Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Sherri Sheperd is a Genius
Posted by Bossip Staff
Sherri Sheperd went on The View yesterday and said the world is FLAT. She didn’t stop there, she said she would share her ignorance with her kids. Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson would be proud of her genius.
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firsthahaha dont care bout da subject though!
The world is flat…the end of the cold war and technology made it so…for more information read ” The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman.
At least I HOPE that is to what she was referring.
boooooooooo!!!!
doesn’t she have to run her comments past whoopi
Stupid azz trifling ignoramus.
she didn’t say that the world was flat…she said that she didn’t know…a little dumb, but you took it too far
lisa,
I am pretty sure she wasn’t quoting Thomas friedman when she said the world is flat.
If you watch the video, she never really said “the world is flat”. I mean she sort of danced around the question.. maybe she honestly didn’t know. I don’t know how or why she wouldn’t know… but I guess she just didn’t.
The only thing that’s flat are her feet.
FORGET HER WEAR YOUR BLACK TOMORROW
SUPPORT THE JENA SIX!
OF COURSE. THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THAT SKINNY WHITE RACIST BITCH BABARA WALTERS HIRE THIS DUMB ASS, FAT STUPID AS DIRT BITCH IN THE FIRST PLACE. SHE WANTS US TO LOOK DUMB SO SHE GOES OUT AND GET AN AUNT JEMIMA LOOKING, LOUD, UNEDUCATED FOOL TO TALK THIS WAY. WALTERS WOULD NEVER HIRE AN ATTRACTIVE, PHYSICALLY HEALTHY, INTELLIGENT THINKING BLACK WOMAN ON HER SHOW BECAUSE SHE WOULD FIND IT TOO THREATENING. SO SHE BRINGS OUT THIS MINSTREL SHOW TO GIVE AMERICA A GOOD LAUGH OVER THEIR MORNING COFFEE. DON’T WATCH THIS FOOL PERFORM ANYMORE, JUST TURN TO SOMETHING ELSE. BLACK FOLKS LIKE HER MAKE ME WANT TO THROW UP BECAUSE THEY WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A PAYCHECK!!
@ Gloria.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
Ron:
DAMN GLORIA!!!!!
get it.
lol, Bossip is on a roll.
Damn Gloria! Break it down. You are 100% correct. A beautiful educated black woman would have been a total threat. I’m glad they hired Whoopi though - she may dress a mess but she seems to be intelligent and opinionated….
good graces…
I probably agree with poster Gloria the most. It’s unfortunate that this is the picture the entertainment world paints of blacks. Same thing on the news…they will find the most raggedy ignorant person to say what happened. Sad.
i would like to add however that there are plenty of ignorant ass white folks that will do just about anything for a paycheck…case in point fear factor and survivor…
can’t pay me enough to eat a donkeys ass (no pun intended)
oh and I’m white and I enjoy this site a lot
@ Gloria
Although we would like to bash this woman for her ignorant comments, there is a possibility that she was instructed by the producers of the show to act in such a way as to not usurp authority over “all mighty Barb.” Because as the strongest specimen on the planet, we can do that!
@ ofcoursenot. I doubt she was instructed to make those comments. And even if she were, she’d be really more tragic and idiotic than she would have, had she voiced the comments of her own free will.
@Baby Please
I didn’t say she was instructed to say those specific words but she as in any skit, each character has their part. She was the town idiot.
With all of the qualified, beautiful & intelligent sistas present in the media today. The powers that be over at The View decide to place this modern day Mamie in the spot light?
This is the problem I have w/ the entertainment world…WHY WHY WHY?!
When Star Jones was a 300 pounds white america LOVED her but as soon as she lost the weight & started looking glam they felt threatened!
Fact: Middle America is more comfortable with the big boned, sassy talking, neck rolling “Mamie’s” like Sherri & un-attractive, loud, A sexual type’s like Whoopi Goldberg?!
This is a sad yet true statement!
Wow Gloria I just read your statement & Lol we are totally on the same page!
@Gloria.
Okay.
@Real Essence.
I agree 100% with your remarks.
When The View announced that Shepherd and Goldberg were going to be on the show, Wendy Williams was the first to say that it is ridiculous how the industry has to pick non-threatening black women, and she was so right. There are many black women who could fill that role:
Latanya Richardson (Sam Jackson’s wife)
Phylicia Rashad (or Debbie Allen)
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Jacque Reed
Bev Smith (from BET Our Voices)
Gwen Ifill(…it would be too frivolous for her, but I would like to see her do something other than McNeil/Leher)
Wendy Williams
Robin Givens
so many women…
Although I agree with what Glorai and Essence 1 said, I don’t think it applies to this.
