OUR BLACK SKINNED BEAUTY SERENA WILLIAMS DESTROYED THAT SORRY WHITE GIRL!- FROM THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER,NIGERIA

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Serena...The Glorious Comeback

Sunday, 08 July 2012 00:00 By Ayo Ositelu Sport - Abroad

AT 30, American Serena Williams became the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam Ladies Singles title since Czech-turned American Martina Navratilova some 22 years ago, when the sixth seeded but four times former champion defeated third seeded 22 year-old Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in a truly thrilling Ladies Singles final yesterday on the fabled Centre Court of Wimbledon.
It was Serena’s fifth Singles title at the All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, SW19, London, which tied her older sister’s (Venus’s) feat of five Wimbledon Ladies Singles titles.
If the Ladies Doubles partnership of Serena and Venus is successful in its ninth Ladies Doubles final, which was scheduled to follow the Gentlemen’s Doubles yesterday, it would be the amazing African-American sisters’ sixth Ladies Doubles title.
With elder sister Venus, who has been struggling with the diagnosed auto-immune ailment, a disease which has prevented her from being at her best, having exited the tournament in the first round, but was the leading cheerleader in the Players’ Box rooting for their own, Serena, whose form had got better with each round’s match, won the opening set easily at 6-1 in just 36 minutes.
With the American having raced to a 5-0 lead in the first set after breaking the Pole’s serve in the second and fourth games, the sympathetic Centre Court crowd erupted with a thunderous ovation when the badly outplayed Radwanska managed to get into the scoreboard to trail 5-1.You would have thought the Pole had won the match after ending the game with an ace.
In the next game, as if to say to her support team in the stands “no shaking,” Serena clinched the set with a crushing service winner down the T, a weapon which had been a constant feature of her thrashing of one opponent after another en route to yesterday’s final.
When the American, who had thoroughly dominated her seemingly overawed opponent in every aspect of the first set, broke the Pole again in the third game to take a 2-1 lead, every indication pointed towards the match ending as one of the most embarrassingly one-sided finals in Wimbledon history.
The pole had a different idea, as she kept on fighting, until her efforts were rewarded in the eighth game, when she created her very first breakpoint of the biting and dreaded Serena serve after all of 59 minutes of play to level up 4-4. It was only the seventh time the American lost his serve throughout the fortnight.
You know what? Serena appeared to be rattled as a match which had been thoroughly under her control seemed to be slipping away.
And alas! It actually did slip away, when the reinvigorated Radwanska broke the American in the twelfth game to win the set 7-5. Lo and behold! The match had extended to an unlikely third and deciding.
The look on the faces of Team Serena, particularly her older sister Venus, in the stands, said it all. It was nail-biting time.
But then, as it appeared from the body language of Serena, it was just a temporary set back. After breaking the Pole for a 3-2 lead, there was no stopping the American from cruising to a well-deserved victory.
It was a complete turnaround for a player who went into last month’s French Open as a firm favourite to win the title, but who lost in the very first round to French woman Virginie Razzano.
A heart-warming turnaround for a woman, who only a year ago was fighting for her life when she had what doctors call pulmonary embolism, and a resulting surgery.

Serena, The ‘Queen’ Of Aces
Did You Know…

That the tennisworld may not have seen a better serve than that of American Serena Williams, whose serve today is still as intimidating as it was in 1999 when she won the first of her 14 Grand Slam Ladies Singles titles at the US Open in New York?
Thirteen years on, the American’s dreaded serve, like French wine, keeps getting better and better, and it is sometimes not just the number of aces (free points) she serves, but when she serves them.
Against the fourth seeded defending champion Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the quarter-final, and world number two Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in the semi-final, Serena literally delivered a free ‘clinic’ on how to win matches with your serve.
She served 37 aces against those two heavy hitters of the ball and two of the best returners of opponents’ serves, 13 against the Czech and a new Wimbledon record 24 against Azarenka. But that is not the point.
Just as when she served the 23 aces (then a new record of aces in one match at Wimbledon) to fend off a stubborn Jie Zheng of China in three tough sets, Serena served a majority of her aces and outright service winners when she needed them the most. She used the aces to save at least 20 breakpoints in these matches, and even more aces which enabled her to come back from many 0-30 situations, not to talk about the numerous game points to finally win very tight service games.
Not satisfied serving a new Wimbledon record of 23 aces against Jie Zheng, she broke her own new record, to hit 24 to brush aside the determined Azarenka’s fierce second set fight back to win 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) to reach her seventh final at Wimbledon, having won four of her previous finals, the latest in 2010.
In six matches before yesterday’s final, Williams had recorded 86 aces and numerous service winners, which in itself is already another new Wimbledon record of aces in one Wimbledon tournament. But even that latest addition to her ever-bulging pedigree did not prevent her from putting up another stunning display of serving ‘bullets’ out there on the Centre Court, a cherished edifice she and her sister Venus have made their own all these years.
In yesterday’s thrilling final, Serena added 18 aces to her record toll, and how she needed all of those morale-shattering aces, especially against a fit-fighting 22 year-old Agnieszka Radwanska, the first Pole since 1939 to make a Grand Slam final, who showed admirable resolve by rallying back from losing the first set 6-1 and was a service break down in the second to extend the match to a deciding third set.
At a point in the third set, Serena served trailing 1-2 in the third set. How did she respond? She served four consecutive breathtaking aces to hold serve to love, which in tennis is called a “golden game,” a rarity at that level of competitive tennis.
Asked to comment on Serena’s serve, tennis legend American John McEnroe, a many times Grand Slam champion – turned influential Tennis TV commentator and analyst said: “I have never seen serving like that before… It was not just the quality and the power, with the fastest of those serves measured at 120 miles per hour, but also the uncanny timing… It is surely the greatest shot the Women’s game has ever seen.”
How would Serena herself describe it (her serve), as a weapon? “Mean,” responded Williams, with a wry smile. “The older I get, the better I feel I serve, and the more I like to hit aces,” she added.
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DANA AIR PLANE CRASH-NIGERIA! -WHITE RACISM KILLED THESE NIGERIANS AND THE WHITE PILOT TOO!- NIGERIA NEEDS ITS OWN AIRLINE AGAIN!- AARE GOODLUCK GOD WILL HELP YOU DO IT AND CLEAN UP THIS MESS THAT THE PAST HAS DELT YOU- WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU TO DO IT!

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Plane Crash: Why DANA Is Culpable

• Written by  Muyiwa Lucas

Font size: 0 Comments IF THIS whiteamerikkkan pilot had swallowed his white racism and told the control tower that his engine was out they would have had him land at a close safe place but no his white/superman mentality told him that he didn't need any n===gers help and now NIGERIANS ARE DEAD AND himself too!

