- Gay community leaders in SF meet with Buju Banton…and smile about it?
Over on the Petrelis Files blog, Michael Petrelis posted about Buju Banton’s meeting this week with leaders in the San Francisco gay community, including himself. Petrelis mentions this was Banton’s first meeting with the gay community. Buju Banton is the reggae musician infamous for his song “Boom Bye Bye” that includes lyrics about killing gay men as well as perpetual hate speech toward LGBT people.
The post is a little unusual. Petrelis gives Banton credit for understanding the issue yet also, says ” there certainly was little movement on his part,” a point people took up in the lengthy comments section. Not only that, they took pictures with Banton and smiled! They smiled for a picture next to a man who has declared “there is no end to the war with me and faggots.”
Now, Dallas is in his sights. Buju Banton comes to Dallas Tuesday Oct. 20 to perform at the Palm Beach Club in Deep Ellum. There were efforts to have the show canceled by Resource Center Dallas and Equality March Texas but, as of now, it is still set to go. I’ve been informed they will now be protesting the show. You can read more about that in tomorrow’s issue.
I don’t buy none of this crap. If Buju Banton wants people people to realize that he no longer advocates the murder of Gay people then let him give an official press statement showing his remorse, regret and apology for his evil hateful music.
I don’t care how many LGBT leaders he can muster just so his shows won’t be protested or banned. Buju Banton’s 17 year old song sucked then and it sucks now and he ought to take responsibility for the music that he puts out there. If he has the right to freedom of musical expression then FINE. JUST AS people have the right to condemn it for its hateful homophobic message.
Buju Banton to the world.
Iev 20:20 if a man should lie with another man he should be put to death
F*ck you Chris. 10 F*cking commandments: Thou shall not kill.
You and butt-uglu buju are complete trash.
Campaign to cancel Buju Banton is still on!
Buju Banton’s infamous song “Boom Bye Bye” says “gays must be killed’ and it calls for gays to be shot in the head, shot with an Uzi, have acid thrown in their faces and to be burned like an old tire. This song has been controversial since it was released in 1992.
In all those years, Buju Banton has never distanced himself from this song.
Buju needs to sign the Reggae Compassionate Act, witnessed by the press and TV cameras.
For more information see https://cancelbujubanton.wetpaint.com/
and https://www.petertatchell.net/popmusic/buju-bantons-violations-of-the-reggae-compassionate-act.html
@tom, I did not get that Chris was endorsing Buju merely pointing out one of his hateful comments.
Why can’t gay people accept the fact that not everybody is going to like there way of life. Why should he accept your way of life when u don’t accept his?… The kkk don’t like people who are nonwhite. We accepted it and move on… As for Buju I bought every album you ever made keep up the good work.. continue to use your music to uplift ALL people… what ever happend to free speech??? Is gays the only one who should have it??
Bob, read it again please. He is not saying Butt-ugly Buju said that, he is saying “Buju to the world”, and they quoting that verse. And, I still think is is a POS.
Jahson, No, most of us HAVEN’T accepted the KKK and moved on. But yes, you haters, racists, assholes, you have, and YOU are the problem.
You have free speech until your speech is advocating violence against gays or other groups. Then you just need to be locked up and the key thrown away.
All gays should go to hell. You f**kers are nasty people, leave Buju alone. Disgusting.
The show was great..would have been better at the House of Blues. He did not perform any of the songs written when he was 15 (1988) years old a reflection of the image a young Jamaican lived and lives in Kingston.
The show had a political/conscious feel to it with songs like
Love Black Woman (1992)
Willy, Don’t Be Silly – Promoting safe sex (1993)
Murderer – Anti Gun Violence song (1995)
Destiny (1997)
Mr Nine – Anti Gun song (2003)
Paid not played – Advocating for young girls to stay in school (2006)
Oh yeah Kevin – well I think all jamaicans are low life, dirty, poverty-stricken, uneducated a**holes. Put that in your pipe and smoke it you piece of shit.
tom p, that’s extremely bad form. you somehow can’t seem to refrain from being racist in your advocacy of gay rights. obviously you didnt get the memo that free speech can’t be applied selectively–if it applies to your gay rights protests, it applies to buju’s Rasta beliefs.
and sam k, stop lying. you post the same thing on every website and it’s not true. banton has distanced himself from the song as recent as this year. you are the one who seems to be fixated. should i call the wahmbulance?
petrelis not only smiled but sent that photo out to the media. he is an opportunist who doesnt care about jamaican gays, only his own page views.
you want racist? I’m not only racist against jamaicans…I wish the entire island would be NUKED. How’s that for “bad form”?
no, Tom, i didnt want racist, but thanks for proving my point.
did it ever occur to you that being intolerant when complaining about intolerance is wholly ironic?
i posit that you, like most gay activists are entirely unfamiliar with banton’s catalog. in fact, you are probably only protesting because someone told you to.
you think that your protest of hate speech gives you the right to be hateful. if that’s your attitude, maybe buju was right the first time.