The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Episode 1: "Bye Bye and Bon Voyage"
I'm going to need Housewives and their spouses to stop doing illegal things. It's sucking all the fun out of a show that should just be about overprivileged people doing ridiculous things. But, if you are going to do illegal things and then choose to film the show to discuss said illegal things, I'm going to need you to at least own up to what you've done and take some responsibility. Look at the Giudices over on RHONJ. Even after they have been sentenced to prison time, when someone asks them about what happened, they act befuddled. They act like they have no idea how this happened to them, even after they have made public statements apologizing for what happened in court. Do they not realize that the public has access to these things? That a courtroom is not a black hole where everything that happens in it just fails to exist.
The quote the blog title comes from is something Apollo says in his one on one interviews with the producers. What bothers me is that Apollo is trying to make excuses for what he's done. Oh, I didn't rape anyone or I wasn't the guy dealing drugs to the kids on the corner. So? You just stole millions of dollars from people, lied to your wife and let your kids down. No big deal, right, Apollo? It could be worse. It got on my nerves that other Housewives and their significant others were trying to make excuses for Apollo. I think Kandi is right that the judicial system comes down harder on black men a majority of the time, but I don't think that is what is going on in this case. If the judge came down hard on Apollo, I think it had more to do with his "fame," rather than his race.
The quote the blog title comes from is something Apollo says in his one on one interviews with the producers. What bothers me is that Apollo is trying to make excuses for what he's done. Oh, I didn't rape anyone or I wasn't the guy dealing drugs to the kids on the corner. So? You just stole millions of dollars from people, lied to your wife and let your kids down. No big deal, right, Apollo? It could be worse. It got on my nerves that other Housewives and their significant others were trying to make excuses for Apollo. I think Kandi is right that the judicial system comes down harder on black men a majority of the time, but I don't think that is what is going on in this case. If the judge came down hard on Apollo, I think it had more to do with his "fame," rather than his race.
