Do you have a source for any of these lies ? Well, anyone who ever watched MTV in it's first couple years of inception knows that finding a Black face on MTV was like finding a needle in a haystack. They played a couple videos from Tina Turner and Prince a couple of times just becaue they did some Rock songs and so they sounded White and did not sound too Black for MTV.;) MTV was accused of being racist by lots of different people for ignoring Black music and refusing to play anything that sounded too Black. You could probably just do a search on google for racist MTV if you need a source so bad:rolleyes: It is just common knowledge.     Here ya go...something i just found with a simple google search, since you need to read it from a website to believe it:rolleyes:     Nevertheless, all involved with Thriller  knew that getting MTV to play Michael Jackson videos was anything but a sure thing . The reason was simple :   In the channel's first eighteen months,  as  it had become a cult hit among white suburban teenagers  all over America,  it had played only a handful of clips by black artists.  From Bob Pittman's and everyone else at MTV's point of view, it was simply a matter of format. Ever since the MTV flag was planted in the moon during the summer of 1981, the channel had positioned itself as a rock and roll station. And because only a few black acts -- Tina Turner, Prince, Joan Armatrading, the Bus Boys -- played what most people called rock and roll anymore, only a few had their clips played on the network. For Pittman, programming head Les Garland, and the rest of them, the situation was no different from radio, where few album rock stations played many black artists.       But that argument didn't fly with everyone. MTV's original head of talent and artist relations, Carolyn Baker, who was black, had  questioned why the definition of music had to be so narrow , as had a few others. What's more, as MTV received more and more press attention,  a growing number of journalists and music critics and black artists really began to slam the network for its segregated view of music .     Perhaps the most vocal critic of MTV was  black musician Rick James .(Rick James, bitch! :D)  Despite the fact that his most recent album,  Street Songs , had sold more than three million copies in 1982, MTV had passed on clips for his songs Super Freak and Give It To Me Baby.The funk star clearly wasn't pleased by what he considered a snub, so in early 1983  he took every opportunity to publicly call MTV a racist network .    http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id127.htm     Walter Yetnikoff was the Jew record executive that got MTV to play Michael Jackson by threatening to pull the videos and music of all of the artists from his label (CBS Records) off MTV.