I am really impressed over the MSM's coverage of the disappearance of Nailah Franklin, 28, a pharmaceutical sales representative for Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly. She was last heard from last Friday, the day she went missing. What a beautiful and intelligent girl. I am sad though to report the news that the body found early Thursday was hers.

"Suburban Chicago officials found a body in a forest preserve near where Franklin's car was found abandoned last Friday, police said.

On Thursday morning, authorities in Calumet City reported that they found a body in the Wentworth Woods Forest Preserve, near where her car was found abandoned.

Her family has been offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts. The pharmaceutical sales representative was reported missing Sept. 19 after she didn't show up for an important work meeting." FoxNews.com

I wish the best for her family and I hope the coverage of more missing black women and children continues.

There are  several things that I hate about this story that is not only making headlines in Black Hollywood but Hollywood in general. Geesh, I'm sure every white housewife in America that desperatly needs a hit for E! News or Entertainment Tonight knows this story just as much as I do... ha! probably even more.

First off I hate the freaking fact that the child of this ex couple was born out of wedlock. Another black child that has unwillingly contributed to the 70% of black children are born out of wedlock statistic. Just forty years ago the figure was only about 1 out of 4. What ashame. Why is it that we no longer value marriage?

Oh wait! According to Mel B., member of the Spice Girls, she and Eddie Murphy, actor/comedian, did plan to marry, a claim that Murphy denies. But planning to marry and getting married are two different things. And unfortunantly in this case, thier planned marriage did not turn into an actual marriage. Fruck!

The second thing that really kills me is the fact that Murphy questioned the paternity of the child... in public. Some women do sleep around but I don't believe that it is fair to any woman, especially to the child in question , for a father to go on record publicly and question the paternity. HOW DISRESPECTFUL! How wrong!

It hurts me to seee a successful black man degrade a successful black woman when it comes to paternity. If you slept with her, you slept with her. Why couldn't Murphy just remain quiet? Handle the issue privately? Then release a statement if it was discovered that he was not the child? Why, oh why couldn't he have done that? Now he looks like an idiot... a complete idiot.

The third thing that makes me just really go off, and really completes the portrait of the [Broken] Black Family of America is...


Tracey Edmonds. I just want to scream, "You fool!" Now I wont label her the other woman because I really do believe that Mel B. and Murphy had already been broken up when she and Murphy hooked up (totally rethinking that though after typing it), but I will say that she just seems like an enabler. Maybe enabler is the wrong word but what sort of message is she sending to black women across America as she stands by a man who publicly questions the paternity of a child who he had a sexual relationship with! Standing there like a freaking beauty pageant queen.

Then she speaks to Jet Magazine and calls the relationship between Murphy's and Brown (Mel B.) "brief". I don't care how close she may now be with Murphy but she is a THIRD party in this issue. How dare she?!

What makes this triangle any different than the love triangle we see in the projects? One sister get's knocked up, ther father leaves her and meets someone's new. Because the father realizes that he has really messed up his A game he questions the paternity of the child, and his new lady stands by him smiling, acting as if this is a minor issue and she knows the relationship he had with the pregnany woman better than anyone, calling it "brief".

People, let's not be fooled by the millions these 3 have... it's no different than the foolishness we see in our communities up close.

Yes, it's really a dang shame!

Blame it on Hip-Hop Question(s): Will Oprah Winfrey still welcome Eddie Murphy as a guest on her show? Will she allow a man who questioned the paternity of his child on national tv to sit on her couch? Will she laugh and joke with him? Will she allow him to clear the mess up, brush it off, claim resposnibility, and then talk about his next feature movie? If she allows him to sit on his couch will it be wrong on her part? Being that she is a critic of the type of hip-hop that degrades [black] women... which often talks about the drama with "baby mammas"? What will Oprah do?!