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- John Legend's words, not his hairline - don't be distracted by nonsense!! He gave a great call to action, a call that, if responded to, can upgrade YOUR community. Not only should those with great wealth and money look at how they can influence positive change - we should all look at the choices we make and how we choose to spend our time, are there better choices that you can make? Make time to help someone else - today :-)
- The message in the Gospel segment on Haiti - no matter how bad we *think* things are in America, most of us have no experience with the level true suffering that our brothers and sisters are experiencing in Haiti - imagine, listening to your mother, or child die three feet from you in the rubble, imagine sleeping in rain, mud and bugs...your entire family dead and dumped in a ditch, forever, and at the same time you are hungry, thirsty and sick...we have great reason to be thankful and Praise God - praise Him that you breathe clean air and access to clean water...then please take this encouragement to use the many non-profits, school resources, church ministries and other things that are here to help you live your BEST life - don't take these things for granted! Your life does not have to be dictated by your environment. Video here >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Umo5dEQ8d0
- Diddy's tenacity! - throughout his performance I kept hearing "Let's work" even with all his fame and fortune this man is still focused on working hard everyday - please don't believe the hype that successful people just lounge around going to parties all day - many of the artists on stage last night have less free time than you (assuming you don't work 80 - 120 hours per week) - school, work, and chores provide a great opportunity to practice doing what you don't want to do today so that you can have anything you want tomorrow
- Kanye is human - Kanye gave an awesome performance, we hope that he will continue to do well. We encourage everyone to remember that this extremely talented young man is possibly still in mourning as it is obvious that he was so very close to his mommy, so enjoy the great things to come from him but allow him to still be human, meaning allow him to possibly make mistakes (hopefully not big one's Kanye, for your own sake) - but still allow him time, space & to find his footing again - encourage him to be that positive awesome leader that he has the capacity to be for our community. He once told me personally that he basically isn't aiming to say hey let me be everyone's role model - maybe he isn't but we kinda wish he would! - - Glad to have you back Kanye.
- T.I.'s Road to Redemption - T.I. is back and doing his thing, remember that you can go positive and land on top - we hope that the same T.I. who helped young men find their path, make better choices, walk away from lives of crime and who encouraged young women to see their true value beyond what some rap songs say about them (SMH) - we hope that that T.I., the road to redemption T.I. will continue to become a force in media and our communities to push positive social change for our young people. We also hope that other rappers and celebrities follow suit and put their own "road to redemption" efforts to work, our young people need to know that what they hear and see on T.V. is not how life should be lived, that going after solid positive things is cool, and that most of these rappers are happy that they don't have t sell drugs or their body to make ends meet - our young people need help and encouragement to find better paths! We hope that T.I.'s "Dead and Gone" was true for him.
- Overall: The show went well, we love the local heros segment (see, helping your community instead of poisoning your community is HOT!), we also loved mostly clothed performances, re-enacting poetry from Love Jones instead of "it's gunz & I hate you Jodi" from Baby Boy like last year, we loved feeling like this is an awards show and not a minstrel show, thumbs up, hoping this is "doing better because they know better" More on the hottest heros can be found here: http://betawards.bet.com/articles/local-hero-geoffrey-canada
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BET Awards show I definitely feel you on this. The awards show as a whole has seemed to mature. Is it because maybe some real lyricism is beginning to make it's way back into hip hop with the coming of Drake? Not sure. I was happy to see great performances and classy speeches. I loved the way Diddy brought energy to the stage and how Kanye never fails to push the envelope by giving us a spectacular one man show. Is it me or have rappers jumped on the Jay-Z bandwagon ("I might wear black for a year straight....") and begun rocking all black? Nevertheless this was a great show. Let me not fail to mention Queen Latifahs incredible job at hosting. She surprised me. She is funnier than I thought and her jokes were taken as just that with no hard feelings. How can you get mad at the Queen? Good job BET. Hopefully you have many more shows along this same caliber. |
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