So I Think A Black Actress Is Beautiful...But I Have To Be Lying Right?

Actress Bunmi Mojekwu

Fellow UK Blogger Mad News wrote a piece a few days ago about a Twitter 'bee'f between Eastenders actress Bunmi Mojekwu and a Female MC who goes by the name of Amplify Dot on Twitter.

Bunmi's weave is awful...we can't even lie about that. It doesn't do anything for her. Whilst reading the article my mouth dropped down at the King Kong and banana comments by Amplify dot. So much so I had to leave a comment on Mad News.

"Let Us Go, Set Us Free From All This Propaganda & Lies That Your People Try To Teach Us"

Once again, there is more ignorance infiltrating the media about Black women.

According to an ingrate who shall not be named, we are now the most unattractive when it comes to every other race of people on the planet???

I haven't read the article, and I don't intend to as it will serve no purpose other than unnecessary anger....and you know according to everyone "Black women are just angry for no reason" so let's not give them any more ammunition. Nothing worse than an ugly and angry Black woman right??

I can't think of a more fitting 'Blast From the Past' song than Freedom which featured on the 1995 Mario Van Peebles film 'Panther.'

10 Racist TV Moments

My Take On The Whole John Mayer Thing!

N.B. I don't listen to his music, I couldn't even name one of his songs and don't even know what his singing voice sounds like. 

My fellow people NEVER cease to amaze me. NEVER.

So John Mayer’s penis is the only part of him that doesn’t want a black woman. Neither does Tiger Woods. GET.OVER.IT!!!

I skimmed through it, shrugged and thought "is that it? I know of black women that have said far worse about black men."

*Not shocked. Not surprised. Don’t really care to be honest*

Getting all mad over a dude a ton of you probably didn’t find attractive or have the chance of dating, yet want him to be attracted to you. So all of Tiger’s jump off’s should have been black as he himself is part black, and John Mayer should want to sleep with black woman being a white man??? Everybody is supposed to want us just because we’re black women?

NEWSFLASH: NOT ALL BLACK WOMEN ARE DESIRABLE OR DESIRED!

I’ve spoken to many black women who are quick to point out many physical and psychological reasons as to why they could never get with a white, Indian or Chinese man, but have no problems thinking that some of them are fine. Ever think white men think the same thing about us? There are a lot of black women whose lips [both of them] will never come into contact with a white man and a lot of the reasons, some could say are racist.

So what’s the damn difference?

John Mayer, like me has a preference. He said the N word, and it seems that there won’t be a time in the near distant future of him pro-creating or even be practising the art of pro-creation with a black woman. Someone needs to tell these same women that are getting mad at this to actually be made aware that some black men also use the N word and have no desire to be with black women either. Then there are some of those men who will break it down even further that will want black women but not want them to be too dark and have a certain hair type. If you’re gonna have a problem with Mayer, have a problem with all of them! They’re no different.

It’s amazing what we let ‘our fellow men’ in the entertainment industry get away with when it comes to disrespecting us, yet get all up in arms over a white musician saying x, y and z.

You know what John C Mayer, stay dating the likes of Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston and stick to your preference of not wanting to be with a black woman. I’d much rather that, than continue to see black women constantly disrespected by our own in music videos and in lyrics where the majority buying demographic of hip-hop are young white males. Way to go fellas!!!! Back in the day black women were beaten and raped in front of black men by whites. Fast forward to 2010 where we have rights, control and power and you choose to name call, disrespect and objectify black women publicly in front of white people.

Want us, nurture us, love us and respect us, or leave us well and truly alone! And that goes for ANY man of ANY race!

From looking at my Twitter timeline yesterday and the comments surrounding this, I noticed something very interesting. A majority of those that weren’t fazed were single black women. People chat enough of their business for you to know who is single, married or in a relationship. Was this a shock to the system of many a single sistah?

“Oh no one less man out on the planet finds us desirable. What if he is an example of the minds of many? It’s hard enough for me to find a decent and good black man already to the point where I was thinking about going over to the other side, and now John Mayer says this? I’m doomed!” We’re nice to look at, but that’s as far as it goes? I thought everyone wanted us!”-signed crazy single black woman

Black women please get over yourselves. John Mayer doesn’t want you just as much as you don’t want to get with a dude who has the last name Patel or Singh.

