I Still Love Her

There is a special girl in my life. We don’t talk much anymore. Forces, unforeseeable forces, have separated us. We used to be really close. And spend almost every weekend together. Now somebody else is occupying her time. It used to be me. She has different interest now. We used to sit around and do nothing, you know just watch TV. Now she’s gone on without me. Whenever I call to talk to her, if I do reach her, it’s a short conversation. I miss the way we used to be. I guess it happens to the best relationship, they grow apart. And I tried to do what I could to keep it together.

I blame that other guy. He was always there, hanging around. He’d be there more than I would. I guess she started listening to him more than me. Looking forward to spending more time with him than me. My little bit of money used to be enough for her entertainment. Even thought this dude has more money than me, I don’t think that’s what it was. Man, I miss her. And I know now when we see each other it will never be the same. We had one of the most intimate relationships I have ever had with a human being of the opposite sex. I know that she has grown now and maybe I just don’t do it for her anymore. The little things that I used to do to make her laugh don’t make her laugh anymore. That glimmer in her eye she had when I’d look at her isn’t there anymore.

It's funny how when we both were younger; I used to hang out with the other guy in her life more than her. I guess that was because I got to know him first. I would want to be around him more than her back then. But now It's her I miss the most. But maybe that's because she's not the same girl that I used to know. Maybe I should stop and look her over.

Well she’s turns 14 today. And my niece will never be that little girl that she was back in the day. She loved her uncle and I was the special man in her life. Yeah my bigger brother always had more money than me and truth be told spent more money on her. But I could spend my disposable income in a different way. I could buy alot more toys, candy and clothes. But she’s closer to him and that’s ok with me. I guess it’s important for a (gulp) teenage girl to have a healthy relationship with her Dad. When they moved an hour away to Frederick we did grow apart. Now I’m 3 hours away. She was in elementary school the last time we lived less than a half an hour away. She’s a sophomore in high school now! I remember when she was born and, I remember when she could barely talk. I remember that day she came running in my room with her grandmas heels on, at like 2 years old. She was so bad, even up until middle school. So mischievous but I understood her cause I was the same way as a child.

Yeah and I’m ashamed to say that I’d ask my brother if I can hang out with my nephew her bigger brother without picking her up. But I guess my older brother in his older brother wisdom knew what kind of damage that splitting them up would’ve done to our relationship and more importantly to her psyche. He never would allow it.

I remember the day that her and her brother were helping me wash my car and an old friend from high school dropped by. My little lady was so protective of her “Uncle Wedgy” (that was her crack on me) that she literally sat in my lap to keep that woman away from me. She knew something that I didn’t.

Now I find myself feeling that same way. Wanting to protect her from teenage boys and grown men too, who think like I did back then. But all I can do is hope and pray that the love, health and respect that the seven men in our family (her father, brother, grandfather and uncle, her moms’ father and brothers) gave showed her how a man should love, respect and treat a woman.

Happy birthday baby girl.

(I ain’t have any money to give you.)

Men are from mars, Women ain't Part II (august 30)

Why are my friends afraid of the Blog? Most of them didn't know what a blog was until I told them. Web log; or an online journal. Anyway they have a fear that their interactions with me will be chronicled. And they will. But I'll protect their anonymity. I'll change the names and faces to protect the identities of the innocent. Maybe it'll scare them into acting right, ya think? Probably not.

But they are really worried about me divulging too much personal information. It's like they are saying, "put down the blog, back away from the blog." But I'm like, feel the blog, see the blog, be the blog, become one with the blog. It's ok. If you only could know how blogging is so very cathartic (thanks Key), maybe they would blog too. On second thought they might talk about me in them.

So now for part II

First off I know that part I was kind of wack. I’m not sure if this one is any more entertaining, but it should be more coherent. I’m going to try and make up for any disappointment tomorrow. I’ve got a lot to say on a topic that I’m more passionate about.

There is an author that I really have enjoyed. I've used his material on several occasions over the past year or so. That is Bikari Kitwana's "The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks And The Crisis In African-American Culture."

He starts out his chapter about our relationships with a Gansta rap quote...

You know I / Thug em / F em / Love em / Leave em

Cause I don't F'in need em.

Jay-Z "Big Pimpin"

And I don't know about you, but I love hip-hop. And I don't know if life imitates art or if art imitates life. But often times both women and men can identify with the raw emotion of Gansta Rap. The problem is that we do need each other.

So here is what Kitwana says contributes to the growing gulf between men and women of the Hip Hop generation.

