The Top 10 Reasons why the BET Awards made me want to vomit. The BET Awards is the Swine Flu of Awards Ceremonies!
By Tazz Anderson, TazzDaddy.com
Contributing columnist for the Independent Business News Network – Look for more of Mr. Anderson’s commentaries here soon.
I know I am very hard on REGGIN’S, (If you don’t know what a Reggin’s is spell it backwards), but there is a war going on outside and between intelligent, educated, driven Black Americans, BET is a Reggin’s greatest weapon in their war on intelligence.
The only reason that I watched this BET Crap is because of the tribute to Michael which is all Buffoon Entertainment Television has been bragging on since Michael went into a coma! So needless to say BET struck a mighty blow for COONERY! So in order to try and fire back, I proudly present the Top 10 Reasons the BET awards made me want to vomit:
10. The Muth@$#% Sound Man:
How in the world do you leave a night dedicated to (arguably) the greatest musician of the past 40 years up to someone who obviously took a correspondence course and got a D- in turning up microphone volume? Some of these performances sounded incredible to my imagination because I had to strain to hear them.
9. T-Pain:
I don’t even know where to begin. This reincarnation of “step’n fetchit” not only embarrassed all of us by that Waste of precious metal he calls his “BIG ASS CHAIN”. Yes I know it’s his money, but there’s a time and a place for everything, and (I know it was BET) this wasn’t it. He had a great looking Michael shirt on that no one could see because it was eclipsed by his coon medallion. Then, to add insult to injury, when accepting an award, this Buffoon decided to drink out of a plastic red cup. REALLY?
…How classless
8. Zoe Saldana:
Why in the world would you go out to present an award with the legendary Nichelle Nichols (The Original Uhura from Star Trek) and embarrass the very legend who paved for you by telling the WORLD that Nichelle is in the restroom? That was so classless and unladylike. Yes Zoe, you can STILL GET IT, but you need some etiquette lessons.
7. Soulja Boy:
No, I didn’t expect him to pay tribute to Michael Jackson, nor did I expect him to be able to SPELL Michael Jackson, but the performance was lackluster at best. Not unlike the Reggins, the use of pyro didn’t distract me from how much you sucked.
6. Tiny and Toya:
This is why I stopped watching Bamboozled Entertainment Television in the first place. All you have to do to be a success is let a a rapper get you pregnant and you get a reality show? Way to go BET! This is going to set us back 350 years
5. Frankie and Neffie:
See Number 6. Except for the fact that instead of having a baby by a rapper, One is the crack addicted mother of a lackluster (although good-looking-in-a-hoodrat-sort-of-way) R&B singer and the other is a sister who is the black version of Khloe Kardashian – sort of looks like the chick you wanna bang but she got the shallow end of the gene pool! Horrible!
4.The Censors:
These idiots couldn’t bleep their way out of a wet paper bag! I counted 2 shits and they beeped out hoe?
3. Debra Lee:
The new head of BET is such a pioneer! No one thought that BET could sink any lower than Bob Johnson’s level of coonery and you proved us all wrong…Moron! I bet you think you’ve done something substantial, but you have only managed to embarrass us on an international stage due to the fact that CNN has been covering this abomination!
2. The “pay” it off show!:
Another attempt to bamboozle Black people. Whatever you do in BET programming, don’t encourage or empower black folks to get out of debt, just have a game show and give false hope to millions! Way to go!
1. Tiny again!:
You tarnished TI’s viewers choice awards by accepting it in his honor with your broken English and off the rack house of dereon dress. Again I encourage you to see reason #6.
Honorable (Vomit-able) Mentions:
- The Baby Boy skit – it was funny for the first 2 minutes! Was Ving Rhames really drunk? Sad.
- Drake’s performance of Every Girl in the World – This was okay until they brought those little girls onstage! How Canadian and pedophile-like of you. We tolerated that nonsense with R. Kelly and he’s a musical genius. You’re a flash-in-the-pan for now. While you’re at it, I know these coons don’t expect much of a performance but you could have at least gotten out of your seat. Especially, since you’ve been playing a kid in a wheelchair for years.
- Joe Jackson: During the pre-show, you were an opportunist, plugging a new record label and “YOUR CHILD’S BODY ISN’T IN THE GROUND YET!” You sir disgust me more than the collective casts of all 800 seasons of College Hill. You should be ashamed!
Join the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder in welcoming the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) to Minneapolis tonight at SEVEN!
