Melissa Harris-Perry's History Making Show Starts Today

Cornel West and the fundies may not like her, but I definitely have much love for 38 year old Tulane political science professor and rising intellectual superstar Melissa Harris-Perry.

She is the founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South at Tulane and previously served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and Princeton University.

And from the bio, 'Her academic research is inspired by a desire to investigate the challenges facing contemporary black Americans and to better understand the multiple, creative ways that African Americans respond to these challenges.”   She also writes for The Nation and is an MSNBC contributor and fill in host for Dr. Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell.

Translation, the sistah got it going on to the point that MSNBC couldn't deny what she brought to the table and made her the first tenured African-American female professor to have her own national cable show.

She will definitely bring MSNBC's viewers up to speed on how African-Americans view the nation we live in from her learned perspective. 

Cornel can hate on her all he wants, he still doesn't have his own TV show and she does.

I will definitely be getting my butt up later this morning to watch the Melissa Harris-Perry Show which runs from 10 AM-12 noon EST.

The First All African-American Female Flight Crew

I saw it happen twice in my airline career at CAL in which we had a flight with an all African-American flight crew.   In both cases that I witnessed it at my gates it was two African-American male pilots and a combination of male and female African-American flight attendants.

For the passengers on a recent Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight, an Atlanta based Delta Connection regional carrier, little did they know when they boarded that particular trip to their destination they were witnesses to aviation and Black history.

They had boarded the first US airline flight staffed by an all African-American female flight crew comprised of Captaion Rachelle Jones, first officer Stephanie Grant and flight attendants Diana Galloway and Robin Rogers.

On one hand it is a little sad we're talking about a 'Black first' in the second decade of the 21st century, but it still makes me pleased and proud as a former airline employee to see this recent Black history made with this all African-American female flight crew.   

Why You Hatin' On Black Women?

Because the beauty standard elevates white women as the standard bearers of beauty and has for the last four centuries slapped 'unwoman' status on African American women.

Black women are beyond sick and tired of being sick and tired of it.

And yeah, if you haven't noticed, Black transwomen get that 'unwoman' shade hurled at them as well.  It's one of the things we have in common with our African descended cis sisters.

So tell me again, why do you hate on Black women?   It it because you have to spend thousands of plastic surgery dollars and eons in tanning booth to get what she's naturally born with?    Is it because you're in denial that the African descended woman is the mother of humankind? 

Is it because the Black woman is gorgeous?   Men of all ethnicities have desired her fine brown frame for centuries, fought wars (BTW, Cleopatra didn't look like Liz Taylor) and composed music and poems to win her affections.   Whether she is light bright and damn near white to deepest darkest ebony, whether her hair is bone straight, natural, curly, ultrashort or weaved to her curvaceous butt, the Black woman will turn heads and make the men all pause.    

Is it because she is resourceful?    Black women have done it all from free our people from slavery to run corporations and nations.   They can make a way out of no fracking way and started organizations that have uplifted Black women and our people at the same time. 

Is it because she is talented?    Do I even have to go there?   Whether it's the arts, literature, the stage, screen, dance, music or whatever athletic or academic endeavor she chooses to participate in, she will do her award winning best and look good doing so..

Is it because she's intelligent?   Yep.   Some of our people's thought leaders are sisters such as Melissa Harris Perry, Dr. Julia Hare, the late congresswomen Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan, and our First Lady Michelle Obama .  

Is that why you hate on Black women?    Probably so.