Over the more than 20 years since he wrote “Boom Bye Bye” (1988) Buju Banton has had a lot of chances.

Some of us look at Eminem and think: “He’s one of us.” What about Buju Banton?

The mean spirited and virulent anti gay campaign that Buju has waged for more than 17 years shows a focus, shows a concern about homosexuality that is unusual. This is often something that is seen in closeted gay homophobes. Go ahead and look at http://tinyurl.com/5e792d

Buju Banton is the youngest of 15 children. I think it is likely that he has older brothers. He also appears to be right-handed. That means that the “fraternal birth order effect” gives him a greater chance of being gay. http://tinyurl.com/ykvwqcw

A documentary by Isaac Julian, “The Darker Side of Black,” is said to contain information that Buju Banton’s was once a “rent boy.” Isaac Julian is better known for the film “Looking for Langston.”

As for Buju not being attractive: Take a look at the younger, short haired, shaven Buju on the back of his “Voice of Jamaica” CD. Or watch the YouTube video of “Untold Stories.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb-0Eo0Yk0o made circa 1995.

Anyway, you don’t really have to be attractive to be gay.

Eminem might be gay. Buju Banton might be gay.

And, by the way, Elton John is said to be helping out Eminem with a drug problem.

Eminem and Elton John performed together and put out a record together. Do you think that Buju Banton would perform with Elton John?

Common (who has sung and renounced homophobic lyrics) is the son of an educator and a youth counselor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_(entertainer)

Now these 2 black rappers actually do come from material circumstances that really are better off than Eminem. So do more rappers than you think.

So… black men are only attractive when they look like white men? That’s just phenomenal. Douche.

Eminem shouldn’t use the word faggot, I agree. But there is no comparing someone who simply uses the word faggot in a negative context, to someone who has repeatedly called for, and allegedly participated in, violence against our community. It’s equivocating using a naughty word, to condoning actual physical harm against people. Stupid reactionary, PC liberals.

And it’s not about race, because there’s plenty of attractive black men so long as they have a sufficient amount of European features (like Shemar Moore). Ugly is ugly no matter the race.

Why can’t we be honest that as a hole the Gay community give descent looking White guys a pass.

Chitown Kev is right. It’s hard to listen to and accept. But race plays a major part on how we judge things both Black and White.

I don’t hate White people but I’m tired of not being able to have a real discussion about the racism in the Gay community. I’m tired of being accused of using the “race card” when it has to do with obvious hypocrisy.

Buju Banton is a complete homophobe and bigot but I bet you money I can find on some website that he’s not serious. He’s just speaking for the community he represents… yada, yada, yada. It’s all the same people. It’s biggotted. I don’t care how hot or how much people wish that Eminem was closeted.

“I’d say it’s because that homophobic organization known as MTV put its energies behind Eminem, promoting him at every opportunity. A white boy who made black rap appealing to white boys – too good an opportunity to pass up.

Also, gays were too afraid to criticize MTV. They got sucked in by MTV’s token pro-gay gestures, such as including gay men on shows like Real World.”

MTV has Gays in virtually ALL of its shows, not just the mainstays like Real World. The reality shows like True Life and Made have always had positive images of Gays. Cheesy dating shows like NEXT, Date MY Mom, Disaster Date, et all always have the Gays represented. What most of these shows portray is teen life in various scenarios. And they portray Gay teens in the exact same scenarios, facing the same shit as straight teens do. Many of these teens are from deep red states where MTV is the first exposure they have ever seen to an out teen. My first roomate in college was from South Carolina, his Father was an evangelical preacher and for most of his life he heard nothing but how Gays were Satan’s representives on earth seeking to destroy life as the straights knew it. At our first meeting I told him I was Gay and he said he had no problem with that cause he had “gotten used to seeing Gays on MTV!………

I am obviously not speaking of white gays that simply think that Eminem is homophobic.

And if you truly know me from Pam’s place then you know that I don’t go around slurring white gays.

And you would also know that I have no love for buju banton.

Now, I actually don’t disagree with Ace…Eminem, to an extent, is doing what all poets and singers do. I’m saying that if you choose to apply those standards to him, then apply it to black rappers as well. And I’ve never seen that on this blog.

And I agree with alicia banks more often than not my damn self.

If you are curious, you can just go read his autobiography for further information.

But given that you seem to have made up your mind already..

