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Erykah Badu is pregnant with child #3 with a different father...What da Hell?? Here is a link to an article about her pregnancy AND her response to those who are criticizing her.
Erykah responds to her critics Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research." --Malcolm X |
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Erykah Badu. Sounds angry & embrassed to me for making the decision of getting pregeant for the third time by baby daddy #3 and being critized for it.
Her response? Typical of someone who got called out and lashes out at her critics for her decision and/or mistake (if that's what it was). Since she is a paid & famous artist (she can afford baby care) she feels that a drawn out poetical intrepreation of a "kiss my ass & f*^k you" rant will cause people to pause and leave sister girl alone. Badu's a rebel; she could care less about what people think. Erykah, come on, either you don't believe in protected sex (for yourself or your man) and if you do, you slipped again or your buyin' your man's game and they continually lock you up. QUOTE: the fathers of my children are my brothers and friends . we have a great deal of respect for one another and always will. WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN TO NO END. we took our own “vows” and CONTINUE TO UPHOLD THEM. AND THAT IS WHAT THAT IS . REALLY? I wonder how many more children with other women these brothers and friends have? Erykah, you sound like one of those girls who wanted a boy's baby because he was cute & bowlegged. For Erykah, many more children on the horizon with those "brothers and friends" that she encounters and "takes her vows with" and has a spiritual connection with. How many babies? Only she knows that number (maybe it was 3, maybe more). How many baby daddies? Who knows. She definitely not into the marriage thing. Less drama. Also brothers, you're not gettin' half! QUOTE: I LOVE CHILDREN AND I WILL HAVE AS MANY AS GOD WILL GIVE ME . I AM VERY HEALTHY AND RESPONSIBLE AND SO ARE ALL OF MY PARTNERS I CHOSE THEM WISELY AND SOBERLY . ALL GOOD BROTHERS . Attention to all Brothers and friends: you may want to dust off/update your resume and line for the job fair: The Erykah Badu "extended potential connection" interview. She's hiring. Relocation, totally unnecessary. Cell phone or Blackberry, mandatory. Meals provided.
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 Erykah is NOT the FIRST woman to have children out of wedlock, nor is SHE the first woman to have multiple children. These children are coming out of her body, and she is PAYING for all of them. She is NOT asking for HELP, or public assistance...if she was...WHOSE BUSINESS IS IT?  I don't understand why folks have the need to be "coochie" police. From the real important issues we have in our community, I think it's wonderful that she is building a family. No one is saying anything about Angelina and Brad's basketball team of children....3 adopted and 3 natural So. Why is it when a BLACK woman does something that SHE WANTS to do.....there's haters from the peanut gallery? Especially those who will turn their nose up if she REALLY needed help in a real way.....but when she's living her life....doing her THANG...folks have the NERVE to minimize her decision about HER LIFE! white girl melanie griffith has three children by three different daddies....and even puff daddy has 6 or more children with at least 3 different women....so I don't understand the point of why Erykah decision to be a mother again is disturbing. My question. If you can afford it and LOVE children...what does it MATTER to anyone else how many CHILDREN to come out of YOUR body?...especially if they [critics] DON'T have to PAY for 'em...or have to RAISE 'EM. I'm just saying..... So. Erykah go on with your bad self. More power to ya my sista...have a couple of mo' while you're at it. I know whatever you do as a parent, you are going to bring up some dynamic proud individuals who will be a huge benefit to the black community and will definitely place their MARK, in some outstanding way, in this world...I can just feel it  |
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Exactly. No one is saying anything negative about Angelina and Brad and they'll continue following Angelina and Brad like they're the new Adam and Eve because they are two extremely high profile entertainers that can have anything and anybody they want but they choose to stay together and collect babies. However, with Erykah, she keeps trippin' up on dudes and you have to be down with some underground blogger or journalist to find out who the fuck the baby daddy is. We got enough of that baby mama bullshit from Lauren Hill and Nia Long with they stupid asses. We like hearing about black couples that know how to keep their noses clean like Denzel and his woman, Lawrence Fishburne and his wife, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, and Angela Bassett with her ugly ass dude. 
