• 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]
• Don’t you love it when individuals or events are credited with “opening dialogs” that people have been trying to open for decades? []
• Everybody Haaaaates Clarence. The CW should look into a 30 minute sitcom. [NYT]
• When employers criticized for a lack of diversity defend themselves with the “but there were no qualified black candidates” line, they’re usually lying. [BG]
• Prodigy just began his gun trial (he faces 15 years if convicted) after cops discovered him pulling a Nicole Richie on a one way street in NYC with an unlicensed handgun in the glove compartment. [AHH]
• Credit card providers aren’t tapping into the African American market. I wonder why. [MP]
Dear Polow,
I thought about just ignoring you, since two posts in a week on someone who, let’s face it, should really be keeing his ass behind the scenes making beats and not speaking. The more the people respond to your idiocy (disguised as intellectual truth) the more important you will think you are. And you’re not, really. At all. But I had to say something. I am a black woman, after all.
A very astute reader (what’s up honee!) said that her grandmother always used to say that a fool with a little bit of education is dangerous. Now, I wouldn’t call you dangerous (I’d downgrade it to annoying), but you are the perfect example of the guy who reads a book or has a couple of experiences and thinks he knows the truth about the world. The truth about black women. Sorry, Polow. You don’t know the truth about me or anyone I know. So…why don’t you go make a beat for Fergie or something, and leave the race and gender lectures to people who actually know what the hell they’re talking about.
Pardon my sass. It’s just the way I was raised.
Sincerely,
Lauren
“Every freak should have a picture of my dick on they wall.”
— Polow Da Don, “Throw Some Ds”
After much controversy, and, so he claims, “positive feedback,” Polow Da Don has returned to All Hip Hop to further prove that he is a misogynist of the highest order. Many were angry at his earlier comments, which were basically that white women made better girlfriends than black women because black women didn’t know how to be submissive.
I think it offended a lot of black women specifically, but it’s really a statement that is offensive to all women. It supposes that our role in a relationship is to be submit to a male. In 2007, I’m all for being giving, helpful, and respectful (and having a man who embodies those things as well), but “submission” is not in my job description as a girlfriend/wife if its not in my man’s too.
Polow da Don is under the erroneous impression that only black women who come from single parent households (my parents have been married 35 years) and who are uneducated (I guess the Master’s degree doesn’t count) feel the way I do. Think again. To spare you from reading the entire, completely ridiculous Q&A, allow me to paraphrase his core argument after the jump.
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Black women, consider yourselves lucky Polow Da Don’s not interested in you.
AllHipHop.com: Now, you call yourself the “King of All White Girls.” Elaborate on that for me.
Polow Da Don: Just the “King of the White Girls.” I ain’t self proclaimed but I run with it. [Laughs] There was a stage in my life where I went crazy with dating white women. I have nothing against black women, but they’re raised differently. White women are raised to respect and serve their men. Black women are taught to question [their men]. Black women look at submission as being weak. White women look at submission as being a woman. And anyone who has a problem with this statement is ignorant. Just look at the divine order; it goes man, woman, child.
[AHH via ]
• Are Tisha Campbell and Duane Martin getting divorced or not? And is he gay? [CL]
• Deion Sanders gets his own reality show on Oxygen? I don’t understand what TV execs have been smoking lately. [EUR]
• I can’t imagine Vanessa Huxtable faring well in the Australian Outback. [SP]
• It turns out the Newark murders were not black on black crime after all. [CNN]
• And the advertising industry sinks even lower… [Racialicious]
The fact that Terrence Howard’s ex-wife won’t take him back despite his pleading is not such a surprise considering this quote from a recent Elle interview:
“Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they’re using dry paper, they aren’t washing all of themselves. It’s just unclean. So if I go in a woman’s house and see the toilet paper there, I’ll explain this. And if she doesn’t make the adjustment to baby wipes, I’ll know she’s not completely clean.”
And this:
“If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won’t last long. Now I’m completely chaste through a relationship unless I get married. I don’t believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn’t having sex with them, I could always just walk away. There were some [past girlfriends] who pushed for sex, and sometimes they won. Afterward, I would feel unclean, like I’d compromised my own values. So I would have to let them go because they didn’t help me to be a stronger person.”
The guy is just plain creepy, obviously, with questionable views on both women and personal responsibility. Imagine if he was your man, counting your baby wipes after each trip you made to the bathroom and blaming you every time he got aroused. No wonder Halle Berry and Gabrielle Union his ass back.
[Jezebel]
What annoyed me most about a recent column in the Washington City Paper by a white woman who blames the cat-calling Latinos and blacks in her neighborhood for her illicit racist thoughts? How much time do you have? The writer is misguided and wrong. Her honestly is not refreshing. It makes her look stupid.
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If nothing else, at least Snoop didn’t sound as ridiculous as he did the last time he talked to MTV about hip hop. In his latest interview, he was only mildly hypocritical, egotistical and offensive. Phew. Highlights include Snoop referring to Russell Simmons as “irrelevant,” and, in a complete reversal of opinion, saying that most of the women in his videos aren’t hoes. They’re just models trying to break into the movies. And he’s helping them.
MTV: You’re right about the different MCs needing to be more vocal in different situations — not just with the music, but with the community as a whole. One of the biggest knocks on you is not just the language in your music, but the women in your videos.
Snoop: Who’s to say that these women in videos are ho’s? They are classy women, and if you really try to mack to them, they’ll tell you, “Well, I have a man” or “I’m not into that” or “I don’t do that.” Not every girl in the videos has sex with the rappers or lays out her body and does whatever the rapper says. A lot of these women do this as a means of modeling or being appreciated for their looks.
MTV: But when the mainstream takes a look at it, sometime they all get grouped in the promiscuous video-vixen category.
Snoop: It’s a shame that they are being classified as video ho’s. Halle Berry was in a video with [Fred Durst]. Does that make her a ho? She kissed him in the video too. Does that make her a ho? … Not everybody is a video vixen. Some girls are into it because they are following their dreams. TV is a long way for a lot of these girls from the country or small parts of the world.
So what are they, small town girls with big dreams or bitches and hoes after your money? Or are they just representing the bitches and hoes you rap about? I can’t keep track of all of these different categories of women. And yet, all of it makes perfect sense in Snoop’s weed-altered universe.
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