We Say "No, No, NO"

Amy Winehouse had this to say regarding her Blaaaaaaaaake incaaaaaarcerated's baby-on-the-way with his rehab (irony!) girlfriend: "I couldn't have given him kids - and anyway I want black kids, not white kids."

Upon reading this, my head exploded. What's wrong with White kids? SHE'S White! Sadly, I have no doubt in my mind that if Amy's battered and broken body can even create a fetus, she won't have a problem finding a willing Black man to help her make those dreams come true. A lot of brothers will stick their magic stick in a rusty can if there's a White pussy attached. Shoot, a lot of of 'em would run up in Paris Hilton, so long as there's a White pussy inside. Tell me I'm lying. Risking gangrene, typhus or what ever nasty heroin user woman's disease Amy has would be nothing to some of your brothers and friends. And she got money? Shoot, she's in the game. Less teeth just equals better head, right?

Amy stay trying to get in to stuff she has no business with. First, a clothing line (!!!!!!) and now motherhood? I am disturbed at the notion of Amy Winehouse bearing/adopting/touching a child of any race.



She is CASE IN POINT as to why I believe there should be some sort of screening process for who gets to be a parent or not, which I will discuss further soon. Imagine, Amy Winehouse: junkie, alcholoic, possible latent racist. The biggest hit of her musical career has been "Rehab", where she publicly declared her refusal to heal herself. My favorite line is "'Cause there's nothing you can teach me/that I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway". Mr Hathaway, of course, being Donnie Hathatway. A brilliant and tortured Soul singer...who threw himself off of a balcony.

I'm not judging Amy for being addicted. I am simply stating facts, this is a woman who has had a very public and long term struggle with her vices and that struggle doesn't seem to be over. Thus, motherhood should be the last thing on her mind. You couldn't be trying to create life until you have learned how to sustain your own. Fiscally, physically, mentally.

But if we are to entertain this Amy-as-mother foolishness for the time being, what in the hell does she mean she "wants Black babies"? Does she want to pull the Madonna/Brangelina move and adopt kids from Africa? I can't co-sign that, as (whether you agree with their adoptions 100% or not)those two families have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to helping devastated peoples from those parts of the world where their kids came from. Is Amy like "I can haz Africa baby too?" Uh, no. Malawi is not trying to give Madonna a second child, where exactly do you think a junkie can show up and get an African baby? Legally?

So, is Amy just interested in having biracial children? Isn't that a little sick and backwards? I thought the interest in having mixed kids came AFTER falling in love with a man of another race. Does Amy just think Black kids are cuter or cooler? Something just ain't right about desiring to have children of another race, because they are of that other race. It's as if she has no concept of the challenges of the biracial child! Or thinks that they are worth enduring just because you WANT a Black child, not because you have a Black partner. I'm so confused, but I know that there is no possible way she can justify that desire. She sounds like those women on Tyra talking about having non-Black baby daddies to ensure their children will be light and "cute".

Whatever her reasons may be, I will speak as a former Black child and tell her "Thank you, but no thanks". Black children have enough problems. Mixed children have enough issues. The last thing any of them need is Amy, her rancid beehive, her bloody ballet slippers, her missing tooth, her CRACK HABIT...do you know how many Black kids already have crackhead mothers? More than enough, Amy, more than enough.

I've never been floored by Amy's music, but her talent is undeniable. The greatest tragedy is that whomever she has around her-be it family, friends, employers or staff-seems unable to help this young woman get the sort of help she needs. Let's just hope she manages to keep Black kids, White kids, any kids out of her womb and hands until she can straighten herself up.