Every society has its faults, limitations, contradictions. Jamaica is one example of the many countries where gays and lesbians are forced into hiding as the victims of beatings and murders, like the one last November by Steven Harvey, a homosexual activist organization that deals with AIDS .
Expressions Culture of the Caribbean island, the first of the reggae music that has made it famous, are not exempt from the problem. Reggae has always had the imagination, in texts, the protagonists and the collective use (from concert sound systems), a highly political. He expressed the conscience of the roots of identity, a flag of brotherhood against imperialism, racism and the prohibition of soft drugs.
has spread and divided into subgenres. In some of these, however, meet the artists who "belong to it - says the group's reggae singer Bunna Turin Africa Unite - a current called" Dance Hall ", developed in recent years, consideration Jamaican hip hop's most violent. " The approach of such characters (the site names and verses http://www.soulrebels.org/dancehall/e_songs.htm indicted) is based on patriarchy, the machismo, sexism, homophobia, and sometimes, they are cloaked well of biblical fundamentalism.
condemn forms of sexuality are not allocated to the dictates of scripture. And are not limited to invective, but rather incite the killing with burning, hanging, firearms, beheadings. For some time so the concerts of this type are boycotted in the United States and Europe mostly thanks to associations Glbt.
The collective CSOA Market Busy Bari does not intend to remain indifferent to this form of culture which effectively denies the project, sharing and socializing that is the basis for employment of a social center. It therefore invites the artists who perform during the evenings to avoid the propaganda of ideas and cultures that inneggino racism, gender discrimination and all that can feed the human feuds that have always hold the castles of injustice and power.
Clearly it is difficult to monitor all forms of expression that take place within a social center, crossed every day by people and different ideas. Even harder is to keep up a single song or artistic expression praising those values \u200b\u200bthat we fight every day. Therefore we rely on common sense of the artists who decide to perform at the market, at least pointing out the inconsistency to promote sociability (arguing, in fact, a social center) using poetry, songs or other forms of artistic expressions which invite discrimination. And then the loneliness.
We take the position.
Bari, February 14, 2010
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