MyShoeBag would like to present a new segment here entitled Roxcis Corner with our leading lady correspondent Roxci Monroe. So without further ado, take it away Roxci
The Breast I Ever Had
BY: Roxci Monroe
Whatever happened to less is more? This past weekend I attended the Jamie Foxx Concert and saw some “interesting sightings” to say the least. In particular a plus size woman with an extremely low cut dress. With nothing little left to the imagination, let’s just say I could see that it was quite cold outside! Don’t get me wrong, the woman was attractive, however her beauty was overshadowed by the revealing nature of her attire. So I pose the question, “why do full figured women constantly have their chest showing?” I recently took a poll from women who were guilty of not complying with the 11th Commandment- Thou shall place a cloth over thy chesticles, and I compared it to the findings that I collected from a random sample of men. The results were interesting. Some of the responses from the ladies included that they loved the extra attention that they otherwise would not have received had they covered up and others said that the attention on the low cut blouse took away from focus on their other imperfections. After asking the men, I found that when they saw a woman with her “girls out” a few viewed her as “sexy” while others viewed her in a negative light. They considered them to be promiscuous or an easy catch. Although the men loved the way that they looked, the respect factor lessened. Queen Latifah and comedian Mo’Nique have been photographed on the red carpet with a shawl or piece of material covering their bosom. Let us all take a lesson from some of our well endowed role models and put on a cami or cover up. And to all of my full figured fashionistas, don’t take this blog as negative criticism. Every woman has something beautiful about her and by all means accentuate your BEST features not your BREAST features. Sure, you may believe that your bountiful bosom is appealing and irresistible but in actuality outsiders see it as an extra cell phone/spare change pouch or a method to smother small children. So, whether you use your cleavage to catch men or catch dropped food, know that you could be catching a bad rap from the opposite sex.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
K. West vs. J. Wilson
By now everybody is tired of hearing/reading/talking about the Kanye West and Taylor Swift situation. I am too, even though it did make for a few hilarious youtube clips along the way (this is my favorite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxKIcrDsJAs ). But this isn’t about that, it’s about how blatant and rampant racism is still around in this country despite what Fox News tells you. Because there’s no way we can live in a nation full of racism when the president is black, right? I was recently reading an article about the fallout from the K. West controversy at the VMA’s and it pointed out hundreds, maybe even thousands of twitter posts calling Kanye West a “nigger” and how he was just having a “nigger moment.” I was kinda left speechless like Chris Brown during his Larry King interview…”just wow, I can’t believe that happened…like wow!” Now, I’ll be the first to say Ye was out of line for what he did. You know you fucked up when the president calls you a jackass.
This brings me to a side rant. I’ve read a few blogs here and there that have said President Obama is a sellout for calling out Kanye West. So is Obama supposed to support what Kanye did just because they’re both black? Get real, the dude was/is a jackass. The pres was just calling a spade a spade (no pun intended).
So I think we’re all in accordance that what happened at the VMA’s was out of line and inappropriate, and Kanye should receive some backlash (no Kunta Kinte) for his actions. But just a few days earlier, a congressman from South Carolina named Joe Wilson interrupted a speech being given by the leader of the free world by calling him a liar, yet he seems to be getting more popular. He’s gaining respect and support for having the balls to stand up for what he believes in. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that a president’s address is slightly more important than an acceptance speech at an MTV award show. The problem I have is no one condemns Joe Wilson’s outburst as having anything to do with race. Ye got a little too tipsy off the Henny and made a poor choice. I’ve done that plenty of times. But does that make it a “nigger moment?” Like this is something that black people are known for doing on a regular basis: hopping on stage at awards shows and interrupting the recipients. That would be like me giving a presentation at work and expecting some random white guy to interrupt my power point and scream “YOU LIE!”
For a country that’s supposed to be the melting pot of cultures, racism sure is a taboo subject. And because there are so many races and cultures, to be honest, it’s almost too easy to be racist in America. Most of yall won’t admit it, but when you’re boarding a plane and someone of Indian/Arab/Middle Eastern descent comes on your heart skips a beat or two. When the Virginia Tech shooting happened a few years ago, everybody was real nice to the Asian IT guys at work the next day. It ain’t right, but that’s the reality of the world we live in. But the problem lies in the fact that nobody wants to talk about racism. And if we can’t talk about it, we’ll never understand it. It’s really a social problem that should be looked at and examined in the same context as people study crime or education in America. Alas, the more diverse this country becomes, the more people will continue to try to bottle up racism and hide it, which in turn will only make matters worse.
