Beyonce’s House of Dereon has launched “Dereon Girls” and while the clothes themselves may seem innocent enough (althought a bit trendy), the advertisements have made waves across the net with bloggers everywhere ranting about the young girls featured in the ad posed provocatively in full makeup and high heels. I vote “no” to this nonsense.
Yesterday, I took it upon myself to write a post about the disgusting racist attitude of the owner of Mulligan’s Food & Spirits who proudly sold t-shirts displaying the image of Curious George as Barack Obama. I submitted the pics and the post to Digg.com and to my suprise, encountered a slew of traffic. In a matter of minutes, beginning last night at 10pm, StraightFromTheA.com had over 11,000 hits from digg and today there’s been over 50,000. Because of the unusual amount of traffic, the site has been slower than usual and it’s been difficult to post. There has also been a ton of racist comments and emails received and because of this I am taking the day off today. I am saddened by the blatent displays of ignorance but not suprised, however…I need to get my mind right before I put any words in writing.
I want to apologize to my loyal readers and hopfully things will be resolved by tomorrow.
Thanks to Andisheh Nouraee for the pic above.
I just got this in my inbox last night and I ALMOST didn’t post it….but I couldn’t do it to yall. You deserve to know the truth!! One of my former favorite ATLiens, T.I. went on an Atlanta radio station recently to confirm that Shawty Lo is seeking his acknowledgment in the song “Dunn-Dunn“. In the interview, T.I. tells Shawty Lo to “get in the game first…” and to “do something worth considering first, and then (he) will be acknowledged“. T.I. also goes on to say that if it wasn’t for him, no one would know what Bankhead was. 
Now, am I the only one whose like WTF? Your azz just barely got outta jail and you are really feeling yourself. Tip, for real though…although this interview was very entertaining, I assure you, you have bigger fish to fry than to seek beef with ANYONE. Keep your nose clean…bruh. 4real. You cannot be that stupid.
Check out the full interview after the jump…
My new friends over at Whoohah! brought this commercial to my attention the other day and I want to say I really do pre-shate y’all! Check out Def Jam Atlanta rapper Vawn’s Atlanta Braves commercial, which features Vawn’s new single “Cuz I Hustle.” Now…anyone who knows me is aware that the Braves and I have had a lil falling out over their traffic plan…but we’re workin it out! I still root for the home team but Sargent Dawson just needs to remember to let the “Blue” car through… 
Remember Lil Man-Man who wore his Daddy’s Freaknik shirt to school, well the AJC featured Freaknik today in it’s “Whatever Happened To“ column and I just had to revisit the topic. Freaknik disappeared because it was no longer the college picnic that it started as. I know I’m old….but I remember Freaknik as a joyous gathering of classmates who couldn’t (or didn’t want to) go home for spring break. Everyone just chilled and brought a bottle.
Each year it got bigger and bigger as more out of town students joined in. The “outsiders” turned the hometown event into a car show which eventually morphed into some kind of crazy “Freakfest” where there were strippers in vans and ghetto hoochies in Toyota’s all taking it off for whoever asked.
If you don’t remember, I have video taped proof of the nonsense…