Someone made a valid point yesterday. A lot of black women say [and I’ve heard this a lot] that white men only want us for sex. Looking at the statistics of single mothers left to raise the BLACK babies ALONE what is that saying about black men?

On one hand you have John Mayer who doesn’t want any black coochie as his penis is a white supremacist. On the other hand you have the likes of Lil Wayne who wants to '**** every girl in the world', impregnates three black women in less than a year adding to the rising statistics. Neither of these dudes respect or value black women. Let’s just keep it real folks when we choose to get mad about something we already do, have done or think ourselves.

X Marks The Spot: Voting Day

I don't need any texts, Facebook messages, Twitter reminders, e-mails, MySpace bulletins, or leaflets being handed to me outside Angel tube station to remind me to vote today thank you very much.

So the HUGE focus this year is to vote to keep the BNP out?
I'm not voting to keep the BNP out. I'm voting because I have always voted and will continue to do so. BNP. ABC. or EFG. Mi nah business.

I've never in the 11 years since I've been allowed to vote by law [with the exception from my mother] heard another BLACK person stress to me in some way at the importance of voting until this week.

BNP or no BNP we as black people need to stop using negative [in the UK, having the BNP] or positive [in the US, when Obama ran] as a means to turn up in full force to vote for some change. We should be bloody doing it anyway.

I vote. I always do. There could be a whole heap of BNP type parties all trying to win seats, and my 2 feet shuffling to the polls will be no different every time a voting session rolls around.

Unless we are PUSHED somehow whether to get a black president IN or keep the fascist whites OUT it seems it's the only time we decide we're going to fix up.

I'm tired of our PART-TIME mentality. It reminds me of the mentality of some black folks who think being studious and reading is a white thing. There are a lot of people that believe voting is just a white thing so 'can't be bothered'

Voting should be important and pushed ALL the time not just when it's a potentially negative/positive issue surrounding race.

That's all I'm going to say as I'm sleep deprived and wrote some long ass comment reply about Mariah/Beyoncé..yeah go figure.

The N Word

As a black woman who can say it without it causing any personal pain to herself [it's not part of my vocabulary amongst friends] but some of 'my people' choose to use it. I understand the reasoning behind people opposed to the word because it was used in a way to cause pain and suffering, and to some in 2008 whether around in those bleaker times or not, it still does have an effect.

Say it to me if I bump into you accidentally in the street or in an argument and I'll chop you in the throat. The last time I was called a nigger to my face was over five years ago and I kept to my word that if anyone dared call me that I would punch them in the face. It may not be right, but my ancestors took more than a punch to people with that same mentality thinking the very worst of them and then some. I am not in the cotton fields, this is a different time, do not even think about it with me on the bus, tube or street. Violence is never to be justified point blank, but some people just need a good old fashioned ass whooping from time to time. I'm not a little woman but that day I remember a big ass black man had to pull me off the white man left in shock thinking I was going to somehow let that go. I was not and will not.

Go around calling me a Nigger on my blog, anybody else's or calling the next POTUS a nigger in my blog [a comment I swiftly rejected] and I find it laughable, that you have had no stirring up of emotions toward me as an individual prior to spew that bullshit. [A different set of emotions and I'll explain why] If me and another person were going at it in a confrontation that's one thing. You'll get slapped for saying it, not because I was hurt by it. To sit at your place of work/trailer park and just decide for the sake of it to go on blog after blog [three that I know of today] and reel off the N word is ultimately pathetic. That's your sole agenda for the day? Like I said being referred to as a nigger does not have to be about skin colour, therefore it makes that anonymous individual a nigger in my eyes too.

After my Rachel Hylton blog this morning, I knew I'd attract this nonsense, and the beauty about the Internet is you're protected, to talk a whole lot of what you think
is something...about nothing. Granted you could never come to London and stand in the streets of Brixton or Peckham or anywhere for that matter and call a black person that to their face, because for most people it wouldn't even be about talking or an argument and more likely end up in a situation where you'd end up a statistic.

