Good Bye Stephanie Edwards...Week 2 Elimination
WEEK 2 ELIMINATION...Wednesday March 21, 2007:
Who knew? We lost a singer this week in a singing competition.
The first runner up (Chris Richardson) had his best week of the season and was nearly voted off. The worst of the worst, Sanjaya, with a little help from Idol Producers...Did you hear? They auditioned for the "little girl" and put her in the front and she was on every camera angle (all scripted)...The crying could have been real tears. This guaranteed Sanjaya extra teeny bopper votes and kept him on for another week.
A miracle...Phil and Gina were spared? Dial Idol had Phil Stacey as the #2 vote getter and Sanjaya at #5. However, Gina and Haley were #10 and #11 respectively.
You may want to scroll down and review my Sanjaya Malakar post again (Sanjaya Malakar Theory: March 14, 2007). Has anyone spotted Michael Jackson lately?
I have a theory on tonight's elimination. Sick as usual, but possibly viable. In Vermont, this discussion may not be applicable as race does not play a roll in your day to day lives. However, Senator Leahy must be an expert on race relations because he constantly is offering advise to those of us in the South.
Stephanie Edwards, who was eliminated this evening is from Savannah, Georgia, a historic southern city. Savannah was one of the only major Georgia cities spared from destruction by General Sherman's march to the sea during the Civil War and the City of Savannah was presented to President Lincoln as a gift and the Civil War ended pretty soon thereafter.
However, generations of Georgians have never forgiven the North for what Sherman did to our homes, livestock, food storage and countryside from Atlanta all the way to Savannah. Even more northern atrocities came upon the South after the Civil War during Reconstruction. Southern crackers eventually gained power and used their power to bully the black race and pass unconscienable laws to restrict them in all walks of life. Over time people have mistakenly begun to believe that the Civil War was fought primarily over slavery, which is false and this sub human treatment of the blacks by the southern rednecks and power hungry supremisists has led to extreme racial tension all over the south...The Confederate Flag is a heritage issue but southern crackers fly it and they hate Jews, black folks, and anyone who doesn't have black teeth, pick their noses and chew tobacco like them, but the NAACP has decided that red necks are a powerful force and has taken a stand against the Confederate Flag.
My question for the northerners (Not Vermont, because you have no black people)...What's your excuse for being racist? I grew up in Stamford, CT and my mom invited a black boy, Ellis Crawford, to my third grade birthday party in Shippan Point in 1955 and she got calls from the neighbors!!!...ooops, that's another topic.
I tell you all of this because Stephanie Edwards was eliminated tonight for several reasons and I think the color of her skin was one of the main reasons.
1. The first of which is because she did not get enough votes. American Idol is a huge ratings success in the State of Georgia. Diana DeGarmo from Snellville, GA made it to the final two...She was white! She lost to Fantasia, from Greenville...a black girl, not from Georgia. NOT ENOUGH VOTES. She has been the low vote getter for many weeks now including the weeks before she got to the final 12.
Augusta and Savannah are very similar cities, but Savannah is more progessive and does have a sea port. James Brown was from Augusta but he could not get 1,000 people to attend any show that he put on here because blacks always attend his shows and whites will not attend much in Augusta if there will be a large black attendence.
We have 5 black commissioners and 5 white commissioners and a white mayor...they vote 5-5 and the mayor can not break a tie vote. There are 5 black districts and 5 white districts. There is very little compromising. Most of the black and white citizens that can afford to have moved to neighboring counties outside of Augusta.
2. Stephanie Edwards was one of my Fab 4. I think she was #4 and the votes got diluted and she was the short end of the stick, but I still don't see how she finished behind Gina, Sanjaya or Phil.
3. Stephanie Edwards was black and proud of it. She sung black songs and soul music. I think the audience has been disappointed with Fantasia because she doesn't sing songs that they enjoy buying and playing. Stephanie never really sung any songs that voters could identify with. She had a great voice, but continued to choose terrible songs. In Georgia, we are still shell shocked over Cynthia McKinney and we judge our public black women carefully. Atlanta is an urban city and does not care who they elect...Black is beautiful whether she is competent or not. Cynthia McKinney is in the dictionary: "racist"
If Stephanie were like Melinda, Jordin, or Lakeesha, she could get our votes, but with her short hair we are reminded of black activists and remember Angela Davis...No Way...If she thinks she wants to be Beyonce...then try to look like her...
