Where's the Outrage?

Apparently these two clowns Fist Chris Brown and Drake went at it in a nightclub last weekend or something like that.  Seems that Chris Brown sent Drake a bottle of champagne, Drake decided to send back a note reminding Chris that he (like the rest of Hollywood) is still screwing Rihanna and that's when ish went left.

Actually, no.  The whole damn thing started off wayyyy left.

First of all, you have two spoiled, entitled, thugs award winning artists who are dealing with the same woman on some level, one of whom is still on probation because he beat the living crap out of her.  The other who is more sensitive than the skin in his own pants.  Anyway, these clowns first missed the fact that they are not special, everyone in the industry has done, is doing, will do Rihanna at some point.  This is not a secret.  Drake even tweeted about it. So to start off, they're really fighting about nothing.  Trash.

But if they like it, I love it.  Anyway, the whole thing turns into a melee, bottles are thrown, pictures of stitches are being Tweeted and Instagram'd all over the place and...Tony Parker is suing the club for $20 million?

Wha...?

Doesn't all this sound ridiculous and stupid to you?  Why is this always black people?  Why can't we be out in large numbers at a club and have a fun night without a bunch of drama popping off?  This is why we can't have nice places to party because we always want to fight about something,or in this case, nothing.  When is the last time you even heard of two white celebrities publicly fighting over a woman?  When is the last time a white club had to get shut down because there was too much fighting?  Sure it happens, but look at how much more often it's us doing this stupid sh*&.  Then those of us who actually know how to act in public get turned away from certain bars and clubs because they look at us and see how stupid these and other clowns before us acted.

Really?

We get mad as soon as someone points out how stupid we look or act and people want to get mad at white journalists who call Drake or Chris Brown "thugs".  Their behavior that night was petty, childish, and yes, thuggish whether someone white is saying it or not.  Be mad all you want, but it's the truth.  Both of them AND the thugs they were clubbin' with that night exhibited thuggish behavior and that's what they should have been called, I don't care how many records they've sold.

What else is sad about this is how they've handled things since, with Drake's camp saying they won't cooperate with the police because they don't "snitch".  Then on the other end, Chris Brown cooperating fully with the police because he's on probation for beating the hell out of the slut they've been fighting over.

This whole picture is all messed up here.

But this, yet again, is black on black violence at its pettiest and yet, there's no outrage from the black community at the fact that these celebrities are, yet again, not only a poor representation of the best of us, but a poor influence as well.  No outrage that, yet again, another black celebrity is setting a bad example and making us look like a bunch of gang banging thugs.  No outrage at the fact that these are the people that we're allowing to influence our children.

Have we desensitized ourselves to that point?  We couldn't really be that deeply in denial, could we?

We get outraged when white people kill us, like George Zimmerman, but how come we don't get outraged when we kill each other?  People like George Zimmerman aren't the ones shooting young black men on street corners, THEY ARE KILLING EACH OTHER!  We don't need help from murderers like Zimmerman, we're doing just fine destroying ourselves, thank you very much.  How come we can turn on the TV and sit and watch story after story about how one unidentified black male is dead after being gunned down by another unidentified black male but we don't blink an eye?  I haven't heard about a single march in Chicago this year, where forty and fifty people have been getting shot in SINGLE WEEKENDS.  Where's our outrage at that number?

There are some broken things in our community that need to be fixed.  We should be outraged with ourselves that we've allowed it to go on for this long and we need to start being outraged at anything that sets out to destroy our community.  We need to stop standing in our own way and stand in the way of the destructive forces that we've allowed to reign for far too long.  Even if the problem is us.

"Father" of 30

I need some help figuring this one out.

In 2009, 30 year old Desmond Hatchett appeared in a Tennessee court to answer to them regarding child support.  Tennessee has verified through DNA tests that this guy, who works ONE MINIMUN WAGE JOB has fathered 21 children with 11 different women.

