If you asked most heterosexual black men which man would they bed if forced to chances are you’d get as warm a response as Karrine Steffans at an NBA wives meeting.
Yet there is one man ‘brave’ enough to answer the question without interjecting the words pause and no homo into the equation: Tyson Beckford.
He probably doesn’t mind entertaining the question given that as a male model most people think he spends his half his days close to his ankles anyway.
Nevertheless Tyson could’ve easily ducked the question and denied Bravo host Andy Cohen’s request for a chocolate-flavored wet dream.
And now some are wishing he did.
Like most of you, I didn’t need the image of Tyson topping President Obama in my mind. Granted, it sounds like that idea had been floating in his head for a second, but aren’t some of you riled about this video a little pressed?
You all do realize that Barack Obama was created in the early 1960s by Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr. and not God three days after Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, correct? People say crass things about presidents all the time.
When people used to speak of bumping bushes with President Bubba, I vomited in my mouth and moved on. Try it.
As nasty as Tyson's scenario was (that is, unless you’re into that sort of thing) it could’ve been worse: He could’ve said he wanted a three way with Frankie and Dick Cheney.
There now your stomach is curving like Andy in his seat during this segment.
Diddy Wouldn't Be Pleased, Aubrey (But I Understand)
When I watch this clip the first idea that pops into my head is to not burn Aubrey O' Day at the stake. I'd much rather call up Aubrey's publicist and beg him or her to go to seek a new career path. Evidently, public relations is not the field for them.
While I think it's obvious that Aubrey would appear at the opening of a letter with bells on, why on Earth would her camp choose to book her on Hannity's show? No good could come from such a thing. She would have done herself a favor grabbing a flip camera and shooting herself talking to a schizophrenic. The latter option would easily be a lot more thought provoking programming anyway.
But hey, what's done is done and now Aubrey's going to have to catch hell for daring to have an unpopular opinion that can be easily misconstrued by a media whore that's built a career off twisting facts and inciting political hysteria.
I don't really get the big deal, but that's mainly due to me realizing this is more so an issue of semantics than a question of morals and sensibility.
Because the word "brilliant" has a positive connotation to it, those who feel the likes of Fidel Castro and Adolf Hitler are far too heinous of characters to have such a label attributed to them were bound to be up in arms in someone calling them anything but villainous.
Yet, had Aubrey used a phrase like "evil genius" to describe those leaders I get the feeling not many as people would be irritated by her comments.
To me, that's plain silly.
Aubrey didn't call these men good people. She didn't say they haven't committed crimes. What she said was they were brilliant, and honestly, she's not wrong.
Yes, Adolf Hitler is a murder. A a mad men with the most evil of intentions. Still, this a person who used his oratory skills to command the attention and ultimately, blind allegiance of nearly an entire nation of people. People already pissed off about the results of the first World War, mind you. In that aspect, his ability to control and manipulate people to do his bidding suggests some significant form of intelligence that could be branded brilliance.
How many of ya'll have gotten an entire nation to be at your mercy?
You probably can't even get the girl at the drive-thru with the funky attitude to get your order right.
And my friend, the brilliant Shani over at Post Bourgie reminded me, say what you will about Cuba, but in terms of health care and education they exceed us.
Cuba may be stuck in the 1950s due to the trade embargo, but more of them can read in their country than ours. Do I want to move to Cuba and drink mojitos all day? Hell no, but that fun fact about their literary rates and health care stats is embarrassing all the same.
Not to mention, Fidel is certainly not without flaws (and then some), and arguably has not been the kindest towards his people, but Fidel is no fool. Moreover, need I remind you that many of those Cubans in Miami who are pissed at the bad girl of Danity Kane aren't all that fond of people who look like me either.
Of course, not all, but let's not ignore the fact that Fidel banished many of those Cubans who turned their noses up at that darker fellow countrymen. That has a bit to do with their disdain, but it doesn't negate that Fidel Castro is no idiot.
So, needless to say, Aubrey could have chosen her words in addition to where she offers them a lot more carefully. However, some of ya'll are acting like she said forget Jesus, Heil Hitler.
Last time I checked: She still loves God, she's not pro-Hitler, and my goodness, folk, why be pressed about a pop star's opine on the state of world affairs anyway?
Someone please make sure that Kim Kardashian keeps her two cents out of the health care reform debate.
You Don't Need A White Hood But A Muzzle Would Do Wonders
After being sucked into the wonderful train wreck of TV known as The Real Housewives of Atlanta last year, I started to watch the other editions of the series. Although not as engaging as the series in Atlanta or Orange County, I watched The Real Housewives of New York.
One of the personalities I took to most was Bethenny Frankel.
I found her sarcasm charming and the fact that she earned her own money without feeling compelled to be bound by any partner endearing.
She can now go <^> (think about it) herself now for all I care.
In some instances, some people outside of the black race get a little too comfortable and start to spew out "black speak" and other little stereotypes in a way that I can only interpret as mocking. Bethenny seems to be one of those people.
I first noticed Bethenny's little digs at colored folk on The Wendy Williams Show when she referred to the Atlanta edition of the show as The Real Housewives of Compton.
I'm pretty sure Bethenny hasn't been to certain parts of Brooklyn let alone Compton.
Is excited to watch real housewivez in the hood now.will sheree put a cap in kim's ass?just ate at dave's grill in montauk. Finally did yoga
The second I read this I had to start playing "U.N.I.T.Y." in my head.
There are more like these:
Is ghetto bc she gets ice&cups at montauk yacht club& makes her own cocktails.cheapskate!also hijacked chairs at gurneys.my name is earl!
I know the history of the word, but if we're going by how the word is used now it's evident she knows nothing about the ghetto and she's using the word to be insulting.
Then there are her blogs on The Real Housewives of Atlanta on E! Online.
Sheree really has gone straight 'hood.
Again: The hell does she know about the ghetto or the hood?
Perhaps there's some hood in Park Avenue that I'm not knowledgeable of.
