What better way to remember 300+ years of black struggle at a civil rights landmark than a Vanilla Ice concert?

That’s what BET decided. In a Boondocks-like ironic turn, the network chose rap’s biggest one-hit wonder, Rob Van Winkle, to appear alongside social activists like Harry Belafonte for an Alabama tribute show for the 50th anniversary of the march on Selma and Bloody Sunday. Paxton Baker, a programming genius at BET, teamed with Belafonte to choose talent for the event.

“Vanilla Ice was in the Soul Train Awards two years ago and he’s a really cool person. When we call him for things he likes working with us and we like working with him,” Baker said. “He’s one of the people we call to participate in things with us, and if he can do it he absolutely will. I sent him a text and within two minutes his response was two words: ‘I’m in.’”

In case you were wondering, Harry Belafonte is an international singing star and warrior on the front lines of injustice. Vanilla Ice is a fallen star from the early ’90s whose dubious honors include reality show rehab and, most recently, an alleged reality show grand theft. He also won two American Music Awards.

The BET Network is infamous for its bold miscues. In a year dominated by talk of appropriation and erasing black originators in art by replacing them with white stars, Baker and company went full Iggy Azalea/Adele, perhaps to commemorate how long imitators have been faking the funk. But worry not that Vanilla Ice has no background in civil rights activism. According to Baker, he’s “a really cool person,” as if being “cool” was relevant to the job.

Rather than whip up righteous anger at the misguided channel, let’s enjoy the dazzling spectacle that is Vanilla Ice for one more splash. Aaron McGruder could foresee the most absurd version of MLK’s dream in his cartoon, but even he couldn’t have picked a better parody than Vanilla Ice banking off the Selma march.