Cynique

YOu're crazier than I thought if you think I'm going to read all that drivel. Where's the post in which you tell Tyler that the title of the movie says "for colored GIRLS" after which you proceed to ridicule him and his Madea character?? And I didn't say that you said Halle couldn't act; you are putting your spin on things as usual. I said you put her down for the role she played. You aren't losing it, you've lost it because you can't confront the truth about your hypocrisy. The subject of your criticism of Halle winning an Oscar was injected into the conversation because you were boo-hooing about black people hating on each other, something you think that only you are entitled to do. You talk out of both sides of your mouth and nothing of substance comes out of either side. Talk about somebody being delusional. Look in the mirror.

YOu need to be done. Why would I place any stock in anything a duffer like you claims? I was basing my statements on what sportwriters and commentators say but, of course, you know more than they do. You're the expert. (Have you checked the stats of Noah and Carlos?) And the Bulls must be doing something right with the players and coach that they have because they're among the few teams in the NBA with a winning record in both the eastern and western conference. Woo-woo-woo they're working D. Rose too hard. What a silly statement that is, but I'll just consider the source.

YOU said this during a heated discussion about the Oscars the year Halle and Denzel won. I distinctly remember what you choose to forget. Some people were saying that they both won their Oscars for playing roles that put black people in a bad light and you agreed, saying that Halle's co-starring role opposite Billy Bob Thornton was not Oscar worthy. And you also seem to have forgotten how last year YOU were putting Tyler Perry down! I don't expect you to own up to any of this because you are so full of yourself that you stink. YOu really think that you are getting over but you ain't doing nothing but blowing smoke out of your ass. I'v gone from discussing your whining about Oprah's detractors to proving that you are guilty of doing what you accuse others of doing - as usual. You're pathetic.

This from a person who has consistently put Halle Berry down, presumably for or no other reason that that he doesn't like her. Or as he calls it, "hatin". And of course he dismisses anybody who doesn't share his opinion that Halle didnt deserve an Oscar for "Monster's Ball". I continue to be amazed how some people lose their cool just because some one else doesn't like who they like. Some people are just not bedazzled by Oprah and that's their prerogative! There are a lot of white celebs who Oprah critics also don't like, and there are a lot of black celebs who they do like. But there are those who just want to push their preferences down the throats of others, and give lectures to people who defy them. Thing is, I don't think either Oprah or Halle gave a damn what their detractors think about them. Oprah probably thinks they can kiss her big ol ass as she cries all the way to the bank.

Last time I checked, the Bulls were leading their division, the convential wisdom being that had he not beeen injured Noah, who is also a great passer, would've made the All Star team. Also, as a consistent scorer, Carlos Boozer, had he not been off earlier in the season, stood a good chance of making the all-star reserves, a pick for which Luol Deng, with his numbers, was blatantly snubbed. Moreover, the name of the Bulls' coach who is a defensive specialist is also being mentioned for the coach-of-the-year honors. So, naturally, I don't agree with your assessments. Time will tell.

Can you say Carlos Boozer and Joakim Noah??????

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Well I see Kola is back in form. Duck! To me, Oprah looks like the 55-year-old black woman that she is. She is not fat but she is hefty. Her hair is permed and she is skillfully made up. Oh, yeah, - she's a billionaire, an asset that goes a looooong way toward making her attractive.

I have always heard rumors and read accounts about how unstable and vindictive Halle can be when it comes to her love life. Her first husband Dave Justice gave an extensive interview after their divorce, and in it he dispelled any notions of her being sweet and innocent, saying her habit of embracing the victim role was bogus, and that she had run him through a wringer during their marriage. According to the tabloids her second husband Eric Benet said that he was forced to agree that he was a sex addict during their marriage because he strayed from the fold when she felt he was just using his wife for sex. No matter what this drama queen proclaims, she is bi-racial and her daughter is of mixed parentage. Halle did say once that early on her white mother told her that society would consider her black so she should be prepared to go through life as a black woman....

