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Posted at 11:43 AM in Supporting Those Who Support Us | Permalink | Comments (18) | TrackBack (0)
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Leave it to Essence to use the movie "Obsessed" as a means to keep beating the "jealous black woman" fighting for her black "kang" drum. SMH To say that I'm tired of that old stereotype is putting it mildly. {yawn}
Anyhoo..I'm sure when the movie drops this Friday, there will be PLENTY of black women in the theaters cheering on Beyonce's character as she "beats down" that "white b*tch" trying to steal her man. SMH {more yawning}
Here is how Essence is framing their take on the movie:
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Or my other personal favorite from Essence's little list of what's wrong with black women. / sarcasm
(Because that's what this little trip down memory lane in their "story" is really about.)
Sexual Healing
One reason that has floated around for the large numbers of Black men dating White women was a stereotype that sisters were more inhibited in the bedroom. Some women have even bought into this thought. "I was dating a White woman and she told me, ’I’m not like those sisters; I can take it,’ in the middle of fellatio when I informed her I was about to climax ", says Raheem*, a 26 year-old paralegal.*Identifying details have been changed.
LOL, LOL, LOL....wow. Uhmm...ok. Hhhmmm I must have missed that chapter on sensuality that explained how ingesting bodily fluids or having one's "back blown out" was the ONLY key to esctasy. LOL...but, uhhmmm...perhaps different strokes ??Essence did try to throw in a little ..."now be open" to black women at the end of their little "article," but it was, in my opinion, mired in B.S.
If you so desire, check out the full list, article or whatever HERE.Thank you Lorraine for the heads up and pointing out this sane reader's comment from Essence's site:Do you think we "own" our black men? How can we yell diversity and equality when we segregate ourselves? This movie is a really bad idea and it will plant negative segregated seeds in the impressionable minds. Also, if you want to evoke "territorial rights of my man" attitude, you don't have to go across racial lines....are you [sic] insuiating that black women back off when they know a brother is already taken??? Please. This movie takes our nation in a negative direction. Focus on how our women are reproducing without thought, focus on how our men are banging around like they can't think....this problem truly comes to the core level, not the color level. Please stop segregating by trying to create anger in interracial relations. This movie isn't about interracial, it should be about a man who needs to say no when he is already taken, REGARDLESS of the color of the woman groping him. DUH. RISE ABOVE!
I'm so glad you found that comment, because I don't have the energy to plow through that site.Somebody wake me when Essence starts reporting on the [growing] numbers of black women who are not "obsessed" with whom black men are romantically involved. Some of us {me, me, me} really don't care; we are too busy living our OWN lives and finding love with men who want to love us --be they non-black or black. We are making plans for our futures, dreaming big and living well. We don't have time to be bitter, angry or wallowing in the past. Perhaps Essence should join us.
Posted at 10:39 AM in Tomfoolery | Permalink | Comments (44) | TrackBack (0)
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Once again we have the murder of a young black woman by a black man. Except this time, the creature who killed Asia McGowan announced to "the world" via Youtube his hatred for black women. I'm so sick of people not taking it seriously when black women express their fear and distress upon running into the absolutely EVIL creatures they encounter online. Please read the article about Asia McGowan below:
How many more Asia's have to die ?

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Editorial Update: The italicized portions of this post denote quotations from the original New York Times article that I originally linked below, labeled as "Source." My comments on the article are in red. I am pointing this out for the folks writing in and "going off" about some of the original content of the article. Per my prediction, it didn't take long for folks to start losing their minds at the mention of "mammy" and "fat" in the same sentence as black women; regardless of the context.
Mainstream designers (i.e. non-black ones) have figuratively been spitting in the face of black women for eons and now that a Black woman receiving a lot of "fashion attention" is on the global stage they want to play the victim. I don’t think so.
Donna Karan, Oscar de la Renta and Vera Wang to name a few are mighty upset that Michelle Obama is not helping their fashion houses in these difficult economic times:
De la Renta
got straighter to the point: “You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.”
The designers
say that Michelle will help the struggling fashion industry if she spreads her
sartorial self around. But it’s hard not
to read in their complaint a note of condescension. How can Michelle, who comes
from a working class background and probably doesn’t know the difference
between silk ziberline and silk twill, dare to snub them?
Oh but the plot thickens as Dmitcha, an African-American former model and a diarist at Daily Kos reports:
In Feb 2009 ,New York's
Fashion Week
featured 116 labels and 3,697 runway spots. 668 of those spots - 18% - went to
models of color. Not 668 models, mind you, because three of the top ethnic
girls took up half of those spots with repeat appearances. That’s right, 18%
women of color - ANY COLOR - on the runways and 82% white models. In New York City. So the real
question should be “Donna, Ralph and Calvin, where in the world are your ethnic
models?” And the answer is:
Calvin Klein:
showed 1 look with an ethnic model out of 35 he sent down his runway.
Zora
at We Are Respectable Negroes agrees the problem is beyond fashion. The problem
is that Michelle
doesn’t — won’t — conform to any of the predefined stereotypes available to
her: she’s not a “mammy” nor a “good, middle class Negress.”
And….heads start popping in 5..4…3…2….
Folks are still struggling to understand her (and to define her) because she is so unlike any other Black woman on the national and international stage. One “tired” and superficial way of managing this is by focusing on her appearance.The focus on
Michelle Obama’s appearance is a last ditch effort on the part of some to
assert power over her, to sum up her worthiness on the basis of her looks. It
is taboo to openly talk about her race, so they resort to focusing on the loud
colors, the “big Butt,” the “massive arms,” etc. Give it up folks! It’s not
working. Michelle Obama and millions of other black women around the world
could give a damn about what you think.
Nicole - As a bald,
middle-aged white guy in Indiana with almost zero fashion sense I could not agree more with this article. My
First Lady is beautiful, intelligent and has a great sense of humor. If she had a
twin sister who was also attracted to midwestern guys with strange names I
would seek her out and propose immediately.
Now we can’t actually have folks challenging the status quo..oh no.

Posted at 11:12 AM in Black Beauty | Permalink | Comments (29) | TrackBack (0)
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