Why You So Fresh?? Behind The Scenes Pic From Another Upcoming Film, "Ghost Writer"

For those of you that have been the slightest bit curious as to "what's next for ol' Bee Moe?", well, here's an idea.....

Not much to report for this entry......just a picture that speaks louder than any words imaginable. No, we're not headed to church or somebody's funeral. We are in character for our roles in the new production, "Ghost Writer". I play "Billy", a conservative and well-dressed cat and the guy on the right in the picture is accomplished actor, Jermaine Williams who plays a detective in the film.

3 roles under my belt.....thanks TPN1 family! Shout-out to the cast and crew of "Ghost Writer" and special thanks to DeWitt Jones. All things are possible through God.

The Effect of Hip-Hop on White Girls

I know it's been a few months since my last post, but I've had to get over a bout of swine flu, work on my upcoming soundtrack and screenplay and take a moment of appear in my latest movie. At any rate, I'm back for yet another wild and crazy post.

I can't tell you how many times I've ventured onto some white girls' myspaces and was amazed at what I saw AND what I heard on their respective pages. Not amazed in a negative sense.....but moreso amazed at the influence of URBAN hip-hop on SUBURBAN white kids, girls in particular.

Yes, there is a point to this because this explosion isn't front page news any longer. White kids are buying more hip-hop than black kids and women make up the majority of all buyers of hip-hop albums. Hip-hop is indirectly (or directly, depending on how you look at it) responsible for the style of dress of these white girls, the "wigger" attitude and rebellion that most need to defy their uptight parents, and of course, the attention now being paid to "the new phenomenon".......white girls with a little more "junk in the trunk" than their predecessors had. These "new" white girls are getting more black dick than many black women these days and what was once "taboo" is now being more widely accepted, embraced......and wanted......by both parties! Songs like Young Jeezy's "White Girl (Christina Aguilera)" and other popular rap and hip-hop songs of this nature help to bring this issue to light in many different social settings amongst many different cultures. Now, it's not uncommon to see lower, middle AND upper class white girls affected in some way by the hip-hop culture. Check the following video:



Instances like these leave me scratching my head wondering exactly what the obsession is here? I mean, for a guy like me, it's cool. Doesn't bother me at all. My issues arise when after they (being the white girls) have grown up a bit, why then do they choose to leave this lifestyle behind, presumably sweep it under a rug and run off to marry a white man? Fear of being written out of the will? Fear of being shunned by family? If you liked something before, why does it have to change later?

Anyhoo, this was just a small post to whet appetites and see what the responses will be. Those responses will determine how much further I elect to delve into this topic......


Peace!

Behind The Scenes Pics From My Upcoming Film "From Thy Love , Part 2"

Whoo-hoo! I play another thug. This one, a drug dealer from the 70's. I don't care. It's a good look regardless and I'm excited about being a part of this new film and gracious for the opportunity to be in it with some seasoned up and comers. I'll blog later on about the film itself when the trailers are finished. For now, check me out in these pics!

Oprah, you bitch! Did we REALLY need this??

This story may be a bit stale at this point, but I have yet to give my two cents on it. First of all, I am outraged AND confused as to why Oprah even got involved with this KFC promotion to begin with. Oprah has basically left the black community hanging in limbo while she has been embraced by white AmeriKKKa, white soccermoms, white stay-at-home moms, white MILFS, etc., while distancing herself from anything black except the occasional Denzel Washington visit to her set or that dumb, ass sucking best bud of hers Gayle King.