I thought that Sheree went from straight hood to straight ghetto while pulling at Kim's wig in the street. She then clarified to boo that her locks were in fact a weave, versus a wig, as if that were some sort of street cred. Wendy Williams has a wig, so in my book, a wig trumps a weave.
When Teresa flipped over a table at her own dinner party were the likes of Bethenny Frankel and small minded people like her talking about how "ghetto" she was behaving?
Why is this pampered princess with false senses of entitlement talking about street cred? Because Wendy Williams is her friend? Bethenny, Wendy is from the suburbs of Ocean Township.
If you want to talk about street cred, holler at your girl (is that enough slang for you, Bethenny?) Danielle from New Jersey. She's the one with the criminal record and connections to drug lords.
Boss!
On top of all of this Bethenny employs the tried and true method of disparaging people (especially those of color) based on their twangs.
These broads are more high school than we. Also, they literally don't speak English. Rarely is there an actual sentence. When Kim is the most grammatically correct, someone should cash in a Fendi bag for an English class.
This is complete and utter bullshit. Tamra from the OC is not the most articulate person on Bravo. Neither is Ramona from NY. Kelly from NY can sound out her words just fine, but none of them tied together form a coherent thought.
Yet, because many of the cast mates of the Atlanta series have thick accents they're easily written off as functioning illiterates.
Mind you, Lisa Wu Hartwell is from Los Angeles, has no identifiable accents, and is arguably one of the most articulate cast mates of any edition of the Housewives.
Try making fun of her accent the way you do Jill Zarin's, Bethenny.
Or maybe you can teach all of them to be as classy as you, dear.
I love Nene, and she is a big bitch, but she is a Skinnygirl, too. She owns it. She works those curves, and only dogs like bones.
Oh wait. Nevermind.
Racist people never want to be called racist, but if you throw out stereotypes in such a casual way then it's evident that you feel a certain type of way about black people.
Or if you're not a flat out racist, you're simply ignorant and need to be enlightened.
Whatever the case may be, Bethenny, have a SkinnyGirl margarita and shut your Jamie Kennedy of reality TV ass up.
Marvin Could Help You Forget About Mariah, Marshall
While many people sat back and laughed at Eminem's attempts at ethering Mariah Carey on his latest diss track, "The Warning," my only reaction was to ask the poser what does Dr. Dre taste like.
Seriously, if I had any doubts about his sexuality before this song consider them officially confirmed.
I try not to call anyone gay based on anything anecdotal (publicly anyway), but you can no longer convince me that Marshall hasn't pursed his lips to someone's penis every so often.
As I've written many times before here homophobia is typically rooted in misogyny and for any man to be that visceral against a woman is as suspect as he is disturbing. No man should ever come at a woman that way. Ever. He hates women. It's evident in his lyrical content and his overall behavior. Not to mention his typical targets.
Eminem is praised as some fearless emcee yet the only people he ever targets are the likes of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, and Kim Kardashian. You know, those hard asses. It's interesting he can get at them frequently, yet when folks like Styles P. can talk slick his way (via The Source a few years back) he doesn't respond.
He's a coward and if you're a grown man who only goes back-and-forth with teeny tiny women I suggest that you look into sawing your genitals off and donating them to charity.
For all of you who claim Mariah started it, let me know how so, because if memory serves me correctly Eminem has been targeting Mariah for years. Outside of the song "Clown," she's never really discussed him. Eminem, on the other hand, can't seem to keep her name out of his mouth. I imagine 50 Cent's dick is jealous.
At the very beginning of this song we hear Em say, "The only reason I dissed you in the first place is because you denied seeing me."
Really? That's all it takes to for him to explode? No wonder "Obsessed" irritated to the degree it did. Windex sure enough does appear to be his own version of Zest. Why is he so pressed? If someone chooses to publicly acknowledge your relationship with them, get your Lawry's on for a second but quickly keep it moving. If you spend years stuck on it, you look nutty as hell and prove the person right in ducking you and your Snicker's-flavored brain cells.
I so wish his mother hugged him more. That way he wouldn't have the mental maturity of a 12-year-old boy. Or be such a miserable pill popping asshole.
I've never gotten this guy's appeal and I've always thought talk of him having it harder as a white rapper trying to break into a black art form to be a crock. If any black man talked about his mother that way on wax, he'd get more side-eyes than R. Kelly at a Girl Scout's meeting.
Eminem has repeatedly likened all women to whores and constantly raps about raping and killing them. I don't find that appealing, and I imagine if Nas rhymed about murdering Kelis the same way Eminem has about Kim in the past reactions would be different.
It baffles me that more people haven't picked up on this. He is clearly a man with some deep seated issues with women. To the point where most should wonder if he really gets anything out of being with one. People can disregard the question all they like, but trust me, there's a reason why hip-hop overall is so misogynistic and homophobic yet often homoerotic.
Those fools don't really like women, hence them always having the words faggot and phrases like "suck my dick" rolling from their tongues (that get a case of the icks when they're forced to touch women in order to "preserve their manhood).
Speaking of dicks, as far as I'm concerned, Eminem can choke on one the next time he feels compelled to berate any woman in that way.
Obviously, I'm not using homosexuality as an insult; but, I do think it's important we start openly discussing how misogyny factors into homophobia, and point out how a certain type of man hides behind each.
Maybe the song amuses you, but I can't rock with it. There's something incredibly wrong with him, and it's unfortunate despite being on an obvious decline, he still serves as a big influence to impressionable kids out there. As if the world doesn't have enough woman-bashing jackasses as it is.
P.S. I've noticed it's been mainly black women saying, "Well she started it." To that I say, you poor, poor victims of patriarchy and hip-hop. Get some self-worth.
For more than a year now I’ve read countless celebrities bitch and complain about bloggers. One of the most outspoken critics of coloreds with cable connections is Gabrielle Union.
Let her tell it black bloggers are on par with crack dealers in on who's out to destroy Black people.
Or more importantly, some talk about her in ways she prefer they didn't. I wasn’t aware the woman was Jesus dipped in chocolate with a nice weave.