1. Black male group loyalty is central to young Black male identity.

-The notion that one's boys are more important than a one's love interest. For a gansta rap reference check out Dr. Dre The Chronic "It ain't no fun."

2. Many hip-hop generation men lack interest in or understanding of feminism.

The author says, "Too many hip-hop generation men-blinded by their own egos and culturally entrenched sexist beliefs-fail to grasp the critical issues and they see little value in becoming educated in feminist issues." Are men satisfied with the perceived status quo of power in gender roles? Notice that I said perceived.

3. The objectification of women has intensified during our lifetime.

Now we didn't start this. This was going on with our daddies and our father's father. But we have taken it to another level. Just listen to the title of some hip-hop's top ten. Gimme that 'P-word.' Lil Webbie (Yes that's what he's saying. Thanks Cliniqueg6, I would've never known if it weren't for you.) “Wait, The whisper song” by the Yin Yang Twins. (You shouldn't even think crap like that, no less whisper it.)

4. The intense focus on materialism in our generation is undermining many relationships.

Tupac and MC Breed said it best, and I believe it holds true in our love relationships... "I got to get mine, you got to get yours."

5. As much as we are different from our parent's generation, we are similar. "Old sexist attitudes such as it's the woman's fault persist in our generation."

Look at the Omerosa backlash, how come no one blamed Trump?

6. When it comes to gender issues, hip-hop generationers are willing to disregard the dark side of their Heroes.

-Tupac's rape case

-Mike Tyson's rape case

-R. Kelly's molestation case and marriage to a then 15-year-old Aaliya.

All examples of how we forgive not only misogynistic lyrics but also behavior from our Hip hop heroes.

Now these are the author's thoughts, the numbered list and whatever is in the quotations that follow. Every thing else is my opinion added. As I look back over them while infringing on his copyrights, it seems that he's very heavy handed on the men's part to play in this.

What do you think? Is he totally off or on to something?

Men are from mars, Women ain't. (August 29)

Even though I’m tough on Cooning, I am a big Martin fan. And I got the title of this blog from the episode when Martin & Gina were having marital problems. This was the episode when Martin came back home from work after having argued in the morning and he and Gina weren’t speaking when he came thru the door. He looks around and opens the stove and sniffs as if to say “How come dinner’s not cooking?” Gina crosses her leg and turns in the other direction, still reading her book with that title. Martin goes and rattles pots and pans and then grabs a bag of potato chips that he rustles and finally pops open from the bottom. He walks over to cut on the football game and yells, “Aw man please, you clipped him.” Then Gina in turn puts on the radio and starts dancing to that song…. “Come on ride that train… and ride it.” Martin runs over and turns off the Radio and Gina runs over and turns the game off. And they finally speak to each other…

Martin: Gina I was watching the game
Gina: I was reading Martin.
Martin: Why don’t you go and read in the bedroom?
Gina: go watch TV in the bedroom.
Martin: It's broken Gina.
Gina: WELL THEN FIX IT!

Hilarious.

On with today’s post.

I was meeting with my friend today. Jewel. We’ve worked together and she’s a very genuine person. I respect her and she respects me. Lately we have been on the discussion of relationships. For some reason my advice as a man has been sought after lately. I know, go figure.

My friend Key and I have been toying with the idea of writing a book. And it is afternoons like this that make me think I’m on to something .

So any way I’m meeting with my friend Jewel. And she tells me about a group of friends of hers who have been discussing dating. One of her friends has on her card WNSWY. I was giving the task of uncovering the cryptic message. After writing it down and about 10 minutes of scrutinizing I gave up. It was written under the phone number and e-mail of the card that Jewel’s friend would give out to men. And the inscription means… Will Not Sleep With You. Now at first glance I could appreciate it. Because, no man really wants to be with a woman that is prone to ‘earliness.’ And if you don’t know what I mean now, read this paragraph a couple of more times. But then I shrink back because it hits me, isn’t that a little presumptuous. But more than that it sets the scene for the over all contention that seems to be typical of relationships between men and women these days.

So in comes the idea of my book. You may have read, “He’s just not that into you.” My friend and I key are going to write a similar version with a focus on the Hip Hop Generation. So my friend Jewel and her girls have the bright idea of getting a focus group together, so that they can learn more about the other side. I’m like who me? Yeah, go figure. Well any way I think I am a good lab rat for this experiment. I’m well qualified, because I’m so familiar with the mess that men pull. I’ve had so many failed relationships and have been screwed over and screwed others over. So here it goes. We’re writing a book. Now please don’t take my ideas. I’m going to keep the title to myself. But it’s a popular phrase used to describe young adults from late teens to the end of their twenties. And since we are out, well me almost out. We have a unique perspective.

