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Trayvon Martin's Mom Blasts BET For Not Airing "Trayvon Martin Story"

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Sybrina Fulton, is letting us in on the details surrounding the airing of her documentary, “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story.” It is a six-part docu-series executive produced by Jay Z, about the life and killing of 17-year-old Trayvon, and the acquittal of his murdered, neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Roc Nation revealed the documentary’s official trailer this past February.



Many have noticed that the documentary has been airing inconsistently on BET, but shown on the Paramount Network.


Tracy Martin, Sybrina Fulton


Sybrina recently revealed to her social media followers that there have been issues with BET executives. She posted this message on Instagram:

“@sybrinafulton Just found out that #BET has made a programming decision not to air Rest In Power tonight as scheduled #TrayvonMartin17 #RestInPowerTrayvon #YourMomWontGiveUp #ItsOnParmountNetwork”



This hasn’t been the first mishap regarding the production of the documentary. “Rest in Power” was executive produced by Jay Z’s Roc Nation company along with the Weinstein Company. Due to Harvey Weinstein’s egregious xesual assault accusations, Sybrina and Trayvon’s father, Tracy Martin, decided to part ways with Weinstein. As we previously reported, Sybrina and Tracy filed court documents stating that the Weinstein Company owes them over $150,000. Because bankruptcy court approved the sale of The Weinstein Company to a private equity firm, there are several companies, writers, and even actors still waiting to be paid money they’re owed. Yikes!



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BET doesn’t even believe it’s crucial to have nightly new programming and that is exactly why my DVR is set to record from Paramount.
 

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BabyBoy is more important
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They are premiering the Bobby Brown Story tonight.

You can watch the series on ON Demand.
 

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I noticed they have been inconsistent with airing it the past few weeks. They took a “two week break” mid August and, it hasn’t been on since.
 

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That's BET for you. They are definitely not for the black people. Playing those old recycled movies does nothing for my black experience.
 

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i had been wondering what happened to it. they clearly didn't care about it. it's always been promoted as a 6-part series, so finding 6 consecutive weeks to air it shouldn't have been brain surgery.
 

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BET is a terrible fµck!ng network. I only caught half of the first episode but thought for sure I would be able to catch a rerun a few hours later like every other cable network that shows new original programing but not these fuckers. Hours of reruns of decade old shows and movies yet could not be half-assed to rerun that first episode that night.
 

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if carter gave a damn why didnt he call BET and get definite airing committment? he is always saying he is the greatest wso why not use his powers for good?
 

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This is sad all around but the project was domed from the start, when she aligned her sons life with ambulance chaser (JayZ) who got their family involved with Weinstein. People don’t realize they just throw JayZ name on that Kalief Browder project he wasn’t that involve in actually creating it, he was given that vanity title they seem to give a lot of high profile blacks executive producer.
 

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My heart breaks for this woman every time I see photos of her.

I can’t imagine how she feels.


Of course certain fonts I have on ignore would be here with their faux outrage and concern. :disdain
 
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Wow! I thought something was wrong with my DVR. I noticed that episode two didn't record so I recorded that episode from Paramount network. I also noticed episode five wasn't scheduled to record but episode six is scheduled. Ridiculous....
 

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if carter gave a damn why didnt he call BET and get definite airing committment? he is always saying he is the greatest wso why not use his powers for good?

What power this is out of his league - can’t fake tv ratings - somebody dropped the ball with the sponsors and promotion of the show - the number must not have been good
 

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i think they hoped more young people would watch since carter's name was on it.

what they should have done was a social media campaign to get it trending and live tweet while the doc was on.

i havent checked for carter since he continued selling his sh t at barneys after they profiled afram.


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This is sad all around but the project was domed from the start, when she aligned her sons life with ambulance chaser (JayZ) who got their family involved with Weinstein. People don’t realize they just throw JayZ name on that Kalief Browder project he wasn’t that involve in actually creating it, he was given that vanity title they seem to give a lot of high profile blacks executive producer.
 

