1 Black Woman's Opinion

All Out in '06

2005-11-14T22:07:00.000-08:00

Details coming soon!!

Rosa Parks and why Republicans lose the PR war

2005-11-02T12:40:00.000-08:00

I've been a little sad this week and at a loss to write a fitting tribute to Rosa Parks whose funeral was held today in Detroit.

Looking at the footage and some Yahoo pictures of the event made me realize that Republicans will never win the PR war for the hearts and minds of Black voters, because they are unwilling or unable to engage. So once again, the Democrats look like the only party that cares about black people.

I know that the Bush's and various Republican congressional leaders paid their respects at the Capitol Rotunda, but are you telling me that no one could be bothered to go to the actual funeral of the woman who revolutionized American society? Nelson Mandela attended. Oprah Winfrey attended. Barack Obama attended. John Kerry attended. Bill and Hillary attended. Couldn't the president have at least sent his dad? What was he doing in Washington today that he couldn't do on Air Force One?

B****, Please!!!

2005-10-25T13:12:00.000-07:00

I'm calling bullshit on Kathy Trant.

Kathy Trant is the widow of Dan Trant, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Kathy was a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Monday, October 24, 2005 where she discussed how she blew through $5 million dollars worth of "blood money" that she received from the government funded Spetember 11th Victim Compensation Fund ($4.2 million) and from the donations of stangers (between $300,000-3 million); in addition to life insurance. Each of her 3 children has $800,000 of the settlement money set aside in trust funds that will be disbursed on their 18 birthdays (which the olderst child has already received and spent $700,000 of).

In addition to referring to her settlement as "blood money" she said that she wanted to draw attention to the grief of families who she believes have been mistreated by the government and denied their right to grieve at a proper memorial.

Funny. That's not what she told CNN in 2003. In this article

Kathy Trant, who has received her payment, decided to enter the fund after her husband, Dan, a 40-year-old bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 104th floor of the trade center's north tower, was killed along with 657 co-workers on September 11, leaving her alone to parent three young children.

"I could never forget the love of my life, but I have to move on. I have to find some happiness in my life, and this is enabling me to let my children play tennis still and do basketball and live the lifestyle I lived before my husband was murdered," Trant said.

With the help of attorneys working pro bono, Trant assembled family photos and a 2-inch-thick stack of documents, including her marriage license and her husband's death certificate, for her submission.

"They took every aspect of my life into consideration and they were very, very fair, I believe," she said.

Apparently, Mrs. Trant believes that the lifestyle the wife of a man who makes $130,000 a year in salary leads includes regular purchases of $5,000 purses and $800 shoes. According to a NY Post article from June 12, 2005:

Sept. 11 widow Kathy Trant has turned her Long Island home into a $2 million showcase, traveled from the Vatican to Las Vegas, blown $500,000 on shoes, and bought breast jobs for pals and even strangers.

In the 31/2 years since her husband, Dan, died in the World Trade Center attacks, she has burned through nearly all the more than $5 million she received in compensation and donations. She says she treated the millions "like Monopoly money."

The mother of three has become a self-described "shopoholic" - and her compulsive buying has left her with intense guilt, shame and sadness.
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She spent $350,000 installing a full basketball court, also equipped for volleyball, tennis and Rollerblading, and a heated pool and hot tub in the back yard.

The kitchen has white marble countertops lined with gleaming appliances she rarely uses. The floors are rich Brazilian walnut.

A red-white-and-blue den, which includes a shrine of Dan's mementos, features four Peter Max paintings of the Statue of Liberty, which ran her $15,000. There are seven flat-screen TVs around the house. In the finished basement stands a $20,000 cherry-wood pool table.

The walls are decorated with sports memorabilia, including a Boston Celtics ball autographed by players on the team that once drafted her husband, who played professionally in Ireland.

In her master bedroom, she added a glass-enclosed fireplace that also serves the bathroom, with its claw-foot tub.
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A floor-to-ceiling shoe rack is filled with $400 to $1,200 pairs: Prada, Marc Jacobs, Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Emilio Pucci, Vera Wang. Handbags include Fendi and Judith Leiber, designs priced at $5,000 each. The gowns have labels like Versace, Christian Dior and Roberto Cavalli - each costing her thousands.

