Basketball Wives Backlash

I've always said the marketplace will decide and the marketplace is pissed off and making their voices heard.  Here on our blog alone we've heard from scores of women and men who think Basketball Wives' violence and decadent behavior is abhorrent and worth boycotting. 

I still don't advocate a boycott; watch the show or don't.  If enough choose to forgo the show, the ratings will drop and the network will respond.  If people continue to watch, well you know the outcome. 

However, another celebrity has joined the bandwagon of at least admonishing the women of Basketball Wives for their immature and barbaric behavior.  It's not a fan or a non-fan but it is a cast mate and self-professed friend of Tammi Roman that's firing the missileand shaking her head.

In a pointing open letter to Tami Roman, Royce Reed, original cast member, chastises not only friend Tammi for her outrageous and unnecessary behavior but also Tami's "friends", cast mate Evelyn Lozada and Producer Shaunie O'Neal for not only idly standing by while the senseless drama ensued but promoting the drama before it reached the boiling point.  Royce goes on to say if these women were your true friends they would have spoken to you about it and at least attempted to stop it.  Why don't you read it for yourself.

Royce Reed original BBW cast member
photo and letter courtesy of 24hourhiphop.com

OPEN LETTER TO TAMI ROMAN (from Royce Reed)): "I was honestly just hoping Kesha didn’t say her skin hurt. Tami seemed as though she was trying to find something to get upset about and she chose a cough. From the way the girls were seated in the car, to laughing and making faces behind Kesha’s back if you take a screen capture from that scene and mine from the van in Spain, it’s almost identical.
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I’m not sure what happened to Tami, but this isn’t the woman I’ve gotten to know. To see these women gang up on someone who has done nothing to them is embarrassing. I say ganging up because NO ONE did anything to stop it. If you don’t say anything you then become part of the problem. Who cares if Kesha was scared to get in the ocean with sharks and stingrays, I don’t believe I saw any of your asses in a swimsuit jumping in the water either. How are you going to call someone else scary when at least they put on the attire instead of saying “Oh Hell NO” in confessionals?????

I applaud Suzie and Kesha for appreciating what Tahiti had to offer and attempting to stay drama free. I find it amazing when alcohol is used as liquid courage and an excuse to turn into the HULK. Most times I drink, I get emotional, horny, and just want to dance…..:side-eye: lol. But if you know that drinks cause you to have a temper, why indulge just because everyone else is? The whole scene with Tami and Kesha I shook my head. At some point you have to look at yourself and say “Damn, that wasn’t a good look. I need to change the way I speak to people and handle things because I look crazy.” If you don’t see it, your “so-called” friends have and should tell you the same. Tami, if Evelyn and Shaunie found no problem with Kesha’s questions, it wasn’t up to you to find one. Tami, if you HEARD Kesha said all these things about you, why not call out the person who told you so you can get all three parties together.

I’m sure THAT PERSON was probably sitting at that table. I have an idea of two people who could’ve said it. One is known to talk a lot, and the other is a snake in the grass. If you’re going based off the footage that was shown, Kesha said “I seriously had to just NOT go off…and honestly, like, I could’ve came at Tami and said whatever I wanted to but there’s nothing I could’ve said that would’ve made her look worse than she was making herself look…Tami is like acting a fool” …She never said she wanted to, so why are you asking her to now??? The smirking on the side by Evelyn and Shaunie is a DAMN SHAME. Grown as women talking about a damn position! Grown ass women wanting to fight with no repercussions!I HEARD about what happened in Tahiti but seeing it now is an embarrassment and the sh!t is PISSING ME OFF!!!! GROWN ASS AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN feeding into the stereotype already placed on us…plus two!!!!!!!!"

I watched the episode of which Royce refers to.  I admit it was ugly,ugly, & more ugly.  It wasn't more ugly than throwing wine bottles across the room or jumping across a table but it was certainly the feather that caused the train to veer off track. 

I didn't want to admit it but this show has morphed into bullying at its best.  While this show isn't the first, the last or the only by any means; that fact does not ease the disease of the show, self-esteem, worthiness and most importantly society's desire for low level behavior. Again the marketplace will decide.  It is going to be interesting to see how we decide.

How do you feel about Royce coming out against her cast mate and friend Tammi Roman?  Do you think Tammi will receive this infomation as she claims she can or will the blowout at the reunion be catastrophic?