According to online reports, The Tyra Banks show has canceled a planned interview with the Jonesboro high school dance team that made headlines recently.
A video of the dance team performing splits and a tame lap dance routine with boys at a high school basketball game, sparked protests from parents when it was posted on Myspace.
The eight members of the dance team, mostly black, didn’t know their trip to NYC had been canceled. On Wednesday, a publicist for the show said the dance team will not appear on the show. But she didn’t give a reason for the cancellation.
“We initially did reach out to them,” said Jessica Fielder, a publicist for Banks. “But we’re not having them on now.”
Normally, guests are booked on the show before the host is informed. Word is, Tyra watched the video after the dance team had been booked, and she wondered aloud “what’s the big deal?”, before instructing her rep to cancel the dance team’s appearance.
Can you blame her? I saw the video on Fox’s O’Reilly Factor and thought nothing of it myself. Isn’t this par for the course when it comes to our youth?
Believe me, only white people were shocked by the images in that video.
For the past two decades rappers, record labels, radio stations, and music video outlets provided the stimulus for our children to behave like sluts and hoes. So I don’t see the big deal when they behave as they are expected to.
This is the result of Hip Hop’s influence on our youth in it’s rawest form. We should all be used to this type of vulgar public display by our young girls who are taught to have no respect for themselves or others.
