Brown Sista

I wrote this article about a year ago on my personal blog and it was picked up by a larger site and eventually spread all over the net. So many people reposted it on their sites to the point where friends of mine were sending it to me totally unaware that I had written it. I have decided to repost it here after reading several comments made by sistas throughout the blogsphere concerning Polow Da Don and his hairstyle of choice. Below is the article as it appeared in 2006.

Okay, I know from jump this will be one of those topics that is sure to upset both Black men and women, but you all know what I think- So What!

Like most people, braids on men never bothered me before, but the older I got the more they disturbed me as I found many traits I disliked seemed to be found in men with braids, or as I like to say, men who wear their hair like little girls.

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Some months ago when the Essence article featuring Kim Porter and Sean Diddy Combs hit the stands, I wanted to tackle the reasons why I thought this man refused to commit to Kim and the family they were raising. Because I had not fully made up my mind, I put the subject aside and went about business as usual. However, seeing as though the Kim Diddy union has officially come to an end, yet again, I think now would be a perfect time to delve into why women like Kim end up mothers (I hate the term babymama) before they end up wives. For me this issue goes far beyond Kim and Diddy as Kim is just one of many sistas who have children but no husband to go along with those children.
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After years of hearing about The Body Shop I finally decided to visit their website and give a few of their products a try. In the past I had heard their body butters were to die for and rumor even has it that Jennifer Lopez used her pull to get one of their shops to open up after hours just so she could buy a few cases of the legendary cream before leaving the country. But it wasn’t the name J-Lo that got me to purchase their creams. Instead it was the rave reviews of friends, family and dozens of acquaintances online who finally led me to try this line of beauty products.
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About the new color of the website that is? I was really tired of the pink but didn’t want to totally change themes so I decided to just change the font and the main font color. Singer Rihanna is actually responsible for the new look. When I saw her album cover I immediately fell in love with the dark turquoise text and knew it would be my next chosen color. For those interested, the cursive font is Black Jack and the hex color is #1C8694.

As hard as it is to believe, a whole year after the trailer for this film first hit the internet, people are still talking about the garbage that is Diary Of A Tired Black Man. Now, I started not to give this movie any time and space on my site, but I see that I must just to talk about how much I hate it. For those of you who haven’t yet had the pleasure of seeing this modern day hate movie aimed at Black women, you can see clips of it on their official website. Word is it is also playing in selected theaters across the country. I happen to have had the opportunity to talk to the writer of this film, Tim Alexander, personally. We spoke several times by phone last year and he even invited me to some function he was attending aimed at dialoguing with Black women about the content of his movie. I passed on accompanying him to this pow wow with Black women because I knew what Tim was up to and I had no plans to help him.
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Ok, for those of you who missed it, I decided to last week to allow visitors the opportunity to start topics they would like to see discussed on this blog by leaving comments here every Tuesday. We had a few great conversations last week but I am hoping for even more activity this week. Remember, this is your chance to say what ever is on your mind. You can vent, use the opportunity to get to know your fellow posters, ask questions, make suggestions- it’s all up to you- just say something.
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Below are just a few of the sites I visit from time to time, as well as articles that I think are worthy of Black women’s attention. As I browsed the internet today and yesterday I could not help but notice the amount of anguish many sistas seem to be feeling simply because a stranger, Reggie Bush, had chosen to take up with a woman who was not of his ethnicity (Kim Kardashian). Black Female Interracial Marriage is a blog I visit quite often because I believe the owner truly has a love for her sistas and wants to see them happy, content and fulfilled. Sometimes that fulfillment may come from a man who looks like you- but sometimes it wont. Date A White Guy is another blog I visit on occasion, and again, I believe the owner posts a lot of information that Black women need to hear.
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Fellow blogger Clay Kane wrote an interesting piece on his site that got me to thinking about an article I started writing some months ago but eventually abandoned. Clay, in his article, wonders why there are so few Black women on the Billboard charts but quite a few White women who have what I like to call that Black Girl Flava? Now some time ago I predicted that the influx of White women into r&b music, with the help of Black male producers, would lead to the demise of Black women on the charts. And now that the chickens have essentially come home to roost, I think now is the perfect time to talk about why only Beyonce and Corrine Bailey Rae- who is biracial- are the only two so called Black women who have songs in the Hot 100.
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