mobos problem is that it wants to celebrate black music but also wants to have big mainstream visibility so has to compromise its awards, nominees, presenters etc. its never struck a good balance. mobos are too worried about the average pop fan. (obv this is impossible in 2011 as everyone is making pop, unless youre going to have categories for things like grime, funky, etc). but nominating people like adele and jessie j basically is taking the piss. the fact they change the categories every year is weird, but you know something is wrong when adele and omar get listed in the 'best gospel act' category lol. the award categories they have need a rework really. i am surprised so many nominees this year are white but then so many of the big name acts doing some sort of black music these days *are* white, so mobos just reflects whats happening in the industry really. they should do more to reflect whats not mainstream black music which is what theyve never done all that well really.