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Screen Captures Showing Advertisers for "Hot Ghetto Mess" Page on BET.Com
Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 8:24PM Gina, The Blogmother 
I try to avoid pictures on this site due to copyright issues, but I think this falls well within fair use since I am criticizing them for displaying their corporate logos along site a "blackface" cartoon and promoting a show called "Hot Ghetto Mess" Clearly THIS is not what they thought BET would bring to their brand. So Looks like we got. State Farm ( really disappointing), KFC, AT&T and Daimler Chrysler. Earlier I saw a Target ad. I hadn't mastered screen captures then, but I am sure it will roll around again. I suspect that once they find out about this, they will try to erase all evidence that they actually sponsored this foolishness. I KNOW the banner ads run randomly, and these companies have no idea what BET is doing with their brands. That is my point. BET executives can't be trusted with your brand.
Reader Comments (2)
I am an old white woman, age 72 who has seen both white and black women deal with domination by the males. I live in a community of about 350 people in upstate NY and hear hip hop blaring from car radios. There are probably 2 blacks in this community so it's obvious that the white dudes in this area are into the rap culture, from their loud music eminating from their cars, to their use of the f word for a verb, adjective, noun and adverb, in other words, every other word. What does the community do to stop this?
You tell companies who are funding this foolishness that if they don't stop subsidizing this foolishness with their advertising dollars, you are going to stop using their goods and services.