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Jam Donaldson has been called a traitor to her race. She's been petitioned against, screamed at, and caused sponsors to pull their ads from Black Entertainment Television. Her website, which hosts reader-submitted photos of black Americans in various states of pouting disrepair, has catapulted Donaldson, 34, into reluctant, radical stardom.The website, Hotghettomess.com, documents the poseurs, wannabe pimps, and - in her words - 'the dysfunctional elements of our black community'. It is, she says, an exercise in tough love. 'In 2004, I was studying law at Georgetown University,' she explains, 'and I would get these emails from friends, of ghetto pictures, of the guys with the gold teeth and pimped-out cars, and we'd laugh and laugh. But over time I found I wasn't laughing any more. I realised that the pictures were indicative of a larger problem. And I thought perhaps instead of laughing, we could start a discussion about it. I wanted the website to be a catalyst for important conversations about what was happening within the community.'...'Culturally, growing up, you used to be ashamed to have a baby and not a husband. You were ashamed to go out with a revealing dress on. As culture became more open, and we learned that anything goes, we lost that shame. Which accounts for the imagery we see on the site. We've developed a shameless culture.' She takes a breath. Jam Donaldson is angry. 'And it's not just in the US. I get a lot of feedback from blacks in the UK, who say it's just the same there. It's a really common experience for minorities - the desire to have your community represented well.'...
