Fw: [New post] WET: White Entertainment Television

abagond posted: " White Entertainment Television (WET) is the television station that is always watched but never seen. It is the white counterpart to Black Entertainment Television (BET), an American television channel aimed at blacks. White Americans s" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Abagond WET: White Entertainment Television by abagond White Entertainment Television (WET) is the television station that is always watched but never seen. It is the white counterpart to Black Entertainment Television (BET), an American television channel aimed at blacks. "The Flintstones", 1960-1966 "Bewitched", 1964-1972 "Star Trek", 1966-1969 White Americans say stuff like: How come there's a BET but not a White Entertainment Television? How is that fair? You have BET. If we had WET, we'd be racists. This is called being blind to white privilege. Or maybe just being blind. "The Brady Bunch", 1969-1974 "Little House on the Prairie", 1974-1983 It is called being so used to how society favours whites that you do not even notice it and think of it as "normal" and "fair". "Wheel of Fortune", 1975-present "Cheers", 1982-1993 So fair that any change from it, like BET, Black History Month or affirmative action, is seen as unfair and reverse racist. "The Simpsons", 1989-present Peggy McIntosh, in her famous essay on white privilege, listed the WET thing as #6: 6. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. "Seinfeld", 1989-1998 On American television: Blacks have BET, TV One and few others. Whites have ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Fox, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Lifetime, HBO, Showtime, TNT, TBS, National Geographic, The History Channel, TV Land, Hallmark, Disney, Food Network, SOAPnet, Playboy, Nickelodeon, Sprout, MTV, VH1, Syfy, GAC, Spike, FX, USA, CMT, Bravo, NFL, TMC, E!, Cartoon Network, Cinemax and on and on and on. "Friends", 1994-2004 "Sex and the City", 1998-2004 "How I Met Your Mother", 2005-present "The Big Bang Theory", 2007-present "Breaking Bad", 2008-2013 "The Middle", 2009-present American television is whiter than America. If it were a matter of "simple demographics", as many claim, then out of a hundred stations (most people get way more), 12 would be black, more or less, 16 Latino, 5 Asian and 1 Native. It is nowhere near that. BET is, in effect, a crappy UHF station for blacks, for those old enough to remember UHF (channels above 13 in the days before cable, which mainly showed reruns and old movies). Crappy because it does not currently even have news shows or children shows, much less cooking shows, game shows, travel shows and so on. There is no black CNN (news), black PBS (education and culture) or black HBO (serious drama). BET is even white-owned! White American television is white in three ways: It is by and for white people. Blacks are, at best, an afterthought. That is why black characters tend to be few, have short life expectancies and lack love lives. They are not the "target demographic". It stereotypes blacks and other people of colour. Worse than lack of representation is misrepresentation. American television pictures blacks as self-destructive, dirty, lazy, unintelligent, criminal, violent and ugly. We know that by asking people in the Taiwanese countryside, where knowledge of Black Americans comes mainly from American television shows. Even BET has been guilty of stereotyping blacks. It is so white that issues of race rarely come up. As if White Americans live in Sweden or the Middle Ages or something. The first one is pretty much innocent, but the other two push racism: internalized racism in blacks and externalized racism in the everyone else, even in people in Taiwan. See also: The White Default white privilege mindset white privilege internalized racism The BET Fallacy television Black people according to American television race and crime and poverty and television The blackness of American television The whiteness of Laura Ingalls Wilder The whiteness of Walter White of Breaking Bad abagond | Fri 13 Dec 2013 at 14:00:18 | Categories: stuff | URL: http://wp.me/p3SuP-8uX Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Abagond. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/wet-white-entertainment-television/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

Fw: Notify NYC - Silver Alert

Alert issued 12/11/13 at 20:55 PM. NYPD has issued a Silver Alert for the disappearance of Dennis Griffith, male, black, 72 years old, with Alzheimer's, from Bedford Ave and Glenwood Road in Brooklyn. Mr. Griffith was last seen leaving Brooklyn Hospital, at 121 Dekalb Ave, today at 9:15 AM. He is described as 6" tall, 200 lbs., and wearing a blue hat, blue jacket, plaid shirt, brown pants, and a medic alert bracelet. A photo is attached. If you see Mr. Griffith, please call 9-1-1.   The sender included the following attachment: https://phx-attachments.sendwordnow.com/Attachments.aspx?token=74035d78-17a4-498a-8728-96085e1403ed   The sender provided the following contact information.    Sender's Name: Notify NYC    Sender's Email: notifynyc@oem.nyc.gov    Sender's Contact Phone: 2126399675

