Black College Students Boycott Black Entertainment Television (BET)

National Campaign against BET

Why I Am Campaigning Against BET

By Angela Boudreaux

Black College Wire

I am a rising junior at Spelman College. I am writing to encourage and solicit

participation in what is becoming a national campaign
to combat the negative, one-dimensional, stereotypical and misogynistic
manner in which Black Entertainment Television portrays black men and
women.

Let me first explain how and why this campaign was started. A
professor at Spelman, Tarshia Stanley, is truly the reason and the
foundation. My experiences with Dr. Stanley literally changed my life
because her class, “Images of Women in the Media,” showed me a very
progressive and critical way of interpreting and analyzing the media
and several other agents of socialization.

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