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I keep telling my light skinned family to stop that dark chocolate is beautiful shit, and accept reality, that all around the world black is considered ugly and evil. Sad reality is no matter how hard you dark skinned niggas work, or how smart you are, the world just wont accept you, and treat you as equals. Time to stop crying about it like we can change it, and assimilate. That means you light skinned women need to marry men of other races.
I keep telling my light skinned family to stop that dark chocolate is beautiful shit, and accept reality, that all around the world black is considered ugly and evil. Sad reality is no matter how hard you dark skinned niggas work, or how smart you are, the world just wont accept you, and treat you as equals. Time to stop crying about it like we can change it, and assimilate. That means you light skinned women need to marry men of other races.
"...then I said, 'Read THIS, nigga!' and walked right out the joint."
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"Me? Read? Dis nigga here..."
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I'd rather see Meghan Markle in the role (or in more roles period). But let's be real, no one is making a film about Lolo.i bet when lifetime makes the biopic called "Determinaton:The Lolo Jones Story"theyll cast her
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lolo and rashida on twitter
what is the history with Colin and not reading something?
Iraq war I think, I don't know. I didn't read the article.
"...then I said, 'Read THIS, nigga!' and walked right out the joint."
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This one of the ugliest things I have ever seen.
"...then I said, 'Read THIS, nigga!' and walked right out the joint."
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This about sums everything up..
This about sums everything up..
what is the history with Colin and not reading something?
what is the history with Colin and not reading something?
Lolo Jones is getting uber amounts of media hype because she has the perfect underdog story, sex appeal and a vivacious personality. Her “more-accomplished” teammates, on the other hand, don’t.
It’s that simple.
Over the past week, major media outlets and the social media critics have unfairly attacked–especially a harsh Aug. 4 New York Times piece– Lolo for stealing the limelight from medal-winning athletes they feel should be enjoying a greater amount of television time.
During a Wednesday NBC news interview with Michelle Beadle, Harper seemed perturbed at the dearth of camera time she got after racing her way to a silver medal in the 100-meter hurdle finals:
“I thought I was a pretty good story. Knee surgery two months before Olympic trials in 2008, to make the team by 0.007, not have a contract, working three jobs, living in a frat house, running in someone else’s shoes to get the gold medal… ehhh, it sounds pretty interesting. Coming from East St. Louis. I just felt I worked really hard to represent my country to win the gold medal. I just feel like because their favorite didn’t win, we’re going to push your story aside and still gonna push this one, that hurt my feelings. But I showed I can deal with the pressure and came back [after coming in fourth in 2008], and I think you’ve kind of got to respect it a little bit now.”
It’s not about race, it’s about showmanship
Karen Hunter, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, MSNBC contributor and book publisher, feels that Harper and Wells lack the media savvy needed to generate buzz around their personal stories.
“Dawn Harper is a fantastic runner,” Hunter told NewsOne in a phone interview. “But, personality wise, she hasn’t distinguished herself. And if you can honestly tell me she has this over-the-top, dynamic personality then I’ll shut up. But that hasn’t been the case. They’ve interviewed her. She doesn’t say anything off-script. She doesn’t do anything off script. She is very milquetoast”
Florence Griffith Joyner is the fastest woman ever with a 10.49 in the 100-meter dash and 21.34 in the 200-meter dash. She got her fair share of coverage. But she was a rather shy woman and not too media savvy. Though she got made up for it by distinguishing herself with those super long fingernails, and the bright make-up she wore. And let us not forget those colorful track suits.
Simply put: Flo-Jo was beautiful. And great.
And if any of you want to pull the race card–especially the light-skinned-dark-skinned one– as a reason Harper and Wells are not getting any media love, don’t.
The women’s 100-meter hurdle winner, Sally Pearson (who, by the way, beat Lolo, Harper and Wells), isn’t getting much attention, either. Why? Because she doesn’t have a personality that would make us in the media gravitate towards her. Yeah, she won gold. But, no one has offered her an ESPN nude spread or a Real Sports feature because of it.
So is Pearson not getting hype because she is a White Australian? I’m willing to wager we’re not covering her as much because her news relevance dies as soon as she makes over her last hurdle to victory.
Usain Bolt gets love–and crazy endorsements–because, of course, he is the fastest man ever. And, besides that, he has his little lighting bolt pose that he does and he’s always bouncing to the beat of something while grooving to his headphones. (We wonder what is on his playlist).