Next week we must endure Sanjaya again...I won't listen...If Idol doesn't get rid of him soon, no one else will be listening either.
Who knew? We lost a singer this week in a singing competition.
The first runner up (Chris Richardson) had his best week of the season and was nearly voted off. The worst of the worst, Sanjaya, with a little help from Idol Producers...Did you hear? They auditioned for the "little girl" and put her in the front and she was on every camera angle (all scripted)...The crying could have been real tears. This guaranteed Sanjaya extra teeny bopper votes and kept him on for another week.
A miracle...Phil and Gina were spared? Dial Idol had Phil Stacey as the #2 vote getter and Sanjaya at #5. However, Gina and Haley were #10 and #11 respectively.
You may want to scroll down and review my Sanjaya Malakar post again (Sanjaya Malakar Theory: March 14, 2007). Has anyone spotted Michael Jackson lately?
I have a theory on tonight's elimination. Sick as usual, but possibly viable. In Vermont, this discussion may not be applicable as race does not play a roll in your day to day lives. However, Senator Leahy must be an expert on race relations because he constantly is offering advise to those of us in the South.
Stephanie Edwards, who was eliminated this evening is from Savannah, Georgia, a historic southern city. Savannah was one of the only major Georgia cities spared from destruction by General Sherman's march to the sea during the Civil War and the City of Savannah was presented to President Lincoln as a gift and the Civil War ended pretty soon thereafter.
However, generations of Georgians have never forgiven the North for what Sherman did to our homes, livestock, food storage and countryside from Atlanta all the way to Savannah. Even more northern atrocities came upon the South after the Civil War during Reconstruction. Southern crackers eventually gained power and used their power to bully the black race and pass unconscienable laws to restrict them in all walks of life. Over time people have mistakenly begun to believe that the Civil War was fought primarily over slavery, which is false and this sub human treatment of the blacks by the southern rednecks and power hungry supremisists has led to extreme racial tension all over the south...The Confederate Flag is a heritage issue but southern crackers fly it and they hate Jews, black folks, and anyone who doesn't have black teeth, pick their noses and chew tobacco like them, but the NAACP has decided that red necks are a powerful force and has taken a stand against the Confederate Flag.
My question for the northerners (Not Vermont, because you have no black people)...What's your excuse for being racist? I grew up in Stamford, CT and my mom invited a black boy, Ellis Crawford, to my third grade birthday party in Shippan Point in 1955 and she got calls from the neighbors!!!...ooops, that's another topic.
I tell you all of this because Stephanie Edwards was eliminated tonight for several reasons and I think the color of her skin was one of the main reasons.
1. The first of which is because she did not get enough votes. American Idol is a huge ratings success in the State of Georgia. Diana DeGarmo from Snellville, GA made it to the final two...She was white! She lost to Fantasia, from Greenville...a black girl, not from Georgia. NOT ENOUGH VOTES. She has been the low vote getter for many weeks now including the weeks before she got to the final 12.
Augusta and Savannah are very similar cities, but Savannah is more progessive and does have a sea port. James Brown was from Augusta but he could not get 1,000 people to attend any show that he put on here because blacks always attend his shows and whites will not attend much in Augusta if there will be a large black attendence.
We have 5 black commissioners and 5 white commissioners and a white mayor...they vote 5-5 and the mayor can not break a tie vote. There are 5 black districts and 5 white districts. There is very little compromising. Most of the black and white citizens that can afford to have moved to neighboring counties outside of Augusta.
2. Stephanie Edwards was one of my Fab 4. I think she was #4 and the votes got diluted and she was the short end of the stick, but I still don't see how she finished behind Gina, Sanjaya or Phil.
3. Stephanie Edwards was black and proud of it. She sung black songs and soul music. I think the audience has been disappointed with Fantasia because she doesn't sing songs that they enjoy buying and playing. Stephanie never really sung any songs that voters could identify with. She had a great voice, but continued to choose terrible songs. In Georgia, we are still shell shocked over Cynthia McKinney and we judge our public black women carefully. Atlanta is an urban city and does not care who they elect...Black is beautiful whether she is competent or not. Cynthia McKinney is in the dictionary: "racist"
If Stephanie were like Melinda, Jordin, or Lakeesha, she could get our votes, but with her short hair we are reminded of black activists and remember Angela Davis...No Way...If she thinks she wants to be Beyonce...then try to look like her...
Next week we must endure Sanjaya again...I won't listen...If Idol doesn't get rid of him soon, no one else will be listening either.
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