And this is why I cry...

As a African woman trying to make it in this world , I can add a 100 more problems to Jay-Z's 99 problem, and I'm not about to begin writing the list here. So one thing that really gets me angry and emotional is the treatment of kids anywhere and everywhere. I grew up wanting to adopt a child for various but as I'm getting older I realised that I would like one of my own , as selfish as this sounds especially in this day and age. Yesterday I saw a post on Gawker entitled "New World's Worst Mother..." which is basically about an American woman who adopted a Russian boy only to return him six months later to Russia because apparently he has some sort of "psychological problems". I know nothing about the mother, I barely know anything about international adoptions or Russian orphanages but all I know that watching the video on this adoption debacle really hurt me or made me feel something and its got me thinking on parenting, children, adoption and a whole lot more...

Afro-nordic , such a term should exist...

I've been thinking of my new found interest of Nordic culture , well a superficial attraction to all things Nordic or at least the men ... Something thats been banging in my head is "...I need a Nordic viking to find my nomadic huntress self" does that even make sense?! However I think there's somewhat of a connection between Nordic viking and African nomads/hunters and I know that the image of a viking is sometimes conjured and associated with neo-nazi culture and yes I can see why but something about the history and culture speaks to the latent African normadic huntress me. I think i need to finish this with Bjork track that sums me and this above train of thought...

What I learned from M.T.O

In the words of the great Huey Freeman from The Boondocks , "...... are crazy" Why write this post 'What I learned from M.T.O' aka MediaTakeOut ? Well I got to congratulate the creator and "editor" of the website Fred (too lazy to type his surname) for being featured in the New York Times's The Rising Stars of Gossip Blogs

Yeah a newspaper that was once held in high esteem like the New York Times included Fred in their article and they also included Maureen from Gawker(which is perfectly acceptable as gawker is the ish! and this is not a black inferiority versus white superiority as I do not endorse or acknowledge such a view!) But the guy who created M.T.O are they serious?!
I have to say I respect Fred for being a black man from immigrant parent from Africa for achieving the "American Dream" but M.T.O is a joke and the only reason I go on it (yep I do "read" it daily) is merely for laughs and no besides the atrocious spelling and grammatical error(and this is coming from me, a person who's blog is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors!), the commentators and the comments made on the site provide me with the best entertainment.Like everyone (or one of the few people who admits so) I get bored at work and the best way to kill time for me is going on to M.T.O. and reading most of the comments by the time I'm done , I'm rolling on the floor and laughing while my colleagues give me serious side eyes. Never(okay not never...) have I en counted such ignorance, disillusionment and stupidity being spewed on the Internet - seriously! And like some people I do perhaps feel that some of the posts on the site are merely posted to incite ignorance , hatred etc etc

So as the title of the post is 'What I learned from M.T.O. here's a shorts list of things I seriously did learn from the site

1. There are many ways to write the n word such as knee-gah. Yep I saw that on M.T.O. never seen it before in my life...

2. M.T.O. commentators take e-beefs to new heights. Seriously the site is the arena of all beefs such as west Indians v.s. black Americans, puerto ricans v.s. Dominicans, Africans v.s. black Americans, light skin v.s. dark skin, straights versus gay and off -course the old age beef of black versus white

3."Hoodrats" I won't say anymore on this subject...

So how did the commentators respond to the write up about Fred in the New York Times. follow the link I'm going to finish this post with my own take on Maya Angelou's "Still I rise" with "Still I laugh..." in regards to MediaTakeOut">