Why are we all so quick to stop looking in the mirror at our own troubled lives…bad credit, lack of education or job skills, poor choices with the opposite sex, trying to live like Diddy when our homes are getting foreclosed, gossiping, jealous ranting or hating, or even not communicating with loved ones…its soooooo much easier to be obsessed with Tiger and Elin than dealing with our own troubled relationships…why get counseling for your daddy/mama/brother sister/relationship issues when we can hunt down a distraught woman and her 2 young children like animals??!! Why worry about how to pay for healthcare when we can laugh and joke about Lindsey Lohan.
I can’t take Gabrielle Union seriously in this op-ed on Global Grind that I spotted at Necole Bitchie. I think it’s funny how the blogs and the media are responsible for Tiger having multiples affairs on his wife. In fact, it was the media that turned a blind eye why that man, received endorsement after endorsement for being a stand-up public figure, when in reality they knew he was a habitual adulterer. Why should people spend their hard earn money buying into a dream sold by the image of Tiger Woods, when in reality he’s not taking his responsibility seriously. I’m glad I know that Tiger Woods is a dog, that way instead of spending my mortgage buying Nike product, I can spend it buying Adidas.
I tell you why people are so concerned, because they buy into the trash that people like Gabrielle Union sell them. They believe you when you tell them this movie you’re in is the best movie you’ve done so far. They believe the lies you employ when you want to market something down their throats, so that you can make money off of their hopes. So when you’re concerned about foreclosure when people are gossiping, how about a refund when your movie isn’t the best you’ve done. Every celebrity likes the benefits of the system, free gifts bags, big pay checks, and endorsements, but they don’t want to deal with the negative. Speaking of health care, why haven’t I seen many of you on the forefront of getting this thing passed. Every body and their grandmother was there when Barack Obama was the popular thing to do, but now so many celebrities are sitting on their hand doing nothing. But when they have a new movie out, they are on every TV program and blog promoting their agenda.
Lindsay Lohan needs someone to be concerned because the people she surrounded herself with only enabled her behavior. It was the media that said something is wrong, Lohan family help your child.
Guess what, everyday people get talked about, and they learn to deal with it. They don’t have the money or the power given to celebrities, but they don’t feel entitled, either. Those rumors celebs hate so much keeps the checks coming, it keeps the promotion going. But in real life, it just hurts, and there are no rewards. So I’m definitely not sorry about Tiger Woods, if anything I’m sorry for Elin, but thanks to the media, she has a better since of the truth than she did when Tiger Woods was telling her nothing but lies.
In closing, celebs are blessed to have a mirror that tells them when they are doing wrong, and when they are going in the wrong direction. They also have the resources to change and to seek help. So when a person on a blog tell you your ankles are ashen, next time make sure you wear some extra lotion. If a person on a blog says your movie wasn’t the greatest, next time seek a better role. The world is a mirror, and we all mess up, and we all suffer consequences. Your consequences may be a tabloid article, but for some of us it may be a lot worst.
Gabrielle Union is right! Perhaps none of us need to be concerned with celebrities at all, so perhaps we should stop spending our hard earn money buying the stupid products they endorse. Perhaps we should stop buying the music, watching the films, and going to the games. We should stop having opinions. Then we’ll see who does it because it’s their passion and talent, versus those who do it for the money and fame. The great thing about a mirror is that you have to really look in it before you can see what’s reflected back.
snglncty72
Comment made on 12/18/2009 @ 11:50 AM
Please post this to the comment section of Global Grind so she has a chance of reading this!! This is the most articulate summation I have seen yet!!!
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Yours Truely
Comment made on 12/18/2009 @ 11:52 AM
YES! Mrs.Grapevine I LUV LUV LUV this post, you betta tell em!!!!
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babyknick04
Comment made on 12/18/2009 @ 12:20 PM
What she really is saying is don’t judge me for all the wrong I’m doing.
Yes, I’m a hoe & the man I’m fooling right now,is bascially just like Tiger,maybe even worse!
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MrsGrapevine
Comment made on 12/18/2009 @ 12:45 PM
@ babyknick04
See I was really trying to be nice, but that’s what people are really saying. LOL!
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Brandy
Comment made on 12/18/2009 @ 3:27 PM
YES YES YES!!!Love it!!!i wish i could re-post this everywhere!!!genius!
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Princess V
Comment made on 12/18/2009 @ 9:36 PM
I understand what she was saying, but it didn’t sound sincere. She sounded bittern but she was suppose to be concerned about Chris Henry.