Experts accuse DANA AIR of wilful negligence and sharp practices over its recent plane crash, and that the mishap also raises fundamental questions on the state of regulatory agencies, the airlines and the industry at large


After seeming relief from air mishaps in the country, another disaster struck in the nation’s aviation industry on Sunday, June 3. And in its wake, 153 passengers and crew members of DANA AIR Flight 9J 992, operated with a McDonnell Douglas, MD, 83, aircraft with registration number 5N-RAM lost their lives, including unidentified number of people on ground where the aircraft crashed into residential buildings in Iju Ishaga, a Lagos suburb, barely three minutes to landing.

Nigerians were quick to lay the blame of the air mishap at the doorsteps of DANA AIR. The feeling in many quarters, indeed, is that the plane crash was avoidable if the airline had kept to the rules of safe aviation. Sources at the airline told the magazine that since the aircraft was acquired in 2008, it had never been in good condition, requiring regular repairs locally and internationally. In fact, it was said to be a disaster waiting to happen. For instance, it was said that for every two days the aircraft spent in the sky, it had to go back for repairs where it spent a minimum of three days. “These are facts, not lies; the records are there except they want to misinform the public,” said the source.

An aircraft engineer with a regulatory agency recalled that sometime in October 2009, the ill-fated plane had a malfunctioning air conditioning system and had to be grounded for two days by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA. At some point, some pilots were said to have refused to fly another aircraft, MD 83 registered as the 5N-JAI, in the fleet of DANA AIR, because it was also in a bad state after it was brought back from Spain where it was taken for repair.

Although several aviation experts, including pilots and aeronautical engineers spoken to, agreed that the age of an aircraft does not count so much in aviation circles so long as it is well maintained, DANA AIR is said to have a reputation for not servicing and maintaining its aircraft adequately. This brings to mind the accusation of Nsikak Eduok, a former aviation minister, who in 1995 took a swipe at the country’s domestic carriers, accusing them of operating “flying coffins” as aircraft. “Since the aircraft was not meant to have flown in the first place, it has a maintenance problem. DANA AIR is more into making profit than safe flying; they have not taken safety into consideration. The aircraft was not fit to fly – period! The aircraft has been jinxed from day one because the original owners, Air Alaska, had series of problems with that aircraft. The aircraft has not successfully operated one week without going in for maintenance, and it is not the regular online maintenance. DANA AIR is also in the habit of not doing maintenance properly because they like cutting corners,” said the same source.

Yet, there is said to be an anomaly in the process of training personnel of the airline; one of this is the periodic training of pilots. The source recalls that several times, Clifford Wardally, the airline’s chief pilot, took pilots to Miami, United States, US, for training, even though this does not fall within his purview since he is not a trained instructor, thereby breaching the acceptable standard in the industry. Each time Wardally returned from such training trips, he was said to have given papers to Oscar Wason, director of operations, DANA AIR, to sign as if he was the one that took the pilots for the training.

DANA AIR is also said to be notorious for maltreating its staff. The structure of the airline is said not to give room for professionalism and the growth of the airline. Staff morale is reportedly very low owing to the high-handedness of the Indian owners. Less experienced pilots or other critical personnel are allegedly brought in as expatriates ahead of more experienced Nigerians, and this has led to the exodus of some of their best indigenous hands. For instance, a certain Nigerian pilot with the airline was said to have failed simulator training, whereas he never did any simulator test. According to a pilot, who preferred anonymity, the pilot and co-pilot of the ill-fated flight may have done their best to avoid the accident, but said if they had more knowledge of the Nigerian airspace, perhaps they would have avoided the crash.

Peter Waxtan, the 55-year-old American pilot of the flight, joined the services of DANA AIR on March 26, 2012, and was on his last flight schedule in the country as he planned to travel that night to his home country, US. A source said that though Waxtan may have been flying for over 20 years, his lack of adequate knowledge of the Nigerian airspace made him not to know the best option for him to take. “I heard he (Waxtan) declared an emergency and was hovering seven miles away from the airport; he had no business doing this. He should have landed the plane on the street and probably saved some of the 153 people that died. Or he should have used Ibadan Airport, or used the premises of Grail Land, Iju. DANA should be thoroughly investigated for its negligence and what I term as manslaughter of Nigerians,” the pilot said. Other top Nigerian pilots agreed that for the aircraft to have crashed with barely three minutes to landing, it means that the problem must have started at or around Ibadan. Therefore, the Ibadan Airport should have been the alternative for the pilot to land and he should not have stretched his luck further.

Given all these allegations, experts are wondering why the owners of DANA AIR are in the aviation business, knowing that it is a highly regulated industry. The belief is that the Indian owners of the airline are mainly using it for human and capital flight. They are said to employ mainly expatriates, thus creating employment for foreigners and also remit their wages to their foreign accounts. “It is a clean way of doing money laundering,” said an insider with the airline.

DANA AIR’s business plan has also come under scrutiny, further fuelling the speculation of money laundering. The airline, which started business in 2008 with two MD 83 aircraft between 17.6 and 17.7 years respectively, soon increased the number of aircraft in its fleet to four by 2011, using aircraft of 20.9 years average. This is said to connote that it has no plans of staying in the business for long, knowing that once the aircraft clocked 22 years, they would not be allowed to fly in the country’s airspace again. Another pilot who spoke on condition of anonymity, likened the use of MD 83 aircraft by DANA AIR to a new car leasing firm using Peugeot 404 in 2012 for its business.

But, the question agitating the minds of stakeholders in this unfolding drama is the role of the regulatory agencies, especially, the NCAA, which is responsible for certification of airlines in the country. Shortly after the certification of the country as a Category One nation, the NCAA announced that all airlines in the country would have to go through a recertification exercise in line with the new status of the country, using the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, standard. Except for Arik Air, which was audited by the FAA and rightly got recertified by NCAA, nearly two years on, no airline seems to have been audited using the new standard. Arik Air spent over $10 million preparing itself for the Category One certification.

Experts, therefore, believe that the regulators are also culpable with regards to the DANA plane crash. Who did the verification on the aircraft, even at the point of purchase before it was brought into the country? Were the documents falsified to say the aircraft was in tip-top conditon or did somebody just sign off to say the aircraft was okay? While no official answer could be obtained from the NCAA on these salient questions, some close sources in the agency agreed that the safety standard of DANA AIR has been a source of concern for sometime. A staff of the airline told the magazine that “the management is always boasting that forget NCAA, we know how to settle them.” If this is true, then, the sector may be returning to its old ways. Already, the Senate committee has advised Harold Demuren, director-general, DG, NCAA, to step aside pending the outcome of investigation of the crash. Eduok, in 1996, disclosed that domestic carriers bribe aircraft inspection officials to give their aircraft Certificate of Airworthiness when they knew that their planes were not airworthy.

