Gabrielle Union Covers JET Magazine

Catch each one of these mags because all are gong to contain something special for the month of March. Up top, Gabrielle Union is talking her own personal life, below President Obama and First Lady Michelle will be talking the political and family thing, while Gabourey Sidibe is taking over the cover of Ebony.

President Barack & Michelle Obama Cover Essence March 2010

Gabourey Sidibe Covers Ebony March 2010

What is up with the President Barack Obama color temper tantrums going on?  One would think that both racist and surprised people would be over it by now, but not just yet.  Ousted Governor Blagojevich of Illinois and now Celebrity Apprentice has gone an made a statement Esquire magazine as follows:

Blacker Than Obama?

“I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.”

Right off the top…though the statement is talking race, it is also comparing race to a specific social class and behavior such as lifestyle, livelihood and “realness” of President Barack Obama being a black man.  Blagojevich feels that is he blacker than President Obama because he “shined shoes”.  Are you kidding me?  So this is the “standard” that Blago is going on - shining shoes??  What an insult?  So black people aren’t really black unless they have shined a shoe?  Wow?  Let’s break this one down even further.  I lived in a small apartment basically is what Blago goes on to say.  Uhmmm…more than just black people have lived in apartments, right??  And the laundromat statement in the black community?  Huh??  Okay, and this last sentence - “I saw it all growing up.”  Blago believes that, according to his own words, that he saw it all - just as much as what?  As black people see in their lifetime?

Real talk, all black people don’t come up “seeing it all”, and there are black people who don’t shine shoes…you see them just about everywhere…as well as own homes, drive nice cars…wait a minute…even in the small apartment.  Furthermore, if a black person or any person had to shine a shoe or two to make an honest living…props.  It may not be the greatest gig, but it works.  Hmmmm…makes one continue to wonder why on earth he is placing such low standards on being black - that is the entire problem with his statement.  Stereotypes and racism - AGAIN.  This is the type of thought that comes to mind when Blago thinks of black men and women.  WOW!

Don’t think Pres. Obama will respond to such nonsense.  If he does, it will make people turn colors!  Props to shoe shiners!

Ole Bill Clinton, well, there is another quote that is coming out in that brand new book, Game Change, to hit the bookstores on Tuesday this week, and the quote is a big let down.  According to what is written in the pages of this new book, former President Bill Clinton apparently told Ted Kennedy that president elect Obama would be “getting us coffee” a few years ago.

President Obama(left) and Former President Clinton(right)

Well, just what type of coffee, Bill?  White or black?  Wow!  And this is coming from the president (Clinton) that many called the black president!  Now they know.  Hmmm.  This is a real shame.  But then you have good ole Ted Kennedy, a man who didn’t allow color to phase him at all - hurray - not endorse Hillary because of this statement being one of the reasons.  WOW!  The not so secrets in the White House.  That’s not all Billy said to our friend Ted.  Check this - apparently, Bill Clinton, according to this new revealing book told Ted Kennedy point black blank that the only reason that he was endorsing Obama is because he is black.

Are these not some of the most racist comments being revealed coming from who some recall as the president that was for black people?  Glad I never made that mistake.  WOW!  I see your true colors shining through, I see…well, let’s leave all that to Cyndi Lauper:

That is a terrible shame for President Clinton.  Thumbs down.  We love you always, Ted!

Say it like you mean it but when you say it as an African American and with a specific dialect, well, it may not get you far in life…including with a darker skin color.  Say what?  Well, if you flip Senator Harry Reid’s comments around that are in the new book that is to be released on January 12th called Game Change, that is exactly what you get.  According to the authors of Game Change, the sweet senator is quoted as saying these words about President Obama prior to the big vote…that included people of “Negro dialect”:

“He [Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,’ “

Can you believe that…coming from a senator in America? Sure you can.  It’s an everyday thing.  Trifling, right? Well, Senator Reid now feels that his words were offensive and has apologized.   Alright.  Next.  Surely, this is nothing new to any African Americans - nor President Barack Obama.  Real talk, all African Americans can speak in different ways if they feel like it…period…and so what exactly is wrong with it?  Not a thing.  People who believe that a dialect and color assume intelligence and wisdom are maybe not so in touch with real life, ya think?

Surely other races change how they speak as well and in the case of Senator Reid - particularly and slightly racist dialect to some in private while all inclusive dialect in public.  See the difference.  Got him so far in life.  Okay so what if he didn’t mean it LIKE THAT, well, then if it is taken the other way, Senator Harry Reid was only saying that most Caucasian people would prefer a not so “negro” dialect and light skinned man.  Hmmm…either way it spells ignorance.

Anyway, who still says Negro?  Him and the census people?

Toby Keith raps, y’all!  Will Smith, Wyclef, and Toby Keith went way back to tribute Hip Hop and President Obama after his Nobel Peace Prize win, and they really did get the party started.  The performance was hot!  Watch below.

Congrats to the president for that Nobel Peace Prize win.

This December is going to be one of a kind.  As it gets closer to the favorite holiday of the year, Christmas, President and First Lady Obama will sit, tour the White House and interview with Oprah Winfrey in an hours special called Christmas At The White House.  What a day in America!  History will really be written with this one.  Three of the most influential people in the USA will come together in an interview - first found each other as friends and supporters during the election, and now, for the first time Oprah will sit with the man who she knew would be president - Barack Obama.

The Christmas At The White House special will air December 13th.