Navajo President and Former Miss Navajo should not be promoting rap

Navajo Leadership at Rap concert

Once a Miss Navajo, always a Miss Navajo.

When a woman is crowned Miss Navajo, there is a high expectation of her that she will represent the Dine People in a good way.  Even after she is done with her reign, that expectation continues.  In the past, former Miss Navajos have struggled with issues such as getting arrested for criminal felony charges. ("Cody ties prison sentence to domestic abuse", December 10, 2002)

This year, my mouth dropped at former Miss Navajo 2006-2007 Jocelyn Billy Upshaw dancing at a rap concert with the sexualize backup dancers for a Black rapper with the Navajo President Jonothan Nez and Vice-President Lizer cheering them on.

This is wrong on so many levels.

The former Miss Navajo should not be dancing along side the back-up dancers in bikinis. It does not matter whether it's true or not, but one comment I heard is that Ms. Upshaw's butt was slapped.  Doesn't she know that she is not representing our people positively?  I am embarrassed.

One person said that the Black rapper slapped former Miss Navajo's butt.  These photos appeared in the Navajo Times

Former Miss Navajo looking at the Black rapper.  Navajo Times photo.

Sexualized back-up dancers in bikinis

More dancers in bikinis

A woman with traditional attire at the rap concert

More women in bikinis on the screen behind the rapper

President Nez should know better

The Navajo leadership should not be promoting the deterioration of our culture by inviting rap and heavy metal bands to the reservation. Rap and heavy metal bands are associated with violence, gangs, and a sexualize society. President Nez should know better.  I don't think he realizes that he is representing us.

It's not right

I don't think it's right considering that many of our Navajo women are going missing and being murdered, being accused of prostituting themselves at the fracking man-camps ("Congresswoman asks about Navajo prostitution in New Mexico"), and with the increasing number of inter-racial social issues such as blood quantum and interracial domestic violence.

Navajo flag being draped while women being sexualize on screen in back

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