…a reality show nobody like Tiffany Pollard would crawl back under whatever rock she came out from just as soon as her reality show run ended.
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…real singers like Armani spokesmodel Solange would be Superstars instead of non-talents like her sister Beyonce.
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…wanna-be black chicks like Kim Kardashian would invest in a more realistic looking pair of butt pads.
Photo: INF DAILY
…former America’s Top Model contestant Nik Pace would never leave her house with a combover that barely covers her thinning hairline.
Photo: Splash News Online

…Omar Epps and his lovely baby mama Keisha would not have the caption, “Actor Omar Epps and Guest,” under their pictures on Wire Image.
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Talk show Diva Oprah Winfrey would come out of the closet already and drag her friend Tyler Perry out with her. That one unselfish act would greatly increase social tolerance for gay people in America.
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ALL OF THIS IS FUNNY TO ME.
I HATE KIM K
LOL @ Sandra !! I agree with the Oprah part.
Why wont Omar marry his baby mama? Ladies need to understand it PAYS to be the wife not the BM !!!
New York hmmm before I scrolled down I thought this was an exclusive NY post and the first thing that popped in my head was 200+
ewwww and eekkkk @ KK booty !!!!!
Sandra …we need a daily in perfet world post … love it.
LOL … I don’t think O is How u doin though ..everythign else w/ everyone else stands
Tiffany Pollard’s reality show run HASN’T ended yet, haven’t you heard? As long as they keep putting her on the tube, she’ll keep her “relevant” status. FINALLY!! Joker azz (what the hell are those school erasers on her hands) SOLANGE LOOKS HALF DECENT!!! Thankfully they took a picture so it will last longer. Keisha and Omar look fab!!! Stop calling her his “baby mama!” They’s married now!!! The rest isn’t worth comment.
SABDRA
IS KIM WHORETRASHIAN BECOMING THE NEW RIHANNA, THIS IS THE SECOND POST THIS MORINIG.
NEW YORK LOOKS LIKE SHYT ALL THE TIME SHE’S SOOOO F**KING NASTY LOOKING WITH THOSE FAKE ASS BOOBS!!
Who the Wax figure Hail is Nik Pace ! ! ! !
Omar and Keisha are Married !
LOL @ omar epps and guest. wow, the man is married to Keshia. white media is cruel when they dont know who u r. at least they semi-acknowledged her. it could’ve just read ‘omar epps arriving for the event.’
NY, NY…still sashayin’????? around, lop sided titties and knock knees too. please sit down.
wwwwwwwwwwwwhy kim k!!!! i cant stand her! her ass officially looks so fake now. if you have a fake ass why wear spandex? it makes it worse. omar and his bm ARE MARRIED
NY looks like a tranny in that pic! OMG! I would say that she has fallen so low, but she started there, so I guess she’s keeping up with what she knows. But she did look better in the first round of Flavor of Love…
Poor Nic. I’m not going to even say anything bad. I would say get a lace front, but that might be what did it to her.
Could have sworn Omar and Keisha were married….
That might be Kim’s butt. It’s pretty sloppy now, so it may just look fake-ish when she just needs to do some squats to firm it up.
ROTFLMAO @ “real singers like Armani spokesmodel Solange..”
Real singers??..Cut it out already!!…LOL..
JustSayin
Damn, Nik has A LOT of makeup on!
New York…..*throwing up in my mouth looking at her* she irks me too.
Kim K….*looking for a pail of water, so I can throw it at her fluffy azz booty-pads, make ‘em sag*
Nic Pace….used to be pretty on ANTM. Does she have alopecia(sp)???
@ Mzsuave,
I’m not sure if that is alopecia. I do agree, she was really pretty, but maybe she couldn’t keep up with her new found recognition and didn’t care for her hair? The rest of it looks a little damaged too…
@Diva….it looks a lot of damaged. And she has a good grade. Maybe she rocked the ponytails too tight???
Solange wouldn’t even be a Armani spokes model had it not been for more famous, more talented, more attractive sister..
Ummm .. are those Pink Foam “Brass” knuckles on that heffa’s hand …
Or is the 5 finger ring trying to make a comeback .. via the bubble gum machine ? ?
