Associated Students Inc. at the CSULB campus organized a Ludacris concert for students and local community members on Saturday, February 23. Several students organized a protest against the Ludacris concert. According to Daily 49er in a preview article on the protest, "His lyrics are misogynistic, racist, homophobic, they glamorize capitalism and overconsumption, and promote violence against women," said Marina Wood, a junior women's studies major and organizer of the protest. Wood and her co-organizers felt that the concert was not aimed primarily at Ludacris, but at mainstream hip-hop media as a whole.
Before the protest and concert students , including those who organized the Ludacris concert, did not feel the protest was unnessecary. Keya Allen-Littleton, Program Council program coordinator told The Daily 49er, "No one here has animosity towards the protest. We're trying in Program Council to represent every student, so for us to be one way or another is wrong. We have to be open."
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The Ludacris concert ended up with a small audience, as did the protestors. According to The Daily 49er in an article on the concert, Ludacris dedicated songs like "Move Bitch" to the protestors outside. Not very many protestors or concert-goers found their way to CSULB, but it was nice for many students to witness activism on this large and sometimes apathetic campus.
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