Jamaican dancehall reggae stars Bounty Killer, Mavado, Beenie Man, Adonia, and big-time selector Ricky Trooper are all in the middle of having their visas canceled. Until the U.S. Embassy in Kingston can finalize the cancellations, airlines are being advised not to let any of them board U.S.-bound planes.
This gives us the sads, because we thought America was the land of the free, home of the hatred?
Also: Where are the names of Buju Banton and Capleton?
[Petrelis]
How about we take this to the next level?
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Space Jesus
GOOD! !@#$ Jamaica!
adman
hehe, no more hate rallys for pay, here boys. You’ll have to keep bartering for your gates in Jamaica. It’s ok, you can play a show for a dimebag and a crate of chickens, and that’s enough to get by, isn’t it? Upside is, you won’t have to compromise your “ethics”, LOL. Good luck in the future, Jamaica.
scott ny'er
good. may this continue and grow. more revocations. more boycotts.
Sexy Rexy
Serves them right. I don’t want them here either.
Niki
All of you sound so racist. The real hate is coming out now. You are no better than what you say they are. Get the facts. Find out the real reason for the cancellations before you get to happy. It won’t last. They will be back in 6 months. What your concentration should be on is the ones in your own backyard. So many people in this country hate gays and lesbians. So many people in this country hate blacks and other races. Why are you not protesting the Arian nation and the Klu Klux Klan. They are right under your noses inciting hate and violence. Where are you them. The real racists are coming out of all of you now. This proves it. Go to Hell, all of you, that’s where you will be anyway.
Stef
@Niki:
You forgot to mention the New Black Panther Party. I’m pretty sure they not only classify as a hate group, but a racist hate group as well. But I guess since they hate white people, that doesn’t matter to you, does it?
This has nothing to do with racism, and you screaming that is pathetic. It has to do with the fact that Jamaica breeds a culture of homophobia, particularly in raggae. If you’re going to bitch because most Jamaicans are black (SHOCK), then bitch about that, but it has nothing to do with race.
How do you know these people aren’t protesting the Aryan (sic) Nation or the Ku Klux Klan (also sic)? Both groups are mostly hated in the US already, and are classified on the SPLC hate list.
This is about inciting fear and hatrd and VIOLENCE against gay people, which, most of these “artists” do. They sing about killing gays and justifying hating gays. Sorry, like you said, we have enough of that in our own backyard. I don’t want these people coming over here from Jamica and profitting on such ideas.
Get over youself and your self righteous ways. The only racist on this board is probably you. By the sound of it, you have something against whites and just accuse anyone who isn’t black of being a racist.
Sexy Rexy
@Niki: Niki, I’m black and gay, and I don’t like homophobes. I’d say the same thing if they were white.
Pip
anyone want to explain why these guys are bigots? article doesnt provide much context.
adman
@Nikki–I’ve been involved in the Queercore movement against fascism since I was 15. We combat any and all threats to our community, point blank. You think I haven’t tangled with a skinhead or two? You’re just a hopped up hetero reading your Che Guevara and getting insecensed over how injured you feel. Nationalists of any stripe including the old guard like Malcolm, et al were and are gay-hating scum. Got that? Scum. You’re hetero supremacy and “family values” have been turned on their head in contemporary society, and it was all due to the actions of the people who wrote that swill swirling around in the toilet bowl you use for a head.
You might want to start over, starting with James Baldwin, and Bayard Rustin, move to a little Langston Hughes, and you’ll find where the real renaissance came from, Queer People! Get over your hetero sexist leftist bullshit before you come here, this ain’t fucking Oprah, fer chrissakes. And oh yeah, Eldridge Cleaver, for a source that might actually translate to a dim bulb like you. Up the revolution, if we can leave these Fucking churchy haters out of it. YOU’RE NEXT. Tell me about now, hater.
jason
I think they should be allowed in. Let them in and then protest against them. It’s better for our cause and exposes them even more.
beverly heels
Adman, your first comment was pretty fuckin’ point blank offensive if you ask me. Seriously? Weed and chickens? Come on. Indeed, Jamaica is steeped in a culture of homophobia. However, reducing an entire nation to a racist stereotype, joking or not, speaks volumes about your opinions.
