sheeprunner12 5 years, 9 months ago on This time we should boycott Buju Banton
This time we should boycott Buju Banton
People have two options .......... buy Banton's concert tickets or not buy his concert tickets.
People still buy/listen to the music of Vybz Cartel ......... and he is in jail for murder
slaytanic 5 years, 9 months ago on This time we should boycott Buju Banton
This time we should boycott Buju Banton
Wtaf is wrong with you? Did someone not pay you off enough to speak nicely?
First of all; Buju Banton, doesn't owe anyone anything other than himself and his God & who he sees fit. I am quite positive you are none of the aforementioned so who exactly gives YOU the right to judge anyone while hypocritically denigrating a great man/human being for something you suggest he has also done in the past!? Even worse, you are making accusatory (pre) violent and fear mongering remarks towards a man you know nothing about today-at 45 years old, in 2019. More than that actually, you are doing it to the entire genre of dancehall! Which, by the way, could arguably be called the most popular music in Jamaica.
Your tirade is supposedly all about Bob Marley & peace, love, the meaning of reggae & acceptance of others yet all you are doing with your "article" is bashing a fellow human being. Do you get that? Does that make sense to you? Are you proud of yourself? While on the topic, do you know how Bob Marley & his family have been great supporters of soccer/football? Do you know how many people are displaced, beaten, murdered by local police, redirected to more intense poverty, starved, gone without water, ETC. ETC.-including the LGBTQ/TRANS community, all just to have it look nice & pretty for the tourists to come to town for the Fifa World Cup (wherever it is that year)? Maybe you should research how the Marley's support that AND capitalism before you start handing out any sort of suggestion about Buju's "character" as a man on this planet. Capitalism is surely NOTHING for the poor or the people Marley supposedly was singing about, right? How many business are now registered under tha Marley name? Million dollar businesses? You need to do some research Mr/Mrs Editor bc you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. That or everyone that is reading your writings chooses not to think for themselves.
Lastly, "Perhaps he got sensitivity training in prison" Are you serious?
This man has been held in captivity for nearly 10 years, in a country not of his own, over one mistake in his life. Do you think that hit his wallet hard enough? He's paid his dues, many times over. He will prevail don't worry. I am sure Buju doesn't need OR want your $$.
You need to repent to your God for your outlandish and evil thoughts on another human being. Also-READ.
CuriousAbaconian 5 years, 9 months ago on This time we should boycott Buju Banton
This time we should boycott Buju Banton
Yawn. Many of us said or did things as fourteen year olds our adult selves would be ashamed of - we are just lucky enough it wasn't made into a hit song. If you look at the scope of his work, much of it is about love. Anyone that has actually listened to Buju's music knows that, and one song doesn't define him.
Furthermore, I was physically present when he made his statement about "war" on homosexuals. He was being picketed by gay rights groups who had forced him to cancel multiple upcoming shows. Not saying it was right, but I feel it was said out of frustration and a "me vs. them" mentality. They were/are affecting his wallet, as you have pointed out, perhaps that should be enough. If you don't want to see him, don't buy a ticket, it's that simple.
One last thing - he doesn't even perform the song in question. Destiny, Untold Stories, Hills and Valleys, No More Misty Days, Not An Easy Road, Single Parent, Murderer, etc., all voice support for peace, love, and detail the struggles we all face in everyday life. Why ignore 99% of his work to focus on one song he wrote..........when he was.......fourteen?