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When Huey takes action against BET and gets some help from a well known face, he learns that you can't always trust a crusader.
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00:06Welcome to B.E.T. Headquarters.
00:09I'm Debra Leval.
00:10It's 2 p.m., so it's time for a morning staff meeting.
00:14Our leader, Bob Johnson, had a dream.
00:16A dream of creating a network that would accomplish with hundreds of years of slavery.
00:21Jim Crow and malt liquor couldn't.
00:23The destruction of black people!
00:26Yo, sister!
00:27Is that so hard?
00:28Mr. Leval, since B.E.T. came into existence, terrible things have happened to black people.
00:32Dropout rates, teen pregnancy, unemployment, and incarceration have skyrocketed since our debut 25 years ago.
00:38We really believe we're making a difference.
00:41Quiet!
00:44The destruction of black people is not happening fast enough!
00:48The other day, I saw three niggas reading books.
00:50One of them was smiling.
00:54Yes.
00:54He won't die.
00:55No, I'll have to call him back.
00:56Oh, and I need another math guy.
00:59You know, the dude with the charts and shit.
01:00He did.
01:00Yeah, him.
01:01I need another one.
01:02Yeah, and a cleanup crew.
01:04Oh, and another shoe.
01:05Left.
01:06No, Prada.
01:08Wendy Redland, my Harvard-educated president of entertainment!
01:11Tell me about the evil shows you have in development.
01:15Um...
01:15Tell it, brother!
01:16Mr. Sleevel, my Harvard education tells us that our goal is to take all the shitty reality
01:19shows MTV did five years ago and make them black.
01:22Anyone who wants to see a shitty black version of an MTV reality show, well, they'll have
01:25to come to us.
01:26What else?
01:27Next month, we're going to have our first award show honoring video hosts.
01:29Video hosts!
01:30Or as I like to call it, a ho-ward show.
01:32Oh.
01:40Right.
01:42I don't get it.
01:43Must be some of that Harvard humor, faggot-ass faggot.
01:46Personnel!
01:46How are we fucking up niggas' money?
01:49Well, let's see.
01:49As you've requested, nobody outside this room has been paid for months.
01:53And you fired everyone that could read?
01:54Mm-hmm.
01:56I love it!
01:57Okay.
01:58And public relations?
01:59Mistress Sleevel, we got one thing to report.
02:01I, some little nigga named Huey Freeman.
02:04Apparently, he all critical of the network and shit.
02:06Talking about he starting a hunger strike.
02:07Why?
02:08What do we ever do to him except try to destroy black people?
02:10What's the problem?
02:10This hunger strike will continue until BET is taken off the air, the office is shut down,
02:15and all its top executives commit Japanese ritual suicide.
02:22He's just a kid.
02:24No one can stand it in my way of destroying black people.
02:30Especially not...
02:31Fury Freeman!
02:42I am the stone that the builder refused.
02:44I am the visual, the inspiration that made ladies sing the blues.
02:47I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.
02:49The same spark that lights the dark so that you can know you're left from your right.
02:52I am the ballad in your box.
02:54The bullet in the gun.
02:55The inner glow that lets you know to call your brother's son.
02:57The story that just begun
02:58The promise of what's to come
03:00And I'ma remain a soldier
03:01Till the war is won
03:19Fade me, fade me
03:21It is good
03:22It was the third day of my hunger strike
03:26To bring an end to the tyranny
03:28Of black entertainment television
03:31Man, fake meat is good
03:32Hey, could you pass me one of them veggie burgers?
03:35There was someone around here
03:36Who used to love veggie burgers
03:38You wouldn't remember who that was, would you, boy?
03:41Who?
03:44What's for the office of hunger strike, boy?
03:46What did food ever do to you?
03:49Can I be excused, please?
03:51No, you are going to eat with the family, boy
03:53Anybody told you the crusade against BET?
03:55BET is out to destroy black people
03:56My nigga, I watch BET every day, feel me
03:59Ain't nothing wrong with me, feel me
04:01Nigga, you just hating, feel me
04:03That's why you ain't never going to have no paper
04:04Ain't never going to have no bitches, feel me
04:06Boy, watch your mouth
04:06See, that's BET
04:08He's right though, Huey
04:09Women don't like all that hating
04:10You better listen to your granddaddy
04:12You don't want to be bitchless
04:13I know bitchless
04:14Look, I'm bitchless right now
04:16It's no fun
04:16You feel me?
04:22Hello?
04:23Hey there, um, good day
04:24I'm looking for Brother Hewitt Freeman, please
04:26Speaking
04:26Hey Brother Hewitt, my name is Reverend Rallo Goodlove
04:29And it's my honor to speak with you
04:31Wait, THE Rallo Goodlove?
