This Damn Akon
So I received an email today from Akon’s PR folks at www.susanblondinc.com asking me to update my story about Akon being banned from Sri Lanka after disrespecting the Buddha statue.
Basically the answer I received from Akon’s PR team was "Akon didn’t know until today that the Buddha Statue was in the video and the dancer didn’t exactly fondle the statue".
Fair enough, the video-girl didn’t "fondle" the statue as previously stated in the story. But she was half dressed and dancing next to a life size statue of Buddha. My question is…would Akon have allowed it to happed if the girl was dancing next to a life size statue of Jesus?
Mistakes happen and a simple apology from Akon would suffice…but don’t let ignorance be a justification of disrespecting an entire country’s religion. By the way…you wouldn’t believe how often I get emails like this from celebrity PR folks trying to spin the story.
Click here to see the previous reference story.
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Pro's comment says
On March 25, 2010 at 3:35 pmAkon has a lot of talent and potential to do some real positive things. If he focused on doing music thats moves people in a positive way when he does stupid stuff it just wouldn’t matter as much. PR’s doing they job, im not surprised but what they need to do is holla at him not at the people watching him.