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| International Poet, Heru shakes up Jamaica without apology The following article was taken from The Jamaica Observer Online and can be accessed by clicking on Heru's picture below. The airing of violent songs reflects disdain for poor black people, said poet Heru at Seh Sup'm poetry show Sunday. "If a deejay sings about shooting a white tourist that would not get airplay in fact, he probably would be put in jail. But when a deejay sings about killing a ghetto youth that gets airplay...It means that the white man is up here and the black youths are down there. They should stop that but it is right in our face." The Broadcasting Commission on Friday issued a ban on "explicitly sexual and violent" songs. It described these recordings to be contrary to sections of the Television and Sound Broadcasting Regulations and against certain tenets of the Children's Code for Programming. As a result, the commission had decreed that radio, television and cable stations must not transmit any recording, live song or music video which promotes or is suggestive of daggering. The commission in its statement defined daggering as "a colloquial term used in dancehall culture as a reference to hardcore sex or what is popularly referred to as dry sex, or the activities of persons engaged in the public simulation of various sexual acts and positions". "They play it all day and the deejays get rich off of it. When you hear this music its like the deejays are spitting in our faces," added Heru who is Ghanian/American. "The media says it reflects society; but saying that a boy was shot is reporting, you shooting the boy is endorsing...freedom comes with responsibility. You cannot yell fire on an airplane." His paused during his poetry to chat blurring the lines between art and advocacy. "What are they trying to promote/ what are they trying to evoke." READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE: Poets Defend Ban |
| HERU Interview on Jamaica TV February 2009. True Black ourstory for you, that you will enjoy, be educated, uplifted, restored, and moved by. Its about an hour and a half, but you will sure to be glad to be able to see this, I am sure. We are so poud of HERU the Spoken Word Master! |
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