The Internet’s Obsession With Pear-Lover Ricky Rawse Explored Sometimes, things happen on the internet that no one can explain (or seriously comprehend) like the current obsession with skinny Ricky Ross and pears. If that sounds odd (or even hilarious), it is, mostly because we doubt anyone thought this bizarre marriage between fruit and Hip-Hop would ever happen. Hit the jump for a look into the internet’s obsession with slim Rawse and “the pear.”
Wow… In an effort to open discussion about immigration policy in the US, Orange is The New Black star Diane Guerrero shared her own personal story of how deportation tore her family apart and forced her to live on her own at age 14. Via TalkingPoints : In an interview with CNN on Monday, “Orange Is The New Black” actress Diane Guerrero was brought to tears on-air as she described the deportation of her family when she was a teenager. “I got home, and their cars were there and dinner was started and the lights were on, but I couldn’t find them,” Guerrero told host Michaela Pereira. Guerrero explained that at age 14, she had arrived home from her performing arts school only to find her parents had been removed from the house. They were eventually sent to Colombia. The actress broke down when she said the separation had caused her to feel alienated from her own family. “It’s tough, it’s like we’ve been separated for so long, I feel like sometimes we don’t know each other,” she said. “It’s difficult because I’ve grown up without them, and there’s things about them that are new that I don’t recognize, and it just — it hurts.” Guerrero also recently wrote about the ordeal in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times amid speculation over possible executive actions on immigration by President Obama. “Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me,” she wrote. “No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.” She’s lucky her life turned out as well as it did! At 14, alone without her family in a foreign country…things definitely could have taken a tragic turn.
These two are so fake deep… While Will and Jada are busy loving up on each other , their offspring are skipping school, making music , reading “ancient texts” and rambling on about lord knows what. They sat down with T Magazine recently to give us a peek into how the Smith kids think. Via MailOnline : First off, the pair reveal in the interview that Willow is currently reading ‘quantum physics’ while Jaden reveals he is glossing over an ‘ancient text’ called The Ancient Secret of the Flower Life [that] can’t be pre-dated’. The interviewer then asks the pair what themes ‘recur’ in their music, to which Jaden replies ‘the melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else’ while Willow describes the feeling of being in a ‘holographic reality that a higher consciousness made’. It is not surprising, that they both confess they’ve already had enough of going to school like normal teenagers. ‘I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience,’ Willow admitted. ‘The best experience because I was, like, “Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.” But it was the worst experience because I was depressed,’ she added. While Jaden took aim at Driver’s Ed, suggesting that the amount of car accidents that happen prove school isn’t working. ‘You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up?’ he said. ‘I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.’ Jaden added: ‘Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real.’ ‘Our learning will never end. The school that we go to every single morning, we will continue to go to.’ Willow then rather bizarrely claims that time is a concept that she can control with her mind. ‘I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please,’ she says. ‘That’s how I know it doesn’t exist.’ And despite only being fourteen years old, Willow already misses her days as a newborn. ‘When they’re in the stomach, [babies are] so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world … As they grow up, they start losing.’ Discussing honesty, Willow goes on to suggest that she has started ‘caring less and less about what your own mind thinks’ in a bid to stop her feeling sad. Jaden agrees by saying: ‘Exactly. Because your mind has a duality to it. So when one thought goes into your mind, it’s not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain.’ Oh, the things you have time to think about when you’ll never have bills as long as you live…
That Kenya sure is bad at making new friends, huh? Kenya Moore And Sherri Shepherd Get Into Twitter War After Bravo TV Appearance Via E-online : Things were tense during last night’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen and his guests: Sherri Shepherd and Kenya Moore. After Shepherd called the Real Housewives of Atlanta star “Kendra” several times, the ladies couldn’t hide their disdain for one another. At one point in the contentious show, Shepherd tried to offer some words of wisdom to Moore about how she should treat her fans. The two threw plenty of shade during their late-night interview, with Cohen attempting to play mediator through the program, but things took a turn for the worse once the show was off the air. Peep their twitter beef after the jump…
Harpo who these people ???? BET Flubs Omega Psi Phi Founders Day Post Today as Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. celebrates 103 years of service, a certain television network tried to join in on the occasion by wishing them a Happy Founders Day. BET recently posted the below photo on Instagram of the black fraternity’s founders… unfortunately for them however, people quickly realized that the SIX men in question were not the organization’s FOUR pioneers and BET got blasted for the flub. Essentially. RT @Beasly151 : So BET just posted some dudes in suits and said they were founders of Omega Psi Phi?!?! — Storm Thorgerson (@QUEcified) November 17, 2014 BET just pulled a random black and white picture of some old ninjas and wished Omega Psi Phi a happy founders day. Im inconsolable — TONE (@ARAIN1019) November 17, 2014 Poor thangs! What do YOU think about BET’s flubbed Founders Day message to the men of Omega Psi Phi???
