Aunt Jemima's Revenge: July 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Words For Warfare

"I always wanted to be a writer. When I was a little girl, once a week I would spend the day and the night with my great aunt who was a high school principle. She thought me how to read. I could read really early — before anyone else — and I just loved to read. I remember her looking at me and — you know how one little thing can change your whole life? I was 6 years old and she said, "I think you're going to be a writer." That stuck with me forever. I always thought I was going to be a writer of some sort." - Linda Villarosa

Broadway Revival of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls" Get Postponed Due To Funding Issues

The highly anticipated revival of Ntozake Shange's " For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" has been indefinitely postponed for financial reasons. Oscar winner and co-host of The View, Whoopi Goldberg was the primary producer behind this production. This production was also slanted to mark the Broadway debut of singer, India Arie. Let's hope they can get the money together before people start dropping out of the project.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Words For Warfare

"IF you are in a room full of white people and me. I don't make it diverse." - Black Amazon, Sista Blogger

I first saw this quote on WOC, PhD and I have not been able to let it go. Check out Black Amazon's blog, Having Read The Fine Print.

Read Book.....Or Two.....Or Three.......

Sorry Don't Fix It! Slavery Was Slavery!

Here's the mea cupla from the House. The dude that put this legislation forward is in a very tight race for re-election in a very African American district. He's white and his challenger is a black female. Interesting timing for an apology for slavery.

Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James Gets Sentenced To 27 Months

Maybe he can get a job in the mail room at whatever prison he ends up being sent to. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should be taking notes right about now.

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Words For Warfare

"Black chick, with intellect, who wanna match wits? Write my own rhymes so can’t no nigga tell me jack shit"

--- Rah Digga

Come Listen To Professor Tracey On 2 Guys & A Mic Sports Talk Show At 8PM Tonight!

Professor Tracey is a blessed woman. I actually get to do what I love and I get paid for it! I love history, sports, and popular culture. I get to teach all three as a college professor. I love writing about all three subjects on my blog and tonight I will get to do another one of my favorite things, talking trash about history, sports, and popular culture.

Tonight at 8pm - I will be appearing on 2 Guys & A Mic - Just Talking podcast on the TALKSHOE network. Come listen to me , JD, and Geno talk major smak about the WNBA's "catfight" (the fellas word, not mine) and my latest sports and popular culture posts on my blog.

Drop by to listen in or join the discussion!

5.4 Earthquake Hits California!

Here's the story so far. Update: My Mom and Lil' Sis are both fine. So is rest of the family. Doesn't seem anyone got hurt, but it was a real good shaker apparently.

Guess Who's Back? - Brett Favre Files For Reinstatement!

The Green Bay Packers have a decision to make.

Professor Tracey's Sports Round-Up

Update: Ron Artest to be traded to the Houston Rockets.

This lying, cheating, and scamming meat head only got 15 months for betting on and altering NBA games? Unbelievable!!!! He should have gotten the maximum sentence in my book.

The NBA's brand is just fine, because plenty of NBA teams are over-paying players again. Biedrins is not worth the 62 million Golden State paid him, Okafor is not worth the 72 million Charlotte paid him, and Kwame "Hands of Stone" Brown was grossly over-paid at 8 million for two years. What was Joe Dumars thinking?

Sasha Vujacic was the only bargain in this recent bunch of NBA signings at 15 million for three years.

In another disturbing case of a female athlete mimicking her male counterparts, University of Louisiana-Monroe women's basketball team member Regena Jackson was arrested for firing a gun from a on-campus apartment balcony. She was dismissed from the university. Between this kid and the WNBA brawl, women are getting into stuff they need to back away from in a hurry!

The Indy 500 costs too much to see in person for the fans to get short-changed with the race getting jacked up second-hand tires that Goodyear found at Big Lots!

Why The Time Has Come For Wishy-Washy White Women To Stop Whining About Hillary And Start Supporting Barack Obama

Enough is enough! I do not want to read another article like this one! There is going to reach a point in this campaign where disgruntled Hillary supporters, i.e. white women are going to have to put up or shut up. It's getting late in the day, either they are going to join his campaign 100% or they are not.

I am sick and tired of reading and hearing about their "doubts" and how they "don't know Obama" and how they are still "hurt about Hillary." Fine! Everyone gets it now! Ya'll are pissed about Hillary and you are right to feel that way, but are you a Democrat or not?

