Breaking news effecting Creoles all over the country: Etta James doesn’t give a fuck about a roots box.
At a recent public event, the legendary singer aired her grievances for President Barack Obama before threatening to whup “The Great” Beyonce’s ass. I can’t really be mad at the woman for having her own opinion about Obama but as far as, ahem, Beyaki is concerned . . . ha ha! Damn, I love old Black people! Take a listen after the jump!
The Smithsonian Institution wants to put Aretha Franklin’s big-bowed inauguration hat in an exhibit that will highlight Barack Obama’s place in history as the first African-American president.
The dove-gray, wool chapeau, dominated by a massive Swarovski rhinestone-bordered bow, would be displayed alongside other inaugural items, including first lady Michelle Obama’s asymmetrical ball gown from the historic evening . . .
Aretha is still uncertain whether or not she’ll donate the hat. “I am considering it. It would be hard to part with my chapeau since it was such a crowning moment in history. I would like to smile every time I look back at it and remember what a great moment it was in American and African-American history. Ten cheers for President Obama,” she said in a statement, according to New York magazine.
And ten orders of wings, fried hard please. What are some celebrity items that you would like to see make a home at The Smithsonian? I vote for Verdine White’s silk pillow case!
I’ve been on extended vacation like most of your cousins celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama, so you already know how that goes. C+D will be back to our regularly scheduled fuckery tomorrow! Until then, you can keep up with me on Twitter.
Wanda Sykes was at an anti Prop 8 rally in Vegas yesterday and told the crowd what we’ve known for years:
“[After Barack Obama was elected,] I thought, man we are moving in the right direction. And then at about 11 o’clock I was crushed. We took a huge leap forward and then got dragged 12 feet back. I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked, our community was attacked. I got married Oct. 25, I don’t really talk about my sexual orientation, I felt like I was living my life, I wasn’t in the closet, but I was just living my life.
Everybody who knows me personally, they know I’m gay. And that’s the way people should be
able to live our lives, really. We shouldn’t have to be standing out here demanding something we automatically should have as citizens of this country. They pissed off the wrong group of people. They have galvanized a community.We are so together now and we all want the same thing and we shouldn’t have to settle for less. Instead of having gay marriage in California, no, we’re gonna have gay marriage across the country. When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage also recognized in Nevada, in Arizona, all the way to New York. … I’m proud to be a woman, I’m proud to be a black woman and I’m proud to be gay.”
Latifah, you’re next…
While many people are taking a page from Cousin Ryan’s My President Is Black celebration guide there are plenty of Americans who are pissed about the outcome of the election and Reh Dog is one!
The musical genius who gave the world “Why Must I Cry” has strong words for Barack Obama and his supporters in a new video posted on his MySpace profile. Sez Mr. Dogg:
Obama is not my president. I’m shocked by the amount of ignorant Americans out there. It’s the end of the United States of America as we know it. I wish I could go into hibernation for 4 years. To say I dislike this Marxist would not be too strong. To say I’m ashamed to be black would not be too strong. In 4 years I will be saying you made your beds Americans now die in it. Israel will now have no other choice but to start a war with Iran because Obama will not help them and it has to be done before President Bush leaves office. To call him the anti-Christ would not be too far off base. I’m literally sick to my stomach.
So many Americans want to sit back and let the Government take care of them instead of working hard for what they want. No wonder so many Americans have no self esteem, lazy, fat, and out of shape. I bow my head in shame. I shake my fist with disgust. But so it is written and God words are coming to pass. So many people are lost sheep’s and cannot think independently. I’m a leader and know that this man child is wrong for American capitalist society. If so many of you love socialism why don’t you get the hell out and live in Europe? Rev. Wright is indeed correct in saying Americans chickens are coming home to roost. Because in 4 years we will pay for electing Obama as your president not mines.
Reh Dogg
Well alright, anybody else see those new candids of Nick and Mariah? Thanks Tittayballs!
Beyonce has offered to bring her special brand of raw fucking emotion to President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony in January.
Let’s see, Eli Porter rapping over the ‘A Milli’ beat > Beyonce twitching her face on all of the alphabet channels in the middle of the day.
“I’m there. I can’t wait. I feel like all of us, we’re ready to do whatever we have to do. Whatever they want — if they need me to volunteer, they need me to sing, I’m there, and I’m ready. I’ve never been so patriotic! I’m just beyond excited,” she told the Associated Press before exploding into a cloud of glitter dust.
Although she was scheduled by Papa Knowles 2.0 to have her ass in Japan promoting I Am . . . Still Trying To Prove My Versatility she decided to stay at the crypt against orders [gasps!] to watch results of the election come in.
“I said, ‘What am I doing? I’m completely making a bad decision. I have to go home, I’m gonna kill myself if I’m not home in America,’” she said. “I knew I needed to be here.”
“I fell asleep crying and smiling at the same time,” she continuted. “I woke up with mascara running and a smile on my face!”
News flash Kid Creole, those weren’t tears running down your face. That momofuka you are married to rolled over and hawked a loogie dead in your shit out of excitement. I understand where he was coming from though.
Now back to the matter at hand – - I vote hell no. We all know that Beyonce and Solange are a packaged deal. With that being said, no one is trying to listen to SoLong get her Maya Angelou on by reciting an angry poem about Baby Daniel’s sperm donor. Save that shit for MySpace.
My people, my people.
Meet Ryan Blackwell. The Tennessee man, 18, was arrested last night on a disorderly conduct rap, about an hour after his preferred candidate clinched the presidency. While the below mug shot offers a partial view of Blackwell’s distinctive ‘do, sheriff’s deputies did not capture his entire cranial artwork. As seen in the adjacent photo, the right side of Blackwell’s head features the Barack Obama campaign’s “rising sun” logo.
In a TSG interview, Blackwell said he was busted on the campus of Austin Peay State University, where he went to meet friends for a campaign party. Blackwell said he was nabbed by Clarksville cops for blasting a Lil Wayne remix from the stereo in his 2002 Suzuki (he was participating in an impromptu street celebration after television networks projected Obama’s presidential victory).
Blackwell was booked into the Montgomery County lockup on the misdemeanor charge and missed Obama’s acceptance speech. After spending about six hours in custody, he posted $1000 bond and was released (and watched a replay of the speech when he got home). Blackwell, who said he is planning on enlisting in the Army, took advantage of Tennessee’s early voting program and cast his first presidential ballot last week. He added that this was his first arrest and that a barber friend charged only $5 for the fade. [source]