I admitted that I like a good slam fest, but I don't START them. I put on my game face once people like you automatically inject snide insinuations into their initial comments. In the literary world, style is what it's all about. Talented writers don't steal from other writers. Their writing is filtered through their own unique way of expression. Original thinkers still exist in this world and they undoubtedly know that knowledge is about how you apply what you know. As I said, from day one, I never took to you, carey, beginning with an e-mail I received from you when in my pre-Cynique days I was silly enough to include my e-mail address with my posts. In it, you attempted to put me in my place because of some remarks I made and you did so in a very presumptive manner. Whatever. I have changed very little from that time. And I certainly haven't gone through life without being challenged by people. I don't expect everyone to see things my way, but their challenging me is not the reason I dislike them. In fact, I have a lot of "frienemies" - as well as many acquaintences who even though they share my views, I don't care for. There are just some people who simply get on my nerves. Heh-heh. I announce all the time that I consider myself a polemist - a contrarian which, as Kola noted, makes me a devil's advocate. So yes, I do regularly argue with a lot of other posters, and the angels among them don't like having their halos disturbed. Tuff. And it certainly wasn't my intent to play the role of compassionate grandmother. Puleeze. That's your spin. I actually embraced my "witch" persona. As for Kola, I merely gave my assessment of her. Over the years I've expressed these opinions before, always giving Kola her props even if I did have a problem with her tantrums and her alter egos. And YOU rest assured, ol man, that I am not taking on the role of a victim here because you are not a victor. My comments were not a plea for you to dial it down. I'm ready to play hardball with you any time. Just bring it on.

Nobody asked me, but I'll just say this. Kola and I butt heads all the time yet in spite of her hystrionics and fabrications I recognize that she has a good heart and a good brain. I consider Chrishayden a loose-cannon but I respect that he is also very well-read. I don't always agree with Troy and Xeon but I like how they handle themselves. They have class. Crystal and Li-Li are my gurls cuz they just keep on readin, having the good sense to know when I have my tongue in cheek. I really miss Yvette and Ferocious Kitty, and I wonder all the time whatever happened to Mzuri and hope Se-Se is well. And then there's carey. From day one, we've never hit it off. Whenever we have a truce it is an uneasy one. Some people you just don't take to. His opinion of me is no lower than my opinion of him as in addition to all of his other traits that I find obnoxious, he has recently revealed himself to be a parasite. He admittedly feeds on the ideas and phrases of others for the purpose of co-opting them since he's not an original thinker. He relies on others to shore up his vocabulary and his grammar and spelling. When you argue with him, he sets the tone because he can never just advance his point without prefacing it with the personal attacks that he apparently think bolster his position. I'm don't have a problem with exchanging insults but it bothers me when he uses this ploy with others. But others find him palatable, and there's no accounting for taste. Now I'm sure the ol guy will respond to this with his patented argument about me being a lonely old jealous witch. I don't know whether he realizes it or not but I don't consider being called a "witch" an insult. Witches are cool. They have mystical powers and not all of them wear black capes and pointed hats. I don't. And yes, I am "lonely" - for an android who would be programmed to fulfill my every wish and need. And yes, I am jealous of anybody whose heart isn't subject to episodes of arrythmia. But I don't dwell on any of this. I'm more focused on pondering the mysteries of life and on what constitutes reality. Bottom line, I'm a good companion for myself and don't care to be worried with a lot of people around buggin me. My children and grandchidren take up the slack and that's good enough for me. I now even have 2 great-grandchildren who I am indifferent to see come and happy to see go. So be it.