Worrisome also is the problem of accident investigation report being held in secrecy. If the past experiences of air crash investigations in the country are anything to go by, then the families and friends of the victims of the crash may have to wait for eternity to get the actual cause of what was responsible for the untimely departure of their loved ones. This is because previous accidents involving other domestic airlines have not yet been released. John Obakpolor, a retired Air Force officer and now head of the investigation panel of Flight 9J 992 set up by government, disclosed in 1996 that he had not set his eyes on any accident report within the nation’s airspace in the 10 years preceding 1996.

Olumide Ohunayo, an aviation consultant, says pointing accusing fingers at the NCAA at this point will not be appropriate. According to him, the Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, as the agency charged with the responsibility of looking into air mishaps in the country, has not shown enough guts to indict NCAA when it errs, as is the norm in other climes. AIB, Ohunayo says, has failed to make accident reports public. “This organisation’s (AIB) interim report takes years while the final reports hardly get published. We only get snippets from foreign websites. If they don’t release reports quickly, how do we learn and prevent a reoccurrence? Let AIB put an official seal on all these talks about the airline, then we can chop off the head of NCAA,” Ohunayo argued.

The latest plane crash has further drawn attention to the state of domestic carriers. With a crushing interest rate of about 26 per cent, domestic carriers have remained financially incapacitated to deliver quality service using state-of-the-art equipment. This is in spite of the Cape Town convention, which liberalised the purchase of new or relatively new aircraft. In other countries, airlines have access to single digit interest rates and that accounts for why they are able to place orders, even on long-term basis, for aircraft. And to remain in business, domestic carriers in the country opt for very old aircraft. Another pilot with vast experience of over 35 years told the magazine that because government set the maximum age of aircraft in the country at 22 years is not a reason for our airlines to buy aircraft of 17 years. “This is being penny wise and pound foolish, because the older the plane, the more expensive the cost of maintenance,” the pilot revealed. The federal government, under the Ibrahim Babangida administration, provided a platform for domestic airlines to purchase foreign exchange at a lower rate in a bid to assist them, but sadly, the privilege was abused by the same operators.

The pilot attributed the accident-free years the country experienced before the latest plane crash to luck, because the quality of personnel in the industry has declined, while the personnel required in some critical areas are in short supply. He disclosed that the influx of expatriate pilots into the country has its own demerits since no country would allow its best hands to go abroad in search of employment as there are ready jobs for them in their home countries. And for all the ills of the industry, many blame the liquidation of the defunct national carrier for the crisis in the industry. Were Nigeria Airways alive, our source contended, there would have been a benchmark for other airlines interested in coming to the country.

Many Nigerians are convinced that DANA AIR will never be the same again, at least, going by past experiences of airlines involved in plane crash. Aviation Development Company, ADC, Bellview, Sosoliso, EAS, and others never made it back to business after recording plane crash. This is because the compensation to be paid are always enormous, insurance premium gets very high and, importantly, the public perception changes and the flying public usually does not want to go near such airlines anymore.

While the country awaits the report of the panel and the AIB, if it will ever be made public, aviation stakeholders expect the federal government to crack down on the management of DANA AIR as a deterrent to others. It is also expected that the federal government will truly transform the aviation sector to spare Nigerians the sordid tales of air mishaps.

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Muyiwa Lucas

I am a Senior Assistant Editor at TELL. I specialise in aviation, automobile, and general transport.
Professional awards won include: The Nigeria Media Merit Award as:
*Industry Reporter of the Year 2007
*Maritime Reporter of the Year 2008
*Aviation Reporter of the Year 2009
*Maritime Reporter of the Year 2009
*Oil & Gas Reporter of the Year 2009

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• Comment Link Friday, 15 June 2012 05:26 posted by Bruce ALL of the above comments and accusations are one hundred percent correct and truthful as I should know becauase I work for Dana and know how those two operate!!!! Too bad the NCAA would not take enforcement having been informed many many times!!!!
  
• Comment Link Tuesday, 12 June 2012 01:00 posted by jonny Dana Airline is guilty of murder and the Nigerian government must treat them as such.
  

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Of principles, politics and Obama’s gay gamble
May 20, 2012 by Minabere Ibelema 7 Comments

When the United States President Barack Obama stunned the world by declaring his support for same-sex marriage, he explained that it was a matter of principle. He believes in equality for all people and that extending marriage rights to gays was an extension of that principle.

But there’s more to it.

The announcement was stunning, not so much for what Obama said but when he said it.

That Obama has been sympathetic to the gay community has been quite evident. Among other things, he saw to it that the Pentagon lifted the don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy that forbade gay military personnel from making public their homosexuality.

And his Justice Department refrained from representing the Federal Government in cases related to the Defence of Marriage Act, a law that forbade the recognition of same-sex marriages by federal departments and agencies.

For an administration to blatantly refuse to enforce a law that was duly passed by Congress and signed by a previous President is a rather serious matter. Though it is not without precedent, in some circumstances it could be impeachable.

Therefore,as a matter of law and politics, that stance was even more consequential than Obama’s declaration of support for same-sex marriage.

What was truly stunning then was Obama’s timing. Earlier in his political career, he had unequivocally opposed same-sex marriage. Then, as President, he had responded to a related question by saying that his personal view on the matter was still evolving.

That was, of course, the kind of answer that politicians give on issues of which they fear the consequences irrespective of the side they took. So, with about six months to go before the general elections, why would Obama risk it all by taking a stance now?

Well, it is a matter of blackmail and being backed into the wall. First, the latter.

When Vice-President Joseph Biden was asked recently about same-sex marriage, he said he was “comfortable” with it. It was inevitable that Obama would be called upon again to comment on the matter.

Obama was in a political quandary. He couldn’t afford to equivocate on a matter about which his vice-president had given a pointed response. He had to declare.

And then, there was the dimension of blackmail. No, not by any gay lover. Actually, the trending news before Obama’s same-sex marriage declaration had been about the release of love letters he wrote to his girlfriend in his earlier years.

The blackmail reportedly came from Hollywood, where some big wigs were planning a major campaign fundraiser for Obama. In case you are wondering the connection, Hollywood is a gay haven, perhaps second only to San Francisco.

According to the reports, some among the fundraisers pressured Obama to take a stand on same-sex marriage. The announcement, according to this thesis, was to appease that group.

Obama can use all the fund-raising help he can get. According to Bloomberg financial services, “The price tag on the 2012 presidential election is set to be the biggest ever.” That is higher than the combined price tag of more than $1bn for the 2008 election.

Even without a challenger in the primaries, Obama’s campaign has already expended more than $172m of the close to $197m it has raised so far. Yet the general elections campaign is merely in the warm-up stage.

Obama is set to duel it out with his enormously wealthy opponent, Mitt Romney. It is a circumstance in which even the most subtle blackmail can get it done.

