eveschmeve
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Mar 7, 2005 15:24:15 GMT -4
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Post by eveschmeve on May 24, 2018 23:11:15 GMT -4
Kanye paid $85,000 for the rights to one of the National Enquirer photos of her messy drug filled bathroom so he could use it as the cover of Pusha T’s new album.
Not like I’m expecting restraint and good judgement from Kanye, but let the damn woman rest.
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Post by Babycakes on May 24, 2018 23:53:26 GMT -4
Kanye paid $85,000 for the rights to one of the National Enquirer photos of her messy drug filled bathroom so he could use it as the cover of Pusha T’s new album. Not like I’m expecting restraint and good judgement from Kanye, but let the damn woman rest. Whoa. That's a whole new low. Let the women rest. Jesus. I hope Bobby breaks his jaw.
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Post by ladyboy on May 25, 2018 8:47:26 GMT -4
I think karma's got Kanye in its sights.
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suekel
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Post by suekel on May 25, 2018 11:29:07 GMT -4
BK lived in Atlanta. There is a strong black successful community with role models BK could have really learned some valuable life lessons from. She had the resources to live whatever kind of life she wanted. Financial resources certainly, but not the emotional resources. If you grow up half abandoned and no one ever shows you a better path, it can be hard to go find one on your own. Not impossible of course, but I still have sympathy for her.
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Post by Ginger on May 25, 2018 12:46:29 GMT -4
To borrow a phrase from politics, Bobbi Kristina's path to victory was extremely narrow.
Her fate was all but sealed when her mother invited a predator into their home as a "brother" and then died and left her in his clutches.
Last I heard, it's not provable but extremely likely that this guy murdered her. A 22 year old murdered by her boyfriend didn't exactly have much time to get her life on track.
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Post by Babycakes on May 25, 2018 16:32:16 GMT -4
BK lived in Atlanta. There is a strong black successful community with role models BK could have really learned some valuable life lessons from. She had the resources to live whatever kind of life she wanted. I may be mis-remembering my old school gossip, but I believe that BK was molested by an uncle(?) when they were still living in New Jersey. Part of the reason they fled to Atlanta was to dodge social services up north, or so the story goes. By the time they made it to Atlanta she was already ruined*. I don't recall any notion of her getting a mentor (Tyler Perry was the one bold faced name I remember in the mix) until after Whitney died. She was already a hard core drug user and had been for years by that time. If anyone in their orbit truly gave a damn about her, they would have taken her from Whitney and Bobby in New Jersey and raised her out of the drug dens and spotlight. That poor child never stood a chance. All the adults in her life were junkies and opportunists. *Ruined in the "lost cause" sense, not the "girls are sex objects and must be pure" sense. She was molested, neglected, exposed to domestic violence, drug use, and who knows what else. All the while a series of cameras tagged along. She needed one adult to be sober and willing to get cut off from the crack/fame train to do the right thing and look out for BK's best interest.
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Post by Mouse on May 25, 2018 18:10:06 GMT -4
I wonder about that family friend, Aunt Bae, who cared for her for the first eight years of her life. Who is this person and what was home life like with her?
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celerydunk
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May 3, 2005 21:57:59 GMT -4
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Post by celerydunk on May 25, 2018 18:38:29 GMT -4
I have no doubt BK had an awful childhood. But someone has to break the cycle. She had resources that people that come out of even worse childhoods don't.
I know I sound like I'm victim blaming. I feel bad for BK because her parents both really failed her. I guess I'm just frustrated because I hate to think of anyone going through their lives so sad and broken and never finding their way out.
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Post by Mutagen on May 25, 2018 18:47:05 GMT -4
But how many people figure out how to break the cycle by age 22?? Even people with far less going against them still struggle with their life path at that age.
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celerydunk
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Post by celerydunk on May 25, 2018 19:12:21 GMT -4
I've volunteered with some highschoolers from awful backgrounds that had their lives together in a way I never will and I've worked with some middle aged people that really make me wonder about their basic life skills. I think some people have something inside of them that makes them more equipped for anything life throws at them. She was clearly more sensitive. And I'm not saying that in negative way - we are all just wired differently.
I can completely see how she was on that path that led to her early death, but it doesn't mean I can't be sad for what she could have done.
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