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Imus. Sharpton. Naps. Rumble!!


Okay - a question to ask: what made the comment offensive? Was it the reference to “nappy head?” With so many celebs these days, from Beyonce to Oprah eschewing naps in favor of a Korean kinky or wavy in auburn, naps are obviously taboo. I mean, a full on nappy head has not been seen on TV or in the field of entertainment since.... help me here.

Naps are bad, right? Bama, backwards, regressive, reminiscent of a lack of “refinement” - ipso facto - tooooooo Black. And that, to hell with the Black Power movement or Obama running for Prez, too black is too bad. Ask a celeb to show up with a kinky headed arm candy. See where it pigeon-holed India Aarie?Even Macy Gray got a perm for her new album. Pleassssse people. As long as naps are taboo, then whoops there it is.

Or was it “hos?” That staple of hip-hop vocab? Hip-hop the international, trendsetting, culture creating, money making, keep-it-in the closet genre of today. Not the beat breaking, head spinning, my Addidas sporting rhyming of yore. Not Cool - Herc. I’m Young Buck. Tony – beat a teen - Yayo. Half a dollar - oops, 50 Cent. As long as they make it cool - it will be. No slightly texturized, or in the case of Sharpton, fully de-naped, brown political pundit can change that.

So, was Imus's comment offensive because “folks” don't like their hair and can't stand their own women? Would there be uproar if a brown shock-jock said - well "silken haired sluts?" Isn’t that what Paris, or Lindsey or Tara are called daily?

Sure, Imus is a crazy, cranky cracka. Is 50 Pence gonna call a summit with Baby, Master P, False Idol – sorry- Jay-Z - and say sumpin? My bet is no - as long as there is an Escalade in the drive way and a rock on the neck, it is what is is. And don't tell me that you don't know what I'm talkin' out, Willis.

I gotta get my hair laid – the kitchen is getting thick.

Martini Moments (and hot combs) to All,

Dame Betty

Freaky Friday...Mandingo Parties

Okay - welcome to Mandingo land...where cocks are over 8 inches and willing white ladies are over 150 lbs. Details magazine - the one with "Sexy Back" lothario Timberlake on the cover, had a hot article on what many are surprised to see is the alleged advent of "Mandigo Parties." Alleged advent -cause this has been going on since the whip was cracked in the good ole south at dawn over cotton bolls...Please!

The article explores a fete o' freaks at a suburban household in Florida. Staunch Republican Jeff lets his wife Amber gets ploughed till her crop comes up. Other couples mill about. This is not about homies hanging out, it's a bout pay for play. In reality, if a shark attack on a whale is what these bruthas do for money in the weekends - hey had BETTER NOT come home complaining that their own girls are overweight.

One Cock Coon claims that the experience is liberating and exciting. I would summarily take him back in time and ask him if he thought so after getting branded and tea bagged by a Southern gentleman while his Georgia Peach wife plops up and down on his Cock Coon of a chocolate magic stick. Pro'aly not.

Take a gander...and have a festive fruitful weekend!

Martini Moments to All,
Dame Betty

A Bad Day For Chocolate Face...

Okay- so much gossip and so little time.

Let's start with the marvelous world of baby daddy's:

1. Jay Z and Shennelle Scott, a SMOKIN' ass Trini of video shake-a-booty fame ALLEGEDLY have a baby boy. Peeps say that he paid her to keep his name off of the birth certificate. You look at him and you tell me:http://www.power1051fm.com/pages/morningshow.html.

2. Eddie Murphy - baby daddy? Melanie Brown, formerly Scary Spice of the Spice Girls, sure said so. And gave birth on Mista Murphy's bday - yesterday. DNA will tell, children, DNA will tell:http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_5584688?nclick_check=1.

And is it over for Kim and Diddy - me no think so.

On the please put away the bottle and hire a chauffeur front, why was Vivica A. Fox arrested for a DUI?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17765518/.Can we say Vivica A. Drunk?

And on the presidential front, Obama's high school home boy, Mr. Keith Kakugawa from back in the coked up and crazy days has come forward and tried to pull a "brutha man" on the presidential hopeful. Kakugawa claims that Obama got too new on him. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Tensions rose when Mr. Kakugawa asked for some money to be wired to him via Western Union, according to both him and Ms. Adler. Ms. Adler brought in senior adviser Robert Gibbs, and together they phoned Mr. Kakugawa last Saturday.http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117461620851146360-oaQpgJQXqks0usbmVr_JaYNRJCg_20070330.html?mod=blogs.

Damn brutha, damn.

Tomorrow – mandigo parties. http://bossip.com/2007/03/mandigo-parties-becoming-popular.html

This is not a good week for chocolate face...

Martini Moments,
Dame Betty