My blog has already gotten to be too long. The introduction is what did it. But I want to give some of the evidence of the problem and see what you think.

So about a month ago I was reading a book “Childhood and society by Erick Erikson.” He says that you can tell a lot about children by their toys and adults by their reasons. And around the same time I went to a cookout with my usual suspect social crew. Now the thing about this crew is that whenever we get together we always play a game. Doesn’t matter what it is: Bowling, Board games, card games it’s always men against women. And Erikson’s theories say that children play games that put them in roles that they ascribe to once they become adults. Often these roles are ones that the children feel are beyond their control. So I was telling my friend about this the day before the cook out. Low and behold (that’s old school talk there.) After the card game broke out the taboo game was brought out and the lines were drawn. The men against women. Me trying to save the good time from the impending all out war, tried to say, “we don’t have to play men vs. women. We can play by birthdays or something.” The women shot back “what are ya’ll scared.” And as Treach said…”once again it’s on.” It started out ok but once one team got a lead (won’t say that it was the men.) The other side made accusations of cheating and by the end the ultra competitiveness on both sides was fully flowing. Distracting each other, claiming that one was breaking this rule and the other was breaking that one. We where a few moments shy of name calling by the time we finished. At that point it had long stopped being fun. And when the men finally came out victorious I didn’t even have joy enough for the George Jefferson Strut. And you know that’s serious.

My point is maybe Erikson’s right. We play against each other because we haven’t figured out yet how to work together. Everybody down there was single and between the ages of 21 and 33. Save one. And I keep hearing the words to Jodeci’s song “ Love U 4 Life”

“Do you believe in love?
And the promise that it gives?”

Can we learn to as Rodney King said, “...all just get along?" I want to say that there is still hope. I have more to say but I'll save it for part II.

The wickedest band alive

Just in case you were wondering...
That was the wickedest band alive, Rare Essence with DJ Flex and Ludacris on the VMA's

Shout out to Go-Go Mickey, White boy, Bojack and the all the rest of the R.E. crew. They truly are... "bad, bad, the wickedest band alive."

I love to see my home town get national publicity. Especially the Go-Go sound.

Amongst the other sideshow acts.

Banned from TV (August 25, 2005)

I’m going to try to make this good; I’m leaving early for orientation this weekend.

Any way. A couple of days a go a friend of mind who knows me quite well sent me an e-mail. It was a article focusing on a new service that basically acts as a casting agency for potential reality T.V. contestants. Now if you know me you would understand why my friend Key would send this to me.

I am an absolute reality T.V. Junkie.

It’s kind of like that Popeye’s commercial with Bruce, Bruce. “I like everything about Popeyes, I like the spicy chicken, I like the shrimp, I like the reds beans and rice, I like the French fries, … I like the napkins, the salt and pepper…. etc. What a Coon. (I am sorry. Actually I’m not.)

Well I’m sort of like that. I like the real world, I like America’s next top model, I like are you the girl, I like blind date, I like survivor, I like American idol, I like so you think you can dance, I like being Bobby Brown, I like the apprentice. I mean I’m an old school reality fan. I watched the first reality show ever, when Mary Ellis Bynum put together the true story, of seven strangers, picked to live in a house and have their lives taped. Way back in 1992.

But see the thing is I shot back to Key in the spirit of Whitney, ‘Hell-to-the-nah... have you seen what they do to minorities on reality TV?’ Just like I had earlier to my boy cereb when he suggested I go on the bachelor to find my wife.

And thus in a nutshell is my love hate relationship with reality TV. I love to watch it, hate to see what they do to minorities on it. Not even mentioning what we do to our selves, need I mention “Being Bobby Brown?” I know you’re saying, you might be taking this too far, it’s not that bad out there. But idn’t? (My new word for isn’t)

Well the thing is since the second season of the real world reality TV has been the forum for displaying minority treatment in America. Remember David on the real world season 2? Remember how he was playing around with the shows only other black person Tami and tried to take her cover off of her while she was on the bed in her pantys? IF you didn’t see it that’s what happened and it seemed as lighthearted fun at first until Tami realized, “aw shucks, the cameras are on and I’m in my draws under this cover.” Except David didn’t realize that she had turned serious. So what was a joke between everyone in the house turned into a campaign to remove David from the house because he made his housemates feel unsafe? First of all, why is there only one or two at the most black people on reality shows in the first place, with those odds you can’t win. Then they always seem to gang up on them and have them voted off or removed for some stereo typically “ethnic behavior.” Don’t believe me? Give me an example and I can show how they made it happen.

