THE DIRT

This post is for one of my loyal readers/posters Miss Cleo who wanted me to do a breakdown of  Toni Braxton’s reality series Braxton Family Values now in its second season on the WE network.  I’ve only seen two episodes of the show, so I had  to Youtube to watch a couple of episodes just to get a feel for these other Braxton sisters.

I like Toni Braxton musically.  I like her voice, and the songs she’s sung, but I’m not so far gone to forget that in order to have any mainstream success, and to keep relevant in the music industry, there are certain things you have to do, and none of them are things that I respect or look up to.

However, I can appreciate the hardships that Toni Braxton has had to endure, like raising a son who has Autism.  As you may or may not know, my ten year old was diagnosed a couple of years back, and I as a mother know that it’s a very difficult thing to deal with, because although they can learn to function within the spectrum, they can never just wake up and not have it.  It’s something that will be a part of them for the rest of their lives, and it is no easy task .  She’s gone through two bankruptcies which tells me that she has no money management skills.  She has Lupus, and has had trouble with her heart, which caused her to cancel her Las Vegas show a couple of years back.

Watching the show, I definitely got the impression that certain members of her family are jealous of her which must be a hard thing to live with, and I’m sure that she knows this, but more about that later.  Another  impression I got is that Toni is tired of her sisters.  I think that she has spread herself too thin for so long, that she just doesn’t know how to say no.  I also think that she is probably the most normal of the bunch.

Traci Braxton is still trying to find herself.  She flits from one thing to the next with no real direction.  She is the Solange of the Braxton family, and seems like the wallflower of the bunch.  Her husband is either controlling, or just plain old doesn’t like her family, but then again I could be wrong.  I just don’t think she has the ability, or the need to be “infamous”,  Yeah Traci, I think you should just go back to Baltimore and leave the spotlight to those who are thirstier.  I swear she looks like she’s older than Toni but in fact she’s younger. Either Toni’s doing something really right, or Traci is doing something really wrong.

Trina Braxton is my favorite, by far even though she’s got a drinking problem.  Anytime you feel like you can drink and get behind the wheel, there’s something deep going on behind the scenes, and the fact that she can laugh at something like that just proves that she hasn’t bottomed out yet, let’s just hope she doesn’t kill someone on her way down.

Towanda Braxton, seems like the most responsible and reasonable, but she is not without her own issues.  She was on another reality show called “Starting Over” where several women with issues were thrown into  a house in the hills and given therapy by two life coaches.  One of these women was Iyanla Vanzant, who coincidentally locked horns with Oprah Winfrey.  You can’t have two women with overinflated egos working together, it just never works out but I digress.  Anyway, Towanda’s issues were her husband the “writer”, and stepping out from Toni’s shadow.  Not only is she still in her sisters shadow, but therapy didn’t help her one bit because miss responsible was busted for some trickery involving a company payroll check.  We can only hope that she’s learned from her mistakes and has grown, but then again..who knows?  Anyway, dude she calls her husband is a joke.  This fool can’t even provide for his family, and has the nerve to be sitting at the next man’s table, eating the next man’s cereal and milk, and has the nerve to say that he’s not going anywhere anytime soon.  I don’t understand, because you want to be a writer  doesn’t mean that you don’t work to provide for your family, and it doesn’t allow you to feel like it’s okay to sponge off your wife’s sisters husband, and not contribute one damn dime?  Am I the only one who thinks that Andre is a bit on the sugary side?

Tamar is just sad.  I understand being the baby of the family but she is so damn ridiculous,that there has got to be some deep down to the bone issues going on with her. I don’t care how many times she says that she isn’t jealous of her sister, because she clearly is.  She wears it like a big fur coat.  Tamar’s only concern is Tamar.  She doesn’t care about her family, or her husband unless they can do something for her.  I can see that this marriage to Toni’s manager is nothing more than a charade, as there is absolutely 0 chemistry here.It’s a good thing that she’s got enough sense to know that she should have no children, not even a little Asian one, because she would ruin that kid’s life.  Tamar is a danger to not only herself, but to others as well because she has no limits to what she’ll do to get to the top even if it means rolling around on a yacht with pasty- pale- faced Lady GaG while her chubby- hubby watches.

I’m not saying Toni is innocent, but she does a better job at keeping her dirt under wraps.  Rumor has it that not only did Tamar bang Toni’s ex-husband Keri Lewis of Mint Condition, but  she used to date Birdman.  Tamar apparently became quite comfortable with the lavish gifts he would give her, and developed a sense of entitlement, so he dropped her funny looking ass like she was on fire.  It is also said that she banged Jermaine Dupree’s father Michael Maudlin, and his wife and daughter either whooped, or were going beat her down.

Watching Toni and Tamar interact with each other is very telling of the relationship when there aren’t any cameras rolling.  Back in the day, Toni and her sisters were a group.  LA Reid didn’t want to have another girl group on his roster because he had just signed TLC, so he signed Toni as a solo act.  This must have singed Tamar’s little tail feathers, and ever since she’s been trying to duplicate Toni’s success.   But here’s my thing…. if Mr. Reid felt like Tamar was a bankable star, he would have signed her instead.  I know she would have slept with whomever she had to in order to make that happen, and it still didn’t help.  Tamar had a record deal, and was dropped due to poor album sales.

So what I want to know is why she feels that she’s gotten any better?  Tamar’s problem is that she wants the biggest return with the least investment. She’s disrespectful and not likable at all, and maybe if Evelyn would have slapped the piss out of her when she was growing up, she wouldn’t be so blatantly selfish and out of control now.