Anyway, they wanted him to explain to them how he intends to pay child support since all the mothers are on welfare with some of them getting less than $2 a month for child support.  Half of his minimum wage paycheck goes to the eleven dumbasses that allowed him to knock them up.  More on that later.  Anyway, he asked for help and was declined.  Good for you, Tennessee.  Get another damn job!  Are you serious?  I have NO children and have worked THREE jobs at a time, what the hell?!  Lazy bastard!

When interviewed after court, he said he was pretty sure he was done having kids.

If only he wasn't full of s**t.

Fast forward to May, 2012.  Yep, last month.  Dirty Desmond the Dynamic Dick Distributor is back in court.  THIS time, he's again asking for a break on child support payments.  Only now, there are 30 children.

WITH THE SAME 11 WOMEN!!!!

See, that's what messed my head up.  Sure, it would have been bad if new women had gotten knocked up by this trifling man when his face has been on TV, but these women are TEN TIMES more trifling than he is for this.  You mean to tell me you already have a child or more than one with this man, so you already know about all the bastard children he's not taking care of.

HOW COULD YOU EVEN SLEEP WITH THIS MAN?!?!  You are ALL disgusting and you make women look bad.  Period.  Clearly, none of you trifling women are worried about diseases that could leave your children orphans so it's obvious that you not only don't care about yourself, but you don't care about your children.  Funny enough, women like this are the first ones somewhere hollerin' about how they want better for their children than they had.  That doesn't mean they have an XBox AND a PS3 when you only had an old school Nintendo, it has nothing to do with material things.

If you want better for your children, you don't want them to be one of thirty siblings!  You can't provide for them!  You can't get any money from him and you knew that in 2009 so why would any one of you dumb broads keep breeding with this bastard?  Clearly you're not the only woman he's with, doesn't at least THAT matter?  You know you can get condoms ANYWHERE, right?  If you're on welfare I know damned well the state will pay for your birth control.  Obviously, you're not breeding with him for the money because clearly he has none.  Bastard won't even get a second job or try to better himself so he can get one job that pays more than minimum wage.

These women just don't care, and it makes no sense.  You got any ideas?  Cause I can't figure out what the hell is wrong with any one of these stupid women.

John Edwards

John Edwards got off.

Shocker.

It was more of a shock that they brought the case at all.  Clearly, this guy is about the biggest narcissist politics has seen in a really long time and definitely the second biggest cad (that award firmly remains in the hands of Newt Gingrich).  He cheated on his wife as she battled, and later succombed to, cancer.  He didn't use protection, not only exposing his sick wife to STD's, but also knocking up his TRASHY mistress Rielle Hunter.

Of course the money was to cover up the affair because he wanted to be President.  I doubt very seriously that he was all that worried about his wife finding out, a guy this full of himself couldn't possibly have put this in motion to benefit someone other than himself.  Especially since he cheated on her as she battled cancer.  But there was just about no way they were going to prove it.  A waste of too much taxpayer money desperately needed for more important things.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have seen this jackass pay for what he did to his wife and how he tried to fool people while he was running for office.  This guy cheated on his wife as she battled cancer, and with one of the TRASHIEST, loudest, classless women I've seen since that Armenian chick on reality TV.  Let's be honest, Edwards is a very attractive man who seems to be aging pretty well, probably got a few good years left in him.  Could he not do better than a woman in her 40's who approaches him and tells him he's "hot"?

Really?

Then he (because he is such a narcissist) goes and does the interview with Bob Woodruff saying there's no way Quinn is his child, that he didn't know about any money being paid to his trick.  Good luck with her when she finally sees that video.  But the icing on the cake is the press conference you KNEW he was going to give after the trial.  "I don't think God's through with me yet...", "To my precious Quinn (insert obligatory fake choking up emotion)..." "...me and me alone..."

Yeah Johnny, we know.

News in the Trayvon Martin case...

George Zimmerman has 48 hours to report to jail for being a liar.

