Local student decides to commemorate MLK Day by watching BET

Calling the pre-MLK Day assembly "totally inspiring," local student Jake Frieder has decided he’s not going to be like all the other mindless teens that just sleep away the day they get off from school. Although his school has been showing the same twenty-two minute slideshow every year, apparently this year it really hit home; “They showed MLK on a podium, then in the court room, and then they showed a black and white person shaking hands and I just knew there was hope.” After a brief existential crisis about his place in this vast and confusing universe, Jake just knew he had to do something to commemorate such an amazing and historic man.

After decades of white dominated television, Robert L. Johnson founded the historic TV channel Black Entertainment Television (BET) that is now viewed in 90 million homes nationwide. So Jake Frieder insists the perfect way to celebrate a historic day and one he has off from school is by turning on BET and flipping between Real Husbands of Hollywood and Everybody Hates Chris; “If everyone would just get their asses out of bed and move them to the couch, I think we would be a better society.” After twelve hours straight of Black Entertainment Television, Jake now insists that he “doesn’t see color.”


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