'Straight white guy festival' causes controversy

They do. That is my point.



There are 6 black people currently in the top 40. All of them are international acts. In this country however, there has been intense white washing in the past 5 years, especially in black/urban music to the point that black people do not have a fair chance in their own genre. Over the past 6/7 years here is the list of British white women famous for making black music:

Duffy
Adele
Joss Stone
Rita Ora
Natasha Bedingfield
Cheryl Cole
Amy Winehouse
Pixie Lott
Paloma Faith
Jessie J
Eliza Doolittle
Katy B

The list goes on. And that's just females. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a black female making black music and receiving support. They may chuck in a lightskin/mixed race racially ambiguous girl in the mix once in while, but they never really support them. As As enormously talented Alexandra Burke was, she was forced to make pop music, and even then she was blacklisted by pop radio. The last black women to make it big makin black music was Emeli Sande and that didn't happen until she bleached her skin and hair to the point that she was unrecognizable. It is no secret that the music industry prefers black voices with white faces (Exibit Z: Sam Smith), but it has become a bit too extreme when BBC 1xtra crowns a ginger white guy the most important act in black music.

I see it as a micro aggression because asking someone where their from, is implying that they are out of place, not belonging or to return. Everyone has a background, I have never heard someone ask a white person that question, and I don't like to be asked that question at my own work place. I find it disrespectful.

Honestly, I would trade places with any of you white, straight males in an instant.

Right. Which is why it bugs the hell out of me when White people say that Blacks have it easier. I would trade my rhythm and seasoning for their privilege any day, in a heartbeat.

I don't understand why some people on here are so eager to be seen as oppressed? Oppression is not a good thing.

just curious. why?



I'll explain why.
People who are "oppressed" as you put it, have certain benefits.

1. the world is expected to care about you.
2. you have rallying support. an example of this would be if a black person and a white person are arguing the black person can pull the racist card to smear the white persons reputation, thus voiding their point whilst also rallying crowed support. for example if you watch akala vs tommy robinson on the bbc show "Free Speech" you will notice how the asian women on the panel calls tommy robinson racist. yet cannot back it up. tommy robinson asks for proof. but yet the crowed merely just starts to gang up on him and shout over him to try and silence him. thats an example.
3. being "oppressed" means you can pretty much do what ever you want and blame it on oppression. for example palestine is pretty much allowed to do what ever they want and the world will still blame israel because they are the minority underdog.
4. being "oppressed" gives you exclusive rights to complain. it also gives you the right to tell others to "shut up" because they "dont know how it is to be like you"
5. being "oppressed" grants you "special" treatment and funding. for example there is such thing as a "black access course" and its ran better than just the standard "access course"
6. most of all it gives you the right to complain. you can tell everyone to shut up and respect your struggle. you can silence people. you can talk over people. you can claim your "needs" are more important than others.


2 children. 1 has eaten 3/4 of a pizza. 1 has eaten 1/4. both demand more pizza.
people will think that the child with 1/4 pizza is deserving and that their demands are legitimate. the 3/4 pizza child's demands are deemed spoilt and void.

people. try to portray themselves as the 1/4 pizza child so that they can legitimise their demands.

the voice of the non oppressed is not valued. thats why you even catch welsh people trying to act like some oppressed mass that was colonised by britain. which just represents how much of a joke its become.

They do. That is my point.



There are 6 black people currently in the top 40. All of them are international acts. In this country however, there has been intense white washing in the past 5 years, especially in black/urban music to the point that black people do not have a fair chance in their own genre. Over the past 6/7 years here is the list of British white women famous for making black music:

Duffy
Adele
Joss Stone
Rita Ora
Natasha Bedingfield
Cheryl Cole
Amy Winehouse
Pixie Lott
Paloma Faith
Jessie J
Eliza Doolittle
Katy B

The list goes on. And that's just females. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a black female making black music and receiving support. They may chuck in a lightskin/mixed race racially ambiguous girl in the mix once in while, but they never really support them. As As enormously talented Alexandra Burke was, she was forced to make pop music, and even then she was blacklisted by pop radio. The last black women to make it big makin black music was Emeli Sande and that didn't happen until she bleached her skin and hair to the point that she was unrecognizable. It is no secret that the music industry prefers black voices with white faces (Exibit Z: Sam Smith), but it has become a bit too extreme when BBC 1xtra crowns a ginger white guy the most important act in black music.