Today a judge determined that both Zimmerman and his wife lied about $100,000 they had in a PayPal account.  I'm not surprised at all.  When I found out how much had been raised, I knew he had to have had at least some of it at the time of his bond hearing.  And it was easy for me to tell she was lying during that testimony, trying to be all careful with her words.  Girl please.

Then it comes out that Zimmerman turned in a passport that he had reported lost or stolen and had since had replaced.  Problem is, he held on to the replacement passport that he got, which is valid so he still had a passport and $200,000 in his PayPal account.

Now why would anyone want to hide money and a passport?  Hmmmm....

Not the best picture he's painting of himself.  He's now painting himself as a liar.  We all know how it goes.  If he hasn't done anything wrong, why keep money and a passport hidden while you're facing trial for something he says was self defense?  Why lie about anything if you didn't do it?

Don't let the doorknob hit ya...have fun in solitary.

Houston Family Chronicles

Yep.  Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, who made money off Whitney Houston when she was alive has signed up for a reality show so that they can keep making money off of her now that she's dead.  They're using the whole "Oh we were going to do it anyway, this was in the works BEFORE Whitney died..." excuse. 

Right.

Every single member of that family has been talking to the media NON STOP since she died and not one of them mentioned anything about a reality show having been in the works at the time of her death.  Do you REALLY think they would have missed the chance to bring that up?  Not with all the media whoring they've been doing.  The reasons for Whitney's problems are becoming more clear the more these people run their mouths.  No wonder she had so many issues.  Seems like she's better off where she is now.  Yeah, I said it.  Am I that far off base?

Trayvon Martin - UPDATED

Trayvon Martin was visiting his father in a gated community in Sanford, FL on February 26, 2012.  He had walked to the store and was walking back in the rain with Skittles and a bottle of iced tea when he caught the attention of George Zimmerman.  Zimmerman was a self-appointed neighborhood watchman who had a habit of calling the police for the smallest things and of being a bit hairtrigger in his tactics.  He had called them on this night too, saying he was watching a suspicious looking guy that looked like he was "on drugs or something" because he was walking around in the rain looking at the houses.  

Seriously?

According to the 911 calls and witness accounts, Trayvon notices Zimmerman watching him.  Trayvon runs from Zimmerman, yells for help, struggles with the older, bigger man and is then shot dead.  Trayvon was 17. 

Trayvon Martin could have been my son.  Your son.  My nephew.  He could have been anyone.  Anyone's kid walking home from the store with candy and iced tea.  He wasn't doing anything that made him suspicious.  This kid was shot because he was black.

Why do I say that?  Maybe because Zimmerman was a known racist.  Or maybe it was because the boy was UNARMED and all he was doing was WALKING!  Maybe because he had the nerve to be present in a gated community, of course he didn't belong there so Zimmerman had to go and teach him a lesson.  Why else would he approach someone if he felt he saw someone suspicious and possibly dangerous enough to warrant a call to the police?  Why would he follow him when he ran off?  He didn't see him do anything other than walk in the rain with candy!  If he was that concerned for the safety of his neighbors, why would he chase a kid who may have been trouble right into the neighborhood he claims he was trying to protect?  

Any WHY is the police department allowed to overlook this cold-blooded murder and do their level best to sweep it under the rug?  What makes them think it's ok for a 17 year old kid to be shot dead and his killer to walk the streets free?!  Why are they covering up what this guy did?  If they weren't trying to cover it up, why did it take so much time and pressure from so many in order to get them to release the 911 tapes?  Recordings which clearly show that Zimmerman was the aggressor in this incident and that Trayvon was screaming for help BEFORE he was shot in cold blood.  Why are they downplaying or trying to coerce witnesses into altering their statements? 

Do I seem angry?  You're damned right I'm angry!  Everyone should be angry!  This is someone's CHILD that is DEAD for NOTHING!  For no other reason than because he was somewhere being himself.  I don't care what color you are, no one should have to worry about their children looking suspicious because they have candy (something a few kids like, just so you know) or because they're the wrong color.  Trayvon represents EVERYONE'S child.  He represents every murder that goes unpunished and every victim of some psychotic wanna be cop who puts himself in charge of the neighborhood watch. 