Here’s a thought, Gabby: If you don’t want people talking about you negatively, how about you not act in ways that make people wanna sing old ‘Pac (Track 4, Disc 02, All Eyez On Me).
Lady Simone, the entertainment reporter for the radio show “2 Live Stews,” had a story to tell on Gabrielle the other day.
According to Simone, while at a party for the Kentucky Derby, Gabby apparently confused herself with Angelina Jolie. It seems when an NFL player attempted to get into VIP to join his teammate already inside he was stopped by her.
She supposedly told him, “I'm sorry, honey, you can't come in here. This is only for guys who make over six figures.”
His response: He pulled out a wad of cash and threw it into her face and then said, “I’m sorry, b—ch, I make seven.”
Gabby in turn lifted her jaw from the floor long enough to apologize to someone who likely has at least twice as much money as she does.
OK, I get it now. I’m a horrible person for posting about this. It’s my fault Gabrielle Union decided to become a bouncer in her spare time.
Last year, when she decided to speak out against bloggers, this is what she told AOL Black Voices:
"I almost get to a point where you can say whatever you want to say about me, but print some facts about our community that can help somebody. I don't care because I combat lies. I really used to think that if you read it and you see it and it's in a magazine, a newspaper or you see it on TV, then it has to be true. And it's just not true! I don't even know how to combat that except for do more good things for the people that I care about which is my own community."
I wrote something the other day that I think will help our community, do I get a pass now? Actually, it shouldn’t matter because while I applaud her efforts to combat rape and breast cancer, why would anyone expect sociopolitical commentary from gossip blogs?
I’m not on the Huffington Post learning how to do the Ricky Bobby…stop, & pose for the frame, so why in the hell would I expect blogs centered on entertainment to keep up with the conflict in Darfur?
She continued to whine:
"Anytime you try to negate my voice and my character and what I stand for, you're squashing all of the good work that I'm trying to do for our community.
No one is trying to stop her from her mission to be known as Sojourner Truth of Hollywood, but if folks are saying you have a stank attitude and playing yourself in public places, that’s your bad, pimpin'. Your rumored attitude does not take away from the good will you're doing. On the other hand, those good deeds don't excuse your nasty ways either.
Bah:
"It's sad that people who have that forum where you have all this traffic... If I really did get arrested or stole someone's flipping husband and the wife was calling me, sure. So if I do it, talk about it. I own that, I screwed up. It's never happened! Don't create crap that is negating one of the few voices in our community that actually likes Black people, loves Black men and is trying to do something with our community and make changes. Don't try to kill that voice along with your stories so that you can get a couple of more subscribers. It's just bulls--t and its unfortunate," she concluded.
What’s unfortunate is that people get a little fame and suddenly think they’re to be worshiped and ogled at their publicist’s request.
I applaud her for staying relevant in an industry that likes Black women about as much dogs love Michael Vick, but that’s not cool.
Maybe this is all hearsay, so if that’s the case then my bad. But if not, she needs a reality check. She’s not HalleBerry. Hell, she’s not Vivica Fox, so she better watch her mouth before some dude throws a whole of quarters at her big ass head the next time she decides to act saddity.
Not to sound like an embittered old man, but I have a fear that many people 20 and below are unfortunate idiots.
My niece is 10, but she can read so I’m not worried about her. I’m more concerned about type of the children I remember tutoring during college. The ones that will turn 18 and still likely won’t be unable to pronounce half of the words written in an issue of VIBE.
But, for optimism’s sake, let’s just say Obama and his ‘fancy words’ as some people call them will inspire the youth of America to pick up a muthafuck—book.
Their vocabulary may be enhanced, but will their attitudes? One of the sites I write for has a very young demographic. The way they remix the spelling of words is a dead giveaway.
I really don’t want to rehash the Chrianna debate, but I’m a little put off by the comments of obvious middle and high schoolers.
Here’s one:
I love you chrisbrown… tell that *#$@@ rihanna that i am going to kill her in her sleep… i love you husband….
“Take You Down” is a nice song, but it’s not worth felony death threats.
And another:
“blah blah blah,rihanna need to shut her punk a** up. she been pissin me off for a while now. the b*tch got her ass handed to her. get the hell over it. i dont feel sorry for her. That giant grizzly is the same size and height as him, she got hands, feet and teeth she should got in his a** too. sh*t i feel sorry for chris, sh*t everybody tryin to act like the b*tch didnt do somethin to him. im just sayin, i wish i was rihanna and i was in that car that night. id a beat the yellow piss out that $~**~. choked his ass up, BIT HIS AZZ a few times. F*ck leavin em in the car so he could run off, id a dragged his azz right back to the hotel. he would a seen a real muthaf*ckin goon in action.”
Not only is this girl delusional, but she clearly has an old TV and a computer monitor from 1992. How else can you explain her thinking Rihanna is the same size as Chris Brown?
Girls like her annoy me. “I would’ve done this,” and “I would’ve done that.” Shut up. I’ve already read about how so many young girls side with Chris Brown over Rihanna. I know it’s due to a burgeoning libido and typical brainwashing, but damn, people want to kill her over Chris Brown?
Not to be outdone:
Will aint gay if he was he would act all fruity
These poor little naïve girls. It’s no wonder so many are battered, bruised, and diseased ridden these days.
As for the men, well, you've heard Soulja Boy speak, haven't you? Not to mention all of the Chris Brown apologists who have their own history of bobbing and weaving on females.
Glenn Beck is a special type of stupid. He possesses the kind of ignorance where paranoia, bigotry, and irrationality all have one long orgy in his big dense head. I try my best to never listen to him speak, but whenever I do I'm amazed at how he basks in his own loonbooness (fake words are in, ya'll).
I'm not surprised the likes of him have a loyal following. While I respect my President's Mariah Carey-like view of race relationships in our country, I'm not one to co-sign any sort of description of America that sounds too Utopian for my liking. Progress has been made, but hate mongers still run amok and one colored President isn't going to send them all into hiding that quickly.
