August 5, 2007 at 9:20 pm (Customer Service, Mental Health, Parenting)
Why didn’t Eddie come clean about this earlier. Why did it take all the drama for him to accept responsibility for this innocent child?
<a href=”http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/news/49285/”>Source</a>
<blockquote><span style=”font-style:italic;”>ET breaks the following statement that was released on behalf of EDDIE MURPHY in regards to MELANIE BROWN, who earlier this week had her attorney, GLORIA ALLRED, file a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court asking the court to name Murphy as the father of Brown’s infant daughter, ANGEL.
The statement reads as follows: “Eddie Murphy always has and will continue to honor his responsibilities as a father. Mr. Murphy and Ms. Brown dated very briefly and never made any plans of ANY sort. He acknowledges paternity of the child Angel, and has paid child support to Ms. Brown as well as covering the expenses of her pregnancy. Mr. Murphy views this as a private matter and as such, will not be making any further comments about it.”
Angel was born on April 3 and a DNA test reportedly established Murphy as the father several weeks later.
In a press conference last Wednesday, Allred alleged that Murphy has not provided financial support, nor has he seen the baby girl.
Murphy was quoted on Dutch TV during Brown’s pregnancy as saying, “I don’t know whose child that is, until it comes out and has a blood test.”
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I was thrilled to see Nicole Murphy & Melanie Brown introduce the children – very classy and shrewd move on their parts.
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August 5, 2007 at 9:18 pm (Mental Health, Parenting)
Apparently, some males believe that animal abuse is a more morally repugnant crime than rape. See below:
<blockquote>From Feministing.com
<p>The below transcript followed a short clip of <a href=”http://feministing.com/archives/003941.html”>Kobe Bryant</a> proclaiming his innocence, which Grace used to make a point about how Vick should speak up in the media:</p> <blockquote>SMITH: Yes, well, that’s — he’s been in a lot of trouble lately, when you think about all the other incidents, and this is just the worst one of all. Keep in mind, too, that while Kobe Bryant is a situation we can sort of compare this to, this really is much worse. Not only can you argue that <strong>the crimes are much worse </strong>in terms of, you know, killing dogs and that kind of thing, but as an NFL starting quarterback, you are the most visible face in that city. I`ve said all along, in fact, you know, if you go through and, you know, very quickly name 10 mayors of major cities in the country… <p>GRACE: Larry Smith, did I just hear you say…</p> <p>SMITH: … you could have a harder time doing that…</p> <p>GRACE: … mistreatment of…</p> <p>SMITH: … than naming 10 NFL starting quarterbacks.</p> <p>GRACE: Did I just hear Larry Smith, CNN sports correspondent and anchor, state that crimes on a dog are much worse than crimes on a woman? Did I hear that?</p></blockquote></blockquote>I’m not quite sure how to take this asinine statement. Surely this well educated brother that has a mother & probably sisters realizes that women are in fact much more valued in our society as they are “human” and that rape is a horrific crime against them. I’m not condoning the dog-fighting business…but you cannot compare the two.
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July 14, 2007 at 4:55 am (African American, African American Images, BET, Parenting, Teenagers)
BET is preparing to air what can only be described as a minstrel show depicting African-Americans in the poorest possible way. Apparently they are competing with VH1 to try and one-up the Flavor of Love programs. According to the blogoshere, BET was actively soliciting images and information of most unbecoming nature to depict on this show – some of which show disturbing images of children.
Home Depot and State Farm Insurance beat a hasty retreat from “Hot Ghetto Mess” following a growing din of complaints, mostly on the Internet, that the show – a collection of home videos and images sent in by viewers – depicts African Americans in the worst light possible.
The show evolved from an Internet site of the same name, which features photos of African Americans in various “ghetto” styles, including hair, clothing and jewelry.
At least one gallery of photos on the site shows toddlers and infants photographed holding bottles of beer or with cigars in their mouths. – New York Post
Hopefully BET will come to it’s senses and pull the plug on this nonsense.
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July 13, 2007 at 9:17 am (Mental Health, Parenting)
Chicago Tribune:
In a symbolic move to erase the controversial “n-word” from the English vocabulary, the NAACP held a mock funeral in Detroit on Monday, complete with a horse-drawn carriage and a pine box coffin that will be buried in a city cemetery and marked with a headstone.
“Today, we’re not just burying the n-word, we are taking it out of our spirit, we are taking it out of our minds,” Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said before hundreds of cheering supporters. “To bury the n-word, we gotta bury the pimps and the hos and the hustlers. Let’s bury all the nonsense that comes with this.”
Although I applaud the efforts and believe all of us (black & white) need to refrain from using this word “N” word – the NAACP is not going to effect that change. Quite frankly we have bigger fish to fry in this country concerning the state of African-Americans. Many do not have health care, jobs, affordable housing, etc. We need to ignore the word and remember what our elders taught us: “It’s not what you’re called it’s what you answer to”.
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July 12, 2007 at 3:33 pm (African American, Parenting, Teenagers)
It has occurred to me in the past few months that my children’s (18 & 23) preferred style of communication is text messaging. I often wonder why they choose this “radio talkie” mode of communication to the traditional phone conversation. I then came to the following conclusion of why they prefer text messaging – they really don’t want to have a true dialog with us but they want to stay in touch with us old folks. It’s infuriating to me (although I love them) when they text message me when they could have just as easily dialed my number for an old fashion conversation. Don’t they know how difficult it is for us to type on those silly little type pads that are on our phones……or is that the point….we can’t say too much to them using their mode of communication.
Oh well, I guess with technology us older ones will just have to learn to maximize the use of technology as they have.
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