Sheir was only trying to defend her faith. And people will take Faith over science everyday. Do we really know that the “world” is round We know that the Earth is round, but Whoopi ask about the world. I respect that Sheri stood on her reglious beliefs and was not moved from them on national TV.
Sherri never answered the question. I don’t think she stated the world was flat. An issue I now have with this, though, is that it seems like she’s supposed to be the resident stupid girl. So they kept asking her the question to see if she was dumb enough to say it was. RUDE.
I just saw the clip, and I see where you’re coming from TSimp. I think Sherri thought that by saying that the world is round that she would somehow compromise her religious beliefs and endorse evolution. But at the same time, that doesn’t excuse her for being dumb as fuck. If she really knew her Bible then she would know that there is no reference to the circumference of the Earth in Genesis and that even the most staunch creationists are not debating whether or not the world is flat. Asked and answered. Especially when explorers didn’t fall off the edge of the planet when discovering “the new world”. Too many people use religion as an excuse not to acquaint themselves with science. Sherri is a walking stereotype in more ways than one, because a lot of uneducated people think they’re the shit because of their “grasp” of religion.
Ya’ll need to check out the discussion on Sherri on BV, cause of lot of blacks seem to think that Sherri’s being hired was some kind of victory for black women.
http://blackvoices.aol.com/blogs/2007/09/11/the-skinny-on-the-views-sherri-shepherd/
I think that she wanted to answer correctly, the question was kinda out of left field and i think that after whoopi explained it sherri kept defending what she said because the stupid comment already came out. I watched her on the show a few times and she didnt seem stupid but she did get pounced on by the rest of the view members (in particular when she was talking about the breakup with her husband). As far as her not trying to compromise her religious beliefs i kinda agree with TSimp
GLORIA
OF COURSE. THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THAT SKINNY WHITE RACIST BITCH BABARA WALTERS HIRE THIS DUMB ASS, FAT STUPID AS DIRT BITCH IN THE FIRST PLACE. SHE WANTS US TO LOOK DUMB SO SHE GOES OUT AND GET AN AUNT JEMIMA LOOKING, LOUD, UNEDUCATED FOOL TO TALK THIS WAY. WALTERS WOULD NEVER HIRE AN ATTRACTIVE, PHYSICALLY HEALTHY, INTELLIGENT THINKING BLACK WOMAN ON HER SHOW BECAUSE SHE WOULD FIND IT TOO THREATENING. SO SHE BRINGS OUT THIS MINSTREL SHOW TO GIVE AMERICA A GOOD LAUGH OVER THEIR MORNING COFFEE. DON’T WATCH THIS FOOL PERFORM ANYMORE, JUST TURN TO SOMETHING ELSE. BLACK FOLKS LIKE HER MAKE ME WANT TO THROW UP BECAUSE THEY WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A PAYCHECK!!
””””””””””””””””””””””””
Gloria,
Thank you for articulating what so many of us feel. This Sheri woman does not represent my “view.” I am sick of her talking about her F——- weaves too BTW.
Obviously Barbara “Bitch” Walters has a real problem with a fit, attractive, intelligent educated well spoken black woman. She seems determined to take a black woman back to the old days. WEll FUCK YOU Barbara Walters AND ABC…WE AIN’T going back to that shit. We will NOT be MAMMIES to make YOU feel better. My sisters..take heart, WE are a freight train that Barbara nasty ass Walters CANNOT stop. She tries to put shit o the tracks to derail the train, but the train will run over that crap and keep going.
Wake up Ladies…don’t feed into this stereotype..go to school, get your education, read, go to the library, stay fit, have children with decent good men, stop supporting establishments which sell you “bling,” speak properly and clearly, get your credit straight- THey are SOOOOOO afraid of what we can do when we are all together.
That is obvious.
Thanks again GLoria…and sorry for all the cursing, but I was horrified when they hire d this slug…when she so clearly does not represent most of us.
Lets free ourselves, and start with the MIND.
To Gloria,
I’m glad someone finally said what I’ve been thinking!!!!!
That was truly embarrassing to watch. Next she’ll say she doesn’t know if we landed on the moon or if the holocaust and slavery took place.
I think she and Elisabeth bring a level of ignorance to the show that is beyond belief. That’s why I no longer watch it.
She’s a walking, talking stereotype. The View would have been better served if they hired someone who is articulate, well informed and classy like Jacque Reid.
