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In what may be a groundbreaking and possibly historical event, controversial reggae star Buju Banton met with representatives from the LGBT community this afternoon. Banton has been a frequent target of gay rights protesters for his 1992 song “Boom Bye Bye,” which activists say glorifies murder and violence directed at gays.

Before the dialogue, Banton’s show at the Rock It Room scheduled for tonight (October 12) appeared in jeopardy of cancellation due to protest. Yet after the face-to-face exchange, the LGBT activists not only agreed to let the show continue as planned, but expressed optimism about the possibility of further dialogue and action, toward a human rights agenda inclusive of both LBGT concerns and the reggae community.

The meeting, which took place at the Courtyard Hotel in Larskpur, included Banton and his manager Tracii McGregor, San Francisco supervisors Bevan Dufty and Eric Mar, LGBT Center executive director Rebecca Rolfe, queer blogger Michael Petrelis and lesbian activist Andrea Shorter. The LGBT acvists, led by Petrelis and Shorter, voiced their concerns over homophobic lyrics and anti-gay violence in Jamaica directly to Banton, and suggested various things he could do to promote human rights, such as a town hall meeting in Jamaica. Banton, in turn, pointed to additional context, such as colonialism and the Jamaican government’s homophobic laws. He denied he is a hate speech or murder music artist, as his critics have insisted. “Let’s face the reality,” Banton said. “Whatever is said in a positive light can’t get out.” On the topic of the controversial tune, he added, “I don’t perform the song anymore. The reality is, I’ve gone past that.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/xXHunny-BunnyXx/ xXHunny-BunnyXx

    He looks like he’s been held HOSTAGE!!!

    Lmao

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Buju!! I realize this might be a financial decision, but sometimes its better to stand strong in your beliefs and compromise money, than compromise your beliefs for money!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dutchesof3/ dutchesof3

    i love that song eversince it came out but i must admit that i did not really understand what the message of the song was up untill a few years ago then i was like wtf he got me and my friends parting to this song its a hate crim. it was crazy.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mikael77/ mikael77

    FIRE BURN A BOT-T-MAN,wen civilization reach there peak, IE: roman empire, Sodom and Gomorrah,Greek empire,and the English empire,morality iz the first thing to go,each one of the civilization i mentioned have had the same thing happen, homo-sex, then the empire falls,the U.S. following the same dam path,de bredren knows dat I-N-I MUST LEAVE OUT OF BABYLON, another civilization that fell in the end due to there immoral behavior,don’t b scared of d BOT-T-MON for d judgment day iz coming for dem
    FIRE BURN A BOT-T-MAN, AND AH CHEE-CHEE WOMAN!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    they just dont know in Jamaica if u call a nigga a fag or “Botuman” u might as well get ready to fight or die, they dont play no sillies down there

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LiquidSluggz/ LiquidSluggz

    I don’t have a problem with anyone’s sexuality…its their business as long as they don’t disrespect me….but why is it that gay people try to FORCE their beliefs on other people who don’t agree with homosexuality. I thought everyone was entitled to their opinions , likes and dislikes…but as soon as you are anti gay, its always a problem? No one should be forced into anything!

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    aint shyit shameful bout bein anti-gay. if ya promote gays, yo in fact evil incarnate like it or not. equality dont apply 2 bein a fag. dat wud b like ex cons tryna rally against non-cons. itz bullshyit

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rudeboi1981/ rudeboi1981

    nah buju! we dont promote batty boys!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/vasco5/ vasco5

