FW: anti-jamiroquai sentiment
Dawn Kinishi
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 11:19:46 -0500
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> From: Mark Allerton[SMTP:MAllerton@img.seagatesoftware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 1998 3:54 AM
> To: Dawn Kinishi
> Subject: RE: anti-jamiroquai sentiment
>
> Umm... credit for that stuff goes to Denise Johnson, not me...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dawn Kinishi [mailto:DKinishi@marketinginnovators.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 6:55 PM
> To: Mark Allerton
> Subject: RE: anti-jamiroquai sentiment
>
>
> > 3. Someone puh-leeeeese tell me what owning luxury cars and writing
> > about
> > the environment has to do with being hypocritical? Damn, I'm a poet and
> > I
> > write about my 'blackness' and things associated with 'black culture'.
> > So
> > if I date a white guy and not a dreadlocked-ganja smoking revolutionary
> > brotha, does that make me a hypocrite? It is possible to separate
> > personal ideology from art. It's also possible to combine the two.
> >
> Thanks for making me think about this, Mark. I'm new (again, I've
> subscribed
> and unsubscribed to this list many times) and don't know the whole
> thread to
> this but I was disappointed in JK's new lifestyle mainly because his
> lyrics
> (especially in Emergency on Planet Earth) are so powerful and his
> opinions
> about ecology and sociology and having excessive lifestyles are so
> strong.
> Then he turns around and buys a bunch of gas guzzling, ozone layer
> poking
> luxury cars. I'm all for enjoying what one earns, but does he really
> need
> SEVERAL luxury cars? Especially when one's lyrics preach the opposite.
> Practice what you preach is my only point.
>
> As far as your own situation goes, if your writings have a strong
> message
> about loving/dating only black people, then I'd have to question if you
> turned around and date someone white. But if your writings are about
> black
> identity and pride, dating someone white shouldn't necessarily remove
> your
> identity in any way. I'm Japanese and am dating a black dude but that
> doesn't make me any less Japanese nor him any less black. I think it's
> more
> that in JK's case, his actions are a definite flop from what he (was)
> preaching in say, Emergency on Planet Earth. I think what we all need to
> be
> aware of is the artist in the latest Jamiroquai release has changed a
> lot
> from the artist in EOPE. His priority in message is very different.
> Sorry this went so long; hope I didn't bore you with it...
>
> Peace,
> dawn
>