im most probably the proudest south african zulu on earth. no matter what.  

Almost every AA I know WISHED their blood was ZULU.

It must be the Name and that warrioring spirit.

Will BET be right back after advertisers give it the Imus treatment?

Type Size July 7, 2008--Hallelujah!

Have you heard the good news? If not, let me be the first to tell you.

BET has FINALLY gotten the ol' Don Imus treatment. That's right. Some major sponsors have pulled advertisements from BET, due to the gratuitous violence, profanity and obscenity on some of the cable network's programs, according to a report in the Chicago Defender.

Forgive me for saying it again, but, hallelujah!

Indeed, this is truly a watershed moment for black people everywhere that are determined to reverse, or at least retard, the influence of ubiquitous, destructive images and messages in media. It's a victory for people who believe "corporate responsibility" means more than an empty slogan.

Viewers have tirelessly petitioned BET's top advertisers, such as General Motors and Procter & Gamble, to pull ads from programs such as RapCity and 106 & Park that air during peak after-school television watching hours, attracting a large, under-18 audience.


What's the triumph in this, you ask? Kids are just watching two shows full of music videos. Could they really be that bad?

Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes!

In fact, an April study by the Parent Television Council found high levels of violence, profanity and sex in both programs.

I don't think it was necessary to commission a study to see that, but it is stunning to see the corrosiveness of the television network quantified. Most damning is that the report found that RapCity featured on average 31.6 instances of sex, 25.3 instances of explicit language and 11.7 instances of violence per hour. For years, this poisonous cocktail has quietly undermined the advances of an entire people—neatly packaged into unassuming television programming, hour after hour, day after day.

The campaign at the helm of this movement has captured this sentiment and aptly titled itself Enough is Enough. The Rev. Delman Coates, chairman of Enough is Enough, has done a fine job of putting companies like GM, Procter & Gamble, McDonald's, YUM! Brands and Verizon on notice. He has armed himself with the findings of the report and made companies that advertise on BET aware that they're running commercials during programs that feature this content.

One would think that there would be only one reaction from companies faced with these findings: withdrawal of all advertising dollars, period. Well, not quite. Even when presented with this information, most companies have not made a move to pull ads, and those that have didn't pull their ads from the network altogether. They have only shifted their advertising dollars to other programs, which has sheltered BET from any loss in revenue, according to the Chicago Defender report.

So this small triumph is not giving us all we need, but it's a step in the right direction. We should not get complacent with this mitigated victory because the battle has not been won until, at the very least, BET does a serious overhaul of its programming.

We've already suffered for years from this toxic material wreaking havoc in the core of our community and shaping the public's perception of us. Our communities have watched as our youth have moved further and further away from our rich cultural and historical legacy and closer to the fictitious universe of media caricatures that bombard us daily: images of the black man as a wreckless and violent thug. These characterizations have instilled distrust and fear among law enforcement, which in the cases of Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell, ended in tragedy.

What will it take for all of us to stand up and finally use our Ujima to draw a line in the sand and send a message? What will it take for you? What are we willing to do to show big business that we mean business?

I don't know when or how it will happen, but just like Sam Cooke said, It's been a long time coming, but I know a change is gonna come.

And let the church say, amen.

Janelle Jolley is a writer in Washington, D.C.

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Its time to get rid of BET!

It promotes fallacies and degrade the community. That Johnson dude is a COMPLETE SELL-OUT!

Huxley is a SELF-HATER

with inner-gnawing feelings of innate inferiority toward other cultures.

He simply cannot be helped.

Why try

well it seems like you obviously don't no the definition of "proud". let me fix that.

Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth

now let me give you the definition of "quality"

an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute

Well to sum this up i have "satisfaction" of the "quality" of my "distinctive characteristic".

In the words of the late, great James Brown,

SAY IT LOUD, I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD!!!

You tell em girlie.


YOU NO SELL-OUT!

Read this report for a salutary lesson of the plight we face:

http://www.uneca.org/eca_programmes/sdd/documents/Knowledge%20policies%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20in%20Africa.pdf


The problems we face are largely cultural, IMHO. Do we (Africans and African-Americans) have a culture that values intellectualism instead of the low-brow info-tainment that seems to have taken up the intellectual space in most homes.

How often do you see gathering of people of African origin talk about concrete and abstract theories in biology, chemistry, physics, economics, etc?

Do we have institutions that encourage and promote intellectual values?

Where is the intellectual output of black intellectuals? I am not suggesting that their work should be ghettoed, but with many decades of experiencing the "Western" style education, the major of textbooks used in universities in Africa and America are authored by non-Africans.

We would make great stride once we start valuing the intellectual life rather that the get-rich-quick life.

This ARGUMENT goes back to the REFORMATION!!!!

When the Europeans BROKE from the Catholic Church (who dominated education, the economy, the land and the PEOPLES MINDS), They KNEW that if you keep a people STOOPID, and locked into traditions and religion, you will conquer them.

Nowdays, because of the internet, the "poor masses" are moving away from Traditions and Religion, THEREFORE, the BIG WIGS are giving them gizmos and gadgets to keep them buzy - and their MINDS off FREE THINKING.


ONLY 30% OF AMERIKKA'S (of all races put together) hold a DEGREE!!!!!

The White man want to keep you DUMB - so he can continue REIGNING OVER YOU.

Oh


The Nigerian government have picked up on this concept and have not IMPROVED its infrastructure - ensuring that its educated elite NEVER RETURN.

YOUR culture is WHO YOU ARE!!!

There are some THINGS about it that is very GALLANT!

of course, there are some things about your culture - you detest.

However, to detest WHOM you are and your lineage - is an abomination.

LET'S GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT!!!!

