Singers Rihanna, Maxwell and Wyclef Jean appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show today to talk about relief efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake.
As usual, Wyclef Jean tried to make the show all about him, saying, “I’m from Haiti. I’m willing to go to Haiti. I need a task force and if they put me in charge of the airport with the U.S. I can help facilitate… get the stuff to the people.”
Why would the U.S. put Wyclef in charge of anything when he couldn’t even run his own charity organization, Yele Haiti?
After witnessing him demoralize and put down former Fugees lead singer Lauren Hill right in front of me back in 1996, I have a very low regard for Wyclef (as I do for all narcissists). He thinks everything is about him.
Rihanna and Maxwell performed their singles “Redemption Song” and “Fistful of Tears” which are now available for download on Oprah.com, iTunes and the artists’ websites.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 5:58 pm and filed under Business women, Celeb News, Charity Events, Dearly departed, Music News, Oprah Winfrey, Rihanna, Scams, TV/radio, Video . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed or Trackback from your own site. This site is Gravatar enabled. Sign up to upload your own avatar.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
RiRi did a nice rendition of the son
He sounded like fool when he said that. Just like wen he called for a evacuation. He need to let the people who are trained for this, do what there doing. SMH He can facilitate….i’m willing to bet he don’t know a dang thign about how airports are run….he need to just tell ppl to text….I was defending before….I just can’t defend stupid comments
Wyclef..NEXT!
blah @ everyone except maxwell
Typical problem in our community. He wants to be a tree shaker not the pie maker. Dude just because you came from this community does not quailify u to run an airport or distribute food, supplies and equipment to 9 MILLION PEOPLE.
starr Says:
He sounded like fool when he said that. Just like wen he called for a evacuation. He need to let the people who are trained for this, do what there doing.
*****************************************************
He is the biggest moron. He was in Haiti for a grand total of two days. No one actually saw him doing anything over there other than hogging the cameras at the airport. Why should they put him in charge of anything when he couldn’t even run his own charity?
Anderson Cooper been haiti longer than Wyclef. Yes Anderson is a journalist…but i’m sure he could come back if he chooses. It seems like Wyclef was back as soon as he landed. And all i see him doing is talking.
I just don’t trust Wyclef. I am not donating the same way I buy my ringtones. There’s got to be a better way to donate
Sandra did you see the video of Anderson Cooper saving the little boy?
Sandra u are a narcissist too u always talk about other ppl and then trow something in about how u met them or know somebody dat now somebody PLEASE!!! and say dat they didn’t find anything wrong wit his organization….
Rihanna should be seen not heard
Wyclef is a shading person to me also….if you are so concerned about your people worry less about defending your image and more about helping them….he didn’t need to go on Oprah to do anything…..he should have been in Haiti…..Wyclef you need more people…..& they shouldn’t let him run anything but his mouth because that is the only thing he is good at.
Why when you watch the Rihanna video it gives you a link to look at her and cassies x-rated pics?
starr Says:
Anderson Cooper been haiti longer than Wyclef.
***************************************************
Exactly. Yes, Ebony I saw the video. it’s obvious that other people have shown more concern for Haiti than Whyclef. All he cares about is collecting money for his fraudulent organization that he abandons as soon as the money stops coming in. Whyclef still hasn’t said what he plans to do with the money. If Haitians were waiting on him to feed them they would have starved to death by now!
I wasn’t even suspect about the Charity. I just stick with charities and organizations i know. He just really need to shut up and stop saying bull shyt.
missy Says:
Wyclef is a shading person to me also….if you are so concerned about your people worry less about defending your image and more about helping them…
*************************************************
Whyclef claims he came back to the U.S. to answer questions about Yele. He could have done that from Haiti. Don’t they have a thousand journalists over there? He’s so full of himself.
If he says he’s helping, do just that.
Ebony Says:
Why when you watch the Rihanna video it gives you a link to look at her and cassies x-rated pics?
***********************************************
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll remove it. Obviously I didn’t watch the whole thing. I couldn’t make it through Rihanna’s singing.
I saw the Oprah special and out of all of the celebs, Maxwell seemed the most genuine. When he finished his song and hugged Oprah, he held her until the camera faded. You could tell he was feeling pain for the people.
As for as Wyclef, everyone shows their pain in different ways. Who am I to say that someone’s pain is deeper than anyone else’s?
Ri Ri looked fab as always. If anyone can raise money for the relief effort in Haiti, it’s Oprah.
Ummmm…did anyone else watch the Rihanna clip
Oh and That pic with Tiger is real
Sawwy Sandra..I didn’t believe you or the national enquirer..
Sandra Rose Says:
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll remove it. Obviously I didn’t watch the whole thing. I couldn’t make it through Rihanna’s singing.
______________________
@civil
No I”m afraid of what i might hear
And its nuthing against rih (or maybe it is lol), but i just don’t like ppl doing over certain songs…and luvs me some Bob Marley….but i don’t think i can listen to her do it
**peeps in looking for LBCali** Is is safe? **wiping sweat off my forehead** Sandra, umm, yea, I just want someone to help these people in Haiti. I gave my money to Yele and I felt good about it. I will let God handle the rest. He don’t need any help judging people.
@starr…I wouldn’t have recognized what she was singing (that’s a stretch) if there wasn’t a title. She should stick to street-walking and singing her own songs…it sounded so bad but I had to watch
OMG! Rihanna totally butchered my fav Bob Marley song! Geez..Ziggy? Stephen? Julian? anybody else??? She sounds like a shrieking, injured cat..Ughh! Maxwell killed it though! He looked like he was about to cry
She didn’t do bad at Redemption Song. Yall are a mess.
