Sunday, November 12, 2006

I Know, I Know ... yep ...


yeah you too.
Yes, I owe you. I'm over due. I just don't know if I feel like sitting at this computer and spewing my thoughts out via the diatribe vehicle. But I'ma try.

Thought No. 1: RIP to Ed Bradley. A black man (with an earring - notice that's singular) in the public eye who was really about something. I can only hope to be like him someday in some way.

Thought No. 2: RIP Gerald Levert. I found out about Gerald passing while driving home from the dry cleaners or something like that. I heard three Gerald Levert songs back-to-back-to-back and immediately texted my best friend: "I think Gerald Levert died." I had no confirmation, but three songs in a row kind of tipped it off. I was right.

Thought No. 3: I'm glad BET tried to tribute Gerald. Notice how I said tried. On Sunday, they showed episodes of The Parkers and The Jamie Foxx Show with Gerald making cameos of sorts. Why couldn't somebody work on Saturday and actually put together an actual tribute for the man, I do not know. But we must remember, this is Bojangling Entertainment Television. If you don't bojangle (i.e. shuck and jive), you gets no love.

Thought No. 4: I hate Midwest weather. Eighty degrees (when I tell that trick please) and sunny one day, 25 and freezing rain the next. You gotta love Kansas/Missouri.

Thought No. 5: I think I'm coming hard this week with a take on black males, guns and the word bitch. Stay tuned. It might be a poem or it might just be words. Who knows. But I'm feeling it.

Thought No. 6: Kevin Federline (I don't care if I spell this wrong) should be .... you finish the sentence. No, honestly, I think we should gather up every last one of these celebrity couples that wants a divorce, and throw them into confinement with their spouse until they either resolve their issues or until one kills the other. Then lock the other up for life. If you have all that they do, should you be able to co-exist in some way, shape or form? Can't you find that magic that brought you together in the first place? You shouldn't bitch about stupid shit. And if you're Britney Spears you shouldn't be dumb enough to marry a back-up dancer who left his pregnant girlfriend to be with you. You shouldn't be, but you are and any person who buys another one of your albums does nothing but prove that their level of intelligence doesn't even meet yours.

Thought No. 6: I got this in a forward, and thought it was interesting. I don't agree with all that said, but that said, I do concur with most of it. But I'll allow you to sift your way through it. ... Oh yeah, I'm not correcting what's wrong in the last sentence because i want you to enjoy its shear comedy.


Black People Who have embarrassed Black America
1. Flavor Flav and all the women that have ever appeared on the Flavor of Love (especially New York) - no explanation needed
2. Clarence Thomas - for having the audacity to desecrate the seat that was held by the late great Thurgood Marshall
3. Condoleeza Rice - self explanatory (but the fact that she was shopping for Ferragamo's when people were dying due to Hurricane Katrina was enough by itself to get her placed on the list.
4. Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown - too many reasons to count
5. Halle Berry in Monster's Ball - Billy Bob Thornton (need I say more)
6. DC snipers - Black people are not serial killers
7. Marion Berry - too embarrassing for words 8. Kobe Bryant - for snitching on Shaq (it's one thing to be a rapist, but to be a snitch on top of that is just taking it too far)
9. Rae Carruth - for having the audacity to hide his black ass in the trunk of a car in Nashville after having his baby mother killed
10. Terrell Owens - speechless
11. Mike Tyson - biting Evander's ear was enough to get him on the list
12. OJ Simpson - the Bronco ride by itself was enough to make the list
13. R. Kelly - pissing on little girls and having the audacity to record it
14. Puffy - cooning and shining and denying he's gay (DANG!) (and we not even going to mention the fact that he keeps stringing Kim Porter along, but his butt was crying over J.Lo)
15. The sister that cut the baby out of the pregnant woman and killed her other children by placing them in the washing machine and dryer
16. The entire Jackson family - Jermaine please let those fingerwaves go. Let's just take a moment of silence for Michael.
17. Armstrong Williams - for being on the GOP's payroll to praise No Child Left Behind when all it is doing is leaving children behind
18. Rodney King - "Can't we all just get along?"
19. 50 Cent - thinking he has enough clout to hate on Oprah. And for just being a punk and crying when someone talks to someone he doesn't like.
20. Wendy Williams - for always looking a Hot Ass Mess, and having the nerve to talk about other people
21. Dennis Rodman - too many reasons
22. Ice-T - for marrying a plastic Malibu Barbie named CoCo and swearing his old ass is a pimp
23. Diana Ross - for getting a DUI
24. The entire cast of Soul Plane - self explanatory
25. James Brown - beating his wife and that infamous mug shot
26. Jesse Jackson - for the love child
27. Bishop Don "Magic" Juan - for portraying every stereotype that white people believe to be true about black people
28. Snoop Dogg - for having those sisters on leashes at the MTV Music Awards and introducing the world to Bishop Don "Magic" Juan (and let's not even mention Girls Gone Wild)
29. Bob Johnson - for selling BET to the Man
30. The entire BET station and staff members - for giving us Un-Cut and for taking away BET news
31. Cuba Gooding Jr. - cooning and shining at the Oscars
32. Nelly - for the Tip Drill video
33. The Ms. Peachez videos - cooning and shining at its finest ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrqW3nx5HM or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GautSlgAsN0)
34. Terry McMillan - for going on the Oprah Show acting like she didn't know her husband was gay before she married him and then being in the hot tub with him after she talked about him so bad
35. Al Sharpton - for rocking a perm in the '06 and having the audacity to run for President while looking like a pimp
36. Black people that say that Biggie and Pac were assassinated. Martin and Malcolm were assassinated those two brothers were shot. (Chris Rock from Bigger and Blacker)
37. Tina Knowles - for giving us House of Dereon
38. Lil Kim - for being the black Pamela Anderson
39. Karrine "Superhead" Steffans - for being the Black Monica Lewinsky
40. Omarosa - she gave intelligent Black sisters a bad name
41. The Source and the Vibe Awards - for all the buffoonery
42. All the Black wannabe models on America 's Next Top Model that come on the show with a straight up attitude
43. Coral from the Real World/ Road Rules challenge always having to come on the shows portraying the angry Black woman
44. Vivica A. Fox for dating 50 Cent and then wearing the daisy dukes during Lil Jon's performance
45. Ron Isley for tax evasion and stealing from his decease brother's estate
46. Wesley Snipes - for To Wong Fu and then denying that he was the one that made Halle Berry deaf in her left eye