I haven’t watched the BET (Black Entertainment Televison) Awards, or BET itself, since college at least 15 years ago. I fell out with the network as it grew, in my opinion, more and more celebratory of the misogyny that came to dominate the public image of my beloved music form of rap. But still a little broken up by Michael Jackson’s death, I tuned in Sunday night to see how the network, and the celebrities attending the awards show responded to the loss of the King of Pop.
I was pleasantly surprised, for the most part, of the show whose producers turned on a dime, rearranging and long-planned production on three days notice to make it a tribute to the departed “gloved one.”