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http://www.kansascity.com/226/story/1238798.html Another day, another racial controversy at the Power & Light District. For a year, the black community has been in arms about perceived racism at the entertainment district, a place their tax money helped fund. But it’s always rebutted. Everyone is welcome at the P&L, officials say. Well, those who follow the hip-hop music scene have more to chew on since late Saturday night, when one of hip-hop’s icons, DJ Jazzy Jeff, cut short a set of music and left the stage in a dispute over the kind of music his show was spinning. I walked in just as he was walking off the stage. He had performed less than 30 minutes. The crowd booed and I heard people, both black and white, yell about how the Power & Light didn’t want him to play hip-hop. I wasn’t sure what happened, but I knew it was bad. A conversation I had with him early Sunday confirmed it. He might be best known as one half of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, but he is more than Will Smith’s old DJ and friend. The two won the first rap Grammy. Jeff Townes, his given name, is legendary. He introduced “transforming,” the scratching technique turntablists use. This man has toured for 25 years. He’s an acclaimed producer. So what exactly happened? According to his tweets (twitter.com/djjazzyjeff215), he was kicked offstage for playing hip-hop. Jon Stephens, president of the Power & Light District, says it was about the sound levels. “The issue that arose with the performance last night was completely about the sound levels,” he said Sunday. “His audio tech was maxing out the sound system to a point that risked damage to the speakers and sound system. His sound techs and management refused to bring the decibel level down. They were told to bring it down or cease performance. They refused to go on.” Hours after he returned to his Philadelphia home, I spoke to Jazzy Jeff on the phone to hear his side. His set started with sounds of hip-hop and pop favorites — Jay-Z, Biz Markie, Rihanna. His MC, Skillz, hyped up the crowd. But after 15 minutes or so, in the middle of an R&B hit by Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent,” he was told to stop. “My road manager walked up to me and said they were having problems with the music I was playing,” Jazzy Jeff told me. “I played three more songs and he comes back. I knew something was wrong. They said I had to kick Skillz off the stage, change the format of the music I was playing or quit. They said if I continued playing they had 30 cops ready to come escort me offstage. So I stopped.” Jon Stephens says that isn’t so. “Obviously we have a desire to book a diversity of acts,” he said. “We booked Jazzy Jeff on a Saturday night, the biggest night of the week in the district. We were excited to have him there. It’s unfortunate that his sound and management people had problems adhering to the sound and audio rules. We wanted him to play. That’s why we booked him.” Jazzy Jeff was excited to play here too. But it all went wrong. Venue officials said the set attracted the wrong kind of element, he says. “They said they didn’t like Skillz’s posture,” Jeff said. “They said he made gang-like signs and grabbed at his genitals.” So P&L officials wanted him offstage. But Jeff felt it was wrong because Skillz is no gang member. He is a father. His hand gestures were the kind of excited movements you make to get the crowd excited. He wasn’t cursing or being offensive. “I was playing Rihanna; she is Top 40,” he says. “If they would have let my set play, they would have known I play everything. I play rock, funk, soul, pop, hip-hop, reggae. I don’t play for a certain genre, race or gender. I play for music lovers.” In his 25-year career, at 44 years old, Jeff has never been told to end a set because of hip-hop. He says he has never felt that kind of racism. The “element” that officials referred to felt like a reference to black people, a hip-hop crowd. “I’m in shock,” he says. “I didn’t understand what element they were talking about. I looked out in the crowd and it was multicultural, but about 75 percent white. Everyone was having a great time. I wondered what was so offensive. I never had a race issue. I didn’t know how to feel. I was playing ‘Just a Friend.’ Is that offensive? What element? It’s uncomfortable when you feel unwanted.” |
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i grew up living between armourdale and juniper gardens, just so you know
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I'm curious now. Why do you think that? Give me specific examples.
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damn bro..lol...so if you are from the Dotte, then why try to blast some one who is trying to help kids from the dotte. I went to Wyandotte,Harmone, and Argentine too, so I have some friends from armourdale, and the AGT. I grew up off of 22nd and Quindaro. I have allot of friends from 3/1 down in the gardens and thats were I spent allot of my teen age years. I was just down in the Gardens Monday at a birthday party for my girlfriend, who just like me is from the hood(junipar gardens) got out graduated from KU and will start her masters program at KU this fall. I only give this example because this is what we try to show the kids, you can become somebody , you can move out of the hood, but you can still be apart of your community and help out.......and don't listen to people who tell you that because you live in JO that you are a sell out, or that you forgot were you come from..you dig
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Really........you are not worth my time. What ever I post you will refute it, and this will go on for a few pages..so lets just save us both the hassle. I dont like him, and you do.......lets just keep it at that.
