Power of the Pussy.

‘They had to be tall and beautiful. Many were failed actresses or models although Claude also had her talent scouts. She paid for cosmetic surgery and couture clothes but the girls had to work off the debt. She sent them off to language classes (she insisted they learn English), told them which books to read and ordered them to keep a packed suitcase (Vuitton, naturally) ready so that they could be dispatched at a moment’s notice.

At the initial interview she would tip all the contents of the girl’s handbag out for inspection. If she did not approve of where a girl lived she would make her move flats.

She even had a trusted team of “testers” to assess whether the girl was good in bed and who were charged for the privilege.

At her height she ran 200 “swans” (her pet name for her girls) with 30 to 50 favourites, many of whom could say they did not get into bed for less than $10,000 a day.

“ Many of you have tracked with great interest, the rise of Ms. Genevieve Jones of New York. For those who don’t know, our gal somehow managed to pole vault over several other aspiring socialites. She landed a front page story in the Wall Street Journal last year. And, she scores great FREE clothes and hot events while appearing carefree and fun. What is interesting is that many socialites, wannabees, mountaineers, questers, bloggers, and cluckers (read: chickenheads) seem to absolutely LOVE to hate Ms. Jones. I can’t quite wrap my mind around it. After all, who is she hurting? If you think that I am exaggerating, I dare you to conduct a Google search on Ms. Jones. Prepare to be shocked. The hate is crazy. C’mon people! Who knew that being a prominent Black ‘It Girl’ would cause such a stir? I have not met Ms. Jones but if I did, I would invite her to my favorite soul food restaurant for a good ole sista chat (she weights about 100 pounds and is reportedly 5’5). We would talk about the danger of swirling around primarily white circles which can have a lethal impact on your socialite status if you’re not careful. It also doesn’t matter how or why Genevieve Jones has reached such a high level of socialite-dom in a short period of time. Her accomplishments of landing on the cover of the Wall Street Journal and getting free designer clothing is enough for me to acknowledge her brilliance as a marketer. “

“She’s in the front row at almost every fashion show. She’s a fixture at every cool art-gallery opening and fashion party, and she’s best friends with Miuccia Prada, Dasha Zhukova, Margerita Missoni, and Charlotte Casiraghi. But Shala Monroque still isn’t a household name—not yet, anyway.

She’s the 32-year-old girlfriend of Larry Gagosian, 66, the white-haired art dealer who has assumed the role of demigod. On his arm, Monroque has found herself attending a host of museum galas and fashion’s exclusive CFDA Awards, and sitting front row at the Valentino show in Paris. Now Monroque is receiving a growing amount of media attention on her own as she begins to appeal to people outside the small worlds of art and fashion.”

Lesson 1: Ongoing capex is necessary to grow your business

This girl realised that she needed to spend money to stand out. She needed to spend money on marketing, clothing, skincare, fitness and so on.

Even if you’re not a businessman, an investor or in fact inclined to think about daily activities from a business-minded perspective, you’ll likely grasp the basic concept that in order to keep your house, your car or your boat in good shape you’ll need to spend some ongoing money on servicing, repairs and maintenance.

So to all the people now saying, “It was a different time back then” or “Nobody’s perfect, we’ve all evolved and changed our minds on things”…I need to say a few things to you: 

First of all, it was the 90s, not the 1800s. That’s within my lifetime. I think would have been around 11 or 12 years old back then

Worse, criminalizing blackness with coded language is hardly anything “new” or “different” in America. In fact, it’s enforcing the same racist status quo that’s been around forever. So for me, as a BLACK man, Clinton’s full throated support of those laws, and casually using charged code words, is not something I can take lightly, or belittle or minimize. The stereotypes that phrases like “super-predators” evoke are not of little blonde haired, blue eyed white children who are presumed innocent in the eyes of the law. That’s specifically coded language which has been carefully cultivated over time to evoke specific racial stereotypes

And I can’t help but note how the statement, “They’re not just gang kids anymore” is precisely the same kind of logic that the police, mass media and courts use to suggest that innocent black children aren’t actually innocent, or even children; it’s the same logic police use to dehumanize and justify the murders of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Mike Brown, LaQuan McDonald, Freddie Gray and far too many others

A famous Republican strategist, Lee Atwater (the Frank Luntz of the 70s and 80s) once said that for casual, ingrained racism to be successful, coded language had to keep pace with the times and become more and more abstract. It isn’t too difficult to see how in the 1990s the phrase “super-predators” was then, what the word “thugs” is today, or how it quietly equated black youths with dangerous animals

So no…it’s not some small or trivial thing for me. Please stop telling black people to “just get over it” because I guarantee you that there are black and brown people who are still in prison right now, TODAY because of how Three-Strikes was used as an excuse to incarcerate even more black people and feed the private prison industry (which Hillary maintained financial ties to until late 2015 when she suddenly “evolved” after repeatedly being called out by activists)

Unless I missed reading about a shit ton of Presidential pardons by Bill Clinton, none of those people (or their broken families) are benefiting from Bill or Hillary’s very recent, very well-timed “change of heart”

And finally, yeah, evolving is actually a good thing. We all get to change our minds, but I just have to question when someone’s mind “coincidentally” happens to  change on things like the Iraq war, the KXL Pipeline, DOMA, Glass-Stegall, and other key issues, at exactly around the same time it becomes politically popular to do so. Sorry, but that just seems like chasing opinion polls, and makes me wonder if primacy won’t take over, and HRC simply won’t revert back to some of her more conservative core values if elected