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Old 03-15-2007, 09:25 PM   #22 (permalink)
jorgelito
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Originally Posted by ngdawg
The origination of BET was to bring quality, original television to a large portion of society that was, in their eyes, grossly under represented. However, there wasn't the big money nor big interest and, perhaps ironically enough, American entertainment was and is embracing the talents of so many black actors as 'mainstream', BET is now just an afterthought relegated to reruns of minor sitcoms and a few comedy shows.
Because of things like 'Black History Month', et al, this scenario of unnecssary 'segregations' of cultural groups via forms of entertainment, news, etc., becomes more commonplace. Is there still the 'Miss Black America' competition? No, because we've had black Miss Americas. Sometimes boosting something to the forefront singularly is necessary to incorporate it into an otherwise exclusive majority. Hope that made sense.
It makes great sense actually. In other words, some things were developed to fill a need or void, and once that was fulfilled, then the old thing gives way to the newly integrated whole. (in many ways, I believe the original INTENT of affirmative action was the same, to be temporary transitional tool but it failed miserably)

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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
IMO, the whole Latin Grammys and such is just the absurdity of absurdity, like they cannot compete in the regular Grammys. But see for things like that it has nothing to do with diluting the award into segments of segregation, but there is something to make advertisers capture those segments.
I agree with you about the Latin Grammy's, but then, I thought, is it because there isn't a Latin category in the Grammy's so they created their own to fill the void?

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