Goodbye Jamaican homophobes
» Homophobia
One last look at the Jamaican reggae stars who wanted to douse us with gasoline and stick knives in our backs:
… campaigners had called for action because of lyrics in earlier releases such as Elephant Man’s Log On, where the lyrics include ‘Log on and step pon chi chi man’ [‘chi chi man’ being a homosexual].
Mobos boot out stars over anti-gay lyrics
OutRage! said Vybz Kartel’s Bedroom Slaughteration, and Elephant Man’s We Nuh Like Gay and A Nuh Fi Wi Fault, both advocated killing homosexuals.
Mobo drops ‘homophobic’ artists
The two artists, nominated in the best reggae single category, were dropped at 6pm yesterday evening, the deadline by which they had said they would provide written apologies confirming their verbal declarations. None came.
In Jamaica itself:
While the international media is replete with reports about the situation, a blanket of silence prevails in Jamaica, except for one story of some note. And that story is the result of some attempt to trivialise the issue by playing on the word ‘bow’ since the word refers to another one of our societal taboos and double standards - oral sex. The story, carried in one of the dailies, was about deejays bowing (and later in the story it explains bowing as giving into international pressure about the deejays’ anti-gay lyrics).