Even then, the declaration of support for same-sex marriage is quite a gamble. If Obama were running for office anywhere in the world outside of Europe and North America, he is probably finished. Certainly, his stock has tumbled greatly in Nigeria.

Might the declaration cost Obama the election or help him? The best permutation at this time is, it all depends. Here’s what the political chessboard looks like.

Recent opinion polls show that a slight majority of Americans say that same sex marriage should be allowed.

The people who are most put off by Obama’s support of same-sex marriage are religious conservatives. But they vote solidly Republican, anyway. So, Obama has few votes to lose among them.

However, Obama’s staunchest supporters — blacks and Hispanics — are also overwhelmingly against same-sex marriage. Yet, he needs a heavy turnout by them — all voting predominantly for him — to win the election.

Obama knows this too well. His very next action after the announcement was to call the pastors of America’s largest and most influential black churches to explain himself. Predictably, he didn’t get many alleluias from them.

In fact, black pastors were already besieged with phone calls, texts and emails from dumbfounded members of their congregations seeking guidance. Many pastors had to address the issue in prayer meetings and Sunday sermons, with most disapproving but urging understanding.

“I believe the statement the president made and his decision was made in good faith. I am sure because the president is a good man,” Bishop Timothy Clark, of the First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio, told his congregation, according to USA Today.

In any case, African Americans’ support for Obama is so overwhelming and strong that it is unlikely that he will lose a lot of their votes in November. As would be predicted by the theory of cognitive dissonance, they are likely to find ways to rationalise away Obama’s decision.

The same may not be true of Hispanics, however. They are predominantly Catholic and, therefore, more conservative than African Americans in their view of social matters.

Independent voters, whose swings almost always determine the outcomes of presidential election, are another concern for Obama. Among them are people who are still sitting on the fence and for whom Obama’s position may be the tipping factor to the other side.

But the common wisdom is that independent voters tend to be swayed more by economic matters than social issues.

What is certain about all this is that Obama is an astute politician. He must have done the permutations and liked how the numbers turned out.
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Echewe ozo May 20, 2012 at 7:37 am

If obama’s fada is a gay could he ve born obama d u.s president of today,when a man meets a woman during ovulation conception takes place nd dat is hw our mother’s bore us all,so dis unnatural method abi na shit una wan born,no bi shit fil d anus.to support stupidity or stupid gay is to make ve human extinction,b wise obama.


James May 20, 2012 at 9:00 am

A confused society indeed.


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IN 2010 this white girl PREDICTED OUR BLACK skinned BEAUTY'S SUCCESS!-BLACK ON Gabourey Sidibe!



GABOUREY SIDIBE READY TO EXPLODE AFTER OSCAR CELEBRATIONS

March 8 2010

Hollywood, CA – Oprah Winfrey, as she usually does, said it right at last nights' Oscar ceremony. Presenting Best Actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe, Winfrey recalled her audition process which took three days and put her in the same category as Meryl

Streep. Winfrey called it the American Dream, and that's exactly what it has been for the 26-year old actress who was quite literally plucked from obscurity and thrust onto the biggest entertainment stage in the world, a dream many have but few ever achieve.

While Sidibe ultimately ended up losing the statuette to Hollywood veteran Sandra Bullock, the high profile that the nomination has given her and her performance will likely guarantee work for a long time to come. While it remains to be seen how the nomination will affect her long term prospects in the cutthroat film industry. While Winfrey extolled Sidibe's virtues and promised her a long career, the prospects for the actress to many seem very limited given the niche nature of her role and certain other character traits that generally run in conflict with Hollywood tradition. Regardless, Sidibe's star is shining very brightly right now and after a long night of celebrations, there's little doubt that she's ready to explode.

"Oscar nominations or even wins can really mean little in the long term. You can go through the list of winners that people have forgotten and losers that are now legends and you realize that ultimately the Oscar is exactly what it is, an award. It may help to increase a person or a project's visibility for a short time, but they still have to have the goods to make it work," said Scrape TV Entertainment analyst Tracey Temple. "Most people should really just enjoy it for what it is and not look at it as a magical path to success. It has never been that and never will. Given the attitude Sidibe seems to have she will likely do exactly that, which is the healthiest and fastest path to success."

Sidibe spent the night partying with castmates from her film 'Precious', enjoying the best of what Hollywood has to offer.

"She's really in a good spot. She's got a lot of good will and has ingratiated herself
with many members of the Hollywood
elite and that more than the nomination itself will do her a great service going forward. I'm no expert, but I think there's a very good chance that she could explode on the scene in a very significant way in the future," continued Temple. "Any cynicism aside, Sidibe is in her own way already huge and no matter the pressures or realities of Hollywood, she's likely only going to get bigger going forward. For some people there's this incredible momentum that they seem almost born to ride, and Sidibe has that. I foresee her getting huge and just exploding all over the place even though she didn't win."

Sidibe's next film role will be the lead in 'Yelling to the Sky' which like its star may be huge.

"Of all the nominees in this category she will likely benefit the most. Everyone else is already a star, they've reached their limits, but for Sidibe the outward potential is just massive. There's no guarantee that she will have huge hits like Bullock or hundreds of award nominations like Streep, but she has a really good chance of being huge," continued Temple. "No one can predict the future, at least not very effectively, but given what she has done and what she has, I don't see any limits to how big she can get. Sidibe is here to stay and she will be massive."

Sidibe reportedly really, really enjoyed the after parties.

Samantha Dryden, Entertainment Correspondent

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Martin Delany Week Celebrates Father Of Black Nationalism

Martin R. Delany. (Credit: Moonstone Arts Center)

By Cherri Gregg

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – This is Martin Delany Week, a time to celebrate an extraordinary African-American, known as the father of Black Nationalism.

Born in 1812, Martin R. Delany was a doctor, newspaper publisher, an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War and an author.

When much of the nineteenth century anti-slavery movement supported deporting freed Blacks back to Africa, Delany, who grew up in Southwestern Pennsylvania, spoke up, says Larry Robin, founder of Moonstone Art Center.

"He said you can't tell us what we should do! We decide what we should do. If this country is not going to be a place where we can prosper, then we should leave, but it's our choice."

The Moonstone is hosting a number of events this week celebrating Delany's life, featuring notables such as poet Sonia Sanchez and speaker Molifi Asante.

For more info go to MoonstoneArtsCenter.org/MartinDelany.

