Another beautiful wedding

[evanovitch]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
oh my. It took me several looks before I figured out who the bride and groom were..... </div></div>

shim dress neva do anyting fi shim,

[Pepper]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

shim dress neva do anyting fi shim, </div></div>

True, but him hair a say a million and one doah.

[seemiyah]

O oh...oonu betta be careful!

<span style="font-weight: bold">Email about gay wedding creates controversy for Morehouse
University president vows to investigate employee's negative remarks about men's ceremony</span>

Morehouse College President Robert Franklin is promising to take &quot;prompt and appropriate action&quot; after two members of his staff forwarded an email of a stylish gay wedding ceremony and one made anti-gay comments.

The email, sent to Southern Voice after making the rounds through Fulton County government, included the following lines from Sandra Bradley, an administrative assistant who works in Franklin’s office. The email includes more than a dozen pictures that show a lavish wedding ceremony between two unidentified black gay men earlier this month.


“I can’t believe this wedding. It’s 2 men. They don’t smile in a lot of pictures and they look like a few brothers I’ve seen in the streets looking STRAGHT. Black women can’t get a break, either our men want another man, a white woman (or other nationality that’s light with straight hair), they are locked up in jail or have a “use to be” fatal disease. I’m beginning to believe Eve was a black woman and we Black women are paying for all the world’s sins through her actions (eating the apple),&quot; Bradley wrote.


Bradley appears to have received the email from a coworker at Morehouse, both of whom used their work email addresses.


Vanessa Crites, who does not work at Morehouse, received the email from her partner, who works for Fulton County, and said she was shocked by the comments.


“I almost started to cry. I almost could not believe what I was looking at, and I thought that Dr. Franklin needed to know,” Crites said. “I think she covered all biases, she’s discriminating against gay black men, she’s discriminating against white women, she’s discriminating against people with HIV.”


Crites did some research on Franklin and discovered a speech he gave where the Morehouse president spoke of greater inclusion of gays and lesbians, and believes that Franklin should issue an apology.


&quot;I think if he’s going to address a group of people and take a public stand against discrimination then the people in his office should be of the same mindset,” she said.


Crites sent an email to Franklin, which she copied to Southern Voice, to inform him of the situation.


&quot;I am beyond horrified and deeply saddened that a staff member working so closely with you could think that this type of blatant bigotry would be acceptable or tolerated by your offices, especially after your address earlier this year to your student body,&quot; she wrote.


Calls to Morehouse College seeking comment were not immediately returned, but Franklin sent a response to Crites, which he copied to Southern Voice.


“Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are investigating and will take appropriate and prompt action,” he wrote.


The chain of emails appears to have been launched by a woman named Rachel Goins, who forwarded the pictures with the caption, “Speechless……”


Goins said she doesn’t know the couple and doesn’t know Bradley.


“It was just sent to me, and I forwarded it out to a few people,” she said.

The weddings pictures are of Michael Cole Smith and Jamil Smith Cole — they took each other's last names and use their original surnames as middle names — who were married on Sept. 13 in Minneapolis.

The two met at Atlanta’s Black Gay Pride in 2007 while Jamil was living in

Detroit. Jamil re-located to Minneapolis, where Michael has lived for 20

years, and the two own their own hair salon.

They posted the pictures on their Facebook page, and someone apparently

downloaded them and started the email chain. The pictures have turned up on a a dozen African American blogs, where the comments are often hurtful and homophobic.

“I don’t get how so many people took it as a personal attack, because it was

our wedding, it was something personal to us,” Jamil told Southern Voice.

[applepie]

Re: O oh...oonu betta be careful!

<span style="font-weight: bold">I am beyond horrified and deeply saddened that a staff member working so closely with you could think that this type of blatant bigotry would be acceptable or tolerated by your offices, especially after your address earlier this year to your student body,&quot; she wrote. </span>

so you are suppose to be responsible fe other people views/ideas/opinions too?.........what does the president of the school have to do with this person?

[Blackstar*]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BiziBubbla</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">mi naw go badda poas de kissing pix dem </span> </div></div>Post the links then.



Please.

[Suesumba]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

if they wanted their ceremony to be private shouldn't they have kept it so? facebook is open to everyone with access to a computer and a connection.

i can't wait to see birthing pictures on facebook. caz i know it's coming. everyone is a star.

[CeaBee]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

not really.

the pics would only be available to their &quot;friends&quot;. Now if them have 200 &quot;friends&quot;..chances are someone is really an acquaintance and something like this woulda happen

[Suesumba]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

noted. PL.

[Bizzy]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BiziBubbla</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">mi naw go badda poas de kissing pix dem </span> </div></div>Post the links then.



Please. </div></div>

Got them in email and had to upload to my pbucket fi get dem on here..i didnt upload de kiss pics and mi delete de email mi get dem in.

the person who forward them to mi is a boardie...amybe shi still have dem an can post..

[Nunya]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BiziBubbla</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">mi can juss imagine how di sheet dem get blakkup when a gwan and him still chry look pretty </div></div>

oh sue!!! TMI </div></div>

I think she meant black from the yeyebrow colour...????

Anyway, I thought the *bride* was one of the Leverts...

And I'm almost sure I saw that Madea dude wearing a *coat/jacket* similar to the *bride's* wedding dress...

[Bizzy]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

Tyler Perry??

[neutral]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">mi batty a hat mi </div></div>

Thats probably what he'll be saying after the honeymoon night.

[britisha]

Re: Another beautiful wedding

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: neutral</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">mi batty a hat mi </div></div>

Thats probably what he'll be saying after the honeymoon night. </div></div>

No yuh didn't !!