"It's disgusting. I'm ashamed of it," she said, adding she hopes that telling her story will help others with the same problem.

"This is my misery. This does not make me happy. When I come home with it, I have guilt, horrible guilt. You know how many starving people I could feed with all these shoes?"

She wears 10 percent of the clothes, she said, and gives armloads away to friends. But she keeps buying more.
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Trant's pet Yorkie, Mollie, cost $3,500; her daughter has three others. She paid $60,000 cash for a Chevy Tahoe SUV, and also bought a BMW.

She has traveled to Italy, Jamaica, Asia and Europe; taken friends and relatives on four Caribbean cruises for $50,000; taken 20 to the Bahamas for $30,000; 10 to Las Vegas for $15,000; and six to the Super Bowl for $70,000. The last couple of summers, she's paid $13,000 to rent a 10-room North Carolina beach house for a week for her kids and all their pals.
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She gave one friend $20,000 to pay her bills. She gave her former housecleaner $15,000 to buy a home in El Salvador. She's sent $1,000 checks to a friendly clerk at Bergdorf Goodman, and treated salesgirls at Saks to shoes.

After getting a facial in Las Vegas, she gave the beautician, a single mom, $4,000 for breast implants. She gave a friend $7,000 for a boob job because, Trant said, the woman "hated her breasts and didn't want to spend her son's college tuition money."

She buys wrinkle-reducing Botox injections for girlfriends. A plastic surgeon gives her a discount - $600 for three at a time. Trant tattooed an American flag and "9/11" on her back and got a permanent black stripe of "eyeliner" tattooed around her eyes, which never runs when she cries.

She gave one friend a $3,000 watch. "She didn't take it, and I just threw it at her," Trant said.

Why not donate to the Red Cross or some other non-profit in her husbands name?

Some People Don't Take Well to Criticism

2005-10-11T23:20:00.000-07:00

And they just so happen to be New Orleans police officers.

Robert Davis, 64 year-old retired teacher, 9th Ward property owner, tax payer and AARP member was beaten like a man 40 years his junior by some "stressed out" New Orleans police officers after he pointed out that one of them was being rude and unprofessional.

Meanwhile, in Memphis, your tax dollars were at work training a new gang of theives:three more cops were charged with robbing "drug dealers" who turned out to be undercover FBI informants. They were probably stressed out, too.

Except for that one who's been corrupt for years. According to the Commercial Appeal:

One officer named on Tuesday, Patrick Joynt, 35, has been called up on disciplinary charges nearly 50 times since 1997, according to Memphis police personnel records. He has been fired twice, the last time in March. Joynt has been accused of brutality, sexual harassment, and he's been in nearly a dozen wrecks in his police cruiser.

Memphis Police officials said they have tried repeatedly to have Joynt removed, only to see him put back by civil service rulings.

Protect, Serve and Rip-off Drug Dealers:

Two other Memphis officers were indicted in August on similar charges of ripping off FBI informants posing as drug couriers. A third officer was charged with obstruction of justice.

Former officer David Tate was sentenced in July to serve 14 years in prison on a wide array of police corruption charges. Two officers charged with him await sentencing.

And on Friday, former officer Reginald Alexander is to be sentenced for plotting to rip off a drug dealer.

Affirmative Action bad, Cronyism good

2005-10-03T20:38:00.000-07:00

Apparently, Bush still thinks Brownie did a good job. That is why he’s nominating another unqualified friend, Harriet Miers (a lawyer who has never served as a judge), to the Supreme Court. Because she is a lesser-qualified woman this could easily be construed as a case of affirmative action. But it is not. It’s just your normal, garden-variety upper class cronyism. And regardless of your political leanings, you should be concerned.

The problem with affirmative action is that it compels employers to look outside their friends and family for a pool of applicants, thus leaving their own friends and family unemployed. Under this system, said friends and family may become a burden to the wealthier people individually. Just like what happens to everyday people.

This is a problem for conservatives especially because they don’t like to fund social programs that help support people who are not working, so they become very uncomfortable with the idea that someone they know personally may become homeless, have to buy a used car or cancel a family vacation.

