A national dialogue on race was to take place after Don Imus and Bernand McQuirk frothing at the mouth about the Rutger's Women Basketball team. However, in the Afrospear the dialogue has stepped over the two personalities who spewed the negative labels in describing the young college women. Afrospear is reaching for a higher ground.
Afrospear appears to be focused on the marketing of the war of words, hos and bitches and nappy head. Those who are spewing the negative message about women are only playing to the money. Young folks who have a talent for twisting, shaping lyrics may not have other opportunities appears to be the sentiments in the Afrospear. So joining the crowd to point fingers at the young cats is misdirected. Matter of fact, the Afrospear warns that we are playing right into the hands of the fat cats. We need to go to the root of the problem.
This is not to say that Afrospear is totally forgiving of the actions by folks who make noises that degrade women. But the Afrospear does not want readers to waste energy trying to separate one talent from the other talent because of inappropriate language. Instead put the spotlight on exactly who or what is exactly too blame for encouraging the inappropriate language. And that would be the airwaves, producers, and distributors of the noise. The paper trail is the source, the fat cats in the media. Artists are switched at the rate of a dime a dozen.
You can listen in some of the debate by going to : freeslave and his comment section on Hip Hop, Temple 3 gives some back ground on getting a clue on what is hip hop, rap and sexual healing music. Exodus Mentality is providing some examples of stuff we bob our head too, that just may contain words that we would not bob our heads too. EM expresses some concerns that a few artists are allowed to define millions and millions of other folks. Bronze Trinity is scanning the area for some good stuff after she created a petition affirming the commitment to hold our own accountable. Thanks to Bronze Trinity, a young blogger from Canada, has collected all the pages of the Afrospear members and placed them in a newsreader. Right here you can now read what each of the Afrospear members are saying and then some.
Update: African American Political Pundit and African American (Black) Opinion keeps us connected with our collective opinions. I would like to point our another resource, Afronary.com as another positive brother.
Among other things, I'm an African American web developer. I've been working on a site to show "what's happening now" in the Black Blogosphere. I've put your blog and a few other blogs into the site I'm working on. I hope in the future to track the entire "Afrosphere."
ReplyDeletePlease check it out, create an account, set the tags for your blog, spread the word and give me feedback on how to make the site really useful. The url is Afronary.Com and send your feed back to webmaster@afronary.com.
Peace,
Phil
Hey Phil:
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming over. I see you have made some changes to your site since my last visit.
I was going to ask if Afronary was similar to a dictionary. And right on your page is the answer to my question!
I will update my post with your url and include you in my links. Hit up bronze trinity with your information. I think you would be a good fit in the newspaper she has created.
I am not a technie..
Peace, stay connected.