I'd rather be hated for what I am than loved for what I'm not. - Chuck D. |
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Umm... aren't Brad and Angelina married? Your Analogies 101 teacher would be disappointed. Having said that, though, I don't think anybody really needs to criticize Erykah. My thing is, she's obviously on another cultural plane from most people, and what she's doing in building her Baby Pop Squad seems to be pursuant to her own particular thing. It doesn't seem like the result of any inherent irresponsibility on her part, or any particular misguidedness. She's working within her own parameters, and in those parameters what she's doing is not dysfunctional. On the other hand, the average woman, operating within and being subject to the larger society's parameters, is being highly dysfunctional and screwed up if she has that many kids by that many dudes. So as long as Erykah and/or the fathers are financially able to provide, the kids are doing well, (although with names like Puma, I'm not saying anything!), and there's not a lot of dysfunction in the way they're being raised, each of these factors provide barriers between her situation and other people's business. It doesn't look like there's any reason for people to judge in this case. ____________________________________________________ |
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@Vox....is Puff Daddy married? oooo ooooo I know!...when folks have their children....they can be judge and jury inside their household...how about that? And you're right Vox...there isn't dysfunction within her parameters....so. Why is the peanut gallery soooo judgmental to HER anyway? Is this a black thang? I don't get it. Doomed either way. If you're decent person or not! But I'm glad she doesn't care what folks think...sounds like a strong sista to me. Not like Britney...who was married....but! It didn't make her a BETTER parent...did it? BTW: I don't think my analogies of 101 teacher is a bit disappointed...on the contary what you're experiencing is a flash of pride RIGHT NOW cuz I am ONE who thinks outside the box in regards to parenthood....and why hate on the average woman anyway? If she does or doesn't know her baby daddy....are you gonna help her with rent or child support? |
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Who cares???
Peace, AudioGuy ************************************************* "I am African, not because I was born in Africa; but because Africa was born in me" -Anonymous "The cost of Liberty is less than the cost of repression." -W.E.B. DuBois, John Brown 1909 "... can you imagine Doobie in yo' funk??!!" -G. Clinton Sense is far from COMMON! ... The tragic irony here is that a lot of African Americans may not fully recognize the implications of this decision for years to come. Stop by any barbershop, barbeque or church basement in Black America and you will hear – with distressing frequency – that old canard that "integration" ruined the Black community. William Jelani Cobb ************************************************* |
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are NOT married.
For some reason, i thought of Erykah as the feminist, god is a woman, a woman's body is a sacred temple type. This possibility messes with that image in my head. I admit, it might be unfair to her though. I hope Obama doesn't get wind of this! That's a whole new lecture! Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...MLK "Now is the time to make real the promises of DEMOCRACY"...MLK ....A Rabbit Feminist Agenda! We must reject bootcamp justice for our young brother MartinLeeAnderson who was brutally killed and we must reject a two tiered justice system for all our young brothers!....anonymous protester |
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Really?? I thought they were. Oh well. Maybe Koco's Analogy teacher will change her grade from a D to a C+.
I think the "Divine Feminine" idea is a reason why she WOULD have so many baby's fathers. That would be consistent with what I've read about Astarte worship before the Abrahamic era. Under that mindset, there's nothing sinful, dirty, or wrong about a woman having babies by multiple men. ____________________________________________________ |
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lol! Peace, Khalliqa "The Goddess emerges as the evanescence of the inferior dissipates.... " |
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@Vox  Ms. Koco NEVER accept Ds. Only As and Bs....thankyou very much BTW: Brad and Angelina ARE married. And why should any one care? Don't know. Just bored....I guess. |
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Let's not FORGET...the body as a temple bringforth what? LIFE! i.e. children. Married or not. It's the natural order of things. |
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Well, being in D-town, where she resides, and unfortunately surrounded by her and her 'crew' at many events. I and my more militant and authentically cultural friends call them the 'incense people'(Don't get fooled by those playing 'dress up' folks...lol), sharing a few mutual friends, and many associates ect... I would have to say her and her mentor Isis*, who has a million kids and baby daddies) need to Slow Down.