Today she admitted that she had a brain freeze moment because it’s the first time she’s been put on the spot like that having to defend her religion so publicly. Ofcourse she knows the world is round. She was just caught up and really had no idea what they were asking her. Like she said it sounded like a chemistry question. Lay of Sherri. So quick to hate on other black women.
Sherri, there’s only space for one idiot on that show.
Michelle
Ther are some questions when asked, should always provide a ready answer, assuming there is no traumatic brain injury involved.(Brain freeze does not count) An example of such a question is what is 1 + 1? (2) Is the earth round? (YES)
There is no “hating” on Black WOmen here. In fact, it is the opposite. We are concerned with our image out in the world, and we are attempting to finally stem the negative input that is constantly fed to the rest of the world. SHerei Shepherd is in a position to make a REALLY positive change, and she chooses not to..that is disheartening.
I don’t watch the View anymore.
Sorry for the typos
I actually meant OUTPUT- not input.
Thanks Ladies
Contact ABC The View folks and let the producers know about this travesty to us. It was all planned because there were so many other choices this Babara Walters could have made, but she chose this stupid woman for her own personal reasons. Walters is of the age and era when black people were always portrayed as fools as she wants this tradition to continues. The media right now is satuated with images of black mammies, but interestingly enough they don’t pick on other minority women this way. Even women in minority groups who are known to be fat, they simply love to pick on us. Many years ago, when Frank McGee, a white newscaster fell in love with a black woman at ABC, Barbara was not very nice to this woman and i am told did things to sabotage her career. I cannot stand that old white witch.
This is exactly why Tyler Perry and other black producers should not continue to perpetuate this image of fat, black mammies on their shows. They should not join in the attack against us in order to get paid, because I for one
am sick and tired of it.
@Michelle
uh-uh (smh),no. “Is the world flat,” is not a “final jeopardy” caliber question, nor is it a question that would put her religious beliefs in question, cause whether or not the world is flat has nothing to do with the creationism vs. evolution debate. I mean if that question stumped her, what’s she going to say when the topic is about euthenasia? “Well I think the youth in Asia are great!” I used to DVR that show, but that was when Star was on. At least you could always count on Star for a lawyer’s perspective. What awesome perspective is Sherri bringing to the show?
@ rainlillie
Er, I ain’t convinced we went to the moon, actually; but that’s another story. LOL.
@ Michelle.
I don’t think people “were quick to hate on her” as you say.
These words came directly from her mouth. It is no surprise that people have reacted to her remarks so unfavorably.
No one is hating on her.
RIGHT ON Rita
THis Mammie crap has TO STOP…Barbara is from that era, and those are the only black women she feels comfortable with.
WELL FUCK her…
Those days are over…and BTW ..those “mammies” hated her ass then too…they were just trying to survive and hold their families together.
It is time for Barbara to DISAPPEAR into oblivion.
BE GONE Barbara, be gone. You wre never relevant to begin with.
@ Lisa
I’d like to give my Top 10 Favorites for the 2 vacant spots most recently given to Whoopi & Sherri
1} Nia Long
2} Holly Robinson Peete
3} Jacque Reed
4} Aisha Tyler
5} Robin Givens
6} Kelly Rowland
7} Tariji Henson
8} Essence Atkins
9} Vanessa Bell Armstrong
10} The sista who played Toni Childs on Girlfriends
@ Joyce
Right on! For the 1st time I watched that mess of a show Tyler Perry has on TNT for the First & Last time…all in one sitting!
The matriarch is portrayed as a argumentive, short, fat robust, wig wearing loud un-attractive sista! BTW wasn’t that the basis of the aunt on the Jamie Fox show?
It’s sickening that some actresses succumb to these stereotypical roles thrown at them. I understand folks have to eat, but dang can we get some growth in 2007?
STOP WATCHING TV!!!!!!!!!!
Sherri was just trying to cover her ass and keep from getting attacked by Whoopie. She didn’t say the world was flat. Whoopie asked her that question to make a point. Sherri was smart enough to see where Whoopie was going with it and instead of being honest, she tried to deflect it by saying “I don’t know, I never thought about it. What I do think about is feeding my kids.”, thus trying to get sympathy. She didn’t say that she would teach her kids that, she said if they ask her, she will look into it then. I guarantee this woman will come forward and say something to this effect: “Of course I believe the world is round! What I meant was that I have never been in a spaceship and looked back at the Earth to see it’s shape with my own eyes. But from the pictures I’ve seen, I believe it is round.” Watch and see.
Stop using the word, dang.
Hell Kim Porter! Give her a seat at the table I know she’d be decked out EVERY DAY Looking FAB!
@ Baby Please
DANG, DANG , DANG DANG DANG DANG!!!