Tonight at SEVEN, Minneapolis’ premiere Steakhouse, Ultra Lounge, Sushi Bar and Sky Bar located on the corners of Seventh and Hennepin in downtown Minneapolis join sponsors the Northwest Area Foundation, V-Media Marketing, COMO (Community Outreach Media Organization and PAMA for a very special welcoming event for the NNPA.
The event starts at 9 p.m. tonight and features music, networking and entertainment for over 200 newspapers that have come to Minneapolis for their annual convention at the Radisson Hotel from June 24 to June 28. This event is free and the public is invited to come take part in this historic event. Sample the fine cuisine of SEVEN while you enjoy the “design, elegance and atmosphere” of SEVEN’s Sky Bar overlooking the heart of down town Minneapolis.
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA): The National Newspaper Publishers Association, also known as the Black Press of America, is a 67-year-old federation of more than 200 Black community newspapers from across the United States. Since World War II, it has also served as the industry’s news service, a position that it has held without peer or competitor since the Associated Negro Press dissolved by 1970. In 2000, the NNPA launched NNPA Media Services– a print and web advertising-placement and press release distribution service. In 2001, the NNPA, in association with the NNPA Foundation, it began building the BlackPressUSA Network– the nation’s premier network of local Black community news and information portals. The BlackPressUSA Network is anchored by BlackPressUSA.com– the national web portal for the Black Press of America.
We look forward to seeing you tonight at SEVEN.
For more information, call 612-986-0010.
iNetGlobal – Global Internet Marketing, available for you!
The iNetGlobal Freedom Conference-1 took place at the Palace Station Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend with keynote speakers Steve Renner and Don Allen.
Allen, Renee and Renner
This two day event featured information on how to use the Internet effectively to make money, distribute your organizations message to the masses and the use of WEB 2.0 Tools.
“This was a great experience to be recognized as one of the countries Internet Marketing Guru’s,” says V-Media Marketing’s vice president-general manager Don Allen.
Also presenting in Las Vegas was iNetGlobal’s CEO/President Steve Renner, who told the pack house that iNetGlobal and V-Media Marketing made over $3 Million in the month of May 2009. “Anyone can do this. All it takes is the will to learn and be consistent,” says Renner. Also on hand was iNetGlobal member Annie Zhang, who now makes over $2,400 per day with the iNetGlobal marketing services.
iNetGlobal is the parent company of V-Media Marketing(A full-service Internet Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Firm), V-Local (business directory); V-Newswire (Global Press Service); iNetSurf (Advertising Surfing Platform) and a host of other service on the internet.
“When you control the traffic on the Internet, you control the flow of revenue” says Allen.
iNetGlobal is the best option for building capacity in the online community.
For more information about services and how you can make over $1000.00 per day just by sitting at your computer for an hour, contact us at 612-332-6025.
Speaker Pelosi’s National Energy Tax Will Cost 2.5 Million American Jobs, Hit Every Region of the Country – Is $2.5 million worth 2.5 million
By Steve Foley – Posted on June 23rd, 2009 – from the Minority Report with preface by IBNN’s editor in chief Donald W.R. Allen, II
“In the Twin Cities with information being distributed about MNDOT (Minnesota Department of Transportation) not following through – we (local OIC’c, Job Training Programs, OTJ initiatives) have missed the mark on holding the “right” people accountable for flaws in process.
MNDOT works feverishly to facilitate capacity building for DBE’s while our politicians sabotage efforts that might not even make it off the ground. Yes, Black people do suffer and are used to suffering – but one thing not being asked of the local Democratic infrastructure in the Twin Cities, “Who are you caring water for?”
A: “Certainly not us!”
From the Office of House Republican Leader John Boehner With Millions in Job Losses Already This Year, Is a Job-Killing National Energy Tax Really the Message Democrats Want to Send to Workers, Small Businesses?
Washington, Jun 23 – Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax is a massive job-killer. According to a National Black Chamber of Commerce study, the devastating plan will cost 2.5 million American jobs thanks to the higher energy costs it will force consumers, small businesses, and other employers to pay. The impact will be felt from coast to coast – literally. The following chart shows the projected job loss in every single region, with especially large job losses in areas of the country already hit hard by the recession:
Source: CRA International Study Prepared for National Black Chamber of Commerce, May 2009
As the House prepares to vote on Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax as soon as this Friday, are Democrats representing these regions of the country really prepared to vote for even more job loss? Is that a message they want to bring home to middle-class families and small businesses in their districts heading into the Independence Day recess?
