"Hot Ghetto Mess" Review

smooth your not dead?
great!!
man i saw the show.... i wasnt that impressed.
maybe if bet wasnt sponsering the growth of half the shit there speaking out against i would take them more seriously. THEY got to do better....

Hey Jsmooth,

I watched this crap. I was reading the "What about our daughters" blog, which is run by Gina McCauley. She has been very outspoken about this show and she's been working behind the scenes to get advertisers to pull ads from this show. She even got BET to agree the change the name to disassociate the show with the HGM website. Of course though, BET still referred to the show as HGM and basically produced something that airheads of America would be proud of.

So I was waiting to watch the show so that I could record the advertisers but I realized that there were very few advertisers outside of Viacom. I can't BET. I haven't watched it for years. It's amazing how they can keep lowering the bar.

You should check out her blog. She has your video on her website and agrees with your review of the show.

http://whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com

Is it okay if I do this right here?

I need to get it out of my system.

uh, a CHOCOLATE RAINNNNNNNN!!!

Whew.

Alright, I'm cool now. Been dying to do that all weekend.

-Black People

that song makes me cry every time i here it.
that dude can sing.......

this post was funny as hell: http://averagebro.blogspot.com/2007/07/better-programming-dont-bet-on-it.html

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i got bored sorry.....

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i got bored sorry.....

I love the show!! I watched it for the first time last night. It was funny and most of all it was true. Maybe black people will look at the show and see how stupid some of them act and be mindful of what they do and say in public. At least i hope so!

How dare everyone get so upset...I guess hell that the truth hurts. I don't mind laughing at ignorant mofo's whom put their selves outh there like that. You 3 & 4 hundred lbs big ole women know that yaw are HOT GHETTO MESSES. You nasty woment whom degrade and belittle your bodies ought not say nothing.

The show bothers us because we care about our public perception. When black people do some ignorant shit, it reflects on all of us. Society doesnt have time for nuance when it comes to negative stereotypes about black people.

Why must every corner of disfunction in the black community be 'exploited' in a show, or song, or website, or movie?

We already have a major PR problem. We dont need this. No one does. Why not use that same time and have a show that deals with the roots of poverty and ignorance in our community and how to deal with it? Nah that just makes too much sense.

I LOVE the show. Perhaps we need to see ourselves in this light, because so many of us just don't get it. Kai I'm not interested in seeing anything poverty based or any other situations that we as black people have put ourselves in. I would love to hear more about us speaking against teenage pregnancy/unwed motherhood, teaching our young males against "thugism" as well as teaching the black community how to get a grip on the English language. We've victimized ourselves long enough. Now it's time to take responsibility. "We Got to Do Better"! I love Mr. Murphy [the host] keep up the good work.

If you like the show, you hate yourself. If you enjoy seeing the children of slaves behave without self-respect you hate yourself. If you can sit back and watch the VICTIMS of slavery and oppression act without knowledge of who they are or the context of history with which they live in you hate yourself. The show is breed out of a ghetto culture imposed on the Black community. The Ghetto is a creation of the more powerful ruling class in this society. Anything that comes out of it is their baby! You people want to keep blaming the victims because it's easy to do. Point your fingers at the creators of social problems not the subjects.

People need to just cool out. All the references on this site to slaves and Black oppression are ridiculous. Get over it. The stuff is out there on the Internet and you can find it if you want to. The problem is people actually think dressing like that and acting like that is what life is about. You talk to a pimp or a real hoe and they will actually try to get you to believe that dressing like that and acting that way is the way to be. What's wrong with taking a picture of it or a video of it, putting it on TV and explaining to people that ain't nothing cool about being that way? Maybe one of them will see it on TV and actually wake up and change their ways? How different is this show from "America's Funniest Home Video" where people get PAID for the same thing? How different are the "Street Walking" segments from Jay Leno's "Jay-Walking" he does on the "Tonight Show" every night to a MUCH broader audience than BET can command?

The show is HILARIOUS with the clips and while the "Street Walking" can be sad at times with the ignorance of some of the people they interview, it's also informative. I enjoy those segments because you can actually learn something that you might not have known (like the percentage of Black doctors in the USA, or the number of Black families that have both parents). If you want to protest and complain about something, you should be talking about that S.O.B show with DL Hughley on it. That's worse than anything and that junk ain't even funny. But I guess the word "GHETTO" offends people. I'll put it like this...I grew up in Inglewood, CA, in the Ghetto, in the Hood. If the word Ghetto offends you, you're probably not from the ghetto, so you have no idea what it actually means. Slavery....get real.