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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2048
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 01:27 pm: | 
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More from NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10174627
Very interesting--the young woman discusses her efforts in the context of listening to the BET head during a speech at her school...
Angela Boudreaux, who just completed her sophomore year at Spelman College in Atlanta, has started a letter-writing campaign to Black Entertainment Television protesting images she argues portray women as sexual objects. She talks to Farai Chideya about hip-hop and black women.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8604
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 01:32 pm: |
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What I want to know is when are we going to hear from the woman who appear in these videos. These booty-shakin dancers might have some very interesting things to say to the tight-assed Spellman coeds. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4406
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 01:39 pm: |
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Damn straight. What are those prigs at Spellman doing watching BET? I thought they were supposed to be studying?
They are as bad as Falwell.
If you don't like what is on TV turn it off. Apparently Americans don't know how to do this. |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 2049
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 01:56 pm: |
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I believe we have heard from at least one of these women who appear in the videos. I believe she wrote a best selling book.
Am I missing something, or are you elders dissing young women such as this as "tight-assed" and "prigs"? If so, why? Did you even listen to the piece? |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4407
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 02:02 pm: |
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I don't need to listen to her.
I'd horsewhip her if I had a horse. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8606
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 02:35 pm: |
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Of course you are right, Yvette. My whole thing is that, like white women, black woman "choose" a lot of different ways to earn a living. They are not all middle class college girls with sterling resumes. Yes, there should be some balance in the way that black women are portrayed and marketed but it would be a very sterile world if there wasn't a little element of playful sexuality in the realm of entertainment. Maybe these Spellman girls should also write to ABC and complain about the image of black women as being fat, overbearing, and hostile as embodied by the head nurse in Grey's Anatomy. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8607
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 02:50 pm: |
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Oops. I meant Spelman not Spellman. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 5491
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 04:19 pm: |
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I think all women should speak out on this subject as well as all men, regardless of race color class, ect, or relationship to the industry, but I'm especially proud to see this seemingly urban young Black Sistah from the hood get involved this way. She's done it intelligently and she’s got that fighting spirit. Good for her!
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Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 834
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 08:22 pm: |
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I dont have a problem with the booty shakers. I have a problem with 3-4-5 yr olds whose parents are stupid and allow those children to watch such videos and when they shake thier 3-4-5 yr old butts the same way are told its cute and then when some boy tries to molest them and in some cases succeed..you see where Im going with this
LiLi |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 2353
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 02:49 pm: |
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I hate to be repetitive...but, black women have beared a burden white women dont have to...that is, black women have this very long history as being used as free labor and producing free labor. Black women have been fetishized, in other words, differently than white women. In therefore, this burden to be respectable is indeed a heavy one...
At the same time, as humans first, we should not, especially as individuals, have to bear the burden of our entire group...
So, when I'm with white folk [though this is quite different] do I feel like I have to speak standard english, that I need to respond to every racist comment a white person makes...hell no! If I want to eat some fried chicken in front of white folk...i'm gonna do, and if its really good, I may have to scoop up the crumbs with my fingers...LOL!
This, again, is considerbly different from videos, but at the individual level, then yes....I believe in freedom of expression...at the institutional level, I say BET is the devil... |
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