House Republicans don’t think so – and in an op-ed published in this morning’s Washington Examiner, House GOP Leader John Boehner (R-OH) highlighted the job-killing nature of Speaker Pelosi’s national energy taxes and House Republicans’ “all of the above” plan for more jobs, lower energy prices, and a cleaner environment:
“On energy and the environment, under the guise of reducing carbon emissions, Democrats are poised to force anyone who drives a car, buys an American-made product, or flips on a light switch to pay a national energy tax.”
“Not only will this drive up prices for food, gasoline, and electricity, it will ship millions of jobs to competitors like China and India that refuse to take the same approach. A study by the National Black Chamber of Commerce estimates the Democrats’ plan will cost 2.5 million jobs.”
“House Republicans have a better way: An ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy to clean up the environment, lower energy costs, and create more jobs. Our legislation, the American Energy Act, will increase environmentally-safe energy production, promote alternative fuels to reduce carbon emissions, and encourage increased efficiencies and technologies to maximize America’s energy potential.”
All year long, Democrats have been promising more and more jobs, but nearly three million have been lost since January. After a record spending binge on the trillion-dollar “stimulus,” the $400 billion omnibus loaded with 9,000 earmarks, a $3.6 trillion budget that spends, taxes, and borrows too much, and endless bailouts, American workers are asking, “Where are the jobs?” If House Democrats get their way and pass Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax, those jobs will be leaving America and headed to competitors like China and India, who won’t enact a national energy tax of their own. During this time of economic crisis, is this really a policy Washington Democrats want to pursue?
National Urban League maintains silence in governance
Like the Republican Party of the United States, the National Urban League and a large number of its affiliates have become antiquated, old and process-less. The needs of the community are replaced by heinous business practices that leave the community wondering, “Who do I go to for real help.”
by Donald W.R. Allen,II Editor in Chief – IBNN
On yesterday, (Wednesday, June 17, 2009) – IBNN reported the Minneapolis Urban League (MUL), its management and Board 
of Directors has “removed” Minneapolis business icon and member of Minneapolis’ first family, the Givens family, Roxanne Givens from the MUL board.
Sources within the Minneapolis Urban League’s have stated in public that, Ms. Givens was not a part of the “click” and used sound business practices in board meetings which threatened the “livelihood” of particular board members who have personal agendas and claim to some “false since of power.” Ms. Givens “business strength” was a threat to board members that could never accomplish the things Roxanne has in such a short time. In the streets, those folks are called “haters.”
The move is very unusual do to the fact that just 30 days ago, the Minneapolis Urban League could not provide you with a list of board members and when they did, current board members didn’t know who was active and inactive. Why was Ms. Givens focused on when other board members were non-existent?
In a returned phone call from the National Urban League on yesterday, (the first returned call ever, not only IBNN but to local community members too), a lower level manager, who was upset that IBNN was recording and documenting every word, grew impatient and provided no details on the League’s policies, procedures and couldn’t tell me the name of the Minneapolis Urban League Board Chairman.
The Minneapolis Urban League continues to operate on a shoestring budget pointing out the cuts in program funding, the economy and other excuses that seem far from the truth.
Fact 1: The Minneapolis Urban League has not had a major capital fund raising campaign since Jackie Cherryhomes jumped in to assist then MUL president Clarence Hightower to build capacity for the $16 million dollar property on the corner of Penn and Plymouth. (An estimated 10-12 years ago.)
Fact 2: The Minneapolis Urban League board continues to move covertly as it pertains to board meetings; information to paid members (MUL membership dropped over 80% from 2007 to 2009 estimated members in 2007 were 250 and in 2009 estimated 45 members). Current MUL paid members have never received letters or membership cards welcoming or acknowledging new members with a list of scheduled meeting or a monthly newsletter updating paid members and the general public about events at the social service agency.
This is something that the United Way should be very concerned about.
Without distribution of successful measurable outcomes, how can the agency truly serve and advocate for the community in accordance with its mission? No attempts by MUL outreach have gained local or national attention other than the departure of former President Clarence Hightower and last week’s television interview with the MUL’s “procedure-less” outreach coordinator about Digital Television?
Give the community a break, people are dying in the streets and all you can get coverage on is Digital Television? There’s a huge problem with “process” at the agency.
This morning, new MUL president R. Scott Gray is in route to meet with the City of Minneapolis’ CPED (Community Planning and Economic Development) in hopes to save the $600,000 in foreclosure funds that were tagged for 25 foreclosed homes.
My question to the National Urban League would be, “When did the League become foreclosure re-hab specialists?”
Secondly, in north Minneapolis the average home is 1500 square feet. The re-hab cost at a bare bottom price is roughly $80 per square foot. Sources say the project with the MUL would put them in charge of actively remodeling 25 homes in Minneapolis.
