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Jam
Donaldson, after receiving dozens of emails featuring
photos of X-rated high school proms, street fights,
and children dressed as pimps, decided there had to
be a way to turn these images into a force for change
because unfortunately, they represent us all when they
go out into the streets like this, act like this, go
to work like this, sing lyrics like this.
She challenges the likes of Michael Eric Dyson who would
call such an endeavor an exercise in Afristocracy, this
is not an elitist or classist endeavor. "Money has nothing
to do with it," Jam says. "A lot of folks in these pictures
are doing just fine. Check out the Celebrity Mess section
to see that money doesnt equal class. Alternatively,
look at old photos of African-Americans in the 1920s-1960s
when we didn't have a pot to piss in, but damn we looked
good, we had class and style and pride in our image."
No one is immune from the judgment of hotghettomess.com,
from Boo-Boo to Beyonce - the site features celebrities,
song lyrics, and a category appropriately named Just
Sad which features shocking and heartbreaking images
of popular culture. The site garners over 8,000 unique
visits a day and has attracted attention from Hollywood.
HotGhettoMess.com: The DVD has just been released and
is being sold through the website.
From school to music to clothing to behavior, where
have our standards gone? Are we now to accept any and
everything? And if our own can't come out and point
out what's wrong, how can we ever get better? There
is a new trend in the African-American community focusing
on personal and financial responsibility and HotGhettoMess.com
is leading the parade.
She gets plenty of support all over the world--from
London to Germany and from New York to Alabama. She
also receives plenty of feedback from those who feel
the site is exploitive and denigrating to Blacks. To
her opponents she responds, "To all of you who are angry
at me for airing our dirty laundry-- good, I'm glad
you're angry, now maybe collectively, we'll be forced
to finally go wash it."
www.hotghettomess.com
PRESS CONTACT: Arnicia Williams, Sheraton Public Relations,
(212) 969-0198
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