I always make it a point in life and online to be about it rather than just speak about it. I am the same way in real life [maybe a little coarser at times] as I am online, and would never say anything online that I wouldn't dare say to anybodys face. I'm bold, blunt and brazen. I don't have time to bullshit people if I don't like you or know you don't like me I'll make it known to stop the pathetic pretence that we do.

Like my online forum and fellow blogger just posted in a comment "it doesn't hurt us" not like they want it to anyway and seriously it's far from original. Sticks n stones….

I don't know of any blacks that venture to white supremacist blogs or sites spewing hate about the BNP, KKK or the Arian brotherhood. In fact a lot [not all] of blacks that I know of or have spoken to don't like/care for white people either with a passion maybe even more than 'they don't like those niggers' types, but they just keep it to themselves and keep it moving. You guys want to form groups and political parties, screaming and crying about your jobs being taken and your women and anything else that you can think of that you can blame Mr Mexico, Mr Africa, or Mr India for.

But tell me this Mr anon proud homosexual, which you admitted to on another blog, aren't you despised by your own people especially those extremists that hate blacks like you do solely because you're gay? Imagine that, you share the same opinions about 'us' yet they never accept YOU because of your sexual orientation.

It's OK now I can see why you're angry.

Be careful where you spew that shit, because it may take a black man like Zeus In Die Hard with A Vengeance to save your sorry ass when you're walking around with a sandwich board or shouting from the rooftops in expressing your hatred for a race of people.

Astronauts, scientists, bankers, mothers, fathers, entrepreneurs, sports champions, world record breakers, doctors, nurses, teachers, authors, filmmakers, actors, singers, artists, lawyers, professors, media moguls....and many more and you think the N word will break us??

Nuff said!!

Just Another Nigger

If people stumble upon my blog via other means other than coming here directly from a link, they may do a Google search which lands them here.

So I have a nose around and see what searches on Google were drawing people to LondonDiva's Blog.

The most popular has been for BC Jean's 'If I Were A Boy'. Usually on the weekends after X Factor there are more searches by a contestants name like Austin or Ruth. And as this week has seen the release of Souljah Sister's book Midnight: A Gangster Love Story, so there have been a few searches on The Coldest Winter Ever, all things I have blogged about.

But one caught my eye and just had me staring at the screen for longer than I should have. Somebody from Bristol in the UK landed on my blog after typing into Google 'Rachel Hylton another nigger'

Rachel Hylton with her mentor and X Factor judge Dannii Minogue

It seriously was a WTF moment and just though why? What would somebody expect to pull up by doing a search and adding the N word?

My case in point. Obama is a change, but this historic moment happening is not going to cause THE change that some ingrates think may happen.

[Even mixed race (although we refer to him as black) Formula 1 Champion Lewis Hamilton was subjected to Spanish fans donning blacked up faces and hurling abuse at him. Bernie Eccleston had the nerve to say that he didn't think that was racist.]

From Rachel Hylton who has 5 kids by 5 different men, had 3 of her children taken into care, did time in prison and was drug addict, now turning her life around, became a Christian and is competing on X Factor to the President Elect Barack Obama. From one end of the spectrum to the other no matter where you come from or where you go some people will only see you as nothing more than just another nigger.

That's why you really need to have an I don't give a f*** attitude as a person of colour, please yourself, don't look to please or kiss the white man's behind, do the very best that you can do for yourself first and foremost, because when you have every qualification imaginable under your belt, a great salary, a great position at a firm from my experience they only see B-L-A-C-K or would be quick to use the N word in a confrontation at the supermarket should you decide to get all 'aggressive' another word commonly associated with my people.

What they see and what we know are two VERY different things! Remember that.

My Take: OJ Simpson

It's after 1am and I should be asleep. I was reading a friends blog and replied to it. What should be a paragraph for me usually turns into more than that. I started to post about it today, then decided not to, then ended up writing about it anyway. I'm not going to duplicate his post as I never asked permission and he has his own personal blog, but posted my response and views on the whole OJ 'thing'. Even though you get one side, you can [hopefully] get a gist of my own views and opinions on it. I wanted to air my OJ views on my blog, but it's Monday and 2 lengthy posts I just don't have in me so I'm C&P'ing my own post made somewhere else.