So......why in the free world would Oprah Winfrey get behind the massive issuing of CHICKEN of all things to black America? Now, I'm sure she didn't go into this concerning herself with us po' lil' black folk. After all, Oprah ain't been black since The Color Purple. However, Oprah has this huge following and maybe she......nah, fuck it. I'm not falling for it. Oprah knew damn well that BLACK PEOPLE were going to go apeshit behind some damn grilled chicken! I have yet to see one white person come out of a KFC restaurant with bucket of this greasy shit! Black people.....well, in this case, NIGGAS were raiding KFC restaurants across the country with coupons in hand! I was completely oblivious to this bullshit because one, I DON'T WATCH NOR ENDORSE OPRAH WINFREY and two, I was on my way back from Houston, TX and just by chance, decided to stop at a KFC and get something to eat other than Mickey D's. Imagine my surprise when I started seeing dudes damn near about to jack up the manager and bitching about these coupons. I turned to my fiancee like, "what the hell is all of this about?" We truly were not in the know. It was only after we got home and saw all the news reports were we taken aback by all of the dust-up behind Oprah's "brilliant" (sarcasm) marketing ploy. For the life of me, I cannot see or understand why Oprah would get involved with the massive doling out of grilled chicken, which is stereotypically associated with black people. Oprah doesn't even acknowledge or is supportive of black people AS A WHOLE to begin with. It's common knowledge how she refuses to acknowledge POSITIVE rappers, who are a particular demographic of our people. The Hip-Hop community doesn't embrace Oprah Winfrey. I am personally offended that Oprah would seemingly play into this widely known and believed stereotype. Yes, I realize that white people eat chicken and that the majority of Oprah fanbase are middle to upper class white people, but I certainly believe that she knew when she undertook this "chicken project" that it would cause such a stir and uproar within our community. Another reason to denounce Oprah as one of our own.

Furthermore, shouldn't anything food-related be the furthest thing from Oprah's mind??















Next time Oprah, if you want to "act" like you're helping, bypass the damn chicken and try something like free immunizations, you asshole.

Footage From The Final Day of Shooting of "For Thy Love, Part 2"

We had some extra room on the tape, so the cast and crew decided to play. Check me out on the far left in the white Kangol. I came in 3rd on the first run ONLY because I let up, plus we were in the rain, for cryin' out loud! Not gonna catch me falling on tape! LOL!

I'll be posting some production pics soon!

Last day of FOR THY LOVE 2 shoot

Bee Moe $lim at the Red Carpet World Premiere of "Night Of The Jackals"

More footage from the world premiere of "Night Of The Jackals"!!

RANT WARNING!! The segregation of the man as a component of the parental unit

THE SEGREGATION OF THE MAN AS A COMPONENT OF THE PARENTAL UNIT

This starts from the first visit to the doctor's office with your pregnant girlfriend, fiancee or wife...whichever applies to you. If you think I'm bullshittin', understand that I've personally gone through this 4 times now. It doesn't matter that this last time was via an interracial union...the story remains the same.

The nurses in the office do NOT respect your position as the man of the relationship....the very reason why this girl is even in the office to begin with. They rarely acknowledge to you. They don't speak you unless they are asking you to go sit in the lobby or the waiting area. Bullshit. I'm there to support every aspect of this pregnancy. Why should I have to be away from my girl when she wants and needs me there? The nurses act like you have no reason to be there.

It only gets worse from here.

Should things not work out between you and your the mother of your child and a split is unavoidable, more than likely, your path will lead you to some court of law where you will see just how unbalanced the laws are in favor of the mother. The man gets the shaft most often than not. Currently, I am going through a situation where I'm being obligated to pay my 2nd "babymama's" child support for a son that she refuses to let me see. She tells me that he doesn't know me and that she's not going to "do this" to him. When I last spoke to him on Thanksgiving, he started crying in the phone because he misses his daddy. She is clearly using him as a pawn. The law lets her get away with this. We both created him.....it was I who determined what sex he eventually was due to the chromosome (biology talk which I will not go into here, but the MAN determines the sex of the child).....all a woman does is carry and birth the child. Sounds like it is a combined effort to bring a child into the world. So why must I go through the process of legitimization alone? Why must I be held responsible to provide child support, yet not have equal parental rights? It's not fair. Everyone, even those in the judicial system knows it's not fair. Why isn't anything being done about this to even the playing field?

