And the rest of us say “Um, duh.”  Someone CC: Debra Lee

“Black Entertainment Television, which Sheila Crump Johnson and her husband Bob started three decades ago with $15,000 in seed money and a $500,000 investment from media mogul John Malone, made her one of wealthiest women in America.

When Viacom bought them out in 2000, Sheila and Bob pocketed $1.3 billion—making them, pre-Oprah, the nation’s first African-American billionaires.

So today she must be extremely proud of her baby, right?

“Don’t even get me started,” says the 60-year-old Johnson, who has since divorced and remarried (charmingly enough, to the Virginia circuit court judge who presided over her divorce). “I don’t watch it. I suggest to my kids [a 20-something daughter and a college-age son] that they don’t watch it… I’m ashamed of it, if you want to know the truth.” – DailyBeast

Now what you’re probably expecting me to do is to freak the “Eff” out about BET. Express my incredible disgust with the channel and my wish that a tear in the space-time continuum happened directly in the middle of the BET offices and it was swallowed and sent spinning into the abyss of…well…space-time. But no. I’m not going to do it. I refuse to do it. It is unnecessary for me to do it…since I’ve already taped a video of me doing it almost a year ago…

H/T @Afrobella

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