Singer Robin Thicke performs at the MTV VMAs Concert to Benefit LifeBeat, presented by MTV and Time Warner Cable at Terminal 5 in New York City on Aug. 23, 2013. Mike Coppola/Getty Images for MTVFor the past 25 years or more black women have been portrayed in a negative light. Yes, we blame the producers, but black women must finally take responsibility for their own actions. This will never stop unless they say no to the producers who are giving them top dollar to reveal themselves in a negative fashion. For example, the black community forever complains about racism, but it will never stop unless African Americans start respecting themselves and each other and so it is the same with black women in music videos. Many black women, whether they be rappers, singers, models must come to their senses, repent for not only showing too much flesh and changing their Afrocentric features, but stop the profanity and fully yield to God. Music Videos Slammed for Negative Portrayal of Black Women
By: Lynette Holloway
A searing new report revisits an age-old concern about the portrayal of women, especially blacks, in music videos, which are engulfed in overtones of racism and sexism, researchers say...Read full article, here.
The beef between Nicki Minaj and Lil' Kim is not a positive example for black females. Creating songs just to make another rapper mad is very old. It's the same thing with male rappers, feuding does nothing but cause a negative impact on the entire race. Just thinking about where black women have came from in this country since the era of slavery up until the 21st century is very sad. Is this what those who struggled before we got our freedom thought it was going to come to?Nicki Minaj and Lil’ Kim Beef Is ‘Complicated,’ T.I. Says
By Latifah Muhammad
Lil’ Kim is in full attack mode against Nicki Minaj and it may be more "complicated" than anyone realizes, according to T.I., who tells Billboard...Read full article, here.
