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Black Entertainment Television has announced their ‘Person of the Year.’

Black Entertainment Television, or BET, Inc., a subsidiary of Viacom, Inc., is the leading African American multi-media entertainment company. The BET Network reaches more than 80 million households according to Nielsen media research, and can be seen in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

Among the nominees were Ms. Oprah Winfrey, Senator Barack Obama, the father of BET Robert L. Johnson, and the suffering victims of Hurricane Katrina of New Orleans. But none of these people won.

The viewers voted for Louis Farrakhan as the 2005 Person of the Year.

“An overwhelming percentage of our users agreed that Minister Farrakhan made the most positive impact on the Black community over the past year and chose him as the person most worthy to receive the honor of BET.com’s 2005 Person of the Year,” said Retha Hill, BET.com’s vice president for Content.

They agreed that he has done what no other African American leader has: “mobilize hundreds of thousands of Blacks around the issues of atonement and empowerment, and to convince the masses of our people that we must be the primary catalysts and engines for positive change in our communities,” she said.

Huh?

Louis Farrakhan. This is the guy, in 1989, that stated that he had a vision of being abducted in 1985 by an invisible pilot in a UFO and carried up on a beam of light to a “human built planet” known as the “Mother Wheel.” There the voice of Elijah Muhammad informed him that the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, under the direction of Gen. Colin Powell, were planning a war, which Farrakhan said he later came to realize was “a war against the black people of America, the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan.” “I saw a city in the sky,” Farrakhan said, after which the UFO “brought me back to Earth and dropped me off near Washington; over to Tyson Corners and Fifth Street I think…to make The Announcement.”

This is the guy that said, “Hitler was a very great man,” which led to him being censured unanimously by the United States Senate.

This is the guy that, in comments regarding the decimation of New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina, cited “very reliable information,” and stated that there was a 25-foot hole under one of the key levees that failed, and implied that the levee’s destruction was a deliberate attempt to wipe out the population of largely black sections within the city. Farrakhan later revealed that the informant was current New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who told him of the crater during a meeting in Dallas, Texas.

But this is the guy that the majority of the viewers of Black Entertainment Television voted for as their ‘Person of the Year.’ This tells me a great deal about both the viewers as well as BET - that there are, indeed, a great number of complete idiots walking around using up resources, food and water for example, that would be better reserved for us sane people. There are people living in both the cities and the countrysides that think higher of Louis Farrakhan than they do Senator Barack Obama, and these people should not be given drivers licenses or be allowed to vote.

This is both scary and depressing.

** UPDATE **

To all you fellow Anti-Idiots coming here from The Rottweiler, I offer you a hearty “Welcome y’all!”, and thanks for stopping by. Thank you B.C., Imperial Torturer™.

Yes, when you have Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, and Rosa Parks, how in good conscience could any human with an IQ above room temperature even consider the Racist Reverend Of The UFOs? This just goes to show that some people should not be allowed to roam freely among the civilized.

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