Where are you getting this MALCOLM WAS A HOMOPHOBE stuff from, too?? (this is just out of plain curiousity, i’m not refuting your claim ;o )
Touting your anti-fasc, queercore, “REVOLUTIONN!!!1” bullshit here pretty much negates any stock I would have put in your follow up. This is QUEERTY – which, if I’m not mistaken, is pretty staunchly anti-DADT and pro-marriage (both of which are counter revolutionary ;D ) and also fairly good at reinforcing the homogenization of what are considered “beautiful bodies.”
You reek of hypocrisy.
adman
@beverly heels: Live with Jamaicans, grow up in South Central instead of “Beverly Heels” and deal with the AA and Jamaican “steeped with homophobia” problem head on for two minutes and I’ll speak to your problem with my hypocrisy directly. Until then can it. I painted all Jamaican homophobes-for-pay with the same brush sure, care to refute that? We’re talking about a people drenched in ignorance, pseudo-mystical religion, and hatred they practice for sport. Come to the real left, instead of your HRC meetings and you’ll get to know the actual problems queers face from the AA “revolutionary” leftist community.
They aren’t doing jack for you or me and that’s how it’s meant to be, it’s by design. Tell all your ghetto refugee AA friends I said it, and see what they say. I’m sure they’ll be gracious, and plenty open minded, ‘Til they shimmy on down to the beauty parlor, talking about you the whole time and laughing, deciding who is going to call you “racist” at the next community meeting.
Until you figure out your privileged position is what’s killing our community, we all have to deal with it. You choose your way, I’ll choose mine. Deal.
adman
Oh, I just realized I was called a Hypocrite by a “Beverly Heels” tired old queen, wait a minute! Thank you, can I frame this for my friends to see? ::BOWS DEEPLY:: are there any more pithy dismissals to be further issued from you soon? LMAO.
beverly heels
hahahaha you have no idea what structural position i hold in society. you know not my class, location, race, gender, sex, or sexuality so i’m having trouble seeing where you’re getting this “privilege” nonsense from.
if we’re talking about privilege, why don’t we first look at the fact that both of us are posting on queerty, presumably from computers (maybe you from an iphone or something ;} ) that have internet access.
likewise, i very much hate the HRC and am not american. i’m aware these organizations don’t do jack shit for me or you and are, if i might be even more obnoxious, counterrevolutionary ;D
in fact, and you will disagree, but my politics probably lie closer to yours than i’d care to admit (and be associated with). on the other hand i find you crass and bristled.
painting an entire group of people with the same brush and suggesting some sort of inferiority of individuals of that group to think for themselves seems … hmmm …fascist?
lastly, you can come talk to me about the “real left” once the “real left” can agree on what the “real left” is, and perhaps once you have an outlet to do so that isn’t a website where i can scroll up and see links to some article suggesting that the right for queers to serve in the military is something to fight for.
beverly heels
@Pip: “murder music” – a lot of their lyrics advocate killing queer people, etc.
adman
@beverly heels: I don’t need certainty regarding the position you hold, you give yourself away. Of course I’m crass and bristled, since you don’t work as a queer, get by as a queer, nor struggle as one in my “position” you have no clue, and that is clear. GO hide behind your rights that we Americans don’t enjoy while you toss snide rejoinders that mean nothing here on the ground level, it is to laugh. You are a tool simple and plain. How’s that Queer theory class working out for you? Oh poli sci? Good luck with that, credulous faggot, you’ll find the bottom of the barrel soon.
As for me painting the Jamaican people as all the same, I was talking about Jamaicans hired into this (the USA) country to promote violence against me and mine, and yes, I am a hard authoratarian against them, “counterrevolutionaries” like your silly ass aside. YOU should sit at the back of bus, while WE get things done. See you at the next march, keyboard coward.
“Beverly Heels”. Sheesh. does it get any more stupid than rich fools like you playing on the internet? Not likely.
J.D.
