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dave50 | 13:41 Thu 23rd Oct 2014 | Film, Media & TV
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Surely they must be racist, or don't they count?
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Dodged.

Tongue was in cheek, I presume?

From wiki,
The Independent newspaper columnist David Lister criticizes the MOBO awards, writing: "I find any notion of separate awards devised for black musicians, and still largely for black musicians, depressing". He went on to say[5] that such awards "limit the music and the performers they claim to honour" and "manage to be both ludicrous and dangerously divisive at the same time." Others[6] reject this criticism, calling it "pedant", and noting that MOBO simply focuses on genres just as other awards focus on other genres.

Critic Niall Crowley highlights the inherent inaccuracies in the term "black music", for example noting the significant Jewish influences on rhythm and blues and rock n roll. He states: "Without these and many other non-African Americans who played a defining role in the evolution of rhythm and blues, we wouldn’t have much of the great 'black' music we've had over the past 50 years or so." Crowley also juxtaposes the attitudes of the MOBOs with the huge success of black performers in recent decades, writing that the awards reinforce "the idea that today’s black performers are simply the latest generation of sufferers in a long history of victimhood." He argues that in reality "no one could possibly claim that recent generations of black performers have suffered at the hands of a racist music industry" and the MOBOs "encourage music fans to see discrimination and racism where there is none,[7]
Another year, another MOBO awards question. They seem to come around quicker the older I get.

Look, MOBO isn't racist. It's simply a shorthand and time saving way of saying '*** rap music and other associated drivel. The kind of stuff they play on Radio 1'.
They always seem to clash with the annual racists convention on AB!
andyhughes
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Short for Wikipedia - it's an on-line encyclopedia -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
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Wikkipedia -
But why the link?

It does not say in that link that all music is of black origin.

Talbot - "But why the link?

It does not say in that link that all music is of black origin."

The link was merely to illustrate the origins of the MOBO awards, and the thinking behind them.

It was not connected to my observation about all music being of black origin - that is merely based on the fact that homo sapiens opriginated in Africa, so any of the earliest attempts at making any music - sticks on tree trunks probably - were made by people of African origin - i.e. black.
Doesn't it get rather tedious to brand everything in this way ?- it is simply an awards ceremony for a genre of music,nothing more or less.
they should call them momo's because we're all descended from monkeys, imo.
Perhaps dave and svejk should organise a demonstration at the Latin American Dance Championships?
The link was merely to illustrate the origins of the MOBO awards, and the thinking behind them.


Why tell me something I already know?




It was not connected to my observation about all music being of black origin - that is merely based on the fact that homo sapiens opriginated in Africa, so any of the earliest attempts at making any music - sticks on tree trunks probably - were made by people of African origin - i.e. black.





Therefore everything is of black origin.



/because we're all descended from monkeys/

actually we aren't svejk

we share a common primate ancestor with the great apes but monkeys are a completely different evolutionary branch
///Perhaps dave and svejk should organise a demonstration at the Latin American Dance Championships? ///

Dave did ask me but I'm boycotting the Swiss Rolls at Asdas that day.
^ lol.
I know but Wocpaos didn't really have a ring to it.
^Mocpaos
^LOL

I think I've eaten Wocpaos somewhere but i can't remember where...
That would have been during your cannibal phase zeuhl, hopefully you have evolved out of it.

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