LAST EDITED ON 05-13-06 AT 01:15 AM (EST)

>LAST EDITED ON 05-12-06
>AT 02:29 PM (EST)
>
>On this particular subject, with the
>three women involved in the
>conversation, only one of them
>made any sense to me.
> That was Niambi.
>I really do think she's
>speaking her mind - and
>she's doing it without using
>the SO buzz words or
>bs.
>
>She was very direct and clear
>in her speech: "When you
>(IV) made the announcement that
>Jodi was graduating, and has
>to remain to hold your
>(Christie's) hand, that sent me
>over the edge...it was another
>example of everybody falling all
>over themselves to support Christie,
>and I'm like, is she
>going to take everything from
>everybody and not give anything
>back?...There's a commitment in the
>house to not drink...it's to
>support you (Christie). Big
>shock...enough is enough already.
>What I felt from you
>(Christie), pretty much since the
>day I walked in here,
>was judgment. I heard
>from you (Christie) what I'm
>not doing...that I'm not present,
>that I'm not supportive of
>my housemates, and I thought
>we were all living under
>the same rules and guidelines.
> It seems like to
>me there is a different
>set of rules that apply
>to you."
>
>She reiterated her point in the
>confessional: "Christie does not practice
>what she preaches. She
>has been self-righteous and judgmental
>with me regarding my availability
>and support for the other
>housemates...she is a self-righteous, judgmental
>punk".
>
>True enough.
>
>Then Christie simply engaged in aimless
>blabbering about the situation.
>While they were face to
>face, Christie had no trouble
>saying to Niambi, I love
>you, I have a great
>deal of compassion for you,
>you're amazing, I look up
>to you, etc. .
>But back in the privacy
>of the confessional, it was
>a different sentiment we heard:
>"I am representing the typical
>white woman who has oppressed
>her (Niambi). I look
>and sound a way that
>really triggers her." Besides
>being unbelievably ignorant and presumptuous,
>Christie lied again. She is
>a coward. And in typical
>Christie fashion, she made it
>all about herself, thanking Niambi
>for showing her "that part
>of herself" that she must
>embrace and thank. WHAT?
>
>
>And Iyanla? She summed it
>all up by calling Niambi
>a bitter b!tch, and then
>adds insult to injury by
>saying that Christi is trying
>to do everything right, but
>in Niambi she sees who
>she used to be, and
>it scares her. Wow.
> Is Niambi a junkie
>or an alcoholic?
>
>As far as I'm concerned, the
>other two should lose their
>voices. The only one
>who was truthful today was
>Niambi.
>
>ETA: typo
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Yes...I didn't get Iyanla's statement....(IMO) they both are "bitter bitches"...one, because she can't give up a man and the other, because she has to give up a man, the "idea" of a modeling career, alcohol, drugs and become a "mother figure" to her brother...yeah, they're both fitting in that category.

Christie shows her ignorance more each day and is a coward, that's why she's always undermining the others....Iyanla did tell Christie the way to stop trying to be "little miss perfect" was to stop judging and she is still doing that...she'll never stop this until she feels the wrath of someone judging her from their "self-righteous pedestal."

I wished Niambi hadn't chosen Antonia's problem to find her voice, but she did find it and it'll be interesting to watch the interaction between these two.

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