02/22/2009
The Whitest, Least Famous person performing at the NAACP Image Awards…
…was ME!
Had a crazy last couple of weeks. I was a first alternate to perform NACA National, a big college booking conference in Tennessee, so I went to Nashville to try my luck, but i didn’t get on.
But no worries. I’m still on a high from a couple days earlier, when I got to perform, along with Josh Bennett and Ben Alisuag at the NAACP Image Awards on FOX to honor Russell Simmons’ Vanguard Award. Other performers included Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Stevie Wonder, Will.I. Am and Seal. Al Gore received an award, and Dakota Fanning helped accept for The Secret Life of Bees. So, by the smallest sliver of a shade, I was saved from being the palest person on stage.