· David from the real world – Black brute. Come on he was pulling sheets off of the bed.) *Side note- Tami was conveniently used as a Black Female lynching agent, Which we’d see again. *

· Kwame from the apprentice – Uncle Tom. He was so laid back that he made it to the last two on the show, but was taking out by another Black Female lynching agent, set up by Donald Trump.

· Omerosa – Jezebel. She was the quintessential “angry black female” on the apprentice that made everybody seemingly have a bad day. She says editing made her look that way. My thought, Trump paid her. Then she was mysteriously brought back to be in the final team to uh… ‘help’ Kwame win. Why’d I say help Kwame? Cause he had the second pick. Kwame 2, 4, 6. Bill 1, 3, 5… Who was going to end of with Omerosa? By the way that was Kwame’s reason for losing picking Omerosa first. Shame on him for trying to stick together.

· Kevin from the second season of the apprentice – another Tom. He was so laid back and non-confrontational and he made it to the top three and was fired so quickly on the second to last show that if you blinked you would’ve missed it. What was he told he was being fired for? Being over qualified. WTF?

Now I’m not calling them these things actually, I’m just saying their onscreen persona fit right into the racial caricatures that we are always portrayed as in the media. Like when I say Uncle Tom, I mean the Non-threatening Negro.
View the Jim Crow caricature website for more info.

The apprentice by the way seems to be one of the biggest offenders. And might I add they’re coming back with two versions. The Donald trump version and the Martha Stewart one. Can you hear Martha “Out on bail / fresh outta jail / California dreamin / Soon as I stepped on the scene / reality shows screamin” God bless the dead. R.I.P. Tupac.

Speaking of Pac… I’m not defending or excusing all of the rappers that have cut albums since they went to or while still in Jail. But Why isn’t Martha Stewart seeing any of the Backlash that Tupac, Shyne, Beanie Sigel, C-Murder, Pimp –C did for doing business while behind bars?


I can’t think of any more examples, Besides Stacie J. But If I kept going I’d be going on forever. I just wanted to get that off of my chest. Watching all eyes on Kanye West now. I’m winding down. But Brothers don’t do so well on Reality TV. My other thing is. Have you ever seen a brother on reality get some love? Maybe that one time on real world Las Vegas, but home girl was kind of suspect that he hooked up with. She was in like a thong contest and went at home boy real early. I’ll tell you how about earliness in relationships at a later date, hint, it’s not good. But check the latest completed real world season in Philly. When I watched the first episode I was excited, they had a foxy sister on their and a brother who seemed to be really educated and well spoken, and (heavy throat swallow) he looked alright (insert diatribe from “boomerang” it’s not like I wanted to get with him… ooh look at his shoulders) So I’m thinking I’m going to see some black reality love, a first on TV. Heck, we don’t see Black people in love in the movies. But no. I’ll keep it short; the brother was on the down low. They didn’t even know he was gay till he told them. Then to top it off, the sister, had a white boyfriend, and hooked up with the White dude on the show. Major disappointment.

Now I know this is short of evidence and that I’d be hard pressed to build a case on these alone. But I dare you to give me more than a few examples where black people have found success on reality TV? Besides amazing race, and the model show, you’ll be hard pressed. Well, what’s funny is my dad can’t stand em. But I can’t get enough of em. Love to watch em, hate to see what they do to the brothers. So, No. I will not be on the latest edition of the Bachelor, Big Brother although I’d be better suited for celebrity fit club or America’s biggest loser.

Well anyway, I’m going to wrap this up. I gotta go and watch “Being Bobby Brown.”
”It’s just me y’all!”

9:33 PM 8/25/2005

Racism's still alive, they just be concealin it ( August 24, 2005)

Well I got my first comment (first unsolicited one anyway) on my blog the other day. Didn’t make much of it until I checked out the guy’s blog. He’s at the top of his game. It turned into a great affirmation. Check out his blog. Parental advisory: It’s not for the faint of heart. Humanity Critic.

Anyway I was feeling a little overwhelmed by the great blog writers of my time and that I didn’t have anything to write about, but leave it to another racist institution to save the day.

This morning as I signed into msn to check my e-mail, I caught a glimpse of an article. Racism and the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was an article about racial issues between the LA Dodgers players. I’m thinking great, racism, in one of the most racist cities in the world. Licking my chops.

