BET Does It Again...

Last night I slept through watched BET's one claim to fame, the 2008 BET Awards.

And while, BET calls this awards ceremony the 'hottest ticket in television', I was not impressed.

Normally it's the lackluster performances, ridiculous outfits or bad host(s) that makes me want to reach for the remote after the first 30 minutes but this time around it had to be the ridiculous scripts given to the "celebs" to read off the teleprompter throughout the show.

The award for the most offensive joke of the night goes to none other than Niecy Nash.

Nash poked fun at the recent adoption of African babies by white celebs Madonna and Angelina Jolie by bringing up 3 white children on stage that she joked were her new adopted children. And while I love our black people for being able to poke fun at ourselves, this joke was just in poor taste.

How stupid do black people look poking fun at white people who are adopting babies in Africa when we ourselves haven't done so?

A few week's back I posed the question if BET Has Gotten Any Better since Reginald Hudlin's tenure? Now looking back, I really should have asked if the network has gotten any better since Debra Lee's tenure because I can't imagine the president and chief operating officer of BET approving that this joke be included in the ceremony script.

While I could not find a clip of the 'joke' just yet on the internet, take a listen to what this half white viewer had to say about it.

"The BET Awards was ghetto...nasty, dumb and ridiculous."

I could not agree with him more.

You can catch an encore of the ceremony on Friday at 7:30 PM EDT.