Comments on: BET Awards Dominate Twitter, Causes Racist Backlash

By: Your Monday Random-Ass Roundup: One Day It’ll All Make Sense. « PostBourgie

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:32:46 +0000

[...] OMG! Teh Negroes took over Twitter! There goes the neighborhood. 13. My homie Justin Porter does the math on the 52 blocks, a secretive [...]

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“BET Awards and Racist Tweets in Twitterville” | cinna.mn — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:35:38 +0000

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By: siditty

siditty — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:50:41 +0000

Lisa,

The "I'm Asian" I can't be racist bull doesn't work here. Are you familiar with Kenneth Eng, Mr. "I Hate Black People"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK4fjMhGn-I

You are free to express your opinion. When you post that opinion on a public forum, such as twitter, you shouldn't be shocked when there is a response, especially when you made a racist tweet. So when you tweet your opinion, folks have the right to respond. Keep your racism private, no one will say anything.

By: Black folks and Twitter…we are everywhere « Blackgirlinmaine’s Weblog

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:50:30 +0000

[...] Black folks were tweeting about the festivities at BET and some folks got mad about it…check this out, you can also feel free to do a Google search on the [...]

By: sparklepants

sparklepants — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:37:06 +0000

@Lisa – you made a public posting in a public forum. Anyone following the trends or doing a search could find what you said. You can voice your opinion all you want, but just like with any kind of public posting or public announcement (verbal), you have to expect that someone's going to respond.

By: Urban Media News Report: 6.30.09 – Foxxology Report

Urban Media News Report: 6.30.09 – Foxxology Report — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:06:08 +0000

[...] BET Awards Dominate Twitter, Causes Racist Backlash Angela Benton: Say what you will about the content of the BET Awards. I tuned in late but monitored activity on Twitter last night and to be quite honest was surprised and pleased to see not only Twitter’s integration into the show but also the show dominating trending topics on Twitter. (BlackWeb 2.0) [...]

By: jbrotherlove

jbrotherlove — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:21:09 +0000

Trending Topics, Bigotry & Noise on Twitter…

It seems Twitter is officially not for geeks anymore. This has been the case for some time. But Twitter early adopters got smacked in the face with it during Monday night’s BET Awards show. I started to comment on Black Web 2.0’s post BET A…

By: rmcaldwell

rmcaldwell — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:09:08 +0000

Well, alrighty! @ Lisa… lol
Angela, amazing observations and an amazing report. I follow some well known “social media experts” and they were not at all pleased with Twitters trending topics. These are the same people who touted the use of Twitter as a great social networking tool. Did they mean it was only great within their ranks or circles? I get that impression. Those trending topics hold a wealth of qualitative information in regard to what interests users-all users, if only the experts “listened” to the messages the trends reveal. In fact, @brighteyesjulie found an interesting use of those trends: Web property valuation. Wow!

By: Writingprincess

Writingprincess — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:03:49 +0000

While I do not agree with hatin' on race on Twitter I could understand why anyone looking at the BET Awards would have been appalled at the disturbingly vast array of ignorance manifested last night. How embarrassing that a genius such as Michael Jackson had to be sandwiched in between the likes of “Soul ja…” Lil Wayne and all the other inarticulate fools that graced the stage last night. It's no wonder I do not listen to black radio anymore. I can't afford to lose any more of my brain cells to the trash that masquerades for talent these days. I don't hate on black. I just hate on black ignorance. Please someone tell me why this type of ignorant music is still popular? And Mary and Mary didn't ease my pain either as I noticed I couldn't tell the difference between their hook and “Blame it On the Alcohol….” The words – which you couldn't hear, really the diction was so horrible – may have been different but the beat was the same.
Revisiting the genius of Michael Jackson en requiem made me realize how far we came with him and how much we have regressed. Lord help us all.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:43:54 +0000

I found this very wrong.
I was made part of this “list” when I made a tweet about the trending topics. All the personalities that were on the topics were musicians, which I'm not a fan of. I did not even make it in any way, shape or form, made to be twisted around for everyone to interpret it as racist. What the twitterers said that we're featured on this entry, is very wrong and is not a joking matter. I am appalled that I was on this list, and how much hate I got for it. It doesn't matter whether you're white, black, asian, hispanic, or whatever, I'm just not a fan of the type of MUSIC. I found this so wrong because this is MY twitter account, where I should be able to voice MY opinions, what I'm doing, and how I feel. I am SO against racism, I'm asian…you don't think I never get that? But with all the hate mail I'm getting, I'm beginning to think this is a joke. And with reply to the person above me…it seems like omgblackepeople wasn't trying to “shed light” on racist twits, I think someone got bored and wanted to put some of us through hell….thanks.

Go ahead, follow me, give me more crap for being a human being with HUMAN OPINIONS.