CONGRATULATIONS TO Sister Janelle Monáe and shout out to Erykah Badu for winning the “Best Art Direction” Award at MTV’s Video Music Awards.
We stopped watching the VMA’s years ago, but is it odd that only 1 African American made the cut? Or does that happen often? Should we be surprised or bothered when people who don’t look like us don’t select us to win awards? Before Denzel Washington won his first Oscar, he said that no award would ever make or break him and that’s the truth! It’s important that we continue to lift up our own and recognize the talent in our community, especially the artists that are not in the mainstream and that are unable to break into the recording industry because they won’t compromise who they are.