    THIS TELLS YOU GAYS IS A RACE OF ITS OWN THAT’S TRYING TOO HARD TO BE PART OF THE MULTI RACAIL WORLD, SINCE THEY BECAME MANY THEY THINK THEY GONNA BE EXTINCT SPECAILLY WHEN TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT(BABY)AND WHEN THEY JUST ANOTHER FULLFILMENT OF THE BOOK WHICH NATURE SPRINGS UP FOR A NEXT UNBALANCE TO BALANCE THE UNBALANCE,SOME SAY IT JUST APART OF IT THEY GOTS TO FULLFIL THE BOOK”AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHEN THEY GET OUTRAGIOUS WITH IT SHOW THEMSELF LUDLY IN PARADE AND SAY IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT DON’T WATCH LIKE THEY DON’T STEP UP TO THE PRIEST AND VATICAN WHEN BOY ARE BEING MOLESTED,WELL IF YOU DONT LIKE THE SONG DON’T LISTEN TO IT LIKE THE WORD- N****R.MAYBE THIS WORLD IS TO COMPLEXED FOR THEM TO KNOW WHAT FIRE IT BRINGS FOR EVERY ACT TO IT’S REACTION

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheBIgBlackNewsBlog/ TheBIgBlackNewsBlog

    I have heard people say that black people are the most homophobic people on the planet; and after reading the ridiculous responses to this article, I’m starting to believe they are right. The same arguments you are using to exclude and suppress gays, are the same arguments whites use to exclude and suppress minorities! So, if you think it’s OKAY to be anti-gay, then it is OKAY to anti-black, anti-woman, and anti-equal rights.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    To crush ur attempt to create a bunch of meaningless post… Lifestyle with a concentration involving a variety of humans “V.S.” Humans with an oppressive agenda against Humans… Poor a hot cup of java on yourself and retreat your pointless opinion

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mikael77/ mikael77

    Response to:the big black news slob(blog)i can c u ant black, and if u were, black AKA:PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DECENT, r a race, we have a history, culture, religion,
    Homo-sex, haz no history, culture, or religion, they r sexual deviant that exist in every culture, allays behind closed door, America and is’s FreeDOM,allowed this sexual deviant behavior to get out of control due to it’s FreeDOM,I AM black of African decent and can show my, culture,history,and religion,and r not apart of an society but have created one,the only society that Home-sex people can historically clam iz SOMDOM AND GOMORRAH, historical u can c what happened to it…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    You gotta love when a man evolves past petty shyt!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    By the way… the only persons sexuality I am concerned with is mine. Heterosexual is my choice, But if gay people came into power I wouldn’t want them telling me I can’t have anymore puzzy cause they dont believe in that!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DemocraticCitizen/ DemocraticCitizen

    “Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group. || We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say “common struggle” because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.”

    -Coretta Scott King

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DemocraticCitizen/ DemocraticCitizen

    If gays/lesbians/bisexusl/transsexuals and people who believe that those people should be equal to heterosexuals are going to hell, then the following people

    Martin Luther King
    Coretta Scott King
    John Lewis
    Julian Bond
    A Philip Randolph
    James Baldwin
    Bayard Rustin
    Barack Obama

    …are all going to hell.

    If I have to choose between these people and a bunch of pseudo religious, pompous, cold hearted hypocritical bigots who always act like victims, I’d rather go to hell. Something tells me that if there is a god and if that god is good, he’ll probably want to leave heaven and join us himself.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    DemocraticCitizen… The one way ticket to hell that u purchased is refundable, u got the rest of your life, however long that may be, to change how u feel.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DemocraticCitizen/ DemocraticCitizen

    I’d rather take the train with the people in my list below, who probably have a firmer relationship with “god” than any self rightous holy roller. People of great conviction and goodness. People who did good things. Things you’re probably not capable of. You can keep your one way ticket in Self-Rightous land.

    Sorry kids. I may be black but I have a mind of my own. I don’t toe the party line. I wish black people would get off their holy horses. There is so much of this “lordy lordy” crap but its so fake.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    My thoughts are not your thoughts and your thought are not my thoughts, and neither one of “OUR” thoughts are as God thoughts, thats why he left us instructions, and the closer we cling to those and model our lives after, the closer we are to the promise that he made to us. If I was being “Fake” with God then I deserve to be punished, just like everyone who is fake and misleading, thats why I speak what I know, and know what I speak, otherwise you wont hear a word outta me, because I can be wrong and corrected just like anyone else.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mikael77/ mikael77

