Interesting QuestionFollow

I watched a lot of basic cable back in college.

They had tv back then?

As opposed to what? "Shows with Negros"? Do you really think that, if it had a different name, folks wouldn't still say "OMG they have BLACK shows but we don't have all WHITE shows!!"?

***** the name, are you against the concept of a channel specializing in collecting the narrow amount of black oriented programming into a single location?

Ummm, no. I'm simply referring to the double standard in what is considered PC terminology and practice. I don't think you get what I'm saying. Maybe you're reading too much into it. I'm not going to call strawman just yet but I'm not going to address any more points that I'm not making.

Fine. Explain exactly what is wrong with BET. So far, all I've gotten is "People would be mad if there was a WET".

I already said; the name makes generalizations about what black people find entertaining, thus breeding stereotypes on both ends of the spectrum.

Now I feel all pissy at my double standards

Aversive racism refers to the "subtle, unintentional form of bias that is presumed to characterize a substantial proportion of White liberals."[13]

Because they have internalized liberal egalitarian values, aversive racists consider themselves non-prejudiced, even though they have unconscious racist feelings, and sometimes express them. "Thus, aversive racists are able to discriminate without acknowledging their prejudice because they excuse or justify their behavior on ‘reasonable’ grounds”

Colorblind white people see racist white people pretty much for what they are, and that "something" is not what colorblind white people want to be. But colorblind white people more often than not are ineffective in working to undo the racist model. Unable to see race, they cannot see racism. Blind to color, they are blind to white culture as well. In a racially structured society they are unable to change a structure they fail to see. Rather, they rely on simplistic rules. To be conscious of race, a colorblind person will say, is to be racist. To the colorblind person the racist and the race savvy person seem to be the same. They both see race after all.

The race savvy white person understands what the colorblind white person does not. Being white makes a difference. Whiteness forms the center of our society and as long as it does, we cannot have a society centered on multiracial values. The irony of colorblindness is that by not seeing whiteness, it keeps whiteness centered. In this the racists might find some small ray of hope.

This is what I'm talking about. No problem with people being gay, don't care. Problem with parades like this.

Woosh.