Time's up, Xeon! I hoped you were THE ONE, but no such luck. Meanwhile 2012 looms on the horizon. :0

You are a force of nature, Kola; a wild child and your creativity knows no bounds. Your passion is what makes you magnanimous, and your magnanimity enables you to love and hate at the same time. No small feat. If weirdness is akin to uniqueness then, indeed, you are weird. Let's hear it for weirdness! The average person is uncomfortable with someone who is unpredictable - and that's why they're "average". "Average", - as in "boring". You are never boring and one of your most charming traits is your capacity for self-deprecation. Moreover, YOU are the type who aspiring writers should look to for inspiration because they can benefit not only from your literary instincts but the generosity of your tough love. Instead, these "scribblers" gravitate to people who encourage them to attack the messenger instead of the message when it comes to criticism. Denial is their security blanket because they crave approval. Helloooo, carey. I understand that scientific studies have recently confirmed the benefits of the spice Cumin in the treatment of diabetes. I have derived such positive results from taking Ginkgo Biloba that I am now on a homeopathic kick. I'm sure you're amenable to the possibilities of alternative medicine. Just a thought. Anyway, be well and stay well!

And of course it NEVER occurs to you, carey, that your repetitive drivel carries no weight with me. YOu think you're raising hell with all of your self-rightous prattle, completely overlooking how you attack and desperately attempt to discredit any body who doesn't see things your cock-eyed way. And I repeat. Anybody who can't take the heat should get out of the kitchen when it comes to writing aspirations. The elementary things I say to these people aren't anything that an editor wouldn't tell them. Of course you'd encourage second-rate efforts because you're second rate. And the pitiful thing about you is the inflated opinion you have yourself. You ain't shit, nigga, and it's a collossal joke that you think you are speaking pearls of wisdom when all that is coming out of your big, drooling, floppy mouth is carey-speak, a bastardized language that is equivalent to pig latin; backwards and irrelevant. Go back to stroking all of your dumb-assed disciples whose asses you probably enjoy licking.

Xeon, Emmitt Till was sealed "under glass", - his casket roped off when the crowds filed by it, not giving anyone too much of a chance to scrutinize him. The picture taken of him and later printed in Jet Magazine provided a better view than the actual experience. His mother's decision to have a transparent pane cover the open casket proved to be a wise one. When they dug him up 50 years later, his remains were perfectly preserved and his body was re-buried in a nice new vault. Thank you, Troy, for overlooking my "negative" contributions to this board... BTW, there were varied projects launched to put people back to work during the Depression. One of these was to send people around the country to record "slave narratives", accounts of ex-slaves sharing their experiences. Our family has a copy of the one my mother's father supplied for these archivists. I always forget that I am actually the granddaugher of a freed slave who, incidentally, looked like he was white and as a child was indeed, a "house nigga" recruited by his master to be the playmate of the children who were probably his half-siblings. According to my late father, however, his grandmother was enslaved a long time before she was freed, and was coal black, believed to be pure African. These are the blood lines that make me who I am.

Well, Troy and Xeon, my diatribe was not spontaneous. I was responding to the same ol mantra that carey drones every time my behavior doesn't meet with HIS approval. And, of course, my opinion of him is so unfavorable that reaming him out comes easy to me. carey does all of his big talk and then when I retort he casts himself of the "victim" of those who laugh at him. That's how his mentality works.

