Because I said so

Wow to R. Kelly being cleared of all child pornography charges! Wow to the jury for having hard facts: evidence, witnesses and testimonies, yet still acquitting him of 14... not one two three four but 14 charges of child pornography. You know people say I'm a "chester" which is the old name for a molester, because my current boyfriend is two years younger than me, but Kells is 41! He has been on trial, in and out of court for five years from having sexual interactions with his 13-year-old god daughter (and hundreds of other people's teenage daughters.) Tisk tisk to the justice system and them squares on the jury bench because even Ray Charles could see that man was guilty. Come on... think back, way back to Aaliyah. Wasn't she just 15 when they got married? Had her singing "Age ain't nothing but a number" and what not. He was 26 then but still old habits die hard. This makes me think of my constant arguments with my 12-year-old sister who snaps me up...

I love going to the hair salon, I am always enlightened by my beautician and I always catch up on celebrity news and gossip with all her magazines. She tends to speak of when she was younger, thinner and cuter and how the boys in St. Louis would act and treat her because she lived in East St. Louis. In case you didn't know, as many do not, East St. Louis is in Illinois and across the bridge or water as they say, is St. Louis the city, and according to my beautician the two stayed in rivalry. She also recaps her college years, as we graduated from the same school, was interested in the same sorority and led pretty similar lives. She would tell me how the kids would dress for class, in suits and dresses, as if they were going to an interview. Fraternities always had business suits on and the only time they had on "perry" was at a party or in their down time. Oh how I wish that I could have grown up in a time where people actually cared about their appearance and men owned m...

I stole this quote from SHOEGAL, as I will steal a few more in the future, simply because it was so funny yet so true. You know how you see someone and you be like "yuck who would date him" or as my cousin would say "he look like his breath stank" but hopefully all of those assumptions or pre-judgments dissolve when you finally get to know the person. But how about when you have great expectations about someone and they totally spin your positivity and you feel stupid for ever giving them the benefit of the doubt? You would prefer to have NOT met them because your how you envisioned is so not how they turned out, so you just gotta be real and say "I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you." Point in case, Black American Studies was my minor in college, anyone who knows me know that I love Black people, so when I see Black men in a Black American Studies class, or in any class for that matter, it makes my heart smile. This is until th...