Well, as I understand it now, during the process of determining child support, now BOTH parties income is factored in. Before then, a woman could be working a regular 9 to 5, getting money from her NEW man and the father would still be responsible for providing child support for a child who more than likely didn't even need it OR even saw a dime of it. Now, I am not saying that a father shouldn't provide for his children, but the point of the entire thing is to ensure that the child is taken care of financially. If a mother has that already, what then is the point? The courts have lost sight of that and has used child support as a means of exacting punishment against the father and given unnecessary power to the mother. Too many times women have had children as a way to receive a payday and most often than not, monies received in child support are never used to support the child. Don't forget that we are talking about a gender that for the most part lives to shop. Do not be blind to this fact. I've seen my fair share of women using child support money to buy themselves new shoes, clothes and whatever in the hell else that they want because the child has already been taken care of. Even this is not fair. To use child support to "replenish" the mother's pocketbook just because she has used her money on the child.....I find a bit of fault in that from this perspective: are we absolving the mother from having to also provide child support from a monetary position?? Are we saying that the father is the only way required to PAY MONEY? That roof that is currently over the child's head would already be there regardless of if the child was born or not, so how is that truly providing child support from the mother's perspective? You can't use this argument. The woman using child support money to pay the cable or internet bill is NOT providing child support in the technical sense. That is a luxury that she benefits from more than the child. Again, you can't use this argument. The child would prosper just the same WITHOUT it.

What's even worse than all of this is the fact that when this woman goes out to place a father on child support, she is usually scorned and bitter over whatever went wrong in the relationship and now all of a sudden, it's mandatory that the father now be held responsible for providing support for the child. OK, I get that. So why not put a father on child support FROM DAY ONE? They wait until the relationship deteriorates and then the mother wants to get the last punch in and walk away unscathed, to wait on their eventual payday? The mother goes to the local child support or DFACS office and goes through the process only to wind up not receiving full compensation because she was too stupid to realize that this is a service provided to assist her meaning, they ain't gonna do the shit for free! That's right. The money that they are trying to take from the father.....there's a portion of that going to the same office that they ran to for help. So now, that too is the father's fault! Back to my 2nd "babymama"......this idiot attempted to place me on child support once I become involved in another relationship after she clearly showed that she didn't want to be with me and raise our son together. She made it clear through a series of events......putting me out of her car in the middle of the street, not once but twice, locking my personal belongings up in her apartment, disappearing and not answering her phone, numerous times where she kicked me out of her apartment only to get mad when a chick came to pick me up (not understanding that one at all!), purposely starting fights and the all important stabbing that led her to be charged with aggravated assault ($20,000 bond) to which I never pursued OR pressed charges only because she was pregnant with my boy. The second I got with my current girlfriend, fiancee and soon to be mother of my 4th child, what do you know?? Here comes the child support order! LMAO! Things is, I was already on child support from the mother of my first two kids. I wasn't working and still not due in part to my criminal record and this ever-loving economy. She already knew well in advance about my first child support order, so why did she play herself and go in there to exact revenge on me? Because I wasn't generating any income, her order came out to be $120 a month. Is it any surprise that she got PISSED when she got (let her tell it) a $19 check for child support?? Of course, that too was my fault. If she hates me so much, can anyone reading this tell me why this dumb bitch still tries to come to every family event and function that my family has? She forces it down everyone's throat that she and my son are a "package deal". She is jealous and scorned that I have moved on and now have the family life that I had been wanting. In her own words, she said this past Christmas in front of my mother and aunt that "she got the short end of the stick". What in the fuck does that mean??

OK, I've gotten a bit off of the subject, but it is a RANT.....

At least you can hopefully see where I was going with this entire subject. Men and fathers are getting shitted on and we take it because we have no rights or anyone fighting for us. It starts almost from the beginning and it becomes a neverending losing battle. Ideally, I would like to get together with other fathers who are going through similar issues along with lawmakers, politicians, attorneys, lawyers, news media and anyone who can help to correct these problems. All it takes is for one man to take a stand against the injustice.