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Open Letter To BET Awards by doublezero7(m): 8:22pm On May 18, 2013 |
Africa is once again excited about the fact that you have decided to maintain our only slot in your numerous award categories Best International Act (Africa). Though we wish we had more than one category as we have far number of black people on our continent than America or Europe, we still think half a loaf is better than none. I am not sure if the meaning of BET-Black Entertainment Television has changed yet. If it has not, wont it be prudent to make sure you embrace the continent with the highest number of black people? Oh no! I just remembered You are business and you are more interested in profit than anything else Since African-Americans pose to have greater purchasing power than those of us down here in Africa, I guess you will continue to fill them up in all the categoriesand just sprinkle us over things so to create that sort of disproportionate sense of balance Right? Anyway, what will happen if you give the only category you have assigned to us a stage presentation during this years award ceremony? Look, we may not have electricity all the time to watch television down here in Africa but last year, most of us rushed to the homes of the few people who could afford generators in order to be able to watch our Africa brothers walk up your stage to collect their plaques. But you failed to even mention their names on stage, let alone walk up there. Even though we couldnt understand the fast English your people kept speaking, we endured the pain, hoping the sight of our brothers who travelled all the way to your far-away country would be worth the hustle. Can you imagine how disappointed some of us were when we could not see our brothers on TV after walking nearly 2 miles just to have access to a television? Come on, you couldnt give the whole continent of Africa just 2 minutes of your air time? As I intentionally mentioned above, Africa is a continent and we will appreciate if you treat Africa as such. The last time I confused a Ghanaian for Nigerian, I nearly got a slap We are not enemies but we are all unique in our own ways. Why do you continue to give two of our brothers the same award? Even if you wanted to do this with us, why didnt you use Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj for the pilot project? Despite the fact that 10 of our beautiful women can peacefully share one ugly man, we like elitism and we would be grateful if you appreciate our talents independently. We love to brag and you are not making this happen. How can Ghanaians show off and make Nigerians feel small when you gave Sarkodie and Wizkid the same award? Did you think they were twins? One likes Eba and the other loves Kenkey If you do not give our talents the respect and recognition they deserve on your main stage this year, count us out of your subsequent events. We will just speak to our Chinese brothers who are exploiting us down here to help us start our own version of BET Awards, and we will call it rBET Awards The r means REAL! And you know how good these guys are! I hope I will not have to write to you again next year All the best and remember Africa is one big continent, not a country. Thank You. |
Re: Open Letter To BET Awards by Enoquin(f): 8:05am On May 19, 2013 |
I love this kind of write ups. Witty and filled with pointed sarcasms....hehehehe. As an African, how did you even know to access the internet? Oh, I know, you walked 5 miles to the only business/internet cafe around and begged the 'oyibo' typist to help send a letter to BET. Hahahahahahahaha Me likey! |
Re: Open Letter To BET Awards by eleshin(m): 1:50pm On May 19, 2013 |
fact! Thumbsup! |
Re: Open Letter To BET Awards by doublezero7(m): 6:59pm On May 19, 2013 |
Its quite funny ow dis guys tink we're irrelevant in some way! Hope dey read d letter tho! |
Re: Open Letter To BET Awards by ortopazz(m): 12:49pm On May 28, 2013 |
Been tryin to post since,, mehn it was really interesting! See ghana dey struggle title wiv us all in the name of BET, ANA SO DEM INSULT 2BABA AND DBANJ giv them title make them share dbanj do like say na grammy....de shout ,,,,chai finally BET...av@gotten u, mtchewwwww abegi, hope the letter gets to them.. Once again bigups |
Re: Open Letter To BET Awards by ortopazz(m): 1:20pm On May 28, 2013 |
double zero: could not have said better, this part annoys me... |
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