Shout Out to my Critics….ooops my Critic.

Constructive Feedback is back in the building and he’s got something to say. What exactly? I don’t know but I will try to decipher for the folks at home.


In the comment section of my last post “Tiger Woods Hijacked Black History Month” Black Blogospheres favorite critic “Constructive Feedback” left the following notes and I responded to them.


CF - Pardon me Ojo - but could you tell us which "White man" "gave us" the shortest month of the year? Or if he wasn't "white" WHO did it?


Me - Dr. Carter G. Woodson originated “Negro History Week” in the early 1900’s. In the late 80’s it became “Black History Month” also referred to as African-American Heritage Month. Woodson chose the month of February because it marked the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In my first part of the “Tiger Woods” post, I said “Black Folks get the shortest month of the year and Tiger Woods couldn’t give us 28 days?” For this - Feedback alluded to me inferring that a white person gave us the month of February. I said black folks have the shortest month and that is FACT. I didn’t mention anything about “White Folks” and that is also a FACT. The notion that I mentioned “white men throwing us February as a bone” is FICTION.


CF - Oh yeah - now "They" are coming after the sacred spaces:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=016C4sUj5_8&feature=player_embedded
Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority wins the step show.


Me – So this is why people are upset about the step show. I wondering why an AKA I knew was pissed off. For full disclosure, I pledged a Black Fraternity in college but I never cared much for step shows. Feedback wants you to believe that I am fearful of white folks crowding in on “Black Institutions.” So some White Chicks won a Step Show sponsored by a soda company. Big Deal!! If Black folks are so upset, then they should have told Sprite to keep it for Black Greeks only. Kudos to the caucasian sisters for stepping, jumping, hoping and whatever else they did. The attempt to tie in a step show to my post is a stretch. Tiger Woods wasted a moment in time confessing to something that is between a man and a woman. He did that for his sponsors and to clean up his image. Those chicks were in a competition for some type of prize. Huh!? Feedback, nice try but no dice. Thanks for playing and come back again…..but not too soon.

Fake Beefs are so Passe.

Exploiting Bristol as an unwed teen mother didn’t stop with the campaign. Back in Wasilla, where Bristol could have been sheltered and given space to rebuild her life, the Palins arranged to send her out like a vaudeville act, traveling the country to talk about teenage pregnancy under the sponsorship of Candie’s, a clothing company known for sexually provocative outfits for tweens. The Bristol “do as I say tour” had a rocky start once she admitted that abstinence was not “realistic”—apparently she was against it before she was for it. Note to mom: When you become the ambivalent poster child for unwed motherhood, you attract off-color jokes.

~Margaret Carlson, Contributor to The Daily Beast & Columnist for Bloomberg News.




Last week America was subjected to a fake media beef involving Governor Sarah Palin and David Letterman. I like David Letterman because of his sarcastic humor. I don’t like Sarah Palin because she is Sarah Palin. I do agree that Letterman crossed the line with that joke about Palin’s daughter. But I don’t believe that he was talking about her younger daughter. I do believe he was talking about Bristol Palin (aka Levi Johnston’s baby momma). She is the only one that is sexually active (that we know of). After looking at Levi’s Facebook I knew he was hitting it. A guy like that doesn’t date virgins. Anyway…I’m all for leaving peoples children off the firing lines. So I will call a flag on David Letterman for aggressive on the field behavior. But I need to throw a flag on Sarah Palin for overexposure. She is going to ride this horse until it turns into glue. She is on radio and television crying about the injustice of it all. Someone should tell her that the line for complaints goes around the block (Native Americans are at the head). She ended the week by basically calling Letterman a pervert. Wow!! Really? Sarah Palin tries too hard to fit into the perceived mode of Republican presidential candidate. With the “Browning” of “Aging” of America the Republicans need to get a new shtick. Palin is trying to run on a 1980’s agenda and it shows every time she opens her mouth. The absolute worst part of this “Fake Beef” is her defenders. They are just as annoying as she is.

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The Haters vs.1st Lady Michelle Obama

I was reading one of my favorite blogs by Professor Tracey and it seems like Michelle Obama is catching hell. Apparently some people have been saying nasty things about her. The 1st lady is a grown woman and she can take the heat. It’s her kids that I feel bad for. They have to read and hear these nasty things about their mother. I knew that it wasn’t going to be easy for the Obama’s. I knew that some people in this country still have a problem with black folks. I was never naïve about this moment in our history. This race game is a dirty game that we play in America.