The Real Housewives of Atlanta's Porsha Stewart who has historically not been the brightest Diva seems to continue to confirm that she may have gone to school on the short bus.
A preview for upcoming episodes shows the divas visiting several historical landmarks including one of the safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to Free states.
Now here is where I think this Diva may have been dropped on her young beauty queen head when she was little.
The tour guide is explaining that still to this day they are unsure how the slaves got in our out to which Ms. Porsha replies, “Well, there has to be an opening for the railroad at some point because somebody is driving the train.”
Clutch the pearls Ms. Thing genuinely thinks that the Underground Railroad had a real train! You know kind of like the Polar Express....LOL. I wonder if she thinks Harriet Tubman was the conductor...lol.
Where did this chick go to school because their accreditation needs to be reviewed?
How do you grow up as a black girl in Atlanta and be the granddaughter of civil rights champion Hosea Williams and not know anything about the Underground Railroad?
“It wasn’t a train, baby,” Phaedra Parks explains. “That’s just a euphemism.”
Phaedra this chick thought there was a real train do you really think she knows what a euphemism is?
Her Housewives reality mates were equally perplexed by Ms. Porsha's lack of Black History.
“It’s almost hurtful to me to watch her be so dumb,” the former Miss USA, Kenya Moore says.
But not to be undone in an effort that can only be compared to the classic scene from The Miracle Worker the Divas metaphorically pump water over the blind Porsha's hands but unlike the film there is not a breakthrough.
“But I know one particular person made it,” Porsha states.
Kandi Burgess can't take it anymore and interjects, “What do you mean made it? It wasn’t a tunnel that’s connected.”
Cynthia Bailey flabbergasted, looks into the camera: “Really?! You thought there was an actual train that took them through?”
“Her grandfather Hosea Williams just rolled over in his grave,” she adds, shaking her head in dismay.
I swear I see Porsha and all I hear is that voice over from the old United Negro College Fund ad that says "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
You guys watch the video and weep for this poor Black History challenged child.....lol
I wish I could be shocked. But that is a large part of that kind of Real Housewives of Atlanta reality stick, nothing mattering like the all-consuming present.
The irony I have found is a swath of truth greater than anything real a show like RHOA could ever portray – and it comes by way of that train “conductor”--ess herself, Harriet Tubman:
“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
Tubman knew then as black women must know now that they have an important role to play in shaping the images and attitudes of their people not just nurturing those shaped as is often stereotyped. They are hardly prepared to do that if they are little more than ingénues
Assuming that the 32 –year old model and speaker actually knew little of the most universally recognized aspects of this epic Underground Railroad occurrence, I would find it next to disreputable that it could happen as she works in the foundation started by her late grandfather Hosea Williams, Feed the Hungry, directed by Mr. Williams daughter, Elizabeth Omalami, among the most commendable voices on black women history you will find.
But professor, I would have deferred any remark were it not for the fact, I knew Ms. Williams’ grandfather well. A decorated war veteran under General George Patton, he served as a councilman, a commissioner and a state representative for many years in my district after his years as a lieutenant under Dr. King. My street was renamed in his honor just before his death in 2000.
I would be surprised if Porsha Stewart, who has languished through a very public divorce here, has not gained through her challenges of late.
If it turns out true that she will not be asked to return for another RHOA as rumored, it can still be very much a gain if she spins it well and gets on the right track –one that leads from underground to enlightenment.
Posted by: Tony | 12/20/2013 at 08:17 AM
You said it all. Coming from a family with such a rich history and she is either truly clueless or pretending to be for this show which is just as bad. I blame it on where we are in society. Even conscious parents being so caught up in overindulging our children that we fail to teach them what's important like our history. I am guilty of this as well and working to change it so I don't have two Porschas on my hands.
Posted by: Isis Reddick Umoja | 12/22/2013 at 05:58 AM