• At this point, it would almost be funny if it wasn’t so sad and infuriating. Good ol’ Bush has appointed a woman who is anti-birth control to head the family planning division of the Department of Health And Human Services. [WP]
• This is what Jason Kidd has resorted to? Grabbing crotches in the club? []
• It’s hard to pick just one thing wrong with this picture. [C&D]
• No matter how hard this guy tries, I will never, ever, ever, ever be interested in NASCAR. [DS]
• So, considering the current racial climate, it’s probably a good idea to keep that Halloween hangman decoration in the garage this year. [SL]
The promoter in charge of Detroit’s now-infamous “Light Skin” party, Ulysses “DJ Lish” Barnes, had decided to cancel the event.
But I can’t understand why. It was so well-received!
“I made a mistake,” Barnes said. “I didn’t think there would be a backlash.”
Barnes, who said he’s been a party promoter for six years, canceled the event.
He said he has gotten angry calls and e-mails from around the country about the party.
“I didn’t mean to offend anyone,” he said. “I had planned a party for other shades (of black women). We were going to take a shade of color each week. Next week was going to be a party for ‘Sexy Chocolate’ and the week after that ‘Sexy Caramel.’ ”
You know, it’s probably better that he quit before he got to “Sexy Caramel” — the door man would have had a tough time with that one.
• If there was any doubt that Zahara is the most amazing Jolie-Pitt. [MG]
• Calling all We Got To Do Better producers! [TAN]
• Janet Jackson describes her yo-yo dieting as something “like a fighter getting ready for a fight.” []
• This is just sick, but I’ve grown to expect little from college football fans. [DS]
• A blog post after my own heart. [FN]
Why does it have to be the black Congresswoman (Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio) who inappropriately grabs a CBS reporter’s wrist while saying, “Don’t play me like that?”
[Jossip]
Quote of the Week
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A year after Rabbit was gone, I was on tour like crazy with Cash Money, and my momma said she was bored, alone, and scared in the house by herself. She was like, ‘Why don’t you just have a baby with somebody? Just tell the little girl’s mom I’ma take care of the baby, don’t worry about that.’ I was like, ‘I don’t have nobody I like like that!’ She was like, ‘Just find somebody! You don’t like Toya?’ I was like, ‘Alright, I like her then.’ Toya was 14 when she got pregnant, and I was 15 asking 14-year-olds. Toya’s the only person that agreed outta all the ones I asked. I said that my momma wants a child. And they was like, ‘That’s your momma’s problem!’ So Toya was like, ‘Shiiit, when we due, boo?
[via C&D]
I would have killed to have seen Al Sharpton and Bill O’Reilly dining together at Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem recently. I could have done without O’Reilly’s on-air description of his shocking restaurant experience.
Bill O’Reilly reported that he “had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful,” adding: “I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.”
Later, during a discussion with National Public Radio senior correspondent and Fox News contributor Juan Williams about the effect of rap on culture, O’Reilly asserted: “There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, I want more iced tea.’ You know, I mean, everybody was — it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”
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• Missing black woman alert. You probably won’t hear about her on the news, so read about Nailah Franklin here. [RR]
• To paraphrase Cord from Mollygood, if MTV had a Hot Bumpkin Mess, this would be the lead story. []
• Don’t worry, Kim K. Your secret’s safe with us. [Jossip]
• I really just wish they hadn’t named their new disc Baby Makin’ Project. [SP
• Now Terrence Howard is with Miss USA Rachel Smith? All is not right with the world. [Bossip]
Here’s the thing. Why do we really need BET to produce a show called We Got To Do Better? In addition to the fact that it sucks, we already have something similar. It’s called the newspaper. And most of those tales are far more cautionary than grainy YouTube clips of ignorant people doing ignorant shit.
Take 28-year-old Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry, for instance. The man has a $25 million contract, he makes roughly $50,000 a month, he recently spent $100,000 on a car and $146,000 on jewelry. And he has 9 kids by 9 different women scattered across four Southern states. Unfortunately, he has a bit of trouble paying their child support.
Things are so bad that he once had to borrow $9,800 from the Tennessee Titans so he wouldn’t miss a payment, and now a judge is requiring him to set up a $250,000 trust to ensure he has the money to pay every month. According to his lawyer, Henry has “significant financial issues.” Clearly, he’s too broke to buy a damn condom.
[AJC]
Are you sitting down? I don’t want to startle you with the news that New York (the woman, not the city) acted nasty and diva-ish at a NYC club this weekend. I know, we all expect better of her than that.
The staffer, who is white, continued: “I went to her table and told her I think she’s so cute and funny. Then I went to shake her hand and she looked me up and down, laughed at me and said she had a cold. But immediately after, she shook the hand of another waitress, who is black.”
Next, New York caused a scene when she demanded to see new drink glasses coming from the bar directly to her. “She told me someone drugs her drinks when she’s not looking,” the waitress said. When the staff told her it was impossible, New York began sending her bodyguard over to fetch her cocktails, while bottles of vodka sat on her table. “She acted like a rude, nasty pig all night, ” the waitress concluded.
Call me harsh, but I think that’s what the server gets for lying in New York’s face. Cute and funny? Please.
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