*Did I say mentor? I meant inspiration... Erykah bit her whole style... But you didn't here it from me... I'm so bad...  Egungun, Egungun ni t'aiye ati jo! Ancestos, Ancestors come to earth and dance! "I'm sick of the war and the civilization that created it. Let's look to our dreams, and the magical; to the creations of the so-called primitive peoples for new inspirations." - Jaques Vache and Andre Breton "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." -John Maynard "You know that in our country there were even matriarchal societies where women were the most important element. On the Bijagos islands they had queens. They were not queens because they were the daughters of kings. They had queens succeeding queens. The religious leaders were women too..." -- Amilcar Cabral, Return to the Source, 1973    |
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when did they get married? I must have missed that. I know the children have the Jolie-Pitt name, but i never saw any reports that they had gotten married... i guess i wasn't watching the tabloids closely enough. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...MLK "Now is the time to make real the promises of DEMOCRACY"...MLK ....A Rabbit Feminist Agenda! We must reject bootcamp justice for our young brother MartinLeeAnderson who was brutally killed and we must reject a two tiered justice system for all our young brothers!....anonymous protester |
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just like that? with no "personal responsibility" lecture or nothing  Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...MLK "Now is the time to make real the promises of DEMOCRACY"...MLK ....A Rabbit Feminist Agenda! We must reject bootcamp justice for our young brother MartinLeeAnderson who was brutally killed and we must reject a two tiered justice system for all our young brothers!....anonymous protester |
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LOL Are you talking about Isis the rapper?? This Isis??? "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. " Malcolm X |
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Oh no! Not the X-klan Isis, she was way to militant(back then, things have changed for her) to be her mentor... It's this local lady who does hair(and sings and does poetry), Eriykah still get's her hair done by her, and breaks her off way more than she owes her every time... out of guilt. I need to stop!  Egungun, Egungun ni t'aiye ati jo! Ancestos, Ancestors come to earth and dance! "I'm sick of the war and the civilization that created it. Let's look to our dreams, and the magical; to the creations of the so-called primitive peoples for new inspirations." - Jaques Vache and Andre Breton "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." -John Maynard "You know that in our country there were even matriarchal societies where women were the most important element. On the Bijagos islands they had queens. They were not queens because they were the daughters of kings. They had queens succeeding queens. The religious leaders were women too..." -- Amilcar Cabral, Return to the Source, 1973 |
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Not according to Wikipedia... Ahhhh... those were the days... When hip hop was conscious... To quote Stevie Wonder: "I wish those days... would... come back once more..." Peace, AudioGuy ************************************************* "I am African, not because I was born in Africa; but because Africa was born in me" -Anonymous "The cost of Liberty is less than the cost of repression." -W.E.B. DuBois, John Brown 1909 "... can you imagine Doobie in yo' funk??!!" -G. Clinton Sense is far from COMMON! ... The tragic irony here is that a lot of African Americans may not fully recognize the implications of this decision for years to come. Stop by any barbershop, barbeque or church basement in Black America and you will hear – with distressing frequency – that old canard that "integration" ruined the Black community. William Jelani Cobb ************************************************* |
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Man, I miss the X-Clan  ____________________________________________________ Got no love for politicians Or that crazy scene in D.C. It's just a power mad town But the time is ripe for changes There's a growing feeling That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due I used to trust the media To tell me the truth, tell us the truth But now I've seen the payoffs Everywhere I look Who do you trust when everyone's a crook? Revolution calling Revolution calling Revolution calling you (There's a) Revolution calling Revolution calling Gotta make a change Gotta push, gotta push it on through catch |
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Erykah strikes back.
After being criticized for being unmarried and possibly being pregnant, Erykah Badu took to the OkayPlayer forums to set some anonymous commenters straight. "I've never been so disgusted in all of my life. There is no other place I used to enjoy more. I post nowhere else. You guys have taken an all time low, tho." As with so many Internet battles, even her supporters are divided over whether she should have taken on the criticism or not. Some wish she wouldn't have bothered letting it get to her. Others say her well-crafted response was the right move. In either case, Badu boldly says she doesn't care if she loses fans over her personal decisions or her decision to speak out. "WHO NEEDS YOU... CERTAINLY NOT ME... KICK ROCKS ... CALL TYRONE ..." she writes. And her sign off is even better: "If this post is not clear, kiss my placenta."  *********************************** “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” -- James Baldwin |
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