We are trying to win a damn election, there is no more time for your hurt feelings! Money needs to raised, phone calls need to be made, and votes need to be cast. I really don't get what they are waiting on. There is less than 100 days left until the election, how much longer is this game going to drag on?

If you believe in a woman's right to choose, John McCain ain't your candidate. If you believe that the future President of the United States should not be making jokes about rape or the appearance of Hillary Clinton's daughter, then John McCain ain't your candidate. If you believe that brave soldiers in Iraq need to be returned home to their families and children sooner rather than later, then John McCain ain't your candidate.

If you believe that the future President of the United States should not accept advising about the horrible U.S. economy from some rich, soft-porn producing yahoo, who thinks it's just a "mental recession", then John McCain is not your candidate. If you believe that the first lady should represent MODERN 21ST CENTURY PROGRESS for WOMEN, being well-educated, hard-working, classy, respected, and family-oriented and not be some trust fund baby, prescription pill and recipe stealing, verbal spousal abuse taking, so skinny she needs two In-N-Out burgers Fembot, then John McCain ain't your candidate.

Barack Obama is your candidate! Start acting like it! The hard to get act is getting tired, tired, tired! If the shoe was on the other foot, ya'll would be trying to export us back to Africa if all the black folks that voted for Obama said they had "doubts" about Hillary and were considering voting for John McCain. Hillary would have never made the effort to be as conciliatory to black voters as Barack Obama is being forced to be to white women voters. We would have be ignored and told to get over it, THE VERY NEXT DAY!

Fair is fair. It's been weeks since the Democratic primary ended. Either you are down or you are not. It's actually quite simple.

President Bush Approves Execution Of Army Death Row Prisoner Ronald Gray

I am not against the death penalty. You do the crime, you pay the penalty, but I am troubled by the government waiting over 18 years to execute some dude that was clearly guilty. Further, I am troubled by the fact that the President has not approved an execution of a military soldier in over 47 years. Why now and why him?

Ronald Gray is definitely a nasty individual and I won't mourn for him, but I just find it strange that they are just now getting around to sending him to his reward. He's been in prison this long, why not just let him rot there?

Monday, July 28, 2008

Words For Warfare

"We say we want something different from our cinema ... I'm not saying 'Eve's Bayou' is the answer, you know, because some people will like it and some people won't. But I think it is one of the answers. ... I wanted to create a piece that was visual and lyrical with characters speaking in the rhythms that I remember from my childhood. - Kasi Lemmons

Why Black People Need To Stop Wishing For Change In Our Lives And Our Communities

"Bolie, you are going to catch a tiger tonight. I'm gonna make a wish. I'm gonna make a big tall wish, and you ain't gonna get hurt none, either. You hear, Bolie? You've been hurt enough already, and you're my friend, Bolie. You're my good and close friend."

One of my all-time favorite Twilight Zone episodes is The Big Tall Wish. It was the only episode in the show's history that featured a predominately black lead cast. The storyline is about the relationship between a washed-up boxer and a little boy who admires him. The twist to the story is that the little boy has an unwavering belief in wishes. He believes that if you want it bad enough and concentrate hard enough, your wish, any wish will come true.

Throughout the episode he repeatedly and passionately exclaims to the boxer, "You got to believe in the magic, Bolie!" The problem for Bolie is that he can't believe in magic or wishes any more. He has been too beat down by the realities of the world to believe. Bolie can't even believe when the boy's wish for him comes true. He is a broken man looking for just a little peace, a little joy in his small corner of the world.

"Little boys, little boys with their heads full up with dreams. When do they find out, Frances? When do they suddenly find out that there ain't any magic? When does somebody push their face down on the sidewalk and say to them, "Hey, little boy. That's concrete, and that's what the world is made out of—concrete." When do they find out that you can wish your life away?"

Bolie forces the boy to take back the wish and makes him promise to grow up and stop making wishes. Bolie intention is not to hurt the boy or dash his hopes for the future, his desire is to have the boy understand that you have to deal with what you get handed in life, not spending time making wishes to change things. Wishes are for children, not adults.

Every time I watch this episode, I am struck by the fact that too many black people in real life spend too much time hoping and wishing for change, instead of pursuing it themselves. Our dependence on others to change the circumstances of black folks has become a paralyzing stumbling block and poisoning frustration for those who are attempting to make things better with real tangible action.