In this video Glenn Beck and co. are ranting about protecting the constitutionalists. If you pay close attention to their comments, you can spot out all of the code terms that essentially blame the darker faction of the human race for most of the nation's current troubles.
So let these fun folks tell it, the digital coverter box is actually a book of democratic doom, and but of course, Barack Obama is bringing the country to its knees to blow communism.
Did you hear the person yell "burn the books." Clearly all of their parents did.
I'm dying laughing at the follow-up comment. "Burn the ones in college...the brainwashing books." I can see why evolution would threaten them. They sound about as involved as a big rock.
Or maybe that's the brainwashing I apparently got in college kicking in.
If these people were so gung ho about protecting this country's founding principles, where were their whiny asses the last eight years?
President Bush remixed the constitution yet I didn't hear anything about a tea party/bitch session.
These people are the white equvialent of the Black Israelites standing on top of a crate on the CVS on Georgia Avenue in D.C. yelling about revolution at 10:00 on a Saturday night.
There seems to be a growing number of people who are anticipating Kanye West to one day throw on a pink scarf and step out into a room full of reporters and announce that he’s gay. I’m not one of those people because I don’t believe Kanye West is gay.
I’m put off by how so many people assume he’s gay for some of the most stereotypical reasons.
OK, so he’s not walking around holding his nutsac all day like half the Black male population between the ages of 6-30.
Alright, he’s had moments where certain expressions, mannerism, or outburst are deemed “suspect” by the general population. This, however, makes no sense to me given the fact that hip-hop is both homophobic yet homoerotic – yes, I’m talking about you greased up rappers in jewelry telling another man to suck your dick. No one calls them gay, so why does one odd face make ‘Ye a homo?
We live in a world where Black fathers are largely absent in the upbringing of their male sons. You typically act like the people who raised you in one way or the other, so Black America, get used to it unless Black men start remembering that your parenting responsibilities don’t escape you as soon as you nut.
I don’t buy into these trite and extremely limiting gender roles anyway. I’m not saying should I have a son I’ll be taking him dress shopping at age six, but I’m not going to break out into convulsions if he gives someone the side-eye either.
I think what bothers me most of all about Kanye’s gay claims are that they’re now partially fueled by Kanye having the audacity to speak about gay people as if they’re not aliens or inherent heathens who will be burned in hell for all eternity.
Speaking about a human being as such shouldn’t warrant an untruthful association. It’s stupid and sophomoric and it makes it that much more difficult for tolerant Black men to speak about gay people as normal folk.
No one is going to want to openly speak out in defense of an isolated group if they fear it will lead to alienation from their own community and be detrimental to their career.
For someone who puts on airs that he’s so forward-thinking and recently asked people to show a little humility and tolerance, I find it odd that when denying rumors about his own sexuality he clings to the age-old stereotype about gay men.
His accusing those who accuse him of being gay of questioning his manhood is rooted in the notion that gay men aren’t “real men.”
If you are a man attracted to men you’re often tagged as effeminate, and thus, less of a man. This is why I often tell people homophobia is largely rooted in misogyny. Though we’ve collectively made some strides, society at large still hates women, and judges them as less than men. That’s why so many can’t stand gay men as being one is looked upon as yearning to be a woman.
Kanye’s blog entry buys into all of that nonsense, and only irritates me more – mainly because if we’re going by the logic of what traditionally makes a man a man ‘Ye ain’t but a few outfits and bitch fits away from being B. Scott’s sister.
This is a person admittedly with questionable choices in fashion and certain antics. Though I don’t personally think any of that suggests he’s a choker, not a poker, if we’re going by the idea that being gay strips one of their manhood, then what does dressing like one mean?
Particularly if this man is currently dating a woman who used to date a woman into men who pretend to look like women.
Like I said, I don’t think Kanye West is gay, but I’m really disappointed in him buying into a stereotype I thought he was helping to discredit.
Being the Louie Vuitton Don doesn’t make him gay, but that along with this statement sure makes him sound like a hypocrite.
Last night I tried crab enchiladas. How fitting that I would wake up the next morning and be greeted with a video from a crab that was unfortunately not boiled a long time ago.
If you noticed, I haven't talked much about politics on here lately. I like to mix it up when it comes to subject matter, and with politics being such a big interest of mine, it just made sense to incorporate some of that into the topics here. Lately, though, I've been turned off from the whole process.
I'm happy Obama won, but it seems corporations continue to be the big winners in the end, so there's only so much I can say about heartless greedy execs getting over on Americans -- and the politicians bought and sold who aid them.
But there are some things you can't ignore.
I've been tempted before to mock Michael Steele and his campaign to "hip-hopize" the GOP, but I didn't have the energy. However, the more this fool talks, the more I'm reminded of how much he irritates the hell out of me. I might as well get it out of my system.
This is a person who clearly likes to hear himself speak no matter how stupid he sounds -- which is most of the time. He has a knack for embarrassing Black people, bald people, tall people, people named Michael -- anyone that have some short of linkage to him no matter how minimal it may be.
When I think about the future of the Republican Party, laughter usually pours out as it's clear if they think Michael Steele is going to lead them into the promise land they are sadly mistaken.
Now as far as his disdain for Obama: Jealous much? I don't know what planet he lives on, but being the overlord for a fledging political party isn't the same as running a nation -- even if the nation in question is fledging itself.
As for his claims that Black people had no pride for him (which is what this all boils down to) when he ran for office in Maryland: That's because the lying ass liar fronted as if he were running as a Democrat when he knew damn well he was a Republican. He tried to practically trick people into voting for him and came up short after people heard him open his mouth.
It's not the people of Maryland's fault that most would rather clean chitlins with their tongue than have you continue to represent them in government. Obama isn't thinking about you any more than the people who didn't vote for you are.
And this nonsense about there no being right or wrong side of history is exactly why I've never liked him. Yes, Michael person that needs a new name, there is a such thing as the wrong side of history. Examples include slavery, legal disenfranchisement of any kind, George W. Bush, and the day you started to head the RNC.
