BET's New Show - Hot Ghetto Mess

[litAKAtor]

Hi all,

I am not sure if a thread on this has already been started. If it has, Mods, I do apologize, but I just received this from another Soror and I felt compelled to share. This is CRAZY. If you don't know, one of the shows in BET's new line up is entitled, "Hot Ghetto Mess." I saw the previews for it and bottom line, it is absolutely degrading and amounts to nothing more than a minstrel show (in kind to Flavour of Love, I love New York and the like). While I occasionally watch BET (Celebration of Gospel, and other uplifting shows), I am, in light of this new show, vowing not to continue my viewership until they remove this show from the line up. It saddens me that a station that was once the primary medium by which our people were uplifted and informed has fallen to perpetuating the very stereotypes we try everyday to dispel.

A petition to remove the show has been started. If you see fit, please sign and forward to others.

http://www.petitiononline.com/stpghtto/

[Still BLUTANG]

is this a TV version of the website? kinda like how TMZ is turning into a tv show?

[OneTimeSBX]

i'm thinking it is a tv version.

i am all for laughing at people. it doesnt matter what race or age or background they are. this, to me, can reflect negatively on us, unless they put other races in the show. from what i can see, its black only.

[MzJ25]

I was listening to the radio yesterday and BET claims the whole reason of the show is not to make fun of black people but to hold a mirror up the face of the black community. PUULEEEZE!!!!

I too will not watch BET until this mess is off the line-up. I'm not sure what's going on over there at BET but can you please get it together. I used to love BET and watching Donnie Simpson, but this is too much.

[nonchalant]

Originally Posted by MzJ25

I was listening to the radio yesterday and BET claims the whole reason of the show is not to make fun of black people but to hold a mirror up the face of the black community. PUULEEEZE!!!!

I too will not watch BET until this mess is off the line-up. I'm not sure what's going on over there at BET but can you please get it together. I used to love BET and watching Donnie Simpson, but this is too much.

I was listening to the radio station in Atlanta, and I heard the same thing. They also stated it has nothing at all to do with the website.

[lovelyivy84]

Wait so the show that holds a mirror up to the black community is entitled "Hot Ghetto Mess" and no one at the network thinks anything is wrong with that?

Uh-huh.

[1908Revelations]

Someone in another thread posted a link to an article about companies pulling thier ads from HGM airtime.

SMH.....SMH