July 23, 2007
Watch "Hot Ghetto Mess" On BET
I just posted something on Acton's blog about a new show called "Hot Ghetto Mess."
The Washington Post just ran a story on it:
Since 2004, [Jam Donaldson’s] Web site, http://Hotghettomess.com, has featured a motley assortment of gangbangers, hip-hop poseurs and strutting hoochie mamas, set off by quotes and comments that suggest Donaldson’s disapproval. The featured “Mess of the Month” for June is an unnamed plus-size woman wearing a halter top split almost to her navel. Her accessories are arm and chest tattoos and an oversize necklace with a cross. The caption beneath her photo is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.: “Nothing in [all] the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”[The show] features video clips of young African Americans (as well as folks of the Caucasianpersuasion) engaged in various acts of idiocy (random street brawls, gratuitous booty-shaking, etc.). It also puts cultural ignorance on display (people are asked in man-on-the-street interviews whether they know what “NAACP” stands for; they don’t). The tone, Donaldson says, is more or less in keeping with the same finger-wagging critique embedded in the Web site’s slogan: “We Got to Do Better.”
Fellas, I don't even know what to say anymore.
Posted by anthony at July 23, 2007 04:32 PM | TrackBackSomethings are better left unsaid. And, not shown to the public at large. We all not a Hot Mess (adding Ghetto in there is kinda redundant, isn't it?) when we see it.
Posted by: Tam at July 23, 2007 10:18 PMTam, tru dat.
Posted by: Anthony at July 24, 2007 12:25 AMIs the point of the show straight-up mockery, or a sort of "isn't this cute that we're like that" backhanded form of boasting? It sounds from your posts that you're thinking it's the latter.
Posted by: pentamom at July 24, 2007 03:23 PMI was a car commercial the other night where they contrasted a grossly oversized ring with a wedding band and said something like "the right kind of 'bling'." Sorry, I wasn't paying close attention, but the message was clear. I thought that was pretty cool to see. I don't know if you've seen it. Maybe it's only airing in Iowa (Ha!).
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Posted by: Wayne at July 24, 2007 07:40 PMI RECENTLY COUGHT WIND OF HOT GHETTO MESS AND HONESTLY I THOUGHT IS WAS THE FUNNIEST PICTURES I EVER SAW!! IM A BLACK WOMEN AND DONT FEEL DOWN GRADED NOR THE SLIGHTEST BIT UPSET. ISAN'T "JACK ASS" THE SERIES ON MTV A ALL WHITE CAST MAKING ASS'S OUT OF THEMSELVES??? DOES THAT LOOK BAD ON ALL WHITES??
Posted by: FALLON HAYES at September 17, 2007 07:42 PM