Macy Gray used to be the bomb..i loved her 1st cd…i have her 2nd cd and have yet to listen to it. I honestly cannot understand the pic below…and if anyone of u can, please comment.
It ain’t ez growing up in the hood when you’re black, let alone when you’re white. Margaret B. Jones should know. She documented her troubled life in a tell-all.
Margaret was raised by a foster mother who’s black and even sold drugs in South Central L.A., for a gang. Margaret who’s bi-racial (white/Indian) is living proof that despite your zip code you can grow up and become a success.
Wow, that sounds like a Lifetime Movie!
It probably will become a Lifetime Movie now that Margaret B. Jones’ sister has exposed her. Margaret Jones, I mean MARGARET SELTZER alleged biography is a compilation of lies. According to Margaret’s sister, Cindi Hoffman, Margaret grew up in “the Valley”- well-off suburbs about an hour or so from South Central.
Why couldn’t she just slap a “fiction” label on the book, and call it a day? I love to read good fiction! She used the experiences of real people and passed them off as her own. How thoughtless! This perpetrator eventually admitted she LIED shamelessly and the books have now been recalled…read the rest of this heffa’s story here.
This story is a little too in depth to sum up in Bria’s Own Words. I will add some of my words…but I’m totally exhausted. *sigh* I read about this idiot 1st at Wayne’s blog, Electronic Village, and then on Eurweb.com .
Question: How can hot crispiness such as this go on? If we wrote, spoke, sang about “stereotypes” in the gay community, we’d have Advocate Mag, Out Mag, Ellen & her crew, the HRC -etc, all over us. How about I write a screenplay (and perform myself-a one woman show) about a gay character named Condomless Comebucket Random-Sex, Esq. Condomless (”C” for short) would be a composite of stereotypical gay men…i.e.,-limp wristed, walking with their butts sticking out, exaggerated swishing, 2-coats of MAC lipglass plastered on lips, wishing they were women, making sexual innuendos out every NONE-SEXUAL SENTENCE, dramatic, with a flair for hair- cosmetics-AND interior decorating, disowned by family, shoplifting (booster), tricking on the stroll (or wherever “C” can get 5 minutes of privacy), boxcutter (knife, razor) carrying, gloryhole seeking, and riddled with AIDS??? I can hear it now…a demand for a public apology from me! How do you justify Isaiah Washington BEING FIRED for calling a castmate a “Fa**ot,” but a gay person is making light of black people for a living, bcuz his other talent can’t be viewed in public??…I’m not going to go there.
Send an email to HRC (Human Rights Campaign-committee dedicated to fighting for equality in GLBT communities) I did:
Stupid and Ridiculous can only be used a certain amount of times…
READ ON:
ACTIVISTS PROTEST AGAINST BLACKFACE CHARACTER: Web site launched to ban “Shirley Q. Liquor”; Bev Smith’s radio show in the fight.
*Several activists are coming out in force to express outrage with Charles Knipp, a 45-year-old, gay, drag comedian best known for performing in blackface as his alter ego character, Shirley Q. Liquor – nicknamed “the Queen of Ignunce.”
Charles Knipp in tasteless character (complete w/blackface),”Shirley Q. Liquor”
Knipp describes Liquor as being “an illiterate welfare mother with 19 kids who guzzles malt liquor and drives a Caddy.”Her conversation is saturated with malapropisms. For example, she says her cat needs to get “sprayed,” and she pronounces K-Mart and Wal-Mart “K-Mark” and ‘Wal-Mark.”
The character attends Mount Holy Olive Second Baptist Zion Church of God in Christ of Resurrected Latter-Days AME CME (a reference to historically African-American churches).
Knipp’s is also known for mocking the black American holiday Kwanzaa and makes fun of stereotypical-sounding black names in a music video entitled, “Who Is My Baby’s Daddy,” where his character Shirley Q. Liquor tries to recollect the names of her “chirrun,” “…Cheeto, Orangello, Chlamydia, and Kmartina…”
WWW.BanShirleyQLiquor.comhas been launched in an attempt to ban Knipp’s minstrel show. Also, “The Bev Smith Show” on American Urban Radio Networks (AURN) will dedicate its entire broadcast today (8:12 p.m.-10 p.m. ET) to the campaign to ban Shirley Q. Liquor and spread the word about his upcoming performances.
National Black talk radio “The Bev Smith Show” on American Urban Radio Networks (AURN) will dedicate its entire Monday, March 3 (7p-10p ET) broadcast to the campaign to ban Shirley Q. Liquor and spread the word about his upcoming performances.AURN is the only African-American owned network radio company in the United States.It is the largest network reaching urban America, with more than 200 weekly shows, AURN reaches an estimated 20 million listeners.
“We believe that if Mr. Knipp is a true talent, he can find plenty of folks who look just like him to present in 3-dimensional caricature,” read a statement from Smith’s camp. “If he really is funny, then he can find more than enough insulting and stereotypical elements of his own group, their background, and their culture, to mock. HE DOES NOT NEED OURS. As it is said, we have enough problems.
“As if injury could further be added to this insult, a recent posting to his website allegedly included the headshot of well-respected journalist/activist Jasmyne Cannick–a woman who daily responds to and fights for the rights and dignity of persons of color and the LGBT communities–edited atop the body of a naked and hefty-breasted woman.
Understand this, please: One of our journalists has been insulted. Would Charles Knipp have done this to an AP journalist? Would the head of Mike Wallace or Cokie Roberts or Jorge Ramos be used this way without response from their respective communities? We think not.”
Cannick added: “Imus may have called Black women ‘nappy-headed ho’s,’ but it’s Knipp who routinely tries to bring that image to life onstage as Shirley Q. Liquor.The hypocrisy is sickening.Isaiah Washington was unable to escape the wrath of gay America, but Charles Knipp, a white gay man, can perform a blackface minstrel and be rewarded by gay Americans to the tune of $90k annually.Someone has some explaining to do.This has gone on for far too long under the radar.”
