Halle Maria Berry celebrated another birthday on August 14 and I'm definitely showing some love to my fave Academy Award winning actress. The Cleveland, OH native turned 47 on Wednesday, is about to become a mother for the second time and looking good doing so. In addition to the historic 2001 Oscar win, Halle Berry has also won a Golden Globe, an Emmy, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an NAACP Image Award.
And for you pageant fans, Halle was the first runner up for Miss USA in 1986.
But I know y'all didn't surf over here to hear me crush on Halle Berry, y'all came here for another reason. It's time my usual Friday blogging 'bidness' of calling out the fool, fool or groups of fools that exhibited jaw dropping ignorance, stupendous stupidity, unparalleled arrogance, and parted their lips to say head scratching WTF statements.
Yep, it's time for this week's version of the TransGriot Shut Up Fool Awards, so let's get right to work determining this week's fool, fools or group of fools who had the wrong stuff to win this week's SUF award because I have a lot of them to wade through.
Honorable Mention number one goes to Randy Thomasson, the ED of Save California (from what, exactly?) who during a CNN debate with the Transgender Law Center's Masen Davis over the just signed AB 1266 law in California that ensures trans teens in the state can participate in activities and use facilities appropriate to their gender presentation. Thomasson waited until the end of it to snidely misgender him.
Honorable Mention number two is a joint award to the Missouri Rodeo KKKlown (who has remained nameless) and Rep Steve Stockman (Teabagger-TX). The rodeo clown wore a President Obama mask and a photo of the insulting display at the Missouri State Fair went viral and earned him a lifetime ban.
Stockman stuck his nose in this steaming pile of feces along with Glenn Beck when he extended an invitation to the still unnamed rodeo clown to perform here in Texas. In a statement released Wednesday, Texas Republican Steve Stockman said that any rodeo in his state would be proud to have the banned clown perform.
"Liberals want to bronco-bust dissent. But Texans value speech, even if it's speech they don’t agree with,” Stockman said in a statement. “From Molly Ivins to Louie Gohmert and every opinion between, Texans value free and open political speech."
"I’m sure any rodeo in Texas would be proud to have performers,” he said.
Naw Steve, I don't think you'll be seeing this Klan Rodeo Klown at either Rodeo Houston or the San Antonio one any time soon. And keep Molly Ivins name out of your teabagging mouth, since you hated on her along with your conservafool friends when she was alive and calling your behinds out when she was at the Ft.Worth Star-Telegram.
Honorable mention number three is the fools at Fox Noise for ramping up their War on Transpeople
Honorable mention number four is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for hatin' on the federal court ruling that declared the NYPD stop and frisk policy that overwhelmingly targets Black and Latino cis and trans people unconstitutional. Numbers don't lie, and neither did your statements about 'stoking fear in Black and Latino youth' that cemented why Judge Scheindlin ruled the way she did.
Honorable mention number five goes to Rep Steve King (Teabagger-IA) who launched into a racist tirade against Latinos and said at a 'Stop Amnesty' rally attended by 30 people that Latinos are from a 'violent civilization' that will bring more violence to America.
That's a ludicrous comment coming from someone descended from an ethnic group that shoots up schools, malls and movie theaters with automatic weapons, dives planes into federal buildings or blows them up, threatens 'Second Amendment remedies' if elections don't go their way, think it's okay to kill an unarmed Black teenager, nearly exterminated Native Americans as they took their land and have a fetishistic attachment to guns.
Honorable mention number six goes to Sen. Rand Paul (Teabagger-KY) who tried to justify the voter suppression law NC just passed by parting his lips to say that African-Americans aren't being stopped from voting.
Oh really? Here's your proof. Voter
Our Shut Up Fool award winner for this week is Russell Simmons, who thought it was hilarious to post a Harriet Tubman sex tape on YouTube and justifiably incurred the wrath of Black Twitter for his ignorance.
Dude, what the hell were you thinking disrespecting Harriet Tubman like that? Especially in light of the fact that one of the things white slave masters routinely did to their female slaves during their 246 years was rape them. And that doesn't even count the times that females unfortunate enough to be captured by slavers and their henchmen were raped on the march to the coastal slave castles, in the slave castles and during the Middle Passage voyage across the Atlantic to the Western Hemisphere before they were sold at auction.
Rape culture isn't funny, and neither is disrespecting a historical icon like Harriet Tubman who helped thousands of our people escape slavery.
Russell Simmons, you not only get a Shut up Fool for this one, you also get the Negro Iz U Sirius?!!!! Award..
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