What’s funny to me is that anyone thinks Solange can sing. I saw her on the View last week and she was horrible. Also why does she wear a perfectly good outfit and then always always jack it up with some off color don’t go shoes.
and why does that broad in the first pic look like she STANKS ? ? ( i just can’t type her name she makes my azz itch)
AWWWWW…New York is cute there! Ya’ll have to admit she came up after hitting the gym!
Kim K…wears those bands around the bottom of her butt/top of the thigh…Ya’ll know what Im talking about? I’m about to look into those…looks like its working!
I just wanna drop kick Solange in the chest…for no reason. I cannot stand her…
WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH OPRAH’S WEAVE????? THAT IS JUST UNACCEPTABLE!
I just wanna drop kick Solange in the chest…for no reason. I cannot stand her…
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and You say I don’t have NO SENSE … hahahahahahahahollering … lol
Enough is enough! We can’t call pitting Beyonce against Ashanti and Monica or Solange the Willie Lynch mentality, but its just as bad. Why can’t they all do their thing? And NewYork is hilarious. Leave her alone as well.
PAGESINADIARY Says:
ALL OF THIS IS FUNNY TO ME.
I HATE KIM K
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Girl, I feel the same way.. Everytime I see her, my stomach turns…
DivineBrown Says:
Kim K…wears those bands around the bottom of her butt/top of the thigh…Ya’ll know what Im talking about? I’m about to look into those…looks like its working!
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You can get those from fredricks of hollywood website, they have a set of butt enhancers…
bad pic of NY
i think kim’s butt is real, just a lil lumpy. maybe the spandex is a no no huh?
i agree solange is only a semi star bcz bey was a star first or else solo would have never made it. truth hurts.(oh and yes those pink foam knuckle things are a big HELL NAWL!)
and nic’s makeup is heavey as hell. yikes on the hairline. happens to black girls when u braid or pull too tight.
oprah’s wig or weave is a hot mess. she’s too rich to go out like that. her hair here makes me sad.
well .. I wasn’t blessed with a booty .. i have a BUTT .. legs and breasticles .. but no hips and booty.. and if i’m over looked by a dude cause i ain’t got a azz you can sit a drink on … so be it .. it wasn’t the one for me …
(steps down from soap box) …
New York is a mess…She needs to go sit down some where…Omar and Keisha are married…
Does Kim K have on butt pads, or did she get that surgery?
@ Mzsuave, those pony’s will do it to ya!
DivineBrown says:
I just wanna drop kick Solange in the chest…for no reason. I cannot stand her…
LMBAO!!!!! I’d pay to see that!! That would look too funny!!
New York looks cute where? Still looks like a raggedy ol’ Lamb Chop puppet doll tranny to me.
And Wire Image always screws up names or leaves somebody’s name out…nothin new.
I think Omar and Keisha have tied the knot. Kim K looks like she’s got on some kind of diaper-catch all. She’s got to know those pants aren’t flattering. What kind of rings does Solange have on? Nik looks a mess - Sandra, is she really a lesbian, like the rumors say, and lastly, NEW YORK LOOKS SO LIKE A MAN. She needs a stylist, cause she looks like a wreck more times than not.
NY looks like NY. She does look like she has toned up though.
Solange looked cute until she put those damn five finger rubber things on ewwww.
Nic looks a hot azz mess. She was never cute to me.
Omar and Keisha are a cute couple.
Oprah no comment.
Don’t sit here any say ya’ll don’t wanna drop kick her!
I wanna straight “Stinkmeaner’s Revenge” (Boondock’s) drop kick her in the chest!
KYM…again, having booty is not all that it’s cracked up to be. I don’t have the choice in jeans that everyone else does. It breaks my heart, too. I’m 2 different sizes, too. Sometimes a dress will fit at the top and not at the bottom. I’ve accepted it, though! Still…I’d kill for some True Religions!
@ Divine … when I lose 30 (i’ve lost 9 so far whoo hoo)Thats a Present to myself .. some True Religions been eye’n them at Saks
I agree that Kim Kardashian has no reason to be famous other than having a sex tape with Brady’s little brother BUT. . .why is she a wanna be black girl?