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If you can prove to me with specific quotes (not BS taken out of context stuff like the NYT does), then I might be inclined to believe you. If you make statements like that, people are going to call you out on it. Despite what you might think, I would never watch some skin heads or kkk people if they had a show. I just don't see why you would call BO a bigot. I have never seen that.
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here you go Sign Up for FAIR's Email List: FAIR WebStore | Subscribe to Extra! | Donate to FAIR [adv search] Email to a friend | Printer friendly | Share Diggit Blinklist del.icio.us furl spurl Yahoo What's this? Extra! Update June 2003 O'Reilly's Racist Slurs--in Context By Peter Hart In April 2003, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly hosted a fundraiser for Best Friends, a charity benefiting inner-city schoolchildren. As reported in the Washington Post (4/15/03), O'Reilly was trying to fill the time before a singing group connected with the charity, called the Best Men, was set to perform, and quipped: "Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps some more "We'd save lives because Mexican person of Hispanic heritages, whatever you want to call them, the coyotes--they're not going to do what they're doing now, all right, so people aren't going to die in the desert." He then offered the "last word" to his guest, Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D.-Texas), who did not address O'Reilly's slur at all, but instead tried to explain why he thought using the Army to patrol the borders was a bad idea. (O'Reilly reneged on his promise to give Reyes the last word, interrupting him with a rebuttal During a segment (2/9/00) about black athletes suing over the minimum academic standards for college admission, O'Reilly commented: "Look, you know as well as I do most of these kids come out and they can't speak English." Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality--because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it" (2/25/99). After eating dinner at a famed Harlem restaurant recently, Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly told a radio audience he “couldn’t get over the fact” that there was no difference between the black-run Sylvia’s and other restaurants. “It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun,” he said. “And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.” O’Reilly said his fellow patrons were tremendously respectful as he ate dinner with civil rights activist Al Sharpton. … “That’s right,” O’Reilly said. “There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M.F.-er, I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam |
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Some more for you..........and just so you know, I think Al Sharpton and Farrakhan are just as bad as Racist Oreilly
“In “Searching for a word to describe someone who assists immigrants crossing the border, O’Reilly came up with ‘person of Hispanic heritage’ (2/6/03). The incident was explained away by Fox officials as an unfortunate gaffe (New York Times, 2/10/03), but the Allentown, Pa. Morning Call (1/5/03) had O’Reilly using the same racist term in a speech earlier in the year: ‘O’Reilly criticized the Immigration and Naturalization Service for not doing its job and not keeping out ‘the person of Hispanic heritages.”” O’Reilly denied making the comment (Washington Post, 2/17/02), but the reporter stands by his account.” (Fair.org) “In support of his proposal to militarize U.S. borders, O’Reilly remarked, ‘We’d save lives because Mexican person of Hispanic heritages, whatever you want to call them, the coyotes–they’re not going to do what they’re doing now, all right, so people aren’t going to die in the desert.’” (Fair.org) “.’” (Fair.org) “‘’” (Fair.org) “MediaMatters) “In a February 27, 2006, conversation with a radio caller about the disproportionately few jobs and contracts that have gone to locals in the rebuilding of New Orleans, O’Reilly said: ‘[T]he homies, you know … I mean, they’re just not going to get the job.’” (MediaMatters) In responding to a contributor noting that by mid-century the US would no longer be predominately white, O’Reilly responded: “Yeah, but by then we’ll all be dead. Thank God!!” (Daily Kos) |
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Dottefan, can you provide links for those? I'm not disputing them, just curious where they're coming from.
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O'Reilly is a rude, bullying douche. Even when I happen to agree with his position, his methods are deplorable.
Typical segment: 1. Introduce a guest who has a conflicting point of view. 2. Immediately announce why said guest is wrong. 3. Talk over guest when he begins to defend his position. 4. Begin yelling if the guest continues to speak. 5. Go to commercial if the guest yells back, getting in one last snide comment. Frankly, I don't think O'Reilly is intelligent enough to debate most of the people who have posted in this thread. Debate isn't what he does. |
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OK, there are a couple of examples. I will give you that. What is this source? Is it legitimate? Honest question because I have never heard of it. Like I said, I don't watch Bill O'Reilly religiously or anything. I just catch his show occasionally when something piques my interest. I never saw any of these things or heard about them. If this stuff is true, then you have a decent argument that he is somewhat bigoted. I still don't understand why he would be at a benefit for inner city children if he were a bigot.
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