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Once you sully your brand, it's difficult to rebuild it. Not impossible, but difficult. BET for a lot of Black people still equals ignorance. BET's viewership probably peaks during its award shows and those aren't the best representation of Black America, imo.
It's but one facet of a multifaceted people. *shrugs*
That isn't the flip side of anything. That's one woman's opinion based off of her own isolated experience.
There are more blacks moving from Georgia to Texas than there are those going in the opposite direction.
Yeah, that video was complete and utter BS on so many levels, and I hate that it's out there to deceive and wrongly influence so many black professionals about Dallas. She sounds very angry and has many personal issues of her own (she misses Atlanta so much that nowhere will stack up to it in her mind, she can't find a man or a decent job for PERSONAL reasons, and she has a complex about her own skin color and complexion that she CAME to Dallas with). And a few things she tried to knock Dallas about---like foreigners owning most of the gas stations and Chinese restaurants (duh!) in the black neighborhoods---are not even exclusive to Dallas anyway, so they definitely should not be used to make Dallas sound like such an awful place for professional blacks. Anybody who takes her word on everything she says in that video is just as stupid as she is. I mean, we are talking about a huge cosmopolitan city that is gaining new blacks residents faster than most other cities (including Atlanta, if I'm not mistaken), has an extremely diverse population, plenty of world class amenities, and all types of diverse jobs and big companies moving here monthly, yet she is trying to paint Dallas as some little, racist, backwoods town in 1950s Mississippi or something. She needs to go back to Atlanta QUICK and stop bashing and lying on Dallas just because she's homesick and has issues with her own dark complexion.
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Free was easy on the eyes. If I was flipping channels, I'd at least watch 106 & Park until they went to the video or commercial break.
After the Viacom takeover, BET cut back its news programming, dropped Teen Summit, introduced BET Uncut and ramped up the ignorance even more with College Hill. A lot of people were done with BET even before the Viacom takeover but it became nearly impossible for any self-respecting Black person to admit they watched BET after 2001 or so.
Has anyone mentioned Ladera Heights and Baldwin Hills California as Black Meecas yet?? I believe they have high incomes and high home ownership rates there.
Free was easy on the eyes. If I was flipping channels, I'd at least watch 106 & Park until they went to the video or commercial break.
After the Viacom takeover, BET cut back its news programming, dropped Teen Summit, introduced BET Uncut and ramped up the ignorance even more with College Hill. A lot of people were done with BET even before the Viacom takeover but it became nearly impossible for any self-respecting Black person to admit they watched BET after 2001 or so.
I still remember all the ruckus over the Viacom acquisition. Black folks were LIVID I tell you.
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She needs to go back to Atlanta QUICK and stop bashing and lying on Dallas just because she's homesick and has issues with her own dark complexion.
