After vowing to clean up BET's image the network will now be airing a show starting July 25, 2007 based on the web site hotghettomess.com that depicts African Americans in just about every negative way possible while claiming that these images will basically shame people into changing for the better. Read what Reginald Hudlin has to say in Defense of Hot Ghetto Mess and BET.
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