Now before I continue, I have to do a little disclaimer.  You see, I know this blog has a good amount of Christian readers.  It's one of the reasons I waited so long to blog about this story.  Yes, I wanted to wait to hear the 911 tapes first, but I also wanted to get my language right before I put anything up.  Don't want anyone not to read about something this important because of a few choice words.  Having said all that, I apologize for the language going forward (really isn't that bad) but there is one thing about this that REALLY pisses me off...

Why the HELL hasn't my BLACK ASS PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA had ANYTHING to say about this?!?!  Because he knows DAMNED well that before he got Secret Service protection, SOMEBODY at the country club he was patronizing asked him to fetch them another glass of scotch.  He, of ALL people, should be front and center on this because this has been him before I don't care how light he is.  The most I've heard from the White House (ain't that some sh*&) is this bullsh*& right here:  "[O]bviously we're not going to wade into a local law enforcement matter".

What the hell is that supposed to mean?  So a 17 year old black boy gunned down in cold blood doesn't bother my black ass President because it's a "local law enforcement matter"?

You know what...

I don't mess with politics here and I'm definitely going to stick with that since this is not about politicians.  This is about Trayvon Martin, a boy who I don't want to see die for nothing.  So just like so many of you fell all over yourselves reposting the Kony 2012 video, post about Trayvon Martin until your fingers bleed if you have to.  This could have been your son, nephew, brother, friend, student.  

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

UPDATE

In fairness, President Obama did make a brief statement regarding Trayvon's death yesterday at the White House.  A link to the video is here:  

http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2012/03/23/president-obama-trayvon-martin.pool.html
 

It's clear that this is a difficult statement for him to make and yes, I do understand that especially now, as commander in chief, he has to maintain a degree of impartiality.  Having said that, his delay in making this statement is still troubling to me.  Nonetheless, since the FBI and company have become involved so for now, I'll assume he's saying a lot more with this action. 

Gotta love America

Michigan has done something that makes sense!  They have stripped a woman of her $200 monthly food stamps after she went on TV bragging about how she was still getting them even after she won a million dollars on a lotto game show.

She cleared a bit over $500,000 after taxes.  Showing her age (24), she went out and bought a car and two houses but she forgot to get a job while she was out doing all that.  It's been a LONG time since winning $500,000 could get  you "set for life" or even legitimize going on a huge spending spree with real estate and cars, especially when you have no job. 

She'll be broke again in a few months (if that) and when she goes back for food stamps this time she'll actually qualify, although for being that much of a loser she wouldn't deserve one penny's worth.  Especially since they're being paid for by those of us that have jobs.

I never will understand how people think they can sit on their behinds and do nothing and that everybody else is responsible for them.  Oh wait a minute.  That's how welfare works, isn't it?  What a joke.

"Shut up, woman!" (Part Two)

So Rush Limbaugh issued an apology for the mind numbingly sexist and ignorant remarks he made about Sandra Fluke.  Most likely because he was bleeding sponsors and he probably felt he had no choice.  Just like I said, he'll probably be on his best behavior for a good while, but he'll still be around, spewing the same narrow minded thinking he always has.  I truly couldn't care less.

What I do care about is what this says about how far women have come in this society, how far we still have to go, and for heaven's sake, why?  Why do we even have people who think it's right to have a discussion about an issue that affect women without having at least one woman involved in the discussion?  Why is it that there are people like Limbaugh who think it's perfectly acceptable to make remarks like that about women in a society where, at least by law, we're all created equally?  I mean, supposedly women have equal rights.  Or is that only as long as we "know our place"?

I believe that we, as women, have to accept our share of responsibility for the fact that this type of mentality still exists.  We have to conduct ourselves in a manner that commands respect.  If we want to be seen as women and not objects, we can't objectify ourselves by doing things that demean us as women.  We have to respect ourselves first and make that self respect OBVIOUS to those around us in the way that we behave and the way that we conduct ourselves.

