Jeny Romero
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LL Cool J & the Beastie Boys Nominated to be Inducted into the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame [GOT] Read the rest of this entry »
Tyler Perry’s Credit Card Stolen and Charged Over $28,000! [GOT]
Universal Soldier IV 3D: Dopey, Damme And Dolph [Film Drunk]
Robot Bear Wants Your Young and Old [GammaSquad]
Sample Set: AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted [HHIR]
A History Of The Wet T-Shirt Contest [Uproxx]
Jay-Z’s 99 Investment Problems [NY Post] Read the rest of this entry »
In case you are part of the large unaware majority, Black in America 2, the sequel to the wildly successful 2008 CNN documentary of a similar name, aired this past Sunday.
No different from the first one, this consists of hours of inspiring stories and important information and insights. Also like the first one, it’s an obvious ratings pull that borders on being insulting. Black people are not magical clan to be demystified with a handbook and some documentaries. The Black in America series does not pretend to be a guide to Negrodom, but it straddles the line of filling in the racial divide and driving a widening wedge into it.
This time around, the focus is on the revolving doors of prison, the paralyzing misconceptions about education and healthcare and the hardships of maintaining long-term relationships.
Oh, and Tyler Perry.
The Video’s a good 17 minutes long, so grab some popcorn or something
I’ve been waiting on an excuse to speak on this man and here it is. Yeah, I know, easy target, cue Sunshine Anderson and let us know you’ve heard it all before. Join him in his defensive chants. “How dare we?” Who are we to criticize the man and his creations? Well, we are the viewers, listeners, readers, and people who get affected by his doing, whether or not we care to. Ergo the ire, sire.
Seriously. Why put the emphasis on the morals and messages in the films, plays and sitcoms when they all border on being minstrel shows? That’s like saying a slave auction would revitalize the economy. Besides, will the focus really be on whatever the message of the screenplay may be when the recurring themes and characters are so corrosively negative? You realize that without the foul mouthed, cross-dressing, weed-smoking, heat-packing, persistent felon of a grandmother bringing up all your characters, they would probably be normal people, right?
Why don’t we address how to get rid of the Madeas and Mr. Browns and the slew of other characters that could sneak on set in BlackFace and no one would notice? Instead of saying “How can you ignore the message of forgiveness?, riddle me this. How can you ignore the blatant promotion, embellishment and endorsement of stereotypes in your protagonists? How about how do we eliminate the shit-talking 6′ 5″ granny in drag and focus on what you claim to be the focus of your movies?
Now this is not to knock Emmit. He’s a kid from the asscrack of New Orleans whose big dreams turned him into a quasi-billionaire movie producer, director, actor, writer that owns his own full-scale studio in heart of Atlanta. Clap for him. And Precious was pretty tight so I ain’t completely mad at the kid.
But don’t make the man out to be the Black Jesus Christ meets Bill Gates. He, like the executives at CNN, realized that Black misery is an underdocumented story that just so happens to still be a tradeable commodity.
Peek-A-Boo x Sharmaine
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Style File: Alicia Keys Ain’t Changing [C&D]
Tyler Perry Donates $1 Million To NAACP [CNN] Read the rest of this entry »
Man listen. I’m going to watch this movie. And you know what? You probably should too.
Initially, when the girls over at RBN tried to put me on to it, I kinda hit the snooze button and rolled over.
My initial thoughts were all negative. Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry? Give me a break and a damn Kit-Kat bar. That sounds like the directorial tag team from Hell for cliché black movies. And they got Mariah and Monique in the mix too? Word? This can’t be good. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama, you may have won the Nobel Prize, but you’re being one-upped. The winner for Best Week Ever goes to none other than Blackface!
Blackface, come on up! Who would you like to thank? Read the rest of this entry »
Lay, Theo Ann Thomas, Lay
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The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own [Esquire]
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Lil Kim Says Notorious B.I.G. Talks To Her In Dreams [MTV]
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C-Murder Jailed For Violating House Arrest Terms [AHH]
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DJ Skee x Lily Allen [Rock The Dub]
Melissa Acosta
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Tyler Perry Goes To The Bank for $41 Million [Film School Rejects]
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For Freak Something Saturday we present Mariya Sprtieva
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John Forte: How I Went from Prep School to Prison [Alter Net]
The Top 50 Best Selling Albums of 2008 Worldwide [Prefix]
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Words By Thembi
I’d be a liar if I said I watched Tyler Perry’s Meet The Browns thinking I would enjoy it. I have a pretty low tolerance for mispronounced English, hackneyed jokes, abysmal acting, and an even lower tolerance for black men in drag; a Tyler Perry mainstay. So instead of setting the bar unfairly high, I watched the double feature premiere of Meet The Browns in comparison to Perry’s movies and the “most popular cable television sitcom,” House Of Payne. While House of Payne is just not my cup of tea, Meet The Browns had one of the most offensively poor sitcom premieres I have ever watched, making House of Payne look like reasonable entertainment.
I’m not sure who is loving his stuff, but the audience is huge and — as poor as this show was — shows no signs of slimming. Perry’s shows account for half of the black sitcoms Read the rest of this entry »
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