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I think this has more to do with the white people in power behind the scenes than anything else because something similar happened with the Kalief Browder story it just stopped airing on the network it was on then BET picked it up and it disappeared or maybe I couldn't keep up with schedule. I'm not surprised these stories are being treated this way they don't care about us and BET isn't black owned. Jay Z said "they" have been at his neck too so who knows what the real tea is.

Trayvon's story is important and his life matters. fµck EBT.
 

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I surprised they brought it to BET, they should have followed the Browder story with aired on spike tv and then moved to Netflix
 

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I think this has more to do with the white people in power behind the scenes than anything else because something similar happened with the Kalief Browder story it just stopped airing on the network it was on then BET picked it up and it disappeared or maybe I couldn't keep up with schedule. I'm not surprised these stories are being treated this way they don't care about us and BET isn't black owned. Jay Z said "they" have been at his neck too so who knows what the real tea is.

Trayvon's story is important and his life matters. fµck EBT.

Browder story aired on spiketv I watched all six parts there but you can find it on Netflix now
 

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I didn't even know it was suppose to come on BET. I've been watching it on Paramount.
 

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Who freaking runs BET fo real? I could do a much better job than what the f they are doing and been doing for the last decade and a half.

 

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This shouldn’t be surprising. BET has been more about what gets them at #1 trends through social networks and high ratings for television... even if it’s at the expense of clowning black people. We all know this Bobby Brown story that is airing tonight we’ll get talked about and everyone will have their jokes and such. It’ll be top on the social network sites and will be trending at the top on LSA too.

The populace hasn’t really done same for the Trayvon Martin Documentary and even though I recommend the documentary for all to watch (its excellent, honestly), the populace isn’t giving what BET wants (ratings/social). It’s unfortunate because this is a really good documentary.

***I’ll also add that I do have a friend who I recommended the documentary to and she refuses to watch it because she’s mentally/emotionally exhausted and she doesn’t want to watch it under this President so that might be why some aren’t watching it.
 

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It seems they likely wanted to make it into a movie like Fruitvale Station (Weinstein bought that film for $2.5 million)

Without a major studio behind it; likely Netflix would have done a much better job.
 
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I knew it had that 2 week break because of the VMA's airing that one Monday. But this is ridiculous.

BET doesn’t even believe it’s crucial to have nightly new programming and that is exactly why my DVR is set to record from Paramount.
I set my recording for BET instead of Paramount to help with the ratings and help send a message that these are the type of programs we want to see from the network. But look what happened. Now I gotta go searching for last night's episode. Hopefully it's OnDemand. : unamused:


i think they hoped more young people would watch since carter's name was on it.

what they should have done was a social media campaign to get it trending and live tweet while the doc was on.

i havent checked for carter since he continued selling his sh t at barneys after they profiled afram.
Plenty of young people were watching. Every week it was trending in the top 5 on twitter. But it didn't trend at all last night. If it did, I would've realized it still aired on Paramount. So obviously the majority of people were watching it on BET.

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I think this has more to do with the white people in power behind the scenes than anything else because something similar happened with the Kalief Browder story it just stopped airing on the network it was on then BET picked it up and it disappeared or maybe I couldn't keep up with schedule. I'm not surprised these stories are being treated this way they don't care about us and BET isn't black owned. Jay Z said "they" have been at his neck too so who knows what the real tea is.

Trayvon's story is important and his life matters. fµck EBT.
The Kalief doc aired on Spike TV every week, on schedule without fail. BET dropped the ball.
 

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I haven’t watched but does this address why we never heard from the fathers girlfriend - they were together since he was young - I always felts it was strange she never spoke out - wasn’t it her home, her community
 

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She offered commentary in the 1st episode.... that's the only 1 I got to watch because of BET'S lack of priority with this documentary

I haven’t watched but does this address why we never heard from the fathers girlfriend - they were together since he was young - I always felts it was strange she never spoke out - wasn’t it her home, her community
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For those without cable, it’s on Paramount’s site. I didn’t have to enter any cable login to watch.

BET is so raggedy. I’m sure they aired one of the 8 played out movies they show instead. Now that I’m thinking about it, it was New Edition movie because Bobby Brown came on the next day. Hopefully they air it this Monday.
 

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