BET founder Bob Johnson criticizes Obama – Yahoo! News
Posted by Ginny on January 13, 2008
Assalamu alaikum, well, I think all of this is just crazy! You want to bring someone’s drug use into this? Well, anyone remember Bill Clinton’s “I didn’t inhale” comment? I don’t think the Hillary Clinton campaign should even go there! As far as Bob Johnson goes, I don’t think that BET, IMHO, is anything to be proud of, really, I mean, it seems that so much more could have been done with that channel. I don’t watch it much anymore, but when I did watch it, you had music videos during the day, reruns of old shows in the evenings, and really late at night and someitmes on the weekends, you had infomercials. They had gospel programing and I think some preachers on, too, however, I don’t know, it just seems like they could have put on a lot more original programming. Anyway, don’t let me get started on that, since perhaps it’s not my place to comment on that.
As far as race and gender *not* being made an issue, if Hillary is saying that she doesn’t want race and gender to be made an issue of in this campaign, then she’s living in as much of a “fairytale” as her husband, Bill Clinton, says that Obama is living in! Especially since many women, and I heard one woman say this myself, voted for Clinton not becuas ehtey liked her, but because “they were feminists and felt they had to”, another woman talked about how “so many women aren’t listened to”, etc., etc., and some of these women said that they liked Obama. So, to me, they were saying that they voted for HIllary purely because of gender. I’m speaking of the New Hampshire primary here.
So unfortuantely, it is about race and gender. As far as Obama and what, or what not, Bob Johnson was referring to, well, are we really going to go tit for tat as to “who was doing what”, while Bob Johnson was showing objectionable videos on his TV channel, videos that my mother told me not to watch around my sister (who was 6 at the itme), what was Obama doing? Just because he wasn’t President, or Senator, or some other big shot post, are we really going to say he wasn’t doing anything? I’d like to know who really is engaging in the politics of personal destuction here? Probably to be truthful, both candidates here, however, I don’t know, I don’t like this negativity here, and if Hillary even remotely said that it was mainly Lyndon Jonson who brought about the Civil Rights era, and not the leaders and marchers who put thier lives on the line to stand up for civil rights, well, that’s just unfortuante. Lyndon Johnson probably wouldn’t have even thought about civil rights, not if he was going to be President anyway, if it wasn’t a pressing issue at the time. It was people like Dr. King, who started the movement and mobilized people, that made civil rights a priority. But anyway, the fact that Bill and Hillary feel that they have to do damage control regarding thier comments, perhaps, should tell you something.
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Gina said
Today Bob Johnson, founder of (BET)Black Exploitation Television, made comments about Senator Barack Obama while campaigning with Senator Hillary Clinton in South Carolina, in her quest to become President of the United States. Of all the people she could have stood side by side with today, why Bob Johnson? On the eve of the possibility of electing the first African American or woman as President of the United States, why on earth would Hillary Clinton associate herself with a man that has spent his life’s work trying to profit of the exploitation of African Americans, African American women and girls in particular?
Bob Johnson stands for everything Hillary Clinton OUGHT to be against. This man single-handedly set the cause of African Americans back hundreds of years. His exploitation of Black women and girls is particularly morally repugnant. Hillary Clinton is supposed to be a defender of the American worker, yet Bob Johnson made his billions at Black Entertainment Television by notoriously paying his on air talent slave wages.
To be sitting up in a the pulpit of a Black church grinning and laughing side by side with this multimedia crack cocaine dealer and pimp is the slap in the face of every Black woman and girl in this country.
Instead of repeating Bob Johnson’s comments on Senator Obama wholesale, reporters should be asking him about the circumstances under which his wife and BET cofounder left the company. They should ask him about his “relations” with the female executives at his company. They should ask him why his own sister allegedly sued him and whether Johnson properly paid his taxes. All of these issues are raised in Johnson’s biography, The Billion-Dollar Bet. Bob Johnson is not an African American leader, he is a bottom feeder.
Let us not forget that for SIX YEARS Bob Johnson skirting broadcasting rules to broadcast some of the most vile disgusting depictions of African American women in cable television history. BET’s “ Uncut “ featured such cultural gems as:
“What That Thing Smell Like”, by Black Jesus
Shake It Like a Pitbull, by Cold Cannons
F@#king, by David Banner feat. Jazze Pha –
“P#$$y Licker“, DJ Slim –
“I Got That Drank“, Frayser Boy feat. Mike Jones and Paul Wall –
“Let Me See You’re @$$ Drop“, Joker the Bailbondsman –
“P#$$y Poppin’“, by Ludacris feat. Shawnna and Lil Fate
This is not okay. Would Hillary Clinton sit in a church pulpit with Larry Flint or Hugh Hefner? Then why is she sitting in a pulpit with Bob Johnson? Or is she only concerned about the degradation and exploitation of White women? Does her brand of feminism extend to Black women and girls too?
When Hillary Clinton sits side by side in an African American church with a noted misogynist and smut peddler she sends a clear message: she’s not overly concerned about the damage this man has caused African American girls and women. Does Senator Clinton care about our daughters? I don’t know. The Senator should seriously reconsider the company she is keeping. Bob Johnson is no friend of Black America or Black women and children..
http://whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com/2008/01/am-i-going-to-have-to-get-obama-t-shirt.html
Jr said
I am utterly discussed when I heard Johnson’s remark, it is not because he is supporting Clinton. He has all the rights to support whom ever he chooses. As it has been suggested Johnson has made BILLIONS in the demising of young African American with the garbage his so called BET network has fed our children for sometimes now. I would suggest he spends his time and effort cleaning up after himself. Johnson you have corrupted a whole generation so please, leave this kind of remark for some one with more integrity.
Do us all that favor.