Did anyone hear the entire statement Wyclef made or are you just going of the one sentence Sandra posted? I agree with what he said, the Haitian people are tired of the photo ops, they need help. There are more troops waiting at the airport (reports of looting, etc) than there are relief/aid workers. Many of the aid workers (doctors, paramedics, etc) are being held at the airport instead of being used in ravished areas because troops don’t know the land. They are being used in certain areas, if at all. He said put me in charge of the airport out of frustration. I understood what he was saying. He knows the land, he could help facilitate getting workers to other parts of the country.
I find it funny no one is pissed at these journalists (Cooper excluded). They report on this person and that person needing water, but relief can’t get to that area. Obviously YOU, the reporter found your way to that area. Pass out some of your water, pull out your cell phone and call for help. COME ON!
Ms.kaylamomma Says:
**peeps in looking for LBCali** Is is safe? **wiping sweat off my forehead**
@Ohpretty1 says:I find it funny no one is pissed at these journalists (Cooper excluded). They report on this person and that person needing water, but relief can’t get to that area. Obviously YOU, the reporter found your way to that area. Pass out some of your water, pull out your cell phone and call for help. COME ON!
________________________________-
I agree with this statement…..I get upset seeing people taking pics at disasters…but how do we know if they aren’t helping people……
But He can make us much valid points as he wants but he is not their at this time…….so how is any help if he is saving face…..and everyone can say what they would do in that situation but when placed in the situation do you have the opportunity to do all these things….. is the problem I am sure others have thought the same way….
But I will give him props for helping his country …..I just feel he doesn’t have to say anything at this time….if he know what he is doing is right keep doing you …and answer later on…..
@ ohpretty, I have to agree with the last statement. Seems like with national disasters the news reporters are there within 24 hours. Why can’t they bring a truckfload, a plane full of water, crackers, something to the people whose face they are shoving a camera in?? I’ve always wondered…
For the LBCali funeral please refer to the Celebs out and about post.
@ missy, are you on twitter?
yay! the PM Sandrarose crew is in the building! @missy @ms.kayla…now where’s Daisy??
Hey renegade *waving*, what’s up with you?
@Ms.kaylamomma-No I am not on twitter……
@renegade-YEEEPPP the PM crew (in my b-girl stance)
What comes on tonight y’all? Oh, AI, right?
@Ms.kaylamomma-Yep A.I. comes on tonight last night was a bore
@ms.Kayla
Nothing much..went to the dermatologist today…been at home job hunting
How do you get into the SR cliques? Are you jumped in? Is there hazing?
Last night AI
as hell
Where is texarican mamacita? She hasn’t posted in awhile.
@Ebony
LOL…I don’t think we’re purposely in a crew..just certain people tend to post at night so we’re used to seeing each other in the PM
*gasps* Ebony, we here at Sandra Rose know of no “cliques” that you speak of.
We love eer’body.
@Ms.kaylamoma-Yup we even “loved” Afrikka aka LBCALI
Ebony/Dorecly
seriously, I used to think the same thing when I was lurking.
@ renegade, I hope you find a job soon. I really do. I hate to hear about people losing their jobs and unemployed. I wish I could hit the Mega Millions
Poor Poor Rhi!!!! She can’t sing and yes she butchered Bob’s song!!!!
I had to cut it off cause I couldn’t listen to the whole thing.
@Ms.kaylamomma-texa is in school and didn’t she say she was working as an intern or something like that…
@renegade-A.I was a
fest last night
TEXA IF YOU LURKING YOU BETTER BE HERE FOR THE FINAL JERSEY SHORE CONVO….
@ Missy, your memory is like an elephant. Now, I vaguely remember her mentioning something about school. Yay for Texa!!
@ Ms.kaylamomma
Ebony/Dorecly seriously, I used to think the same thing when I was lurking
___________________________________________________
Thank You I read the PM crew comments in the morning on my blackberry. It’s like a
in here at night
@Ms.kaylamomma- Yeah my memory is kinda good
..
Here I GO (c) Mystikal yall know I have to workout then get situated!! I need to start my homework as well *sighs*
I havent really said much on this issue but here is my .02 *steps on soapbox* WYCLEF WELL DONE THY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT
They talked about Jesus so they will talk about you and I as well GON BRUSH YOUR SHOULDERS OFF and WORK FOR YOUR PEOPLE!!! You have giving time and money YEARS before the earthquake. You have built schools, houses etc. I 
you continue to be a blessing to your people and continue to work on your foundation and get the BEST team around you to help you accomplish any and all goals for Yele!! *steps off soapbox*
Hey SR fam!
@renegade
I havent seen her post in a while…but didnt she say something about school?
*waves* Hi MsKaylamomma!
@Daisy….good luck with the homework…ughh..I hated working and going to school! I felt like I had no life at all.. How is gma doing today?
i
me some maxwell…that nicca could sing the phone book to me!!
Maxwell could get it on my grandmas plastic cover couch
Ebony Says:
Maxwell could get it on my grandmas plastic cover couch
Ebony Says:
How do you get into the SR cliques? Are you jumped in? Is there hazing?
@ Are you jumped in. I just jump into a convo I want to comment on. I don’t think we have “cliques”. Everyone doesn’t make it a point to comment or reply to specific ppl., but some ppl do know each other in real life from meeting on here.