If affirmative action for strangers is enforced then there will be few positions for all those unqualified well-connected people. This could lead to hardship for the powerful and they’re just not having that.

Someone who secures a position through cronyism is likely to continue the practice. Harriet Miers is a very well connected attorney. She will now preside over cases presented by many people who she has come to know very, very well over the many years that she was a high-paid legal gun for large corporations.

I hope she can be impartial, because justice and equal opportunity are hard to come by in this country when you don’t have friends in high places.

Rumors and Panic

2005-09-26T10:31:00.000-07:00

Even in the best of times too much news reporting is heavy on the opinion and short on facts, but apparently the Katrina disaster brought out the worst of people in one unexpected way: people lied and spread rumors. The most damage was inflicted by the national news media, many of whom repeatedly spread myths, uninformed opinions and outright lies and stereotypes.

Apparently, reports of violent crime and murder among the New Orleans evaucees at the Convention Center and Dome were greatly exaggerated. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune:

Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his name - came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies.

"I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalls the doctor saying.

The real total was six, Beron said.

Also:

Of those, four died of natural causes, one overdosed and another jumped to his death in an apparent suicide, said Beron, who personally oversaw the turning over of bodies from a Dome freezer, where they lay atop melting bags of ice. State health department officials in charge of body recovery put the official death count at the Dome at 10, but Beron said the other four bodies were found in the street near the Dome, not inside it. Both sources said no one had been killed inside.

At the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, just four bodies were recovered, despites reports of corpses piled inside the building. Only one of the dead appeared to have been slain, said health and law enforcement officials.

One soldier on the ground calls bullshit:

As the fog of warlike conditions in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath has cleared, the vast majority of reported atrocities committed by evacuees have turned out to be false, or at least unsupported by any evidence, according to key military, law enforcement, medical and civilian officials in positions to know.

"I think 99 percent of it is bulls---," said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Lachney, who played a key role in security and humanitarian work inside the Dome. "Don't get me wrong, bad things happened, but I didn't see any killing and raping and cutting of throats or anything. ... Ninety-nine percent of the people in the Dome were very well-behaved."

The New Orleans DA weighs in:

Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan said authorities had confirmed only four murders in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina - making it a typical week in a city that anticipated more than 200 homicides this year. Jordan expressed outrage at reports from many national media outlets that suffering flood victims had turned into mobs of unchecked savages.

"I had the impression that at least 40 or 50 murders had occurred at the two sites," he said. "It's unfortunate we saw these kinds of stories saying crime had taken place on a massive scale when that wasn't the case. And they (national media outlets) have done nothing to follow up on any of these cases, they just accepted what people (on the street) told them. ... It's not consistent with the highest standards of journalism."

Although to be fair, print media did a better reporting job. The NY Times was the first media outlet to report that rumors of rescue helicopters being fired on were unsubstantiated. According to one national guardsmen sent in to control the "near riot" conditions at the Convention Center:

Another commander at the scene, Lt. Col. John Edwards of the Arkansas National Guard, said the crowd welcomed the soldiers. "It reminded me of the liberation of France in World War II. There were people cheering; one boy even saluted," he said. "We never - never once - encountered any hostility."

The one confirmed shooting at the Convention Center of a National Guardsman, turned out to be the friendliest of friendly fire: he shot himself:

Inside the Dome, where National Guardsmen performed rigorous security checks before allowing anyone inside, only one shooting has been verified. Even that incident, in which Louisiana Guardsman Chris Watt of the 527th Engineer Battalion was injured, has been widely misreported, said Maj. David Baldwin, who led the team of soldiers who arrested a suspect.

Watt was attacked inside one of the Dome's locker rooms, which he entered with another soldier. In the darkness, as he walked through about six inches of water, Watt was attacked with a metal rod, a piece of a cot. But the bullet that penetrated Watt's leg came from his own gun - he accidentally shot himself in the commotion. The attacker never took his gun from him, Baldwin said. New Orleans police investigated the matter fully and sent the suspect to jail in Breaux Bridge, Baldwin said.

As for other shootings, Baldwin said, "We actively patrolled 24 hours a day, and nobody heard another shot."

