Pre-[Vogue]-Amble

I think the Italian issue of Vogue should be in Borders down the road by now but when I am on my way to work I will check as you know I will be scanning the editorials for the Charcoal readers!

I am very disappointed with some of the reactions that I am reading from certain segments of people. I find it fucking annoying in fact that people are trying to turn this into the Black History Debate.

Statements like that are seeped in a faux sense of privilege along the lines of “why-dont-you-just-assimilate-to-be-like-me-as-i-am-a-person-like-you”? What a load of fucking bollocks.

As OG posted the eerie statement of Willie Lynch in 1772 on her blog, it is apparent that nothing has fucking change. So all the PC feminists who think that a black issue is counter-productive sound strangely like they are trying to bar black women/asian women from the spotlight too. I don’t care what anyone says. By saying that we should all just get along is basically ignoring the race debate and refusing to deal with the situation at hand.

I think it is irresponsible to slag off this magazine if you think that everyone should be involved. What about all the other Vogue mags that include no black, asian or hispanic women? Now, that is irresponsible.

Looks like when the shoe is on the other foot, people’s eyes start to well with liquid.

Race Row glooms over London’s [racist] mayor

[thanks to danny for highlighting this]

The Tories cannot stop, can they ?

They literally just have to keep attracting race rows.

Boris Johnson, the LDN’s new mayor who has uttered racist statements before, had a political adviser named James McGrath who now has been sacked due to saying in response to an argument by Darcus Howe that older West Indian immigrants will return to the WI because of Boris Johnson, McGrath then said:

“Well, let them go if they don’t like it here.”

Who the fuck is they? McGrath is Australian-born and um hello, that nation has had a horrific history of incredible racism against Aborigines. When he says “they”, does he mean black people like Aborigines and West Indians or does he mean himself ?

I find it so disgusting but I am not even surprised. Boris Johnson is very very racist! If anyone expects me to believe Johnson’s bollocks of celebrating London’s “ethnic” mix, they are severely mistaken.

McGrath was with Johnson’s crew. As they say, birds of a feather flock together…

Supplementing Income

This is the golden question I am asking any members of the the World Wide Web:

How do you go about supplementing your income?

I have a cool part-time job but now as all students have finished exams, I am finding it very difficult to land a part-time temp job. I just want to be a temp to supplement my current income!

I am lucky in that I still have another job but I need another one.

Any ideas that do not include eBay lol ?

Black Female Singers & Endorsements

Black celebrities are raking in the £££ in endorsements. If we do not count athletes, the entertainers are really yamming.

Let’s compare Beyonce and Rihanna [just to be controversial of course]. I will be including past and present endorsements.

Beyonce = L’Oreal, Giorgio Armani, Tommy Hilfiger, American Express, Samsung, DirectTV

Rihanna = Nike, J.C Penney, Gillette & Covergirl…**crickets** so much for the crickets, as I was researching this post, looks like Rihanna is yamming too!

As much as the Rihanna fembot cannot sing, she really is a stunnin girl hence no surprise why she is in a new Covergirl advert, which I have added here below.

I can barely believe this girl is raking in the dosh as she cannot sing! But again, it does not matter because from a marketing viewpoint, she is ideal for obvious reasons as she is pretty. Does her endorsement make me want to buy Covergirl? No but I am sure she works for the younger audience who probably like her because of her beauty.

Beyonce knocks Rihanna out in the endorsement arena. In fact, she even knocks fucking Naomi C out as Naomi is not getting as much work these days. Beyonce received the equivalent of £2 million [$4.7] for her work for L’Oreal. I am sure Mama Tina is pleased about that. Here is the video for Beyonce’s Armani ad:

Diamonds! Yes, you are the heaviest singer! This girl is just it for me anyway. Lol, any excuse to stand up for Beyonce I will take it.

Are endorsements a good thing or bad ? Either way, they do not do much for me unless they are fronted by Beyonce. But even in that vein, it does not make me want to buy it more. As long as the product is good, that is all I care about.

“There she goes again”

I do not know who came up with the concept of concentrating on something else to get over another thing but recently, I have been trying very hard to stop thinking about painful shit think about and focus on trying to evolve as a person instead of wallowing in people pain.

But the paradox is here: how do you get over painful shit by concentrating on other things? I have concluded that it is all about will power and energy.

Those are two components which I am seriously lacking at the moment, despite trying endlessly to acquire them so I stop focusing on rubbish i.e. heartbreak.

I always told myself I would not use the blog as a canvas to become repeatedly sentimental or emotional but I feel like I am cornered into a vanishing point. I just feel directionless and I am unsure of what to do.

I have been focusing now very my on my business idea which I am trying to get off the ground but outside distractions are jeopardising my emotional well-being and sanity. Any suggestions ?

 

Attack of the Beautiful Black

[image @ Make Fetch Happen]

Enough is Enough

What the ….

Boy, the jokes are being crammed up today!

I have been in the process of trying to find a domain name, right for my new venture and for the blog. So you can imagine my delight when I found a website which claimed to have fucking CHEAP prices to register a domain name. I was so happy thinking I could get a domain name that was very very cheap for under a tenner.

The site claimed to call you to confirm your profile.

They pranked me and didn’t let me pick up!

Anyway, I called them back, thinking I was getting the site off to a flying start by registering.

So you can imagine my horror when in fact, this price was inflated into something else. I did not realise how crafty sales people actually ARE. I was being sold something entirely different which was not advertised clearly on the website.

I politely declined, citing my business partner was not available hence I could not buy it*.

The man on the other side of the phone sounded so pissed, you’d think I stood his arse up on a fucking date or like I had just stolen from his own damn bank accountl He sounded so PISSED.

I had never once promised to buy anything. I was obviously being signed up because he asked for my name, address etc and then told me I would get some flash web site builder but the price that he quoted was not advertised on the web.

Maybe WordPress is not so bad…after all!

This is it!

I have finally found exactly what I want my hair to look like. I found this fabulous photograph on Abagond’s blog of Yaya DaCosta’s hair:

[image @ Abagond]

“They think it’s all over. It is now”

John Motson, the football commentator’s famous catchphrase can be wholly applied to the status of Naomi C’s hair.

 I was on Concrete Loop and saw some suspect pictures of Naomi C. So I decided to do some more looking and just behold what is going on with her weave:

She looks like she has lost a significant strip of hair. Now, my hair is by no means gorgeous or lustrous at all and I am not meaning this in a harsh way against NC but I just think this image is proof that weaves no longer work for her.

She would be so stunning with natural hair for her. But I think the ship has sailed with her on that front. It’s definitely all over now.