This is a response to a post [in case the way it is written seems choppy to the reader]

I was personally going to post about OJ on my own blog, but decided against it as like you everyone has their own view about him, the race issue, and whether he did it or not.

I for one am very tired of hearing about giving Mr black celebrity a pass or looking as though he came off harder because he's black compared to whites who have done the same.

First and foremost he committed the wrong crime, 12 counts to be exact in the wrong damn state. No he never shot anybody BUT in the state of Nevada alone, OJ or Mr Joe Bloggs would potentially be getting the same sentence based on the crime and what sentence it carries.
"The fifth and sixth convictions were both for "First-degree Kidnapping with a Deadly Weapon." For the two convictions combined, Simpson will receive a sentence of 30 years or life imprisonment."

PLEASE let's not forget he's not even sentenced till December 5th. It's October 6th and so far it's talk and speculation of what he's going to get. Although obvious considering of what he was found guilty for it's sure to be a long one. I for one will not be losing any sleep over it, because if I know the law at 29 then OJ should know the damn law with his old man self. Why do we as a people always have to take it there and fling in the colour issue? Why is it always an injustice with the sentencing? To me once you decide that you want to lose your place in society and break laws then expect whatever to come. I cannot battle for you in your corner and talk of unfairness of the length of your incarceration compared to your white counterparts. That should be enough for black men to think twice, hell three times more, before committing a crime because their time behind bars is going to be longer based on the colour of their skin. if we were discussing teachers holding our children back then that's a different story that's a true injustice. I can't and won't defend folks who have chosen to go that route in life, then stand up talking about "s*** man it's unfair the brotha got more than the white guy for robbing the store"

[edited to add: NO MUTHA EFFER SHOULD BE ROBBING [THE STORE] IN THE FIRST DAMN PLACE! You think after that we have time as a community for 'woe is me' with regard to the perpetrators within our community on a global scale. We have bigger issues that need fixing, educating our children, the rise in HIV and AIDS in our community, the family unit I could go on...Not enough debate, time or awareness is given to such topics].

OJ was a lucky brotha. Trust me a man guilty before proven innocent of a crime 99.9% of the global population thinks he did, even after running from the police with the world watching, 13 years ago got a pass to start over. NOW HOW MANY BLACK MEN GET THAT OPPORTUNITY??

Plain and simple OJ DUN F*** UP!!

Rather than go in there waving God knows what around and now having hefty lawyer fees as well as life in prison to contend with, he should have gone the legal route in the first place to get back what he claimed was rightfully his.

This time around it's not a race issue. It's a stupid dumb criminal who just so happens to be black that got caught, was found guilty and will be put away for it.

You're right OJ is not a man to be proud of in no way shape or form, if he's not a murderer then he sure was a wife beater and an abuser and now a convicted armed robber. Yes we as a people have suffered and continue to suffer injustices through no fault of our own. OJ created his mess and was an injustice unto himself. There's the difference.

And trust me it's not just white people that have a problem with OJ, plenty of blacks do too and wanted him put away. And you know something I don't blame them (white people) nor can be mad at them because as a people we know how to get mad when the police kill one of our own. And when we get mad we get mad, I'm sure if they were Korean it would be the same thing. Or if OJ was white and Nicole and Ron were black, you telling me we wouldn't be mad about it and delighting in it 13 years later that he gets put away for something? Stephen Lawrence in London, I'm sure you remember. If we could get one of those white boys done for something and put away for life there'd be a ton of people happy that they finally got what they deserved to some extent even if not for the original crime. I can't be mad at them because we act the same damn way a lot of the time, and that would make me a hypocrite.

Obama and OJ are not even a fair trade. And educated black man over a dumb one is like trading diamonds for glass chippings.

Intel apologises for 'racist' computer ad

-Jonathan Richards
The chip-maker has pulled an advertisement which it acknowledged was 'culturally insensitive and insulting' Intel, the computer chip maker, has been forced to apologise for an advertisement which has been widely criticised as racist.

