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CSULB STUDENTS TO PROTEST LUDACRIS SATURDAY
Bill O’Reilly laid off of Ludacris a long time ago but CSULB is ready with new rage: Daily 49er reports that students will be protesting Ludacris’ performance this Saturday. Info plus illo ahead.
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“His lyrics are misogynistic, racist, homophobic, they glamorize capitalism and overconsumption, and promote violence against women,” said Marina Wood, a junior women’s studies major and organizer of the protest.
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“We want people to know that we don’t want to end the concert,” said Alaina Chamberlain, a junior women’s studies major and organizer of the protest.
Wood and Chamberlain both said Ludacris is just one example of mainstream hip-hop that can be dehumanizing.
“Our protest is aimed towards the bigger picture,” Wood said.
For some background: Ludacris provoked similar complaints from FOX’s Bill O’Reilly in 2002 after he was set to appear in a Pepsi commercial. O’Reilly said “some” consider Ludacris “more vile than Eminem, if that’s possible,” and questioned a Pepsi spokesman about the moral issues involved in Ludacris’ then-current hit “Move Bitch” before quoting Machiavelli and calling for a boycott. (At that point, Ludacris’ mother got involved.)
Then when Pepsi decided that their replacement for Ludacris would be the much more polite and proper Osbourne family, Russell Simmons threatened a hip-hop-wide boycott and the company eventually settled with a multi-million dollar payment to Ludacris’ Ludacris Foundation, the charity foundation the rapper started in Atlanta in 2001. The foundation has since donated half a million dollars to children’s advocacy organizations and handed out 500 free Thanksgiving turkeys at an Atlanta church last November.
In between the O’Reilly dust-up and this weekend’s scheduled protest, Ludacris also got in a tense moment with Sandra Bullock on Oprah, the same year he also spent some time working on ideas for teen AIDS awareness with then-relatively obscure Senator Barack Obama. (Not to be confused with his 2005 work advancing awareness of cerebral palsy.)
And after a Live Earth set (before which he discussed personal environmental responsibility with SOHH: “I’m switching my light bulbs out for fluorescent light bulbs. You can turn your thermostat down a degree, which makes a big difference. Turning the computers off at night and not just letting them sit, purchasing music online. I’m looking into getting solar panels.”) and winning the Spirit Of Youth award for his work with the National Runaway Switchboard (1-800-RUNAWAY) last year, he went on to the Usher Raymond Altruism Award just last month in Atlanta, only six weeks before heading to Long Beach, where he will face a student protest.
Ludacris has yet to issue any public statement, but Associated Students., Inc.—the concert sponsor—Communications Coordinator Melissa Duque told the 49er she appreciated the protest as evidence against student apathy: “I love that they’re protesting because I don’t think they’re protesting ASI. I love the idea they’re protesting Ludacris if it means student activism.”
Ludacris “Move Bitch” (2002)
Ludacris “Down In That Durty” (Making Of) (2007)
Tags: bill o'reilly, csulb, ludacris, Oprah, protest, russell simmons, vid
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