white entertainment channel?

Question

there is a white entertainment channel! it's called the news, friends, Seinfield, Vogue magazines, people, newsweek, Will and Grace, rock,the enquirer, stars, movies, hamlet, macbeth, lord of the rings, abercrombie, jcPenny, holister, country music channel, Elle, Baazar, Seventeen, Cosmpolitian, Woman's day, Disney, Access, Extra!, Rave TV, American Textbooks, Statutes, exercise videos, anime, newspapers, Tvguides, Telephone books, Larry King, Queer Eye, Law and Order, Sex and the city, The sopranos, the 700 clubs, Blue Collar tv, Alias, Inside Edition, CSI, Charmed, Buffy, Family Guy, Reba, Just shoot me, Spin city, Nascar, Baseball, Cold Case, Soccer, CNN, Golden Girls, Chronicle, Access Hollywood, King of Queens, Jeoparody!, Dr. Phil, Nightline and more. With that being said, why would you a white entertainment channel? a few BET, and Tvone, and Telemundo, Telefutura, are not threatening your tv shows. So why?

BET, TELEFUTURA, TELEMUNDO and other shows are not racist. THEY ARE THE RESPONSE FOR THE UNDERREPRESENTATION OF MINORITY. THOSE SHOWS WERE CREATED BECAUSE OTHER SHOWS DON"T CATER TO OUR TASTES. BET WAS CREATED BECAUSE MOST SHOWS EXCLUDE US AND OUR CULTURE LIKE IT'S A BAD THING. SAME WITH TELEFUTURA, TELEMUNDO AND OTHER SHOWS. THESE SHOWS ARE THE REACTIONS YOU GET FOR NOT BEING FAIR AND REPRESENTATION OR CATER TO EVERYONE. MOST OF THOSE SHOWS CATER TO WHITE AUDIENCES. THEY DON'T SAY THAT BUT IT'S UNSPOKEN. IT'S SOMETHING EVERYONE KNOWS. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY "this is for a white audience", you show that immidiately. and Before BET and other shows, most of the white people STILL STILL didn't not included minorities. SOMEONE HAS TO TELL YOU OR MAKE A SHOW FOR MINORITIES. WHAT A SHAME!!

Answer 1

Girl, get over it!! Get on with your life, and stop trying to stir trouble, theres enough in todays society without crying over petty things like this, you must be really bored!

Read the latest in the NEWS about the Sears towers!!

Answer 2

I don't know where you've been living but most of those shows you've listed have actors and actresses of many races. If you are looking for some sort of an explanation, I would have to say that "whites" are the majority in this country, and many of these shows are trying to target the largest audience possible because it all comes down to money. For instance, if a show was based on asian culture and only 5% of the viewing population was asian and could relate and connect to the characters, that program wouldn't fare very well.

I'm not saying this is fair or just... it's just the way that it is right now. I couldn't for one second begin to understand what it would be like to be a black female living in this country, on the same token, don't assume that you fully understand the perspective of a white person. I personally get lumped into this category of "white" all the time and it makes me uncomfortable. My family immigrated from Poland many years ago, and although my outward appearance makes me similar in color, I feel that I am much different from the "white" stereotype. There is nothing wrong with having a channel that showcases a certain heritage or culture but when you place a label on it like "BLACK entertainment television" or "EBONY magazine", it shuts other cultures out. People get up in arms about it because nobody, despite culture, wants to feel shut out or denied.

It's not about "us" and "you guys" and when people start understanding that, "we" as a people will probably be a lot better off.

Answer 3

You are a racist.
African American people make up 12% of the population. Not everything has to be about you you you all the time. Cool it. I don't care what color you are I don't care who is in what TV show for crying out loud. What I care about is blacks are allowed and (they feel) entitled to be as racist as they can be and they get away with it. How is a BET and less racist than a White Entertainment Television? Its not but let someone start an all white channel and everybody gets upset You are all a bunch of hypocrites, racists and slackers! Stop blaming "whitey" for your problems and get over it because the route you are taking not just isn't working for anyone

And as far as "your culture" goes, take a ride through downtown Baltimore or Detroit or Camden NJ and you tell us what part of your great and wonderful culture needs to be portrayed?

Why dont you use your ourtrage and try to find a way to keep your teenagers from killing each other at the tune of 300+ a year (Baltimore). And you are all up tight about the way Television is?
Thats f*'d up

Answer 4

Seinfield is a jewish show. theres 2 jews in friends. You ever check who makes those tv shows? Not whites. How about those tabloids and magazines? again check out who actually makes those magazines. How is anime white? 700 club? that is for any moron who is dumb enought to give them money. Larry king is jewish. Law and order has ice T and some other black cop. Csi has blacks and mestizos, why no asians? golden girls had more than whites. King of queens the guys best friend is black and father inlaw is jewish. You do know the rest of the black world loves soccer and some black nations competed in the world cup? You are an ignorant racist.

As for Telemundo and all those other spanish stations, they usualy show only white people except in talk shows where the guest are often mestizos. Infact if you ever watch Mexican shows they are pretty racist towards blacks. Columbian TV shows you dont even see mestizos on them and they are the majority of the population.

Answer 5

Ok someone had a bad day. You went on ranting a raving big time. I am not white and I happen to love many of the shows you classified as white shows. I also happen to agree that BET was created to serve the underserved market. Now to all those people who seem to think that it is unfair that there is a channel called BET then they need to get over it and create a channel that they can live with. Personally I rarely watch the channel because I am not into the programming. I happen to like TVONE. You should check to see if you have it.

