Not everyone was impressed with last night’s program that BET put together for its 2011 BET Awards. After watching the awards show, Dr. Boyce Watkins, who calls himself a hip hop insider, sat down at his keyboard and pounded out a post titled “BET Has Officially Become the New and Improved KKK“.
In his post, he compared BET — which is run by the white-owned media conglomerate Viacom — to the Ku Klux Klan, and he accused Viacom of using BET’s powerful reach to cause and affect a holocaust within black America today.
“The Ku Klux Klan has been regularly criticized for encouraging violence against African Americans and terrorizing our community. But the truth is that the Klan doesn’t have much power anymore,” he writes. Dr. Boyce suggests that Lil Wayne and other hip hop artists who don’t know their history are “encouraging black men to shoot one another, to abuse or murder women, to consume suicidal amounts of drugs and alcohol and to engage in irresponsible, deadly sexual behavior.”
Dr. Boyce was most particularly disturbed that BET chose to heap accolades upon ex-con Lil Wayne, as opposed to, say, Kelly Rowland who rode the charts to international fame with her smash hit “Motivation”:
…the executive committee for the BET Awards made the interesting decision to give the greatest number of award nominations to Lil Wayne, the man who said that he would (among other things) love to turn a woman out, murder her and send her dead body back to her boyfriend. Oh yea, he also that he would kill little babies, have sex with every girl in the world, carry a gun on his hip and “leave a nigga’s brains on the street.”
As a result of the platform given to Lil Wayne and other hip hop artists who form the “corporate armies” producing “weaponized genocide” against black people — BET, he writes, has succeeded in killing “more black people than the KKK ever could.”
BET 2011 Fashion Disasters Awards; And the winners are…
Chris Brown doesn’t care what any of you think. The troubled singer won the BET 2011 Fashion Disaster Award hands down for this outfit. I died laughing!
The concept behind singer Mary J Blige’s frock started out well. But the design crashed and burned shortly after leaving the drawing board.
Actress Nia Long was simply glowing last night. But I am of the opinion that pregnant women shouldn’t walk red carpets. There’s nothing you can style them in that doesn’t resemble a car cover.
Kelly Rowland Performs Motivation Live on the 2011 BET Awards
Here are just a sample of the tweets that lit up my Twitter.com timeline last night after Kelly’s sizzling hawt performance!
