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“Good” Rebb’n Doctor, You Get The Side Eye of the Week Week Week

11 Friday Jul 2008

Posted by Vivrant Thang in Feeding The Music Jones

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by vivrant thang on jesse jackson gets the side eye of the week

SECOND POST FOR TODAY: OLD SCHOOL FRIDAY IS BELOW

When I first got wind of this story last night, before the details developed, I just thought Jesse was talking slick again about Barack. Sipping out of that big cup of haterade that’s being passed around by our so-called “leaders.”

I wasn’t prepared for this.

What kind of fuckery is this? Somebody please tell me that Faux News framed him.

Afraid not because he issued this stumbling, bumbling “apology” which some feel that he should not even have made.

I’m not even going to address his contention that Obama is talking down to Black folk. While I don’t agree, that’s not even the issue.

Why would Reverend Jesse ,a black man who was active in the Civil Rights Movement and ran for President of these here United States of Amerikka, let anything about cutting another black man’s balls off come out of his mouth? Why was that even in his head? We don’t need that kind of rhetoric coming from our own people when there are plenty of white men (and women) who would love to string Obama up on a tree and get ahold of his nuts. Need I remind you? Jesse are you smoking that Pookie?

What is he really mad about? He wasn’t mad about how we looked when his very public and messy dirty laundry came spilling out of the closet in the form of a yet another illegitimate black child.

Doesn’t matter if he thought the mic was off. Soundbite my ass. Did you see that slicing movement he did with his hand? He was serious with it! Besides, this was Faux News. They had it in for his black ass the minute he stepped off the elevator.

It’s obvious that deep down he does not support Barack’s candidacy. Guess someone will be holding his nose and pulling that lever huh? So be it. We’re doing okay without you. We’re busy trying to give an old man a beat down so just put a muzzle on it, mmkay? I don’t want to hear from you. Don’t you have an outside kid to raise?

Jesse, for your foolishness, you are awarded the hardest bitch slap Michelle can muster and the Side Eye of The Week Week Week.

You know though, for all my ranting, this could turn out to be a good thing. Barack could be having his “accidental Sista Souljah Moment.”

While I got that good twitch going on, I want to share some thoughts inspired by a comment left on my Malia Obama post.

The problem is they are kids of today. Kids of today are TOO BRATTY. In addition, I think Michelle’s real problem is not her kids, but herself, turning her kids on her husband,. She likes to castrate him and often, perhaps the way Jesse would like to.


First, I do agree that many kids today are bratty. I was going to disagree when I first read this in the morning. But on my evening commute, I listened as a black father and his teen daughter talked about the phone he was going to buy her. She was rejecting the phone he wanted to get her because she didn’t want the same phone that everyone else had. She then suggested that he buy her an iPhone and he was actually amenable to it. When he saw my not-so-subtle side eye he started pretending to lecture her about how there was only one phone in the entire house when he was a kid. Whateva sucka. I put on my IPOD at that point. I see why the Lord took care of me when I wasn’t taking care of myself (kept me childless thus far.) By the time I finished with that little heffa, she would have been begging me to use Morse Code to communicate with her little friends.

That being said, I blame the father. I would have never thought to ask for an expensive ass smart phone. She is a kid without a j-o-b! What appointments does she have? He should have nipped that in the bud long ago. It’s all in how you raise these kids. My hair stylist told me that she taught her kids long ago not to even expect stuff like that and to be happy with the things they got. And they are. I believe that’s what the Obamas are teaching their kids. Therefore, Malia is not a brat.

This person is not alone in their assertion that essentially Michelle is a giant, angry black woman that walks around with Barack’s balls in her purse. Lots of people feel that way, which is part of the reason there’s the need for a site like Michelle Obama Watch. Obviously since I am a Michelle Obamaholic, my side eye explodes each and every time I come across these kinds of comments.

Amerikkka has not seen anything like this statuesque, dynamic and vibrant woman before and they just can’t handle it. She is not the Stepford Wife staring into space, waving like an empty headed pageant contestant. She is going to dap her man up, telling him with her eyes, “You that man, B! The world is yours! I got your back.”

I, for one, love how she keeps it real about her husband – that he is just a man and not some god that’s going to swoop into the White House and save the world overnight. America is not used to her brand of wit and I fear that she will have to change her rhetoric quite a bit a bit once the general gets under way. I already see it happening as a result of her “political makeover” and that saddens me. It’s already starting. What was with that Daisy Mae dress she had on during the Access Hollywood interview? It wasn’t “her.” Very subdued and matronly, even for a casual day out.

In any event, I know Michelle will do what she has to do to get her man in there, including snatching up the good Rebb’n Doctor. Oh to have been a fly on the wall when she heard that one!

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A Plethora of Candidates For Side Eye of the Week Week Week

11 Friday Apr 2008

Posted by Vivrant Thang in Feeding The Music Jones

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by vivrant thang on side eye of the week

 

Much to my chagrin, there were multiple things that made my side-eye twitch this week. Let’s jump right in, shall we?

Oh Really, Madge?

Madonna compares the plight of “poor” Britney to what African people have to endure.

