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Originally Posted by The Mockinator
Your're comparing Jahmene's crying on stage and loads of VT's of his sob stories to an article in a Newspaper that keeps printing loads of bad stuff on Christopher? it's not really a fair comparison especially considering no other Newspaper has printed this story of Christopher's.
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I can’t speak for Kizzy, but it baffles me that Chris’s reported violence (which COULD be true in the absence of any strenuous action by him against the accusations) is just brushed aside as nothing whilst Jahmene’s life with a violent father is used against him as a ‘sob story’.
A sob story is when you dramatize a relatively normal event to gain sympathy. Chris did this in his first audition by saying the song he was going to sing was the one he sang at his grandfather’s funeral. There was no need to say that. He then dramatized the ‘nerves’ by shaking like a leaf when he was already very used to singing in public. Then came the ‘I’m doing this for my Nan’ and ‘The way I’m being treated is making my Nan ill’.
Jahmene, on the other hand, said nothing about his horrific experiences at his audition and for quite a while after we knew nothing of it. It came out naturally because he is a contestant and people wanted to know more about him and his life, just as they did with the other contestants.
Jahmine’s story isn’t a ‘sob story’ – it is his ‘life story’ and if it offends some people by the telling they need to ask themselves why. Living all his life with domestic violence, being beaten repeatedly, living in hiding and seeing his mother attacked with a blow torch and his brother commit suicide is what has defined him. He isn’t dramatizing anything to make it sound more heartbreaking or worse than it is, which is the whole definition of a sob story. He doesn’t play the ‘poor me’ part. He states the facts and the reality and then goes out with his mother and helps others.
I find it disturbing that he is criticized for not hiding away his life of violent experiences but instead uses them to bring publicity to the issue and be a role model and inspiration for other young people going through domestic violence.
I find it even more disturbing that at the same time the accusations of violence against Chris are so lightly and thoughtlessly dismissed as ‘nonsense’. That his work colleague is lying is seen as a ‘given’. It’s mind blowing.
What kind of man Chris is remains in doubt amid stories of violence, bad temper, diva – ish behaviour, being fired from 2 jobs and the obvious dislike of those who are living and working with him.
There is no such doubts about the young man that Jahmene is – he’s amazing and inspirational and his mother must be bursting with pride.
Carolynne Poole,
Hybrid Mode