LMFAO @ you trying to google up a relationship between Elton and Eminem. I stand firmly behind what I said, those two are about as bff, as I am with the President. The ONLY thing Elton wanted from Eminem, was a chance to suck his dick. Too bad for him, that shit is miniscule according to his wife Kim. Lol!

i know you think it’s justified, but you are writing from a place of anger at white gays. If you think this group of people deserves your anger than so be it. (and I’m writing you as someone who sees your intelligent and uplifting comments at Pams House Blend…then you come here and start slurring ‘white gays’)

Take just as an example:

“The FACT is that most white gays (or at least the ones on this blog) would NEVER explain away the homophobic lyrics of a black rapper as the person “assuming personas” or showing a sense of irony.”

1. Come on. Is it “most white gays”, “the ones on here”, the ones you’ve met that made you really mad, what?

2. For the record…I do not believe that “most white gays” in any universal sense would EVER explain away eminem. He’s hardly a gay icon, and he’s gotten a bunch of shit for one thing or another, and he’s responded with peace offerings to the gay community, which may or may not be well-intentioned…but are certainly an advance over buju’s “there is no end to the war between me and faggot.”

3. I guess at the end of the day, what i’m saying…when you use terms like “most white gays,” then you tar me with the brush of being ignorant, hateful, whatever. I reject those values. Moreover, I call them out as real obstacles to social justice and to advances for these two, inter-related communities. I am fully aware of the horriffic legacy of racial discrimination in our country, and intimately familiar with some of its more troubling current instances such as via Prop 8…but you are buying into a black vs. gays (or blacks vs white gays) storyline aand mentality, the *exact* same storyline and mentality that some gay, white people have also bought into…and by doing so you are hurting both communities.

So cut it out. Many of us are working towards the same goal.
You feel entitled to judge great swaths of humanity; I don’t. And you shouldn’t.

(And yes, I take issue with anyone [especially on here with the history of racial tensions from both sides] who started a sentence along the lines of “the trouble with most blacks is that they…”. So cut it out you white fools on here too.

This place is getting twisted, twisted!

As always, I agree with Alicia Banks!

both buju and enema are rabid gaybashers!

the only difference is that buju spews his hatred for an entire culture

shame!!!

alicia banks
eloquent fury

Fuck you, I’m calling it as I see it.

The FACT is that most white gays (or at least the ones on this blog) would NEVER explain away the homophobic lyrics of a black rapper as the person “assuming personas” or showing a sense of irony.

Eminem maybe all of those things but the point still stands that you would never allow a black rapper as popular as Eminem to make “offensive things funny” shit like this and then describe him as being ironic.

Hell, Kanye West pretty much does the same thing and his messages are pro-gay if anything. Yet folks on this blog will still attack him (not that Kanye doesn’t deserve it at times, he CAN be an asshole).

Yes, as a recovering person myself, I understand that bond between John and Eminem very well…

Heh, that’s not exactly all contact they’ve ever had. But if you refuse to take in facts that don’t fit your prejudices, your choice.

“‘Me and him have had similar lives and stuff,’ Eminem tells the Detroit Metro Times. ‘We became friends and I talk to him about things, career-wise.

‘When I first wanted to get sober, I called him and spoke to him about it. He’s somebody who’s in the business and can identify and relate to the lifestyle and how hectic things can be.

‘He understands … the pressure and any other reasons that you want to come up with for doing drugs.’

The support Elton, 62, who checked into rehab in 1990, gave Eminem meant he was able to conquer his demons.” http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/c.....f-drugs/1/

And some of you people should really take a lesson or two from same Sir Elton:

‘From the start, I’ve always admired Eminem’s thinking. That’s the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked, despite all the nonsense talked about his being homophobic and crap like that. Let the Boy Georges and the George Michaels of the world get up in a twist about it if they don’t have the intelligence to see his intelligence.

Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That’s very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren’t many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.’ http://www.rollingstone.com/ne....._82_eminem

2 entirely different mediums.

I could argue that any number of rappers (of whatever ethnicity) assume personas; after all, rap is a form of poetry and poets have been assuming personas since…Homer, really.

Using your example, Ed Norton has assumed many other personas quite unlike his character in American History X…plus the cinema is largely a visual medium.

It’s almost like these posters have an attitude of “oh, my people can’t be *LIKE THAT*” despite a decade of evidence that Eminem is no friend of gays.

100% agreed.

Of course, to many white people (gay and straight) only other white people get to be diverse, can use metaphor, and all the other patent excuses.