Because she has a big ass, which clearly is hers otherwise it would be hanging as low as lola luv’s and she has cellulite on the side of her thighs?
Or is it because she dates black men?
@ Hermosa … if she’s famouse cause she likes black dyck ..
HAIL .. I need a walk on the hollywood walk of fame !!!
yes i’m black
OMG i saw Solange perform on the fashion rocks and all i can say is wow, she is trying soo hard to be her sistah B. on doggsssss she cannot sing.. I put my house on that… But we know who has the real talent in the family…
@ Kymystry. . .so she can’t have a preference? She has to be a wanna be black girl?
Nothing personl, just asking?
Papparazzi made Kim K famous. The sex tape made Kim K famous.
This is the deal. Hollywood initially stereotyped Kim with black girls because of her body type. Just like they did J.Lo. She is Armenian! Not black, not white! So, I think at this point, that is who she identifies with. Khloe, her younger sister, dates brothas, too.
Before I watched the show, I could not stand her. She is nothing like what she is perceived to be. Personally, I like the Beeecchhh! Seriously! Try watching the show…
I can’t help but admire New York for her tenacity. Looking she she do :), she made a name for herself and seems to be successfully continuing on this path of stardom, no matter how we feel about her. She can’t help but get my respect. She’s making money not babies, which is what so many of our young, black, poor women opt to do. (Ain’t judging just stating the facts jack, just stating the facts.) As for Oprah, she needs to come on over to the black hand side, considering her white female audience is finally turning on her black ass. Didn’t she know it’d be just a matter of time? As always, I leave you in peace.
My bad, that’s “Looking like she do (does), she still made a name for herself…..
@ hermosa.. thats a question for Sandra and the other’s…
I personally don’t like her simply beacuse .. we are taught to be women of substance women… who value themselves and we are told with those values you’ll be rewared and good men will regonize you for your worth (at least thats what i hope some of us were taught growing up and are teaching our daughters).. This chick here .. makes a video a sex video at that and she’s a “celebrity” … Please ..
@ Kymystry. . .I agree with you there. I don’t know what self respecting man would ever take seriously after the sex tape. I just don’t see how some people her are against her relationship with Reggie Bush just bc she isn’t black. I’m a Latin women that has a preference to black men and I can’t help the fact that black men are attracted to me and I am not, by any means a wanna be black girl. There seems to be alot of animostity towards girls who date black men!
Never trust a big-butt and a smile, that girl is posion…….GotDamn Kim K………..
***PEEKING IN JUST TO SAY***
DON’T FORGET TONIGHT @ SABOR LOUNGE - MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!!!
***TIP-TOE’N OUT THE BACK DOOR***
You know…everyone makes mistakes. If I cast aside every friend of mine, that had hoe-ish tendencies, gave it up on the first date and gave some head on top of that, or made a sex tape, I’d have alot less friends. Just because that is not how I choose to live my life, to each their own.
I don’t have anger towards brothas dating outside of the race. I’d be a hypocrite if I did. However, I DOOOO have a problem with brothas that ONLY DATE puerto rican, white or any non-black. However, if Puerto Rican men had bigger D!cks, I’d date them more often!
AND I STAND BY THAT LAST COMMENT! AS WRONG AS IT MAY BE…
I just hope I don’t get cut for it!
Hermosa, fyi, the black woman is the most watched and admired woman that walks the Earth. We are the Beginning and the End of all civilization… so it’s OK to be a wanna be, in that context
this is about the THIRD time auntie has listed MRS. OMAR EPPS as a baby momma. stop being catty auntie. he wifed this woman up years and a baby ago.
as far as solange thanksbetodalawd she has FINALLY found something in her closet that MATCHED. she was making me colorblind there for a minute.
f^%$ oprah being a closet lesbian. what about her WEAVE? she got a gazillion dollars but that is the best she can do? she need to report to somebody’s weavestress ASAP and take nik pace with her.
