Hot Ghetto Greed?
According to Racewire, "Black" Entertainment Television is producing a show based on the popular website "Hot Ghetto Mess" which basically exploits pictures of black people looking foolish to make money.
Folks, however, are starting to grumble about it and some advertisers have begun pulling out!
Trying to quell the potential backlash, B.E.T. is spinning it this way:
"Hot Ghetto Mess" is an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek examination of the good, the bad and the ugly of Black popular culture.
Utilizing comedy, man-on-the-street interviews, video clips, pictures and music, “Hot Ghetto Mess” aims to shine a spotlight on prevalent images in pop culture and examine what role they play in American lifestyle.
“Hot Ghetto Mess” goes where most shows fear to tread.
As host Charlie Murphy guides viewers through shaking booties, thug life, baby-mama drama and pimped-out high schoolers, “Hot Ghetto Mess” will explore what these images really mean to all of us.
Jack and Jill Politics does a fine job dissecting the real reason this show is going forward?
Can you say KA-CHING?
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ARE BLACK FOLKS ACTUALLY GOING TO CO-SIGN ON B.E.T.'S HOT GHETTO MESS?
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1 who want to keep the party going:
I'm very glad to see how so many are rallying against this show. I know that there have been several including myself and this blog since I first heard about it On Sunday.
Hopefully the outcry we make, and that of our visitors makes a point with BET, and more directly the executives at Viacom and the advertisers.
"But I can’t escape the seeming fact that Viacom doesn’t recognize that diversity. That they believe there is only one type of African American consumer, and that they need to feed the lowest forms of entertainment down our throats. Viacom, especially with this new program – HOT GHETTO MESS (do you think they were making a play on hot ‘ghettoness’ and figured it was close enough? Black enough?), seems to believe that people will drink sand if you don’t offer them a choice."
and as for their choice of logo for the show
The blackface image today only evokes the anger of the hardships and insults, and lynching that routinely occurred to African Americans for horrifying acts such as looking at a white person, walking on the wrong side of the street, living in the wrong part of town, or taking pride in themselves. There are reported cases where Black Americans were killed just because they were successful, or were there – which was the cause of the destruction of Rosewood. I find no humor in blackface, I wonder who could?"
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