    Dear DEMI-CRAP CITIZEN,u r a young boy who did not grow up and experience the black empowerment movement,u think the way u du cauz u never had ur azz kick by racist white’s and the comparison u made between the black man’s struggle to be the same az home-sex people iz because u don’t have the KKK breathing down ur NECK!! u live in a world after the fact,after people my age and older put our live on the line, not for GAY right’s, but for our race, homo-sex people r not a race, they r sexual deviants,i don’t believe that they should be denied: work or anything else, but they r and will always be sexual deviants, and because u never left THE U.S. and c what iz going on in the EAST, U think that the American way of thinking IE; freeDOM and everybody is one, that the hole world should c it that way, u r a spoiled little black kid that that haz never suffered from poverty, not poverty in this country, which ant poverty,u and ur concept of god iz ur own, u making god the way u want GOD to be to suit ur on needs, read THE BOOK OF ROMANS: CHAPTER ONE,THE LAST THREE VERSES, AND U WILL C HOW GOD FEELS BOUT HOMO-SEX…. get at me…….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheBIgBlackNewsBlog/ TheBIgBlackNewsBlog

    mikael77, you can barely spell! What makes you think you have anything to contribute to this “discussion”. And you can choke on your bible or sit and spin on it! You choose!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheBIgBlackNewsBlog/ TheBIgBlackNewsBlog

    Religious people are nuts. You cannot reason with an adult who believes in poorly written fables. The bible is full of contradictions and inconsistencies! According to the bible, Lot was a righteous man who served up his OWN DAUGHTER to be raped, in order to spare a couple of gay angels! LMAO! You people are funny and sad! No wonder we were slaves for so damn long!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trinidivine/ trinidivine

    @mikael77……Well said. LMAO @bigblacknews what bible you been reading. I’ve rd the story of Lot and it doesn’t go so babe. Lets remove all religious findings of why gay folks are destined for abomination. Close observation will tell you that man and man woman and woman cannot procreate not looking at the bible children are the greatest gift on earth, common sense shows you gay folks can’t do this. If gay ppl only exist this earth would become extinct of course science could create some sick twisted way of continuing mankind in a petri dish but then would that be normal….hmmm think about it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    I challenge TheBigBlackNewsBlog to show & prove to me “ONE” inconsistency in the bible, and if you do so, I will re-nounce my Lord and Savior, and if you cant show and prove to me “ONE” inconsistency, not only will you apologize but you take one of my bible study courses.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Samkestu/ Samkestu

    It’s just wrong to go around calling for people to be maimed, tortured and killed, as Buju Banton does in “Boom Bye Bye.” The song was released in 1992 and was controversial almost immediately.

    Buju Banton has never distanced himself from this song. It is pretty clear, recent videos on YouTube, “Buju Banton Fire Burn Batty” and “Elephant Man Buju Banton Shabba Ranks Boom Bye Bye” that he still holds the belief that gays must be executed (as in Leviticus in the Bible).

    He says he doesn’t sing “Boom Bye Bye” any more. But you can still download it on Amazon, but not iTunes. He is still making money for his calls for hatred and murder.

    The “Buju Banton Fire Burn Batty” video was recorded in Jamaica in late December 2007. Watch it and see if it doesn’t express intense hatred for gays.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DemocraticCitizen/ DemocraticCitizen

    Hello Mikael

    “Dear DEMI-CRAP CITIZEN”

    Very mature.

    I’m going to be honest with you. I can’t get through the first three sentences of your post. It hurts my eyes and my brain. You win this round. I’ll go on to Trinidivine who although someone I disagree with, is more legible.

    Trinidivine

    “I’ve rd the story of Lot”

    Funny. Lot is apparently the only righteous man in town and when a crowd of people are threatening to rape strangers he doesn’t even know, he offers up his daughters willingly to be raped a few hundred times and probably killed. Your family values. Not mine.

    Anyways theres no evidence that Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed for anything to do with homosexuality. Whenever the rest of the bible referred back to the story it only has this to say.