If Eminem were black, he’d be straight up homophobic because…well, black folks all have the same mind, the same type of thinking (even when they’re pro-gay, they’re really not…gotta check for those hidden messages)…and besides, black folks ain’t smart enough to even know what metaphor is. Black folks don’t have the ability to speak tongue in cheek.

And since when is FAGGOT “not necessarily a homophobic slur”? If Buju (or any random black person) said it, the white queens in here would be calling for a lynching. So sick of the stunning hypocrisy here.

Eminem wouldn’t spit on any of you bitches if you were on fire.

He denies being homophobic. (@Bernadette, then you haven’t looked. Just take a look in his damn autobiography for one thing.) He isn’t, or he wouldn’t be good friends with Elton John. If he had anything against gay people, he would say so, just like he has always said out loud everything else he thinks, for better or worse.

As for “faggot”, it’s not necessarily a homophobic slur, and he does not use it as one.

Remember “8 Mile”, where he defends a gay man against a bully, telling the latter something like “Paul may be gay, but you’re a FAGGOT”? That’s how he uses it. It’s an insult, a way of dissing somebody, just like you might say “d***head” or “a**hole”

Also, gays were too afraid to criticize MTV. They got sucked in by MTV’s token pro-gay gestures, such as including gay men on shows like Real World.

Gay men need to take some responsibility for allowing Eminem to go unchallenged.

However, Banton continued to perform “Boom Bye Bye” at least until 2004. Buju Banton signed the Reggae Compassionate Act. The signed form is on the internet and available to all. But he denied that he ever signed it. (Beenie Man also signed and later denied that he signed it, as well).

Most LGBT people are not aware that Buju Banton has a new anti gay routine. This is the one that contains the line “there is no end to the war between me and faggots.” If you listen closely, there is more anti gay stuff in the song. You can see a video of Buju performing this new routine at http://tinyurl.com/y8967pa “Buju Banton Live @ Ritz Theater RoadBlock Radio & Hot 97″ This video was made in October 2008 in New Jersey. Buju did not perform this anti gay routine during his 2009 U.S. tour.

Buju Banton is a deeply religious man. The license plate on his silver Land Rover is “Jah One.” He is a Rastafarian and Rastafarians take the Old Testament seriously. They don’t eat pork. They don’t eat shellfish. And they agree with Leviticus 20:13 that gays should be executed. Buju Banton sings religious songs during his performances and even does a little preaching.

Buju Banton has never really distanced himself from “Boom Bye Bye.” He is as virulently homophobic now as he was in 1992. And frankly, to be a successful dancehall music performer in Jamaica, he has to be seen by his fans to be intensely anti gay.

I’m impressed that Elton John performed with Eminem. Eminem may be trying to reach out to us. Of course he could just end up cussing us all out and calling for our murder like Buju Banton.

Note that Eminem does not have that intensely, intensely homophobic Jamaican fan base to satisfy that Buju does.

I say, let’s see what happens with Eminem at the Wireless Festival. We’ve given Buju Banton chance after chance. Let’s give Eminem a chance.

You’re taking the easy way out. I don’t think that people will listen to Eminem or any other homophobic rapper and suddenly become a raging homophobic themselves. The point is that people who already have this mindset will be feeling vindicated by his lyrics and it doesn’t matter if he’s in character while spewing his vitriol. I don’t think that homophobic people give a damn if Slim Shady or Marshall Mathers is the one supporting their point of view. They will only see that it is okay for anybody to publically proclaim their hatred against gay people. The stupid excuse of people who propagate hatred towards others and discriminate against others that it is ‘only a joke’ is mostly backed by people who a) share those people’s sentiments b) aren’t affected by those hurtful lyrics or c) just don’t bother to care.
The thing is that it would be much easier to recognize something as a joke or even satire if the people making those ‘jokes’ would use public platforms to strongly declare that this is not at all their opinion but merely an attempt to raise awareness about what’s wrong in our society. I have yet to watch/read an interview with Eminem in which he clearly states that he’s not a homophobe and doesn’t support homophobia.
A performance with Elton John or any other openly gay music artist does not a gay activist make!
It’s just a transparent move to not wind up on the media’s blacklist because of his discriminatory lyrics but to soften the homophobic image so that dumb people keep on buying and playing his music thinking ‘Oh, that Eminem! He’s not so bad after all. He doesn’t hate the gays!’ Um, yeah. >_<

He’s such a loser for doing the Elevator track.

Mike
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/MikeAndrews1