~~~~~~~~~
@ Anna
I try to comment as much as I can. My work blocked sandrarose.com so I read everybody comments on my phone all day. I think I am going to pledge the PM crew though
@Rene my gma is the same I am going home fri (NC)
@Anna and Mskay when Rickey called heaven this am I was at my desk HOLLERING trying to BREATHE!! MJ is my fav with his short answers and when Teddy P said he didnt have legs but wings I LOST IT!!!!!!
@Rene my gma is the same I am going home fri (NC)
@Anna and Mskay when Rickey called heaven this am I was at my desk HOLLERING trying to BREATHE!! MJ is my fav with his short answers and when Teddy P said he didnt have legs but wings I LOST IT!!!!!!
I
Maxwell and Rihanna didnt sound that bad but the way she ended the song was wack!!!
@ Daisy
Rickey called heaven this am I was at my desk HOLLERING trying to BREATHE!! MJ is my fav with his short answers and when Teddy P said he didnt have legs but wings I LOST IT!!!!!!
______________________________________________
I’m back y’all. Hey H-townmama, I was going to ask earlier where you were but you’re here now.
@ Daisy, I almost peed my pants when I heard that Rickey Smiley Calling Heaven skit.
@ Ms.kaylamomma
Daisy Says:
@Rene my gma is the same I am going home fri (NC)
@Anna and Mskay when Rickey called heaven this am I was at my desk HOLLERING trying to BREATHE!! MJ is my fav with his short answers and when Teddy P said he didnt have legs but wings I LOST IT!!!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That was A Hott Azzz Messs.
OMG…what in the hell is this on AI?????
Ebony Says:
@ Ms.kaylamomma
I am so serious. I be driving in apartment complexes in ATL looking for sppedbumps. I can’t wait till next month when I get a new car
~~~~~~~~~~
What kind of car are you looking for. I so hate speed bumps, when I need to borrow my daughters car. It sits so low, it’s bad enough I have to climb out of it, but a speed bump makes me feel like I am getting hit in the ass while driving.
I’m already ready to turn the got damn tv off. What the fvck is going with Theo?
Anna Says:
Daisy Says:
@Rene my gma is the same I am going home fri (NC)
@Anna and Mskay when Rickey called heaven this am I was at my desk HOLLERING trying to BREATHE!! MJ is my fav with his short answers and when Teddy P said he didnt have legs but wings I LOST IT!!!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That was A Hott Azzz Messs.
~~~
I was funny when they asked where Michael was and they said “climbing a tree”.
it*
@ Anna I have a 2000 Caviler
it’s my baby I had it since I was 17.
But I set up a place and I am taking donations for a new car. Text CAR to 56789
What in the “sparkling” Hell is on AI?
What da fvck does he need with an assistant?
Anybody watching AI besides me and renegade?
Ebony, Geeetttt outtttt——————> I just choked on my f’ing spaghetti.
You are not Wyclef Jean. You are sooooo stooopid!
You know what Sandra, I RARELY let anything you say get under my skin because we all know that 99% of the crap you spew is for shock value, but this right here, my migga this right here has really struck a nerve with me.
You want to sit on your PC from the comfort of your home and hate on this man who has unbelievable LOVE for his country??!! Are you fuggin serious??? FACT…Clef is on his way back to Haiti tomorrow, and I KNOW this because my ex (who is Haitian as well) is flying out with him and others from Yele.
You need to STFU and sitchoazz down on this one! For real!!
Riddle me this Joker…you are a registered nurse by profession…I’m sure you are WELL AWARE of the need for medical personnel in Haiti right now, so uhmm, WHEN ARE YOU BUYING YOUR TICKET TO GO HELP, since you have all the answers!??? You are a fuggin mess sometimes, pathetic.
@Ebony
I am watching Idol and doing homework. I have to comment on Rush and Pats comments regarding Haiti this will be easy
I am watching AI right now, trying to put my daughter to sleep.
Aw w w w @ the little boy wanting to go with his dad.
But he can sing.
He betta SANG with his big cute self
@ Anna I have a 2000 Caviler it’s my baby I had it since I was 17.
But I set up a place and I am taking donations for a new car. Text CAR to 56789
I got a new car to me Aug. 2008, It’s a 1998 and I thought I was doing something. My daughter has a ‘07′ SUV. I am happy for her but mommy doesn’t like care payments.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Everyone is taking donations.
I am watching Idol and doing homework. I have to comment on Rush and Pats comments regarding Haiti this will be easy
I’m sure you’ll have no problem writing that paper!
I was just saying today that I wanted a Chevy Avalanche. I have a Ford Focus now and it’s paid for and like you @ Anna I don’t want car payments either.
Where did Missy go???
@ Anna
Your daughter is blessed to have a mommy like you
My mom, dad, me, and my husband are all using their taxes to get me a new car. I am only 24, but my lovely family is helping me out so I wont have a car payment. I don’t care what I get. My cav has not radio and no automatic anything and thats all i want in my car.
@ms.Kayla
I like those Avalanches too…my fiance’s sister has one..only thing is she spends $100 to fill it up each week..they are gas guzzlers!
Why does Simon suck on his pen why he’s looking at the guy contestants sing on AI?
@msKayla
He needs about 3 more inches on his nose ti be Swiss Beats’ twin..lol
@ Ebony, because he smokes
@Mskay
He could sing though! Kara irkss me I like Paula betta!
Ms.kaylamomma Says:
I was just saying today that I wanted a Chevy Avalanche. I have a Ford Focus now and it’s paid for and like you @ Anna I don’t want car payments either.
That car may have 4 flat tires and a bad motor but it’s paid for and it’s suppose to last for 300,000 miles, I only have 108,000. She’s worth it, her body is still great, I just have to get her “inners” working again. 