Malcolm X had sex with other males. It is well-known. Openly gay Bayard Rustin was the genius behind Martin Luther King’s organization. Countries like Jamaica and Nigeria and Iran (and the US once) who enact laws against homosexuality do so because it occurs so naturally and frequently, and creates a class of people too free for the comfort of tyrants. So-called “academics” equate homosexuality with white supremacists emasculating the black man. They claim before the white man came to Africa to show them how no African boy ever had sex with another African boy. Hate mongers everywhere like to keep us at each other’s throats: black against white, gay against straight, male against female, religion against religion. Powers that be pay errand boys to pump out the divisive messages. The music industry is owned by some shady, shady corporations. Cf Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us” and public statements about Sony.
adman
@beverly heels: ChiTownKev, that’s who you you are, right? Another AA homophobe apologist, big deal. And to think I got all worked over a nothing, lol.
W.
Wasn’t Buju busted for dealing cocaine?
beverly heels
OH SORRY, i forgot i wasn’t queer anymore, don’t live as queer, and don’t struggle as a queer because i live outside the states and enjoy rights you as an american don’t (? WHAT?)
not once did you make it clear your opinions on these artists alone – more than once you made it clear your opinions on jamaica and jamaican people as a whole.
as for being a keyboard coward, oh cutie, i’m fine with you thinking that – you can go play in your black blocs on the “ground level” and while you smash store fronts with Bash Back! but some of us don’t have the /privilege/ to risk arrest/abuse and/or death at the hands of the state because we have children, or, *gasp* jobs to work so that we can survive on minimum wage (oh wait i forgot i was rich and powerful, i don’t need to work – i’m too busy oppressing you!).
way to make glib assumptions about me based on my screen name “Beverly Heels.” I’m sorry, honey, but some of us have something called a sense of humour and i find it satirical đ
anyway, you can call me a keyboard coward all you want, sweetie – without knowing what queer experience i’ve lived, nor without knowing what direct actions or subversion i may or may not take part in – but i’m going to go to work now because i have a family to support and a basement apartment to keep them in, love~ love~
Chitown Kev
@adman:
Paranoid bitch, I NEVER choose another name to post what I think at Queerty.
And you can reference quite a few of my fuck Buju Banton posts on this very site.
These Dancehall bigots don’t need to be performing in the US (or anywhere else, as far as I’m concerned) AND you are racist.
Those 2 are not mutually exclusive.
adman
@Chitown Kev:”Those 2 are not mutually exclusive.” Unless you can score some points making Queerty posters out to be racist, like that term means anything when used by the likes of you. GO on your Boojy way, sell out. As for BevHeels, solved him. It’s over hon. Toodles! đ
Chitown Kev
@adman:
Uh, that’s BOURGIE!
Get your spelling right.
Chitown Kev
@Chitown Kev:
Actually, I need to folow my own advice, LOL
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bourgy
Although, yeah, puh-lenty of other black folks have gone there with me.
Lamar
I’m from Jamaica and I probably hate those SOBS more than most of you guys and even tho the vast majority of Jamaicans are homophobic it is not fair to refer to all Jamaicans in such a derogatory manner. I believe that homophobes shod not be let in America but blasting he entire country is not right. After all GLBTs live there too.
Kyle
Don’t come on here, a GAY blog, and demand we respect Jamaican music culture even when you admit it’s homophobic. I’m damn tired of the gay community being told to respect others when they show nothing but disrespect to us….that approach hasn’t gotten us anywhere.
F anyone who is homophobic and I damn well won’t respect your hateful culture. Got a problem with that? that’s not my problem. Go fix your ‘culture’…everyone has a culture these days, if it’s inherently WRONG, that doesn’t mean we have to be forced to support it under a false sense of PC status. Jamaican music is drenched with homophobia so don’t come on our blog trying to educate us to be more tolerant and PC and accepting. Take it up on some ragae blog and demand they learn those things.
Damn sick of the gay community always being told to be the bigger person.
Lamar
@Kyle: WTF bitch, you really need to take a chill pill, I aint supporting these people, in fact I think inciting murderous hatred deserves the death penalty but I am saying that people shouldn’t start hating on EVERYONE from a particular country because of the views of some people! Gosh, I’m gay my self so I can see where the hate is coming from but abuse the artists not the whole freaking country!