And that goes to you to Sandra.. Keisha is wife and not BABY MOMMA
Kim K got a big ole butt..Oh yeeaah!! LOL!!! I think its real personally, u can see cellulite for goodness sakes…and u big booty sistas know this to be true!! Why we hatin on the gurl bcuz she got a big booty? Everytime a chic gets media attention for having a butt..all of a sudden its gotta be fake…ie J. LO, Beyonce, Lola Luv (?).
We see chics all the time with abnormally gigantuous booties so I don’t see why this is so inconceivable?? Anyway, I can’t wait to see Dancing with the Stars premeire tonight…Let’s all watch it and see if it jiggles?? LOL.
@divinebrown
I don’t have anger towards brothas dating outside of the race. I’d be a hypocrite if I did. However, I DOOOO have a problem with brothas that ONLY DATE puerto rican, white or any non-black. However, if Puerto Rican men had bigger D!cks, I’d date them more often!
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Girl cross over to the other side, aint nothing wrong with international dick, Im black woman and I had it all, white, puerto rican, puerto rican and black, hispanic, Italian, Itlian & black, and a frenchmen!!!! lmao!!!!
Oprah got that half-wig looking ruff!
1. New York’s wig, makeup and boob job game is so frustrating. She looked better on the first season of FOL.
2. I love Solange’s look in that pic, but what’s up with the rubber knuckles?
3. If Kim K. has boob implants, the doc did a pretty good job, but I don’t think it’s fake. Her thighs are thick also.
4. Like Mariah and some other’s Niks hair looks really fine when it is straight. I like her hair curly a lot more. She is still drop dead gorgeous even with an inch of makeup on.
5. Keisha is Omar’s wife, not his baby mama. That being said no one knows her outside the black community and her husband is not a-list so the media doesn’t care about him let alone his mate.
mizzdallas Says:
Girl cross over to the other side
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Girl….you missed the part where I said, I’d be a hypocrite for hating on brothas!
The nature of my profession lines me up with all types of nationalities! My roster like a Baskin Robbins…69 flavas! I would never limit myself to anything!
VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE! I prefer male and sexy…that is the extent of my preference! Take it or leave it!
DivineBrown Says:
….She is Armenian! Not black, not white!
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Armenian is not a race. Kim K is 100% white. There’s nothing wrong with that. I also don’t think she is a ho. She had a long term relationship with Ray J and now she is in a long term relationship with Reggie. That being said, I have no interest in watching her show.
@ ReadTheBlog . . .LOL, trust me. . .I don’t want to be a black women. Im very proud to be a sexy Latina. If you want to believe that, then go on with you distorted mind.
Armenian is not a race. Kim K is 100% white
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I beg to differ with you!
Of Armenian American (father) and Scottish-Dutch (mother) descent.
If Armenian is not a race…neither is Turkish, Iraqi, Puerto Rican, Persian, Greeks, Russian, Mexican, etc…
When someone is referred to as Pakistani or Iraqi…we do not in turn call them white. The same applies to Kim, as well!
SHE AIN’T WHITE…not one drop!
I think Kims azz is real. Maybe she has on some sort of body shaper beneath the pants. Since she’s dancing she could be trying to control the jiggle of her flabby azz.
I beg to differ, if her boo-tae is real why don’t the other sisters have the same shape? And yes, her breast are fake…. I DONT LIKE *ITCH… and it has nothing to do with Reggie Bush, although i do feel that he lowered his standards when he got with her… why would any man worth a salt want to be with a chick who has had her sex life displayed to the WORLD….
Sandra,
I really need to understand why you keep calling Omar Epps wife his baby mama. Can you please explain that to us all.
DivineBrown Says:
Armenian is not a race. Kim K is 100% white
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I beg to differ with you!
Of Armenian American (father) and Scottish-Dutch (mother) descent.
If Armenian is not a race…neither is Turkish, Iraqi, Puerto Rican, Persian, Greeks, Russian, Mexican, etc…
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That is correct. Those things you listed are not races. They are nationalities; two totally differant things. Based on your definition no one would be White or Black or Asian. Instead their race would be whatever country their ancestors come from. Technically there are only three races; Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid. Latinos have the “benefit” of their ethnicity being recognized as a race, at least in America, but the fact remains that there are black and white latinos. Anyway, you get my gist.