Let us discuss more important things....

Answer 6

So why? and Why would you a white entertainment channel? I'm sorry I can't answer those questions because they are not even questions.

reading that was like opening a present on your birthday that is wrapped in a giant box and it only has something small and meaningless inside.

Answer 7

Instead of complaining to us here, why don't you try sending that same info to the networks, as for they are the ones you need to talk to not us!!! Obviously you don't watch the FOX network, as for I do recall seeing alot of black shows on there, as well as other channels. Just because there aren't more doesn't mean that the networks are singling out the white people.

I swear, I am beginning to think that you won't be happy unless you have something to complain about. You could always move to sunny Africa and see just how many channels they have to choose from?? Get over it!! SHEESHH!!

Answer 8

While I agree with you, I would also like to add some food for thought:

I've watched BET. I don't agree that it offers something for black people to enjoy. I believe it perpetuates certain stereotypes amongst the community itself. While some of the programming is enjoyable, I also find it no different than the "white channels" None of the information presented is thought provoking. The shows offered are often bland and just as mindless as anything I see on any other channel.

I don't call for black or white TV, I submit that instead we strive for QUALITY programming.

There is another issue at play here:

I spent 5 years as a manager of a multiplex theater. Whenever a "Black Movie" would come out, certain customers would ask if I would exhibit the feature in a theater with larger capacity. I complied. Soul Food, Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back- each of those were shown in a theatre with 500 seats.

It was a good WEEK if any of those theatres were one quarter filled. The persons who griped that black movies weren't given the opportunity for generating business didn't come out to support the black movies. I kept each movie in the same theater for two months. No change in attendance. I showed each movie at least six times a day. Didn't help. I couldn't justify wasting all those empty seats for a movie people didn't come out to support. After I moved them to smaller theaters, I received complaints that I was racist.

The theatre wasn't located in a rural out of the way community. My weekend attendance was often over 10,000 customers per day.

It certainly wasn't that no one was coming- they chose to see everything else that was playing- movies like "Halloween H20", movies like "Water Boy" etc.

So again, I believe the focus shouldn't be white or black or hispanic, but instead QUALITY. Making a black TV show just for the sake of having a black TV show will not help matters. It will fail and only go to prove that there isn't an audience.

At the same time, the audience needs to recognize quality and support it.

That's just not happening.

Answer 9

Alias has several actors of different races and ethnic backgrounds.
Carl Lumbly who plays Agent Dixon is an African American and has played a major role in Alias and Alias wouldn't have been good without him.
Mia Maestro may be white but she is from Argentina.
Micheal Vartan is also white but he is from Normandy, France.
Alias has also had various other guest of different nationalities not to mention the show travels to places all around the world and realistically recreates the locations and cultures that live there.

Answer 10

Well, that is an easy question and one you shouldn't even ask.
Depsite the fact that it is 2006, people are CLOSE-MINDED. That is something that is never, ever going to change. It is a shame, because there are so many different cultures in our country and so many things that we can gain by learning from each other. You have to remember, that so many people in this country are uneducated and they develop their opinions based on things that they hear and believe to be true.
I just had a friend send me an email complaining about Black History Month....she assumed that b/c I am white that I would agree with her ignorance. People need to get over it. We are all here, we have to deal with one another and why not get along? I understand your anger, but, honey, don't even bother with people that are that intolerable!! Peace and love.

Answer 11

have you watched Telemundo or Univisión lately???

Although denied officially and, personally by many Mexicans, racism in Mexico is so evident that most foreigners notice it right away. All you have to do is look at Mexican-produced television programs, especially the internationally-known genre of Mexican telenovelas (soap operas). There you will see many Caucasians playing leading roles, while the darker-complected people who make up the vast majority of the population are relegated to minor roles such as maids, chauffeurs, or criminals. Even when the story line is about a maid who falls in love with the rich kid of the house (a rather typical one, which by the way conveys the notion that the only way out of poverty in Mexico is through love), the actress who plays the role is usually white. And more often than not, in the end we discover that she is the illegitimate child of a rich man or woman - in other words, her biological roots are those of the "nice" people. It's even worse than that. In Mexico, a strange and probably morally depressing phenomenon has occurred in the last 20 to 30 years. Before that there was a concept of a Mexican beauty - usually dark hair, dark eyes, but Spanish-looking (not Indian). But these days blonde is in, so you would think that blond hair is common and natural for Mexicans. While in other countries such as the U.S., Canada, and England, models, actors and actresses have become "darker" (at least we see many more of them), in Mexico it is quite the opposite.

Racism is equally present in the world of business. Go to a gathering of business executives, and while you are starting to see some (but few) women, you do not see "dark" people. Read want ads, and often you will find the words "presentación impeccable" (impeccable looks), which is a coded phrase to mean white and good looking. In a recent study conducted by a some of my students, observation was made on popular, high- middle-class dancing places where, believe it or not, dissertational decisions are made about who gets in and who doesn't. According to this study, the most discriminated people were over-weight women who are darker, followed by dark people in general. Restaurants often make excuses not to allow people who might look "poor" (usually associated with racial features). And way too many businesses are targeting mostly that richer (and whiter) segment, which - while having the income to consume - represent only 10 to 15% of the population at most.