Stupid Statement #1
Everyone has been saying how Lyfe Jennings's new song "Statistics" is horrible. It wasn't til yesterday that I took a listen. Not only is the song lacking as far as topic, creativity, depth, and accuracy (I mean, honestly, how can you write a song about facts and figures that isn't based on actual facts and figures?!) but the actual stupid statement comes from two of the video's comments.
"Why are these statements stupid, Kim?" you may ask.
Well, besides the bad spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization, these statements are stupid because it's shit you should ALREADY KNOW.
Why should Lyfe help you learn something common sense should have taught you a long ass time ago?
Let's look at the lyrics of "Statistics":
Rule number 1: Don't be a booty call. If he don't respect you, girl, he gon forget you, girl.
If the dude you're talking to never wants to see you outside of his or your house (your house if he knows what he's doing) or during the sunshine hours, then you should know you're dealing with someone not interested in a relationship or love. If you needed Lyfe to tell you that, there are many buildings in metropolitan areas fit for you to jump off of.
Rule number 2: If he's in a relationship, if he'll cheat on her, he'll cheat on you.
One, Ginuwine told us this back in the 90s with "What's So Different," so where were you when Ginuwine addressed this topic? You're a good 13 years late, though you were probably licking your wounds for ending your first dead-end relationship. Two, this is just sheer logic. If your brain is incapable of seeing, even surmising, that someone disrespectful to others will be disrespectful to you, then Sigfried and Roy have a couple of white tigers to play with and I have a steak-flavored suit that you can wear during that visit.
Rule number 3: Tell him that you're celibate; and if he wants some of your goodies he's gonna have to work for it.
Why any person would freely give up the draws and expect heaven on Earth is mind-boggling to me. Anything worth having and appreciating is never attained without work and effort. How can you not think about establishing a connection before having sex? Makes no sense to me. It just seems logical.
Rule number 4: Be the person you wanna find; don't be a nickel looking for a dime.
Rarely do opposites attract and work out. You can't be a crackhead married to a reverend (though sometimes one can be both). Even more, you can't be full of shit and expect to land someone who is amazing and nontrife. Who you deserve is analogous, not reciprocal, to who you are. I think it's common knowledge that you can't or shouldn't be dating if you're not a good person or at least trying to be one. But hey, sometimes I'm a bit too optimistic about the mental faculties of mankind.
So could women learn from this song? Absolutely! You can learn how lacking you are in competent thought if the song shed light on your dating life. Honestly, if you haven't learned this shit by 20, then you are a lost cause. You have too many people and life experiences by that point in your life to be this foolish.
Stupid Statement #2:
One thing has been shaking up the black, and female, community this week Essence magazine's announcement that its new fashion editor would be Ellianna Placas, a "white" woman who is actually Latina. Everyone including former fashion editor Michaela Angela Davis has expressed disappointment, disdain, and even outrage at this decision, and many have been weighing in, including the person in the below video.
The vid was interesting, but what I found even more interesting is yet another Youtube comment, your next stupid statement of the day.
"If they are going to hire a white person for a black magazine,considering everything blacks have gone through,then they should scrap the whole magazine.This goes to show that the black community is on it's death bed for sure."---kdolo100
First, "considering everything blacks have gone through" sound like a big bunch of bullshit. If African Americans continue to hold grudges against past misdeeds instead of acknowledging truth and working for reconciliation, nothing will change in race relations. I'm not saying that we should forgive and forget the vast, cruel racism of yore and today; however, hiring a "white person" for a black magazine isn't electing him/her president of the NAACP. And what does writing about gladiator sandals and skinny jeans have to do with race relations anyway?
Next, how does the hiring show at all that the black community is "on its death bed for sure"? Because our school systems don't do that. The disproportionate unemployment doesn't do that. The state of the popular black music with all its hedonism, shallowness, and recklessness doesn't show that. Not even the violent neighborhoods and rampant black on black crime do that! But hiring a "white woman" for a black magazine is the last straw, damn it!!!
Get off it, honestly. Fashion is fashion; it's not like she's going to be writing about what it's like to be black in America. Besides, we have way more pertinent things to worry about in the African American community than who's telling us what's new on the runway. Oscar Grant anyone?
"lyfe speaks da truth er tyme he writes a song, lyfe thank u 4 helpin us women understand wats goin on wen sum of us r blinded by da love dat we have 4 those men..."
---shasha87100
"ladies could learn alot from this song"
---homeydawg36106