As for those widespread reports of gang members and thugs running rampant in the convention center? Well one man's thug is another's life-saving volunteer:

"Some of these guys look like thugs, with pants hanging down around their asses," he said. "But they were working their asses off, grabbing litters and running with people to the (New Orleans) Arena" next door, which housed the medical operation.

You can read the entire article here.

Let's end with a scripture from that great prophet Chuck D, the book, Fear of a Black Planet Chapter 1, Verse 4:

I've been wondering why people livin' in fear of my shade (Or my hi top fade)
I'm not the one that's runnin' but they got me on the run, Treat me like I got a gun
All I got is genes and chromosomes , consider me black to the bone
All I want is peace and love on this planet (Ain't that how God planned it?)

Let the people say, Amen...

Bush Takes Responsibility

2005-09-13T10:58:00.000-07:00

I almost don't believe it. Apparently, someone other than Karl Rove is pulling the puppet strings this week because Bush is finally saying that he is responsible for any failures at the federal level regarding response to Hurricane Katrina.

Read about it here.

Movies vs. Real Life: The Color of Looting Pt. 22

2005-09-03T03:01:00.000-07:00

In the movies when a young man commandeers a school bus, fills it with stranded women, children and injured people, and drives it to safety he is called a hero.

In real life when a young man does the same thing, he is called the perpetrator of an extreme act of looting.

Kanye West on NBC: "George Bush doesn't care about black people"

2005-09-03T02:51:00.000-07:00

UPDATE: Click Here for Video

As soon as I can get a complete transcript or a video that doesn't crash I will post links

Rough transcript of remarks by Tracy Joan, Daily Kos of Kanye West at the NBC Concert for Hurricane Katrina Relief:

Mike Meyers reads off prompter … switches to black singer, Kanye West:

“I hate the way they portray us in the media.

“If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food.

“And you know that it’s been 5 days because most of the people are black and even for me to complain … I would be a hypocrite because I would turn away from the TV because it’s too hard to watch. I’ve even been shopping before giving a donation and so right now I’m calling my business manager what is the biggest amount I can give.

“And just to imagine if I was down there, those are my people down there. So anybody out there who wants to help with the set up, the way that America is set up to help … The poor, the black people, the less well off as slow as possible. I mean, Red Cross is doing everything they can.

“We already realize alot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us.”

(Mike Meyers tries to get back on prompter, reads from script and then camera cuts back to Kanye. He pauses before

Kanye West: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

Mayor Nagin: No More G*Damn Press Conferences

2005-09-03T02:36:00.000-07:00

Transcript of Nagin's Friday radio interview where he discusses executive powers, federal response and violence from drug addicts in withdrawal. Or, listen to Nagin here.

Black People Aren't Worth It

2005-09-02T14:23:00.000-07:00

by the way our government is dealing with this
crisis, that's the feeling that i get. our government's response to this tragedy has been embarissingly inadequate, slow and pathetic. my sister heard a radio interview today with the mayor of new orleans where he basically said that the public is being fed a line of bull from the administration and FEMA and that not enough is being done to help the people in new orleans. he isn't the only official that feels that way (see excerpts from a new orleans
times-picayune article below). however, i didn't need the mayor to tell me that. i can see that with my own eyes. you mean to tell me that we can help every country in the world but we can't help our own folks? oh i forgot,they are poor and black and they didn't get out when they were told to get out (too late i might add) and therefore we're going to let them fend for themselves (for the most part). i'm not saying that ignorant asshole looters and criminals aren't making it difficult but the "relief effort" is beyond ridiculous. anyone who thinks that racism isn't affecting the government's response to this mess is very naive. that's my vent for the day.

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But comments from officialdom and commoners alike,
seethed with the sense that New Orleans had yet to be accorded a response adequate to the crisis at
hand.

Terry Ebbert, head of the city's emergency operations, contrasted what he deemed a lackluster response by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency to the massive outpouring of humanitarian and military aid after this past
winter's tsunami in southeast Asia.

Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard called
the lack of federal response "a disgrace."

