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• test move to bad tasteBy enterbet.comWhat a mess! On Wednesday night, Black Entertainment Television (BET) debuted its controversial new show, We Got to Do Better. The program was originally titled "Hot Ghetto Mess," after Jam Donaldson's website on which the show is based.The website became popular by displaying stereotypical and degrading glimpses of blacks through home videos. For example, high school girls in prom dresses with pregnant bellies exposed, naked and obese women in sundry of unflattering poses, and men in red pimp suits.In a run-up to the BET debut, a vigorous online protest was launched by such blogs as What About Our Daughters, which monitors how black women and girls are portrayed in the culture, petitioning the black network to cancel the show. As the protests grew, two of the shows' sponsors pulled out, finally leading BET to at least change the show's name.Well, after viewing the first show, it appears to me that BET did little more than change the title.In one segment based on man-in-the-street-type interviews, the obvious intention was to make fools of the interviewees. There were leading questions, such as: "How many African-Americans are on the Supreme Court?," "Who's richer? Jay-Z or Bill Gates?" and "What do the letters NAACP stand for?" I guess there's not enough civics, history or economics being taught in our schools today Another show, Socially Offensive Behavior, which aired just before Better's debut, also included the kind of raucous black behavior that pandered to the lowest common denominator. One candid video clip, for example, featured two black priests drinking and coming on to women in a club.The scenes from these shows raised another question in my mind: Why has BET perpetuated all this? We viewers and bloggers should demand that BET's CEO, Debra Lee, and entertainment president, Reginald Hudlin, explain and atone for their programming decisions. They have canceled provocative news and public service shows such as BET Tonight, Lead Story and Teen Summit, and instead showcased sexually explicit videos on the after-hours show BET Uncut. Perhaps if they are willing to admit failures, they can find the courage to present challenging subjects to viewers.I was hoping that We Got to Do Better would be edgy, smart and to a certain degree contemptuous because I believe some corners of black life deserve to be mocked and scorned. Rather than being satirical or clever, however, the show wasn't even funny. Actually, it was sort of is author of On Our Way to Beautiful.Posted at , octuber 19, 2007 in Entertainment - Forum, Ethics - Forum, Forum commentary, People - Forum, Politics, Government - Forum, Race Issues/Civil rights - Forum, Young PermalinkTODAY welcomes your views and encourages lively discussions. Comments are unedited, but submissions reported as abusive may be removed. By posting a comment, you affirm that .

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