A group of students staging a protest in response to a scheduled Soulja Boy concert at the University of Minnesota Duluth on Friday apparently threw the guy who pretends to be a rapper for a loop, as a horribly written Twitter entry would suggest:
“WTF I’m in minesota its a group of maf*ckaz prtoesting my show. This shit on all the news.”
Student Arielle Schur organized the protest in order to send a message to the school’s entertainment committee, as well as Soulja Boy, who they booked and agreed to pay more than $25,000 for his performance.
“This isn’t OK for this to happen,” Schur told reporters for the Duluth News Tribune. “To bring in an artist that degrades half the student body as sex objects and the other half as sexual assault perpetrators; that form of degradation is not acceptable. … The issue with the Soulja Boy concert is that it’s happening at UMD, and UMD is an institution of higher learning. His lyrics are not conducive to an atmosphere of enlightenment and education.”
That’s for damn sure. Let’s forget about all of the feminist mumbo-jumbo for just a minute. That notwithstanding, it’s obscene for someone who can’t even spell the name of the state in which he’s performing to be performing anywhere but a sandbox. And to receive $25,000 for performing his shitty music is just shameful, considering that WE’RE IN A DAMN RECESSION, PEOPLE. I’m sure that money could have been spent on something better, like $25,000 worth of mulch.
(WENN.com)