Excerpts from the Introduction to The Martin Delany Reader

by Robert S. Levine

Martin Robison Delany (1812-85) lived an extraordinarily complex life as a social activist and reformer, black nationalist, abolitionist, physician, reporter and editor, explorer, jurist, realtor, politician, publisher, educator, army officer, ethnographer, novelist, and political and legal theorist. A sketch of his career can only hint at the range of his interests, activities, and accomplishments. Born free in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), the son of a free seamstress and a plantation slave, Delany in the early 1820s was taken by his mother to western Pennsylvania after Virginia authorities threatened to imprison her for teaching her children to read and write. In 1831 he moved to Pittsburgh, where he studied with black leaders, and began his lifelong commitment to projects of black elevation. He organized and attended black conventions during the 1830s and 1840s and during this same period apprenticed as a doctor and began his own medical practice. In 1843, he founded one of the earliest African American newspapers, the Mystery, which he edited until 1847. In late 1847, he left the Mystery and teamed up with Frederick Douglass to coedit the North Star, the most influential African American newspaper of the period. After an approximately eighteen-month stint with Douglass, Delany attended Harvard Medical School for several months but was dismissed because of his color. Outraged by Harvard's racism and the Compromise of 1850, in 1852 he published The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, a book-length critique of the failure of the nation to extend the rights of citizenship to African Americans, and a book that concludes by arguing for black emigration to Central and South America or the Caribbean. Delany's emigrationism conflicted sharply with Douglass's integrationist vision of black elevation in the United States. In response to Douglass's national black convention of 1853, Delany in 1854 organized and chaired a national black emigrationist convention, where he delivered "The Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent," the most important statement on black emigration published before the Civil War.

In 1856, Delany moved to Canada, where he set up a medical practice, wrote regularly for the Provincial Freeman, and met with the radical abolitionist John Brown to discuss the possibility of fomenting a slave insurrection in the United States. During the late 1850s, his views on emigration underwent a significant change. Instead of advocating black emigration to the southern Americas, he now argued for African American emigration to Africa. By 1859, he had obtained the funds that allowed him to tour the Niger Valley, and in December of that year, he signed a treaty with the Alake (king) of Abeokuta that gave him the land necessary to establish an African American settlement in West Africa. In search of financial support for the project, he toured Great Britain and garnered international attention for his participation at the 1860 International Statistical Congress in London. Around this same time, he published a serialized novel, Blake (1859, 1861-62) in an African American journal. He also published a book-length account of his travels and negotiations in Africa, Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (1861). Delany's African project collapsed in the early 1860s and by 1863 he was recruiting black troops for the Union army.

From 1863 to 1877, Delany recommitted himself to the integrationist U.S. nationalistic. He achieved national fame for meeting with Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and shortly thereafter receiving a commission as the first black major in the Union army. Following the war, Delany served for three years as an officer at the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, and he remained in South Carolina through the late 1870s as he attempted to make Reconstruction work in a stronghold of the former Confederacy. In 1874, he ran for lieutenant governor of South Carolina on the Independent Republican slate, then turned his attention to helping southern blacks who wished to emigrate to Liberia. In 1879, as he was seeking a federal appointment that would allow him to finance his own emigration to Africa, he published Principia of Ethnology: The Origin of Races and Color (1879), an ethnographic study that, like his earlier Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry (1853), expressed a Pan-African pride in blacks' historical, cultural, and racial ties to Africa.

as "one of the great men of this age," a person whose life was "filled with noble purposes, high resolves, and ceaseless activities for the welfare of the race with which he was identified," and who "has given us the standard of measurement of all the men of our race, past, present, and to come, in the work of negro elevation in the United States of America."

According to Frances Rollin, who published the first biography of Delany in 1868, Frederick Douglass similarly remarked, "I thank God for making me a man simply; but Delany always thanks him for making him a black man." When Delany asserted his black pride, and even racial superiority, he did so against the grain of a culture that regarded blackness as a mark of evil and inferiority. Whereas Brown and Douglass declared that they would be happy to see race simply vanish from the United States through intermarriage, Delany from the 1830s until his death in 1885 fought white racists' denigration of blackness by embracing it. And he did so, again and again, rhetorically: by insisting that within white culture his blackness in effect made an argument about racial identity and character that mulatto leaders, such as Brown and Douglass, simply could not make. The African American educator Anna Julia Cooper underscored this point in her remarks on Delany in 1892: "The late Martin R. Delany, who was an unadulterated black man, used to say when honors of state fell upon him, that when he entered the council of kings the black race entered with him; meaning, I suppose, that there was no discounting his race identity and attributing his achievements to some admixture of Saxon blood." In this respect, Delany's race consciousness and pride, his very sense of himself as a representative black man, can be understood as his defiant response to the white racist gaze upon his black body.

gotten until his resurrection as the father of black nationalism and the epitome of proud blackness." During the 1960s and 1970s, as a result of the Black Arts movement and the upsurge of interest in black studies, Delany was suddenly being celebrated for precisely what Payne, Brown, and Douglass had professed not to like about him: his prideful race consciousness and Pan-African identity.

Although Delany was a prolific writer who was unable to conceive of political action apart from writing and who wrote in a range of genres, most anthologies of American literature fail to reprint any of his multifarious and engaging writings, and, perhaps most astonishing of all, he is not included in the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, the most widely used anthology in African American literary and cultural studies. This neglect would have left his contemporaries truly mystified….

The historian Sterling Stuckey has argued that what links various expressions of black nationalism in the United States is a consciousness among African Americans "of a shared experience at the hands of white people" and of "the need for black people to rely primarily on themselves in vital areas of life." Rather than representing a single position—a race consciousness that is always aggressively separatist—black nationalism can embrace a range of sometimes competing and conflicting options—uplift, separatism, emigrationism, patriotism, racial anger, integrationism, and so on—and has to be constructed and reconstructed in response to different exigencies and contexts. Delany's special genius lay in his ceaseless and imaginative work at such construction and reconstruction.

In an influential revisionary overview of Delany's career, Paul Gilroy observes, "Delany is a figure of extraordinary complexity whose political trajectory through abolitionisms and emigrationisms, from Republicans to Democrats, dissolves any simple attempts to fix him as consistently either conservative or radical." …Like Douglass, Delany advocates a politics of racial integrationism when that politics seems possible and useful; at other moments, when that politics seems an impossibility (or destined to keep blacks in a subordinate position), he advocates creative modes of resistance, including separatism.

Delany was committed to action. "We must make an issue, create an event, and establish for ourselves a position," Delany declared at the 1854 National Emigration Convention. The extraordinary persistence and creativity of his efforts to bring about social change make him one of the most fascinating African American leaders and writers of the nineteenth century and arguably one of the three or four most influential.

True Patriotism

Martin R. Delany

The North Star, 8 December 1848

Patriotism consists not in a mere professed love of country, the place of one's birth – an endearment to the scenery, however delightful and interesting, of such country; nor simply the laws and political policy by which such country is governed; but a pure and unsophisticated interest felt and manifested for man – an impartial love and desire for the promotion and elevation of every member of the body politic, their eligibility to all the rights and privileges of society. This, and other than this, fails to establish the claims of true patriotism.