The point I’m trying to make is none of the actions of these two characters should be attributed to race. That excuse for someone’s actions is played out like Iceberg t-shirts. It’s time to just accept the fact that some people are just plain stupid. They do things and say things without thinking them thru.
Questions? Comments? Was Beyonce’s video REALLY one of the greatest of all time? OF ALL TIME?
This brings me to a side rant. I’ve read a few blogs here and there that have said President Obama is a sellout for calling out Kanye West. So is Obama supposed to support what Kanye did just because they’re both black? Get real, the dude was/is a jackass. The pres was just calling a spade a spade (no pun intended).
So I think we’re all in accordance that what happened at the VMA’s was out of line and inappropriate, and Kanye should receive some backlash (no Kunta Kinte) for his actions. But just a few days earlier, a congressman from South Carolina named Joe Wilson interrupted a speech being given by the leader of the free world by calling him a liar, yet he seems to be getting more popular. He’s gaining respect and support for having the balls to stand up for what he believes in. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that a president’s address is slightly more important than an acceptance speech at an MTV award show. The problem I have is no one condemns Joe Wilson’s outburst as having anything to do with race. Ye got a little too tipsy off the Henny and made a poor choice. I’ve done that plenty of times. But does that make it a “nigger moment?” Like this is something that black people are known for doing on a regular basis: hopping on stage at awards shows and interrupting the recipients. That would be like me giving a presentation at work and expecting some random white guy to interrupt my power point and scream “YOU LIE!”
For a country that’s supposed to be the melting pot of cultures, racism sure is a taboo subject. And because there are so many races and cultures, to be honest, it’s almost too easy to be racist in America. Most of yall won’t admit it, but when you’re boarding a plane and someone of Indian/Arab/Middle Eastern descent comes on your heart skips a beat or two. When the Virginia Tech shooting happened a few years ago, everybody was real nice to the Asian IT guys at work the next day. It ain’t right, but that’s the reality of the world we live in. But the problem lies in the fact that nobody wants to talk about racism. And if we can’t talk about it, we’ll never understand it. It’s really a social problem that should be looked at and examined in the same context as people study crime or education in America. Alas, the more diverse this country becomes, the more people will continue to try to bottle up racism and hide it, which in turn will only make matters worse.
The point I’m trying to make is none of the actions of these two characters should be attributed to race. That excuse for someone’s actions is played out like Iceberg t-shirts. It’s time to just accept the fact that some people are just plain stupid. They do things and say things without thinking them thru.
Questions? Comments? Was Beyonce’s video REALLY one of the greatest of all time? OF ALL TIME?
Deeper Than Rap
Deeper Than Rap (No Officer Ricky)
I hadn’t had the motivation to write a blog in quite some time, but when people do stupid shit I have an obligation to you all to offer my insight. Most of you are probably too young to remember any of the music that Roxanne Shante put out. Doesn’t matter, that’s not what we’re here to discuss. Let’s instead focus on how she was interviewed numerous times in magazines, blogs and even on TV about how she got Warner Bros. Music Group to put up $200,000 to fund her education since they screwed her out of her contract way back when Reagan put crack in the hood…I mean the 80’s. As Roxanne would have you believe she got her Bachelor’s from Marymount Manhattan College and had just completed her PhD from Cornell University (shout out to the Jewels). It kinda became a feel good story seeing as how the poor Black girl from the hood had won against the corporate giant and was now a doctor and a licensed psychologist. Doesn’t that just warm your heart?
After some deep investigation by the people at slate magazine it was discovered that Cornell had no records of her ever attending the school, let alone getting a degree. I don’t really think Roxanne Shante meant to lie to everybody. Remember she was somewhat of a local hood star back in the 80’s so who knows how much free basing and/or lines she snorted back then. I mean you don’t have to have PhD to be considered a doctor right? Look at Dr. Dre, but nobody ever looked into his academic history. In my personal opinion she was planning on making a comeback to the rap game and that was gonna be her new stage name. It was also later discover that she was not a licensed psychologist in the state of New York. Did anybody ever think that she was maybe the person that all of her friends and family went to when they had problems. So I figure during the interview she probably said something along the lines of “Sometimes I feel like a licensed psychologist in the state of New York.” But people tend to get nervous in interviews, so maybe she stuttered a little bit; and then everybody just took that out of context.