Black Twitter Vs. Thirsty Solange Stans Shea buttery princess Solange broke the internet with her stunning wedding photo that’s destined to be recreated for eternity by attention-thirsty stans who will try (and fail terribly) to match the sheer Godliness of that classic pic. Hit the jump for the best of Black Twitter vs. the thirsty Solange fans.
This may be the last remaining taboo in our supposedly colorblind society . Black Women Face Interracial Dating Taboo When Online Via NY Post reports: A New York City woman — beautiful, educated, successful and single — accepted a challenge presented by an online dating service that aimed to fix her up with available men. “I’m not desperate to get married,’’ said Jacque Reid, who co-hosts the “New York Live” lifestyle show on WNBC-TV News Channel 4, serves as a correspondent for the nationally syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show” on the radio, and is the editor in chief of SingleandLivingFab.com. “I’ve met some good men. I’ve met some bad men and dated very bad men,” laughed Reid, a fitness enthusiast and never-married Atlanta, Ga., native who lives in Manhattan with her pet Shih Tzus — a boy named Sugar-Shane and a girl named Zoe. “I’m happy being single,” said Reid, who declined to give her age. She said, “I’m excited about” the Web-based matchup service. “It will be fun — and I’ll get some dates.” But two days after we spoke last week, a WNBC spokeswoman informed me that Reid no longer planned to accept the dating service’s challenge because she was “busy.” A friend told me that she’d changed her mind about it. Why? The answer may be found in the dating service’s name: InterracialDatingCentral.com. Reid, who is African-American, had opened herself up to the possibility of going out with men who are not. Reid had talked about the challenge on the radio and publicly accepted the service’s offer. She agreed to be featured in a news release announcing that she would go on a series of blind dates with four New York-area bachelors of all races, including African-Americans. Then the pushback began. In this day and age, some people are vehemently against the idea of a woman of color going out with men of other backgrounds. And the opposition comes from within the black community. How can this be? “Black men date or marry interracially at more than double the level women do,” she said. “They are given a pass. They can date anyone they want to — black women, white women.” The purpose of the dating challenge, she said, was to expand a woman’s choices. Black women are up to 50 percent more likely than their male counterparts to graduate from high school, reports the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and The Schott Foundation for Public Education. About twice the number of black women attend college as black men, according to the National Coalition of Black Civic Participation. And the Pew Research Center determined that black men were more than six times as likely as white men to be serving time in prisons and jails in 2010. Meanwhile, said Karazin, the rate of out-of-wedlock births to black women is 72 to 80 percent — up to 100 percent in some communities. Some of the ills facing black men, particularly high incarceration rates for relatively minor crimes, are unfair to them. But Karazin does not believe that black women should be limited by race when choosing partners. She’s right. Skin color should not matter when it comes to love. Discuss….
Well we already knew Columbus DIDN’T discover America . Turkish President Says Muslims, Not Columbus, Discovered America Turkey’s President wants the world to know that Muslims had a place in the Americas long before Christopher Columbus paved the way for colonization. Via NY Post reports : President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke Saturday in Istanbul at a summit comprised of Muslim leaders from Latin America and claimed that Islamic sailors stumbled upon the New World more than 300 years before the famed Italian made landfall. “Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus,” he said, according to the Daily Mail . “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Columbus mentioned the existence of a mosque on a hill on the Cuban coast.” The Spanish-employed sailor did speak of a mosque in his personal diary, which was published in 1996, but the notion has been widely considered to be a misunderstanding and should instead be viewed as a metaphor for the shape of the landscape. The fact that no Islamic structures have been unearthed that pre-date Columbus also debunks Erdogan’s claims. Despite this, the Turkish leader proudly disregarded Columbus’ purported discovery of America in 1492 and preached that a link should instead be established between Muslims and the Latin American people. “I would like to talk about it to my Cuban brothers,” he added. “A mosque would go perfectly on the hill today.” Do you think his theory holds water? Georgios Kollidas / Shutterstock.com