From periods the most remote, the most improper application has been made of the endearing term Patriot. Whether the most absolute monarch, crowned with the hereditary diadem, armed with an unlimited sceptre, the most intolerable despot bearing the title of sovereign – the most cruel and heartless oppressor and slaveholder under the boasted title of President -the most relentless butcher and murderer called Commander-in-Chief – the most haughty and scornful aristocrat who tramples upon the people's rights in the halls of legislation – the most reckless and unprincipled statesman "rioting upon the spoils of a plundered revenue" – whether Phillips, Curran or Gratan in defence of Irish constitutional liberty – Emmet upon the scaffold, refusing to let his epitaph be written until Ireland was free -William Tell, under sentence of death, baffling the schemes of the German tyrant, Gesler – the French baron, Lafayette, leaving his native country and princely fortune, to share in common the fate of the struggling American Washington, as the leader of his country's destiny – O'Connell, as the Liberator – Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, or John Quincy Adams, standing in the frontal ranks as defenders of American rights, or Mitchell and O'Brien, who sacrificed their all, being forever divorced and exiled from the most tender ties of domestic affections, by the severity of the laws of their country, for daring to discard provisions deemed pernicious to the welfare of their countrymen; all have laid equal claim to a share of the popular gratitude, and been endowed with the loved title of patriot.

A patriot may exist, whether blessed with the privileges of a country, favored with a free constituency, or flying before his pursuers, [and] roam an exile, the declared outlaw of the power that besets him. Love to man, and uncompromising hostility to that which interferes with his divine God-given rights, are the only traits which distinguish the true patriot. To be patriotic, is to be philanthropic; to be which, is necessary to love all men, regarding their humanity with equal importance.

Much has been the interest felt and manifested in this country in every movement, with exceptions to be named, whether home or abroad, in favor of human liberty, and those who were foremost in the struggle, bequeathed their names to present and future time, to become the subject of the poet and the theme of the historian. Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland, Germany, France, England, Scotland and Ireland, of modern date, all, have had their patriots, each of whom in succession, has shared largely of America's eulogium. And of all who have scanned the ordeal before them, there were none perhaps for whom there has been expressed more sympathy than the late victims of British displeasure, the Irish patriots and convicts, Mitchell and O'Brien, especially the latter, the severity of whose sentence aroused every feeling and expression of opposition to the execution of the sentence.

To witness the public demonstrations, as manifested in favor of the Irish struggle, in which Mayors of cities, Judges of Courts, sons of Ex-Presidents and Ex-Governors participated, and the universal interest felt in the result, is well tended to deceive, and betray into the idea those not otherwise advised, that this nation is a nation of justice. But how will America stand, when compared with other countries, dark as may be the gloom of their semi-barbarous laws? Condemned must she be in the moral vision of the whole enlightened world. Loud, long, and damning, must be the anathema uttered against her by those whom she treats and so regards in all her legal acknowledgments as aliens and enemies, ere their eyes be opened to a sense of their condition, and she still refuses to succor them.

But how many patriots have lived, toiled, suffered and died, having worn out a life of usefulness, unobtrusively laboring in the cause of suffering humanity, living to the community and the world a life of seclusion, passing to and fro unobserved, amidst the stir and busy scenes of a metropolis, and the throng and bustle of assembled thousands. This class of patriots may be found in every country, but to none are they more common than America, and in no country would they meet with less acceptance than in this Republic. Ever professing the most liberal principles, proclaiming liberty and equality to all mankind, their course of policy gives a glaring contradiction to their pretensions, and the lie to their professions.

Prone as they are to tyrannize and despotize over the liberties of the few, the philanthropist who espouses the cause of the oppressed, is destined to a life of obscurity; instead of commendation and renown, contempt and neglect are the certain and most bitter fruits of his reward. Marked and pointed out by the finger of scorn, he at once becomes the mock of the scoffer, and hiss of the reviler; and affliction heaped upon affliction presses upon him like a mountain weight, until at last he sinks under the mighty pressure, unable longer to bear it up. Yet, galling as this may be, it is a boon for which the downtrodden, oppressed American might anxiously long, compared with his own present miserable, unhappy condition.

Among them have existed, and there do exist, those who are justly entitled to all the claims of true patriotism; but proscription, as infamous as it is wicked, has stamped the seal of degradation upon their brow; and instead of patriots, they become the felon and outlaw. Anticipated

MUMA GEE-AFROCENTRIC NIGERIAN SINGER FINALLY GETS MARRIED!

The whole truth about my marriage —Muma Gee

By MERCY MICHAEL ⁠08/04/2012 00:00:00

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Delectable Afro centric singer Muma Gee is back, a year after she took a break from the music scene, to tie the knot. Known for her outspoken persona, Muma's new album and single entitled Motherland and Port-Harcourt respectively has started to generate controversy on the internet. In this interview with MERCY MICHAEL, she opens up for the first-time on her fairytale marriage to her hubby, Nollywood actor, Prince Ike. The singer clears the air on issues surrounding her latest single and also talks about her experience on Gulder Ultimate Search reality show, among other issues.

HOW is family life? What has the transition been like?

The transition is just the fact that I have to work double hard to make up for the family and also for my fans. I have been in the studio. I did not get married in order to forget about my career. I have been working on Motherland which is my latest album. It will be released very soon. We have a new single, it is not in the making but we are not ready to push it out. In a few days, the video will be out. It is a world class video. We are ready for Muma Gee to be out now.

This is the first time I am speaking to the press after like a year plus. I have refused to speak to the press or grant interviews. I have been the hiding (laughs) not because I chose to hide or shy away but because I was weighed down and overwhelmed with the traditional rites of my wedding. 

Was the marriage ceremony tasking for you?

I had to be physically present to go through all the traditional rites, which took about a year. My marriage was like a project. It was a year plus project. My traditional marriage was about six stages and I did all. I was married properly and at a stage I was wondering if my husband won't get tired and give up but he stood by me all through. My marriage can be packaged as a documentary because the procedures and protocols were enormous. I enjoyed it as an Epeye girl, now an Ibo woman. And for the first time in my life, I was seeing a traditional marriage happening in two different states. In the morning, we had my traditional marriage in Rivers State and in the evening we were in Imo State for the second leg. So we had the traditional wedding in one day in two states.

Did you think your husband was ready for all of that? Before then did he know all of the procedures?

He didn't know. If you are a princess or a queen you have to go through all the rites. It is a rite of passage that you have to fulfil to get married properly. And at the end of all the traditional rites, I was wedded in the church. We recorded the activities from day one to the last day. It is on record, so when I die, the generations to come can go to the archives and see what it is like to marry an Epeye woman.

Now that Muma Gee is back, what should fans expect from your latest album to be released soon?