We have to start using our brains to get ahead, not our bodies and our looks, which fade I don't care how much plastic surgery there is.  Women spend so much money buying fake breasts, behinds, lips, and hair because society wants us to believe that the more attractive we are physically, the more money there is for us.  That may be the case for a little while, especially if we want to be video models or strippers, industries created specifically to exploit women.

We need to spend money on educating ourselves instead of buying body parts that we weren't meant to have in the first place.  If more of us start using our brains to get ahead instead of using our bodies we may have more opportunities presented to us that require the use of our brains and not our looks.  Then we may be taken more seriously.

It's much hotter to be a smart rich girl.  When the wrinkles on your face stop you from paying the bills, you always have the ones in your brain to fall back on.  I think we'll do ourselves a great justice to put this into more frequent practice.

"Shut up, woman!" (Part One)

So this whole recent firestorm about the birth control issue and Rush Limbaugh and his big mouth has me pretty irritated.  First, the whole situation is a mess to begin with.  How do you have a panel to discuss women's reproductive issues that consists of a bunch of rich old white guys?  Didn't we straighten this whole thing out back in the 70's?  LAST century?  Why is it being brought up again and why in the world is it being addressed by everyone but the people who take the pill in the first place? What a JOKE!  Guess that's why so many prescription plans pay for Viagra but don't want to pay for the pill.  The plans that do pay for the pill are probably behind this whole movement, but I'm sure they'll still help with your Viagra buddy. 

And then you have Rush Limbaugh's mouth.  Rush seems to think that Sandra Fluke is a "slut" and a "prostitute" because "she wants to be paid to have sex".  Extremism at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.  But he didn't stop there.  The next day he says that if we're to pay for her birth control, we want video of all her sexual exploits so that we could all watch.  The hell?  Would ANYONE in radio have DARED to make a remark like this about a man?  What kind of idiot says this stuff and thinks it's ok?  But it probably will be.  Let's face it, next year this time, Rush will probably still have his radio show and he'll still be spewing complete ignorance that a lot of people like and he'll do something stupid like this again very soon.

It's really too bad, to me, that women are still so low on the social totem pole and still so sexually objectified.  To the point that a politico who doesn't like what a woman stands for uses sexually charged terminology to voice his disagreement with her views.  Here's a young woman studying law, being brave enough to step in front of the world and voice her concerns.  This after getting doors shut in her face because there was no room at the table for a woman to debate birth control because the table's full of men.  Ms. Fluke should be seen as a role model for young women and girls who want to study law or who are afraid of what may happen if they stand up for something they believe in.   Yet because she decided to speak up for what's important to her, she's publicly degraded and in a sexual way because she's a female.

If he was trying to make the point that if you can't afford to pay for birth control you shouldn't have sex, well, it's an excellent point.  I actually agree, however, that is not the reality of the world we are living in today.  That may well have been the case in the 30's, which is apparently where he thinks we are now, but we're actually in 2012 Rush.  We should certainly have evolved enough that we remember that we're all created equal.  I would hope things have improved to the point that if people feel a need to insult someone because they disagree with someone else's point of view, they can do it without such a filthy way of insulting the holder of the offending opinion.  But what I wish people like him would do is just sit somewhere and shut the hell up.

I mean, that's basically what he wants Sandra Fluke to do, right?  Why so much vitriol in his remarks?  It's this whole, "Shut up, woman!" mentality.  Joan of Arc, Hilary Clinton (though I wish she would), the Suffragettes, hell, Gisele Bundchen!  They were basically told to go somewhere and be seen and not heard.

(to be continued)

Now this is a HOT mess!!