I understand the appeal of wishing, but I think that may be it's time black folks just start admitting that the changes black people need and must make are going to be painful and not without causalities. Some of us are going to get left behind. We must proceed forward with or without folks. And it's on us to do it.

White Jedi Mind Tricks - John McCain: The Family Values Candidate

"I'm running for president of the United States because I want to help with family values." - John McCain

See when black people get upset with white folks it's over stuff like this. If you believe the polls most white voters place John McCain ahead of Barack Obama on family values. And that fact reveals some truly some warped thinking by white voters that black people really need to pay attention to.

So, the black man that has never cheated on his FIRST wife, has never been divorced, doesn't call his wife derogatory names, respects his wife's career, goes to church, and is a loving husband and father finishes second to the white man who cheated repeatedly on his first wife, dumped that wife for losing her looks, disrespects his second wife in public and then lies about doing it, tells rape jokes, might go to church during the election and he is the "family values" man?

Sorry, John McCain can't tell me nothing about family values.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Words For Warfare

"Motherf**kers, where is my money?" - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton

A colorful phrasing she was allegedly known to utter whenever she came to collect her royalty checks at her record company. Apparently she had to do it on more than one occasion. Considering that she only got paid $500 for her version of "Hounddog" and Elvis is still making money on that song after being dead over 30 years, I don't blame her.

A Very Dumb Question That An Experienced African American Journalist Never Should Have Asked In The First Place

On Friday, MSNBC's Mara Schiavocampo published an article entitled "CAN BLACK JOURNALISTS COVER OBAMA FAIRLY?." Let's skip over the fact that it is a completely outrageous and horrendously stupid question with a no-brainer obvious answer of "yes, they can because they are professionals." What exactly is the point of posing this question in the first place?

I imagine that African American journalists get othered enough in the workplace everyday without one of their own colleagues asking a pointless and polarizing question about their professionalism. And if Schiavocampo really wanted a provocative and interesting discussion, the question she should have asked "ARE WHITE JOURNALISTS COVERING OBAMA FAIRLY?" That is a question that really needs to be asked.

MSNBC'S Andrea Mitchell's coverage of Barack Obama's overseas trip was so biased, I wanted to kick in my television every time she was reporting. At one point she actually implied that Obama was engaging in illegal campaigning, she actually said the phrase "against the law." Salon's Joan Walsh struggles covering Obama without referring back to her candidate of choice, Hillary Clinton. Every racial incident, every time Michelle Obama gets bashed, she acts like she is sympathetic and then, she says well if Obama had stood up for sexism when Hillary was running..... Doesn't matter if Hillary is not part of the story or not, Walsh finds a way to bring her in.

Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker told a bald-faced lie with a completely straight face, that his magazine editor did not chose to run the "you have to be an idiot to think this would not be controversial" cartoon cover of Barack and Michelle Obama. Rachel Sklar of The Huffington Post wrote a completely bogus story of the Obama campaign barring New Yorker reporters from his recent overseas trip. A total falsehood. Not to mention the racist and sexist shenanigans of the entire Fake News Network.

Mara Schiavocampo is way off base here. Her question assumes that black people are a giant black monolith that thinks alike. This question is no different than the question, are all black people going to vote for Barack Obama? It assumes that black people have no judgment, no free will, that they are doing something wrong. These types of questions regardless of who is asking are flat-out wrong. These are not the kind of questions that white people ask each other and it is certainly not the questions that black people should be asking each other.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Words For Warfare

Life is strange. Life is also short. I believe we should give flowers while our loved ones are still around to enjoy them. - Sybil Wilkes

Washington Post Slams John McCain For Being An "Uncivil" Angry Old White Man!

This picture cracks me up. Here's the editorial in the Washington Post. You know you crossed the line when the Washington Post smacks a republican because the Washington Post hates the idea of Barack Obama's candidacy.

Omar Tyree Should Do Us All A Favor And Retire From Writing Completely!

A few weeks ago, my blogging sista Wisdom Teaches Me dropped me an e-mail about urban street literature writer Omar Tyree's retirement rant. One of the reasons why I didn't write about it at the time is because I think Omar Tyree's books are pure trash. Unimaginative, poorly written, repetitive garbage. I tried twice to read his most celebrated book, Flyy Girl and I just couldn't finish it. I was completely bored.

