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-Nick Diamos
'Ghetto Talent Show,' Watermelon Eating Contest Outrages Community
Tue Jul 26, 5:49 PM ET
Miami city leaders are apologizing for a news release that invited summer campers to a ''Ghetto Style Talent Show'' and ''Watermelon Eating Contest.''
The release said that children participating in the summer camp who "know the meaning of ghetto style" would have a chance to "prove just how ghetto they are.''
Members of the black community expressed outrage at the wording of the invitation to the talent show. The show will be part of the grand finale picnic for the city's summer camp program to be held Friday at Hadley Park.
After being criticized by residents of the nearby Model City neighborhood and community leaders, Miami Parks Director Ernest Burkeen, who is black, released a formal apology and announced the renaming of the talent show.
The show will now be called the "Funky Talent Show," according to Burkeen's written statement. The watermelon contest will still be part of the event....
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comment: I am late young readers in ranting on this still recent farcical attempt attempt at "embracing the culture of today's youth and their language"..However I ask myself who are these leaders and who elected them. Surely anyone capable of such misreckoning of one's constituents let alone culture, did not just recently lose use of their prudence.
Such absolute incompetence had to have reared its ugly head in some other political blunder. To those city leaders I say..
Please get your collective heads out of your collective asses. Regardless of whatever warped idea of todays black youth, but I haven't met the teenager yet, white or black,`that has been down with being humiliated or stereotyped. And it makes it even worse when the diss comes from your own block...Get a clue.
-Nick Diamos
'Ghetto Talent Show,' Watermelon Eating Contest Outrages Community
Tue Jul 26, 5:49 PM ET
Miami city leaders are apologizing for a news release that invited summer campers to a ''Ghetto Style Talent Show'' and ''Watermelon Eating Contest.''
The release said that children participating in the summer camp who "know the meaning of ghetto style" would have a chance to "prove just how ghetto they are.''
Members of the black community expressed outrage at the wording of the invitation to the talent show. The show will be part of the grand finale picnic for the city's summer camp program to be held Friday at Hadley Park.
After being criticized by residents of the nearby Model City neighborhood and community leaders, Miami Parks Director Ernest Burkeen, who is black, released a formal apology and announced the renaming of the talent show.
The show will now be called the "Funky Talent Show," according to Burkeen's written statement. The watermelon contest will still be part of the event....
Copyright © 2005 WPLG Click10.com.
comment: I am late young readers in ranting on this still recent farcical attempt attempt at "embracing the culture of today's youth and their language"..However I ask myself who are these leaders and who elected them. Surely anyone capable of such misreckoning of one's constituents let alone culture, did not just recently lose use of their prudence.
Such absolute incompetence had to have reared its ugly head in some other political blunder. To those city leaders I say..
Please get your collective heads out of your collective asses. Regardless of whatever warped idea of todays black youth, but I haven't met the teenager yet, white or black,`that has been down with being humiliated or stereotyped. And it makes it even worse when the diss comes from your own block...Get a clue.
