Hot Ghetto mess premiered last night with much anticipation as many of us were prepared to watch a sequel of images and portrayals found on the infamous site, hotghettomess.com. But oddly, the show was a disjointed mess of Jay Leno type street interviews , short films and stale videos. It seems that BET erred on the side of caution and made some last minute modifications to the program after the wave of criticism sparked from the lone blogger over at What About Our Daughters. Her efforts to spread the word about this program and persuade advertisers to pull out demonstrates the power that we each hold in this technological age.
Although the goal of preventing HGM from airing was not realized – I think this was just the first shot over the bow.
Hopefully – those more articulate than myself can spearhead other social issues effecting our youth and communities using the power of the internet.