~~~~~~~~~
I love the Chey Avalance, my daughter has the Eqonuax(I don’t know how to spell it). Hubby worked half a day today and took me to lunch. I told him I wanted to get my other car fixed. He said I should let it go to car heaven and as much as it’s going to cost to fix it I could have a brand new one.
Besides her forgetting the words, what was wrong with her “cher” mouth?
Shelby was aiiiggghtt.
@ Anna
I feel you. Me and my Cav have been through 8 accidents and a busted window since I got it in 2003. It’s going to be hard getting rid of the Cav
@ Anna, we rented a Chevy Equinox when we went to NC and I looovvved it. It rode so smooth. My fiance’ didn’t like it so much at first though. I’m guess because we had a car full of cheerleaders and their cheering but he got over it. I’m working on him getting me an Avalanche though, gas guzzling and all.
Ebony Says:
@ Anna
Your daughter is blessed to have a mommy like you
My mom, dad, me, and my husband are all using their taxes to get me a new car. I am only 24, but my lovely family is helping me out so I wont have a car payment. I don’t care what I get. My cav has not radio and no automatic anything and thats all i want in my car.
but it’s funny, she called me today to help her buy a work car. Am I the Bank of Anna?
~~~~~~~~~
I didn’t buy that child her car.
Anna Says:
Besides her forgetting the words, what was wrong with her “cher” mouth?
———————————————————
She was born that way, she says.
WTF did the YT boy do? Why is his jacket so tight?
Ebony Says:
@ Anna
I feel you. Me and my Cav have been through 8 accidents and a busted window since I got it in 2003. It’s going to be hard getting rid of the Cav
~~~~~
I am so glad that before the recession that all our cars were paid off. Gas was over 4 bucks a gal. 8 accidents, I thought that said “a” accident. WOW.
I saw the YT boys peen print?
@ Ebony, it does look extra smedium, right?
Omg, they let him through. What a waste!!
Ms.kaylamomma Says:
Anna Says:
Besides her forgetting the words, what was wrong with her “cher” mouth?
———————————————————
She was born that way, she says.
~~~~~~~~~
Thanx, I missed that, too busy reading comments and typing. They liked her, that’s all that matters.
@ Anna
I am so glad that before the recession that all our cars were paid off. Gas was over 4 bucks a gal. 8 accidents, I thought that said “a” accident. WOW
____________________________________________________
Yes 8 accidents. Thats why I am not looking for a new new car My limit is 10,000 I can’t drive. I get nervous
Ebony Says:
I saw the YT boys peen print?
~~~~~~~~
Is that good or bad. Never mind, I dont even want to know.
Wow I work at an elementary school and I was spirit day and I had on some jeans and split my pants before. I feel his pain
Not the split, boy, get cho azz up. Lorda mercy!!!
simon, twirls the pen because it’s a “oral fixaction’. He is a cig smoker and no, I don’t do that. What the hell in the S/Chardonae split is going on with the black dude doing the air split to the floor?
@ Anna
Is that good or bad. Never mind, I dont even want to know.
________________________________________________________
It was bad. It was congested up in there. He could be the 1st man with a yeast infection
Ebony Says:
@ Anna
I am so glad that before the recession that all our cars were paid off. Gas was over 4 bucks a gal. 8 accidents, I thought that said “a” accident. WOW
____________________________________________________
Yes 8 accidents. Thats why I am not looking for a new new car My limit is 10,000 I can’t drive. I get nervous
~~~~~~~~~
Ouch. I think the more nervous we are about things the more things happen. It was so icy here the other day I was being to cautious just walking to my car, I almost fell 4 times.
Ebony, SHHHHUUUUTTTT UUUUUPPPPP
Not the first man with a yeast infection….
Theres some hoes in this house
Ebony Says:
@ Anna
First man with a yeast infection. eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww.
Is that good or bad. Never mind, I dont even want to know.
________________________________________________________
It was bad. It was congested up in there. He could be the 1st man with a yeast infection
~~~~~~~~~
Yep, it was a build up of gas.
Nooooo @ Bernadette
Yessss @ sister 2 yellow shirt
Natlie from BCG can sing
Reengade, you still here?
How in the hell did I miss BK2ATL speak TRUTH TO POWER
These sisters are funny and cute
He looks Jeffreyy Dahmer-ish. Crazy azz.
@ms.Kayla…i’m here lurking..on the phone with my gma in Jamaica
He looks crazy 5..4..3…2..
Simon
I am glad he wasnt a brotha being walked off in handcuffs
@ms.Kayla
You were right about his crazy azz
@ Daisy, I saw her comment too and I
Even though we know Sandra is a different type of blogger and thinks she goes too far sometimes I just think if you know where you stand on certain issues then nobody (Sandra) can shake that. I feel sorry for the lost souls that DO take Sandra’s posts to heart and don’t have a mind of their own.
@ renegade, yes he was. It ain’t even that serious.
OK Bubba Sparks
I like this song, didn’t know who sung it. I heard it first on a commercial. This white boy bettaa sang.
I don’t miss Paula
Okay..I’m back! My gma was talking my ear off..I love her to death though!
@ Ms. Kay
“with all that booty chatter”
Bye Daisy
Welp, that AI was a little better than yesterday’s. See y’all tomorrow. Good night all.
the man was over there for 2 days helping his people1 none of anybody on here was there to help him! y’all are some sandra rose morons!
see how quick sandra rose answer starr back! somebody agrees with her bullsh-it she quick to answer! you BLACK ZOMBIES did not listen to one thing wyclef said! I see why they got a show called smarter than a 5 grader!
