BET Continues to Disappoint

So with much hesitation I decided to sit down and watch one of BET’s new shows last night, “We Got To Do Better.” If you recall, the show was originally titled “Hot Ghetto Mess” and was based off of the website of the same name. The site would often post videos and pics of black people doing ridiculous things and wearing even more ridiculous outfits. You’ve probably seen most of these images in your inbox as I used to frequently receive them from my co-workers. At any rate, BET’s original intent was to bring the website to the small tube as if it would be part of their comedy line up or something, as if that’s what the black culture really needs right now. In a time where everything about us is being challenged and defeated, this was definitely about 10 steps in the wrong direction.

 So after some much needed criticism, the title was changed to “We Got To Do Better” and the shows intention is now to highlight everything that’s wrong, not only in the black culture but in general, and figure out better ways to be better black people. But lo and behold, a name change is simply a name change. From the first five minutes of the show, I already knew it was a lame attempt to back out of what was initially thought of as a grand idea. The host, Charlie Murphy tried his hardest to convince viewers that the show as an attempt to rectify wrongful and disgraceful behavior. I wish that I had been keeping count from the beginning because I could swear he said “We got to do better” at least 20 times. And it’s only a 30-minute show. So in between showing hot ghetto mess-ish clips, they have a street commentator who goes around asking random people questions of importance to test their ‘black’ knowledge. Questions were: “Who’s richer – Bill Gates or Jay-Z?,” “What happened first – blacks being able to vote or blacks being allowed to fight in the war?,” and “Who is Barack Obama?” which surprisingly a few people partially got correct.

So all in all, it was an awkward, non-provoking, weak attempt of a show. Even funny man Charlie Murphy couldn’t save it. I kept waiting for them to play the sound of crickets chirping whenever his solo commentary aired. Talk about needing to do better. I can’t find anything on BET’s website about it since it aired last night so let’s hope they decide to cut it short. Why don’t they just bring back something like “Teen Summit” and BET News????? All they do is run the same videos all day. Hell, even MTV has cut down about 90% of the videos and run more shows and these are some of the same shows that BET has taken and flipped into their own version. “Baldwin Hills” is the black version of “Laguna Beach," " SOB" is the black  version of "Punk'd" and they turned a non-MTV show and flipped it - "Hell Date" is "Blind Date."

 And I know better than to expect much from this urban station but they could at least put some effort into it. Don’t even get me started on that ‘game show’ “Take The Cake.” Sighhh I digress…

 And to add insult to injury…

Deelishis - Rumpshaker

Comments

[E aka your favorite trapper]

Even though HotGhettoMess/WeGotToDoBetter blatantly tries to exploit peoples ignorance and cast them in a negative light, I still find that trainwreck of a show entertaining.

SMH @ BET trying to portray Baldwin Hills as the Black Beverly Hills, I used to live in L.A and I've been to Baldwin Hills trust me it's no Hollywood.

[E aka your favorite trapper]

Deelishius has a face like a horse and the music was horrible but the visual images were amazing on that video.

[Chentastic]

Peach, LOL @ "Take The Cake From Tocarra And If You Get Away You Win"! That girl sucks at everything other than sucking in her gut when the camera starts rolling. No class, no style, no grace...so she qualifies as a BET host perfectly.

And you know we all smelled that porn musical coming from D (can't bring myself to spell her "name"). Her & Busta musta been fucking for tracks :-)