Let’s do the math: 1500 sq. ft. x $80 = $120,000 per home x 25= $3 million?
My question would then be, “what short-sighted nitwit accepted $600,000 from the City without factoring in administrative costs, cost per square foot, call for bid costs and other derivatives included in the process?”
The Minneapolis Urban League powered by its current Board of Directors and new President who lacks the competence or skills for particular tasks have become the laughing stock of the non-profit, business and educational community.
Unfortunately, the people who lose in this game are the employees that work very hard while being pimped by the Board and management.
Minneapolis Urban League “Klan” removes Roxanne Givens from Board
In a Banana Republic move, today (Wednesday, June 17, 2009) the Minneapolis Urban League board has removed Ms. Roxanne Givens from the MUL Board of Directors.
Ms. Givens comes from one Minneapolis’ most prestigious Black families, the Givens Family who has been instrumental in forming KMOJ-FM Radio, and other interests.
In a call to the National Urban League this morning, Mark Morial and Herman Lessard were not available for comment (as usual).
In January 2009, Roxanne’s daughter was brutally murdered and Ms. Givens took some time off to grieve and to take care of the child her daughter left behind. She (Ms. Givens) missed a few board meetings. The current MUL board decided to remove her in a power play not realizing that she alone has more pull than any other board member currently seated – that becomes a threat for some of the currently seated “poverty pimps.”
My question to the Minneapolis Urban League is, “Where are your other board members?” Secondly, what will be your corrective actions in the heinous matter? Last, “What the hell were you thinking?
Community members are in outrage including former MUL board members who say, “This organization has gone too far.”
More to come.
African American Leadership Meetings assume power and representation where there is none. More important: Who speaks or represents the Twin Cities Black community in 2009?
“They’d like to say, ‘Well, you know, that’s just a handful of niggers out there. Just a handful of them. And they don’t represent nobody. They ain’t doin’ nothing,’ says Staten. “Well, that’s just the most insane thing in the world.”
…Rev. Randy Staten – serves as the head of the Coalition of Black Churches and serves as an official spokesman for the African American Leadership Summit. Comments from a 2003 interview with MPR’s Brandt Williams. See it here.
With the recent “waffling” of the Council on Black Minnesotans as it pertains to addressing issues in the Black community (including Somali’s in Rochester; Stimulus dollars; Economic Development; Health Care issues; and Civil Rights) within the last 90 days and the attempt by the Minneapolis Urban League to present propaganda to accomplish relevancy in the form of articles which appear in weekly issues of Insight News, who continues to give “photo ops” to people that don’t represent the African American community in Minneapolis, but continues a grand public relations coup without being fair and balanced to sway and skew the community, one thing going unnoticed by the group is that people are catching on quickly to what is going on. What you think you have…you don’t; most African Americans in the Twin Cities now look elsewhere for news and information, including IBNN. Read more
MNDOT (Minnesota Department of Transportation) meets COMO (Community Outreach Media Organization
From L to R: B96's John McMonagle and Mark Glynn; MNDOT's Ginny Crowson, LITT Magazines Nichelle Bell; MNDOT's Mary Prescott; V-Media's Don Allen; Black Focus host Ron Edwards; Mpls Mirrors Terry Yzaguirre; African News Journal's Bashe Said; La Voz Mario Polanco and Minneapolis Spokesman-Recorders James Stroud
On Tuesday, June 09, 2009 COMO (Community Outreach Media Organization) presented to MNDOT (Minnesota Department of Transportation) a unique and undeniable opportunity for outreach and capacity building. Using a process that is transparent, effective with the reach opportunities to build top-of-mind awareness that will assist MNDOT’s Office of Civil Rights in its uphill battle for message distribution; increasing numbers in their DBE (Disadvantage Business Enterprise) Program’s while providing the foundation for creative advertising, marketing and public relations.
COMO’s 15 member media group discussed ways of expanding MNDOT’s emergency need for public relations to address miss-information being distributed in the community about the State’s transportation office. Read more
Blue Business Racism on Pluto – The Slow and Progressive Death of “Blue” Business Caused by Us (A Science Fiction Story, close to Home)
The planet Pluto has been plagued by “same-race business racism”. Local established Blue business owners are not being used for soft services, with comments that their prices are too high, or “I can do this better myself,” as we all know, that’s never the case.
The fact is, local Blue residents are the poorest group of aliens on the planet and some of them own restaurants, spaceship repair shops and tech-stands across the universe but their own race of people (Blue people) don’t consider them for work unless they have Purple bosses or become a part of the corrupt network of the Me-Me’s. This is more evident in the recent movement where the Space Federation put set-a-side money for training of Blue’s for Space Dock construction.
