A humiliating show Ok given my experiences over the past few weeks, I am charged to write this note. Greetings all, it has recently come to my attention that Viacom owned BET is reportedly about to air a show entitled “Hott Ghetto Mess”, this July on there Network. For those that don’t know HotGhetto mess was originally an internet site created by an African American Lawyer, who sought to broadcast images of our people to "make us aware" and "look deep within ourselves."

Apparently, BET has now joined the bandwagon and declares that this show will be a reality based show that confronts issues in a format and context that makes people who don't watch the channel comfortable or do it in a way that engages the 18- to 34-year-old viewer and makes them really think about these things?" Reginald Hudlin, BET entertainment president, told the Hollywood Reporter.

This site is primarily targeted at African American men and women and has been in existence for some time now, the problem is given BETs history they do not have a long standing history of providing viewers with positive or even unstereotypical venues. In my opinion this would just be another horrible experiment that will inevitable make fools of African Americans around the world. I implore you all please let us gather our forces, and do whatever necessary to have this humiliation pulled from the upcoming television line-up.

The original link to the news article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_en_tv/tv_bet_hot_ghetto_mess_1

Thank you
Sincerely
Clayton Ollarvia
Political Science Major
Morehouse College  ¶ posted by collarvia @ 1:40 PM