Black Hollywood, you don’t like playing with the other kids???

In my last piece on Black Hollywood, I talked about how Vanity Fair didn’t put a sista on the cover of their Hollywood Issue. Then this week, I received photos from Essence touting their Third Annual Black Women in Hollywood Awards. Citizen Wifey is into all the celebrity related things in our house but I was curious so I looked at the pictures. I saw actresses that I haven’t seen since I dreamt about them in middle and high school (don’t judge me…I was going through puberty). I also saw new jack actresses that I’ve never seen in as much as a television commercial. Then you had the usual mainstream stars of stage and screen. I think Zoe Saldana is pretty but she could stand to thicken up a bit……but I digress.


What always amazes me about Hollywood is the /my side/your side/ of the tracks mentality that Black Hollywood has with White Hollywood. Black Actors dream about winning mainstream awards yet always seem to award themselves with the same honors. If we lived in a “Post Racial” world (whatever that looks like), would Essence still need to honor black actresses? Award shows for black actors are not viewed with the same popularity as their mainstream counterparts. Which award will help further Gabourey Sidibe’s career – Essence Magazine’s “Break Through Actress Award” or The Academy Award’s “Oscar”. The award is so meaningful it goes by one name!!! Maybe the Black Women in Hollywood Awards are not about your popularity or how hard you lobby for the award. What if they are about the love and acceptance that comes from your peers? Sometimes with Hollywood it’s hard to tell the difference between acceptance and “The Hot New Thing.” From the photos, it looks like the participants decided to go with the latter and not the former.

The National Nightmare Is Over

The 8 year dictatorship of President George W. Bush will be coming to an end next year. I can’t say that I am going to miss the guy. Most people I know, i.e. Black Folks, hate George Bush’s guts. I don’t think he is the devil as some people say. I just think that he was under qualified to be President. He lacks the intellectual skill set to be the leader of a country. That’s one of the things I like about President Barack Obama. He knows what he knows and he knows what he doesn’t know. Obama doesn’t make “gut” decisions based on personal feelings. He believes in surrounding himself with knowledgeable advisors. I don’t know what the future holds but it should be something to see. For now though… the National Nightmare is over.

Ain't this the truth!

~Citizen Wifey

A Love Letter to Black Folks

"You can't see who's in cahoots/ Cause now the KKK/ Wears three-piece suits.” Chuck D

I told Citizen Wifey” it was going to go down like this. The possibility of a black president has people acting like fools. The racism (by white folks) and playa hating (by black folks) can't be contained. Many of these “new age black folks” are not accustomed to this level of racism. Well it sucks to be them, because their momma’s and daddy’s should have schooled them to the game.



So called "Conservative" Tel-Lie-Vision and Ray-D-Ho Hosts make oodles of money for keeping white folks mad at black folks. Poverty Pimps keep black folks mad at whites folks by reminding them how whites "hold them down." Hispanics say black folks whine too much and they don't work hard enough. Asians are quietly plugging along watching everyone else argue over crumbs. It's the American circle of love!!!



It's easier for a black man ,with his hand tied behind his back and drenched in honey, to win a wrestling match against a grizzly bear than run for President of the United States. People just won't let this man run on his merits. People that do not like Obama have used every excuse to not vote for him. The reality is that they weren't going to vote for him anyway. Don't get it twisted though, because it's not just white folks that are fighting mad. Just like during slavery someone was always willing to tell on the slave revolts.



Jesse Jackson wants you to believe that he was down with Team Obama, and the Obama Nation. What he is not being honest about is his true feelings for Obama. Jesse Jackson is a petty, and jealous man that is living off past glory. Maybe he was the deadbeat dad Obama was talking about in church. Black folks need to stop defending him and put him out to pasture. I don't believe that Obama should go without being critiqued (because that is our American right) but if you don't have any legitimate beef with the man, than leave him alone. Besides, the fact that a grown man wants to play with another mans nuts is very disturbing.



People its bad out here!!! Racial discrimination is rising and what is the response from those who are doing it? “It’s just a joke.”



Racists will put a noose on your desk at the job and then say,“It’s just a joke.”



Racists will dress up in black face and then say, “It’s just a joke.”



Racists will refer to a presidential nominee’s wife as someone’s “Baby Mama” and say, “It’s just a joke.”



If you thought this was going to be a classy campaign, I have some real estate to sell you in Fallujah. The citizens of America were not going to let that happen. These are the same citizens that think Obama is a secret Muslim manchurian candidate. These are the same citizens disturbed by the image of Michelle Obama cleaning the White House China. Do you know that white women will clutch their purse when I come out the grocery store with a shopping cart full of food? Don’t they realize the food in the cart cost almost more than their purse, and its contents?



Oh by the way, if you were looking for a blog to read that was going to be optimistic about people of all races getting along... This Ain't It!!!!



I don't know what's going to happen in November, but the road there will be a rough one. This is your warning. The one corporate media won't give you. The only good thing this election is bringing out is the racists. I want to see my enemies, and you should too.....