{"id":304,"date":"2007-07-18T08:12:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T12:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:11:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T03:11:27","slug":"danah-accepts-award-choclate-laments-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Danah accepts award: Choc&#8217;late laments double standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Faine Richards<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/archives\/2007-07-18\/news5.html\">www.guardian.co.tt<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 18, 2007<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/danahchoclate.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Danah and Choc'late Allen\">Succumbing to criticisms from corporate sponsors and the general public, an emotional Choc&#8217;late Allen broke down during yesterday&#8217;s Youth Motivational Awards. <\/p>\n<p>A small stream of tears rolled down the 13-year-old activist&#8217;s face as she reflected on the controversy surrounding the 100 per cent Crime Free Youth Motivational Awards.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cEven though persons didn&#8217;t understand our mission and understand the list of awardees, we continued,\u201d Choc&#8217;late told a small gathering at the Valpark Chinese Restaurant, Valsayn. <\/p>\n<p>Choc&#8217;late said a main sponsor unexpectedly withdrew its financial contribution on Monday as it did not want any affiliation with \u201cthe list of awardees.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Describing what she called a \u201cdouble standard,\u201d Choc&#8217;late said the voices of those who preach love and understanding were noticeably silent in the week preceding the awards. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are being punished for doing something that we were taught from the cradle&#8230; and that is to forgive and forget,\u201d she stated. <\/p>\n<p>Danah Alleyne, the undisputed star of yesterday&#8217;s ceremony, was the last of six awardees to receive an award from the committee. <\/p>\n<p>The Chaguanas teenager was the centre of an international controversy following the circulation on the Internet of a video showing her and American R&#038;B singer Akon in a sexually raunchy dance-off at Zen nightclub in Port-of-Spain in April. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/archives\/2007-07-18\/news5.html\" title=\"Danah accepts award\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faine Richards www.guardian.co.tt July 18, 2007 Succumbing to criticisms from corporate sponsors and the general public, an emotional Choc&#8217;late Allen broke down during yesterday&#8217;s Youth Motivational Awards. A small stream of tears rolled down the 13-year-old activist&#8217;s face as she reflected on the controversy surrounding the 100 per cent Crime Free Youth Motivational Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}