The ad, which was for a new generation of micro-processors, showed six black sprinters crouched in the start position in front a white man wearing a shirt and chinos in an office. Above the image was a slogan which read: "Multiply computer performance and maximise the power of your employees."

Blogs were quick to spot the connotation of a white master surveying a group of black workers apparently bowed at his feet. In a statement on its website, Intel said: "We made a bad mistake. I know why and how, but that simply doesn't make it better." It was intended that the advertisement "convey the performance capabilities of our processors through a number of visual metaphors," Don MacDonald, director of global marketing for the company, wrote.

"Unfortunately, this ad using African-American sprinters did not deliver our intended message, and in fact proved to be culturally insensitive and insulting." Gizmodo, the technology blog which spotted the ad, said of the picture: "Lousy, barely subliminal, racist advertising, or just plain lousy advertising?"

The Register, a technology news site, said in its analysis: "While the white man's smug jubilation is apparently derived from choosing the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, there are some pretty sinister undertones in the advertisement."

Intel said it had pulled the ad from hundreds of publications, but was unable to stop two which had already shipped. The California-based company said it had identified "specific steps" in its ad reviewal process, and would rely on these, as well as "just more common sense", to guard against a similar incident in the future.

Intel, which recently reported second quarter revenues of $8.7 billion (£4.3 billion), is relying heavily on a new breed of 'multi-core processors' in the war with its long term rival, AMD.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2192554.ece

LondonDiva Says:

Intel knew exactly what they were doing from the start. Ads like this don't just magically appear from creative brainstorming (or in this case lack thereof). It's a very well thought out, and in some cases a very long term process to get an advertising campaign right, from the table of executives to the consumers magazines. As when not done right can be the difference in making or breaking a multi-billion dollar company's image and potential profits.

Somehow I don't think that this big conglomerate will suffer, except from a bit of bad press maybe. But can you really see black people or those from other ethnic minorities refusing to buy anything computer related with the Intel sign on, or throw out their computers in protest? Highly unlikely. In some instances, especially with Intel, we don't really have much of a choice. Due to their stature and position within the global marketplace, and for this reason alone, they knew before this insensitive ad was released probably wouldn't hinder them or their net profit margins in the process.

As for the ad itself, it wreaks of what many white, middle-aged, male dominated run corporations think and feel about those from an ethnic background, especially blacks, and please don't get it twisted, white women fall into that category too. All of this talk about 'times are indeed changing' is indeed a bunch of bullshit. We will always be seen as the lowest of the low in their eyes, irrespective of what we may achieve in this lifetime, and this ad is just that. Them sending us the message in print. I guess they never got the memo that we actually don't give a shit. They ('The Man') were never bold enough to say it up until now, but it's no surprise to me, as we always knew that's what they were thinking. Forever bowing down to the chino clad, two-step rhythm lacking, middle-aged white man, expecting them to be thankful and grateful to us for what we have and who we are.

Unfortunately for Intel, this is one method of advertising that they got very wrong. Forget the racist connotations for just a second. Never in my life have I met a black person, male or female that feels they owe their success and achievements in life to 'the man', worth bowing down to. If this ad were true to form and needed to have black people portrayed as bowing down to anybody, the white man in the centre would have been substituted for the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters worth bowing down to. That's who we praise and hold in high esteem for making us who we are today.

Obviously the advertising guru behind this campaign is stuck 400 years ago in the past and hasn't seen the new breed of blacks and other ethnic groups that are dominant in today's society on all levels professional and aspiring to be anything and everything other than a negative statistic often portrayed in today's media constantly on a daily basis.

I can't even get mad at the ad, not because it isn't wrong, but because nothing really surprises me, nor do I care anymore about what 'they' think about me or us as community. After this Intel will probably raise their ethnic minority employee quota or donate a huge chunk to the NAACP to show they're 'down for the cause'. I'm surprised the dick behind all the quotes, Don MacDonald, didn't say what we're so used to hearing from these ignorant fools, which they've forever hidden behind as a shield from a racist accusation. "I don't understand how could the ad could have been deemed as racist towards blacks? Some of my best friends are black!"