinced that blacks are pimps and whores, and BET and MTV are providing the wardrobe for this sorry excuse for entertainment. But respectable folks should be able to see through the entire charade. There is no way to win the 'positive images' debate, because anyone idiotic enough to believe that MTV and BET reflect reality are just on a witch hunt in the first place. Including, ironically, all the protesters.
The results of these protests will be identical to the protests against... hmmm. How about Soul Plane?
Cobb Sez, there's always somebody with a perverted idea about black culture.
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