Go away and clean out of your office for Meghan McCain.
It only takes about an hour to surf the web to get the sense that the internets is full of embittered jackasses. What I didn’t know is that I seem to follow all of the same sites that they do.
Over the weekend while in search of stories for the paying gigs I came across an article about a celebrity and in the comments section someone wrote, “Bitch die already!!!!”
Yikes. Really? Is it that tight on you that you wish them dead?
Now, I’ve been tempted to ask a person, “Why aren’t you dead yet once?” however that’s different: He was a relative, and one who brings a lot of misery into people’s lives. My comment is equally in poor taste, but my anger stemmed from something personal. I’m not asking essentially a stranger to drop dead because I can’t stomach the site of them.
And this actually isn’t the first time I’ve seen that. I’ve peeped it online through blogs and message boards for a long time, but for some reason or the other it stuck out to me over the weekend.
When you want to wish a person dead for gracing the cover of a magazine, or starring in a movie that you didn’t put any money in, or releasing the wrong single, you need to call 1-800-MyAss-IsCrazy. I’m not sure if that’s a real number, but if it isn’t, I’ll try to set that up and take phone calls after 9 p.m.
No really, go hug someone or at the very least, turn on CNN or MSNBC (or Fox News, if you must – but I’m judging you) and send that negative energy to the people that might turn America into a Chinese flea market.
I admittedly am not the best person to talk about ways of dealing with stress, but if you’re feeling a certain kind of way, let’s do this together:
Ideally, I wanted to post a clip of Whitley Gilbert saying, “Relax, Relate, Release.”
Yeah, couldn’t find it so this will have to do. I actually liked this song anyway. Enjoy and stop trying to kill folks.
Was checking the comments and came across this post:
your gay counterparts sure like to throw around "passing judgement" and the like rhetoric. Sure he can lend his house knowing that his house can turn into a future crime or any other unsavory act could take place. Rhianna made the choice to go, just as she is free to make the choice to go back to Chris (or her abuser if that how you want to refer to him) Ellen should be the last one talking about choices unless she wants mainstream people to more vocal about her "choices" smh
I'm confused.
No shit Rihanna has free will to be a punching bag, and duh, muthafucka, Diddy can do what he wants with his house.
I thought I made the point about choices clear the first time. What I was talking about had to do with Diddy Puff and other men accused of domestic violence brushing off the entire incident - a crime, no less - as something common, thereby passing it off as something acceptable when it's not.
The fact is, yet again, 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence at some point in their lives. Describing a woman getting beaten from head to toe, bitten, and choked out unconscious as a "situation" only further perpetuates the notion that such violent attacks against women is merely a fact of life.
Now do I have to Chris Brown a bitch to drive that point on or just use smaller words? If it sounds like I'm speaking down to you, smile -- I am. I normally hate the idea of turning my nose up at people, but dammit, some people need to donate their brain cells to folks that actually want to evolve.
As for the comments about "gay counterparts:" What does that have to do with anything? How can you equate accepting domestic violence with accepting homosexuality, or as you put it, the choice to deal with bigots on a daily?
How does one relate to the other?
And I'm sure Ellen being a multi-millionaire with a successful daytime talk show (we all know how easy it is to have one of those), endorsement deals, and a big following, gay, straight, Black, white, rhythm and rhythm-deficient alike is really hurting for acceptance right now.
FYI, you being here is like the KKK making BET.com its homepage.
P.S. 'Preciate ya, homie for giving me something to post about even if it was related to some ole bullshit.
Far be it from me to advocate any person losing their job at a time like this, but what the hell are you doing with your life where you can't tell that pushing this on a day where Chris Brown is being arraigned on two felony charges is a bad idea?
Hey fans,
Vote for Chris on the Kids Choice Awards 2009 link provided below:
I understand sometimes things are already planned out in advance, but it's the morning after and this is still on his MySpace page.
The next thing you'll tell me is that R. Kelly will be getting a lifetime achievement award and Lil' Kim will receive honors for self-esteem.
And while I have your attention, earlier today someone saw me and yelled, "Chris Brown!" Hell naw, ya'll. This is the second time in a month someone has said I look like Chris Brown. The first time I was at a restaurant with a friend and a waiter - not even my own - walked up on me and was like, "Whoa, man. I thought you was Chris Brown. I was about to put you in a headlock. Don't touch that girl."
Then my friend laughed. Even the woman sitting next to me was laughing and from the look on her face I bet she only learned Chris Brown's name the night before. I need for him to go away for a while. He's giving lanky people with big teeth a bad name. Next thing you know I'm going to be out at the club jiggin' and a bunch of drunk people are gonna yell, "CHRIS BROWN...GET 'EM!" and I'm going to have to beat that bitch with a bottle in an effort to try and not get my slim self jumped.
Times like these I yearn for the days I got called a fake ass Debarge (Chico and/or his son).
Damn you, Chris Brown.
*Yes, I said I wasn't going to talk about him before. How can you not when random people are yelling his name at you?
Edit: The people that called me Chris Brown were both Black men. The people laughing were a part of every race.
Since I don’t care to be told, “You’re going to burn in hell,” I tend to shy away from discussions about religion. I’m not as anti-religion as some of my friends believe me to be, but I know more times than not, if I ever do try to explain my point-of-view, it’s likely I’ll get the “Hell is hot, n-gga” type response so I try not to bother.
From my own experiences, very few people discuss religion in any way that deviates from the typical script, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that the guy who prides himself on being atypical would be the one person to talk about faith in a manner I can actually relate to.
"I don't want to be James Bond. I don't want to fit into this iconic figure that someone else has made. Just like how I don't want to be Jesus Christ. My whole life, they're like, you know, I was raised as a Christian, and they're like 'Be Christ-like. Be Christ-like.' I'm like, 'No! I don't wanna fuckin' be Christ-like. I want to be me-like. I want to be the best me. 'Cause you're gonna fall short of being Christ-like and then you'll never quite be happy. And then, you'll always feel like you gotta give up 20% of your money to try to buy back some of this happiness. It's like, 'No. I just want to be me."