Did somebody ask about me? I scanned thru and didn’t see a darn thing about Gypsy!! What the hail is going on? Y’all trynna quit me?
what the hell ro? You come out with the most foolish things. I understand what you are saying but BLACK ZOMBIES. Did you come on here so that you can insult constantly? You obviously have issues with sandrarose.com but why are you here. Maybe you should get your own blog (funded by the reading rainbow) and get on your own soapbox. That is all.
PM CLIQUE FO’LIFE!!!
Hey Gypsyeyes, just logged back on real quick to tell you I didn’t forget about you. I tried to think of everyone that on the PM “clique”. Where were you today and during AI, anyway?
@gypsy
How could I have forgotten you?
PM clique gettin gangsta on a biach! lol
See you all tomorrow for the posts and tomorrow night for Jersey Shore. :night: again! For real this time.
Meant
and I hope you’re reading through the comments in the Celebs out & about posts. They had LBCali’s funeral in there today 
Dangit!!! We’ve been extra busy at work lately…
I see I missed MsKay
Hows everyobe else?
@Ro Please stop painting with such a broad paint brush and lumping everybody together. If you would have taken the time to read you would have seen that NOT everybody agreed with Sandra on this issue BUT the ones who did do NOT need to be called black zombies I am sure they processed the information just like you and I and came up with their own conclusion. We can agree to disagree w/o being disagreeable.
@h town *waves* hey girl I think everybody left for the night. I hope you had a good day!
@daisy
Im working and it is busy!!!!
I wanted to tell you im praying for gma. Im close to mine and I admire your strength.
I just came in from the viewing of the body from the other post. Poor LBCali. Hey H-townmama and Daisy. I have to finish my paper. C ya tomorrow.
@H town THANK YOU! I am trying to be strong as I can and stay positive and pray for acceptance for whatever Gods will shall be but its not easy. I just talked to my daddy he said my gma was talking more today but is still weak. I can’t wait to see her this weekend!
@gyps I am working on an Essay as well
That funeral was FUNNY as HAIL 
Ya’ll not lying….I was too through when everyone was mourning LB and it was really for Afrikka!!!!!
@daisy you right, I should have said the few BLACK ZOMBIES!
this site is more of a HATE site! sandra rose can get people to join her just like the KKK
Ro- why not just leave the site? you complain too much.
I don’t know why I watch Anderson Cooper (whom I love) every night cause I know its going to be sad and heartbreaking.
@Ro I dont know if I ever gave you an offical SRose welcome.
where are you from/married/single, kids.
@gyps be nice
Not trying to be mean but the comments are always negative and full of complaints. This is for entertainment and I’m not feeling entertained right now with all the byotching.
Maxwell was nice
ro Says:
this site is more of a HATE site! sandra rose can get people to join her just like the KKK
~~~~~~~~~~
This site may be called Sandrarose.com, but we or at least I am glad to be here. I don’t comment or leave a comment on everything she posts. The haters call us “Rosebuds”. it’s ok. We call ourselves, “Family”. We don’t always comment on each post in the room. We comment when someone in the room is pregnant, or in college or is job seeking. We don’t just talk about celebs with a pic that Sandra adds to the post. We talk about each other and what’s going on. It’s like a twitter/fb page. I don’t kiss anyones butt, not even Sandy’s. If your don’t like this site you can non join and allow someone to take your space. If I don’t like something I leave. It’s funny, hubby took me to lunch today and on the way back to my office I saw a woman with great luggage “rolling it down the side walk”. I said to hubby, “look at her with her nice luggage running away from her family”.
Daisy Says:
I don’t know why I watch Anderson Cooper (whom I love) every night cause I know its going to be sad and heartbreaking.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It’s because he is so compassionate and he is addicting. I too love him. Do you know who is mother is?
@Anna-Hey!!! Who is his mother? I do love him also. He is so my gay husband.
Off the topic…Jagged Edge is on Monique.
I heart them!!!
@ anna
His mother is Gloria Vanderbuilt I think.
I think IMO B2KATL was way outta line….Bottomline is this…I dont agree with EVERYTHING Sandra says, BUT I do leave a comment if I feel moved too! But to come on someone’s BLOG and disrespect them? BISH…. if you dont like it…disenroll yourself. I feel like your were looking for a co-signers on your comments. Feel betta now? I sure do!
Another thing….maybe that is WHY your his ex (yeah ok) your have a mouth on you. Maybe you need to pick up a copy of Steve Harvey’s new book…
@anna i myself only coment on when she call me a kool aid drinker for support my prez, and when she want calls somebody gay, when she’s gay she self! and how spreading false rumors like these white site on this wyclef thing when the IRS said he did nothing wrong! thats why i call this an HATE site! but it kills me to see people agrees and don’t do their homework like sandra rose do! and @ricanlbc if sandra rose is feeling you wrong and hateful info, you don’t want to know or do you want to stay MIS-INFO! because sandra rose is the scum of the earth!
@Ro, The problem with these celebrities is that the start believing their own hype. Just because you sell tons of records does not make you an expert in accounting, tax law and managing a non-profit corporation. Anyone can set-up (incorporate) a non-profit. Managing a 501-c in compliance with tax laws is another story. This is why you must assemble a professional team with the education and experience (not a group consisting of unskilled and uneducated friends and family members) to ensure your non-profit is reputable and compliant with state and federal laws, especially tax law.
No one is questioning Wyclef’s patriotism for Haiti, just his accounting practices. This would have been an opportune time for Yele Haiti to grow as an organization if Wyclef had his paperwork and non-profit in order.
