Today I got a flood of emails about Anna Nicole Smith’s death (actually I only got 2). At first I thought it was a joke, then I did an web search & found that the info was legit.
Then I started to slow my thought process & was like wait, why in the hell do I care & why am I all in? I am not sure if White America was ready to lose such a high cultural icon.
I have/had nothing against Anna Nicole but I was tripping at how all of my friends were eating the story up, so I questioned does Black America care; I certainly don’t & why was my show interrupted to announce this shit.
Real news would have been that Bush was dead or some like Barack Obama admitted that he did not take baths & was not as clean as Joe Biden said he was.
If the coverage on Anna Nicole’s death continues to proliferate, I am going to put on a Depends diaper, drive to New York & fuck somebody up! My steel mallet, knife, rubber tubing, latex gloves, large garbage bags, pepper spray, BB gun & 8 dildos (not to be used on me dammit) are already packed.
Like my body!?!
Renea / February 9, 2007
See you in NYC BygBaby cause its gonna be all Anna, all the time…or at least until this autopsy and custody hearing get done.
People are fascinated by the story because big breasted, blonde white women are living manifestations of pop culture’s holy grail. Anna Nicole Smith was a sex symbol, damsel in distress, bad girl, little girl, train wreck, rags-to-riches, Beverly Hillbilly and people enjoyed watching her because she was a benchmark that they were smarter, classier, more sober and had a chance in hell of striking the big time. I think black people ‘care’ because we like to see white people act a mess and we too are conditioned to feel protective of white women especially those who can’t or won’t take care of themselves.
Whenever you saw her she was a mess, sober, drunk, high, but she was also very earnest. She tried her damnedest to hold on to her spot in the sun. And I think people just have a spot spot for that. But I feel you about the ‘news’ thing. The fact that the story of her death led the Today show, before the death toll in Iraq, before the ongoing Scooter Libby trial, before Cory Booker’s State of the Hood address…you name it..if her death is the top story that says a lot about how we’re living. I think folks are just not trying to deal right now. We have two more years with a dumbass president and a wackass war and people just want to be distracted. That’s my mindspill, keep blogging!
aulelia / February 10, 2007
renea – you are on point with your whole comment. a friend of mine made a good point when she said that it is marilyn monroe-esque how she died and people just get infatuated with tragic deaths but simply because someone died tragically, it does not mean they are tragic!
amiamazing / February 10, 2007
Have you recognized lately how we are stuck in rewind mode, I feel like I’m ten again and there is another desert storm happening in the middle east, my mother told me she felt young again with the death of Marilyn are they really making Anna a comparison?, its an illusion for the satisfaction of confusion…whats really going on? And are they really considering Barrack for presidence or merely drawing the public interest to a system that doesn’t exist…
Creyole's Sisterlock Exodus / February 11, 2007
Hummmm! I am captivated by her because when I saw her kiss that old nasty man I thought she should get even more money for staying with him for soooo long.
No amount of money could make me hang that tough with an old fleebag!
Plus, she is like watching Whitney & Bobby! She is gone now and I do feel bad for her daughter, she’ll probably have a wrecked life.
Bygbaby / February 11, 2007
Based on what you all have said, what more can I contribute LOL.
People have been talking about this shit all weekend & today they started discussing conspiracy theories & I just threw my hands up & was like this is enough.
I too feel for here young child because she will grow up without a mom but I he that she gets the best care possible!
Her being with th old man was nasty looking & he always looked like a walking corpse anyway.
daez / February 13, 2007
Tafari,
Frankly I ain’t even gonna lie, I tripped for a second when I found out she died, because I’ve followed her hot mess along with my daughter who bought her to my attention in the first place…
I agree with everyone who signed above me too…it’s interesting how quickly I got over the tripping on her too…it lasted long enough to find out the basic details, and then I just wanted it to GO AWAY…PLEASE!!!!
I was sooo pissed by the second day I couldn’t believe it! She was THE headline news, court tv news, political news…EVERYTHING news!!…like everyone else I feel for her lil’ baby, who will never want for anything by the way…unlike most of OUR kids…but I’m sick of hearing about her..and they STILL haven’t buried/layed to rest James Brown….(((HUGS)))
….just me…daez