OK, so I probably wouldn’t word it that way for fear of my mom bitch-slapping me with a book, but thankfully, after realizing he was going to get the clap back from Black folk, Kanye rephrased:
"When I listened back to the New Zealand conference I was like, 'Whoa this is pretty harsh.' Sometimes I speak with no filter. I did not mean to be so harsh on the subject of Christianity being that I was a well known Christian. When I was at my mom's funeral a fucking stranger came up to me and said, 'I hope you've accepted Jesus as your savior so you can see your mother again!' My entire life, being an African American, Christianity was forced down my throat. Since I was a child, I would ask questions like, 'So are little babies that can't speak yet going to hell also?' I 1,000% believe in God, I believe in Karma, I believe in being a good person. I'm not trying to tell people what they should believe or not believe. To each is his own. I was in situations where someone constantly used Jesus to show me how baaaad a person I was or how not perfect or not Christ-like I was. When I say I don't want to be Christ-like, I'm saying I'm fine with not being perfect. I'm fine with being a human being. I'm happy with just that."
I know exactly what's it's like to see God and religion used more as a weapon than a source of solace. And I definitely can relate to being a curious kid having all of these questions about God and being told in so many words to shut up.
It took me a long time to realize that I can be a good person without being bound to any particular dogma. Going to church every week doesn't make you a good person; it makes you religious. The two terms are not mutually exclusive. It's good to hear someone that looks like me (he would Dale, I would be Chip of the Rescue Rangers) share that opinion.
Before he blew up and ran off at the mouth, I was a burgeoning 'Ye stan. I remember seeing him at Howard and appreciating him for…I don’t know, just being himself. I really liked him when he put Bush on blast (although I think George W. Bush hates all people).
After awhile you couldn't help but notice how self-absorbed he was, not to mention how arrogant and sometimes nonsensical some of his statements were. He was being an attention whore for the sake of. It works, but eh. Yet and still he often says things that people don’t say out loud -- which is why people either love him or hate him.
I still wonder if he was nursed too long, but I have between this, the AMAs, his interview with The Fader, and his comments about legendary status, I have to say I'm actually interested in hearing what he has to say again.
I only wonder how long it will take Pee Wee West to say something that will turn me off all over again.
Whether he wins or loses, Barack Obama has proven one thing: you no longer need a perm or take a trip to the seminary to make it on the national political scene. But for every step forward the presidential contender has won for The Race in the endless 2008 campaign, some kooky colored fool has cropped up to drag us two steps back. It has become all-too apparent during this long slog that some of us are afflicted with Nutty Negro-itis: an incurable form of verbal diarrhea that prompts you to speak as if your brain and tongue just took a big dip in the toilet.
Now that this campaign is coming to a close, let us review, The Nuttiest Negroes Campaign 2008. Because whatever we might have lost in racial self-esteem, we have gained so much in pure entertainment value:
Pastor Manning
If you’ve never watched The Boondocks, there’s a character named Uncle Ruckus: a self-hating Black man that acts as if God sprinkled a little something extra on white people when he created them. Pastor Manning makes Uncle Ruckus look like Eldridge Cleaver.
During one sermon, the good reverend said: “The way the Negro people are turning against Hillary and Bill Clinton these days for Obama is unprecedented. You see how unreliable and unfaithful and fickle the Negro people are? They left you for that half-white boy. You see how they are?”
Juan Williams
He works for FOX News, yet had the gall to suggest that Gwen Ifill had a conflict of interest in the Vice Presidential debate because of her book, though the title and subject matter were announced long before both sides agreed to her moderating the debate.
That’s like a crack head turning their nose up at a drunk.
He may never live down that moment back in December 2007, while speaking on the local Atlanta program, Newsmakers Live, after sharing his views on Barack Obama, he had this to say about Bill Clinton: “Bill is every bit as black as Barack. He’s probably gone with more black women than Barack.”
Mr. Young, I thank you so much for your service and sacrifice in advancing the race, but sit down and stay there. And please take Jesse with you
Jesse Jackson
If you doubt why Jesse is on the list, I have two words for you: The nutcracker. And if Cashew Cruncher’s outbursts weren’t bad enough, Jesse has made himself an unlikely (and unsolicited) spokesperson for the Obama campaign, telling the New York Post: “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.”
He’s has since claimed his words were distorted, but this is the second time he’s gotten into trouble with media outlets owned by a particular conglomerate.
Take the hint, Jesse. If Al can take a break from his position as publicist of Black People, so can you.
Joe appeared on the Tom Joyner Morning Show and said he didn’t have to vote because he heard Obama had it all wrapped up. The person who told him that is probably the same person bootlegging his album. As the interview progressed, Joe showed just how little he understood about the electoral process – asking the morning crew could you vote online.
I bet Maxwell knows the answer.
James T. Harris
Last and certainly least is a conservative radio host trying to milk his 15-minutes for all its worth. As he gazed into McCain’s eyes to plead that the Arizona Senator “take it to” Obama, stomachs both Black and white soured at his level of enthusiasm. As if that weren’t enough, this opportunist shows he’ll do whatever it takes to get attention. On his personal blog he compared eager Barack Obama sympathizers to Hitler youth.
I’ve heard more coherent arguments from schizophrenics, but add it to the pile of Nutty Negroes of 2008. So long folks! We won’t miss you. As seen on The Root.
As we sit on the cusp of history, instead of being able to revel in the moment and bask in knowing that on Tuesday this country may elect its first Black president, someone just had to go and remind us that there are some simple ass folks out there that need the black beaten off of them because they’re dragging the race down.
OK, so maybe it’s not that bad – but it’s close enough. Although I finally realized that he may actually have more brain activity than a stroke victim, I take back any comments that suggest that a barking dog doesn’t make more sense than Soulja Boy at any given ruff.
