I was over a friends house the other day and I was asked a why is their a channel like BET (black entertainment channel) and no WET (white entertainment channel)? I laughed it off and said “if we had a WET channel people might think it has porno on it”. When I saw I was the only one laughing I grew concerned, with a very concerned voice I ask why is their silence in the room and no laughing was that a serious question? My friend said yes he felt as if it was an insult. To make matters worst we were watching the show “black poker stars invitational”. The fact that he felt the whole situation was racist made me think, why this situation would be racist when not one black person was invited to ESPN’s poker invitational. When I saw the look of disgust and anger in my friends face I asked him his train of though on such situations. He goes into a long speech of how Black people are the ones who are discriminating now. “When ever a situation occurs they play the race card”. He then recites a list of unfair, unjust, and bias decisions made because of race. He ended this train of thought with “Black people, gays, and handicap people are way too privileged”. Now I know this dude we have been friends for about 4 years now and he never struck me as a racist or a white supremacist. I know he had a great grandfather who fought in the civil war and he wears his confederate flag proudly whether it’s a hat or T-shirt he always told us it ifs for southern pride. Another friend of ours who happens to be in the room with us asked “why are you so angry man it’s just a channel”. He replied “Oh it’s just a channel to you because you have about three channels”. At this time I see a heated argument is about to take place so I d o what I usually do make a silly joke, No one in the room was going for it. Therefore I made a stand by sayings that if you guys really look at it all the other channels are mainly white. Here is an example remember the show friends? It was about six friends three girls and three guys living in New York doing day to day things I use to watch that show and I always said I never saw not one black person in the show not even a cameo or in the background. When more and more people noticed this the last season before they call it quits they hire a black actress to appear on the show. I also stated that we can flip through all the channels on TV right now and it will be dominated by white shows. My friends DIRECTV line up goes up to 150 channels including premiums. In that little experiment we saw that even with Direct TV channels were minority shows being air range a 3% of his premium package. This made him feel better; I then proceeded to let him know the history of BET. In the beginning man black people were stereotyped on the TV by white actors painted with what was called Blackface makeup. The show who hired black people also gave them degrading roles for them to portrait. As times changed and black people gained more rights BET was developed with the idea to uplift black morale by have more realistic and positive roles. He then asked the big question if Barak Obama becomes president what changes is he going to force on the white people next? HE then states such laws like affirmative action, welfare, and the “N” word.