Apparently there are people in the black community that believe that Jay-Z's song about his daughter (I can't with the name), "Glory", will inspire young absentee fathers to do a better job at parenting because they will look to Jay-Z as a role model.  Bless their hearts.  The idea that swarms of deadbeat fathers all over the land or even five of them will suddenly "see the light" and decide they're going to be good fathers because Jay-Z made a song about his daughter is pretty desperate.  His job is to make songs.  Helloooo? I'm pretty sure single parent homes have increased since Stevie Wonder released "Isn't She Lovely".  Pretty sure that fact can't be attributed to him.  At least not by anyone with more than one functioning brain cell.

Newsflash:  Jay-Z already has a 9 year old son with Shenelle Scott, a video model from Trinidad, and to a WHOLE lot of people, this is NOT news.  We knew about it when he supposedly bought her off for a million bucks and bought her a house in the islands to keep her quiet.  Google, people.  He supposedly provides very well financially for them and while I have not heard anything about whether or not father and son have a relationship, I have seen the readily-available-on-the-internet pictures of the boy and you can see the resemblance.  Fortunately, the boy is still cute as can be, his mother to thank for it. 

Now, according to Beyonce', she's been riding her camel with her husband for ten years.  This is what she said in the same Australian interview where her "stomach" folded over when she sat down.  Do the math, but not even my point.  Here's my question to those who think he's Cliff Huxtable 2.0:  Does a good father acknowledge one child and hide the presence of another for the sake of his image?  Is this what people want to see more of?   I would hope not, I think we have quite enough of this as it is, that's how people end up having three eyed babies with their siblings years down the line - trying to hide kids away.  That's how the community got so fractured to begin with and this is why we're so messed up with our mindset on this.  We started letting fathers just walk away from their families and deny the fact that they even existed.  Then they'd go off to another city or state and make another family to dump somewhere else.  Guess that's how they want their families to look.  I'll pass.  I'd prefer to see our community do BETTER in this area.  Idolizing someone who has demonstratively missed the mark would only make the problem worse. 

What say you?

One of very few "political" posts you'll see here...

I didn't watch, but I'm sure by now many of you have heard all about last night's CNN Southern Republican Presidential Debate.  I'm sure just as many of you have heard about the ex-wife of Newt Gingrich giving an interview during which she claims that he asked her for an open marriage and she refused, resulting in their divorce.  Hey look, the whole lot of them (Democrats, Republicans, the like) are up to much worse than that I'm sure and if I had my way I'd fire every single one of them and replace them all.  But I don't do political discussions so anyhoo...I'm talking about this because it's a sad state of affairs that moderator John King chose to OPEN the debate by asking Gingrich about his ex-wife's allegations.  Now, I'm sure most of us figured it would come up at some point, but to begin it that way?  A question like that deserves the ire it got.  Way to keep it classy America.  Come on, people!

Oh REALLY, Marky Mark? (stupid people saying stupid things...)

So apparently Mark Wahlberg told Men's Journal in an interview that "If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did.  There would have been a lot of blood in that first class cabin and then me saying, "OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry."  This idiot is, of course, referring to Flight 93 that crashed as passengers attempted to overtake the hijackers.  Maybe he should have just stayed Marky Mark and made garbage "rap pop" music and faded off into the abyss a la Vanilla Ice.

The widow of one of those heroes he couldn't be if he begged, Dena Burnett-Bailey, had this to say in response to this clown insulting the memory of her husband Thomas Burnett, "Does Mark Wahlberg have a pilot's license?  Then I think hindsight is 20/20 and it's insignificant to say what you would have done if you weren't there.  The plan for Flight 93 was foiled by heroes.  For him to speculate that his presence on board could have stopped everything is silly and disrespectful.  Sounds like someone is grandstanding."  I know that's right.

Anyhow, he quickly apologized, saying "To speculate about such a situation is ridiculous to begin with.  I deeply apologize to the families of the victims that my answer came off as insensitive, it was certainly not my intention."  His publicist didn't do too bad with that one.  I actually think he'll manage to keep his career if he doesn't say anything else stupid.  Our society likes to forgive.  He'd better hope they do so he can feed all those kids he keeps having.  Who does he think he is, Chuck Norris?