The Purple business population does not have to qualify themselves when they do business with the Blue people in the community that hold positions like executive directors and presidents of local space companies and organizations, the Blue “muck-mucks” feel comfortable with the Purple’s simply because they are Purple.
Recently, a group of Blue training services professionals came to Pluto and paid no attention to the local Blue community going as far as to exclude them from the big party, this is an ongoing issue that falls under the saying “all inclusive with exclusions.”
There was an effort to address rising “space dock” crime and jobs with Blue youths ages 18-34, so the local Purple government started the “Blue Boys Better OIC” to address issues and start training programs that will help create education, and jobs.
What happened with the BBBOIC is they became a glorified referral service and did nothing but send Blue youth to some other planet where they were put in jail or sent to the Universal Ring of Nothingness (URN), to live out life with no chances of developing the greatness in them, dying or being used as batteries by the Borg.
With no chance of building capacity and opening business of their own, the Blue muck-mucks have again used the system to their advantage while the “least of thee” are left with less.
All fun aside some of our people need a wake up call!
University of Minnesota-Northside Partnership/UROC meets C.O.M.O. Community Outreach Media Organization
(l to r) Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder's James Stroud; MTN's Black Focus Ronald Edwards; U of M, "Ms. Peggy"; V-Media Marketing Don Allen; B96 Shannon 'Ms. Shannon' Paul; Urban Mass Media's Pete Rhodes; U of M's Dr. Irma McClaurin and D. Craig Taylor; La Voz- Mario Polanco and B96 GSM, John McMonagle
Minnesota C.O.M.O. is:
Minnesota Spokesman Recorder, KTTB-FM B96, Urban Mass Media Group, St. Paul Publishing-La Voz, V-Media Marketing – V-Newswire/V-Local, KSTC-45 Crossroads, Southside Pride, The Adventures of Johnny Northside, Black Heart, Inc.- One Nation News, African News Journal, The Minneapolis Story, MTN’s Black Focus, Hmong Times, Litt Magazine, and KMOJ-FM 89.9
On Monday, June 1, 2009 C.O.M.O. (Community Outreach Media Organization) representatives had their first of many scheduled meetings to discuss outreach efforts and deliverable’s from Minnesota’s strongest minority-ethnic media group: “C.O.M.O. Community Outreach Media Organization.”
C.O.M.O.’s first meeting was with the University of Minnesota’s Northside Partnership/UROC (Urban Research and Outreach Center) where C.O.M.O. representatives spoke with U of M staff about value, deliverables and the great reach and frequency of the University of Minnesota’s message being delivered by 510,000 watts of radio; to 500,000 media outlets and journalists; to 2 million households with Television; Print media (newspaper) over 300,000 and Internet Marketing reaching over 15 million daily active users-which means that for every message from the University, C.O.M.O. delivers 100% reach and frequency to north Minneapolis.
“COMO is the face for multi-media outreach to the community in the State of Minnesota.”
C. Craig Taylor of the University of Minnesota stated, “This is a great model.” Urban Mass Media executive director, Pete Rhodes said, “As a group, we deliver the best in all media. This is an opportunity for the University of Minnesota-Northside Partnership and UROC to deliver “real-time, same page” news and information that not only the community will get, but also the World will hear about it!”
With the recent trends in advertising, marketing and public relations that sometime don’t include the minority-ethnic media base, a group of concerned media outlets in the Twin Cities birthed “COMO” (Minnesota-Community Outreach Media Organization). C.O.M.O. has meetings set with different businesses and organizations that have had less than favorable responses from their current Communications Plan.
The University of Minnesota – Urban Research and Outreach Center (UROC) has 10 resident programs based on their operations in north Minneapolis.
C.O.M.O. also was formed to address disparities in advertising, marketing and public relations to actively speak with companies that “over-look” the power of minority-ethnic spending and marketing in the Twin Cities.
C.O.M.O. partners are the best at what they do finding solutions for effective, top-of-mind delivery to people from all walks of life.
Combined, COMO commands over 97% reach and frequency to the minority-ethnic population in the State of Minnesota.
- COMO also reaches an estimated 55% of the mainstream market.
- COMO has the best minority media coverage available in the State of Minnesota.
- COMO is the best source for message distribution (Press Releases) reaching over 1 million media outlets and journalist in the United States.
- COMO should always be your first choice for niche marketing efforts to build capacity for programs, events and successful measurable outcome.
You can contact us by emailing a request for information to info@mncomo.com.
C.O.M.O. partnership description and media outlets:
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