WAOD Wagging Finger of Shame Award: Monica Conyers... Out of the Mouths of Babes

"You're not my daddy!You do that at home, not here. Give me some respect 'cause I'm tired of that. You may not do that at home, but you gon do it up in here."Grow up! Control your house and you'll know how to treat women better."
Detroit Councilwoman, Monica Conyers, wife of John Conyers speaking to the Detroit City Council President in the middle of a very public meeting

"We're children, you're an adult"
Elementary School Student to Monica Conyers-Detroit City Councilwoman & John's Wife

Lord take me now! If it wasn't for the City of Detroit, I don't know what I would do. I LOVE YOU DETROIT!!!! If you are ever feeling blue, down in the dumps or sad, just think. It could be worse. You could be a resident of the city of Detroit (my condolences if you are). Your Mayor is under indictment. You paid millions of tax dollars to hide his affair and keep him supplied with Escalades and a paramilitary police escort. He threw out the N-word repeatedly at official city events. Your city mansion allegedly played host to a party featuring strippers, one of whom turned up dead. 75% of your high school students don't graduate on time.

Everyday when I am exhausted and tired from living out of a suitcase, I check in and several of the city's residents have offered me the latest tidbits courtesy of the City Council and the Mayor. One name however repeatedly pops up in my inbox, Monica Conyers, Detroit City Councilwoman and wife of John Conyers. Yes that John Conyers, the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee.

Now I have previously gotten Monica Conyers clips, but none had quite risen to Wagging Finger of Shame levels, but finally after numerous nominations, Monica Conyers, has finally won a WAOD Wagging Finger of Shame Award. NOw you have to remember how tremendous this is because Monica is not a national figure. She's a local phenomenon, but I suspect that she will go national in the near future. Here are WAOD, we are ahead of the curve in recognizing her potential to take her unique brand of public service to the national stage. Forget watching I Love New York, you'll soon be able to turn on C-SPAN to see a Black woman acting a plum natural fool.


Now why did John Conyer's wife win a WFOS? Well, first she called the Detroit City Council Presiden, Kenneth Cockrel Jr., "Shrek." Yes, you heard right, she called the man "Shrek" in the middle of a city council meeting ( in Monica's defense...there is a slight resemblance)

Well this week, some school children went on a field trip to visit the city council chambers and Mrs. Conyers answered their questions about her name calling. Yes, school children and Councilwoman Conyers had a discussion about the Council woman calling the City COuncil President "Shrek." Well you can imagine what happened with one of the children, Kierra Bell who I am calling "Lil Gina", tried to point out that they are children and Mrs Conyers is supposed to be an adult:

Kierra Bell and several classmates from Courtis Elementary School met with Conyers last week on a field trip to learn about how the city, and city government works.It was during the field trip that Bell questioned Conyers. "I felt it wasn't right and it was really disrespectful toward him (Cockrel)," Bell said."I let her know in a respectful way, I thought it was wrong," said Bell. The students' session was videotaped and Bell's questioning of Conyers is now being featured on You Tube and several other Web sites.Bell said she was not trying to grandstand and merely wanted to know, "Why would an adult resort to name calling?""I was just thinking. This is your opportunity to let your voice count and how we all just want to be heard," Bell explained.At one point in the exchange, Conyers asked Bell if she or her friends ever wanted to call another child a name or had called another child a name. Bell said yes, but countered, "We're children, you're an adult," adding that adults in position of power like the city council should remember they are role models for young people."I think I was hearing her out and she was hearing me out," Bell said. SOURCE

Now Kierra says she wants to be a lawyer... good luck Kierra, you got a one in four chance of graduating from high school in Detroit. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and keep looking over your shoulder because Monica was giving you a mean side eye. Watch your back. Monica has already threatened to shoot a witness, threatened to have her brothers beat up another city council member and was caught fighting in a bar("I was defending myself,").... but at least she hasn't been caught smoking on a crack pipe...In any case Monica is setting a wonderful example for how NOT to act for Detroit's elementary school students.

Apparently Monica has a problem with bullying. Apparently women have been bullying her because they wanted to marry John Conyers ( RFOL) Watch as she re-enacts the "Shrek" incident. :

SO congrats to Monica Conyers winner of this quarter's WAOD Wagging Finger of Shame Award for just being YOU. Monica joins Kim Porter, Verizon, and other notable figures. Previous WAOD WFOS Winners She's big time now!

We've created a special "limited edition" t-shirt and button to commemorate Monica's win. Photoshopping therapy always make me feel better.

This Week's WAOD Wagging Finger of SHAME Award: Mara Schiavocampo and her hip hop panel participants

Professor Tracey, WAOD Contributor

This Week's Wagging Finger of Shame Award Goes to Mara Schiavocampo and her entire hip hop panel participants except for Kendra G - because nobody knew who in the hell you were. Another segment disguised as being about black women, but ended up being dominated by the black male prespective. I am sick and tired of the media covering rap music and hip hop culture by picking the worst represenatives of the genre they can possibly find.

