Put one finger inna de air
The DJ is playing one of several million anti-gay reggae tunes. If yuh nuh like nuh battyman put one finger inna de air. Fingers up, hands up, lighters up, cellies ablaze. The DJ gets nuff forward.
DJ:Lemme see all the people in hey who does use condoms?
Five, maybe six hands go up.
Is it that people are more willing, more proud, to admit to homophobia, than to admit to using condoms?
Or is that people aren’t really using condoms at all?
Maybe the people just wanted to enjoy themselves (Beenie man would perform later)and steppin pon a chi-chi man, albeit metaphorically, right?, is decidedly more fun than listening to sound bites on safe sex.
Did anyone else catch that Barbados’ HIV/Aids Commission, recognising just how difficult it is to get people to change risky behaviour even when they are well-informed about the risks , has changed the title of its Communications Specialist to Behavioural Change Communications Specialist? Yup…a bold and ingenious move that should have people rolling on condoms like clockwork.
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sad as it is to say sounds like they fighting a losing battle
People are plain silly, they know the risks, yet take the chance.
no crankyputz, people are people. To be human is to err. Don’t be so quick to judge your brothers and sisters.
Listen eemanee is just about 2 years 2 late, I did an article for the Nation – I said no byline as I was at CBC and I still nearly lost my job! Strategy was trying to say I was a liar, but ppl proved me right… This is what I said…
** ‘Terrorising children to prevent AIDS?’
This show seemed a little too good to be true from the start, a current top rapper from the US plus his deejay-cohort from Black Entertainment Television (BET) as well as topline local acts for a charity concert at a ticket-price that most folks would feel they were smoking ganja (more on that later), it was more than reasonable – it was outright cheap!
The honeymoon was over before the concert began – there were supposed to be wristbands for patrons but they never arrived and so the long queue of people who were there before three were allowed in from 3:55 pm on the proviso that all exits are final!
Then there was a glitch with the tickets for the bar (clients had to purchase tickets and then order drinks) and the guests were getting a bit annoyed at the delay, fortunately, they were sorted out swiftly in that area.
The audience was a very mixed bag – there were black and white, local and foreign, with or without tattoos and/or piercings and ranging in age from 10 to 70.
It’s the ten-year-old part of the audience that caused concern; the tickets and the flyers nor the website gave any indication that this was an “Adults Only” performance – at the same time if Fat Joe and Li’l Rick are present, why didn’t parents exercise caution about bringing kids? Why didn’t Security stop the children from entering? More importantly – where were the Police to deal with all of the nasty cursing from both local and overseas acts??
Not all of the foreigners were abusive – in fact, when Fat Joe slipped he paused and apologised unlike the others – and some Bajans kept it clean, like Dave “Smooth” from 98 the One who had the crowd rocking with his music without having to resort to “slack” dub or Billy Kincaid who had a good session with no profanity!
It is after all, an AIDS awareness concert, and if kids are present, wouldn’t you want for them to learn in a way that wouldn’t make them nor sailors nor saints feel to blush? How does CBC feel now, knowing they were aiding and abetting such crassness?
The deejay Mad Linx from BET was one of the worst offenders, even more than using foul speech – he got racial and political with George W. Bush and his treatment or lack thereof in New Orleans… This is a musical health forum not a soapbox and he isn’t running for office here, and seeing that the Hilton resort was kind enough to lend their Fort Charles as the venue, was the viciousness and evil talk necessary in view of offending potential repeat visitors?
Imagine you bring your young son or daughter along to the concert and they ask you what is a “blood-clot” and then you realise they don’t mean a medical condition, they mean the dub song blazing about using a firearm as a sexual innuendo and emptying it into a woman’s [sic: vagina] and in its actual weapon capacity to kill gay people – what wonderful tolerance for an anti-AIDS affair…
All the while people were wondering when the acts would start playing as it was getting on towards six and the show was due to end by ten… Don Trent finally came on around 5:45 pm with his “In De Fete” which can be found on the Square Roots debut album, one song and he gone!
Due the circular nature of Fort Charles where they positioned the stage was wrong, they were at the ocean side behind some shrubbery – performers should have been in the courtyard and let the audience stay in the ramparts to look at who’s playing down below and not the other way around…
More deejay action from Dave “Smooth” for half an hour until about six-twenty when Bruce and Buggy from Hit Island were followed in quick succession by Damian Marvay then Billy Kincaid.
Billy was the longest performing local act at that point, he was on for about 20 minutes and in that time had the place jumping with his “Show And Prove” where he sampled Enya, then doing his new hit “Take Me Home” with Shontelle – the co-writer of this year’s Party Monarch hit “Colours.”
Then after Billy, the audience was again assaulted with Mad Linx who says he’s just “keeping it f*****g real,” as bad as some Bajans are – I think for once they may have enjoyed fantasy to reality.
The Poundas crew came and they kept it clean too, but took a while to warm up, it wasn’t until they recalled how hip-hop started off with “human beat boxes” and showed a variety of rythms and styles that really had the crowd hopping – they were one of the longest local acts on as well. It was a pity that they too joined the gay-bashing bandwagon, since I got the impression the National HIV/AIDS Commission are trying to teach values of tolerance of diversity while promoting a sane and healthy lifestyle…
Strategy was one of the worst local acts with vulgarity, their female singer was asking the women of the crowd if their “s**t” is of a certain pleasurable elasticity, and don’t give it away cheaply as it is expensive – while little children stood there slack-jawed. Their other good selections were ruined by this unnecessary coarseness in the name of AIDS prevention.
Li’l Rick was on for too short and was only risqué but kept in mind AIDS-awareness very well; there was more profanity from Mad Linx next deejay session and playing songs advocating use of ganja – so use a condom but light a spliff? Speaking of health, the chemical toilets were a nightmare – was no one ensuring they stayed sanitary? Where were the hand-washing facilities?
Unfortunately, the Canadian hip-hop acts met a lukewarm reception, but it was interesting to see a harmonica used for salsa, reggae and hip-hop by Mikey Dangerous, and Teflon had 2 short songs, then gave way for the man of the moment…
Fat Joe and his Terror Squad galvanised the crowd for about 35 minutes with his hits like “Last Night” and all the girls sang the chorus by heart, “I’m Not A Playa” and his major hit “Lean Back” – he did let go a bad word but immediately stopped and expressed regret, which is more than his fellow countrymen did…
Questions remain unanswered… Why no Police? Why no “PG” or “R” rating? How can CBC, 98 the One and the National HIV/Aids Commission condone a concert promoting awareness that instead advocates death for homosexuals?
** I dislike Strategy to this day by the way, hate liars who lie to try and hide their falseness! If I had no witnesses, I would have been up a creek w/o a paddle!
AirBourne, i’ve always felt uncomfortable with the HIV/Aids commission being a sponsor or partner with a lot of these shows, it’s really not the best way to get the message out. too much doublespeak.