I'll be speaking tomorrow at the Black Social Media Summit in Austin. It starts tomorrow at 9:00AM. You can still register. When you use the code:Blogmother, you get at 50% discount on late registration. There are a few seats available. You can register at www.BlackSocialMediaSummit.com and check out the full line up of speakers.
Next week, I'll be announcing HUGE, HUGE news in celebration of our 6th Anniversary. Yes, it's been six years. It feels like just yesterday I put up my first post.... THAT'S A LIE! Blogging years are like dog years. I feel as if I've been doing it for 40+ years. HA! I think I just made it through my midlife blogging crisis.
Much like Genarlow Wilson and his friends, four boys in Canada gang raped a young girl, video taped it and spread it around school.
The girl was ostracized, taunted, and bullied. The police refused to prosecute the four boys. Rehtaeh Parson died after attempting suicide.
In 2011 when Rehtaeh was 15, she went with a friend to a small gathering with other teenagers and started drinking vodka.
Parsons said Rehtaeh only remembered bits and pieces of the night, but does remember throwing up out a window.
While one of the guys was allegedly having sex with her another yelled, “Take a picture, take a picture.”
“That picture began to circulate in her school and community three days later,” said Parsons. CBC
And then the her schoolmates and friends turned on her.
“She was never left alone. Her friends turned against her, people harassed her, boys she didn’t know started texting her and Facebooking asking her to have sex with them since she had had sex with their friends. It just never stopped,” said Parsons. CBC
As I stated on Facebook- you have to assume that a great deal of the bullying and taunting came from other girls.
Stories like this are why we need to hold the women who enable, aid and comfort these predators accountable. The facts are eerily similar and they are occurring over and over again.
And so I will repeat myself because I really can't ask these questions enough:
Should the Black community and it's institutions have turned Genarlow Wilson into a folk hero?
Should they have given him awards?
Should they have given him a free college education?
Should they have paid for his publicists (yes he has them- they've whined to me)?
Should he be rewarded with a book deal?
Is a man who rapes an unconscious girl worthy of this kind of status in the Black community?
Should advocates of survivors of rape and sexual assault be cheering Genarlow Wilson on via the same twitter account that they pledge solidarity with Jane Doe in the Steubenville case?
What kind of message did the Black Elite Establishment send to LM and other girls like her? Do they even care?
As publicity stunts to promote a trashy album go, this one is audacious. Beyonce is either an evil genius or an idiot- I keep going back and forth because she does nonsensical things, but then she ends up in the news cycle so I guess her nonsense works.
Beyonce and crew KNEW exactly what they were doing by taking a trip to Cuba to celebrate her anniversary. Does anyone want to wager money on the likelihood of two of the current President's most visible supporters and fundraisers facing sanctions from the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control? I'm going to go out on a limb and say they will face no sanctions.
For those of you living under a rock. Beyonce Knowles Carter and her drug dealing husband Jay-Z decided to take a vacation in Cuba. One small problem, most American citizens ( and the last time I checked, they were) apparently need a special license from the OFAC:
But while U.S. laws and regulations allow Cuban-Americans to make unlimited trips to the island for “family reunification” visits, U.S. residents and citizens who are not Cuban American face a tangled web of OFAC restrictions.
They can travel under “specific licenses” obtained in advance from OFAC, for instance for educational trips known as “people to people travel.” Or they can go under “general licenses” for purposes such as journalism or cultural research, which do not require prior approval but can be challenged and punished by OFAC afterward. Washington Post.
Now, I've got good money that their trip will be challenged AND the Republicans who control the House would love nothing more than to drag Ms. Knowles Carter in front of Congress to explain her reasons for flouting the laws that apply to the rest of us. They won't be fined, but I just want to hear her try to string together a complete sentence or two explaining the cultural or educational purpose for going.
I understand why the President had to associate himself with these two bottom feeding grifters during his campaign, but I hope this means I won't have to see these two putting their ankles up on the table in the White House Situation Room again. The sooner the singer and her drug dealing husband are expelled from even the most tangential vestiges of national political power and history, the better.
And don't get me started on her deluded rantings about being a "modern feminist" while calling other women "bitches" and telling them to bow down. #gurlbye!
P.S. I'm sure the geniuses at PEPSI are overjoyed that she decided to pull this stunt right after they started blaring her new commercial dancing with herself.
PPS. Y'all think I'M harsh in my Beyonce criticism... I think not- looks like the Republicans are going to let her have it. And they also have a Black belt in throwing SHADE!
Diaz-Balart noted that Beyonce performed for the family of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2009 at a private concert attended by Jay-Z and others in the Caribbean. “She [Beyonce] has a history of not being too concerned about human rights,” Diaz-Balart said. Miami Herald
So Tyler Perry released his latest movie last weekend called the Last Temptation of Madea. Apparently it's a PG-13 erotic thriller. I won't spoil it for you, but the professional Black woman is evil and apparently she must be punished for leaving the "good Black man" who only wants to love her professional Black woman devilishness!
I have not seen the movie and will not see it until you pay me a fee of $25,000. I originally was only charging $250 to see it, but the write-ups and editorials have been so traumatic that I had to increase my hazard pay.
