Famous Atlanta Blogger Sandrarose spoke out about the situation on her blog Monday.
NOTE: I am NOT a fan of BScott! However I don't judge him either. He has his OWN audience and is doing what works for him. Doesn't he look little like Prince?
I WILL however continue to remain a devoted reader of Concreteloop!
Reading Necole's post made me realize that I just might have to change Web Hosts because I want the type of Blogger Freedom that she is talking about.
Thanks Necole!
Check out the Video below of him explaining why he was taken off of Concreteloop.
Necole's Comments exactly!
"I’ve been reading about this whole B. Scott/ Concreteloop fiasco throughout the week on different blogs and thought I’d add in my two cents.
For those who are not familiar with the two sites, Concreteloop is a popular entertainment news blog run by a staff of college students.
It’s very popular among young college aged African-Americans and probably one of the more credible blogs out there.
Love B. Scott is a popular video blogger (13,000 youtube subscribers and counting) and has his own entertainment blog over at LoveBScott.com.
He is also an openly gay male. Between the two sites, they came up with the great idea to have Love B Scott guest blog on Concreteloop’s site every Friday.
Well Love B. Scott did his first post the Friday before last and all hell broke loose.
Concreteloop readers went wild, making all types of homophobic remarks and threatened to stop visiting the site if they continued to feature B. Scott on their blogs. What happened next surprised me, Angel Laws of Concreteloop decided to remove B. Scott from her blog.
*record stops here*
Let me tell ya’ll something. I think I better make one thing clear right now.
As much as I appreciate my readers and what they have to say, at the end of the day…this is my sh*t and I will be damned if I let some commenters dictate what I post.
What people don’t realize is less than 5% of the people that visit the site on a daily basis actually comment.
So why would I let 5% of my readers dictate what I post on My Blog?
Last time I checked, people create blogs to express their personal opinions on the content they post. We are totally biased because we post on things we like and may trash things that we don’t like.
With that being said, if I want to feature Ray J’s penis on 1 out of every 10 posts, so be it. If people have a problem with it, SO WHAT! I have people coming on here on the daily correcting my spelling. WTF? I didn’t go to college to be a journalist, nor was I an english major so you may get a few typos here and there and I’m sorry for the few of you that are annoyed by my lack of spell check. I even had a few folks tell me to retire “No Bitchassness”.
You think I am? I might just launch a whole “No Bitchazzness” Campaign tomorrow.
Some people may have an issue with some of my profanity. Sorry, I have a potty mouth when i’m annoyed. I’m not perfect but the thing that’s so special about that is that the readers that will ride with me to the end accept that. They know I’m not perfect and they love it. That’s the readers and commenters that I continue to blog for..
The point I’m trying to make, (and this is moreso a message to bloggers), although it’s important to keep your ears to your readers, at the end of the day this is your sh*t. Your baby!
To let a bunch of silly, insensitive and close-minded readers come on your blog and tell you what to post and how to post it doesn’t make sense.
Gyant from SOHH Atlanta gets cursed out and called all types of degrading names on a daily basis but does that stop people from reading his blogs? Remember the one gossip site posted a pic of Maya Angelou up with the caption “Hoe Sit Down” and everyone was in an uproar.
They had over a thousand commenters stating they would never read the site again and they would boycott. Do you think their site hits went down? No not at all, and those same commenters are probably logged in today, commenting away. Although I may not have agreed with that post, the site stood by it and never took it down. To take it down would mean that we won.
For Concreteloop to discontinue B. Scott’s post, means that they were defeated.
I have a special place in my heart for B. Scott. He not only has to deal with the struggles of being bi-racial but he has to deal with being an openly gay man. I’m sure he has faced many obstacles growing up but he has learned to accept himself and has taken what God gave him and ran with it. 13,000+ Subscribers on youtube? That’s big. I’m sure for every reader that CL would have lost, they would have gained 10 more.
And for all the homophobic readers that caused the uproar, you should be ashamed of yourselves, especially being a part of a culture that has been discriminated against for years.
You say it’s not the same…Why not? We have faced discrimination because of our race, he’s facing it because of his sexual preference. Not only that, but I hate when black folks will crack out a bible when it comes to homosexuals.
If you are out here having sex before marriage, drinking, cursing (i’m guilty) and engaging in any type of sin period then you have no room to talk.
No sin is greater than the other. So get off your high horse and get your life right before you start judging how other people live their lives..
*end of my rant"
Sources: Necolebitchie.com, LoveBScott.com, Youtube, Sandrarose.com
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