New scholarship created for whites only

[Q200_FO]

You guys are clueless....

 

[Redtailer]

WET

Hey guys, I think your rationale of the PCness of WET compared to BET is way off. Number one BET is geared towards a Black audience, not for black actors only. There is a difference. Hispanics have their own channels as well.

When it comes down to WET, sure you can make it. I don't think there would be a backlash as some would like to believe. The reason there is no such channel is that there is no market for it. Simply put, WET already exists in the form of the big three networks now, just without the name. Are they racist, no. Geared for a White audience, yes.

Same with the magazines, and the same with several scholarships.

Private scholarships are for whomever they want them to go to. Just like there are many private clubs in the US that WILL NOT admit Blacks (Ref: Palm Beach has a lot of clubs, and only 2 will admit Blacks.) But then, that's ok.

 

[Q200_FO]

Redtailer

Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[Swass]

Re: Redtailer

Couldn't have said it better myself.

You didn't.

 

[Swass]

You are dead wrong about WET not stirring feathers with the NAACP and other like groups. If the network call letters were WET (white ent. television) there would be a huge outcry JUST because of the name. People would cry foul because the NAME suggests it's geared for a white audience.

CBS, ABC, NBC may be geared for a primarily white audience, but it's not in their company name as it is in BET's name. Your naive if you think WET wouldn't cause huge backlash. Better yet, you live in fantasyland with Micheal Jackson if you think it wouldn't be a huge issue, especially with the liberal media.

 

[Fly-n-high]

If I choose to take my money and set it aside for scholarships I have the right to give that scholarship to whomever I please. There are alot of underpriviliged white students out there who really need the help. Don't sit here and tell me that's racist.

You morons who keep flashing the word "racist" need to get a dictionary and look up the word.

Blacks get enough of my money handed to them as it is.

 

[Dizel8]

Considering the demographics of the US, it makes sense that most networks are geared towards whites. IIRC the number of african americans is 12 percent.

This from the census bureau:

White persons, percent, 2000 (a) 75.1%

Black or African American persons, percent, 2000 (a) 12.3%

American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2000 (a) 0.9%

Asian persons, percent, 2000 (a) 3.6%

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2000 (a) 0.1%

Persons reporting some other race, percent, 2000 (a) 5.5%

Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2000 2.4%

Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2000 (b) 12.5%

White persons, not of Hispanic/Latino origin, percent, 2000 69.1%

 

[Goffer]

BET:
Broken English Television..... or
Butchered English Television.

 

[Redtailer]

BET is named that way because of the type of programming they provide. They came after the major networks had been on the air for years.

Lets turn the tables for a bit. If all of the original networks had been black, then I am sure you would see a WET. No one would be angry because it would be fulfilling a niche market just as BET did.

As I said before, if there is a market for WET (Note: Not one with racist undertones, but one geared to a white audience) then there will not be an uproar. I admit the media would have a field day with it, but the backlash simply would not happen. However, since the Big 3 already dominate this market you will never see a WET. As a sidenote, no channel will ever change there name to WET due to the ramifications involved. Not a backlash, but a decline in minority viewers simply because there would be a lot less viewer interest. Marketing is everything.

Unfortunately, there is a stigma in the black community towards anything with a WHITE label because of history. Most of the time, anything with such a label promotes hatred and discrimination, and that is what is objectionable. However, if you put a product, any product, out there with a WHITE label on it and it is clearly not racist or discriminatory then it won't have a problem. Too bad that this is not the case most of the time. Conversely, in history most BLACK labels have not been associated with such meanings, hence it is more easily accepted.

Swass: If you want to start your own WHITE organization that is not racist or discriminatory and admits ANYONE from ANY RACE then I would fully support you.

 

[Capt. Tex]

Blacks get enough of my money handed to them as it is.

How? And don't tell me welfare dumb a$$. If Blacks are only 12% of the population how are they using all the money?

 

[DIRT]

Capt. Tex

This is taken directly from the US Census Bureau website. As difficult as it may be for some to come up with a valid argument based on facts, arguing with facts is much better than "And don't tell me welfare dumb a$$. If Blacks are only 12% of the population how are they using all the money?"

This quote is made with regards to social program participation.

"Whites had significantly lower participation rates than Blacks, and persons of Hispanic origin4 had rates intermediate between Whites and Blacks. About 38 percent of Blacks participated in major assistance programs during 1990. The comparable figures for Whites and persons of Hispanic origin were 11 and 33 percent, respectively."

So based on this I would say that 38% of a certain demographic participating in a major assistance program during 1990 is a bit of a pattern.

 

[ShawnC]

Guys, it's a $250 dollar scholarship. It's symbolic and created only to get people discussing the hypocrisy of creating a scholarship that is only attainable by certain races, when that in itself is racist.

Looks like it worked.

$250 barely buys two books for class it's worthless.

 

[Swass]

What all of you are saying is good in theory but isn't the way it works in the real world. If someone started a WET network Al Sharpton and his ilk would be all over it for the publicity, you know this to be a fact. There would be massive protest by black Americans, maybe not EVERY black American. The NAACP lawyer pukes have made things so politically charged with their sue- happy tactics that the idea would never see the light of day anyway, so the point is moot. Look at all the discussion that a $250 fictitious scholarship garnered on a damm aviation web board, think of something along the scale of a television network. What kind of outcry would you get then?

 

[Jmmccutc]

$250 barely buys two books for class it's worthless.

sh1t, i got a $300 for books from my university, it didn't buy me half of what i needed...and the book for my flight course weren't even covered because they didn't carry them at the university bookstore...

 

[Fly-n-high]

DIRT,

Based on Capt Tex's reply to my post it's clear that he's a quick tempered liberal wacko and like most liberals you'll just confuse him with the facts.

I wouldn't waste valuable time responding to him (or her).