"If you’re looking for the meaning of life from Beyoncé I need for you to go and let your forehead kiss the sidewalk."
— Oh, the things I’ve written.
"I’m always tickled by Christians - especially Black ones - who use the Bible to defend bigotry and feign morality. Have you ever worked on a Sunday? If so, you should voluntary submit to your punishment: death. Do you sleep outside when you’re on your period, ladies? You should according to scripture. Same for not approaching the altar with your nasty blood. Parents, have you murdered your disobedient children lately? Or sold them into slavery to pay off debts? That includes your daughter — y’know, once she turns 12 and a day. Sexual slavery is apparently fine so long as the old man puts a ring on it. Oh and when I said, parents, naturally I meant the ones who did it the right way via marriage. Not you bastard breeders, mind you. And if you’ve ever eaten shrimp or mixed fabrics: I’ll see you in hell. I’ll be in VIP. I could go on, but that’d only confuse the whole lot of you. Which begs the question, how many of you actually knew such language was in the Bible? Raise your hand. Good. Now proceed to slap yourselves silly with it. God bless!"
— Me to the Facebook Christians posturing on my page. Amen.
Basketball Wives: Boycott or Balance?
When I tune into Basketball Wives, I know exactly what I’m getting, which is why I don’t bother feigning shock that people paid to behave ridiculously on camera do so diligently week after week. It’s why I also refuse to completely join the guilt fest currently spreading across the Web.
The show’s biggest personality, Evelyn Lozada, has become the subject of anew online petition rallying against her alleged bullying ways. And after watching Evelyn’s ex-BFF, Jennifer Williams, get smacked in the face on camera by her former friend on a recent episode of Basketball Wives, Star Jones is seeking to bring about a caucus in order to boycott and “tell the truth about the image of women of color in the media.” She also declared, “[L]ittle Black girls deserve more than what we’re giving!”
Even some of the stars of Basketball Wives are speaking out about the direction the show has taken. Shaunie O’Neal, who executive produces and co-stars in the series, acknowledges that some of the behavior on the show – largely from her friends Evelyn and Tami Roman – can conceivably be perceived as bullying, though she attributes that mainly due to their “strong personalities.”
Roman, on the other hand, has cited “editing” as the culprit and claimed, “I would love to see a season 5 where VH1 and Shed Media are called out to show more positive things that we’re doing and show us how we are 90 percent of the time, instead of how we are 10 percent of the time.”
Oh.
Read the rest here.
Fire up your pad and pencil, I’ll give you a piece of my mind.
"I suppose he might be a little cool. He does listen to that gangsta rap.” She looked up toward the ceiling. “There’s always a party going on up there."
— Angela Bassett on Samuel L. Jackson
"There’s a weird kind of cultural obsession with instant gratification that has entered our business model. Nobody’s interested in making a living - they only want to make a fortune."
"I don’t give a fuck. ‘I’m 36 and mature’: I don’t think like that. I don’t fucking think like that. ‘OMG, I’m 36 and I’m mature and I have a fucking 18-year-old daughter.’ I don’t think like that. I really don’t think like that."
— Evelyn Lozada, stating the fucking obvious
Just think of all the possibilities.