04:33You mean the Rallo Goodlove who toured with Parliament Funkadelic in the 70s
04:37Became a community activist in the 80s
04:39Ran for president twice in the 90s
04:41And currently is the host of the syndicated public access show
04:44What's going on with Rallo Goodlove, Rallo Goodlove?
04:46Mm-hmm, the same
04:48Anyway, I had to call and share with you my support of your hunger strike
04:52How you feeling?
04:53Hungry
04:53Well, you know you made a powerful statement, young man
04:57And I'm proud to call myself your ally
04:59Are you going to go on the hunger strike with me?
05:00Oh yeah, uh, no, no, no
05:03You see, I have to have dinner with Puffy later on
05:05But don't you worry though
05:06Together we're going to bring our enemies to their knees
05:09Now listen, I'm holding a rally downtown tomorrow, brother
05:12And I would love for you to come and stand with us
05:18Brothers and sisters
05:21I said brothers and sisters
05:23I don't know what this world is coming to
05:26But if you ask me what I think about BET
05:29I'll tell you with no shame
05:31BET sucks
05:35I say that because
05:37When I sit and watch BET
05:39My dignity is sucked away
05:41And my pride is sucked away
05:45And the progress we've made in the freedom struggle
05:48Over the last five decades
05:50Is sucked away
05:52Now brothers and sisters
05:54We are here today
05:55Because we're not going to let BET suck intimo from us
05:59I say stand up and tell them
06:02I will not be a predator to your foolishness
06:04I'm free
06:05And I will not be captured by your ignorance
06:09Because I'm free
06:10I will not be trapped in the negro-fied matrix either
06:14Because I am free
06:18I will not be entizing
06:42I will not be portrayed no more
06:46Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:49Go ahead, baby, hey.
06:54Almost everything.
06:57And this is my day.
06:59I'm coming, man.
07:01Make me want to sing.
07:03I'm praying again.
07:06I won't know anything I'm allowed to see.
07:10I'll make sure of my love.
07:13Sing it, sing it.
07:14Sing it.
07:16Sing it.
07:16I will put your weight on.
07:19I will action, passion, smiling, laughing, healing, feeling,
07:24tilting, healing.
07:25Introduce your neighbor to your Savior.
07:29I will get you.
07:31I will have my love to see.
07:41I will get you.
07:43Ah, yes, have mercy.
07:47Brothers and sisters, y'all get it all enough for Otis and the action bands.
07:53Granddad, you should have seen it.
07:54Reverend Goodlove, it was amazing.
07:56Man, the people were so inspired.
07:58Oh, yeah, I saw it on the news.
08:00Look like American Idol to me.
08:01I still don't know what your problem is with BET.
08:03I love Beyonce.
08:04Shoot, little sweet thing.
08:06Oh, shake it, girl.
08:07Shake it, girl.
08:07Shake it, girl.
08:08Yeah.
08:10Ain't you hungry yet?
08:14Well, I was thinking that tomorrow we could reach the people by marching to the BET headquarters.
08:19No, no, we ain't gonna do no shit like that.
08:20Now, Huey, black people have style, and we are attracted to things of class, especially
08:26you young people.
08:28Now, see, but that's what makes BET so dangerous now.
08:32Excuse me.
08:33It sells you young people a lifestyle that you're attracted to.
08:36That's good.
08:37But you can't afford it.
08:39And in order to save them kids, I got to reach them kids.
08:42Now, see, when I shine, they walk toward me for the light of them diamonds.
08:47Ain't no wrong with that.
08:48But when they walk away from me, they got the light of that truth.
08:55You think I want to be at the Vibe Wars?
08:58Do you really believe I want to be ringside at the championship fight?
09:03You think I want to be doing skating with the stars, falling down, fucking up my ankles?
09:07God damn it.
09:09What?
09:09This ain't no beluga caviar?
09:11Now, see, for example, let's look at music.
09:14Now, here's my rap demo.
09:16Personally, I like jazz and gospel.
09:18But if I spit that hot fire, I might be able to reach some of them kids out there.
09:23You see, the thing with me, though, is what I do, I'm going to do it for the people now.
09:27I work all day at night to get their attention.
09:29And it's hard.
09:30It's hard work, Huey.
09:31Look, I even know all the new dances.
09:45Mistress Leevil, the new slogans are ready for your approval.
09:49B.E.T.
09:50It's what's on in the background.
09:53Huh.
09:54B.E.T.
09:55You niggas have nothing better to watch.
09:57Uh-huh.
09:59B.E.T.
