Comments for Adelle Hopkins http://blogs.spokenword.ac.uk/adellehopkins Individual Blog MAMJ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on And the winners are… by adellehopkins http://blogs.spokenword.ac.uk/adellehopkins/2009/10/02/and-the-winners-are/comment-page-1/#comment-4 adellehopkins Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:43:52 +0000 http://blogs.spokenword.ac.uk/adellehopkins/?p=63#comment-4 Hi Douglas, Thanks for your comment. To be honest I found the suggestion laughable. To me the MOBOs are what they stand for - Music of Black Origin awards. Origin being the key word there . Regardless of race, religion, sex or any other criteria; anyone should be able to enjoy any style of music they choose. Anyone of any race is eligible to win a MOBO too, so the fact that some of the bigger stars (mainly American stars) felt the need to say something like that and decline to perform in Glasgow, in my opinion, undermines what the awards stand for. Regardless of all this, the night was a fantastic night and the organiser Kanya King expessed her gratitude at the welcome the MOBOs had received in Glasgow stating they WILL be back. So it looks like those who are unhappy about it will have to get over it or try (no doubt unsuccessfully) to sabotage it yet again...

Hi Douglas,

Thanks for your comment. To be honest I found the suggestion laughable. To me the MOBOs are what they stand for – Music of Black Origin awards. Origin being the key word there . Regardless of race, religion, sex or any other criteria; anyone should be able to enjoy any style of music they choose.

Anyone of any race is eligible to win a MOBO too, so the fact that some of the bigger stars (mainly American stars) felt the need to say something like that and decline to perform in Glasgow, in my opinion, undermines what the awards stand for.

Regardless of all this, the night was a fantastic night and the organiser Kanya King expessed her gratitude at the welcome the MOBOs had received in Glasgow stating they WILL be back. So it looks like those who are unhappy about it will have to get over it or try (no doubt unsuccessfully) to sabotage it yet again…

]]> Comment on And the winners are… by Douglas Chalmers http://blogs.spokenword.ac.uk/adellehopkins/2009/10/02/and-the-winners-are/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Douglas Chalmers Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:58:18 +0000 http://blogs.spokenword.ac.uk/adellehopkins/?p=63#comment-2 Hi Adelle, What do you think of the suggestion that it would have been better to hold it in a city with a bigger black population?

Hi Adelle,

What do you think of the suggestion that it would have been better to hold it in a city with a bigger black population?

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