With only one national black television station, this writer wonders why BET chooses to show music videos all day. From nine o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock in the evening (Eastern Standard Time), there are shows like “Hits From the Street,” “106 and Park,” alongside a few other music video shows. Throughout the day there are reruns of similar video shows, all featuring half naked women, thugs, and drug dealers. The images of African Americans being projected in this programming are of artists who are obsessed with money, sex, and popularity. The characters the artists play in music videos are willing to do anything for the almighty dollar, including rob, cheat, pimp women (or themselves), steal and kill. No, this is not the Playboy channel or HBO, both of which have the freedom to show such things. This is bad entertainment disguised as good entertainment for blacks and it comes in the form of the network BET (Black Entertainment Television).