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Tell Em
Comment made on 12/18/2009 @ 9:39 PM
Four words,
Practice what you preach!
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44
Comment made on 12/19/2009 @ 6:26 PM
Excellent piece.
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BlackStar69
Comment made on 12/19/2009 @ 10:53 PM
Isn’t she a home wrecker?
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Melanee
Comment made on 12/20/2009 @ 3:42 PM
OMG, what ding-dong said they would rather spend their mortgage on adidas than Nike, because they know Tiger is a dog, please baby get your weight up and take care of them kids at home that would rather you pay that mortgage, lol. Stop obsessing over celebs they are human just like us regardless they have a couple of million or whatever. Do you….. baby, we need to stop trying to wreck shop an everyone and be more uplifting, sure the stories are funny, but to go so far as call Tiger a dog. Lesson learned, Do you honestly think his wife did not know, as a matter of fact one report said she knew something was going on, she just did not know to what capacity, so……..she knew. Her fault know she is embarrassed…….Smh, not embarrassed about what he did, but for it getting out and know all of the judgemental eyes are on her to see what will be her next move, give up her millions and family life for the public approval, or deal with it like she’s been doing,……(smh), I think she knew what he was when she got into it.
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MrsGrapevine
Comment made on 12/20/2009 @ 4:25 PM
@Melane:
A man that has multiples affairs is not a dog? Maybe you thought I meant a four legged animal, but I meant an habitual cheater.
It’s not funny, and it doesn’t matter how much money Tiger has, he’s still wrong and he admitted it.I don’t know why he cheated, but no matter the reasons it doesn’t make him less wrong. I’ll call my uncle a dirty dog if he cheats on his wife.
Did you say it’s her fault he cheated on her because she knew something was going on? Wow.
I’m not obsessed over celebs, many of them I don’t like as a person. This is a job and as much as we talk about them, we support them and market their music, albums, clothing lines because main stream media had neglected black celebs.
The more blogs talk, the more publicity, and in most cases the more money, for everyone.
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MrsGrapevine
Comment made on 12/20/2009 @ 4:33 PM
@Melanee:
Life is about uplifting, as well as consequences. My mom and family didn’t uplift me when I did wrong, they shamed me and asked me to be better, and to do better. Tiger Woods is not getting a free pass because he’s rich, he will be talked about just like the rest of us.
I understand your point, but people need to try harder.We all will fall, but sometimes celebs take advantage of their opportunities. Tiger will rebound and he will be rich again. But for now, everything has a consequence.
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Famugirl
Comment made on 12/21/2009 @ 7:12 AM
Thank you,Mrs. Grapevine. We didn’t know but it was inevitable that Tiger would finally reap what he sowed. I’m not happy but it is good that Tiger can learn a lesson in this time that you cannot do stuff like that to your wife. He was so busy talking to those hussies when he should’ve been talking to her. You know its bad when even the nerds/geeks are acting up,darn shame! I don’t know why people think it is okay to do all this crazy stuff that society or even the media says is cool. It is stupid for a married man to say yeah “my girlfriend dah,dah,dah”.If you’re married you treat your wife/husband with honor& respect and all that good stuff. And for Gabrielle to lower herself into that frame of mind where it’s cool to deal with a married man and parade around with him in/out of the limelight. It’s like go sit down somewhere and wait for a man that is correct to approach you, its like a desperate move on her part. Say no player, finish your business and i’ll holla at you later. If you accept his advances under his current status,the foundation of whatever you guys have is B.S. People always say that I’m happy and all this ish, deep down you know you not happy dealing with a married man,he’s using you of course and you better not trip if you see him dealing at another heifa bc he is,believe. The same way you got him is the same way you’ll lose him. You cannot get anything good out of that situation. We can’t look up to the celebrities for nothing(shoot they tell us that all the time anyway),they can’t guide us to anything that is right in these times. Look at Alicia Keys….The only thing we can do is learn from their mistakes if we don’t make them ourselves.
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Vinesha
Comment made on 12/25/2009 @ 8:58 AM
hey I wish I had that hoe Gabriel number. I tell her make it not our bussiness give up that lady’s husband and the money and fame. Hey hoe that comes with fame and we buy in to. Don’t tell people who spend money to make you money so you don’t worry about bills to worry about them hoe! Look bottom line while you out screwing people men people are out worrying about the depression (what I call it) you worry about having some morals and then people will stop judging. But don’t worry another one of my dollars will never make you rich so hang on to that lady’s man.
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mozee
Comment made on 12/28/2009 @ 11:12 AM
you’re the BEST!!!
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