As is now the custom, after every single tyler Perry movie, we have the first wave of negative reviews followed quickly by the social impications of the widespread dissemination of Mr. Perry's faux-theological propaganda.
And then there's this latest gambit with Madea teaming up with Miss Sophia from the Color Purple- Paging Alice Walker!
My advice is that we all collectively quit our bellyaching!
None of it matters!
None!
Your outrage is irrelevant.
Your disdain and derision are for naught.
Tyler Perry's winning and there is nothing you can do to stop him. He's going to be making movies as long as there is breath in his body and your children's children's children's children will be watching his work. In the same way that I stayed up for 6 hours to watch The Ten Commandments during Easter weekend.
Nope, Tyler's winning as long as he's producing what he wants.
The only way to beat him at this point is to join him. Flood the market with movies based on contorted interpretations of the bible and prey on the soft squishy minds of people who go to church and never quite manage to read any of the Bible verses they don't like. Target the Black folks who resent other Black people who went to college and got degrees. Target the Black women who think that they are single because God hasn't "sent" them a man yet- KEEP WAITING! Target the folks who think they've been ignored and marginalized and give 'em what they want.
No seriously. It's the only way to end this scourge across the land you so lament. And it's happened before. Roger Corman was cranking out kooky low budget scifi movies and then Steven Spielberg and George Lucas took the same concept and threw bucket loads of money and production value at the same concept:
In the ’70s, the era of the blockbuster emerged with filmmakers who took Corman’s formula to the next level by adding big money and more refined talent to the mix. “Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were obviously influenced by Corman when they made Jaws and Star Wars,” Stapleton says. “And James Cameron, who started his career working for Corman, has consistently proven that you can make epic films that are based 100 percent on the structure of Corman-style genre pictures.” Wired.
The thing is that if Tyler Perry is as horrible a writer as we all think he is, it shouldn't be THAT hard to co-opt him. Except while we're on the sidelines criticizing him, he's still producing content... which means he wins.
So there is your Tyler Perry post. I have now cross this one off of my To Do list- until next month when he releases his next movie.
"The NAACP advocates strongly for a society where victims of rape and sexual assault came come forward and seek legal redress without further retribution from the community, media or society at large.” - NAACP Department of Damage Control
An NAACP leader in Ohio went off script and blamed the Steubenville rape victim for her own rape:
Royal Mayo, a lifelong resident of the Ohio city that gained national infamy following the rape of the girl by two Steubenville High School football players, says that attention should be focused on the role of the young woman, whom he calls the "alleged victim," saying she was drunk and wanted to go out with one of the football players. He also claims that other teens involved in the incident were let off easy, because they were "well-connected." International Business Times.
Read the whole article, it's a doozy and completely CONSISTENT with our prior dealings with the NAACP in their campaign to gurantee that no Black rapist is ever punished for their violent criminal acts. Most of you have never actually read the NAACPs policy objectives- but they are definitely NOT in the interests of Black women and girls who live under the tyranny of violent oppression via criminals.
Anyone who has been reading this blog knows good and darned well that the NAACP is pro-rapist, first foremost and dayum near always. The only reason they issued a statement so quickly in this case is that the Steubenville victim has more public support than the Black women and girls the NAACP typically tries to throw under the bus to protect rapists.
The NAACP refused to comment on the racist acts of the West Palm beach housing authority which left a grounp of Black women terrorized by roving gangs of criminals and ultimately resulted in a brutal gang rape and torture of a single Black woman and her child. Richard McIntyre of NAACP HQ told me "Black on Black crime is not part of our mission." Y'all remember that mess?
Then a few months later, the NAACP local branch organizes a rally in the Dunbar Village case... on behalf of the ten boys who raped and tortured the single Black mother.
That's pro-rapist.
23 Black bloggers, both men and women, basically rallied to melt their switchboard at NAACP HQ to get them to relent.
Here is a podcast where I confront the Florida State President of the NAACP about their immoral acts in the Dunbar Village case.
BTW I should have gotten an Academy Award for my performance on that podcast. It's also one of the few remaining places you can hear the original audio from the rally they organized for the Dunbar Village rapists. "We will not be held accountable." - Richard McIntyre, NAACP Spokesheeple
History of Conodoning Sexual Exploitation of Women
Two out of the last 4 NAACP presidents have left under a cloud of sexual abuse after they used their position and power to turn the women who work at NAACP national headquarters into their personal Harem.
That's a pro-sexual exploitation agenda.
Lexington Kentucky - Black Boys Victims
And then there is this from a WAOD reader regarding a serial rapist in Lexington Kentucky:
In 2011 the NAACP in Lexington KY gave an award to man who was CONVICTED of raping boys in this city. After being released they gave him a pioneer award. NAACP chapters are equal opportunity offenders regarding the feelings of those who are victims of rapists. WAOD Facebook Page
I guess they think the government should send the gang rapists and murders to a unicorn city in the clouds. Most of the NAACP activists at the National Headquarters don't actually live in the neighborhoods where these criminals are waging war on ordinary citizens. So its easy to crank out papers about incarceration when you're not catching hell from free roaming violent criminals.
Friday, April 12, 2013 at 7:53AM 