Mara Schiavocampo – For not doing her research and for putting together one of the worst group of panelists I have ever witnessed. What was the actual point of the segment? Why wasn't there at least one person on the panel that could be considered doing something positive to combat the negative images of black women in hip hop? Why were black men present in this discussion at all? Was Danyel Smith, editor of Vibe magazine, busy? How about Joan Morgan, former Essence magazine editor and author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks it Down? How about asking an "actual" female rapper about the state of the hip hop industry? How about asking "average" black women on the street about their views of rap music and hip hop culture?

Hip-hop hotties

Karrine “Superhead” Steffans – Isn’t this woman clocking MAJOR overtime on her 15 minutes of fame?

Dr. Michael E. Dyson – This is my boy, but Gina is right, he is a hip hop apologist and prognostitute. I formally asked my girl Attorneymom to place him on her SYAD list.

Melyssa “Jessica Rabbit” Ford – She graduated from BET Uncut to BET Style, sounds like an outstanding career move to me. She doesn’t have to worry about American black women, she’s Canadian, she can escape hip hop hell in America at anytime.

Irv Gotti – First, for being a complete idiot. I haven’t heard a rapper sound this dumb since Cam’Ron said that instead of informing on the serial killer that lived next door, he would move! Two, for how you used Karrine “Superhead” Steffens like a sexual incentive bonus to close business deals. Three, for being an irresponsible parent, would really be okay with your daughter being a video vixen? Four, for being all too willing to sellout every single black woman in the world excluding your mama to make an exploitative dollar!

Kevin Powell - You have come a long way baby, but damn you're over 40 years old, isn't it about time! And please stop referring to black women as "females" - we are women. Females can be anything; lions, tigers, bears, oh my. I wonder if Mr. Powell still hates his mama.

Overall, the NBC Nightly News series on African American women was not a complete failure, but as Chris Rock would say - "two giant steps back!"

This Week's WAOD Wagging Finger of SHAME Award: Tatsha Robertson

By: Symphony, WAOD Contributor
This Week's Wagging Finger of Shame Award Goes to Essence magazine editor Tatsha Robertson for being a complete and total embarrassment to Black women everywhere for saying this foolishness on CNN:

"Even though she's Hillary Clinton, they [Black women] see themselves, you know, within her, dealing with the family issues, the infidelity issues."

According to CNN's Chris Lawrence Robertson says Clinton's ultimate embarrassment is her greatest asset. Robertson went on to say:

"She decided, you know, whether she wanted to stay or not, and I really think, you know, people respect that about Hillary Clinton, especially black women. " (SOURCE)

CNN has the video up. .
*Man, I didn't want to do that to Essence, LOL. Gina is somewhere falling off a chair, choking off of a snort and shaking her head all at the same time. DOH! -Symphony.

WAOD Historic Occasion - First Female Recipient of the WAOD "Wagging Finger of Shame Award" - No It is NOT Debra Lee

I refuse to let this blog become engulfed by THAT NETWORK again as it did in July, therefore, we take this temporary break from THAT FOOLISHNESS to hand out another "WAOD Wagging Finger Of Shame Award." Our previous winner was Verizon . Rev. Al almost won the WAOD WFSA, but he got his essay in just under the wire. We will be accepting new nominations for the WFSA on a regular basis going forward.

Now all of the men who boo hoo on the regla' that I am too hard on Black men while not holding Black women accountable ( THAT IS SO NOT TRUE), well y'all can pull out the confetti and Champelle and write this date down on your calendar. Savor it because, in some of y'allz minds, it might not come round til' the next lunar eclipse.

I tend to be a live and let live kind of person. To each his own. If you like it, I love it. What you do in the privacy of your home is your business. So while I may clown entire groups of people for certain behavior that I deem FOOLISH, I tend to limit my criticism to organizations, corporations, and those who have elected to hold leadership positions in those organizations/corporations. But there comes a time when an individual takes it upon themselves to share their personal and private foolishness with all the world, as if they are proud of their foolishness. When that happens good men and women must stand up and tell the foolish to go somewhere and sit down.

Last week, I posted about the Concubine Conspiracy, the conspiracy to mainstream the concept of Black women renting out their wombs to become baby mamas.

Now if you elect to procreate with a man who likes to play Johnny Appleseed with his sperm, that is your choice, but when you go in a national publication publicizing the fact that you are going to intentionally alienate your children from their siblings, I call foolishness.

So our latest winner of the WAOD Wagging Finger of Shame Award goes to Kim Porter, for being cruel, selfish, and generally a bad role model for saying the following about her son Christian:

Porter bristles when asked about the possibility of her children meeting their half sister. "Christian’s got two beautiful sisters. He ain’t thinking about the other one. , trust me when I tell you. That situation is over there, and this is over here and I ain’t got nothing to do with that” Courtesy of Bossip via Essence.