I have always viewed Tyree as a master of book marketing, not a master of the written word. To his credit, Tyree has a great ear for street language and rhythm, but no skills at creating or sustaining an original story from beginning to end. I am always suspect of any author that is churning out books as fast as someone like Tyree. Same ideas, different book cover.

After reading Tyree's "retirement" announcement, my first thought was don't believe the hype. Reading between the lines, it sounded like Tyree's latest book was rejected by his regular publisher. That's the breaks and the business. Two, his announcement was nothing but a marketing ploy because Tyree is not claiming to retire from writing, but from writing "urban street literature." He was promoting his latest book by "shocking" everyone with a fake retirement announcement.

I also can't stand writers who like to tell folks that their books are "classics." The reading public and literary history decides that. And just because a writer sells a lot of books and has a loyal following does not mean what they write is classic, it just means one thing, their books are popular. Tyree celebrates himself too much and makes his role in the creation of modern street literature way too significant.

If you have too heavily and negatively downplay the success of other black urban writers to make your work seem more than it is, you are a legend in your own mind. Tyree bashes everyone in urban literature while failing to mention that the works of Terri McMillan, E. Lynn Harris, and Eric Jerome Dickey were all being published at the same time he came on the scene and helped with his success. Teri Woods made her own name without any help from Tyree, so he should kill that noise about opening doors for others.

Tyree singles out Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever for turning the heads of his core readership and that's just a damn lie. Souljah's one and only fiction novel, which was published in 1999, has probably sold nearly as many books as Tyree has sold in his entire writing career. Her book has become beloved by African American women of all ages and is one of the most anticipated books to be turned into a feature film. Her book was a urban literature publishing phenomenon and Tyree is completely disingenuous in suggesting her book was anything less than a major smash hit.

What disturbed me the most about Tyree's statement was his completely dishonest and sexist bashing of his core reading audience, black women. Tyree is mad at the sistas for moving on from his tired "been there, done that" ramblings and for reading other black urban authors. Instead of considering the fact that he has churned out too many books in such a short period or that his books are just no longer interesting to his reading audience, he takes them to task like he's somebody's daddy.

The hardcore truth is black women have made Omar Tyree rich and famous. He should have thanked black women for their nearly 15 years of support of his work instead of whining like a bitch because they are not buying his books now. Black women should help Omar Tyree into full retirement by never buying any more of his books in the future, period.

Kwame "Da' Hip Hop Mayor" Kilpatrick In Trouble Again!

Da' Hip Hop Mayor is in trouble again. This time he's cussing out and pushing around folks trying to serve a subpoena on one of his pals. Now the Da' Mayor is barred from leaving the state of Michigan without permission from a judge. Poor Kwame, he just can't help himself.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Words For Warfare

Say her name out loud and hear her laughter
almost as warm as a story,
big and round, full of textures and past.
It may be the one I’ll remember now that
the women, my small nation,
are all gone.

And my name is still to come

---- Jewelle Gomez

Last stanza of her poem - Pardo—Searching for a name

Pardo was a 12th century Portuguese word often used for darker races, sometimes it meant earth-colored, sometimes it meant an in-between color, sometimes it meant gray.

Professor Randy Pausch Dies At 47 - Author Of The Last Lecture

Condolences to his family. Please read his book or watch the lecture on you-tube! It's a wonderful lecture about what is most important in life.

Those of you that just could not resist watching the third and final installment of the Black In America series, The Black Man, please feel free to share your observations, feelings, and opinions here. Professor Tracey went out for dinner and a movie, letting my DVD-R do the hard work. Please do not hold your breath waiting for me to watch and review. I have had my fill of CNN and Ms. Soledad O'Brien. CNN is officially on my do not watch list for a long while.

The Problem With Omarosa

I have had enough of Omarosa and that is based on a minuscule amount of exposure to the woman. I never saw any of her reality show appearances. I was exposed to her madness through late night news shows and unsolicited you-tube videos. Her act is beyond tired and her fifteen minutes of fame has really turned into overtime horror for everyone that ends up in her path. If there is ever another year where they run out of names for hurricanes again, I think they should use Omarosa's name as an emergency substitute; Hurricane Omarosa I, II, and III, etc.......

Women who desire to be famous at all costs scare me. And women who alter their physical appearance in radical ways give me the creeps. Omarosa's new boob job is a perfect example. She looks like psycho black barbie going to a par-tay to-nite to meet sum-body! What bothers me the most about Omarosa is that she thinks being and acting like a bitch is the same thing as being an empowered black woman. It's not.

