Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK — Designed to raise consciousness about African poverty, the Live 8 concerts will feature some of black music’s biggest stars — especially those representing hip-hop.
The Philadelphia concert boasts Russell Simmons as one of its producers and A-list acts such as Destiny’s Child and Alicia Keys — a far cry from 1985′s Live Aid concerts, which were criticized by some for being “too white.”
While it’s fair to say few musicians of any race have made Africa’s struggles their cause, those who have leapt to action fastest and loudest are white rockers.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin sports Band-Aids on his fingers to call attention to African trade issues. Bono, a dedicated lobbyist for the Africa’s poor and AIDS-stricken, is touted as a possible Nobel Peace Prize winner. And Bob Geldof, organizer of the original Live Aid, is the driving force behind Live 8 — the show that aims to highlight the continent’s problems before the G-8, the Group of Eight major industrial nations, meet in Scotland.
Yet over the years, the critical issues faced by African nations — AIDS, war and famine — have failed to galvanize the rap or R&B community to start a major movement on its own.
“That’s something that I don’t understand — I couldn’t tell you why,” said black rocker Lenny Kravitz in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
99, like I said, I have no interest in discussing her with you. IF you read through the post you will see that I have not required anyone to put their money where their mouth is. In my opinion Global welfare is the responsibility of governments not individuals nor charity for that matter.
101, fair enough.
100,
If you are anti-theist, then you are a bigot by definition. Anti-theism is the belief that one does not have the right to practice religion. Secularism is simply the belief that religion should not be state sponsored. Anti-theism is often confused with an agnostic or atheist belief system.
Communities should have the right to express themselves utilizing their religious beliefs in the public square. That means if a community wishes to have a display of the Ten Commandments, a Star of David or anything else pertaining to religion then that is their right as long as any singular religion that wants to display is not excluded. Over the last 50 years this right has been slowly eroded away by Anti-theist Supreme Court rulings. The separation clause only specifies that the state not endorse a specific religion. Somehow that got twisted into its current dogma.
Secularism is fine, but anti-theism is prejudiced against people who practice a religion.
98,
A childish response from a child is no surprise to me. Not entirely unexpected and keep in mind I have a very hard time believing any of your claims since I have proved most of them invalid.
Ted
Hey Peejz- check you inbox!
Sorry,,, my comment #2 was suppose to be in another thread,,,, didn’t meant to distract from the topic.
JG
101-How can the government give money without the financial support of the people?
84- Shiloh, look at the list of performers that perfomed in 1985. Where is the representation of the black entertainers? Look up the list of the entertainers scheduled for Live Aid8. It is 2005. Why are there not more black entertainers on board? Why is it that Sean Combs or Will Smith, Ludacris, IceT, etc are not making public service announcements. Was get out the vote a good thing? Yes. Do I believe they did it out of kindness and concern? No. I believe they did it for publicity. Russell Simmons wife was on ET after the last Jackie O auction. I am glad she won the auction for the luggage, but did America need to know what she spent? Most monied people don’t discuss such things, let alone announce to the world. He seemed a bit defensive in the above article. Maybe he could persuade his wife to limit her air time discussing money spent, and instead encourage her to try to get air time for genuine causes such as aids and starvation.
I must be honest about something though..I know very few of the performers since 1985:oops:. I am looking forward to Pink Floyd!
107 – peejz – i’m gonna let this drop now, ’cause it’s a dead horse. ‘looking’ at the list, i see minority performers. so at best it was ‘semi-racist’, which i don’t believe either.
looking at a list does not prove anything.
everyone is big of ‘proof & evidence’ til there ain’t none.
ted – calling me childish while you toss epithets around is riciduclous – as your apparent arrogance is, as you stand in judgement of things you seem to know little about.
“They need to go for a more diverse range of acts. It was the same problem 20 years ago when major black artists were backing singers to other acts. It’s time they learnt from previous experience.”
racism infected (infects) every part of the socio-economic spectrum including, entertainment.
when the other fella was talking about liberal progressive racism relative to the live-aide concert, was it him saying Geldof & Co. did not have him or her perform ’cause they’re not white?
that’s what i’m questioning ’cause that’s what i heard when pcd said “ the Liberal/Progressive movement has been quite racist. Many not-white acts were turned away from the original Live-Aid event.”
110- In the research I have done, it appears that Geldhof has excluded many black artists. Both in 1985 as well as 2005. Well, I take that back, in 1985, he let Tina Turner sing backup to Mick. England is far more upset than this country seems to be. The attitude is that it will be an all white audience. Which really is a shame. But I don’t need to worry about that anymore as you can see from the post I have on the LIVE8.