| The OutRage! website seems to be closed definitively for unknown reasons. While doing my research, it was sometimes opperative but most of the time it was not in function. Maybe the work of hackers or simply a condition to the February 2005 deal reached within the dancehall industry and gay organisations. In any cases, this is the way the text originally appered on their webpage. |
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| Homophobic song stays on BBC website Outrage! News Service August 30, 2002 Original link for this article: LINK Despite assurances that the inclusion of a homophobic song by Jamaican artist Elephant Man on the BBCs website was a mistake and had been removed, as of 13:30 today, the song remains. The BBC told the Guardian newspaper yesterday "We briefly made this song available on the website, but once we were aware of the nature of the lyrical content we removed it." Other newspapers were given similar statements. The Daily Telegraph quoted a BBC spokesperson as saying once the corporation became aware of the nature of some of the lyrics, they were removed from the site - and apologised for the error. Nothing of the sort has been done. OutRage! is angry at the BBCs duplicity. A spokesperson for the group said that not only have the BBC learned nothing from a similar incident last year, they have deliberately tried to mislead the public by claiming that they had removed the offending material, when the fact of the matter is, they have done nothing of the sort. The lyrics included in the sound-clip from Elephant Mans Log On are: [fade] Gimme pass, yuh nuh si a dis ya dance di people dem want. Step pon him like a old cloth. A dance wi a dance and a crush out dem... Bun blast yuh scare yuh ca bus di new dance. Do di walk [mek] mi see the light and di torch dem fass. Jeremy come help me [adlib] do di brand new dance. [adlib] Log on, and step pon chi chi man. Log on from yu know seh yu nuh ickie man. Log on and step pon chi chi man. Dance wi a dance and a bun out a freaky man. The song is still available on the BBCs Story of Jamaican Music website (See clickable links below) |