10:00Complain to someone who gives a fuck.
10:02Huh.
10:03Now think about it.
10:05Sorry to bother you, Mistress Leevil, but the Freeman boy is on CNN.
10:08What's CNN?
10:09But I submit to you today that I think it's tragic to hit black American in the 21st century.
10:14I know just how to deal with a good reverend.
10:22Thanks to good love and a very slow news cycle, the boycott became a big story and started to take
10:28off.
10:28B.E.T.
10:30Fuck B.E.T.
10:31I'm going to read a book.
10:35Word got around.
10:37B.E.T.
10:37Was evil.
10:40Okay, welcome back, Lil' Lambs.
10:42Uh, we are sitting here with former B.E.T.
10:44host, Sister Sherry Carter.
10:46First things first.
10:47You never could get that hair right now, could you, baby?
10:49Oh.
10:50But we was with you, baby, because you had those big old thighs and you was a red bone.
10:54Mm.
10:54Never could understand how, Sister, that light-skinned hair bad, have them?
10:58Is Tigger short for tiger and nigger, or are you just a big old fan of Winnie the Pooh?
11:02We are now sitting here with former B.E.T.
11:04host, Tavis Smiley.
11:06Now, Tavis, correct me if I'm wrong, but you have some problems over there,
11:09that B.E.T.
11:09now, didn't you?
11:10Well, I'm not going to lie and say I didn't.
11:11Yeah, but things went okay for you afterwards.
11:13I mean, after all, you do have an N.P.R. show.
11:16Well, yes, I do have the N.P.R. radio show, and I also have a talk show on PBS.
11:20Oh, two shows.
11:22Hmm.
11:22I guess that beats my one, huh?
11:24You're doing real good, brother.
11:26You're doing real good.
11:27You know, I don't think I've ever been invited to either one of those shows, though.
11:31Well, then we'll just have to get you on now, won't we?
11:33I mean, I put you on my show, you know?
11:36I'm sharing my light, helping you move a book or two, but I don't see the favor being returned.
11:41At all.
11:42So I was just checking to see if I had done something wrong to you.
11:47I think we're out of time.
11:49Motherfucker, that's my line.
11:50See, granddad?
11:51That's called exposure, and with enough of it, we can change the world.
11:55Mm-hmm.
11:57And finally tonight, Reverend Rollo Goodlove, who's been very critical recently of BET and their sexually explicit videos,
12:03starred in a pretty explicit video of his own.
12:07Oh.
12:08The video clearly shows the good Reverend Goodlove at the House of Cheeks script club.
12:15And it doesn't look like he was talking politics.
12:20I bet you're hungry now.
12:26I'm saying, man, it doesn't look good.
12:29Jesus walked amongst the people.
12:30Muhammad walked amongst the people.
12:32I am a people person, Huey.
12:33All the great prophets embrace the people.
12:35You're embracing her butt, Reverend.
12:36Listen, child, I can speak in colleges and get paid a whole heap of money,
12:40but if you're in college already, you don't need Rollo Goodlove
12:43as much as a young brother out there in the gang
12:44or a young sister in the strip club needs Rollo Goodlove.
12:47Have mercy.
12:48Now, see, if I walk into the strip club and start talking to a sister about progressive politics and all
12:53that,
12:54better in her life and voter registration, you think she gonna talk to me?
12:57But if I grab me a handful of that big old ass and ask for a dance,
13:01now she just gonna think I'm just another trick when I'm really an instrument of her salvation.
13:06Now, I have set the table for change.
13:09Yeah, she grinding on me trying to get that little $20,
13:12but she gonna get a whole lot more than that, believe me.
13:15Oh, glory.
13:16Now, sometimes you'll find her an apartment, maybe even a job.
13:20Yeah, but it still looks pretty bad.
13:22I just hope it doesn't hurt the boycott.
13:24I don't think I can go without fool much longer.
13:27This wasn't the first blow to Reverend Goodlove's public image.
13:30Do you own a car?
13:31Because if you do, you own the keys to some cash.
13:34Last year, Reverend Goodlove signed on to pitch high-interest loans
13:38that exploit the poor and desperate.
13:40Call the lone danger.
13:41I feareth not your scandals.
13:44My name is Rollo Goodlove.
13:46You can't settle my reputation.
13:48I take your attacks as a badge of honor.
13:50They called Martin Luther King an adulterer.
13:53They called Muhammad Ali a communist.
13:56And for 2,000 years, they called Mary Magdalene a prostitute.
13:59Come to find out, that's Jesus, baby mama.
14:01Y'all saw the Da Vinci Code?
14:02I don't know.
