Quote:There are just as many racist blacks as there are whites. I always liked Cam bit to pull the race card is one thing I dont agree with. You have BET, black beauty pageants, black college's etc.. If there was a White Entertainment Television orWhite Beauty Pageant that would be rasist. [sic]

I fully anticipate this thread being shut down soon.  However, since it remains open, I will address the points presented within as I see fit.

 

1.  BET is white owned and has been since 2000.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/04/busine...llion.html

 

2.  BET was created because black artists, by and large, were being ignored by MTV at the time, as were black consumers.  Here is David Bowie, in 1983, describing what he saw on MTV at the time.  http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/11/dav...blasts-mtv

 

The funny thing is, there is marketing towards particular demographics based upon immutable characteristics all the time without any complaint from those of your ilk.  Lifetime touts itself as "Television for Women."  El Rey and Spike TV clearly market themselves towards a young male demographic, but there's nary a peep from you accusing those networks of sexism.  But apparently, something is innately wrong with marketing to black consumers.

 

As far as black colleges are concerned,  black colleges were created because white colleges and universities denied admission to blacks on the basis of their color.  Blacks were faced with two options:

• Do nothing, wait for the larger society to fully integrate us into the mainstream, remaining uneducated and ultimately without economic wherewithal, and being unable to provide services and goods routinely denied us, being castigated for lacking ambition, initiative, being lazy, etc.; or
  
• Open institutions where blacks were welcomed and encouraged to pursue higher education, to provide goods and services otherwise denied us, and contribute more than just menial labor to the larger society as a whole, while being castigated as racist and segregationist.
  

The first choice wasn't much of an option, considering there was a considerable portion of the country who believed strongly in white supremacy, to the point they were willing to destroy the greatest country ever created to advance those principles through secession and the Civil War.  Even after the Civil War, the larger society was not welcoming to blacks.

 

Keep in mind, HBCUs have not discriminated and do not, as a matter of policy, discriminate against whites who want to matriculate within their walls.  While the majority of the student populations at HBCUs are black, there have been and are white students and faculty at these institutions.

 

Lest you think the passage of the Civil Rights Act and related laws eliminated the need for these institutions to exist, three points.

 

1.  Why should these HBCUs close because these laws were passed?  The HBCUs weren't the ones discriminating and making the Civil Rights laws necessary in the first place.

 

2.  People who still harbor racial animus against blacks continue to work to weaken those Civil Rights laws.  Prudence mandates keeping these institutions open as a safeguard against reactionary political forces that would seek to undermine the gains made by people of color.

 

3.  Many have no problem with blacks representing the majority population in negative contexts like ghettos or prisons, but when it comes to something positive like higher education, suddenly there is a problem.

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