I see it as a micro aggression because asking someone where their from, is implying that they are out of place, not belonging or to return. Everyone has a background, I have never heard someone ask a white person that question, and I don't like to be asked that question at my own work place. I find it disrespectful.

This sounds like my kind of festival.

While im all for minority rights the fact that we dont also elect white and straight officers in the NUS ect.. Is b
Very discriminatory.

Nicki Minaj seems to being doing quite well, as does Rihanna.

I counted 5/20 of the top 20 being black. 1 in 4 compared to 3 in 100 of the UK population. I think the people who should be aggrieved here are Asian.

the voice of the non oppressed is not valued. thats why you even catch welsh people trying to act like some oppressed mass that was colonised by britain. which just represents how much of a joke its become.

The NUS discriminate as much as they possibly can with out it being deemed discrimination. They don't let certain universities join if they do not meet certain criteria. If you are white or straight (sometime even male) the NUS do not care about you.

My university isn't part of NUS and our Equality and Diversity Officer is a straight white male. We don't have a "minority officer" or a "womens officer" or any other kind of weird officer role which means practically nothing. What a uni needs is one person to speak for all members not segregation.

Headshot.

As for the bold yes that is just hilarious. Whenever confronted by one, I pull out the Irish card and engage in a privilege war.

Or have a team of members representing a variety of faiths and races as one unit, as opposed to being 'delegates' from the different groups.

I have to say I don't get what these people do though? My friend is gay and I never saw him have anything to do with the LGBT officer

Duffy
Adele
Joss Stone
Amy Winehouse
Paloma Faith

Are clear carbon copies of what was produced either in the Jazz, Soul, Motown movement by African Americans, 5 decades ago.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by European influences? If you mean Europop, those girls I listed did not follow that format. Pop alone, isn't really a genre, it is more of a format, pretty much any song with a chorus, verse and is under 6 minutes is a pop song. Pop doesn't belong to Europe. The rest of the girls most breakthrough songs were clearly RnB/Urban, but If I must spell it out to you:

Natasha Bedingfield - These Words was a rnb song, sung over a hip hop beat
Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love was her debut, signature song and it was clearly Pop and RnB
Rita Ora - Signature hit R.I.P was RnB first and foremost. And her whole image is a reflection of black culture. People even thought she was black on her debut.

You can research the rest.



As I said, Nicki Minaj & Rihanna are international acts. Why isn't British Radio supporting our own black urban acts?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles

Look at it again. 1 black British act on the top 40 and she's mixed race? Really?

people like elvis and eminem become sensational because of their cross racially talented exoticness. then the majority of white audiences find it easier to relate to a white rapper.

I don't believe this for a second. In 2004, there were only black musicians who had #1 in the Billboard Hot 100. In 2013, not one black person had a solo #1 . Look at how diverse I charts were in 2004. Of course white people will always have the advantage, but clearly we there is an agenda and black artists are transgressing.

I would say for the black youth it is specifically in stop and search statistics, and harassment from the police.

I would say that the white supremacy in our entertainment industry is disheartening.

Everyday microaggressions like the question "where are you from?" as opposed to, "what is your ethnic background?" is a constant reminder that I am seen as an outsider and am not seen as a legitimate citizen in the UK.

Black people reportedly being denied housing on the basis of race, that might explain why blacks tend to be congregated in poorer, underdeveloped boroughs that have less promise and opportunity. It's systematic, it goes deeper than doctrine, yet it's covert and leads people into a false sense of security. Kind of what the US are trying to do but I guess more people are awake over there. That may be a cause for black pride, although we don't have that in the UK so w/e.

1 in 40 is equal to the number of black people in Britain, even before you compensate for the number of Americans in the charts. The real issue here is the lack of Asian representation in anything but you don't seem to care

As I said, there is no music in the charts that is exclusively of African or European origins. I don't see people saying that black artists cannot use time signatures (which are European), the European scale system or European devised electronic style music that Tinie Tempah etc use?

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