LOL
@ The Real Essence 1
:):):)
BARBARA WALTERS IS AN OLD JEWISH WOMAN WHO WOULD NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS SHOW A JEWISH WOMAN LIKE ROSAANE(FAT, LOUD, STUPID,ARGUMENTIVE) on her show. This is the image of black women she enjoys portraying to the world, as Jews in Hollywood have done since the 1930’s. Barbara is more dangerous than any white supremist, because she is sneaky and not at all up front with it.Why did she not interview some of the pretty, physically fit young black women mentioned above, for her show. Why must she keep reaching back in time to resurrect that old ugly image of us fostered by Hollywood, that we are to be laughed at. We are clowns and unconcerned about our apperance. That we could never be seen as physically fit, attractive, soft, feminine desirable women. We have to do something about this. Tyler Perry should be ashamed of himself always quoting the bible when the bible clearly teaches that gluttony is a sin and that people dig their own graves with a spoon and a fork. It is not okay to constantly show black womenin this negative lightbecause it gives such an ugly image of us to everyone with overweight related diseases racking our communities. Diabetes, high blood pressure, strokes and such. Black women are as concerned about our apperance, our education and sophistication as Jewish and other women.
what is with the you can separate a black woman from her weave comment that her and woopie made.
Damn Gloria, you just plain out rude and a bitch about things. You basically saying a thicker person can’t be healthy, a bigger person can’t be attractive, a darker person can’t be attractive. She never answered the question and if she was the first to think the world was flat (been thought by some people for years, thats why it was brought up)then it would be a different story. One indirect answer of a question makes her uneducated. You just as shallow and racist as Barbara Walters and you don’t know it.
@ Laverne
Such poignancy in your words.
Laverne
YES
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First of all, Whoopi didn’t “attack” Sherrie. They were debating and Sherrie seemed afraid to give an inch to an opposite point of view.
That itself is ignorant that you would have to deny a universal truth to hold on to your rock-hard belief.
How THE HELL DO YOU UPLOAD A GRAVATAR!!!???
@ La. Finest
All we are saying is that we are tired of the same homogenized image of black women portrayed in the media. Yes, there is nothing wrong with being fuller figured & dang sure aint nothing wrong with being dark skinned. But, when all we see on tv, movies print ads, ect. is the standard Mammie which {if you are real with yourself} you will admit to the fact that sort of woman is not appealing, not alluring & definately not the sort of woman men find seductive.
I believe this is part of the reason our men seek relations out side the race. I’m just gonna be real here…most brothas are not attracted to the average sista. Some will say the average sista is loud, vulgar, over weight ect ect. WHICH IS WRONG, but when all they see is a ONE sided view of us WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENS?
{and let me add the hue of a person’s skin has NOTHING to do with what I’ am talking about!}
@LA Finest
I think you misinterpreted Gloria’s intent.
@ Gloria - real talk!!
@ Denise
Denise….go to gravatar’s website, upload the pic, reduce it to the size u want and save it. It actually takes a lil while for the pic to show up here on Bossip. Make sure you’re using the same email addy both here on Bossip & on gravatar. Also, once you upload & save the pic, you have to rate the pic & then choose it as the picture u want shown on ur comments. Hope this helps.
I will admit that I don’t watch the view. I didn’t even watch it when Star was on it.
So I am asking besides this statement why is Sheri Shepperd so bad? Has her other comments been bad. Is it because she is over-weight. Then others can argue that they don’t give over-weight women a chance on National TV.
Is it because her skin tone is dark. The others can say they only like to portray black people as light skin.
Black People Please…. Can we EVER support one another.
I watch this clip for a second time to see what was so mammie or dumb about her statment, and I just can’t find one. I see exaclty the point she was trying to make. Can she have said it differently… Yes she could, but to accuse her of dumb and being mammie is unfair. Actually she looked great on the show. No different than any of the other women on the list that people have stated.
As black women would love to tear another sister down. We love to be judgemental about how another sister wear her hair and what she wears, so on and so forth. That is so shallow of us as Black Women.
Someone please post a link or something of Sheri acting mammieish or dumb on the View because this link just doesn’t do it for me.
I agree with you TSIMP, I’m not personally a follower of any particular faith, though I believe in God, but, that doesn’t mean that I don’t respect other people’s beliefs. Ms Shepherd didn’t sound ignorant in my opinion though I do believe that it was the intention of certain co-host’s to allow her to appear so. She did not actually say she thought that the world was flat nor that she would indoctrinate her child with that belief. She was just standing by her faith and they were trying to diminish her own beliefs.
this is why i don’t watch the view, I don’t share they’re views… and that barb wilters…
It’s not about bashing.