“When you think about the way people treat each other in Africa, about witchcraft and people inflicting cruelty and pain on each other, then come back here and, you know, people taking pictures of people when they’re in their homes, being taken to hospitals, or suffering, and selling them, getting energy from them, that’s a terrible infliction of cruelty. So who’s worse off? You know what I mean?”

I vote HELL NO, I don’t know what you mean.

Now THIS deserves a ‘HO SIT DOWN’ in my opinion. I could devote an entire post to how many things are wong with this statement but I won’t bother. This is the way she chooses to shed light on Africa? Save it.

Is this a set-up to adopt poor Britney or is she just trying to stir up shit since she has an album coming out? If this is for publicity, let me not give her anymore help.

Lady, You Got Issues. Check Yourself.

I was enjoying a leisurely lunch the other day at a spot where the tables are practically on top of each other. So you can’t help but be privy to others conversations – whether you want to be or not. Two middle-aged women, one black and one white, were sitting next to me chatting away. After a period of sitting there silently willing them to shut the hell up so I could enjoy my book and lunch in peace, I had no choice but to really listen to what they were saying. The black woman was telling the white woman about a baby in her family that was “ugly” when it was born because it was “really, really dark.” However, when she she got older and lightened up a bit, she got cuter.

That’s YOUR girl. I’m not claiming her.

I Almost Yanked Up An Ungrateful Little Crumbsnatcher

I was leaving Tar-jay (with too many damn bags – why is it you can never just get what you went for in that place) and a father and his two sons were entering. The father was carrying the younger son and the older one was walking beside them. He was about five or six. He says to his father, “Why don’t you spoil us?” I look at the father and he looks at me, shaking his head. I wanted to snatch that kid up and say, “DON’T YOU KNOW WE’RE PRACTICALLY IN A RECESSION? HAVE YOU SEEN THE PRICE OF GAS? FOOD? YOUR LITTLE ASS IS EATING A BUNCH OF JUNK EVERYDAY, AREN’T YOU? YOU ARE SPOILED, TRUST ME!”

Vivrant loves the kids.

These Mofos Are Going STRAIGHT To Hell

You may remember my outrage over the horrific story of Banita Jacks, the woman that murdered her four daughters and left them rot in an upstairs bedroom for an indeterminate amount of time. It still haunts me.

Now I hear that several family members are bringing their trifling asses up out the woodwork, including two of the baby daddies, and plan to sue the city for negligence. One of the fathers is suing for $25 million. Mind you, this nigga (had to resurrect it) was delinquent on the child support.

Where were all these fools when that woman was losing her mind? Where were they when those kids hadn’t been seen for months? Where were you when they were cowering in the house, terrified beyond belief as they watched their demented mother kill their sisters one by one? Now you want to get paid?!

God don’t like ugly.

Vivrant Thang’s Real Name is Roberta Kelly

I actually had to give my damn self the side-eye this week.

My condo community is on the same property as a high school. Over the past couple of days, I’ve seen this kid walking to school who is the spitting image of Chris Brown, but with locs. If this blog goes dark, it’s because the Lord has struck me down for the unnatural thoughts that crept into my head. I must say at 6’2 or so, he certainly wasn’t carrying it like a kid. Clearly he had to be though.

No need to shame me in the comments. I have splashed bleach in my own eyes.

So yes, my side-eye has had a busy week, particularly since I had to turn it on myself!

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Beat It

28 Friday Mar 2008

Posted by Vivrant Thang in Feeding The Music Jones

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by vivrant thang 

So many things almost made your girl’s side eye explode this week.  I am still fighting what has turned into a very nasty cold so I just don’t have the energy to write a proper Side Eye of the Week Week Week post today.

At the top of my list  though are Hillary and Kwame, who are both making my blood boil more as each day passes.

Hil, GIVE IT UP, TURN IT LOOSE. We’re so weary of your lies and alibis. You are driving this election right into McCain slimy little hands. You can’t get Obama’s votes. And now we know you can’t get Edwards either.  If you stole the nod, there would be an ridiculous surge in “McCain Democrats” and we’d probably be assured four more years of Bush. Calgon, take me away.

Kwame has already “felt” my wrath and so shall the “prominent businessmen, power brokers and politicians” (who were probably  at the stripper party at the Mansion) behind this foolishness. Why the hell should anyone pass the plate for this negro? Can we take up an offering for the poor people of Detroit? Most of them will never see his $175K salary in their lifetimes. “Hip-Hop Mayor,” time to trade in them polka dots for some stripes.

For goodness sakes, I just want these two to beat it.

Thank the Lord for good music in times like these.

Stevie Wonder and Omar, “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing”
(I’ll try, Stevie. I’ll try.)

Stevie Wonder, “Sir Duke”

On another note, I’ve been steadily updating my “Top R&B and Soul Songs”  list. It remains my most popular post. It’s now up to 91 and growing daily. Check it and let me know if I’ve added some of your faves.

I’ll be in NYC tomorrow seeing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Pray that this Nyquil-induced coma I’m about to put myself in works!

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