For every Barack on 60 minutes, there's a Serena Williams at the U.S. Open and Kanye West at the VMAs. Le Sigh. I wasn't going to post anything about this but since I already posted on South Carolina's nonsense, let's call it Just.Do.Better. day here in BougieLand.
If you are unaware (enjoying your blissful ignorance), Ms. Rena was called for a foot fault in her semi-finals match on Saturday and allowed her inner Compton to come out. Accounts vary but the gist of her comment involved "shoving an f'ing ball down a judges f'ing throat". Not only did she lose her cool, she was docked a point and lost the match. She was also fined $10,000. Ouch! She later apologized repeatedly and acknowledged that she was out of line. I have a number of feelings about this. Yes, she lost her temper but I wonder (and I'm old enough to remember) where was the scalding outrage when Johnny Mac went on his epic rants? Why is one person's behavior "volatile temperament" while another person's is "a disgrace to the game"? We'll let that marinate. Either way, she should JUST. DO. BETTER.
Yeezy continued his trend of showing his natural ass (gotta put it plain) at awards shows by interrupting as Taylor Swift accepted the award for Best Female Video. He hopped up on the stage, took the mike and announced that Beyonce should have won because her video for Single Ladies was the "greatest of all time". Poor Taylor looked like she was going to dissolve in tears. Kanye was subsequently booed and left the awards show (still clutching his bottle of Hennessey) with his half-naked girlfriend in tow. He also later apologized (too little, too late?) and now we'll wait and see what the fall out may be. It did prompt a bunch of comparisons to Joe "You Lie!" Wilson which greatly offended me. Taylor Swift, though wronged, is no Barack Obama on the House floor addressing the nation. However, director Mark Cherry created a hilarious video of Obama being interrupted by Kanye. An instant YouTube classic:
Being compared to Joe Wilson is never a good thing. When your fellow celebs (i.e. Pink) call you an a$$hole and a sh!t on Twitter as you are walking past, this may be an indicator that you've gone way over the top. Beyonce came up and allowed Taylor to have her day but still Kanye, JUST. DO. BETTER.
There was some foolishness with some chick named Lil Mama hopping up on stage with Jay Zeezy and Alicia Keys but since I don't know (or care) who she is… I'm ignoring her. She's not important enough to get a scolding. BnB in your spare moments today, take an opportunity to reach out and tell somebody: JUST. DO. BETTER.
Is there anyone else we need to add to the list?
8 comments:
I didn't watch the VMAs last night and have kind of been in a cocoon this morning so my response is WTF? Is something in the water cuz folks seem to be hopping on board the crazy train quickly these days
As my girl says - It was a hot mess. I normally back Yeezy but he went too far.
<span>I did see the Kanye<span style=" font-family: Arial;"> </span>interruption and just shook my head, something is wrong with that man, I don't think he ever grieved properly and I think if she could, his mother would roll over in her grave. I stopped watching the VMA's after that fiasco because someone came on praying to the devil and you know your bougie-in-training little cousin is not having that mess on her television. I missed the Serena Williams outburst, but unfortunately an associate of mine thought it was cool and posted it as a good thing on his Facebook, again I shake my head. People really do need to just do better, but what if they don't know any better? Where do you go from there.
-Lady4Christ</span>
I'm sad to report that I know Lil Mama as a rapper and a judge on America's Best Dance Crew. I don't know why she jumped up on stage with Jay except that the world is run by attention hounds and MTV needs better security!
Video hilarious! Why do we expect any more from Kanye? He has proved his idiocy over and over
OneChele,
I'm a mere nano-second away from declaring this NEGRO NONSENSE WEEK! Taylor Swift should have crowned that Porch Monkey Kanye (yeah, I said it) right in the head with that microphone for ruining her moment!
I have absolutely had my fill of these morally bankrupt attention ho's (yeah, I said that too) who seem incapable of displaying the most basis of manners towards the rest of the world, and most especially of their supposedly humble sincere apologizes AFTER THE FACT.
There isn't that much talent in the entire universe that will excuse or make acceptable - ignorant, selfish, rude, boorish, embarrassing behavior.
Did anyone catch Jay Leno interviewing Kanye? Jay apparently met and liked Kanye's mother. He asked Kanye "What would your mother think of this? - answer: (crickets*) Nicely done Jay, maybe now Kanye will think about the "Just. Do. Better." message.
OMG, I read Serena's apology and a few of the comments towards it. Shook my head and wanted to cry, someone called her all kinds of deragotory racist names and my heart just dropped. As long as their are humans on this earth ignorance will exist. Just have to pray and do what one knows is right.
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