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was equally blunt.
Federal and state officials need to stop having "goddamn press conferences" and get the relief effort rolling, he said in a late-afternoon radio interview, an angry flare-up out
of character for the popular, generally easy-going
former cable TV executive.

Appearing in a New York studio on NBC's "Today"
show, former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, now national president of the Urban League, called for "an effort of 9-11 proportions."

"A great American city is fighting for its life," he
said. "We must rebuild New Orleans, the city that gave us jazz and musicand multiculturalism."

Bush says relief efforts "Unacceptable"

2005-09-02T08:24:00.000-07:00

More than 3 days since the Katrina crisis hit New Orleans.

File this one under "No Shit, Sherlock".

Media Reports of Shooting May Be Erroneous

2005-09-02T00:29:00.000-07:00

This New York Times article says (among other things) that reports of shooting at rescue helicopters in New Orleans are unsubstantiated. Houston Superdome is already near capacity.

Wonkette on Media Portrayal of Minorities

2005-09-01T23:54:00.000-07:00

Wonkette is spot on. Thanks, Wonkette for finding and publishing this.

According to the Associated Press, White victims of Katrina “find food” and “look in shopping bags” while Black victims of Katrina “loot” and “jump through broken windows”.

No Food, No Water, No Pot to Piss In: Thoughts on Katrina

2005-09-01T23:28:00.000-07:00

It is so obvious as I read the criticism of the people in New Orleans, their “lawless behavior”, “looting”, etc. that the various critics, so-called reporters and most Americans outside of the southeast do not understand the magnitude of the situation.

Imagine that on Monday, the water went out at your house, and for 3 days you lived without water to drink, to wash your hands, to bathe or even to flush the toilet with. Imagine that you have no electricity so the food in your refrigerator spoils and is inedible. The stores are closed and you can’t get to them anyway unless you can swim or are willing to wade through dirty, fetid water of unknown depth. The toilet overflows. You are reduced to relieving yourself wherever you can.

There are several dead bodies near by and no one is taking them away. You hear that help is coming soon, that you will be taken away, but help never arrives. Or when transportation arrives, you are not allowed on.

Reporters can get in but victims of Katrina can't get out.

It is over 80 degrees at night and even higher in the day, with no AC, no fans, no radios or phones.

Okay, now imagine that you are not in your house, you trapped in the New Orleans Astrodome with 25,000 other people.

That is the situation in New Orleans. Why are we talking about the looting of property when we should be talking about how to save these people and restore their lives and basic sense of humanity.

Get your Louisiana news from local sources:

Shreveport, LA ABC affiliate

Other Shreveport Chamber of Commerce Media Links

Other LA News Links

Ill-Gotti Gains

2005-08-29T12:04:00.000-07:00

Many rappers emulate mobsters such as Gotti, Murder, Inc., Al Capone, etc. by invoking their names in rhymes or even by taking their names as monikers. This despite the fact that so many mobsters historically (and New York Italians period) were so virulently racist. Case in point the very racist John Gotti caught here on tape being an all-around asshole and taking consolation in not being a “nigger”; cause apparently that’s worse than being a mass murdering sociopath.

John Gotti is the father of Victoria Gotti (novelist, gossip columnist and Reality TV star. I found the smokinggun.com link above while searching for the answer to that nagging question in the head of everyone who has seen the Growing Up Gotti reality show, complete with aerial shots of Victoria’s massive estate: where in the hell did she get all of that money?

The answer? Well apparently, in addition to her father’s many lucrative illegalities, her ex-husband is currently serving time for racketeering related to his scrap metal business. You figure it out.

While Victoria did not believe that he was a mobster, even after hearing the FBI surveillance tapes, she did believe that he was having an affair with his secretary and used that as the basis for her divorce filing.

While I do believe that America is one of the most just countries in the world, isn’t it a bit unjust that because of the enforcement of drug laws, poor, working & middle class people can lose their houses (and other property) when family members are busted with drugs and Victoria Gotti gets to live champagne wishes and caviar dreams?