In short, Bolt is a showman.
Serena Williams gets all kinds of play,too, because 1) she’s, without question, a tennis legend 2) we LOVE her style and we’re as interested in how she looks as we are in her serve and 3) she has that “I don’t care I’m going to be me” attitude.
After giving Maria Sharapova the ultimate beat down during the Olympic singles final, Serena crip walked in happiness, not caring who would criticize her or what unwritten “etiquette” rule she was violating.
Serena is a great player. But, equally important, she’s YouTube friendly.
Ryan Lockte is perhaps one of the coolest swimmers ever because of that red, white and blue grill. Some may argue that he gets more attention than his swimming skills allow. But he is a media darling because he’s a little pompous, he’s a frat boy and a playboy. After he hangs up his swimming trucks, he hangs out with Ludacris.
Ryan is the new bad boy/frat boy reality celebrity-to-be and we, the media, want to learn more.
Harper and Wells, on the other hand, just flashed their smiles and waved their hands after winning their races. They no longer evoke curiosity when they leave the track.
You don’t need a medal to be smart
Lolo is as interesting off the track as she is on it. She tweets hilarious 140 character commentary about herself that draws us more into who she is as a person and oh don’t we admire her 30-year-old virgin story.
Hunter says another reason television viewers emotionally connected with Lolo is because she is not afraid to wear her emotions on her sleeve. “That kind of raw, honest emotion that she has displayed, we rarely get to see that with these athletes who are so coached and groomed to say all of the right things, she says.
If you want Lolo-esque media attention you have to some flava or be so good at your sport that it would seem unnatural not to cover you. Micheal Phelps is pretty dull on camera and he certainly doesn’t register on women’s “Sexiest Men In The World” lists. But he gets coverage because we’re always wondering what record he’s going to break next.
No one would pay him any attention if he didn’t shatter as many records as he did. Period.
Harper and Wells are great runners. But they are not breaking records. And that’s not quite enough to make cameramen give them face time after they do their victory laps.
Another important consideration that has been lost in all of the media hype behind Lolo is that athletes have to capitalize off of their celebrity so that they can have post-sports careers. Lolo may continue running for another four years. Or not. But, because she has established an international media persona, she will have a healthy post-track life long after she hangs up her spikes.
That is not media hogging. That’s being smart.
And if Wells, Harper or any other athlete wants the kind of attention Lolo is getting, they best check their personality barometer first.
Otherwise, they’ll be just another Olympic medal winner. There are plenty of those around.
http://newsone.com/2030056/lolo-jones-new-york-times-article/
This about sums everything up..
This about sums everything up..
beautiful eyes + smile
She has big bright Disney character eyes...and that smile. My god. If she's cool, this chick might be the finest woman on the planet, well at least in my opinion.
This about sums everything up..
Here you go
I dunno who came up with it. But this is probably where the seed was planted:
****Powell was Under Pressure to Use Shaky Intelligence on Iraq: Report
Agence France Presse
Friday 30 May 2003
US News and World Report magazine said the first draft of the speech was prepared for Powell by Vice President Richard Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, in late January.
According to the report, the draft contained such questionable material that Powell lost his temper, throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading this. This is bullshit."
Cheney's aides wanted Powell to include in his presentation information that Iraq has purchased computer software that would allow it to plan an attack on the United States, an allegation that was not supported by the CIA, US News reported.
The White House also pressed Powell to include charges that the suspected leader of the September 11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, had met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence officer prior to the attacks, despite a refusal by US and European intelligence agencies to confirm the meeting, the magazine said.
The pressure forced Powell to appoint his own review team that met several times with Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to prepare the speech, in which the secretary of state accused Iraq of hiding tonnes of biological and chemical weapons.
US News also said that the Defense Intelligence Agency had issued a classified assessment of Iraq's chemical weapons program last September, arguing that "there is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons."
However, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress shortly after that that the Iraqi "regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX, sarin, cyclosarin, and mustard gas," according to the report.****
lolo jones did she win a medal in the bobsled??
LOL
fuck you go from track and field to bobsled..
I dont think I ever seen a high profile olympic athlete
that thirsty for a medal...
LOL
"Nice try, pimpin', but no! I ain't gone be able to do it!"
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