But to my chagrin (come on, ain’t there some words that you just like hearing?) the stories images had the black brother’s picture in it but none of the white guys. Did I mention this was a story from Fox sports? Also the whole story was about the black guys, Milton Bradley (Parent’s tell me why? Why do you do your kids like that?) Accusations about the white player. They only had one quote from the white guy. It came across looking like a spoiled black dude complaining about racism that wasn’t present. Is it me or am I tripping? The main thing that bothers me was that I know how powerful imagery and symbolism is (i.e. Gold chains on rappers) and the fact that there were no pictures of the Kent guy in this story is no small factor.

Read it and let me know what you think.

One thing I know is that Bradley is right about this “White people never want to see race - with anything. But there's race involved in baseball. That's why there's less than 9 percent African-American representation in the game. I'm one of the few African-Americans that starts here.”

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/4802848

I'd add to Bradley's quote, that Black people don't want to see racism either. Strange thing is they can't afford not to.

Preacher suggest state sponorsed assination?

A preacher suggests state sponsored assassination? (August 23, 2005)

Pat Robertson had the audacity to suggest that Venezuela's president be killed. On the 700 Club, on T.V. y’all. I wonder what the black people watching were thinking? “Well he must be right, if we need to kill that world leader, then he’s gotta go.” He suggested it because of his anti-American views, namely threatening to cut back it's oil supply to the U.S. "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,'' Robertson says that this would be cheaper than starting a war. This is so morally bankrupt on so many levels that I'm finding it hard to comment on. Do they have those preachers so much in their hands that they will go that far? I know the government is like, "whoa, whoa...chill chill, we don't need you to go that far. We know you're trying to help but you're taking it too far."

Damn gas prices got people going crazy!

I wonder what will happend to him. Do you think they'll take Pat off of the air, make him give an apology or recant the story? What do I think? None of that will happen. Are you in disbelief? Read the story for yourself.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aHRr2Ul10eC0&refer=latin_america

An update on Media Disparity.

An update on my first blog.

Another one of our missing girls, Latoyia Figueroa was found. August 20th. It's closure, but when I saw her picture coupled with the fact that she was five months pregnant and has a seven year old little girl, a sadness overwhelmed me. (MS Word said that I was using incorrect grammar by using the article ‘a’ to describe sadness, a word that can’t be quantified or divided. But I beg to differ. This is a different kind of sadness that dwarfs mine.)

Check the story out, and peep this, bloggers helped to put pressure on the media to cover her story.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9016541/

Rebel Unit: Mission "To bring chicken fries to the hood?"

I was going to take this up after my boy cereb's post. But since I found someone who already addressed it I felt no need.


Check out the in your face racism of one of your favorite fast food resteraunts; Burger King.

Selling of all things, chicken fries, with obvious black caricatures, the rebel unit, whose misson is "to bring chicken fries to the hood." Have it your way? I'd rather not have 'it' stuck to my mind.


http://inmywritemind.blogsome.com/2005/08/16/boy-oh-boycott/


Once your finished read up [there are pictures too] on racial caricatures in america since Jim Crow. Jim Crow. See if you can't catergorize the four characters in the Burger King commerical into one of the Jim Crow categories. Then if you can you might be able to do it for: Martin Lawrence, Colin Powell, Omerosa, Rubin Studdard, R. Kelly, Halle Berry (Monster's Ball), Denzel Washington (training day), Nell Carter R.I.P. etc...


Enjoy your weekend.

T.D. Fakes...On the Black News Media?

The Bishop T.D. Jakes the most voluminous voice amongst today’s African American preachers, in a journalism event spoke of reconciliation between the black church and the black press. But when it came time to put his money where his mouth is did he bulk? The black press in Atlanta asked for advertising dollars during his Mega fest week held in the city of Atlanta, and heard back that there wasn't any money in the budget. Now since the black press has been critical of his non-financial support he claims they're using yellow journalism tactics.

How dare anyone criticize Bishop Jakes? The one that TIME magazine dubbed “America’s Best Preacher.” And now in turn the Bishop has been very critical of the black press and it's so called "yellow journalism" tactics.

My question is, the [black] prophetic voice of America. The supposed Martin Luther King Jr. of his day, the one who has the ear of the world. When it comes time to critcize an institution who does he pick?

1. The Global Economy and International Monetary Fund? No.

2. Institutionalized Racism? No.

3. The U.S. Government and its policies? No.

4. The War in Iraq? No.

Who then?

