SMH Please stay in your lane...

Kim Zolciak has released a song called "Google Me." While it's not quite as successful as Teyana Taylor's "Google Me Baby," the vocals are much more polished than her previous single "Tardy for the Party." Honestly, there isn't much more I can say about her. I completely understand making money off of the celebrity received from a reality television show, but stay in your lane people! This is the SMH moment of the week.

Patiently Waiting

When I heard that Tyler Perry was remaking the classic "For Colored Girl's Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbows Not Enough" I was a little bit skeptical. I am not the hugest fan of all of his works, and this is one of the stories that is truly sacred. The Posters for the movie have been released, and I have a new found faith just from the emotions that the imagery is conveying. I can not wait to see this film!
UPDATE: The trailer was just released as well. Check it out after the pictures.

#Win of the Week - Whip my Hair

As the aunt of an impressionable 9 year old girl, I often find myself watching my every move. When she was 2 and I was 17, I thought it was so cute that she emulated Beyonce, Now that I’m 24 and she is 9, I fear she is growing up too fast. Becoming young woman is hard enough, but it seems that children these days are exposed to too much too young. When I dance I try not to pop too hard, sway too much, turn down the sex appeal, and focus on the fun. I try hard to steer my niece away from the Miley’s and be more like Taylor Swift, but I can’t protect her from everything. She knows how to use the remote control, and she knows how to use the Internet. I check out Clutch Magazine for my daily dose of info, and ran across a posting about Willow Smiths new song “I Whip my Hair”. After rolling my eyes, I pressed play. I soon found myself bopping my head in my cubicle, and I was elated with the hard beats and the youthful fun of the song. Finally, something I can add to my PG playlist that I play in front of my nieces and nephews (and my dad). If you haven’t heard the song check it out. This is definitely my Win of the Week.



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Be like Becky

In a recent article in Vibe magazine, rapper Slim Thug makes many over exaggerations, which I hate to say, have some basis in the truth. Unfortunately, his way of describing his point only makes him as horrible and hypocritical as the people he is talking about.
The article begins with the statement, “The way Black people think in general is messed up. Both men and women need to change their way of thinking.” This statement would probably be the peak of the article, and everything else goes down hill from there.

Slim continues to explain himself by stating,
Most single Black women feel like they don’t want to settle for less. Their standards are too high right now. They have to understand that successful Black men are kind of extinct. We’re important. It’s hard to find us so Black women have to bow down and let it be known that they gotta start working hard; they gotta start cooking and being down for they man more. They can’t just be running around with their head up in the air and passing all of us.

To be honest I would never tell a woman to settle for less, but I would tell a woman to reevaluate her basis of what it means to be a good man. If you do not know what you are looking for in a man, you will be able to find a man who meets your stands. In addition, if you are only looking at a mans worth based upon his bank account, you are setting yourself up for failure. My personal belief is that I can take care of myself, and I base the value on a man on the respect that he gives his family, his morals, his work ethic, his ability to grow as a person, and the respect that he gives me.
I’m not sure where slim gets this notion about bowing don to a man, because I cant imagine myself bowing down to anyone; however, I do believe that a woman does need to let a man be a man. There are roles in a relationship, and those roles should be established by the people in the relationship and no one else! If you have expectations in a relationship, those expectations should be made clear. Do not expect your mate to be a mind reader.
His most controversial quote (in the minds of Black women) was

“White women treat they man like a king and Black women feel like they ain’t gotta do that shit. Black women need to stand by their man more. Don’t always put the pressure of if I’m fucking with you, you gotta buy me this and that”

Maybe Slim doesn’t read his history books, but I do not know a race of women who has stood by their men more than Black women. It is not that Black women do not stand by their man, it is that society is set up to have an imbalance in the Black family structure. More and more Black women continue to raise themselves up the social ladder, while Black men have a series of obstacles preventing them from achieving the same goals.
The only part of the article that I can say that Slim lives by himself was when he spoke about Black people needing to learn how to invest their money instead of waste their money on things that will not maintain their value. While I agree that there are a lot of Black people who need to change their way of thinking, I do not attribute this as a race issue, but a socio-economic issue. The most important part of what he was saying will ultimately be lost in a sea of hate regarding his comparison of Black and White women. It seems like pretty common sense at this point to know that that is the ultimate NO NO. Articles presented in this manner only bring a continuation of a long history of hate.


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Roger That Rapping Weather Man Win of the Week

A very playful and tasteful rapping homage to promote Fox4. Sometimes these kinds of things can be extremely offensive (is there a guy with black face in this video?), but this guy actually took the time to do this right. He studied the hand motions, got a little bit of flow, got his glasses for his swag and you'll see the rest. I could have dealt without his sidekicks, but it brought a laugh at work today. Check it out! A for effort... Thanks to @T_ALSTON7 for the find...



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Do I have to say I told you so?

I've been super busy lately, and I haven't been reading up enough to put up an informed post. But, I did find this video in my twitter time-line care of the Huffington Post. Of course, there was an American citizen whose illegal papers were ignored and presumed to be fake! According to the video he was held for 2 days. The most chilling statement from the piece was, "We know of instances in which young people in his same situation are actually taken to the border and deported from the United States." This reminds me of Charlie Murphy's Hot Ghetto Mess (We Got to Do Better) Come on America!



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A win and a fail...

Yesterday, Rachel Maddow interviewed Rand Paul on her show, and she proved that she is not willing to back down from issues that she deems important. Like oh say your basic civil rights. Paul was stated that he does not believe that discrimination should be allowed in any endeavor that receives public funding; however, he does not believe that the government has the right to tell private owners how to run their businesses. He later goes on to compare serving blacks or gays in a place where owners do not want them around as bringing guns into bars and restaurants! Unfortunately, a person with these views just won the primary in Kentucky. The only thing I do support that he stated is that I do believe in freedom of speech. I think that all speech regardless of what it is should be protected. It is harder to fight a silent enemy or one that you do not know exists. Check out the clip below.

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