AnythingUrban - by R Eldridge

Steve Harvey Swag on Family Feud

The "Family Feud," yeah THAT "Family Feud" is funny again - thanks to Steve Harvey... yeah, THAT Steve Harvey. He started hosting the show just a few months ago - I honestly didn't think this show was still around - but Harvey's deadpan expressions and  persona on has many thinking that he is the best host ever.  I hear that Richard Dawson was the original host, and pretty funny himself.  Word is, no one was as funny as Dawson... until now... maybe.

You be the judge.  Need a good laugh?

Check this out... after the jump:

Coelho Speaks About... Killing Our Dreams

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The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the Good Fight.

The second symptom of the death of our dreams lies in our certainties. Because we don’t want to see life as a grand adventure, we begin to think of ourselves as wise and fair and correct in asking so little of life. We look beyond the walls of our day-to-day existence, and we hear the sound of lances breaking, we smell the dust and the sweat, and we see the great defeats and the fire in the eyes of the warriors. But we never see the delight, the immense delight in the hearts of those who are engaged in the battle. For them, neither victory nor defeat is important; what’s important is only that they are fighting the Good Fight.

Perspective: From Mammy... to Jezebel... to Black Girls Who Rock!

 This is an essay... originally written in 2002.  I rarely share my "bunkered" essays, and this one is a little lengthy, but after watching Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls" and encountering some very self-disparaging feedback about it and other Black movies in general (including some unabashed self blame), I felt compelled to touch this up and re share... just some perspective....

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Jezebel Stereotypes

The portrayal of Black women as lascivious by nature is an enduring stereotype. The descriptive words associated with this stereotype are singular in their focus: seductive, alluring, worldly, beguiling, tempting, and lewd. Historically, White women, as a category, were portrayed as models of self-respect, self-control, and modesty – even sexual purity, but Black women were often portrayed as innately promiscuous, even predatory. This depiction of Black women is signified by the name Jezebel.²

K. Sue Jewell, a contemporary sociologist, conceptualized the Jezebel as a tragic mulatto – "thin lips, long straight hair, slender nose, thin figure and fair complexion."³ This conceptualization is too narrow. It is true that the "tragic mulatto" and "Jezebel" share the reputation of being sexually seductive, and both are antithetical to the desexualized "Mammy" caricature; nevertheless, it is a mistake to assume that only, or even mainly, fair-complexioned Black women were sexually objectified by the larger American society. From the early 1630s to the present, Black American women of all shades have been portrayed as hypersexual "bad-black-girls."⁴