Black Journalism.

Why is that?

Check out the article and then check out what Dr. King said when in the posistion of a T.D. Jakes

http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/religion.cfm?ArticleID=1966

MLK prophecy http://www.bushflash.com/mlk2005.html

Media disparity, when does it count? August 10, 2005

Tamika Hutson above went missing during the same time as Laci Peterson but got significantly less media coverage than her and her other white counter parts, this story was covered by dateline last Friday but did they just simply pull this story out of the Essence magazine from two months earlier?) Friday August 5th http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8667821/ "Why do we care about Natalee, Laci, Jennifer? Is there gender and racial profiling in missing persons coverage? Why some stories, like Tamika Huston's, are never told" Wednesday June 22nd http://www.essence.com/essence/lifestyle/voices/0,16109,1071711,00.html Have You Seen Her? When Black women disappear, the silence can be deafening. I'm new to this, so be patient. Let me set the tone for my web blog with something that happened to me Friday. I was chillin around the house after a visit from my uncle and a cousin I had never met and to my surprise on the NBC nightly news there was a story about the seemingly biased coverage of white "attractive" females that have gone missing in recent times versus. the lack of coverage received for minority (and I supposed un-attractive?) females that have gone missing in the same time. Needless to say my conspiracy theory itch felt like it was about to get scratched by this story, and an overwhelming hope came over me that maye the mainstream media was about to police itself. Not only was I excited that it was being addressed on the nightly news, but to my surprise it was actually covered as the main story of NBC's Dateline. But to my dismay, there were no references to the article in the June issue of Essence magazine which chronicled the same phenomenon. I wondered if they had not heard about this article, but how could that be? It's a worldwide publication and I’m sure the research department of a journalism powerhouse such as GE's (aka General Electric, did you know they are a defense contractor? Makes covering the war much easier I'm sure) NBC network news would've picked up the essence article on first sweep. So I have to do my Jada Kiss impression and ask,“why?”...Oops, let me do my research, I believe KRS One asked the question first "Why is that?" Even more stunning to me is that when the question is posed in the expose, the one sister that comes borderline close to calling it racism dances around it. "If you're covering the nation, cover the entire nation. If you're covering the American people, cover all the people," says Deborah Mathis, a newspaper columnist who also teaches journalism at Northwestern University. "I'm not accusing news executives of racism, not per se. I am accusing them of ignorance," says Mathis, a former anchor, reporter, producer, and newsroom manager." No one on the show says that the national print/TV media has a discriminatory double standard. The only thing close is when an exec (NBC's exec the only one that would agree to appear) says "I think we do stories that people care about" End quote, that is the American-news watching public doesn't care about black girls going missing. Please read the essence article, and if you don't have time to read all of the stories you've missed besides Tamika Hutson (whose story eventually made it to America's most wanted), just look at the pictures of all the sisters that have gone missing recently. Sisters that we could've been looking for. I wonder if they would've let us put it on BET news? There is a blog where the Dateline writer says that they wanted to do this story back in February. I wonder what took them until August to get to it? MSNBC Blog Self Critique My take on all of this? Is this another example of how mainstream media shows it's blatant racism, thuggery, indifference, and injustice and says to its victims..."What are you going to do about it? Yeah I only show white women who are missing, and so what? Is there a problem with that? Yeah I whupped Rodney King's butt in front of the camera, and? Yeah I shot the guy in LA with 80 some odd rounds, and? Yeah I shot the Latin Hostage taker and the hostage, so what she was a baby? Yeah we put hand cuffs on that little girl in Florida, what do you have to say about that? Not only have I done this all, I've done it and put in on TV and showed the entire world" Now what are you going to do about it? Tuesday, Aug 9, 2005 - 10:59pm (PDT)

Arrest made in the Tamika Hutson case...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8929705

Saturday, Aug 13, 2005 - 12:47pm (PDT)

Ok, I know I'm crazy. But they covered the update on America’s Most Wanted Saturday. Now a local reporter interviewed the Brother. He admitted to the killing. He said that they were arguing, and that he didn't mean to hit her. He threw an iron at her and she died. It just made this already said worst. They were arguing and he threw something at her. He said he didn't mean to hit her. And she died. Who hasn't been there, when they got so heated that they wanted to hurt something? But you quickly gain control of your violent impulses. We need to come together. You know what I mean? Work through our differences, and learn when to just walk away in peace.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:9 KJV

Sunday, Aug 21, 2005 - 05:15pm (PDT)