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Re: Buju Banton - Censorship the wrong way to fight hatred
I wonder if dem gwaan deh a de center next wknd a protest
I wonder if dem gwaan deh a de center next wknd a protest
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Re: Buju Banton - Censorship the wrong way to fight hatred
i will bet that they WILL be they. Anywhere he is performing it seems the protesters show up.Comment
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Re: Buju Banton - Censorship the wrong way to fight hatred
I think somebody caught on the idea that they could be sued and be forced to back off.
So they are trying to use a different tact.
Just watch foe the new front they will be openning.Comment
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Re: Buju Banton - Censorship the wrong way to fight hatred
even di former female PM a yaad mek a statement dat outsiders no fi try tell yaad how fi mek dem decisions...
dis is gwine to be interesting indeedComment
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Buju gets green light to perform in Miami
Buju gets green light to perform in Miami
Published: Monday | October 26, 2009
Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer
Buju Banton, whose Rasta Got Soul tour of the United States has been dogged by protests from gay rights groups, will perform at the Reggae Bash show in Miami this week.
The event was in danger of being cancelled after groups like Equality Florida wrote to city officials, including Mayor Manuel Diaz, complaining that some of Banton's music incites violence against gays.
Andrew Minott of promoters Global Vybz Entertainment told The Gleaner last week that the show will take place on Saturday at the 5,000-seat James L. Knight Center.
"Everything's good, everything's on," Minott said.
According to Minott, a statement from the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) admonishing the gay groups may have saved the day. It accused them of promoting censorship.
Written by the Florida ACLU's executive director Howard Simon, the statement was published in the October 18 edition of the Miami Herald.
"I guess when they (gay groups) saw that letter, they backed off," Minott said.
Members of Global Vybz have had dialogue with the gay lobbyists. They recently appeared in a panel discussion with Equality Florida spokesperson Vanessa Brito on WAVS, a south Florida-based Caribbean radio station.
Even though is company got the green light, Minott admits the negative publicity seems to have hurt.
"Ticket sales are slow, I think all the protest talk made people weary," he said.
Equality Florida is the latest gay rights organisation to come out against Banton performing in a major US city. Similar protests forced the cancellation or rescheduling of Rasta Got Soul shows in Salt Lake City, Utah, Columbus, Ohio, Richmond, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The groups say their protests are driven by the violent tone of Banton's 1992 anti-gay anthem, Boom Bye Bye.
Banton met gay activists prior to his show in San Francisco two weeks ago.
They demanded he reach out to homosexuals, including those in JamaicaComment
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Who will stand with Buju Banton?
Who will stand with Buju Banton?
Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey Buju Banton do a one song whe nuff Jumaican rail fa a dance, but dem nah come up front an defen it wid de man when pressha tek him.
Jackass felt a mixture of upset and resignation when he read one headline which asked if Buju had cracked under pressure, this after he met with gay activists in San Francisco in the wake of protests, venue shifts and outright cancellations dogging his current 'Rasta Got Soul' US tour.
Upset because although it was put as a question, the headline was obviously questioning Buju's mettle in this long-standing matter, resignation because he knows that Buju is virtually alone in this matter.
Not that there are not those who will set out to publicly stand with the Gargamel - and there have been a few who have. But if even one in every 10 of the persons who have railed and flashed lighters for Boom Bye Bye at various parties and dances over the years would rally at a central point, and show mass support of the performer in his time of affliction, it would make a very powerful statement.
he is on his own
Jackass is sure that would be at least 100,000 people in Jamaica alone.
But we are not one to make statements like that, are we? For at the end of the day he is really and truly on his own. So if there was a clause in the US visa application form that requires a person to state if they support Boom Bye Bye, Jackass is sure the 'do not support' box would be ticked en masse.
The ironic thing is that Boom Bye Bye is in no way representative of Buju's catalogue (hell, it was written before he 'bussed' with Browning), his career or his talent (truth be told, take away the sentiment and Boom Bye Bye is not a very good song). But this is, outside of Jamaica, Jackass is sure, just about his best-known song.
Still, in a wider sense, Jackass was thinking that the world is not level at all, not in a situation where we love people who make public statements expressing our deepest feelings from afar, but when it comes to making a stance with them they are on their own. Think back to your primary school days, when you had a problem with a teacher. When the bravest boy or girl wrote "we don't like how Miss Jones beat us" on the chalkboard and Miss Jones asked who did that, somehow everybody would indicate the child who had.
the same principle applies
And they would laugh when the teacher was beating out their daylights.
Many years on, the same principle applies - especially where loss of income is concerned. For Jackass knows one thing, nobody respects a poor rebel. Anyhow a person goes broke defending their cause, they are written off as a mad person, scoffed at and scorned.
Yet Buju is holding firm, meeting and all.
Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey nuff a oonu a some genuine traitor an boom bye bye pon oonu!Comment
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Re: Who will stand with Buju Banton?
it's true;
organize a protest to support buju and i will be there;
dem too dyam brite & facety!
OUTAAWDAComment
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Re: Who will stand with Buju Banton?
*kinpuppalick* lookin fawud to the show sunday
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Buju Banton's original sin
Buju Banton's original sin
Published: Sunday | November 1, 2009
Like many fundamentalist Christians in Jamaica (and across the globe), Buju Banton was taught to take the Bible literally. According to Genesis Chapter 1, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
Chapter 2 is a different story. God first made man then realised He had made a mistake: "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make an helpmeet for him." God takes one of the ribs of man and makes woman.
In this rib-tickling version, woman is not conceived as the partial reflection of a God who is jointly male and female. She is a glorified helper. Having started life as one of the ribs of man, she is stuck to his side. She has no agency. Her sole function is to make life easy for 'bafan' man. "Is not me seh so; is di Bible." Despite these variations, the moral is the same: the pairing of male and female is divinely ordained.
Not surprisingly, the second creation story introduces the subject of sex. 'Man a yard' quickly realises that woman, this gift of God, can serve a delightful purpose: "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."
The wicked serpent 'mash up di dolly house' by inveigling them to disobey God and eat what they were not supposed to eat. 'Dem bow.' Thanks to the devil, sex was pathologised for good. The man and the woman discovered that nakedness was shameful.
ABOMINABLE HOMOSEXUALITY
Furthermore, the Bible condemns variations on the coupling of male and female. In both the Old and New Testaments there are recurring warnings about the fundamental evil of homosexuality. Leviticus 20:13 explicitly sentences homosexuals to death: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
Here is the genesis of the bloody lyrics of many dancehall DJs. Fundamentalist Christian interpretations of the Bible provide the divinely sanctioned justification for attacking homosexuals. As an impressionable teenager, brought up in Jamaica, Buju Banton can be forgiven for composing the infamous lyrics of Boom By By . The story goes that he was inspired to write the lines in response to the rape of a boy by an adult male. The youthful DJ translated the archaic language of the King James Version of the Bible into graphic street talk. The imported Hollywood gun culture provided the primary image for the song in which the sound of bullets ricochets with rhythmic precision. In the best biblical tradition, the song called down judgement on sinners for the crimes of paedophilia, buggery and rape.
After 'Boom By By'
Buju Banton no longer includes Boom By By in his performance repertoire. I speculate that, like many liberated Christians, the mature artist now knows that you really can't take everything in the Bible literally. Both adulterers and homosexuals are sentenced to death in the same chapter of Leviticus. So why attack only homosexuals?
It could also be a case of responding to the pressures of the market. At the April launch of his Rasta Got Soul CD at the University of the West Indies, Buju said his music was for everybody: "the young, the old, the gay, the lesbian, the obese, the slim."
But some hard-core gay-rights activists will have none of it. They are fixated on Boom By By. Buju's US tour this year has been bedevilled by protests and show cancellations. It makes you wonder if it's not a particularly perverse pathology that makes these activists hug up Boom By By.
Is not an easy road
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has now said that enough is enough. A joint statement issued by Howard Simon, executive director, and Robert Rosenwald, director of the Union's, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) Advocacy Project, condemns the censorship of Buju Banton and the cancellation of concerts.
Simon and Rosenwald rightly argue that "the Buju Banton song in question is vile and offensive. But despite its hateful message, it is protected speech under the Constitution." They also assert that, "as to the claim that the song lyrics are incitement, Banton has sung his song many times, including during a previous appearance in Miami, with no ensuing violence. There is no basis to make the leap from a hateful and offensive pop song to incitement to riot".
Lyrical violence may even be cathartic. It could be a cleansing alternative to literal acts of violence. If the ancient Greeks could have had their catharsis in the theatre, why can't Jamaican youth have theirs in the dancehall?
Is not an easy road. Buju Banton is still being victimised because of a single song recorded more than two decades ago. Jamaican proverbial wisdom warns, "is not everything good to eat good to talk." Or in this instance, "is not everything not good to eat good to talk." Is a pity Buju didn't learn this fundamental lesson early in his career.
<span style="font-style: italic">Carolyn Cooper is professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Send feedback to: [email protected] or [email protected].</span>Comment
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Re: Buju Banton's original sin
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Buju Banton's original sin
Published: Sunday | November 1, 2009
Like many fundamentalist Christians in Jamaica (and across the globe), Buju Banton was taught to take the Bible literally. According to Genesis Chapter 1, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
Chapter 2 is a different story. God first made man then realised He had made a mistake: "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make an helpmeet for him." God takes one of the ribs of man and makes woman.
In this rib-tickling version, woman is not conceived as the partial reflection of a God who is jointly male and female. She is a glorified helper. Having started life as one of the ribs of man, she is stuck to his side. She has no agency. Her sole function is to make life easy for 'bafan' man. "Is not me seh so; is di Bible." Despite these variations, the moral is the same: the pairing of male and female is divinely ordained.