    In Ezekiel 16:48-50 God compares Jerusalem to Sodom, saying “Sodom never did what you and your daughters have done.” He explains that the sin of Sodom was that “She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me.” God then sent an angel to rain hell fire and brimstone down on Sodom and Gomorrah.

    Isaiah 3:9, associates Sodom with shameless sinning.

    Jeremiah 23:14 associates Sodom and Gomorrah with adultery and lies.

    Luke 17:28-29, uses Sodom as an example of indifference; careless living.

    2Peter 2:6-7, (KJV) also references Lot,

    “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked.”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DemocraticCitizen/ DemocraticCitizen

    Trinidivine says
    “If gay ppl only exist this earth would become extinct of course science could create some sick twisted way of continuing mankind in a petri dish but then would that be normal….hmmm think about it.”

    I can’t even tell me which logical fallacy you commit to when you say this but I will say it doesn’t make any sense. 1. Life is very diverse. In other species, animals that live homosexual lifestyles, or, prefering same sex partners, many times serves the purpose as surrogate parents for surplus children.

    2. If everyone on the planet was a homosexual I’m sure people would be smart enough to take the steps needed to ensure the survival of the human species, including having sexual interaction (albeit, not very enjoyable sexual interation) with the opposite sex.

    3. And what if people don’t want kids? Who cares? Other people having children or not is none of your damn business.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    D.C… I see u at it again, Animals that are fags??? U serious? and the bottom 2 & 3 are “IF” questions/statements/garbage, which are hypothetical, funny how such a small word can send the imagination so far from the basis of a fact.

    Now u really need to stop with your bible postings because you are so far away from understanding that it goes beyond foolishness. You actually appear to be an intelligent brotha, but u lack depth and most importantly wisdom. If you gonna post scriptures and try to run references do it accordingly because you are on the verge of being marked with a number, and God forbid you being rebuked.

    To understand Lot which happened during the First Dispensation of Mankind, first of all there was no established ordinances with man & God meaning no bible or instructions it was simply messengers from God, the value of a woman was 35 pieces of silver, in substitute for money, mind you that the Lord and Savior Jesus was sold for less than that amount. I could go on and on but i’ll just crush u with two verses in a story that u claimed to read, but simply overlooked.

    Genesis Chapter 19 verse 5: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, “THAT WE MAY KNOW THEM”

    In Old English terms to “know” a man would be to have sex with them and in reference to the scripture it goes on to say in verse eight.

    Genesis 19:8- Behold now, I have two daughters which “HAVE NOT KNOWN MAN”; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

    Simply saying a peace offering for you to respect my house, these same two daughters inturn got their father drunk and had sex with him because they thought that the world was destroyed. And placed sin upon their father with the act of direct incest.

    Dont quote the bible anymore, please I beg you unless you have a understanding of what you speak. I am not gonna ask you again

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mikael77/ mikael77

    Dear DEMI-CRAP

    If u read Genesis u will c that there was conversation between ABRAHAM and THREE AND ANGELS,the angels tell ABRAHAM exactly y the town waz going to be destroyed, and LOT is a cousin to ABRAHAM and the angels told ABRAHAM that the town was going to be DESTROYED because of the filth, just like here in NYC, and the fact that u pointed out, bout the men wanting to rape hiz daughters, u need to read the hole chapter,the word SODOMITE OR SODOM, means mean men f**king each other in the azz, a GAMORITE means woman SEXING each other, i told u to look at THE BOOK OF ROMANS: CHAPTER ONE LAST COUPLE OF VERSES, and i noticed u did not in ur eloquent research mention anything bout IT in ur post,HUMMM y,
    Dude, keep it going i’m ready for u and any other bot-tu-man wan battle da dread…….
    Babylon MUST fall….

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jayrpiff/ jayrpiff

    battyman fi dead

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ruelrokwel/ ruelrokwel

    fags suck literally and do you notice the only person in a STRAIGHT/ UPRIGHT position standing or sitting in this picture is BUJU.

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