February is Black History month, and I feel fortunate that my repository of memories makes my brain comparable to an organic history book, chapters of which I want to share. Being the proud great-granddaughter of freed-slaves I've decided to pull rank and briefly assume the role of a griot. I beg your indulgence. I confess to also taking pride in the fact that Prohibition was repealed the same year I was born, making it possible for people to legally drown their sorrows in booze as both me and the Great Depression came into being. Since then just what have I lived through, that most of you haven’t? Read on. Starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ending with Barack Obama, I have been around during the election of 12 presidents, along with the resignation of one, namely Richard M. Nixon. I was here when “colored” folks morphed into “negroes”, - was around when black hair care products were limited to hot iron straightening combs and pressing oils. I’ve observed black names like Bertha and Ruby and Willa Mae and Annie give way to the ones like Carole and Linda and Sandra and Denise. (Never mind what came after these lovely appellations ) I listened to all of heavyweight champion Joe Louis’ fights on the radio, cheering him on as he made quick work of his opponents. When they were still the BROOKLYN Dodgers, I saw their star second baseman and first black major league player, Jackie Robinson, play against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Beginning with World War II, - at which time I hoped for the safe return of my brother who served in the Navy on the first Destroyer Escort to be manned by an all-black crew, - I was on the home front as Americans fought in 7 major wars, including the conflict in Korea where black and white soldiers served in the same units together for the first time. As a teenager whose first summer job was that of a key-puncher hired to encode cards for programmers, I have seen computers evolve from huge room-sized machines to sleek lap-top models and hand held smart phones. I attended the University of Illinois when the presence of the Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta sorority houses, and the Kappa Alpha Psi and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity ones made this campus the only one in the entire country to have black Greek residences. Beginning with the arrest of defiant back-of-the-bus rider, Rosa Parks and murdered Emmitt Till, whose mutilated body I stood in a loooooong line to gawk at, and peaking with my viewing on TV the live deliverance of the “I have a dream” speech by MLK, I have tagged along as the Civil Rights Movement marched forward to break down racial barriers. When not watching "remote-less" black and white television, I frequently patronized the palatial movie houses that once lit up Chicago’s down town area where stage shows shared the marquee with the latest motion pictures, and where I would be in the audience when artists like Nat Cole and Ella Fitzgerald appeared in person. I went on dates to jazz clubs to hear legendary musicians such as Oscar Peterson and I once saw a very spaced-out Charlie Parker struggle through a bebop solo. I was immersed in the times as the "beatnik" generation morphed into the hippie counter-culture which aitated change to society, ushering in the peace movement birthed by the Viet Nam war which i marched against. During the same era, I raised a fist as a sympathizer with the black power movement. With the attack on India's prime minister Mohandas Gandhi, I first experienced shock over 7 other political assassinations, including those of Martin Luther King who was a disciple of Gandhi’s passive resistance philosophy, Malcolm X, and Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, my Maywood, Illinois, home town hero, who was shot down in his bed by a squad of “Chicago’s finest“. Along the way, I saw my name become a by-line when the “Chicago Today” newspaper, prodded by my provocative "letters-to-the-editor", hired me to write a regular column on the ambiguous black experience. During my years of employment at a postal sub-station, I observed as blacks ascended to positions of authority and wielded unbridled power while become big fish in a small pond. And so it went…These are just some of the past events and changes that I have co-existed with. To you, they may be yawners. To me, they are memories. Some happy, some sad. But, - that’s life. Thanks for reading this. Time to go. I’m history!

carey is a classic example of somebody who is blatantly guilty of everything he accuses everbody else of. He is a big mouth who couches his arguments in the subtefuge of name-calling character assassination and once you strip away all of his vapid verbiage all he is saying is that if you don't agree with me, then you are automaticaly wrong; if you don't jock who I jock, you are a "hater". carey is the poster boy for the old adage about there being "nothing worst than a fool who knows not that he is a fool".

As I was saying, Oprah is lucky. She is no smarter or more savvy than many black women who have not been the beneficiary of a fluke, - of being in the right place at the right time. Oprah gives me an excuse to give my sense of humor a work-out. The only thing that really inspires any jealousy of Oprah on my part is that she never has to worry about maxing out her credit cards. All I require is a life of leisure, something my modest postal pension enables me to have. (Ol cross-dressing Carey probably fantasizes about getting his own talk show, something that would provide him with a forum for his boring ignorance.) Stfu, you played-out jerk

