Talk show Diva Wendy Williams came under fire from fans of “The Kang” T.I. after he appeared on her show Thursday with his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris to promote their new reality TV show, T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle.
During the interview, Wendy grilled T.I. on the touchy subjects of his past arrest on drug charges and his incarceration for violating his probation. A tense T.I. repeatedly interrupted Wendy’s line of questioning, telling her “Life has moved on.” (Watch the video here)
After the show, Wendy uploaded a video to her blog and facebook page giving her unique perspective on the tense verbal exchange between herself and T.I.
“What part of ‘you are an ex-con’ doesn’t he understand?,” she said. “I get middle America, he’s trying to change his image. He shoulda thought about that before they arrested them…for real. I like T.I. I like his wife, Tiny. But you can’t have it both ways, sir. You go on ‘The View’ and other shows and give it up but what is it? I’m too familiar with you so that you don’t want to give it up here?”
But the nervous tension flying between T.I. and Wendy on the set wasn’t the only topic of conservation on social networks and the blogs on Thursday.
Sisters in particular bristled when a self-confident T.I. gently told his wife to “pause” as she was about to answer one of Wendy’s probing questions.
T.I. hushed his wife because the question involved rapper 50 Cent — a man — and T.I. thought that he — a man — was better qualified to handle it. No real man would sit quietly while his wife spoke on another man’s drama.
It was one of those television moments that lent itself to ridicule and scorn from females on Twitter.com who long ago lost respect for Black men.
But history has shown that strong, submissive women like Tiny, who play their roles, stay in their lanes and allow their men to be men have more successful marriages.
Tiny has T.I. — and everything she wants — because she was raised by Diane Pope, a good woman who taught her daughter by example how to respect her man.
It doesn’t negate or diminish our value as women to respect our men. Only hood rats and woman who lack self-respect have that type of mentality. And that explains way they are depressed and lonely with 10-15 fatherless kids running around the house.
If you say there are very few real men out there who deserve your respect, you should blame yourselves for that because you raised them.
T.I. and Tiny will host a private screening tonight in Atlanta for their reality show, which premieres tonight at 9PM ET on VH1, and again at 11PM ET.