It’s about rejection of blind race loyality which DOES NOT SERVE OUR RACE.
It is relevant to hold the comments of public figures such as herself up to examination.
It is about imagery.
IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE
Don’t blame Barbara Walters for this woman’s lack of poise and wit and cleverness. If this woman is unable to express herself with tactfulness and acumen, it ain’t Barbara Walters’ fault.
@LA Finest
Sherri doesn’t have any major credentials (college degree or oscar, her own HBO comedy special,etc.)like the other women. She’s kind of known for her bit part, black best friend,minor actress, guest star tv roles. she’s obese, not big boned or a little fuller, obese,and she doesn’t come across as being very bright. Star might have been morbidly obese, but she never came across as stupid and she had something that the other women didn’t, legal expertise. When the meatier topics came up Star could hold her own. If Sherri wants to be a religious conservative like Elizabeth, then she should be better equipped to defend her POV. Rosie would come out of left field with her 9/11 conspiracy rap, but she would defend her claim so well, that she could have you doubting your position, even though in the back of your mind, you knew that her argument was garbage. And when political topics were discussed like the captured British sailors that wondered into Iranian seas, Rosie would throw out historical references like “Gulf of Tonkin” that would have everybody Googling. Sherri is just not on that level. No where near it. Sherri doesn’t make you think at all. I’m still waiting for someone to tell me just what it is she adds to the show besides a negative stereotype.
What makes Sheri Shepherd a negative sterotype?
Surly not the fact that she is over-wieght and dark. That couldn’t be it. Oh please say that is not it.
The world is square everyone knows that lmao
I blame barb wilted walters.her show, her hire. Don’t care for neither.
Okay I just watch this clip for the 3rd time.
I believe the point Whoopi was trying to make about asking is the world being flat is that many people believe something that Scientist can prove as true i.e. Evolution. Christians (like Shepherd) doesn’t believe this but Scientist claims to have facts that support this theory.
I believe Shepherd was just got caught of guard because Whoopi changed it up quickly and she was trying to figure out where Whoopi was going with the question. She should have stood her ground better.
But please someone explain to me how this woman is spreading negative stereotypes? If you want to talk about that FIRST start with these sorry A$$ rappers.
Sorry but I’ve been watching for the past couple days since Sherrie was hired and she DOES fill that particular stereotype that Barbara loves to have quite well! First of all she constantly talks about her weave. This week she said that she has hair weaves all over the house and when she asks her son to give her a kiss he picks up one of the weave pieces and kisses it! Now what dumb azz would even tell that story? Whoopie has bothered me also with her comment about how you can’t tear a black woman away from her hair weave, then they all proceed to ask Whoopie if her hair is real and Joy was tuggin on one of her dreads. Then you have today’s show with Sherrie being all loud and dancing in her seat about how fiiine Denzel is! She was all extra mouth all open grinding in her seat!!! I couldn’t agree more that they could have picked a beautiful, well educated black woman with the credentials to sit on the panel but they didn’t.
Sherrie admitted on todays show that she didn’t know the answer at the time because she was nervous and didn’t understand the question. If this doesn’t prove she’s a true dumb azz I don’t know what will. You should know that the Earth is round damn near second to as well as you know your name. I watched the show yesterday and cringed at how she wouldn’t answer the question, I thought she couldn’t be serious and not know the answer…could she? Then today the idiot basically admits that she really didn’t know answer! She was trying to stand on a platform saying she doesn’t believe in evolution but the sad part is I’m 100% sure that she doesn’t even KNOW what evolution means!!!
Sorry but I’m embarrassed for her and I agree she is the non threatening overweight type that white America doesn’t mind seeing. Just ask Oprah she has stated in the past that as soon as she lost weight is when she got tons of hate mail. I try to like Whoopi but her look isn’t much better or her statements. I’m still baffled to how these two got the job!
Baby Please
Don’t blame Barbara Walters for this woman’s lack of poise and wit and cleverness. If this woman is unable to express herself with tactfulness and acumen, it ain’t Barbara Walters’ fault.
^^You are very right. But Barbara hired her. Surely she knew.
Thanks Hot Stuff for explaing to me why Sheri was so bad.
but…
concerning the weave… Alot of Black women and white women wear them so why is that such a bad sterotype. I am sure the other comment about her son is a joke because she is known to be a comedian.
I think you guys are being too hard on her. This is a new forum for her, give her a break.
But I respect everyone’s opinion, I just think we need to give her a break and let her grow into this new spotlight.