I was one of the first ones on this board to say wherever Wyclef says to give I will give. In fact, on my little humble blog, I had link to his organization, not the Red Cross, for donation purposes. But after seeing the information about his questionable expenditures, I removed his organization links from my blog.
Instead of Wyclef being defensive and evasive with his answers, he should just get his ish in order so that we can donate to his organization.
Sidebar: Like Dr. Cornel West stated during his MLK Celebration speech, we (Black folks) are to protect the President Obama (now include Wyclef) from personal attacks; however we are to check their azzes when they need it. He didn’t use those exact words but you get the meaning. Negroes should know by now that we have to be twice as good and twice as clean as the white folks in order to be consider reputable. Selah.
Rhi Rhi’s performance was wack.
Maxwell, you better sing!!!
riri, just sitdown..
maxwell, keep singing…
wyclef..IDKKKKKK!!
I can’t sleep. I am in love with Maxwell for Fistful of Tears and Eric Bonet for Chocolate Legs.
I never paid much attention to these two Artists. But they have restored my hope for the music industry.
This is completely off topic but I just read that Steve Harvey will be hosting Family Feud. So now he’s a comedian, Love Guru, and game show host? I didn’t even know that Family Feud was still on anyway.
Riri got on National Television and sang like that! She did it for publicity and I hope she gets the publicity she deserves, nothing… That was terrible! she should stop trying to be so cute and by now she cant get any better with the singing so she should just stop! What was Wyclef doing before the earth quake?
@AM Wyclef was not defensive or evavise IMO on Oprah or when he made his first statements. I believe Oprah will help guide him and his non profit and didnt the IRS come back and say he did nothing wrong? He said he did NOT use any of the money for his personal gain and IF he did he was WRONG but IMO thats neither here or there at this point. He is doing God’s work for his ppl and I won’t knock him. Dr West was FAB but I doubt he would knock the work that Wyclef is doing w/ Yele.
I am glad I record Monique each night cause I
Jagged Edge
Why must somebody be looking for a co signer when they speak their .02? BK2ATL said what she had to say the way she wanted to say just like EVERYBODY else is FREE to do on this BLOG as long as their log in info works!
ricanlbc Says:
I think IMO B2KATL was way outta line….Bottomline is this…I dont agree with EVERYTHING Sandra says, BUT I do leave a comment if I feel moved too! But to come on someone’s BLOG and disrespect them? BISH…. if you dont like it…disenroll yourself. I feel like your were looking for a co-signers on your comments. Feel betta now? I sure do!
Another thing….maybe that is WHY your his ex (yeah ok) your have a mouth on you. Maybe you need to pick up a copy of Steve Harvey’s new book…
Are you fuggin serious??? You think for one minute I give a shyt about whether or not you think my comment was outta line??? BYTCH BOO BYE…I’m not gonna go there with you today. LMAO!! I am not gonna enter into a battle of wits with some one who is CLEARLY UNARMED…let that digest for a minute because I am SURE it went over your head.
I could care less who co-signs me on my comment…it was directed towards Sandra who can DEFEND HERSELF and doesn’t need some feeble-minded stan to do it for her. And if you think I’m gonna discuss my private life on here (your comment about my ex) then you are even more delusional then you appear. Unlike YOU, I don’t need a book written by a comedian to help me find a mate, but I hope it worked out for you.
I will continue to post my opinions here, as I have always done, if YOU don’t like it, then YOU can leave.
@Daisy…thank you. I really didn’t think it was serious enough for someone to actually say I was looking for “CO-SIGNERS”…I mean really??? Are we in high school???
My…what happened here
Good morning SR fam
oh oh…and the drama begins!!!!
@ LaTechGrad…Family fued? I didn’t know that was still on either. He’d better be careful, seems like everyone that has hosted the show has passed away.
yeah I too think that wyclef has gotten beside himself with all the demands, haiti has ALWAYS been a poor country, WE DONT HAVE TO HELP! but we are! be grateful, be patient and calm down! He said NO photo more photos, but to me the more people see whats going on the more their inclined to help, america and all of the world needs to seee exactly whats going on, like they say outta sight outta mind, so we need to keep them in sight! He said stop throwing food down to his people like they are animals…come on! they are getting the food thats most important, he sounds crazy! they were poor before the earth quake and we are there to help! let the peeople who are trained do what they do clef and sit ya azz down somewhere. In the beginning I was on his team but the more and more he opens up his mouth he turns me off! I feel for the people in haiti, and I definitely donated to yele, but man he acts like his country was a top notch nation! WHERE IS THEIR PRESIDENT? United States gave 100 million dollars along with other nations, haiti needs to be patient and grateful dammm im getting sick of all this **** now!!
@Ms.k, Thank you so much. Does anyone know where I can find good samples of cover letters? After 7 years of misery, I have to find a new career. I was so depressed and miserable just thinking about my job that I couldn’t even go to work yesterday
Good morning everyone!!!
Ooohhh snap!!!! Was there a fight in this bish this morning??
Lawd, Daisy-the thorn in my side- wants to litigate this morning. LOL
Some of us are only “knocking” the way he managed his non-profit. So he is getting “checked” on that, not his commitment or work to Haiti. Blank stare.
Lawd, Daisy-the thorn in my side- wants to litigate this morning. LOL
Some of us are only “knocking” the way he managed his non-profit. So he is getting “checked” on that, not his commitment or work to Haiti. Blank stare.