Well, look who oozed out from cracks of that hairy ass that he keeps his pin head stuck up in while groping around the desolate territory of that rag he calls a blog where taking his daily ego trip is comparable to him taking a crap since, without even checking it, I know he is talking nothing but crap inasmuch as bull begets shit. Old blubber mouth carey still fancies himself the guardian of wimps and can always be depended on to come to the rescue of whiners convinced that the world is supposed to regard their every effort with awe and praise, inflated with their delusioned sense of entitlement, unable to withstand constructive criticism, living in a bubble. Anybody who can't take feedback from what they put out there and who skitters away like a scared cockroach instead of exhibiting some guts would naturally be somebody who is a prime candidate for the stroking of cary who can't even do a credible of job of the name-calling he always resorts to because his arguments are so weak. An "old maid" is a spinster; and a spinster is a female who has never been married. I am a widow and if my spouse had been a boring, obnoxious, self-important, limp-dicked dufus like you, carey, I would've been a young divorcee, happy to luxuriate in the solitude that a coward like you can't appreciate because you're afraid of being alone in the company of your true inadequate self, so you think anybody who relishes privacy is lonely. Get outta here. Go find some new material. You're like a broken record. Same ol same ol. >>yawn<< And, phew, I thought that BigBuck & Co. were repulsive, but you have once again reminded me that the foul smell of carey transcends mere garbage fumes. ugh. In any case, I join you in lamenting the exit of Mr. Turner. I thought I had found myself a new sparring partner but, no, he wasn't equal to the task. A little nose-tweaking was all it took to deflate his vanity and send him skulking away with his tail between his legs. tsk-tsk. Chalk up another one for the spineless loser team that carey is the self-appointed coach of. And what a good role model a wanna-be numbskull like carey makes for the thin-skinned wussies he defends.

The somewhat left-leaning Nobel Peace Prize committee is more than a little politicized and the awarding of this honor is often used to make a statement. Many contend that presenting it to Obama was more for his popularity and meant to be a slap in the face for Bush who was unpopular with Scandanavian countries because of the invasion of Iraq. This was also cited as the reason they gave it to Jimmy Carter and Al Gore a few years earlier. Having just ordered more troops to be sent to fight in Afghanstan, to his credit, Obama himself seemed a little embarassed to receive a peace prize. The ad hominem resentment that people like carey display toward any black person who doesn't blindly support Obama, does nothing to legitimize their arguments. The arbitrary stance of his worshippers says more about them than it does about Obama.

"BigBuck" has nothing on Cynique. I can write trite poetry, too. In a world full of turmoil where dire conflict reigns, countries alternate between losses and gains. Democracy-starved Egyptians are engaging in riots, while overweight Capitalists feast on the latest fad diets. Financially-stable China is the new sheriff in town, and, like Europe and Japan, America’s economy is down, struggling with war and persistent unemployment, fending off Generals wanting more troop deployment. The English are preparing for Prince William’s wedding, scurrying like bugs infesting a hotel room’s bedding. North and South Korea dare each other to attack, and no nations hate Israel more than Iran and Iraq. India has cornered the out-sourcing service, leaving PC users more confused and as nervous as Haitians desperate for the aid and relief that still eludes Somalians full of nothing but grief. Weather has taken the whole globe by storm, and if It isn’t snowing, It’s welcome is warm for floods and earthquakes and strong winds that rage like prehistoric animals on a violent rampage! The internet provides highways for avatar traffic making virtual reality more awesome and more graphic! Fingers have replaced tongues as a way to make words, thanks to the ingenuity of 2 ex-computer nerds. Along with flat-screened TVs and the films in 3-D that are providing our eyes with new ways to see, will Obama turn out to be Oprah’s long-lost half-brother, or will Democrats and Republicans embrace one another? Will the future prove instant gratification doesn’t last, or obsession with physical perfection become a thing of the past? Will universal peace and individual grace be what ultimately saves the imperiled human race??? Who knows? Ask "Will"

Deja vu all over again; our favorite diva singing the same tune, different lyrics.

"BigBuck" is having a field day with assorted "member" profiles on this board. Altho he isn't listed as a member, if he has infiltrated your "friend" list, by clicking on to his name you will be exposed to the foul excrement of this racist asshole. At some point, however, all you can do is laugh at this drivel because it's so over-the-top it loses its effect. The President of the United States, who is a man of color, neutralizes these stereotypes, and white trailer park trash rivals them.