My friend Juicegal responded to a post on a sugarbelly's blog about race! I am going to narrow it to Race and women!
The complaint is that Dare used an Indian girl in his video..I will be honest, my reaction was the same as sugarbelly's...Not because I am convinced that I am underpriviledged as a result of my skin colour...but because Dare made a comment a few years ago which really annoyed me. It was a performance in Lagos and he said 'this is my problem with nigeria, the sound check is always bad'.petty I know but he was saying that because he had just come back from that music show in SA...So after he said that, what was his contribution to making the sound check better...he was singing badly, he was huffing and puffing when he should have accepted that he was feeling abit nervous about performing!!!!! I feel that this is the same with the indian girl...so what there was no nigerian girl with the bod of that babe and they couldn't do indian virgin weave for her to make her hair look like that??Fair enough he is married to a nigerian girl but marriages are not always sufficient evidence to judge by(no offence meant) and so maybe sugarbelly is right to say that he is more at ease with other races or generally people that are not nigerian jare!!!
Second point, juicegal made about using black girls in american videos...I detest it to be honest...American rap, pop videos objectify women a little too much for my liking! If she is not half-naked, she is in compromising situations, like I really hate their portrayal of women, only useful as mothers or sex objects...it's disgusting. Having said that though, the women also play a huge part and so should take about 65-70% blame, because they consent to being seen in that light...Yes they have to feed etc but really, is that always the best option? It may suffice today but then when 7 years down the line you're ashamed of your boobies shown around and pressed by Snoop Dogg whose wife will probably never leave him and whose boobies you have not seen, you'll wonder why you really did it...
Having said this though, I agree with juicegal, let us move past race and do something positive!
Women of the world unite!(ok got a little carried away with Marx during exams so pardon a sister!)
You have a point about American rappers seeing black gals as objects,objects to be displayed to the world half naked.Personally i dnt need the media to validate my worth as a woman but im gonna have to admit that the way black women are portrayed in all these rap videos is very demeaning.
ReplyDeleteThat withstanding,all i am saying is that there are more pressing issues going on in the world for us to start bothering about whether Dare used an indian girl in his video or whether snoop dog is slipping dollar bills into his video vixen's ass. Those things do not bother me,i do not look to the music industry for any kind of moral support,to the pple who do i say gudluck to u.
Nice write up
PS:How come i'm just reading this??
You know I saw that Dare video and wasn't quite sure if it was a Nigerian artist or not. Yes it's his prerogative but I think little things like this lead to bigger things. Just like the Chimamanda's video said : danger of a single story. Little ones will grow up thinking this is the norm and so the disassociation with Nigeria begins.
ReplyDeleteI know right, it is really sad, sugarbelly has pointed out a trend being created...d'banj too has joined the Dare bandwagon! hopefully 'little ones' will realise black and nigerian is beautiful!!!!!which it is!
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