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Watch David Bowie Interrogate TF Out Of An MTV Host Over Lack Of Airtime Given To Black Artists - Blavity

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Every few months, an infamous clip of legendary pop star David Bowie resurfaces showing him going after MTV for their racism during the '80s, when they largely refused to play Black music videos in an effort to appeal to white audiences.  The clip went viral again this weekend, reminding everyone of how openly bigoted the music channel was in its early days after launching in 1981.  In the 1983 interview, Bowie criticized MTV for refusing to play popular Black music while MTV host Mark Goodman defended the channel with his own brand of bigotry, claiming MTV couldn't just appeal to people in "New York and Los Angeles," and instead must try to appeal to people in Poughkeepsie and the Midwest. "It occurred to me, having watched MTV over the past few months, that it's a solid enterprise and it's got a lot going for it. I'm just floored by the fact that so few Black artists are featured on it. Why is that," Bowie asked Goodman. Goodman said the company was trying to "narrowcast" the...

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