Also all of those other women,named above, how you know they didn’t ask them to be on the show. Some people wouldn’t dare do a show like the View after the mess with Star and Rosie.
Lastly for that person who brought up Frank McGee falling in love with a black woman, please send me a link, because I am finding it hard to believe that a white man in the 1960’s would make known that he loves a black woman and that a white woman could stop her career. Hell Barb was lucky for her career in the 1960’s.
@ TSimp
this isn’t a colorism debate and upthread, people have already given examples about why she embodies a negative black female stereotype. Stop bringing her phenotype into this, like people are hating on her because she’s darker skinned. Most of the people who have commented haven’t had a problem with Whoppi and have praised Star. Even Real Essence who doesn’t care all that much for Whoppi has mentioned sistahs of all shades that would be a good replacement for Sherri. And I’m not going to show support simply because she’s black. If nothing smart is coming out of her mouth and she’s on national tv, on a talk show no less, where she’s being judged by what she says and she’s dropping the ball, then she deserves to be called out. And she hasn’t been on the show for a week. She’s been a guest co-host for quite a while, so she should know what’s up.
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P.S. Thank you Baby Please. I did everything in ur instructions but I’m still struggling
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HOW THE HELL DOES THE GRAVATOR SHOW UP ONCE YOU’VE SET IT UP AT GRAVATOR.COM????
Sherri’s weight isn’t the problem. The problem I have with her is her lack of depth. She’s very one dimensional and she seems to be what Ms. Walters was looking for.
Funny how when Star Jones started to lose weight , they got rid of her. It was even said at the time that the Viewers could no longer identify with her. I was never really sure what that meant, or which demographic they were talking about.
We all know that it’s hard for women of color to be taken seriously, when they’re on tv acting like uneducated fools, or dancing with their asses hanging out in videos.
After reading some of the post here I went and created a blog for us to exchange ideas on how we can change this. I ‘m really inspired by all of the well throughout post that I’ve read. I think there are two groups on here, the people who don’t care as long as they see an African American face on tv and the people who do care and want that face to handle themselves with dignity and class.
Please visit my new blog if you’d like to discuss this an other important topics: http://noleap2gr8.blogspot.com/
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Damn, I feel as stupid as Sherri Shepard!
LOL @ Denise. Good one!
@ Denise
I know this shit can be maddening when it ain’t working. It prolly ain’t working cuz Bossip has not ironed out the bugs with their new commenting platform. It’s not working properly.
When I set up my gravatar — just a few days ago — I set it up and used it on the old comments platform.
I’m sure you’ve done this — but are you sure you are using the e-mail account associated with the set up of your gravatar?
I also think it may not necessarily work right away. So give it a day or two.
But I’m thinking the problem lies with Bossip’s new comments platform.
Maybe someone else knows something I don’t.
Shit can be frustrating as hell.
@ Ilish
Stop bringing her phenotype into this, like people are hating on her because she’s darker skinned. Most of the people who have commented haven’t had a problem with Whoppi and have praised Star. Even Real Essence who doesn’t care all that much for Whoppi has mentioned sistahs of all shades that would be a good replacement for Sherri.
I AM SO FUCKING GLAD YOU SAID THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
People always want to minimze and simplify shit to darkskinned - lightskinned. I’m so goddamned sick of hearing this shit.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTELLIGENT COMMENT ABOUT THAT.
GEEZ!
I feel like repeating your comment over and over for those few who need to read it.
Stop bringing her phenotype into this, like people are hating on her because she’s darker skinned.
Stop bringing her phenotype into this, like people are hating on her because she’s darker skinned.
Stop bringing her phenotype into this, like people are hating on her because she’s darker skinned.
Stop bringing her phenotype into this, like people are hating on her because she’s darker skinned.
Stop bringing her phenotype into this, like people are hating on her because she’s darker skinned.
Stop bringing her phenotype into this, like people are hating on her because she’s darker skinned.
Thanks again, Baby Please. I just checked an old comment I made on a different subject and the gravatar showed up!! So maybe I am being impatient. Thanks again for the info.
@ Denise
No prob, girl.
Yep, I was being impatient. I guess I should use my nickname, “Esti.”
I couldn’t have done it wiith out Baby Please. Thanks for helping a sista out!
To Ilish:
I didn’t bring up color. Color was brought up before I posted. Also there were only 2 examples given to the problem with Sheri
1. She is always talking about her weave - given by Hot Suff
2. She is one dimensional - given by prettyflower.
I have read how she protrays a mammie and all the negative sterotypes of black women, but no one has give me exactly how she is doig that but the people I have state above.