I forgot to mention that in addition to Latinos, Middle Easterners have the “benefit” of their region being recognized as a race in many cases. In the cases of regions and ethnicities being recognized as a race is for the sole purpose of not having to be identified as negroid which we all know is the red headed step child of the three races.
I guess some of us did not get the memo but Omar married Keisha right before they had their last child….They are married. I agree tho, why would they list her as guest??? WTF?
What many people dont realize is that Armenian Women are very shapely, Turkish Women etc. They are shaply, curvy. I come from a country that was sorrounded with allot of women who look like Kim. I have friends who are Armenian who have better figures than Kim, he butt is real, her boob, NO and if u notice she never comments on the boobs, coz she knows they fake.
Question of weather she is White or not, well, Kim isnt white. BUT i guess we all have an opinion about that, i wouldnt classify her as %100 white, i donno…anyway, does it even matter, LOL
Nik Pace is one ugly child. Ugh, look at that wart growing from her eyebrow. ugh!
As far as Armenian’s being white. They fall along the same lines as ethnic Jews, Italians, Irish and Other Iberian/Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/South East Asian ethnic groups…when they first arrived in America they were not considered white. I’m talking about during the 1800s…they were considered non-white, and some of them were even lynched.
These ethnic groups descend from what perpetuaters of the Aryan Nazi movement (the Nordic Caucasians supremacist) considered ‘lower races’…yes, the same as they considered sub-Saharan African people. There was a lot of ethnic cleansing going on in Europe at one point, where many of these ethnic groups were extinguished.
The some of first waves of such ethnic groups that arrived in America descended from distant Arab, Semitic and/or first evolved Caucasian bloodlines (those have closer genetic links to Sub-Saharan ethnic groups).
However, today, Armenian-Americans and the other ethnic groups mentioned, are considered Caucasian/white in this country.
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Nik Pace is one ugly child. Ugh, look at that wart growing from her eyebrow. ugh!
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Correction, sweetie: she’s cute because she’s light skinned. If she was dark skinned with the same features then she would be ugly.
Correction, sweetie: she’s cute because she’s light skinned. If she was dark skinned with the same features then she would be ugly.
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smdh
That is how most African American people think about the light skinned vs. Dark skinned epidimic.. I feel bad for out race. Society has really fu**ed us up..
Black men are conditioned to like a lighter version of any race or ethnic group… It has been instilled in them for generations.
Last time i checked beyonce is a entertainer not a singer and enetertainers get more money record sales and publicity, but her lacefront wigs have got to go, she wears them to the beach to the mall, she is too fake and her plastic surgeery is a hot mess, i could go on about HEyonce but yall better stop me now
Candi Apple Says:
That is how most African American people think about the light skinned vs. Dark skinned epidimic.. I feel bad for out race. Society has really fu**ed us up..
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Sandra- you aren’t American, are you? (She’s her own epidimic!
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Candi Apple Says:
That is how most African American people think about the light skinned vs. Dark skinned epidimic.. I feel bad for out race. Society has really fu**ed us up..
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It’s not just in America, it’s all over the world. And in the UK, too!
1…geography lesson, Armenia is in Southeast Asia, east of Turkey. Armenians OR anyone else from that part of the worlk are not considered white! They will tell you…THEY ARE NOT WHITE!
2. I am sooooo over the whole light/dark issue! Live your live how you want to…
Get over it!
This whole light/dark issue will never be over! WHY?
FFFFFFF’ED UP PEOPLE ARE RAISING FFFFFF’ED UP CHILDREN! The cycle never ends!
TELL YOU WHAT? The European and Asian chicks love them some black D!!!! Especially some Germans, Russians, and Polish…I have yet to meet someone from the U.K that I could stand for 5 minutes. Who cares what they think!!!
DivineBrown Says:
1…geography lesson, Armenia is in Southeast Asia, east of Turkey. Armenians OR anyone else from that part of the worlk are not considered white! They will tell you…THEY ARE NOT WHITE!
