BET Network announced that it would be reviving it’s ‘soft porn’ video show, BET Uncut. I’m sure that many of you felt just as frustrated as I did upon hearing this. Across social media, many people questioned why would BET bring this show back out of all its other programming choices? Cries to see Teen Summit, a television show created to highlight and inform the youth of our community with positive commentary, dialogue, and interactions has yet to be heard. Other shows like, Video Soul, Hitz from the Streets, and more were sadly overlooked when it came to what show to revive. Really? BET made a statement that they were bringing this show back due to popular demand. Popular demand?! By who? Based on the response that I’ve seen on social media, the majority of viewers are scratching their heads just like I am as to how and why this is happening.
BET Uncut was at the forefront of the conversation about the degradation of black women. In all of the videos, you would see women being treated as sexual objects and nothing more. Nelly’s infamous “Tip Drill” video was a cookie-cutter example of the image of black women held in the mindset of most male rappers. How could you let this nightmare come back to haunt us BET?
Do you even care? I mean, you didn’t think to bring back BET Nightly News? A news hour that is greatly needed for our community. With all of the protests, marches, and discussion of #BlackLivesMatter, don’t you feel we should have a platform of newsworthy discussion outside of Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC? Or do you even care? 
There was no special report on the death of Sandra Bland, Joyce Curnell, Kindra Chapman, and many more. Why not BET? Do you no longer have access to reputable journalists like Ed Gordon, that can help you pull together information on stories of interest to the black community?
In order for there to be change, we have to be the change we seek. How will reviving a show that negatively showcases black women in a degrading fashion help our cause? What will it tell our young girls about their worth and their beauty? They are already bombarded with images daily telling them that they aren’t good enough, smart enough, light enough, thick enough, slim enough, so on and so forth. But after all, you are Black Entertainment Television. It’s just videos, right? It’s just ENTERTAINMENT. Right?
This is a challenge to all the Greek-letter organizations that created a movement to cancel a reality television show that showed their organizations in a negative light. What will you do now? Does the re-emergence of “BET’s Uncut” not bother you as much? After all, anytime a black woman is being exploited; shouldn’t that be cause for concern or am I just too deep? The same uproar that was made over letters, should be made over this show.
Just my two cents:
I want my sisters and little sisters to see themselves as Queens, not glorified whores.
