Puck Albright writes to BET: Last week, I noticed that some 'editor' at BET had made the decision to cut some of the words out of Kanye West's song "All Falls Down" for his video. One such editorial cut was very interesting to me. In the lyric "drug dealer buys Jordans, / crackhead buys crack / and a white man gets paid / off of all of that," BET chose to delete the words "drug," "crackhead" and "white." Do you also find that choice problematic? Particularly coming from a station that purports to serve a Black viewership? Is there something wrong with saying the word "white" now? Certainly, Kanye West knew precisely what he meant by that lyric, and so do his fans. So who misunderstood at BET? BET should be looping Kanye West (and other positive influences) twenty-four hours a day, but instead they are censoring them. How ironic! What makes this situation more ridiculous is the fact that "Success in Life" is still running. This is a missionary show that starts at 4:00am. The show starts with scenes from around the Third World such as women hauling bananas and African children dancing in front of huts. The set for the show is dirt and stone, a desert/safari motif. Then this missionary minister begins to preach. A white haired older white man who honestly believes that he is converting savages. He is not even one of those missionaries who is raising money to send to some far off country. He believes that BET is the jungle, it's quite evident on the show. Really, it's quite surreal. Check it out for yourself. So long as "Success in Life" is on, and Kanye West cannot talk about where Black peoples' money goes in his videos, Black Entertainment Television is something strange indeed. And I mean strange in the same way that the Invisible Man thought the Battle Royal was strange...