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09-04-2007, 03:34 PM
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I've seen it posted many times, and never even smiled at it. It's just brute force satire. A lot of rap itself does the same thing as this video in a much funnier way. [/ QUOTE ] Yes, and most of the time those more subtle approaches completely miss the target audience. 
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09-04-2007, 03:34 PM
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I don't think I agree with the makers of this video that 11-13 year olds are going to be able to recognize this as satire tbh. What sort of videos do BET play at the times this show was talking about? [/ QUOTE ] Hip-hop videos, presumably. That's what dominates the BET music video slots. So then you have all the issues of things like female exploitation, etc. If you know it's fantasy, I'd argue it causes no real harm, but otherwise... In any case I don't see the Read a [censored] Book vid as being more impressionable than what's typically shown in BET-rotation music videos.
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#23
09-04-2007, 03:35 PM
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noooooo BET could never do anything that harms black people. [/ QUOTE ] I agree that BET does all kinds of things that harm black people, particularly the public's perception of us. It's just that airing this video isn't one of them.
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09-04-2007, 04:21 PM
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I would bet you dollars to dimes that not everyone on twoplustwo knows who Lil Jon is [/ QUOTE ] wwwwwwwwhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttt ttttttt????? okay
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#26
09-04-2007, 05:52 PM
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Re: Read a book. n$*&#!
I agree that they have no argument against this video when you consider that mainstream black music is probably the most degrading thing out there now. What's your average mainstream radio rap/R&B/hip-hop song about?
Making money, having expensive cars Having hoes, taking girls home from the club Getting drunk on expensive liquor I think I've covered all the bases.
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09-04-2007, 06:05 PM
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Link 1 Link 2 The CNN host is so offended, LOL what a joke. [/ QUOTE ] I only watched the first video. The round table of black parents are all from the suburbs. They should have gotten some inner city [censored] for their interview and made it interesting.
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