Rally May 13th PROTEST LIMITED IMAGES OF BLACK WOMEN AND MEN IN MAINSTREAM RAP

Check out the Rap Mainfesto at Take Our Music Forward. They are calling for a boycott of Universal Music AND demanding that large music corporations take a pledge to diversify their executive positions. Here is why:

• "In 1999, UMG pledged to ban sexually graphic and violent images in their music as a result of pressure from concerned citizens. The company quickly went back on this promise when it added Def Jam to its holdings, and has since actively promoted explicit sex and violence in its rap music and videos."

This is not an assault on Black culture.

This is not an assault on rap artists.

This is not an assault on women who choose to appear in rap videos.

This is an all out consumer assault on mainstream music corporations that are censoring Black artistry by signing and promoting only a certain flavor of rap music.
From Take Our Music Forward

The Rally is scheduled for Friday, May 13 at noon in Santa Monica. You can find more information here.
If you are in the Santa Monica Area and don't have plans, you ought it check it out.

Comments

[Denny sMITTen]

Gem, I like your site and have added it to my blog roll.

People do NOT have to sit by and daily watch as people make millions off of degrading black American girls and women.

Women started many movements including the abolitionist movement, the women's suffrage movement, and the civil rights movement, with Rosa Parks in the lead.

It is time for a NEW generation of black American women to forge together to SMASH this evil misogynist movement before it overtakes the entire country (and is now spreading around their world FAST) with its message and agenda.

Gem, YOU are part of that leadership, and I thank you for that.

PS May you shed the light of truth on this issue with your radio program.

Denny sMITTen