Comments on: Ashanti’s Promotional Assault

By: Najee Ali

Najee Ali — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:45:38 +0000

Last word on Ashanti & Website. It was taken down a couple of day ago after we took her and her label to task !.
Props to Paul Porter.and everyone concerned about helping to stop violence no matter in what form.

By: mike belgrove

mike belgrove — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:12:04 +0000

I first got wind of Ashanti’s “murdergrams” when my fellow blogger Juan covered it on HN.

Honestly I think it is getting a bit too much concern. Though I do feel it is in bad taste I don’t find it all that bad. just a tasteless practical joke.

If the site hadn’t gotten yanked down I probably would have gotten a person or two with it.

By: Thad

Thad — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:45:40 +0000

Tsk tsk Porter, the anti-Semite. Alls I’m sayin’ is that we cannot condone racist behavior from anyone.

By: ratty

ratty — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:10:07 +0000

in agreement that it was a little overboard

By: hisherness

hisherness — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:05:55 +0000

@Elite i’m not going to say i agree with one side or another. all i’ll say is that you’ve answered your own question. you rely on yourself and your god to raise your children, and that’s as it should be. what Mr Ali seems to be concerned with is a community. a community wherein everyone takes enough responsibility for their actions so parents don’t have to worry about their good work being undone. a community wherein a child actually *can* turn to an adult and find at least a modicum of proper guidance, though that guidance be subordinate to parental guidance. this is not the way the US works, i admit (we don’t operate on a trust based system because we’re not trustworthy), but that doesn’t mean it’s not a nice goal. i’ll even be as frankly honest as i can be (and hope Mr Ali doesn’t hold it against me): that goal is utopian. i don’t think it can actually be achieved. i can’t fault him for making the attempt, however, because it’s a nice goal to have. aim for the stars, as they say, and you might at least hit the moon.

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:31:06 +0000

We don’t need to point fingers but do any of us need to perpetuate the problems? You have to admit that the promotional tactic is tacky. Why do we always have to show BLACK women as crazy murders when our hearts are broken? It is just entertainment but a lot of young women look up to Ashanti and whether parents want to admit it her images do influence those young minds.

By: yourblackfriend(dot)com

yourblackfriend(dot)com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:23:12 +0000

I love what you do but that Google ad offering Ashanti ringtones is TOTALLY incongruent. See to it.

By: CeaseNYC

CeaseNYC — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:44:08 +0000

Ashanti classy? Ok then Elite if you say so.
Najee – props, man. Too many people including yours truly complain and then we sit by and wait for somebody to do something about it. You do the work man. Keep it up for all of us. Much respect.

By: Elite

Elite — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:45:50 +0000

Can we stop pointing fingers??? I am not relying on Ashanti to raise my kids; I am relying on myself and God to do that.

I think Ashanti is a very classy young lady. I’ve heard her on numerous occasions’ address that in no way is so condoning violence; she actually got the concept from Snap – which many people watch. Do we blame the show ‘snap’ for violence??

People need to raise more important issues: Disenfranchisement of our college graduates, Corporate Discrimination, Drugs, SEX.. The list goes on. I refuse to blame Ashanti or dismiss her as some useless has been, when she actually writes very good music and is a very intelligent young lady.. BLACK people are so quick to point the finger and bring each other down.

By: hisherness

hisherness — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:21:32 +0000

the most outrageous modes of expression are used by people with nothing to say and a disproportionate need to be heard. why offend the public with substance when you can do it with style?