Technical Difficulties

2005-08-29T12:01:00.000-07:00

We have been experiencing some technical difficulties, but will be publishing more regularly now that we fully understand the reach of Microsoft's monopoly and the discrimination and hardship that is the lot of Mac users everywhere :-)

Oh, No They Didn't!!! (Insert obligatory eye & neck-roll.....Here)

2005-07-21T22:37:00.002-07:00

Or: The government of Sudan fails International Relations 101...

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice visited the Sudan yesterday to explain to the Sudanese government that the US govt is very serious about the situation in Darfur. So serious in fact the we are requiring the Sudanese gov't to produce "action, not words" (give 'em hell, Condi).

While the Secretaty of State was laying down the international law, members of her staff and the wife of Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan (and other less important journalists) were being manhandled in another room.

When a whiney US reporter yelled at Sudanese security forces that, "We have a free press in the US", a big bad Sudanese guy replied, "Well we don't here, Bi-aotch!"

Anyway, Secretary Rice demanded and received an apology. I can just see her now. An aide comes in and tells her that the Sudanese security forces were pushing and shoving a bunch of Americans, and Condi puts her hand on her hip, cocks her head to one side, leans forward and exclaims, "Oh, no they didn't!!"

Okay, I know it probably didn't go down like that, but wouldn't it be great if it had?

John Roberts -- Can you say vanilla?

2005-07-20T19:16:00.000-07:00

John Roberts (Bush's Supreme Court nominee) has to be the most boring man who ever lived. Seriously. From all indications, he's been on the straight and narrow since birth and has never said or written anything (even as a college student in the 1970's) in the least bit controversial. According to his official bio (9th down) at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, he belongs to such boring organizations as the American Law Institute (they've been working since 1923 to make the law easier to understand--way to go guys) and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

So far, no op-eds, opinion pieces, provacative speeches or interesting case notes from his law school days. When proof arrives that Judge Roberts is breathing I'll let you know.

Illumination: Supreme Court & Valerie Plame

2005-07-18T13:09:00.000-07:00

While surfing the net I came across a banner ad for this political commerical re: the Supreme Courts ruling on Kelo v. New London ( No. 69 on this list or check out a summary at CNN or at Wikipedia).

I've noticed in talking with my college students over the last few weeks that they know way too little about the Kelo ruling. Some, including an older student who owns a home, had no knowledge of the case before I brought it up to illuminate a point in class.

Even sadder is that my students do think that they are knowledgeable about the issues surrounding the Karl Rove "scandal". The best articles that actually have some informative value, in 1blkwoman's opinion, are located at the National Review website. Mark Levin discusses Plame's CIA desk job and how she was able to get her husband sent to Niger, Andrew McCarthy discusses (and links to) the brief filed by press organizations on behalf of the journalists involved stating that no crime was committed when Plame's name was revealed, and Cliff May discusses where Valerie Plame's name was first revealed.

I have a subscription to Vanity Fair and read the interview that Mr. Wilson gave to VF (accompanied by glamorous photos of him and his wife) some months back. I recall thinking at the time, that Ms. Plame couldn't have been all that great or even important of a spy if she was willing to be photographed (albeit in sunglasses & a chic scarf) for a high profile publication. Afterall, if people hear your husband's name that doesn't automatically reveal your identity to people who don't know you as his wife. Hearing your real name will not automatically reveal your identity to people who know you by an alias. But pictures are worth a thousand words, and can definitley identify you to anyone who sees them, and in the case of a secret agent they can put your contacts in danger.

The bottom line, even if someone revealed her real name (and I'm presuming she performed her official work under an alias), Ms. Plame outed herself by agreeing to be photographed.

Stella, Stella, Stella --

2005-07-15T07:30:00.000-07:00

News of Terry McMillan's divorce from her much younger and "on the down low" husband hit recently. I think most of her trials and tribulations could have been avoided if she had simply followed US Customs guidelines: you can't bring back live animals from overseas!

But seriously, as someone who was passed the first E Lynn Harris book in 1993, I'm curious as to why the whole "down low" phenomenon has become such a phenomenon in the last year. One poorly written book and heavily rotated Oprah Winfrey show aside, why is it that everyone is fixated on gay black men in denial, now? People of all races have been in denial about their sexuality for years. Nothing new here folks.

Read documents from the McMillan/Plummer divorce on thesmokinggun.com here.