You’re welcome @ Latech. I usually google “cover letters” and Microsoft has good examples of cover letters as well.
i wanna think Wyclef’s heart and intentions are in the right place but i just don’t know. he just seems a bit shady to me. i came in on the end of his interview with Oprah. i’m sooo mad i missed Maxwell.
@AM BLANK STARE right back at cha!
I see some ppl only hear what they want to hear Wyclef said the PEOPLE of Haiti said no more photo ops. SMH at folks who have all these words for Wyclef and what he is trying to do to help HIS PEOPLE and yes Haiti has been poor he has said the same thing that isnt breaking news and he has been HELPING BEFORE the earthquake. I tell you even when you help ppl have something to say about that.
GON BRUSH YA SHOULDERS OFF Wyclef and keep doing GODS work for your people. You have been a voice for Haiti for YEARS and I dont see that changing no matter what folks say! You can help your ppl and get your business affairs in order at the same time.
@Nikki Barbarie, you better preach. Wyclef should just shut his mouth and get his ish together. Let his work speak for him.
@AM as you can see by some of the comments some ppl are questioning his commitment as well
His work has been speaking for itself. People looked to him when they heard about this earthquake cause he has ALWAYS BEEN A VOICE FOR Haiti! YT folks push their causes and issues ALL the time and its not a problem NOR should it be so why is it a problem when Clef does it?
@Daisy, there is a right and wrong way to help somebody. God is a God of order. Blank stare right back at cha. LOL
you better preach. Wyclef should just shut his mouth and get his ish together. Let his work speak for him.
**************
Thats all i’m really saying.
that said
Please
-Townmama Says:
@ anna
at “he is so my gay husband”. I wonder if NeNe knows he’s gay?
His mother is Gloria Vanderbuilt I think.
~~~~~
Yep.
@gyspyeyes
Dang yall give that man a break! I think his heart is sincere and for some reason I believe him. He has always done alot for Haiti and those tears seem real to me. No matter who gets the credit I just hope those people get help as soon as possible.
Rhianna sounds terrible how I know is because my ears are bleeding! back to my regular schedule
He’s only one person, and can’t do it all. I respect his hustle to help get things done, though. I mean, he’s there a lot and he knows what the people need.
I really appreciate how he spoke up on the food being dropped and Hatian’s not being animals. I’m glad he said what a lot of people are thinking.
@AM and didnt I say Oprah would help him get his business in order and I also said he can WORK ON BOTH getting his ducks in a row and HELPING his ppl!! You can do BOTh at the same time and you and others IMO are FOCUSING more on the NEGATIVE and nit picking vs the WORK he is doing! Worry about what you are doing to help how bout that
I know @BK2ATL didnt need a cosigner but lady you got one.
Yeah this is Sandras blog, but she is not above getting a tall glass of shutthefluckup when deserved.
For ppl to sit and try to compare Anderson Coopers tragedy of the week trip to Haiti to how much time Wyclef has actually spent in Haiti is beyond ignorant. WHEN THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS MOVED THE FLUCK ON WYCLEF WILL STILL BE THE ONLY CELEB GIVING A SHYT ABOUT HAITI just like before the earthquake. Some of you just found out where the hell Haiti is on the freakin map and want to talk shyt…….
My 2 cents, if i may: I don’t know what Wyclef is doing with his charity, but I do know that since he and the Fugees have come out; he has always spoken on Haiti. He holds his flag high all the time. I think some people should google Wyclef’s work in Haiti BEFORE the earthquakes. He has always gone back home and done charitable work. He and Matt Damon were there some years ago doing work. Please, let us not say that he is doing this for press, because he has ALWAYS done for his country. There are many pics if him and The Fugees performing there to raise money. I don’t care what anyone says…This man LOVES his country and his people. I have known that since the day the Fugees first hit my T.V. screen.
Yeh,Yeah,Ye! “he loves his country”….so does everyone else.
Wyclef loved Lauren Hill & Claudette Ortiz too!
If he was so in Love with Haiti, his chartered plane wouldn’t have any problems flying in the zones of people in need. It’s not like they have many ordinances or flight codes for small-engine jets.
And if his organization is so staffed, why have we not seen any of those “Yele” people rocking boxes of food to people in need? Let me guess, he’s saving the money to help in the re-build process?
Also, Rihannasaurus accent seems to change for different cameras too.
I absolutely LOVE Anderson Cooper!
Audacious2 Says:
Also, Rihannasaurus accent seems to change for different cameras too.
~~~~~~~~
That is one thing she has always been consistant with.
but if the IRS said he did nothing wrong, why the attack still! attorneymom said it was bad accounting, y’all is on here saying that he should stop defend ing himself and do more, y’all is saying why is he here! he been doing for haiti long before this happen! last year they had floods. him and matt damon foundation riase money and was over there handing out food! most of y’all wasn’t even thinking about haiti or their poor until this happens! but yet y’all with to come on here giggling and laughing with an HATEFUL people like sandra rose and make us look dumber than a 5th grader! this man is crying for his country, and the lies that was set upon him, but y’all sit and eat and live lose no love ones like this man did, but giggling and agreeing that he is shedding fake tears! and I’m not saying all of you! but you know who you BLACK ZOMBIES are!
Just because a person does charity work constantly doesnt mean they cant or would not skim from the top. Many charities are frauds and a set up for illegal activity… people thought Bernie was a trustworthy man who gave to charities.
