#this is why people call it the EBT Awards

[sanyu-thewitch05]

@thisismisogynoir

My thoughts on the 2024 BET awards:

I decided to watch the BET awards tonight, and I am so disgusted. This is what we call “the culture’s biggest night”? This is what we call “Black excellence”? I came for Will Smith, and I was happy at that. What I wasn’t happy with was the same ish BET has been on when it comes to music. Which is being 90% ghetto and ratchet and just platforming all forms of people who don’t need a platform(Sexyy Red, Drake, etc).

But imma get to that in a minute. First let me talk about Miss Tyla. Now, I know she’s really popular and has blown up in popularity in the US, but why is this girl receiving awards on a show meant for Black excellence? It’s one thing to show up and be part of the audience. It’s another to actually be receiving awards from this show. Tyla has made it very clear that’s she’s Coloured(mixed with what I remember to be Mauritian, Indian, Irish, and Zulu), and her race is not Black. So why is she on a program meant to showcase Black excellence?

She should’ve never been an option for the nomination. She knows she isn’t Black but gladly went into a Black space, A BLACK AMERICAN SPACE, and took home two awards. You’re not Black in one country, and another race in a different country. You’re Coloured/Mixed here and you’re Coloured in South Africa. Blackness isn’t a costume you can throw on and off when you want to. No non-Black person should be able to win a BET award. The B in BET stands for Black. Stop giving invites to our cultural events to non-Black people.

Moving onto Sexyy Red, why is BET giving a platform to this guttersnipe woman? Why is she getting a platform when she promotes Trump, STDs, sexual irresponsibility, and honestly just gang lifestyles? And it’s not lost on me they(BET) allowed her to do that President Sexyy stage. The only culture she represents is the ratchet culture of being sexually irresponsible, uncouth, ignorance, and hypogamy.

Finally, calling this the culture’s biggest night is so disrespectful. My culture isn’t just cussing and shaking my butt with little to no clothes on. My culture’s music isn’t just rap and gospel. Black music is cheesy lovey dovey songs, rock, pop(and I’m talking Taylor Swift type of pop), country, traditional music, jazz, and everything in between. It’s so much more than rap and gospel, and I which BET would show that on a regular basis(yes, I know they had a few pop artists like Victoria Monét but she doesn’t make Taylor Swift type of pop).