I’m wondering if Papa  Braxton had his hand in his daughter’s cookie jars while they were growing up.   Tamar especially has all the classic symptoms of a child who has been sexually abused by somebody.  In closing, I think that they have all gone under the knife, and all bleach their skin.  Check this pic of them which must be from the early, early nineties.  I see why Reid didn’t sign them.

Siga Technologies was awarded a no-bid contract to provide 1.7 million doses of an experimental small pox vaccine to the US government within the next five years.  The government stated that Siga Technologies was the only pharmaceutical company on the face of the Earth that could meet the government’s deadline.  The contract is worth a staggering $433 million dollars despite the fact that they’ve been telling us that there’s a recession.

Of course!  It has absolutely nothing to do with Siga’s most prominent shareholder being Ronald O Perleman, a billionaire and major contributor to the democratic party.  And it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with Andrew Stern who sits on the board of directors for Siga, and is a frequent visitor of Barack Obama’s at the White House, now could it? Naaaaaah!!!!!

What’s so fishy about this whole deal is that small pox was eradicated back in 1978.  Take a look here at Siga’s homepage of their website and you will see them admit that no smallpox virus exists in the natural world any longer.

Despite this, and the fact that the vaccine was only tested on a small percentage of people, it has gained the fast track approval of the FDA.  My question is, if there is no longer a threat of the virus even exitsting, then why is the government ordering so many doses of the vaccine, and why does it get the FDA’s premature stamp of approval?

Oh that’s right, biological warfare by those pesky “terrorists”.  But according to experts, only the United States and the Russian Science Institute have access to the small pox virus.  Last I heard, terrorists wore turbans so go figure.  Expect the pushing of this vaccine by healthcare professionals like the whooping cough, and the swine flu.  My friends, please do not fall for the governments trickery this time around.  Don’t you see, they create the crisis, then come up with a “solution” to the crisis.

In the end the American people lose, and Washington and the big pharmas laugh all the way to the central banks.

I’ve gotten by this far without saying boo about the Kardashians.  I don’t follow them, I don’t watch their show, I don’t buy the things they endorse.  The only time I even see what they are up to is when their pictures are splattered across the cover of every magazine in the checkout stand at the grocery store.  Kim’s latest exploit involved her trading in her wedding gifts and purchasing Rolex’s for her family, which is so classless, but then again so is having sex on videotape and selling it to the highest bidder!

We all know that despite the fake butt, nose jobs, and money to burn the Kardashians are trash.    By the way, I wouldn’t be shocked if it was revealed that Khloe wasn’t Robert’s child!

Anyway…It’s so easy to blame Kim, and I do, but she’s only what she’s been raised to be.  I’d like to take a closer look at her mother Kris, who is  obviously the brains of the entire operation.  It’s easy for Kris to pimp her children and smear her ex-husbands name, and now she’s starting in on her daughters by the ultra weak Bruce Jenner.

Apparently Mrs. Jenner has quite a history of whoredom herself.  In her book she reveals that while dating Robert Kardashian, she was living with some golfer whom she will not reveal.  She also states that she had an affair while married to Robert Kardashian which prompted him to file for divorce.  Of course she’s dishing because she wants to sell her pathetic book, but what about all she’s not telling?  I shudder at the thought.   Anyway this woman had no respect for her own marriage, so how can we expect anything better from her offspring?

Greetings everyone.  I’ve been slacking as of late I know!  Anyway that last post was explosive! I love when you guys debate the posts on here…absolutely love it, but moving on….

As I sit here with my now nine month old son on my lap, him gobbling Cheerios while I surf the internet looking for an Ipad 2 that won’t put me in the poorhouse, I came across some interesting news that the editor of Dutch magazine Jackie called it quits after Rihanna’s fans went ballistic over an article that referred to the singer as a “nigga bitch”.  Here’s the translation.

She has street cred, she has a ghetto ass and she has a golden throat. Rihanna, the good girl gone bad, is the ultimate niggabitch and displays that gladly, and for her that means: what’s on can come off. If that means she’ll be on stage half naked, then so be it. But Dutch winters aren’t like Jamaican ones, so pick a clothing style in which your daughter can resist minus ten. No to the big sunglasses and the pornheels, and yes to the tiger print, pink shizzle and everything that glitters. Now let’s hope she won’t beat anybody up at daycare.”

Uh..can someone please tell me what a “ghetto ass” is, and what’s a golden throat?

Anyway, once Rihanna found out about this she took to her Twitter page and gave them some choice words.  Anyway, the editor issued an obligatory apology to the singer, and punked out by stepping down as the editor of this magazine.  As I sit here  and write this, my own words are echoing in my head.  How the hell can we black women demand the respect of others when we don’t give it to each other, and sadly ourselves.  This article is sad, not only because it’s how the world still views black American women, but it’s the image that we glorify.

Okay if Rhi wants someone to think of her as a respectable young lady then maybe she should start presenting herself as one.if that;s okay with Hov the Handler. It’s easy to get mad at the magazine and the editor, and surely they are dead wrong, but it’s not totally their fault.  It’s more disappointing than anything, and it’s proof positive that we have so much work to do.

We want to be respected but how many times have you heard a fellow sister refer to herself as a “bad bitch”? If I could tell the woman below anything it would be…get the hell off the toilet!

Damn, we have to do better!