Clearly never learning anything beyond MySpace and Casio, here’s what the education-deficient sometime rapper, all the time dumb ass had to say when posed with a history question:
Then came Soulja Boy Tell Em. I asked him, “What historical figure do you most hate?” He was stumped. I said, "Others have said Hitler, bin Laden, the slave masters..." He said, "Oh wait! Hold up! Shout out to the slave masters! Without them we'd still be in Africa."
My jaw, at this point, was on the ground. "We wouldn't be here," he continued, having no idea how far in it he'd stepped, "to get this ice and tattoos."
I know, I know. Me, too.
Damn those history books for not having a catchy hook and Kanye West for not creating a dance for “Diamonds from “Sierra Leone.”
It’s not enough that he talks like slavery ended a week ago and is bound to create a dance that requires only one foot; he had to go and shout out slavery. Who’s his father? Uncle Ruckus?
In some respects, I'm not sure why anyone would even ask Soulja Boy a question like that. You have to stick to questions he can understand. Like, "How many fingers is platinum?" or "What's your least favorite STD?" Maybe even something like "Do you eat cabbage?"
Anything besides something that would require actual thinking.
Even still, I can't believe that fool shouted out massa.
I know today is Halloween, but to me, there is nothing scarier than an a dense Black celebrity with the intellect of a long-time crack addict being allowed to speak to the media.
Let this ignorant, sophomoric embarrassment serve as a reminder of the importance of education…and swallowing.
I realize this is a touchy subject for many, but I can't just ignore these idiots on both sides who pretend to have God's cell number.
This time, there's a pray-off going on. On one side - God's side, apparently - are the evangelicals who represent John McCain. The other side - that probably only exists in the mind's of the other side - are the seedy, diabolical, and dark (in color and outlook) witches for Obama.
They write (and preface with "THIS IS VERY SERIOUS"):
IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO SPIRITUAL WARFARE, PLEASE PRAY TODAY AND CONTINUALLY THAT ALL SUCH CURSES BE BROKEN AND SATAN'S PLAN FOR AMERICA BE DEFEATED, IN JESUS' NAME. PRAY AND COVER MCCAIN AND PALIN WITH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO SPIRITUAL WARFARE, IT IS TIME YOU LEARN!!!
Claiming:
She said the witches, warlocks and those involved in satanism and the occult get up daily at 3 a.m. to release curses against McCain and Palin so B. Hussein Obama is elected.
And:
They say "he is the chosen one". She said Obama's grandmother sacrificed a black and a white chicken to the "goddess of the river" so both whites and blacks will vote for Obama. All Islam loves and worships Obama. The world is mesmerized by him. Oprah's 200 million followers are out to elect Obama.
Do you think they baked or fried that chicken after they were done?
Oh yeah:
The occultists are "weaving lazy 8's around McCain's mind to make him look confused and like an idiot". Bree K. said we need to break these curses off of him that are being sent from Kenya.
By God she means those crooked people the McCain/Palin campaign hired to disenfranchise voters in swing states. How can anyone not look at this woman and think of a pretty crash dummy?
There are dead people with more brain cells than Sarah Palin. I really can't stand that dumb ass woman or people who think just like her. I'm sure that God loves everyone - including all of his genetic failures like these simple ass people - but I don't have to.
I'm not going to pray for it (that is stupid), but I wouldn't be mad if Jesus dropped one of his sandals on Sarah Palin's head.
I can’t stand women like her. In her warped sense of reality her interpretation of Christianity affords her the right to be discriminatory towards people different from her. She wouldn’t know Jesus if he bitch slapped her with a ham sandwich. Normally, I try to ignore people like this, but since some of these yokels actually vote, you can’t ignore them altogether (at least until we get the results).
Until Sunday, I hadn’t heard any major political figure respond to the question of whether or not Barack Obama was a Muslim with, “So what if he was?” Thankfully, Colin Powell said what I was hoping one of the presidential candidates would say: There’s nothing wrong with being a Muslim.
When I grew up, I was usually considered the oddball around Black folk just for being raised Catholic amid a sea of Baptists. I can only imagine what it’s like being a Muslim – especially now when the terms Muslim and terrorist have become interchangeable.
One of my favorite people from Howard is Muslim. She is one of the kindest, funniest, most sincere people I have ever met. Just yesterday I was talking about this video and she joked with me about how she’s seen and heard everything – including some people secretly tricking her into going to a revival.
As long as I’ve known my friend not once has she imposed her religious beliefs on me. Not once has she ever referred to me as an infidel. Not once have I ever asked her something idiotic (I don’t think).
But to this woman, all of my friend’s good qualities would be negated by her belief in Islam. Same for Obama’s mother being agnostic. Last time I checked no agnostics started a holy war. If I knew where this woman lived I would show up at her doorstep dressed like Malcolm X. Or Bishop Don Juan.
I think at the core, both Islam and Christianity are religions of peace, good will, and all of that stuff that would make Barney, Big Bird, and Mother Winslow smile. Too bad backwards, bucktooth (takes one to know one), big mouth jackasses bastardize both faiths and bring shame to both faith’s followers.
One could ask this woman if she’s so gung ho about following her faith to the letter, why would she be supporting John McCain? Where the McCain campaign labels Barack’s “redistribution of wealth” comments as socialism Christ would call fair play; last time I checked, aiding the poor was his thing.
Then there’s the war, which probably isn’t going over too well right now up there. You could also point to John McCain and Sarah Palin running a racially divisive campaign that attempts overcome their shortfalls by playing on the prejudices of dimwits like her.
But no, that would all make too much sense, and would require her to actually think about Christ and then come to the realization of how unchristian she truly is.
Jesus be her recurring nightmare of an Obama administration.
P.S. While I have you, if there are any Muslims reading can one of you explain to me what’s with Muslims for McCain? That’s like Klansman for Jesse Jackson.
Many like to pretend they're not prejudice, yet whenever presented with the opportunity to show their asses, racists tend to give the world a full moon. Look no further than Dr. Arnold Conrad, a minister who delivered the invocation at a McCain rally in Iowa over the weekend.
"I would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god—whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah—that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons," said the minister delivering it. "And Lord, I pray that you will guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their God is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and election day."