The other one would be a new born baby girl that Puffy had with another baby mama in Atlanta. How does she know what her son is thinking about? Would he tell this woman if he was thinking about his baby sister in Atlanta? Based on the tone of this interview, if I were him, I'd keep my thoughts about my sister to myself as well. "NO WIRE HANGERS!"


Is this what you call "NO ORDINARY LOVE?"

Have y'all ever been to a funeral for a man that had more than one family? Typically, it is in a case of divorce, where there are two sets of kids. There is no sadder, more pathetic sight than a bunch of grown children competing for their rightful place while Daddy is chilling in the casket, covered by a carnation spray. They fight over who gets to ride in the limo. They fight over who can sit where in the church. If it's an open casket funeral, they fight over who is going to climb in the casket with daddy right before they close it ( I SAW IT WITH MY OWN EYES!) They fight for who can cry the loudest or scream "DADDY!" the most in the middle of the service. They fight over who gets listed in the program and in what order, who gets to shovel the first clump of dirt on the casket. They fight over all the macaroni, green bean casseroles, bunt cakes and buckets of chicken folks bring over to Daddy's house for the "family." Why? Because they are a group of strangers with no relationship who competed over the same man their entire lives and they will compete over him beyond death. Plus, their animus towards each other was probably fueled by their Mothers hating each other's guts.

Whether this poor child acknowledges that he knows or cares about his half sister, he will. He won't tell his mother this out of loyalty and because he will know that his mother apparently hates the mother of his half sister. But if he is raised half way right, he is going to have some kind of bond with his baby sister.

Sure you argue you fuss and you fight, but your siblings are with you from cradle to grave. Why deny the kids that bond just because the Mamas are jealous and crazy. Schedule a duel between the Baby Mamas and let them battle it out over Puffy Appleseed, but leave the kids out of the drama.

Take a cue from Nicole Murphy:

Baby Angel was already getting to know her half-sister, and Nicole Murphy – whose divorce from the actor was finalized in April 2006 after 12 years – even comforted the crying child when mom Brown went to the restroom. She rocked Angel until Mom returned, then the two new friends continued laughing and playing with the baby. Source

Kim Porter may be a lost cause, but lest any men with multiple babies by multiple women think that it is okay to allow your children to grow up without knowing and loving each other, I leave you with two words..... JAMES BROWN.

Do you really want to end up stuck in a casket in the back parlor while all of your kids fight over "Daddy?" Do you really want a judge exhuming your body to take DNA samples so that somebody can prove you are their daddy long after you are gone?

Seeing as how the "Daddy" in this case has "issues" perhaps the paternal grandmother can step in to at least make sure that the kids get to see each other on "MEE MAW's" birthday. On second thought perhaps not.

JUST. SAD.

Folk we have to fight back normalizing this behavior. Something is wrong in the world where this woman felt comfortable declaring that she is going to make sure her children don't know their half sister. That is what happens when we normalize "I Be Concubining!" That is a shame.

Stop Engaging your children in FOOLISHNESS, and if you do engage your children in foolishness, be smart enough not to crow about it in a national magazine as if it is something to be proud of. Folks, rebuke this foolishness when you encounter it in your daily lives.

STOP ENGAGING IN FOOLISHNESS! Let that Marinate!

We Did It! Verizon Drops Akon

Last weeks winner of our Wagging Finger of Shame Award, Verizon wireless has terminated their relationship with Akon for his abusing a 14 year old girl on stage in Trinidad. We told you about it here last week.

Yes, we can make a difference. Thanks Verizon for thinking about our daughters.

UPDATE:Okay, well maybe we didn't do it single handedly. Turns out Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham also had campaigns to get Verizon to do the right this. They also apparently stopped sponsoring his tour and selling his ringtones on their sites.

Contact Verizon Wireless!

You might want to ask WHY Verizon Wireless and American Idol have featured (A/I at least twice) a hip hop artist, AKON, who has a prolific history of misogyny and in the latest incident was captured simulating a sex act(rather violently in my opinion), on stage during a concert in Trinidad with a 14 YEAR OLD GIRL! The Video is all the rage in the Black Blogosphere, and YET again ignored by mainstream media. Listen to the crickets chirp! The seriousness of this incident is indicated by his panicked record label's attempt to accomplish the impossible and remove the video from the internet.
Concreteloop has the latest. A really good summation is also on Pandagon and Sistah Toldjah. There is also an article in the Trinidad Express (BEWARE OF SPYWARE ON SITE THOUGH). Video is still available at o1lt.com

VERIZON wins this week's WAGGING FINGER OF SHAME AWARD! When you pay your Verizon bill each month, you are subsidizing this behavior. STOP FUNDING THE FOOLISHNESS people!

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Telephone: 800-621-9900

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