Posted on 01/27/2012 12:03:15 PM PST by don-o
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has demanded a meeting with the head of the Recording Academy to talk about deep cuts to Grammy Award categories this year that some musicians have complained discriminate against certain ethnic groups.
With the awards ceremony two weeks away, Mr. Jackson expressed his dismay over the cutbacks in a letter to Neil Portnow, the president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and raised the possibility of protests.
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On Thursday night Mr. Jackson told The Associated Press that he wanted “cooperation, not confrontation” with the recording academy, but he also said he would organize a protest of the Feb. 12 ceremony, to be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, if talks failed. “We are prepared to work with artists and ministers and activists to occupy at the Grammys so our appeal of consideration of mercy really might be heard,” he said in the statement.
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Whew,the polka catagory is safe!
Reverend Racist is at it again.
He’s really addicted to attention if he’s stooping to this to get it...
Dear Mr. Jackson,
I’m somewhere between too busy and not interested, to make time for your opportunism and whining.
Sincerely,
All of Us
They’re what? entitled to these awards? Can the MTA hand them out for subway riders? Its racist if they don’t.
Looks like the race pimp is trolling for extortion dollars again.
... more than anything, wanted money.
What? Oh no...don’t tell me they’ve dropped the category “Best Male Vocalist in Uzbek Throat Singing”!
Good name for him. He has made a career of it, and it works, it got one kid of his into Congress and another a good beer distributorship.
It has kept him in new suits all of his life and he doesn’t even have a church.
Does anyone actually watch the Grammy’s?
Yo...you guys pay my back child support and I can make this go away.
Perhaps it’s because “certain groups” wouldn’t know a music note if it hit them in their Cadillac Escalade.
Ooops, didn’t say that.
Move along, move along.
Looks like the race pimp is trolling for extortion dollars again.
ya, looks like his bank account is running low
Has anyone done a study on the effect of the music/message of the “cultural” genre on academic performance?
LOL!
Jackson wants discrimination against white people..
Is that racist?...
I have noticed there is less and less of Jackson since obama got elected. He’s really desperate to take up this “cause”.
Many rappers have been excluded from the competition now because the category for “stolen songs that have been remixed and make big bucks for me and my homies” has been eliminated.
Islands in the Stream? Gimme a break.
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