Also I didn’t realize that she has been on the show before, so yes you are right about she should know whats up, but that brings up another point.
Was she bad before?
I know I am going to get slack for this comment, but is it possible that God has shown favor to Sheri and is given her an major opportunity.
I think we need to give her some time to grow and get better, we can’t write her off for one mistake.
Do I think other black woman would have been better for the job, yes I do, but I think we are being way to hard on Sheri.
Do I think black women have been protrayed negatively in media, Yes I do and we should do everything we can to change that image and NOT support movie and TV shows that does this.
But let’s not be too offended by everything, then the “others” will not take us serious on anything.
@ Denise
Ta dum!!! :):)
Glad you got the grav, Denise! Happy to help.
@Tsimp
no you weren’t the first to bring up color, but you, much like LA’s finest, did bring it up, and you were the last to mention it well after 98% of posters made no allusion to colorism at all, and I was responding to you, which I why I felt the need to say something to you and anyone else thinking of going that rout, before the thread went off on that tangent, because that’s not what this is about. You say that you’ve only come up with two points about how Sherri embodies a stereotype, but time and time again, people have mentioned how they thought Sherri was loud, overweight, inarticulate . . . how she isn’t contributing anything of substance to the show, how she’s non-threatening . . .like a mammy stereotype. Is it that people haven’t given you examples of Sherri embodying a stereotype, or is that you’re cherry picking certain points and ignoring the vast majority of others? Did you read the part where I said she makes lousy points, but unlike Rosie, doesn’t back them up?
“I know I am going to get slack for this comment, but is it possible that God has shown favor to Sheri and is given her an major opportunity.”
to make black women look bad on tv, right?
“Do I think black women have been protrayed negatively in media, Yes I do and we should do everything we can to change that image and NOT support movie and TV shows that does this.”
Well wouldn’t that mean “The View,” because instead of hiring a fitter, more articulate and educated black woman, they hired Sherri, who plays into a negative stereotype?
“I think we need to give her some time to grow and get better, we can’t write her off for one mistake.”
but people object to her for many reasons. This “flat world” incident is just one of them.
“But let’s not be too offended by everything, then the “others” will not take us serious on anything.”
maybe there’s some truth to that, I don’t know.
There are many Black Americans who are religious and go with the Bible and don’t watch National Geographic or read a book afraid to allow themselves to engage new information to challenge their assumptions. I find it interesting that so many people are so focused on Sheri but we all know people in our community, at work, and at church who think like this so to a certain extent she represents an aspect of black people that is very real though not true for all black people. I do not defend her ignorance, however I do find other Black women’s need to debase her through racist stereotypes created by the white media to be equally ignorant. We show our level of acculaturation by upholding stereotypes and classifying each other through them. Why is a black woman who is full figuered and dark automatically classified by other blacks as a mammie. I do not hear the Beyonces or the Rihannas of the world called Jezebels though in an earlier time that is exactly what they would be called if they were on the screen in the 1920’s. The classification of black women as mammies by other black women speaks to deaper issues between black women where we have taken the stereotypes created by white supremacy. Agree or disagree with Sheri if you want but leave the mammie talk in the bowels of Gone with the Wind where it belongs.
What a dumb bitch!!!!!
@Hotstuff-
thanks for filling me in, I cannot believe Whoopi let Joy tug on a dread and Sherry’s talking about weave. No wonder Rosie and Star were so pissed after they left the show. And I agree-there may have been controversy when Rosie and Star were there, but at least the conversations were adult and relevant. And say what you wnat about Star, but she was always articulate and well-spoken on that show. She did not portray her as a clown, and if I remember correctly, when they tried to talk about Star’s hair or outfits, she politely and tactfully redirected the conversation to something else.
You all amaze me at your comments. First of all she didnt say it was flat, she said she didnt know. LISTEN people..geez. Secondly, what does her weight have to do with anything and why does she have to be a mamie and B—-? Thirdly, just because the book you read that said the world was round doesnt mean its the truth. You all disgust me! You should go somewhere and LOVE yourself first before calling a child of GOD out of her name like that. Mamie! Are you fricking kidding me? Where did you get that word from? But you probably call your friends niggas too…so why should I be surprised. Im done..uuggh
@ Tsimp
You said “I am finding it hard to believe that a white man in the 1960’s would make known that he loves a black woman”
What is so hard to believe about THAT?! Alot of white male black female relationships were formed in the 60’s Lenny Kravitz’s mom for example was married to a white gentleman. My aunt & uncle were married in the 50’s and she’s BLACK!
