Stars Show Support for Obama at BET Awards (Obama or Die!)

Hollyscoop.com ^ | 06/25/2008

[wideawake]

Indeed.

However she went through one marriage with a physically abusive black husband (her father physically abused her mother), and another marriage with a philandering black husband (her father also cheated on her mother before he ran out on her).

Now she is living with a white man and has had her first child by him.

Thus her historical disdain for the white race may be under revision currently.

[Bob]

You’ve never heard of the CMAs?

Do you have to be white to win there?

[wideawake]

Do you have to be white to win there?

There are no rules at the BET Awards eliminating whites from the competition either.

However, 95% of the musicians involved in the CMAs will be white and 95% of the musicians involved in the BETs will be black.

That's just the way things are.

[Bob]

Robin Thicke was a featured performer at the 2007 BET Awards, as was Fergie at the 2008 BET Awards.

That's nice. And the white nominees those years were....??

[Liberty Valance]

This is surprising? This is the BET awards we’re talking about. There is no slicker semi-black entertainer than B. Hussein O’bama.

[wideawake]

That's nice. And the white nominees those years were....??

Shannon Bex and Aubrey O'Day.

[sarasota]

I read this morning that there was a dig at Madonna and Angelina Jolie for adopting black kids from outside the U.S. And they offered up a coupld of white kids for adoption.

[wideawake]

Robin Thicke was nominated in two categories in 2007.

Shannon and Aubrey were nominated in 2008.

[expatguy]

That would be considered racist

[jaydubya2]

Yes, People mag had a picture of her wearing a tight fitting OBAMA shirt. She looked quite good in it!

[wideawake]

And the white nominees those years were....??

I'll point out that - as far as I can tell and I could be wrong - there were no black nominees at the CMAs this year.

Despite the release of Rissi Palmer's critically-acclaimed, straight-up country album.

That doesn't mean the CMAs are racist. And even if no white artists made the BET Awards' nominating committee's grade in 2008, that wouldn't have been racist either.

[al_c]

Diddy got on stage and started chanted "Obama or Die." He told the crowd, "If we all register and vote, we will have the first black president in the history of America."

Voting based on the color of a candidates skin?

[weegee]

Diddy got on stage and started chanted "Obama or Die."

This is a fascist death threat against all who oppose Fearless Leader.

The days of peaceful transfers of power are over for America. Welcome to Third World Socialism.

[weegee]

Your point is?

[weegee]

Johnny Cash never won a CMA after 1969.

They mean about as much as a Grammy or Rolling Stone do as to who is relevant in music.

[wideawake]

Your point is?

Apparently the same as yours: that even if an awards show is clearly geared demographically to one ethnic group, it doesn't mean that the awards show is either racist or exclusionary.

[wideawake]

They mean about as much as a Grammy or Rolling Stone do as to who is relevant in music.

No one was arguing that music industry awards actually recognize the best music.

[weegee]

And for the record, Charlie Pride won in 1971

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Music_Awards

Roy Clark won in 1973. Clarence Gatemouth Brown never won but then he didn’t have any national radio exposure. Also the albums of his last 15 years were a mix of country, western, cajun, and swing (different songs, not songs that straddled categories). But no one could say that he couldn’t play or sing country.

[jakerobins]

South Park in 2004 had it right...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWveedO42Q&feature=related

[weegee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET_Awards