Ego Tripping

I was watching one of my alltime favorite shows on tv, A DIFFERENT WORLD, and it was an episode that i for one am not really that big of fan of but i watched it anyway! Maybe i would grow to like it as much as i loved the other episodes in the 6 seasons of this show! So i watched it, it was the balck history tribute episode. It started off with Dwayne being all depressed becaused whitley left him at the alter well actually they didn't even make it to the alter, it was rehearsal dinner and she just straight dumped him. anyhow, he's all depressed so Ron start saying these crazy YO MAMMA jokes to him...

You're mamma is so black if she'd put on orange lipstick she'd like a cheese burger!

Dwayne chuckle a little bit at the visual he got in his head, and evetually get into the spirit and says..

You're mamma is so fat she jumped into he air and got stuck!

Little did they know their friend Kim was walking by and heard them laughing at the joke and ghets offended leaving the two men in WHAT?? Mr. Gaines, being as wise as he was (lol) fills them in on why Kim was become so offended at the jokes they made saying..

she's black
she's fat
she's nappy

Even though he really had no idea why she felt so offended himself! Long story short, it really had nothing much to do with the actually jokes but the principle of the matter of where the jokes originated from! but i won't spoil the ending for you..u've gotta see it for yourself..anyway during the actual tribute, Kim recited a poem by Nikki Giovanni..here it is


Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am BAD

I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is nefertiti
the tears from my birth pains
created the nile
I am a beautiful woman
I gazed on the forest and burned
out the sahara desert
with a packet of goat's meat
and a change of clothesI crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
so swift you can't catch me
For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son hannibal an elephant
He gave me rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on
My son noah built new ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
jesus
men intone my loving name
All praises All praises
I am the one who would save

I sowed diamonds in my back yard.
My bowels deliver uranium
the filings from my fingernails are
semi-precious jewels
On a trip northI caught a cold and blew.
My nose giving oil to the arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct.
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
the earth as I went
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
across three continents
I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

I mean...I...can fly
like a bird in the sky...