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You’re essentially saying that black people need to erase their cultural identity and assimilate into the dominant culture and shut up and watch tv shows about

You’re essentially saying that black people need to erase their cultural identity and assimilate into the dominant culture and shut up and watch tv shows about white people like the rest of us and be happy about it. Black people live a different experience than other groups, and maybe they want different shows that resonate with them. BET has been successful for a long time and this service is BET for the internet.

flyingfoxxx 5y ago
What constitutes as the “black experience”? Are you speaking in terms of the modern day experience of black people? This is a genuine question, and I would really appreciate to hear a response from one who is black. Also, is “black” a culture? No really, aren’t there different cultures that make up the black population, just as there are for whites? Or is there also “white culture”? Or “brown culture”? These seem like dangerous over-generalizations that lack the nuance they deserve.
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- cphoover 5y ago
  A Nigerian, or Jamaican may have a completely different understanding of culture than black people whose family history ties back to US slavery. It is weird how we just tend to generalize over all of this because of the color of one's skin.
tssva 5y ago
"this service is BET for the internet." Wouldn't BET+ be BET for the internet?
- tcoff91 5y ago
  And this service is another competitor to it.
ekianjo 5y ago
You are saying that as if all black people have the same identity or something. Since when does the color of ones skin define their culture?
- tcoff91 5y ago
  That's not at all what I'm trying to say. I'm merely pushing back on a lot of people in this thread acting like it's somehow offensive or not ok to try to market a streaming platform aimed the African American audience. There are many different cultures in the African Diaspora, and it seems that this service is targeted primarily at American black people. And I really don't see what is wrong with the idea of launching a streaming service to cater to a specific, underserved demographic.
itsoktocry 5y ago
>Black people live a different experience than other groups Black people are certainly entitled to watch whatever content they choose, but they are not unique in their "different lived experiences". "White people" are not some amorphous, homogeneous group.

flyingfoxxx 5y ago

What constitutes as the “black experience”? Are you speaking in terms of the modern day experience of black people? This is a genuine question, and I would really appreciate to hear a response from one who is black. Also, is “black” a culture? No really, aren’t there different cultures that make up the black population, just as there are for whites? Or is there also “white culture”? Or “brown culture”? These seem like dangerous over-generalizations that lack the nuance they deserve.

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cphoover 5y ago
A Nigerian, or Jamaican may have a completely different understanding of culture than black people whose family history ties back to US slavery. It is weird how we just tend to generalize over all of this because of the color of one's skin.

tssva 5y ago

"this service is BET for the internet." Wouldn't BET+ be BET for the internet?

tcoff91 5y ago
And this service is another competitor to it.

ekianjo 5y ago

You are saying that as if all black people have the same identity or something. Since when does the color of ones skin define their culture?

tcoff91 5y ago
That's not at all what I'm trying to say. I'm merely pushing back on a lot of people in this thread acting like it's somehow offensive or not ok to try to market a streaming platform aimed the African American audience. There are many different cultures in the African Diaspora, and it seems that this service is targeted primarily at American black people. And I really don't see what is wrong with the idea of launching a streaming service to cater to a specific, underserved demographic.

itsoktocry 5y ago

>Black people live a different experience than other groups Black people are certainly entitled to watch whatever content they choose, but they are not unique in their "different lived experiences". "White people" are not some amorphous, homogeneous group.