Everything was going so well for Jessica Simpson. She and Ashlee Simpson were leaving Katsuya and you were actually feeling sorry for them having to make their way through the throng of paps to their car. Of course they brought much of it on themselves because they decided to eat where they did. If they had eaten at a sushi place in the valley there is a good chance they could have gone unnoticed but that isn't as much fun for your ego.
Anyway, a cameraman for TMZ tried to ask an intelligent question about Native American groups being mad at Jessica for her Indian giver comments from last week. Of course the cameraman actually insulted Native Americans with the way he asked the question and Jessica didn't do herself any favors by saying, "I am an Indian." I'm guessing that is probably news to Pimpa. If she had just stayed quiet ten seconds longer she would have been in the car and on her way and everyone would say she looked good and Ashlee looked like a shrew and we would move on. Of course maybe she didn't want us to move on and now she will be in the news cycle a few more days.
Bimbo strikes again. It's a never ending story with this girl.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people from the south have some Indian heritage, even if only 1/32.
ReplyDelete@.robert--That is true. I know in my family a great grandmother was full (grew up on a reservation)..and I'm a blonde hair blue eyed freckle face :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think the poor girl meant anything malicious, she just can't help herself.
Maybe she meant to say "I am an idiot"??
ReplyDeleteLOL@lutefisk.
ReplyDeleteJessica's outfit makes Mischa look almost decent.
ReplyDeleteI said decent, not good.
i actually LOL@ her comment. so..randomly stupid,you got love it.
ReplyDeletei think she just fucks with us all with the me-so-dumb act sometimes.
in this case she was miso dumb...lol.
Um, that's like Beyonce claiming to be a Kenyan.
ReplyDeleteJust saying.
Judging from other pics I saw of her, I think she was completely drunk. So I agree with Lutefisk that she probably meant "idiot."
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm gonna just comment with my third
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of the day.
And yes, many of us with old families from NC have Ind...er, I mean Native American roots back there somewhere.
ReplyDeletePhotos of some of our great and great-great grandparents had obvious facial traits.
She needs to take a year off and just read books on the way the world works and then make a comeback. She's too dumb for her own good.
ReplyDeleteWhat did she say about "indian giver"? I missed that.
ReplyDeleteShoeaddict, she gave a boat to Tony a month or so ago for his b-day. TMZ asked her if she was going to ask for it back, and she said "I'm not an Indian giver."
ReplyDeleteIsabel, read?
ReplyDeleteI think her comment was not malicious just ignorant. I recognize the fact that many people have a little bit of Indian in them. No disrespect intended for you folk, but I think it's important to realize that there are other perspectives for those of us who live and/or have family on the reservation, who participate in our tribe's politics and culture and who live our lives as Indians because we are Indian. Jess's comments are thoughtless and insensitive. She is not alone in this. The way to handle this would've been to say "I apologize for my comment. I never intended to disrespect Indian people."
ReplyDeletehahahahahahahaha.
ReplyDeleteAhhh man how it must suck to be famous and have your every word analysed and critisized. I am one who tends to put her foot in her mouth quite often, so I can only imagine how i would be recieved if famous (as a jerk) as opposed to how I am recieved in my life by my loved ones (as a lovable dumbass) :)
I'm from New England and my greatgrandpa was full Indian. We're ALL blue-eyed platinum blondes.
ReplyDeleteGenes are weird things.
@Carla,
ReplyDeleteI always thought Indian giver was referring to signing treaties with the various tribes and allowing them to be broken, ad nauseam. How exactly did it get to where Indians gave and then stole back I wonder.
ditto lilbitsolo.
ReplyDeleteCarla,
ReplyDeleteI agree. I'm one of those NC people who supposedly have an Indian great-great-great-great-somewhere-back-there grandmother. So does about 75% of the East Coast, apparently -- way too many people for it to actually be true. (And why is it always a grandmother--never a grandfather?)
It's an overused trope that is supposed to make the speaker seem exotic or special in some way.
But I say if you weren't raised in a Native American culture AND if you aren't enrolled, you don't really have the right to call yourself an Indian.
THANK YOU, BRAINY PIRATE.