Not surprisingly, the second creation story introduces the subject of sex. 'Man a yard' quickly realises that woman, this gift of God, can serve a delightful purpose: "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."
The wicked serpent 'mash up di dolly house' by inveigling them to disobey God and eat what they were not supposed to eat. 'Dem bow.' Thanks to the devil, sex was pathologised for good. The man and the woman discovered that nakedness was shameful.
ABOMINABLE HOMOSEXUALITY
Furthermore, the Bible condemns variations on the coupling of male and female. In both the Old and New Testaments there are recurring warnings about the fundamental evil of homosexuality. Leviticus 20:13 explicitly sentences homosexuals to death: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
Here is the genesis of the bloody lyrics of many dancehall DJs. Fundamentalist Christian interpretations of the Bible provide the divinely sanctioned justification for attacking homosexuals. As an impressionable teenager, brought up in Jamaica, Buju Banton can be forgiven for composing the infamous lyrics of Boom By By . The story goes that he was inspired to write the lines in response to the rape of a boy by an adult male. The youthful DJ translated the archaic language of the King James Version of the Bible into graphic street talk. The imported Hollywood gun culture provided the primary image for the song in which the sound of bullets ricochets with rhythmic precision. In the best biblical tradition, the song called down judgement on sinners for the crimes of paedophilia, buggery and rape.
After 'Boom By By'
Buju Banton no longer includes Boom By By in his performance repertoire. I speculate that, like many liberated Christians, the mature artist now knows that you really can't take everything in the Bible literally. Both adulterers and homosexuals are sentenced to death in the same chapter of Leviticus. So why attack only homosexuals?
It could also be a case of responding to the pressures of the market. At the April launch of his Rasta Got Soul CD at the University of the West Indies, Buju said his music was for everybody: "the young, the old, the gay, the lesbian, the obese, the slim."
But some hard-core gay-rights activists will have none of it. They are fixated on Boom By By. Buju's US tour this year has been bedevilled by protests and show cancellations. It makes you wonder if it's not a particularly perverse pathology that makes these activists hug up Boom By By.
Is not an easy road
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has now said that enough is enough. A joint statement issued by Howard Simon, executive director, and Robert Rosenwald, director of the Union's, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) Advocacy Project, condemns the censorship of Buju Banton and the cancellation of concerts.
Simon and Rosenwald rightly argue that "the Buju Banton song in question is vile and offensive. But despite its hateful message, it is protected speech under the Constitution." They also assert that, "as to the claim that the song lyrics are incitement, Banton has sung his song many times, including during a previous appearance in Miami, with no ensuing violence. There is no basis to make the leap from a hateful and offensive pop song to incitement to riot".
Lyrical violence may even be cathartic. It could be a cleansing alternative to literal acts of violence. If the ancient Greeks could have had their catharsis in the theatre, why can't Jamaican youth have theirs in the dancehall?
Is not an easy road. Buju Banton is still being victimised because of a single song recorded more than two decades ago. Jamaican proverbial wisdom warns, "is not everything good to eat good to talk." Or in this instance, "is not everything not good to eat good to talk." Is a pity Buju didn't learn this fundamental lesson early in his career.
<span style="font-style: italic">Carolyn Cooper is professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Send feedback to: [email protected] or [email protected].</span> </div></div>
Lol !Comment
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Re: Who will stand with Buju Banton?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BiziBubbla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">*kinpuppalick* lookin fawud to the show sunday </div></div>
soh tell wi bout di show
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Re: Who will stand with Buju Banton?
Apart from the rhatid drop weh Buju get??
Got there late...whe mi reach Wayne Wonder was performing and came off bout 10 mins later.
We had missed Red rat performance since he was first.
band change afta dat and th Doctor come on and mash up de place as always
him work fi bout 1 hr then Buju came on after
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Re: Who will stand with Buju Banton?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BiziBubbla</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">Apart from the rhatid drop weh Buju get?</span>?
Got there late...whe mi reach Wayne Wonder was performing and came off bout 10 mins later.
We had missed Red rat performance since he was first.
band change afta dat and th Doctor come on and mash up de place as always him work fi bout 1 hr then Buju came on after </div></div>
yuh nuh haffi mention dat pawt
I would like to have seen Wayne and Beenie. But it wasnt hard to settle for Gramps
were there any protestors there?
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Re: Who will stand with Buju Banton?
wooieeee i dead
Mi nuh inna gramps at all so wadeva..maybe if it was de whole a MH.
Buju did mek reference to the Bman ting weh a gwaan, seh dem try stop de show...an Beenie buss a new chune weh a sing bout the man dem a ja weh nuh waan ooman
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Re: Who will stand with Buju Banton?
i like Gramps!
and
to Beenie
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