Which leads me to the reason why this woman is back on the national radar again, her dumb-ass new book, The Bitch Switch: Knowing How To Turn It On And Off. As my godson used to say when things displeased him, "somebody needs to get fired" and who ever gave this woman this book deal and allowed her to used this derogatory title should get fired.
A book like this has no purpose. It's like Superhead's books, pure trash. And considering the Omarosa has been fired from nearly everything and had drama everywhere she goes, it's clear that she doesn't know how to turn the "bitch switch" (whatever that is) off herself. Sistas don't let your curiosity get the better of you, boycott this book.
And on a final note, is it me or has Omarosa's book publisher heavily lightened her beautiful dark brown skin for this book cover?

Publisher Sues Lil' Kim And Foxy Brown For Failing To Do Something They Couldn't Do In The First Damn Place - Write A Book!

I love publishers that will never give a dime to a talented and skilled black woman writers that actually have real stories to tell, but will give a $40,000 advance to Lil' Kim and a $75,000 advance to Foxy Brown for books they don't have the ability or sustained interest to write in the first damn place. I hope they NEVER get their money back!

Ain't No Popeye's In Moscow Delonte! Stay In Cleveland Brotha!

I don't know about all these brothas running off to foreign countries to play pro ball. First, Josh Childress of Atlanta and now, Delonte West of the Cleveland Cavaliers is pondering a sweet offer to go to Russia. I hope these brothas are going to visit these places first. LOL!

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Words For Warfare

[On Hip Hop].....

"these pornographic images of black women remind us of slavery and the auction block. And I will also say that these stereotypical images of black men as predators is also consistent with historic images of black people that we have been trying to eradicate. So they don't present positive images of black girls, women, or black men." - Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Congrats to Dr. Guy-Sheftall being named the new President of the National Women's Studies Association. Now maybe the white feminist blogs will finally acknowledge her rightful position in the field of women's studies and recognize her as "a practitioner in the tradition of black female intellectualism."

WNBA Lays The Suspension Smackdown On The L.A. Sparks And Detroit Shock

The first brawl in WNBA history is going to be costly for both teams. 10 players were suspended including Detroit Shock Assistant Coach Rich Mahorn. beyond the suspensions, the Detroit Shock suffered the most by losing star Cheryl Ford for the season. She suffered an ACL tear injury trying to help end the brawl. She will be a glaring reminder for the remainder of the season about the stupidity of the fight.

I'm sorry, I don't care if Lisa Leslie flopped or was pushed, WNBA coaches who are male and former NBA players need to be really careful in cases like this. You keep your butt on the bench and let the referees handle it! And I'm not appreciating Plenette Pierson being made the fall-girl here. She is not a female version of Ron Artest. This incident was fueled by her coach Bill Laimbeer's coaching philosophy of "get tough" and he should bear the responsibility of his coaching.

The WNBA also bears some responsibility for this as well. WNBA referees are absolutely horrible. Bad calls and missed calls all add to tension on the court. The teams that are the top of the WNBA have great parity and poor refereeing affects the players attitudes and the outcome of the game. This is an issue that must be addressed!

And the level of attention this incident is getting also proves that the WNBA needs a completely new marketing strategy and campaign for the future of the organization.

Fuck CNN's Soledad O'Brien!

CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien should have her sisterhood card revoked immediately and never returned! She has damaged, betrayed, and disrespected the entire black female community with her negative, short-sighted, half-assed, stereotypical, and repetitive "investigative reporting" on black women in America.

Her program Black In America: The Black Woman And The Family was a complete and total fraud! This program did not address the lives and experiences of black women in America at all! It was two hours of of the same negative racist and sexist stereotypes that the majority of white America believes about black people, particularly black women.

Ms. O'Brien's documentary stripped black women in America down to nothing but unwed, single mothers with multiple children, they can not properly raise or control to lonely, but educated black women that can't find a man to broken down old black women that can't take care of themselves. I was never so distressed or disgusted watching an investigative news report on African American women.

Ms. O'Brien's program was so awful that it made MSNBC's past program, African-American Women: Where They Stand series look like ground-breaking and interesting television. And black women universally hated that complete series. I cannot believe that Soledad O'Brien spent 18 months investigating black women in America, only to come up with the same old tired crap that has already been covered BADLY by someone else.