The Times (London)
January 21, 2010 Thursday
Edition 1;
National Edition
The fault line in Haiti runs straight to France;
The earthquake’s destruction has been aggravated not by a pact with the Devil, but by the crippling legacy of imperialism
BYLINE: Ben Macintyre
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 30
LENGTH: 1017 words
Where does the fault lie in Haiti? For geologists, it lies on the line between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates. For some, the earthquake is evidence of God’s wrath: the American evangelist Pat Robertson has even suggested that the horror is recompense for some voodoo pact made with the Devil at Haiti’s birth.
More sensible voices point to the procession of despots who have plundered Haiti over the years, depriving it of an effective infrastructure and rendering it uniquely vulnerable to natural disaster. But for many Haitians, the fault lies earlier - with Haiti’s colonial experience, the slavers and extortionists of empire who crippled it with debt and permanently stunted the economy. The fault line runs back 200 years, directly to France.
In the 18th century, Haiti was France’s imperial jewel, the Pearl of the Caribbean, the largest sugar exporter in the world. Even by colonial standards, the treatment of slaves working the Haitian plantations was truly vile. They died so fast that, at times, France was importing 50,000 slaves a year to keep up the numbers and the profits.
Inspired by the principles of the French Revolution, in 1791 the slaves rebelled under the leadership of the self-educated slave Toussaint L’Ouverture. After a vicious war, Napoleon’s forces were defeated. Haiti declared independence in 1804.
As Haiti struggles with new misfortune, it is worth remembering that noble achievement - this is the only nation to gain independence by a slave-led rebellion, the first black republic, and the second oldest republic in the western hemisphere. Haiti was founded on a demand for liberty from people whose liberty had been stolen: the country itself is a tribute to human resilience and freedom.
France did not forgive the impertinence and loss of earnings: 800 destroyed sugar plantations, 3,000 lost coffee estates. A brutal trade blockade was imposed. Former plantation owners demanded that Haiti be invaded, its population enslaved once more. Instead, the French State opted to bleed the new black republic white.
In 1825, in return for recognising Haitian independence, France demanded indemnity on a staggering scale: 150 million gold francs, five times the country’s annual export revenue. The Royal Ordinance was backed up by 12 French warships with 150 cannon.
The terms were non-negotiable. The fledgeling nation acceded, since it had little choice. Haiti must pay for its freedom, and pay it did, through the nose, for the next 122 years.
Historical accountancy is an inexact business, but the scale of French usury was astonishing. Even when the total indemnity was reduced to 90 million francs, Haiti remained crippled by debt. The country took out loans from US, German and French banks at extortionate rates. To put the cost into perspective, in 1803 France agreed to sell the Louisiana Territory, an area 74 times the size of Haiti, to the US, for 60 million francs.
Weighed down by this financial burden, Haiti was born almost bankrupt. In 1900 some 80 per cent of the national budget was still being swallowed up by debt repayments. Money that might have been spent on building a stable economy went to foreign bankers. To keep workers on the land and extract maximum crop yields to pay the indemnity, Haiti brought in the Rural Code, instituting a division between town and country, between a light-skinned elite and the dark-skinned majority, that still persists.
The debt was not finally paid off until 1947. By then, Haiti’s economy was hopelessly distorted, its land deforested, mired in poverty, politically and economically unstable, prey equally to the caprice of nature and the depredations of autocrats. Seven year ago, the Haitian Government demanded restitution from Paris to the tune of nearly $22 billion (including interest) for the gunboat diplomacy that had helped to make it the poorest country in the western hemisphere.
In the wake of last week’s earthquake, the effect of which has been so brutally magnified by Haiti’s economic fragility, there have been renewed calls for France to honour its moral debt. There is no chance that it will do so. The view from the Élysée is that the case was closed in 1885. In 2004 Jacques Chirac set up a Commission of Reflection under the left-wing philosopher Régis Debray to examine France’s historical relations with Haiti: it concluded blandly that the demand for restitution was “non-pertinent in both legal and historical terms”.
As Haiti faces social breakdown, government paralysis and death on a shattering scale, the French finance minister has called for a speeding up of the cancellation of Haiti’s debt. This is grim irony: if France had not saddled the country with debt almost from its inception, Haiti would have been far better equipped to cope with nature’s spite.
Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, is calling for a “reconstruction and development” conference. “It is a chance to get Haiti once and for all out of the curse it seems to have been stuck with for such a long time,” President Sarkozy said.
This seems uncomfortably close to Mr Robertson’s insulting suggestion that Haitian slaves made a “pact with the Devil” to free themselves from Napoleon’s grip. The original curse was economic, not religious, and laid on Haiti by imperial France.
Haiti does not need more words, conferences or commissions of reflection. It needs money, urgently. So far, official donations from France are less than half of those from Britain.
The legacy of colonialism worldwide is a bitter one, but in few countries is there a more direct link between the sins of the past and the horrors of the present. Merely a French acknowledgement that the unfolding catastrophe is partly the consequence of history, and not merely blind fate, would go some way to salving Haiti’s wounds.
France does not pay for its history.
But imagine what the reaction might be if, the next time you receive an outrageous bill in a French restaurant, you declare that payment is non-pertinent, set up a commission of reflection and walk out.
Haiti paid for its freedom, through the nose, for 122 years
@PAHairston, thank you for this information.
AttorneyMom, you are certainly welcome. We have so much to be thankful for here in America. Let us count our blessings while we can. Peace.
@bk2atl…Sorry I wont be leaving BISH so get over it…basically you decided to NAME drop…You really think people on here care that your so called EX (supposedly) is flying out with that liar Wycelf? Childish is how you responded and until my login is disabled…Im gonna keep responding. Your simple and stupid…Case Closed. So until the next debate…woman up..I wonder if you have that surprised dumb look on your face now like in your avatar…peace!