Fw: Notify NYC - Silver Alert

Alert issued 12/12/13 at 12:36 AM. NYPD has issued a Silver Alert for the disappearance of Sylvia McCaulsky, female, black, 81 years old, with Alzheimer's, from Clarendon Road and East 42nd Street in Brooklyn. Ms. McCaulsky was last seen near her residence at approximately 4:20 PM on Wednesday, 12/11/13. She is described as 5" tall, 135 lbs., wearing a tan jacket, tan pants, a grey sweater, black sneakers and a medic alert bracelet. A photo is attached. If you see Ms. McCaulsky, please call 9-1-1.   The sender included the following attachment: https://phx-attachments.sendwordnow.com/Attachments.aspx?token=a4f228a2-2698-43d1-9454-8f13347e7fad   The sender provided the following contact information.    Sender's Name: Notify NYC    Sender's Email: notifynyc@oem.nyc.gov    Sender's Contact Phone: 2126399675

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Fw: December Events and Wishing you the best Holiday Season...

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here   WISHING YOU  Dear Hue-Man Family and Friends, It is that time of year...a time of celebration and remembrance and yes another year under our belt.  I hope that you will look back on 2013 with much joy. And know that as you envision 2014, we add our wish for your best year yet.   This season, give the gift of knowledge. We have chosen amazing book ideas for you...please visit us at  www.huemanbookstoe.com.  A gift of books to those you love is a gift that will pay dividends for a lifetime.  We wish you health and happiness this Holiday Season and prosperity in the New Year. We take this opportunity to say thank you to our customers from a place of deep gratitude.  We look forward to your continued support. DECEMBER EVENTS   December 6, 6pm Deadly Stuff Players Flo Anthony AARP members and their friends can mix and mingle with fellow members and TV and Radio personality Flo Anthony at her book signing on Friday, December 6, 2013. 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These beliefs form a limiting self-image and prevent them from doing the things they really want to do.   The evening's conversation will be lead by 3 friends who did not allow limiting beliefs to stop them from writing a book about murder, food and recipes ... Dr. Donne Kampel and Dr. Sabra Brock both deans at a NYC college, each with extensive scholarly publications, yet loves storytelling ... Michael Braff, an important person at a very large NY hospital who loves cooking and baking. They will share how to overcome limiting beliefs and the power of collaboration.     Each attendee will receive a free copy of their book, as each chapter concludes with a recipe of a cited dish or beverage.    $95    Come and enjoy an exquisitely prepared 3 course meal with wine. space limited.  sign up now at www.theacademioflife.com    December 7, 12-5 pm     December 7, 2013  Flo Anthony Headliner of Brooklyn Book Fair   Noon-8 pm   Brooklyn Christian Center   1061 Atlantic Avenue   Brooklyn, New York (near Franklin Avenue & Classon Avenue)   December 21, 12-9 Join Sheryl Lee Ralph and Flo Anthony MARVAISM THE POWER OF FAMILY There is nothing that makes you more insane than family...Or more happy...or more secure Jim Butcher This year I attended a movie called Lucky by a friend Laura Checkoway...my heart was low...this year I also read Mike Tyson's book Undisputed Truth...my heart was low. I was struck by the commonality of the ills of Lucky and Mike.....there were no families to protect them...The neglect and abandonment in both cases were the root cause of the lives Lucky and Mike were forced to live...one always in the margins of life.  I hope you will take a moment to read Mike Tyson's book Undisputed Truth (Mike's book is one of my holiday recommendations) or make an effort to see Lucky so that as you share this holiday season with our family you will know how lucky you are and how crucial a great family is to any life well lived.  If Lucky or  Mike had had someone in their lives to give them a sense of security and identity, their stories would have been so different. Two painfully damaged but indomitable people who survived against the odds...imagine what they could have been like with the love of family.  .   I spent this thanksgiving with my family and I was never more grateful...for them. I am so grateful for their emotional support, their protection and the sense of belonging they offer me as a member of this family.  I thank them for their encouragement and their ability to buoy each of us up. I thank them for the inspiration and support for our individual and collective dreams.  I thank them for their meddling...their unsolicited advise...and for the drag down fights and disagreements...I would never trade them for the world, because with them I know who I am, I know I am safe, I know how to love and I know how to dream.   Family should be important to all of us because family instructs; family gives us guidance both personal and social. Family instills discipline and codes of conduct that define our very existence...Family, it is the place where we learn love, pure and simple, ...and since Love is all...them family has to be the most important unit on earth... I wish you the best holiday season....from my family to yours. MY Book Picks for the Holidays click book cover to buy. AROUND TOWN HUE-MAN RECOMMENDS STAY CONNECTED: Forward this email | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. Hue-Man Bookstore | P.O Box 5541 | NEW YORK | NY | 10027