Where was the expression of pride of being a a black woman in America in the 21st century? Where were the positive stories? Where were the stories that expressed the uniqueness of black womanhood? Our humor? Our passion? Our beliefs? Our dreams? Where were the black mother/daughter relationships? Where were the successful programs that changed the lives of black women for the better? Where was the celebration of black women? Where were the voices of black women period?

Please my sistas, this travesty of journalism cannot be allowed to stand. E-mail Ms. Soledad O'Brien and tell her what you think. Here is the link. If I had the choice of black women in America being completely ignored by mainstream news and "investigative" reports like CNN and MSNBC has produced, I would much rather have black women in America completely ignored!

Nancy "Lady Magic" Lieberman Returns To The WNBA

One of the greatest women basketball players in the world is making a temporary return to the WNBA. Nancy Lieberman will join the Detroit Shock for seven days to help them through the recent suspensions leveled against the team by the WNBA. Good to have your back Lady Magic, even if it's for a short while.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Words For Warfare

"I wasn't thinking about trying to do something politically correct. I was trying to follow the human beats. My foremost interest in filmmaking is about character, about the environment of my characters. I wasn't trying to do a film about Latinos or women or anything like that. I just tried to make a film about people." - Darnell Martin

Final Programming Alert - Soledad O'Brien's Special On Black Women And The Family In America Airs Tonight On CNN At 9PM

Please remember to watch CNN's special program, Black in America: The Black Woman & Family that is airing for the first time tonight.

I will be watching live at 9pm eastern standard time, so if you want to chat, cry, holla, or kick in your television, you can hit me up on my blog - check my "Chat With Prof. T" widget to Meebo me. It's located on the right side of my blog.

I don't have high expectations for the show, but I will reserve judgment until after the show airs. Please expect me to have a complete breakdown if the phrases "down low brother" or "angry black woman" are uttered!

Color Of Change Protests Against Fox News For News Agency's Racist Smears

Folks need to start supporting Color of Change better. They needed more than 150 folks at this protest to make an impact. The 600,000 petition signatures was good, but far more should have been amassed. Fake News is a racist and sexist so-called "news" agency, they need to be set back on their heels a bit.

Omarosa Versus Wendy Williams - Round II

Omarosa clapped back at Wendy Williams, keeping this situation as negative and embarrassing as it was when it first broke in the media. All black women lose when buffoonish situations like this come to the national spotlight. This debacle was no different than some cat fight on Flava of Love.

I have to join on team Wendy Williams here for a second and agree that Omarosa did this on purpose for publicity. Watching the video, she was nasty and rude from the beginning. And for Wendy Williams, she showed an awful lot of restraint for her. And I can't imagine that Star Jones appreciated Omarosa dragging her name in this mess or taking a shot at her at the same time.

To quote the Fat Albert Gang, Omarosa is "like school in summer.....no class."

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Perjury Charges Amended Due To Discovery Of More Steamy Text Messages To Additional Women

Embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is in more hot water after prosecutors in his pending perjury case discovered additional "romantic" text messages to additional women who were not his wife or his mistress and former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty.

Kilpatrick has refused to resign despite numerous requests for him to do so from public and private constituents. It remains to be seen if his wife who stood by like a ventriloquist dummy when the charges first became public will stand up for a second helping.

For those unfamiliar with the story, please check this link and this link. I have already awarded Mayor Kilpatrick the Aunt Jemima's Revenge Dummy Lamont award, so I can only hope that this brother will wake up and do the right thing and resign. I'm not holding my breath though.

WNBA's Detroit Shock Achieves Equality With The NBA's Detroit Pistons With Their Own Game-Ending Brawl

Suspensions and fines should be coming to both the WNBA's L.A. Sparks and Detroit Shock, for the game-ending brawl that occurred last night. Both teams had players and coaches leave the bench in other to get involved or stop the melee on the court. Rookie star Candace Parker and Detroit Shock assistant coach Rick Mahorn where among the players and coaches tossed from the game.

The Sparks won the game, but both teams, former WNBA champions, lost in terms of public relations. This is a black eye for the WNBA, which had fights before, but nothing like this. WNBA officials need to crackdown on everyone involved and hard. This is one thing that female professional athletes do not need to copy from their male counterparts.

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