BET concert in the slave dungeons: words fail

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Latest News Introduction Word is Bond American Beach Observer The River City Oracle Ontological Writings... Local U.S. World Publications Chilam Balam Republic of Rastafari Wisdom of the Black Ark Underground Voices Contact Us Recommend Us	BET Concert in the Slave Dungeons: Words Fail [SOULFUL WORLD OF JAZZ, HISTORIC SHORES OF GHANA] BET is now a white owned company doing Blackface for profit and continued disrespect of Black teens, Black women, and Black men! Would the Jews party in the ovens in Germany? Would New Yorkers party at Ground Zero in New York City? This is disgusting... Accra, Ghana - Last week, well over 100 years after the last enslaved African had been transported to the Western World, a terrible thing happened at the slave dungeon in Cape Coast, Ghana, West Afrika. Black Entertainment Television, founded by billionaire Robert Johnson and now owned by Viacom, organized a Jazz Concert! This concert took place in one of the largest slave dungeons located on the west coast of Afrika (over 50 total with over 40 located in Ghana) but not without protest from many Africans in Ghana and throughout the world! The Abibiman presented an appeal letter to the concert organizers, the Ghana Media and the Tourism Ministries. This letter accurately laid out why the slave dungeons were inappropriate places to hold concerts (where people party and forget about the ills of the past). The letter also proposed three alternative sites (all available) in Cape Coast, where a Jazz Concert would have been appropriate. Members of the Abibiman discussed the issue on Choice FM in Accra, with host Nii Lante Bruce. On hand during the discussion was Ghana Chair of the Commission on Culture, Professor Hagen. The Abibiman asked professor Hagan to come up with policy that would include rules and regulations on 'what can and cannot' plus 'what is and is not' an appropriate event in the slave dungeon. The professor promised to act on the request, stating that he too, was not in favor of these types of events, had he known about the event ahead of time he would have done whatever he could have to stop it. On Thursday evening, the Abibiman representing the ancestors went to the dungeon in Cape Coast in a silent protest of the concert. We noted people smiling and dancing, enjoying the concert. One of the guest said that Angela Bofil did sing her classics, "This time I'll be Sweeter," >and "I Try" in the dungeon. This is just one example of what we mean by an inappropriate location and an insult to our ancestors. Never again must we allow this to take place. Looking back at the network that put on this concert. BET. Though sellout Robert Johnson sold out long before Viacom purchased BET, Viacom is a European company. This European company was allowed to put on a Jazz Concert produced by BET. Sound familiar doesn't it? Oh yeah, the slave traders were only able to take slaves because they were being sold to them by other Afrikans. You see if you don't learn from your past you are bound to repeat it. This is a prime case. Europeans are once again using Afrikans to abuse and disrespect each other. They don't even have to be there. They don't have to call us ni**** anymore, we will do it ourselves. They don't have to chop off our limbs anymore in the Congo for the rubber. We will do it for bling bling (jewels) to each other today. They don't have to bother with colonialism. They get the same benefits, privileges and less trouble by installing puppet leaders and having French Summits to deal with Afrikan problems. In other words - Neocolonialism/Neoslavery. The Abibiman are asking all Afrikans in the mamaland and throughout the Diaspora to demand that concerts and other celebrations disrespecting our ancestors not be held in the slave dungeons of Afrika. These are our sacred hollow ground and must be respected as that. We send this plea out to: The Afrikan Union, Global Afrikan Congress, TransAfrika, AWRRTC, United Afrikan Movement, Pan-Afrikan Congress, All Afrikan Peoples Revolutionary Party and all other progressive Afrikan organizations, movements, etc. that are about uplifting the conditions of Afrikans throughout the Globe. Post your comments to this or any other article at our online forum Underground Voices
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