Nappy Headed Ho

I find the flack over those three words to be hysterical. What makes that racist? The abbreviation of whore to ho? Describing someone as nappy headed (which to my mind just means they have kinky hair that easily knots)? What is it about these three words that caused such a media ruckus?

Please note that the cynic in me has noted that it was an extremely slow and tedious newsweek last week. Now that we all know the paternity of Anna Nicole's baby, they had to find something to lead the news show.

And while I'm here.

Anna Nicole Smith. Texas stripper turned Playboy model turned golddigger turned drug addict. A number of people have pointed out to certain superficial similarities between Ms. Smith and Marilyn Monroe...and to you I say Pish Posh! Why was her death news? What makes her different than all the other stripper/playboy bunny/golddigger/drug addict women out there? (I mean, I have to think that there are quite a few of them lurking around)

And how embarassing would it be for you and your family to have....oh, roughly seven men step forward and claim to have fathered your child? What was she thinking? That implies that in a rough....three week timeframe she had "relations" with each of these men....

Pity her child. I hope whomever eventually has custody of her takes her somewhere nice and isolated (like...the Galapagos Islands or maybe even Canada) where her mother's infamy will mean nothing. How ever else will this child have anything that passes for a normal childhood? What pieces of her mother will be left for her when all is said and done?

Again, what makes either of these stories news???? The more lurid, sexual, racist, violent or downright disgusting something is, the more it sells. Human nature hasn't changed much in 2000 years, has it?