BET used to be home to quality black entertainment that spanned a diverse range of content.
Rap City
Midnight Love
Teen Summit
BET News
106 & Park
BET Sports (broadcasts of HBCU football and basketball games, mostly)
It delivered a healthy mix of decidedly black programming you couldn’t find anywhere else. But, as is the case whenever anything appears to be owned by black people and have a positive impact on our identity, white people took ownership and corrupted its purpose.
And now it’s nothing more than a platform for stereotypical imagery curated by cac executives.