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To put it bluntly, I’m sick of hearing or seeing Chris Brown. He’s a BITCH and a COWARD. And now he has the AUDACITY to complain about Rhianna going on 20/20 and talking about the night he BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HER ! It is OBVIOUS that he still hasn’t learned a DAMN THING from this incident and still thinks the world revolves around him. It is OBVIOUS he hasn’t learned a DAMN THING from the Domestic Abuse classes he is supposed to be taking. It is OBVIOUS the so called “spiritual advise he is going to seek” isn’t helping one bit! And it is even MORE OBVIOUS that he is still an abuser. Because by saying that the “incident should stay between us“, he is using the same language and exhibiting the same behavior as an abuser.
Hey, I understand that people make mistakes. And I understand that everyone should be given a second chance. But that chance is only given when that person is TRULY SORRY. I have yet to see any real remorse in any interview he has done. He always looks like the “class nerd” whose lab experiment went ACCIDENTALLY wrong. Like the kid in class who had a “bad idea” and says he will never do it again. All the while, he has his fingers crossed behind his back. He sounds like Eddie Haskell from the “Leave it to Beaver show” talking to Mrs. Cleaver and telling her “what a pretty dress she has on.” Even when he is giving her praise, you always think there is “something under his sleeve! Almost every word looks like he has been standing in front of a mirror saying it over and over again. Practicing the right inflection in his voice. The right pause or eyebrow raise. All those interviews seem to happen to try and rehabilitate his reputation. And not what is should be. To take full ownership of what he has done!
And now he is saying what happened that night should stay between him and Rhianna. WHY? So HE won’t look bad? So he can get his “life back?” And his donation of concert proceeds to Domestic Abuse Centers seems hollow and another way to make himself look good. If he wouldn’t have put his hands on Rhianna in the first place, none of his problems would have happened. He is almost trying to make it sound like HE is the VICTIM! But it isn’t working.
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Political LOUD MOUTH Bill O’reilly recently stated that the late Michael Jackson was not a “Black Icon.” His reasoning was that while MJ talked about saving the world, “he spent money lavishly” and that should make any clear thinking American “nauseous.” Since when did o’reilly, lower caps on purpose, become the the arbiter of ANYTHING BLACK?
I can remember getting up on Saturday mornings and while eating my bowl of Captain Crunch cereal, watching the Jackson Five cartoons. And after going through one of their adventures, they would usually sing one of their hits. Which could be considered one of the first “music videos.” At that time, the early 70′s, there were very few shows that featured African Americans of any age. For a Black show to be on tv at all was an event. And the Jackson Five cartoon was on EVERY SATURDAY! And it aired on the network channel so everyone was watching it. That in itself is iconic!
For people of a certain age who were in high school when MTV first came along, we remember watching the channel and seeing few African American artists. And when we did see them, it was usually after 10:00pm. Initially, MTV refused to even run videos by African American artists. It was Michael who broke the “MTV color line” and whose videos aired on MTV hourly! And don’t think for a minute that MTV “made” Michael. He was a star long before MTV came along. MTV brought Jackson into the homes of white teenagers and reminded their parents of the talented performer they grew up listening to and whose cartoon they had watched! I wonder how many kids rode with their listening to Mike? How many parents were able to start a dialog with their kids on important issues, that began by having a mutual like for Michael Jackson’s music? Did MTV create an icon? NO! MTV rode on the coattails of an icon. And that icon is named Michael Jackson!
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Madonna is at it again. She is again attempting to adopt a child from the African Country of Malawi. This time she is going to adopt a girl. While the press is turning back flips over this event, the Black folks in America could care less. Because for most of us, Madonna stopped being relevant over a decade ago! The props she once had in our community evaporated, at least for me, back in 1996 when in a Spin magazine article, she said that she was treated worse by Black men than any other man. That Black women just accept it, that it’s a cultural thing, essentially Black people ain’t shit!
In the Spin Magazine article, she vacillates between saying things like “Blacks were/are treated badly” to things like she was surprised by how badly some Black people treat her because “she is a minority too!” A white woman is a minority. Yeah, ok if YOU say so. But I digress. The fact is that early on, most people thought she was Black and she used that to further her career. Then when it was “safe” she dogged Black folks out. And ever since that time frame, most Black folks have stopped paying attention to her. And her career has not been the same since. The media continues to tell us about her every move, but we aren’t buying her cd’s. We aren’t buying tickets to her concerts. Taking off her clothes and “telling the man” what time SHE thinks it is, no longer interests us. She has become irrelevant to us. So her adoption of a young Malawian boy a few years ago and her attempt to adopt a Malawian girl now is being received in the Black community with a collective yawn.
We all know that Madonna is a calculating woman. NOTHING she does is “out of the goodness of her heart.” And her adoptions are being looked at as an attempt to get back into the good graces of Black folks. Not as an attempt to give a Black kid a better opportunity in life. We all hope she is trying to help two young children out, but we are skeptical. We all know better.
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