Do your self a favor & do not make statements such as the one you made above because it shows lack of intelligence!
80sLady said:
“And say what you wnat about Star, but she was always articulate and well-spoken on that show. She did not portray her as a clown, and if I remember correctly, when they tried to talk about Star’s hair or outfits, she politely and tactfully redirected the conversation to something else”
Amen! Star Jones was on point, articulate, intelligent & always well groomed. That sista exuded calss & sophistication plus she knew her stuff about politics, the arts & culture, the legal system & she even knew what was relevant in the modern entertainment world because she was close acquaintances with many celebs. As matter of fact she was the one who advised Barbara Walters on the correct pronunciation of fiddy cents name.
I also remember one morning she mentioned how she & her sister had a lovely dinner with Olympic world runner {I forget his name but he was named the fastest man on earth} anyway, she mentioned how disgusted she that when leaving this fancy dinner the brotha could not get a cab to save his life. Star was heated & when the other women tried to give excuses as to why the cabbies probably didn’t stop Star politely put them in their places, she didn’t get loud or resort to neck rolling & eye bugging tactics she simply stated that even though her male friend was a great athlete who made major strides & accomplishments in his personal & professional life, he was a Black man & that is what blacks living in america have to endure on an ongoing basis no matter how well dressed well spoken or educated. She pointed out that the masses view us based on our complexion & that a new day was coming so all those who thought like that, are in for a RUDE awakening! Star received so much applause…Star received a standing ovation from the audience!
1. Who cares???
2. Stop hating on successful black women.
3. Shut the f@@k up!
Idiot…
To Real Essence:
I found that hard to believe because in the 60’s it was looked down upon and in some states illegal.
Its 2007 and it still calls much debate and uproar just read some of the old bossip articles. And that just between blacks. So just think what will happen to include white folks into the conversation.
For a white man who is on the news everyday like Frank to admit that he was in love with a black woman would have ended his career. Hell we just were able to get on the first seat of the bus in the 60’s. Let alone to be “good” enough for a white man.
Your aunt and uncle were very lucky that they were not shuned by the community they lived in or killed.
Also your uncle has some very enlighting relatives. Wow married in the 50’s. God Bless them.
To Ilish:
You had me until you said overwieght. That has nothing to do with nothing. Don’t classify her as a mammie because she is overwight. Everything else you pointed out:
inarticulate . . . how she isn’t contributing anything of substance to the show,
how she’s non-threatening,
she makes lousy points, but unlike Rosie, doesn’t back them up, was on point.
But to add overweight to that is insulting to all black women who are overweight. To think that you are embodying a mammie sterotype by being overweight is wrong. At first Star was overweight but like Real Essence stated she was still great on the show.
I think that and the comment about her being dark-skinned just bothers me. Weight and dark-skin does not make you a mammie.
Poster Poetry 76 said it best.
Note to Sherri: All you have to is be quiet and give me those damn shoes you rocking in that pic Boo Boo!! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…..
[YAWNS] This was so staged…lol.
She’s there to get laughs. Comedians are laugh-whores. They’ll do or say anything as long as the audience is laughing. Even negate something we all learned in 2nd grade science class.
Didn’t we decide that the world was round hundreds of years ago? Sherri is tripping she needs to read a history book. Someone please buy her a globe!
Glora -
And it’s hating ass bitches like you that keep sistas down. Sherri is a comdian like Joy. She is comic relief on the show. How dare you and your bitter ass try and keep a black woman from making her coins. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. You sound like you need some dick in your life, either buy it or rent it, but please get it!
Sherri is a fat shame and a embarrassment to the whole society at large and after u get fired they will never put black women on tv again! I know Whoopi was rolling over in her grave as she watched u say this bullcrap! DAM! The next day, Dumbass blonde EB was trying to come to your defense! Black and Blonde, 2 dumb ass broads!
@GLORIA
BRAVO!!!!!!!
@eve0513
STOP WATCHING TV!!!!!!!!!!
yes!!!!!!!!
“she’s been put on the spot like that having to defend her religion so publicly.”
She meant her Master’s false religion!
“Next she’ll say she doesn’t know if we landed on the moon or if the holocaust and slavery took place.’
Many holocaust took place BUT only one was treated like the only one when it was only a WAR created by Zionist! And still today many think the walk on the moon was staged or there would have been many more walks, trots and running on the moon by now??
and bottom line, if any of you believe in the BUY BULL (bible) then you must also believe the earth is the center of the universe and on pillars, meaning FLAT AND a wombman came from a man’s rib, etc…..!
crazy shit in the book only meant to keep huemans as primates!