Nobody CHOSE to be here and nobody CHOSE their family and Ethnicity.

However, we do CHOSE our friends, livelihood, lifestyle and mental state. Obviously, you think your current state is submissive and regressive.

That's unfortunate - you'll walk around thinking OTHERS are more superior to you.

AND THAT IS SLAVE MENTALITY

Dude!

Gym socks does not go with Black Dress shoes!!!

I see this often , it's a CLEAR indicator that-that dude is a foreigner.

The WORLD don't even want to help Nigerians poor because of its Thieving class.

since, Nigeria is the most populated country IT has the MOST poor people.

Nigeria is Nigeria's problem.

I wouldn't want to live there either.

What for

SAVAGES!!!!

At least here our "savages" shoot their enemies, (and then cry after they realized what they have done to the dudes family)


NIGERIA is just plain nasty.

SeanT

Why argue with those LOW LIFES?


Heck, their average life-expectancy is 45!!!

they won't be around long and they CAN NOT get into the US unless they are 35!!!

You aint lying. Too many take the propaganda text as paramount truth, still being manipulated into selling out their fellow black folk for them 400 and 500 years running. How despicable.

yeah, its no use

They are so CAUGHT up in the HYPE - all they want is material possessions. Shit we toss away at whim.

and they are NOT as SMART as they put forth.

THEY ALL TALK AND NO ACTION!

We've already proved we ARE an ACTION people.

You seem to be as dense as a concrete wall.
stop spewing ignorance in this forum.
You are classified as one, you are not one.
What is beautiful about all the gang(drug) wars, drive by shootings, club shootings. .These are major AA on AA crimes.

What is beautiful about slum living

tell that to the LA rioters

whose ugly nappy headed child is that in your profile?

at least we have a pool from which there can be a brain drain of engineers doctors, and other highly skilled professionals - AAs on the other hand are a pool of athletes and musicians. whats to drain from a bunch of entertainers? if some white fellas were teleported from the slavery era to the present day, they'd think slavery was still in force - the only difference would be that the slaves were engaged in entertainment rather than field work

au contrar

YOU USED TO HAVE A POOL.

Besides EVERY PRIMITIVE country have an ELITE populace.

With respect to Nigeria - your ELITE are your THIEVING POLITICIANS.


You nolonger have a SKILLED society.

ALSO, I see you believe in Media HYPE.

Here is a statistic for ya.

THERE ARE MORE BLACK CARDIOLOGIST that BLACK NBA players.

Dumbazz unlearned Africans will believe ANYTHING from the whiteman.


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and you wonder why black believe all africans have diseases.

Man!

That's some barbaric azz rubbish!

What's worse is the CROWDS OF PEOPLE lookin on in agreement.


Talk about a BACKWARDS CIVILIZATION!!!!!

Fugg Whitney's Stoopid aZZ.


Until she makes a come-back - she gets no love from me.

What are you trying to accomplish with your post?

You are not a bright woman.

It's PLAINLY CLEAR what my objective is.


ALL-AFRICANS LAST GOT ALONG IN AMERIKKA.

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If you look at AA's you'll see Africans from ALL PARTS of Africa.

Now we are classified as ONE.

It's a beautiful thing.

i know you trying to bring us together as people, but by calling people of darker skin color "darkies" you are only bringing them down.

I'ma DARKIE and LOVE BEING ONE!!!!

so STFU


The problem is Darkskint people are so fugged up about themselves that any reference to their darkness is looked upon as an attack,

BRAIN DRAINAGE IN NIGERIA is your problem.


If you get rid of talent- and allow the TALENT to leave - you have a bunch of IGNORANT people stuck in ANCIENT customs.

When uneducated people get together they talk about uneducated things - NAMELY - things somebody put into their HEAD.


Your government KNOWS this. That is why is DOESN'T WANT THE TALENT TO RETURN.

Your government is in collusion with the Whiteman - whose CORPORATIONS are running your government - who in turn are OPPRESSING your people.

yorba's are agala's.

Why does every post have to be AA's vs. Nigerians?

Where in my opening posts is this thread about Nijans v. AA's.

ITS ABOUT AFRICANS - no wonder your name is lazy,

Are you suggesting that the AA community has got it social problems resolved? If not, why not? And how do you suggest the deal with such problems?

Hell NO!

Social problems for the bottom of the "social order" people WIL[b]L NEVER[/b] be solved in Western Nations. Western Nations LOVE the fact that people of COLOR are dwelling in poverty, killing each other randomly. They LIVE for the fact that people of COLOR (within their borders) are less educated and have more physical and mental maladys.

WHY

BECAUSE IT ALLOWS THEM TO FEEL SUPERIOR and COMPARE THEMSELVES WITH THEM and UNTIL you learn this fact - you will NEVER understand the whiteman.

The Whiteman LOVES to feel superior over any and every race EVEN when they are POORER than that race.

Take for instance, the "racial" prejudice that exist amongst AA of light/dark skin colour. Why is this a problem and to what extend does this mentality impede the societal development of AA and Africans?

AGAIN!!!!

This will NEVER be solved either.

Lightskint AA's ACTUALLY feel SUPERIOR to Dark Skint AA's. This is historical and started during slavery. Lightskint are even treated more fairly in societies DOMINATED by whites. I cant and we can't solve how people feel. We can only contextualize it.

There is NO solution for this either - other than probably people treating each other fairly.

Look at Angola with all their people color schemes and South Africa - the lightskint people are being treated better - especially when there are so few of them and millions of Dark skint people. Here in Amerikka - there are tons of white people and few lightkint and darkies.

Thus, Lightskint in AFRICAN countries are more a phenon than in Amerikka

now how many are Illegal Aliens?