Motherland is about my community, where I come from, and most importantly, my roots. Accordingly, that is why I have songs like Port-Harcourt is back, because as soon as I got to Port-Harcourt, I was wooed. The video is on the internet but the audio is not out yet. Basically the album is going to be hot. It is a come-back album.

The titles of your album and single sounds as if you are going political? Could that assumption be right?

Why does everyone think I am going political? Some people seem to have that notion on the internet thinking that I have gone political, especially with the title; Port-Harcourt is back. When I landed in Port-Harcourt Airport for the 17th All States Sport Festival, to do the theme song for the opening and closing ceremony; I was shocked to see everywhere lighted up. I was happy because of the development. I had no choice but to talk about my experience. As an artiste it is my civic role to let the people know that there is a breath of fresh air and that is why I did the song.

Twice you cancelled your wedding date or so it was rumoured. Why? 

It was actually once. We had to shift date from 18th of November to December. We wanted to have it done on my birthday. My husband wanted to honour me with that but the task to shoot the video Port-Harcourt is back overtook that because we brought in cinematographers from the UK and the team was ready. And the other reason was that expectations were high from people, so we needed to reduce the number of guests to 1000 persons, restrictly by invite. The first invite we sent out was cancelled. We had to print another one which became the real invite. As a result, instead of 18th of November, it was held on December 23.

You were evasive about your marital status during the Celebrity Guilder Ultimate Search competition. Were you married at that time?

No I was not but one of the contestants laid so much emphasis on marriage, and bragged about it. And that made me joked that I was married and she asked about my ring to which I responded that it is not everyone that will wear their ring to the forest.

Where you engaged at that time?

I was not engaged. During the Guilder Ultimate Search competition, people speculated that I had an affair with Emeka Ike, which God knows it is a lie. I have suffered a lot in the hands of the press. Emeka Ike won and I was invited to his church, The Redeemed Christian Church of God for his thanksgiving service, where I met my husband. My husband happens to be Emeka Ike's best friend. He introduced us and that was it. And the same moment, he proposed. I didn't date my husband. We did not have carnal knowledge of ourselves until we were married because we are born-again Christians. I did abstinence at some certain stage when I gave my life to God and that was when I met my husband. I won't deny that I was emotionally attached to Emeka Ike as a friend and as someone who makes sense when we discuss but not as per dating, no.

Have you made up with that particular contestant?

I have not seen the contestant since then. We do not have similar lifestyle. Probably if we have similar lifestyle we would have met one way or the other and we don't attend the same events. Besides, I have been spending time with my family and my career. Since after Guilder Ultimate Search, I have not engaged in public outing that much too.

What did you do to find out if he is the right person for you?

From the day I met my husband and he said to me, I am not looking for a lover or a girlfriend but a mother and that I see in you made me ask a few questions about him. I investigated him. The first question I remember asking him was, what he studied in school; because most artistes do not have formal education. He had his first degree in Psychology from the University of Ife and Masters in International Communication from IMSUTH (Imo State University), so I felt there was prospect. He looks decent and he is the most handsome dude on earth. I have just my first degree even though I'm going in for my second degree in Business Administration, I read Theatre Art.

You said you didn't spend much time studying him before you got married to him. Why take that kind of risk?

I was ministered to by God as well. You know this thing that when you meet the right guy, you don't make mistakes, trust me! As a man when you see the right woman to be your wife, you will have the hunch divinely especially if you have prayed. One, I am not so tall and I needed a guy whom I will look up to. Two, I wanted a guy whose degree is above mine. Thirdly, I wanted a guy who is extremely intelligent, and when he opened his mouth to speak to me, I was convinced. We left Emeka's house where we were having the reception to his family house in Lagos and he introduced me to his family as his fiancée, same day, few hours after we met. Afterwards, we travelled to see his other family members. At that point, we hadn't gone to see my people. Well, I was just going with the flow. I remember we had to travel from Enugu to Asaba then to Owerri, and came back again to Lagos. All the while, we abstained from sexual acts because he is a Christ Embassy member, I too, a Christian. He proposed twice. First he proposed in Emeka's place without a ring and with a ring in Asaba after visiting his family. 

How did his family take it, considering the bad press at one time or the other?

You know as an artiste, people don't get to know our family background. Surprisingly, he comes from a family of 8 boys and a lady, and he is the first child. Every member of his family is married and responsible. They have a magistrate and various professionals; so everybody is civilized. They weren't in anyway against it and some even haven't even heard of Muma Gee and all the bad and good press, they simply didn't care. They were just surprised; perhaps they felt their brother hooked a big fish. In fact, the family calls me Gift. They don't call me Muma Gee. Trust me; no matter how big you are in life when it comes to family issues, you will be normal.

Apart from Emeka Ike, you have been linked to other men in the past. Was that why you decided to take that chance…

No, I realized I'd taken my music career to a certain stage and decided it was time to get a life. It came and I had to just do it. As an African woman, you are not acknowledged unless you have a man. You have to be answerable to somebody.

Was that the first time you were falling in love?

I was not even in love before I got married, the love grew. I will be honest with you; this was somebody I didn't know. The only thing was that I had confidence; Emeka was my pal, so he could not have seen fire and tell me to put my hand. Emeka Ike played a very vital role in given me confidence in this stranger I did not know but now, I know him more than anyone else in the world. Being a close pal of Emeka, if Emeka is a success story then he is not far from it and that was how I saw it. That thought gave me the confidence at first to say yes. So after that stage, I didn't fold my hands and just watch, I studied him as well and also prayed. When it comes to settling down, you do not relax. You have to pray probably until your knees peel. In my tribe, if you see what I went through before getting married you won't talk of divorce, the letter 'D' will not come out of your mouth. After going through the rigour of taking a wife from my place, Epeye land, you will be mad to send your wife away.

What has changed about you now?

What has changed categorically about me is my rate of working. Now, I work double hard to satisfy my family, and also satisfy my friends and fans out there. As a single woman it was just me, my career and my fans but now there is a lord in my life that is in charge and he has to be in charge. Before now I don't cook my food. Well, I love cooking but due to my schedules, I do not have the time to cook. Now it is mandatory because my husband does not eat outside unless he is not in the location where we live. Even with maids in the house, I still cook his food. Even when you play games and make the food when he is not around, he comes back and tells you that the food is not prepared by his wife. And you cannot force him to eat; in order not to make him starve I have to get into the kitchen.

Our BLACK SKINNED BEAUTY GABOUREY SIDIBE IS Busy Breaking the skinny/no shape/no nose/no lips/no hips/white/girl/standard/of/b2auty/glass/ceiling everywhere! BLACK ON!

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Gabourey Sidibe - Gabourey Sidibe Sent Packing By Squatter Squirrels

23 April 2012 01:46



Picture: Gabourey Sidibe 5th Annual Women In Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party held At Cecconi's Restaurant West Hollywood, California ....