14:03Maybe Rollo just knew how to spin him.
14:05I don't think there's anything wrong with a stripper's ass in a grown man's face.
14:09But I do have a problem with BET putting stripper's asses in the faces of our children.
14:14Or maybe by now his followers just weren't surprised by anything he did anymore.
14:18Well, of course it was a setup.
14:19I believe the release of this video was engineered by BET themselves,
14:23working in conjunction with the Republican Party and the FBI thing.
14:27Goodlove escalated the attack on BET by producing a DVD called BET,
14:32the high cost of low standards.
14:34These are the poor.
14:35These are the forgotten.
14:37The victims of black-on-black crime.
14:39These are the employees of black entertainment television.
14:42Now these two comedy writers were only offered $2 for a pilot script.
14:47When will this tragedy end?
14:49The situation's gotten so bad that workers at this Walmart store
14:53took up a collection for BET employees.
14:55Wow.
14:56I don't know.
14:57Just seemed like the right thing to do, helping people less fortunate, you know.
15:01But as a Walmart employee,
15:03isn't it true that you were forced to work overtime hours off the books
15:06and you had to get on food stamps?
15:08Yeah, they forced me to work overtime to get on the food stamps,
15:11but at least I ain't working at BET, so thank you, Lord.
15:14Thank you, Jesus.
15:15Even this non-legal immigrant worker
15:17donates money to BET employees every month.
15:20Wow.
15:21Me and my family, we don't have much,
15:23but we give everything we have to the poor BET workers.
15:28This is not what America is about.
15:33And Black Entertainment Television is really feeling the heat now
15:37from this nationwide boycott started a week ago
15:39by a 10-year-old boy on a hunger strike.
15:42The NAACP announced this morning
15:44that it is asking its members to join the boycott
15:46to make the network more socially responsible.
15:49Master, oh, this is an unexpected pleasure.
15:52We are honored by your presence.
15:55Okay, first of all, why do you always kneel when I walk in the room?
15:57That's just weird, so weird.
15:58Second of all, we've got to figure out this whole boycott thing, all right?
16:01It's killing us.
16:01Ah, but it is Huey Freeman and Reverend Goodlove
16:04who will soon be doing the dying.
16:06But we're looking at getting some ninjas in for a cheap price.
16:12Yeah, look, just talk to them.
16:14Give them whatever they want, okay?
16:15Just handle it.
16:16Not everyone is in support of the boycott.
16:18Listen to what this BET supporter had to say.
16:21Every time a black baby is born,
16:23I'd give him a plasma TV in one channel.
16:25BET.
16:26Slap it right on the ceiling over the crib.
16:28By the time that nigga's 12, he'll be watching it in jail.
16:31Ha, ha, ha.
16:32BET forever.
16:33BET.
16:35Boombayah.
16:35BET.
16:37Boombayah.
16:37That's the kind of language they understand.
16:39Huh, surprised you guys haven't given him a show.
16:44Call Goodlove.
16:45Set up a meeting.
16:50It was in the news that I first heard the boycott had ended.
16:53The details were sketchy,
16:54but there was no mention of the network shutting down,
16:56nor of ritual suicide.
16:57So I feared I'd been had.
17:00A show?
17:01You sold me out for a show?
17:03Damn it, Huey.
17:04You can't change BET from the outside.
17:06You got to change it from the inside.
17:08This is victory, brother.
17:09Now my message, our message,
17:11will get to the people.
17:12It's a sitcom called My Dad, Rollo.
17:15Do you have any idea how hungry I am?
17:18You think I want my own sitcom, Huey?
17:20No, I really don't.
17:21But you can catch more flies with honey
17:23than you're ever gonna catch with vinegar.
17:25And brother, Huey,
17:26laughter is that sweet, sweet honey.
17:29Oh, Lord, child.
17:31Have mercy.
17:32Niggas is just gonna be niggas.
17:35So you might as well get that money while you bullshit.
17:38Boy, stop.
17:40Boy, just stop.
17:41And go get something to eat.
17:42Me and Puffet haven't done that at the Chateau.
17:44You know you're welcome to come, don't you?
17:50Thanks, Granddad.
17:53Granddad, what do you do when you can't do nothing,
17:55but there's nothing you can do?
17:58You do what you can.
18:00Oh, by the way,
18:01did you hear they're giving Ruckus a job at BET?
18:03Can you believe that?
18:04What the hell is wrong with those people over there?
18:06Damn, they'll give anybody a job at BET.
18:10I don't want one.
18:11Shoot.
18:12I don't want one.
18:13Beautiful.
18:31See you next time.
18:32See you next time.
18:32Bye.
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