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Well, the Armenians-American Association considers themselves European Americans. They are classified as a white ethnic group.
umm Armenians are multiracial, mostly Caucasian and Asian, if you want to stick to basic racial classification, but Kim’s mother is a white woman and Kim is more white than anything, but since this is SR.com and not a human anthropology class… Kim needs to stop with the butt pads, you can see the lining.
y’all stop feeding troll Sandra, you know she just goading y’all with that LS/DS nonsense… anyone with eyes can see Nik is an odd looking child regardless of her skin tone.
I know Sanaa’s blood must boil every time she sees Keisha and Omar.
Solange, you’re not that different or edgy, give it up already, just wear jeans and a t shirt like you know you want to. I was forced to listen to some her new stuff on Pandora…. the girl needs to go on and find another gig, ask for a speaking part in the next beyonce hair ad.
In a More Perfect World…
Kim K would deflate butt cheeks, admitting that them cottage cheesy thangs LOOKED AWFUL!
That ANTM chick would get that big azz mole removed, then over up her hairline..
Black men would be presumed to be married to their baby mamas, rather than the other way around..that way ppl would have been more accurate to realize that Keisha is Omar’s dayum wife!
Should I go on?
(I was gonna also say in a more perfect world, Solo would go sit down somewhere, but she’s been winning me over..)
Love, Mjoylaw
oh,
and also
in a more perfect world, New York would…
no, lemme stop and congratulate this sista for turning 15 minutes into a milli or more!!
Gon NY I ain’t mad at you and your fake “assets” and yt men young sista!
Love, Mjoylaw
@ Hermosa
I don’t think ppl hate other cultured girls who date black, what they hate is the hypocrisy and evident self hatred in some black men’s dating decisions
e.g., if Kim K was black, she would be gutter trash and NO black man would wife her up, let alone date her. She would be good enough only for jump off status, the type of jump off who just gets fcuked and never sees the light of day. Instead of being treated like the trash she is, and a black woman would be, Kim K is REWARDED for her trife behavior by pulling a primo black man and getting a reality show!! Among other things!
Also, these Latinas and YT girls get with these black men and they immediately begin to pay their bills, kiss their feet, azzes and anything else between, while praising them to the skies for being “submissive!” But let a black women expect to get her bills paid, it doesn’t matter how sweet she is, how freaky, or submissive–she would automatically be an EBT havin, projects livin, goldiggin, hoodho tryna come up, what da fcuk did she do to get that money she didn’t throw no balls, lazy, good for nothin, baby mama nappy headed triflin HO!!!!!!!!!!
This is what makes our blood boil! Not that you’re a Latina, it’s the double standard from our own men that we’ve held down since slavery!
Now you have a nice day with some sistas man now hear?!
Love, Mjoylaw
Lol daaayyuummm Sandra went innnnnnnnnn!!!!
let me not say anything about Tyler Perry because i might wanna have a part in his movies…
but i had to laugh at that.
@hermosa, you know you got black blood in you right? Latina is a cultural classification, racially you got a little bit of everything in you.
NY does look a mess, she always does. Looks like those trannies that be running around atlanta..haha
-Solange always looks like she is either not bright or loony, i’m not sure if its because her eyes always look surprised or confused
- Thumbs up for Kim k ass, stop hating flat back chicks, maybe one day you can get a lil sumthin back there
- No comment on the balding chick with the wart that looks like a tranny
- Omar wife looks good, he gets a thumbs up too
- And hell can’t say nothing bad about the riches women in the world, hell she can come out looking like harpo from the color purple it wouldn’t matter.
lol. you crack me up creating drama on your own blog wtih beyonce hate posts and the homosexual insinuations!
@ mjoylaw
You are generalizing me and the women in my culture. What makes you think we are submissive?
It’s that state of mind that is ****ed up. Don’t stereotype me.
@karaz. . .
If I did, I wouldn’t have a problem with it, but I don’t. Im Mexican, which is a mixture of Spanish and Mexican Indian, maybe some Frech. Hispanics from the Caribbean, like Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, they have AFRICAN in their blood.