Gabourey Sidibe Sent Packing By Squatter Squirrels

Squirrels have chased Precious star Gabourey Sidibe out of her apartment.

The actress left a window open "a crack" in her New York apartment when she left to spend the Christmas holidays in San Diego, California and she returned to discover the place had become a doss-house for vermin.

She explains, "I left for three weeks... and I come back and it's, like, nine o'clock at night and I walk in to my apartment and it just feels, like, weird and sorta eerie, and I go into my bedroom and I find that squirrels have moved in and they brought in branches... They brought in sticks, they brought in cotton and this cereal box.

"(Apparently) when they find a place they like to eat they return every day to eat there. It's like the new restaurant... I think they were eating there and they started nesting.

"Thank God they weren't there when I got home because I would have freaked out... I panicked and I started calling every boy I know and, like, screaming on the phone, 'You have to get over here...' I didn't want them (squirrels) to return.

"I called my cousin Sean, who is dope... He came all the way from Brooklyn to help me just clean up the sticks... He's college-educated, he's, like, seven-foot tall... and he comes over... and he takes his socks and pulls them over his pants, so that squirrels won't run up his pants."

The actress and her cousin cleaned the place up and then went to bed, only to be woken early the next morning by an angry, homeless squirrel.

She adds, "He's banging on the window... I just start freaking out and throwing things at the window, going, 'Go away squirrel, you're not welcome here'. It literally chilled there all day waiting for me to open the window... I moved the hell out of there... Now I live on the 11th floor. I'm good."

Sibide showed off the extent of the mess her unwelcome visitors left behind during an appearance on late night U.S. show Jimmy Kimmel Live! by presenting the host with photos of the squirrel hell.

Video Link for Gabourey Sidibe 's Interview with Young filmmakers in Houston!

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DIFF Video: Dallas Shining Star Award Recipient Gabourey Sidibe

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Mike Daniel



Words can't accurately depict how vibrant a presence Dallas Shining Star Award honoree Gabourey Sidibe is in person. But this DIFF Video interview with the star of PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE definitely gives you a better idea.

She was kind and thoughtful as she talked about her sudden rise to stardom, how the student filmmakers at last night's DFS Honors ceremony inspire her, and how her studies in psychology inform her acting.

Thanks, Gabby!

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Gabourey Sidibe-Our Black skinned Beauty ! April,2012-after a Nite on the Town!

THIS BLACK SKINNED BEAUTY KNOWS ITS WRONG TO BLEACH!-BLEACH AND DIE!

I eat Chocolate and I exercise for 2hrs -Fayose

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Written by Tayo Gesinde Sunday, 18 March 2012

ShareDefinition of style.
STYLE is a particular way that something is done and when we talk of style in terms of fashion, it means a particular design that suits you, that fits you and something that you decide to do in a  particular way that then becomes your style and which other people may decide to copy.

Dress sense.
When we talk about dressing, I think it comes from within, when you are happy, whatever you put on will look  so elegant as if it is more than it is  actually worth.  Once I am happy, even if I am putting on something that is not more than two hundred naira, as long as I am happy with it, it is okay, I will be happy putting it on. So my mood determines what I wear. Beauty is from within once you are happy, whatever you put on will look nice on you but if you are not happy, no matter how expensive what you are wearing is, it will look hagard on you. So I think your mood determines how you will look when you put on anything.

Beauty regimen.
I don't have a special beauty regimen other than to have my bath once or twice a day depending on the weather. I use Elizabeth Arden's Visible Difference. I have been using that cream on my body for twenty-three years and I use Dr Miracle for my hair. I use Neutrogena bodywash and cleanser and Ghana-soa.  I maintain my skin by drinking lots of water, I don't do facials and that is because when you drink plenty of water, it  will flush out all the toxics in your body and makes your skin look shinning.
Favourite designer.  I must be sincere with you, I do not have any. I'm not a designer-freak. If I see anything I like, I go for it not minding who the designer is.

Favourite perfume.I love perfumes, I use  Tresor, Gucci, Flower Bomb, Mariah Carey, Samsara, just to mention a few. I use any perfume as long as the smell is fantastic.Favourite colours.
I love loud colours because  I don't wear jewellery so I don't like  to wear any colour that will hide me, so to speak. I love red combined with black, I love any shade of blue and yellow.
On make- up.
That is my signature, everybody has one. If I use make-up, nobody will be able to recognise me because they are used to seeing me without it . I stopped using it 15 years ago  based on personal conviction and I can't go back to them again. I  am not condemning those who use it but I won't. I love it that way. As a first lady, some people tried to persuade me to use make-up but I said no, don't even go there.

Choice of accessories.
I love watches, leather watches, Gucci watch,  Fendi, lots of them as long as they are  good and nice. Shoes and bags are my weak point. I buy them alot. In fact, there was a time that I had to pray that  God should assist me in that area, that I should stop buying them. I will say it was answered and not answered. I love them so I still buy them.
Most expensive item in my wardrobe.
I am weak when it comes to clothes and so they are likely to be  the most expensive items in my wardrobe.
Fashion item I can't do without.
What I won't be caught dead wearing.
Three quarter dresses because I am tall. It is either I wear something that is either a little below my knee or long.
Opinion on toning.
To me, toning, bleaching, anything that lightens your skin that changes your God-given colour is not good. Try to maintain what your creator has given you. If death comes and you stand before your creator, will he recognise you when you have changed your colour from black to white? I don't like thatso just maintain your skin.
Opinion on cosmetic surgery.
Well, if it is due to medical reason, I don't have an objection but anything that is not done for medical reason or because that thing is threatening your life, I don't like it and I can't do it. I am not condemning those who do it but personally, I can't go for such surgical operation.
My take on provocative dressing.
Dresses are meant to cover your nakedness. When you wear something  that is provocative, you are vulnerable to attacks such as rape because people who look at you are human beings who have blood and water running through their veins. In my opinion, it is not good to dress provocatively, the Bible too condemns it. It is good to wear something that ministers grace to you and those around you.
Diet and exercise. I exercise for two hours every morning and I watch what I eat, that is the only way one can keep one's body together. Secret of beauty.
God. If you have the peace of God, no matter what you are going through you will always be at peace with yourself and I am  grateful to God.
Special treat.
I eat chocolate. I also relax by reading Christian magazines, listening to music and watching home videos , however, I don't watch just any film, I watch only does that have good messages to pass across.
Hairs and dose nails.
I don't wear long nails so I just do my normal manicure at home, for my hair, I love braids because it last longer even though when you loosen it, you lose some strands of hair but I still prefer it.
Advice to women on how to stay young and beautiful.
Maintain your skin, don't use anything on your skin that may cause skin cancer later on. Eat good food and exercise your body regularly.