We Are All Lil’ Kim!
July 11th, 2005 at 9:10 am by Preston Taylor Holmes
USA Today columnist Yolanda Young says that recently-convicted rapper/debutante “Lil’ Kim” (a/k/a Kimberly Jones) is yet another victim of “lying for men.” (Please pardon the Fisking, but it’s just so ripe…)
Two things jump out here – first and foremost, Lil’ Kim is a victim. In other words, this kind of thing could happen to any of us at any time. WE ARE ALL LIL’ KIM!
Second, Young views a thug who engages in a gunfight outside a radio station as merely an irresponsible man. Irresponsible is not paying the utility bill. Irresponsible is losing your keys. Engaging in a gunfight with another bunch of rap thugs is not irresponsible. Lil’ Kim is not the first victim of irresponsible men, however…
God bless President Clifford. He spent 8 years teaching America how to avoid personal responsibility for its own actions. He also taught us that perjury isn’t really punishable by law, so it’s understandable that Lil’ Kim’s followers would be angry and confused by the conviction. But most importantly, when will the epidemic of young black women victimized by irresponsible men ever end???
Unfortunately, Smith and Jones are not aberrations. Instead, their cases have become fairly commonplace among women. The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that the female prison population has increased from 68,468 in 1995 to 101,179 in 2003. An American Civil Liberties Union-sponsored paper, “Caught in the Net,” attributes some of this increase to women who are convicted on factors related to their men using or selling drugs.
Maybe it is an epidemic. Just look at the numbers! If the ACLU says it’s so, it must be so.
Let Lil’ Kim’s tragic example of victimhood be a lesson to all of us. WE ARE ALL LIL’ KIM!
Cross-posted at Beth’s Place
July 11th, 2005 at 11:39 am
Unbelievable. I hate people who can’t take responsibility for their own actions. Yolanda must be a liberal.
July 11th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
Heh. You might be Lil’ Kim, Preston. I remain in my previous status of ‘Infidel.’
July 11th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
I used to be Lil’ Kim, but then I decided to be Da Brat. But that wasn’t working for me, so I was Missy for a while and now I’m back to Madonna before she married Guy Ritchie.
July 11th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
Lunch: 7/11/2005
The offerings are few, with Internet connectivity still not up to speeed, but we do offer these specials with your lunch: The Jawa Report has the dead and missing in London. Michelle Malkin reports on the MoveOn.org underwear police. Conservative
July 11th, 2005 at 6:53 pm
Martha Stewart Speaks Out on Behalf of Lil’ Kim an
Today, during an episode of her latest cooking show, “Calaboose Cuisine”, Martha Stewart went off scipt and launched into an emotional tirade in support of her convict friends, Lil’ Kim and Judith Miller.
July 11th, 2005 at 11:33 pm
Looks like the Rev. Jesse Jackson mail order course of “Be a Professional Victim, Make Millions” is paying off for Li’l Kim and a few others.
July 12th, 2005 at 1:30 am
Damn what a skanky ho she is. No telling what kinds of nastys she be spreading to the other cons in the big house.
July 12th, 2005 at 10:17 am
Seriously, I thought that was a photo of a man.
July 12th, 2005 at 7:59 pm
Love this story so much that I stripped down in front of the mirror, tucked my penis between my legs, put on my favorite wig and chanted, “I am Li’l Kim, I am Li’l Kim” for like two hours.
July 12th, 2005 at 10:47 pm
But how big are your knockers, Buffalo Bill?
July 12th, 2005 at 11:09 pm
Ew.
July 13th, 2005 at 12:41 am
Big enough to fit a camel.