In other words: "Lord, these heathens and their Democrat are trying to do you. Are you going to go out like that? On November 4th, please show them who run it and let John McCain win. He approves your message -- unlike that Muslim Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
P.S. Did I tell you that Barack is Black, too?"
Do you know what this reminds me of? Those people who claim to be so holy but only use religion to belittle, berate, and bitch out people.
Have you ever been at a family gathering and some old fool pisses the whole room off by using Jesus to talk slick during the blessing?
Something like:
"Bless us Oh Lord and these gifts which we are about to receive. We want to thank you for bringing us all together. We especially thank you for allowing Kevin to be with us. Bless the store owner who didn't press charges because we all know Kevin only has one strike left. We also want to thank you for your continued blessings. We are so grateful Lord. Bless those who are generous, and forgive those who take advantage of such generousity -- like Ronda who can walk in here with a new purse yet she can't pay me back that $50 she owes me. It's OK, Lord. I know my blessing will come. We also pray that you keep this family together despite the inner turmoil that outsiders, namely new wives and their uncouthed children have brought us. Spare the rod, spoil the child is all I'm saying, God. And dear Lord, let us learn from our mistakes and the condoms that break..."
...and on and on they'll go until someone sucks their teeth loud enough to signal a fight might ensue if the yams get cold.
Same slick talk, different prayer.
The McCain campaign must take those not rolling with Joe Six Pack for suckers. While McCain did acknowledge that Obama was not an American hating Islamic jihadist when one of his supporters called him an Arab on camera, his campaign, and in particular Sarah Palin, have been purposely preying upon the stupidity and intolerance of the bigot voting bloc for weeks now.
They enjoy the likes of Reverend Conrad. After you finish reading this post, I ask that each of you pray that God drops some tolerance into his skull. Or at the very least, can you pray someone tells Rev. Arnie that "Hindu" is not a God. That way, if he's going to bash someone else's beliefs, he'll at least know what he's talking about.
You can drop that clown an early hint at: aconrad105@mchsi.com.
If you’re shocked at Soulja Boy sounding literate, you’re not alone. If you’re thrown for a loop but surprisingly impressed that he watched the presidential debate, call me Mr. Me Too. Yet before anyone else develops a complete newfound appreciation of Soulja Boy, pay attention to the video as he utters the phrase that won’t die in relation to something you would least expect.
Are we at the point now where college is considered gay? If so, time to add it to the growing list of homosessualities.
Things That Make You Ghey
1. Reading. 2. Writing complete sentences with words spelled correctly (dat shit iz crazy). 3. Using too many big words, like sarcastic (the synonym is bitch ass nigga) or any word that doesn’t go with “nigga” (What word doesn’t though?) 4. Wearing clothes that fit. (You too good to let your ass hang out?) 5. Listening to R&B. Or pop. Or country. Or rock. Or electronica (Note: tha fuc is that neway?). 6. Watching gay ass movies with white people (unless it’s Al Pacino or Steven Segal). 7. Emotions. 8. Not taking the Ike Turner approach to female relationships. 9. Not adding “no homo” to every phrase.
And as we’ve just learned, college.
In case you were wondering this hasn’t changed things that don’t make you gay.
1. Taking fashion cues from prison culture and copying a style that's essentially an inmate's version of come hither. 2. Hating women to the point where one has to wonder if your mother should have breastfeed you with your father’s dick. 3. Constantly telling another man to suck your dick.
4. Pictures like these.
It’s a shame a kid with the maturity level of a newborn makes an important decision to seek higher education to evolve and has to defend his choice as something that doesn’t suggests he’s gay -- as if there is any correlation between education and homosexuality.
Meanwhile I hear stories about all of the juvies a few years or crimes away from going to county worshipping the likes of Lil’ Wayne, Rick Ross, and Plies. Wayne studied psychology at the University of Houston, Office Ross spent sometime in school before becoming a CO, and Plies recently started a scholarship fund. Since none of them mention this often in their media kids, it’s no wonder they’re idolized for other characteristics (that are mainly figments of their imagination) as these kids struggle to write coherent sentences.
When I was growing up, when a bunch of dumb asses had something negative to say about those that wanted to get out the hood by taking the legal route of education, it was likened to being white. Now you’re being gay. Look how far we’ve come.
I don't want to unleash a lengthy diatribe about this, but I came across an article entitled "We Down with GOP" that I had to touch on. While I concede that the Democratic party takes Black people for granted, and agree that it's important to show that we are not a monolith, I'm still typically annoyed by most Black Republicans. I don't completely dislike them all, but there's a certain breed of them that really want me to push for a racial draft.
I can't help but think a lot of Black Republicans (typically those of my age group) are nothing more than attention whoring enthusiasts who tilt to the right because they realize in cases such as these, contrariety can do wonders for one's profile. This article reminds me of that.
The author is trying to explain the difference between a Black Republican and a Hip Hop Republican. I don't see any real difference between the two based on what he's saying. Both seem to be selling the same thing only they may differ on the cultural references they interject into their talking points.
Speaking of references, in the article the author quotes lyrics from It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. It's interesting to find the author would even cite any rhymes from that era (and that album) considering a lot of the music that came from that time was a reflection of the policies of Ronald Reagan and the first George Bush. I don't recall Black people prospering under their administrations, do you?
The entire article comes across as pandering and after reading it and the Hip Hop Republican website I can't help but look at all of this as a joke.
I don't see how "Hip Hop Republicans" (whatever that means) is a movement on the rise, and despite claims that the terms aren't oxymoronic, the author failed to point out just what Republicans and hip-hop have in common.
It took me a second, but I found some commonalities between the two. Republicans hate gays, women, and Black people. The same can be said about most mainstream hip-hop.
Outside of that, I got nothing and apparently neither does he.
After being sucked into the wonderful train wreck of TV known as The Real Housewives of Atlanta last year, I started to watch the other editions of the series. Although not as engaging as the series in Atlanta or Orange County, I watched The Real Housewives of New York.
