Columbian Politician Slams Shakira & Rihanna’s ‘Can’t Remember To Forget You’ Video

Shakira, Rihanna
Shakira & Rihanna’s Video too hot for Columbia? According to CNN en Espanol;
Bogota Councilman Marco Fidel Ramirez said the video should be banned
from Colombian airwaves because the smoking and the touching in bed
violate a law that prohibits broadcast material that damages the “moral
integrity” of children.

“I found a video that evidently contains images that in my opinion are
not useful for the emotional growth and development of youths,” Ramirez
told CNN en Español on Wednesday. “I feel it promotes immorality,” “I think the message that Shakira is sending to the youth and children
around the world is a message that sells a lifestyle and promotes a
particular orientation, that in my opinion, does not reflect the views
of most Colombians,” Ramirez said. “I think the message that Shakira is sending to the youth and children
around the world is a message that sells a lifestyle and promotes a
particular orientation, that in my opinion, does not reflect the views
of most Colombians,”

The councilman wrote a letter to Shakira, appealing to her role as a
mother and asking her to remove the video from the Internet and to
consider retracting the song altogether.

Ramirez took his campaign to social media, distributing a flier on
Facebook and Twitter that warns that the video promotes smoking and
lesbianism. (In his letter to the singer, Ramirez explains that he
believes that a “normal” family is comprised of a man and a woman and
children).
His comments were met with critics who accused him of censorship, but
others supported his stance, saying the video goes too far.
In Colombia, Shakira is
more than a music star. She is an important advocate and philanthropist
who has a foundation to help impoverished children in Colombia and has
been a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.
Ramirez calls himself a
fan of Shakira, and argues that precisely because of her talent and
fame, she doesn’t need sex to sell her albums.
She has a social responsibility, Ramirez said, to not repeat stereotypes of women in music.
Shakira has not responded to CNN requests for response to the politician’s claims.

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