Last but not least, after Slate magazine contacted Marymount Manhattan College they found out that she didn’t even get her Bachelor’s degree. I know what you’re thinking: this is getting out of hand, what possible explanation is there for this lie? The school says that Roxanne attended the school for about 4 months, and then she left and never came back. Anybody ever stop to think that maybe there was an administrative error on the schools part? I know some of yall went to an HBCU, and I don’t need you to explain to me how fucked up the administrative procedures are taken care of at those schools. Maybe when she went to enroll for the next semester the school just never recorded it, but poor Roxanne was still going to classes for the next three or four years (five or six if she’s like some people that I know whose names I won’t mention). So after all these years of going to class, she felt like she had the same education as anybody else whose paperwork wasn’t messed up. She just didn’t have the physical paper to prove it.
I’m on Roxanne Shante’s side. I think these schools are just keeping her records on hold because Warner Bros. hasn’t cleared that check yet for her tuition. That’s why I’m starting a fund for her to go and get a degree with some real substance. If you would like to make a donation please email us at myshoebag@live.com. Make all checks payable to Everest College.
Questions? Comments? Did she really think nobody would check this out? Let us know what’s on your mind.
I hadn’t had the motivation to write a blog in quite some time, but when people do stupid shit I have an obligation to you all to offer my insight. Most of you are probably too young to remember any of the music that Roxanne Shante put out. Doesn’t matter, that’s not what we’re here to discuss. Let’s instead focus on how she was interviewed numerous times in magazines, blogs and even on TV about how she got Warner Bros. Music Group to put up $200,000 to fund her education since they screwed her out of her contract way back when Reagan put crack in the hood…I mean the 80’s. As Roxanne would have you believe she got her Bachelor’s from Marymount Manhattan College and had just completed her PhD from Cornell University (shout out to the Jewels). It kinda became a feel good story seeing as how the poor Black girl from the hood had won against the corporate giant and was now a doctor and a licensed psychologist. Doesn’t that just warm your heart?
After some deep investigation by the people at slate magazine it was discovered that Cornell had no records of her ever attending the school, let alone getting a degree. I don’t really think Roxanne Shante meant to lie to everybody. Remember she was somewhat of a local hood star back in the 80’s so who knows how much free basing and/or lines she snorted back then. I mean you don’t have to have PhD to be considered a doctor right? Look at Dr. Dre, but nobody ever looked into his academic history. In my personal opinion she was planning on making a comeback to the rap game and that was gonna be her new stage name. It was also later discover that she was not a licensed psychologist in the state of New York. Did anybody ever think that she was maybe the person that all of her friends and family went to when they had problems. So I figure during the interview she probably said something along the lines of “Sometimes I feel like a licensed psychologist in the state of New York.” But people tend to get nervous in interviews, so maybe she stuttered a little bit; and then everybody just took that out of context.
Last but not least, after Slate magazine contacted Marymount Manhattan College they found out that she didn’t even get her Bachelor’s degree. I know what you’re thinking: this is getting out of hand, what possible explanation is there for this lie? The school says that Roxanne attended the school for about 4 months, and then she left and never came back. Anybody ever stop to think that maybe there was an administrative error on the schools part? I know some of yall went to an HBCU, and I don’t need you to explain to me how fucked up the administrative procedures are taken care of at those schools. Maybe when she went to enroll for the next semester the school just never recorded it, but poor Roxanne was still going to classes for the next three or four years (five or six if she’s like some people that I know whose names I won’t mention). So after all these years of going to class, she felt like she had the same education as anybody else whose paperwork wasn’t messed up. She just didn’t have the physical paper to prove it.
I’m on Roxanne Shante’s side. I think these schools are just keeping her records on hold because Warner Bros. hasn’t cleared that check yet for her tuition. That’s why I’m starting a fund for her to go and get a degree with some real substance. If you would like to make a donation please email us at myshoebag@live.com. Make all checks payable to Everest College.
Questions? Comments? Did she really think nobody would check this out? Let us know what’s on your mind.
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