BET Responds After African Artists Decried Discrimination Against Them…Trust me, They Had No Kind Words to Say
Last Month Kenyans were all psyched up ready to follow live streaming of BET Award gala that was taking place in Los Angeles, USA on June 28th. But many were totally displeased with the American award gala.
BET has a tendency of awarding African artist at backstage, far away from the audience and millions of viewers from around the world catching up with the event.
2015 BET gala witnessed two African artists bagging the coveted prize; Ghanaian Stonebwoy (Best International Act; Africa and Ugandan Eddy Kenzo (International Viewers’ Choice)
The two musicians were handed over their prize far away from where the main action was taking place. Eddy Kenzo’s win surprised many given that he wasn’t even on the list of BET winners that every news outlets published.
This discrimination of African artists by BET saw thousands launching complains. Willy Paul expressed his disbelief regarding the same.
BET director, Lilian Blankson has since responded to the backlash from Africans. Blankson says African artists should push their music on international platform instead of crying like little babies.
She further added that criticizing BET wouldn’t help since they have nothing to lose if they drop the category set aside for African artists; Best International Act- Africa.
The BET director also blamed African musicians who have been nominated and won BET award for not telling the continent the truth of what really transpires during the award.
Below are Blankson’s tweets:
