Classless.

I'm going to try this again, as I think the comment got chewed up:

This doesn't surprise me; I've been following this controversy for a couple of years now. Payton is right; it is a matter of human rights. It is also a matter of self-identification: the right to claim ancestors and affinity with other peoples of color.

The Cherokees do not like to talk about how they also interraced with their black female slaves, much like some white massas forced or seduced black women here in the States.

Much of this tribal membership mess also stems from money. The Cherokees are in the casino business. Cutting the black Cherokees out of their share makes more go around.

Added to this, the Cherokees were also influenced in this decision not just by the government but The Mob, who have reportedly given them assistance and expertise about how to run a casino for a fee or two.

All of this maneuvering benefits the so-called purebreds who are nonetheless the descendants of Cherokees as well as interracial relationships with whites.
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I like Louis C.K., and sometimes he is really on point, but I certainly don't like him here. Kudos for the part where you say he still has white privilege. Chris Rock? Same old, same old. It's a coupla white guys and an honorary white guy (Rock) sitting around talking.

There is a practice of inseminating Indian women with the fertilized eggs of a Western (read, white) woman for a price, and to carry the child to term. The woman would be medically monitored, given proper nourishment, and later brought to the country where its parents are located in order to give birth.

This was exposed on one of those TV news documentaries here in the States. China is also getting in on the industry, for industry it is.

It is mostly a practice of upper middle class to rich white women and couples with mostly poor, yet nominally healthy women of color.

Link: http://timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/2009/05...

Link :http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/outsourced-wombs/

It's not unlike raising and calving cattle...

You're in Canada and you get this shit?

I have gotten Missy Ann Syndrome here in the U.S. more times than I can count, and it is always around white female strangers clutching their purse as if I may snatch it from them any minute.

(Or rolling their windows up in cars.)

I've patented an answer for all that BS. "Hey look, I have my purse, I don't need yours. They usually don't have an answer for me. Nor do they make eye contact.

One episode I can remember was in the Eighties, when I had two jobs, one as a secretary and one as a parttime saleswoman for Macy's, Yes, it was for the Macy Woman department.

I was at a shoe sale; naturally, it looked like a free for all with crowds of women about. Suddenly I saw someone had left their purse on one of the trying-on seats. Now I was not working that day at Macy's, so I did not have my ID pin on. I started to get the attention of one of the salespersons who knew me. and indicated the lone purse on the seat, when there was a commotion, and this white woman galloped out of nowhere and swiped her purse. I guessed rightly that she thought that I was about to grab it, when i was only trying to keep it from someone else's fingers. Nine times out of ten, most of these kinds of theft are by other middle-class white women.

Good thing the presence of my friend was enough to keep her from accusing me, but again, there was no eye contact to me, only to my white salesperson friend. She clutched it like some kind of rag doll and went into every crevice and pocket. The white saleswoman friend thought her reaction weird, too. Hmph. If she only knew.

Granted, there are black woman thieves, but not all of us. And everyone has that potential. When I worked at other women's clothing stores, the shortages were always by someone white or in one case, Asian. Some years earlier, I saw security officers having a shootout with white and Latino female thieves at a mall. I remember ducking near some cars when this occurred. When I worked at Macy Woman, there were a couple of white women who later came under suspicion of stealing or making questionable clothing exchanges. I'm sure they looked askance at me, and I am sure that I was under surveillance a few times, being the wrong color, but I don't play that.

The last time I had this purse clutching thing happen was at an arts festival right outside my door at the Y a couple of months ago. I passed by looking at booths, and a young white girl and an older white woman grabbed their purses as I went. At least, the white girl turned red when I gave her the patented answer. <div style="display: block; margin: 6px 0pt 0pt;"><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save">

I'm in agreement that we don't know what the dynamic is in their relationship. It can't be all that good. However, I wouldn't dare go so far as some of the commentary by others that Lawrence Fishburne is some paragon of virtue. He certainly isn't. I think that he failed her. This is yet another instance of black people jumping on the side of the brother--the father in this case--while castigating the morals of the daughter who has let him down.

When the story first broke, I was critical of her choice as a young, inexperienced black woman. She is not a Kardashian or a Hilton. There is no way that she could get away with the same kind of response as these women to her film. There are other ways in which she could have become famous or notorious as the case may be, but this was not a good way, knowing how black women have been taken advantage of in the porn business, and that there is so much negativity about the nature of black women's eroticism, not only from whites but blacks as well.

I have no idea what her morals are; I don't care about them. I don't think of her as anything other than a young black woman who doesn't have models or s/heroes other than what she knows about in the tabloids and on TV. (If she is like this, consider what other young sisters may be thinking as well. Our work is cut out for us.)

I am concerned, however, that this might end badly for her, and her famous father won't be around to catch her. I just wonder where her mother is or whether she has any other, even older female relatives or friends who could help her negotiate this episode in her life so that she comes out bruised, but not battered or dead.

In a case like this, prayer is not enough.

He's from the Tea Party wing of the GOP.

Thank you, sista, for bringing so many to my blog. Blessings!

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I'd like to add that Mo'Nique's admission may be news to Baba Wawa and her mainstream public, it isn't to those who have read her pronouncements in Essence magazine about the status of her marriage.

All I can say is, more power to her if she can swing it, but I know that I am a hella jealous woman. I couldn't stand it when I knew a man I liked or loved was with other women. Men who told me their business I felt were slamming me and my feelings about them in the face. It made me uncomfortable when we were free; it made me uncomfortable when we were coupled. I just hope that the next man I am with is exclusive with me.

That being said, I think people are just getting on their high horses about what she said. It's not what I would do and it's not who I am, but people are getting beside themselves with all this judgment. It's unfortunate that people cannot let others live their own lives if they're not bothering anyone else. I'm glad that it's come out now and rather than later when TMZ and Radar are looking for anything to print, and stalking her and her husband after she wins the Oscar. When there is no story, there is no stalking. Period. <div style="margin: 6px 0pt 0pt; display: block;"><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save">