ReplyDelete@Brainy Pirate,
ReplyDeleteIf you go back to 1/32nd or higher for multi generational families on the east coast you can pretty much connect all of them.
@.robert - the term was originally used in reference to Indians. "When an Indian gives any thing, he expects to receive an equivalent, or to have his gift returned."This is the first citation of the term as it appeared in the Dictionary of Americanisms (1860).
ReplyDeleteYou are right though that much later the term was applied to the US govt. Either way, it has no positive meanings.
Also, if you're still reading and interested, once you're below 1/4 Indian blood, you are not "formally" recognized as Indian by the US govt. It would take a lot of explaining, but Indians carry cards listing their tribal numbers and degree of Indian blood. Lots of intricacies to this.
Many tribes are not federally recognized but still see themselves as Indian. It's a complex subject. I think, in order to be fair, that there are a number of ways to be Indian, numerous perspectives and takes on identity. A lot of stories of how people tried to survive given the times they lived in.
Peace to all.
Someone needs to take Jessica aside and tell her that Louis Vuitton purses go with absolutely nothing, and are quite honestly the uglies bags I have ever seen. Then they need to tell her, that when you have been on a cover of magazines with a reported weight problem--you don't wear things with patterns like this that make you look like you are hiding Octo Mom and her 14 kids underneath it. And by this stage of her career, does anyone expect pearls of wisdom to come flowing forth from her mouth---or in this case fingers.
ReplyDelete@Carla,
ReplyDeleteYou are right, just that the Indian blood line is the newest part of me compared to the Irish and Dutch parts, even though very diluted. My point was that a lot of people can legitimately claim to have Native American ancestors.
She is saying goofy shit for attention and you all fell for it.
ReplyDeletegirlfriend is smarter than you think she is.
@Carla um- Mandan? If you are CFF- heart you :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mooshki
ReplyDelete@BrainyPirate-
ReplyDeleteI can't speak for anyone else, but I don't see how it can be seen as exotic or special to just make a statement about one ancestors heritage. Living where I do there is an incredible amount of diluted Native American blood walking around and its not considered special at all, it's more the norm. If the thread had been about French, Irish or British ancestry I would have mentioned my Great-grandfather. I think being proud of who your ancestors were is great, and I don't see anything wrong with people talking about it regardless of whether one can "officially" be called Native American.
*steps down off of soapbox*
If that came off as Bitchy I apologize :)
ReplyDeleteHaha! I'm with Jax - her comment actually made me laugh out loud. Oh honey, don't you have someone who can help you anticipate such questions and help you develop answers to have at the ready?
ReplyDeleteMy guess - first episode of her new show will be in India. ;)
"I think being proud of who your ancestors were is great, and I don't see anything wrong with people talking about it regardless of whether one can "officially" be called Native American.
ReplyDelete*steps down off of soapbox*"
Um. There's a GIGANTIC difference between growing up on a reservation and knowing that your very recent ancestors had their land unjustly (and often brutally) stolen from them and having, say, a tiny bit of Indian blood in you and laying claim to its exoticism.
I've got some Ute blood in me, but it's so diluted that's it's ridiculous. I think it's really cool, but I could never claim to be a Native American because of it. Come ON.
wow. i never realized that the tiny amount of american indian blood (no, we don't even know what tribe, those records are long lost) would count for less than the tiny amount of scottish blood (before marriage).
ReplyDeleteman, can't we be be proud of our backgrounds?
and this has nothing to do with JS.
Jessica, no horizontal stripes please, I'm trying to help you here..
ReplyDelete@bionic bunny!~ Yes, I say we CAN be proud of our backgrounds.All of it.
ReplyDeleteGuttersnipey~
Am I supposed to say if asked "I'm of French Irish descent" and leave out the Native American part because its not enough to satisfy those with more of a "claim"? What difference does growing up on a reservation make in how Native you are? I don't get that part, please explain. I'm not trying to use my bloodline to get financial aid or anything. I'm proud of my Great-Grandparents, ALL of them.
Come ON.
"What difference does growing up on a reservation make in how Native you are?"
ReplyDeleteWOW.
Guttersnipey
ReplyDeleteIf you take offense at that question, I'm asking you to tell me why, not make snide comments.
It is possible to have grown up conversation without being rude.
Let's try that, shall we?