It is stunts like this that'll make it harder for me to be Team Mel.
We get it, Eddie is a bastard, you're trying to get that child support paper, but Mel, please add a little decorum to the mix - for the sake of Murphy Brown, if no-one else.

You gotta admit though, that last pic is priceless.

Damn Eddie, the ex and the other ex lunching together…how much of his money was spent on that outing.

I think its very mature catty and I LOVE IT! I mean the half-sisters shouldn't have to wait til their 20 to meet and form a bond just because their dad's trif. Loves it!

I'm with Jamocha. I love it. When someone treats me dirty, I turn into one vindictive biotcha! So I love to see that I am not the only one. LOL.

My question is simple: what makes a child “legitimate?”

I have always hated the concepts of legitimate and illegitimate. Not just because they are ignorant, offensive and outdated, but because they affix themselves to the truly innocent (the child) as opposed to the offending parties (assuming an offense has even transpired).

In just the last six months alone we have seen Don Imus lose his job and become embroiled controversy over the "Nappy headed hoes" statement, rappers like Ludacriss criticized by Chicago area churches because of their “derogatory” lyrics, the NAACP had a funeral for the word "Nigga," this very site had multiple articles regarding someone’s comments on the red carpet referring to Eve and Beyonce's OUTFITS as street-walker-chic and "Roboho." All these incidents had their merit and while the outcomes were either underwhelming or overblown, the parties involved were forced to take a long look at their actions.

American society has always been fueled by perpetuating differences. Be they race, culture, "class" or education to name a few. One of the reasons I love this blog is because it does a great job exploding many of the myths associated with Black Americans through thoughtful articles. However, today I believe you are part of the problem.

As a Black man I can still understand that no woman is to be referred to as a Bitch, even if I cannot truly feel the degradation caused by its utterance. Similarly, one need not know the struggle associated with raising a child without the help of a spouse to know the harm of categorizing children as legitimate or illegitimate.

While many may argue that its not the same, I would have to agree. I'd much rather Imus have his say, Luda have his lyrics, and Eve and Beyonce have to defend their wardrobe selections. In each instance the vast majority either knows the act in question is wrong, can turn off the radio or can decide that no harm is done. However, as it pertains to children, many are under the false impression that categorizing via their "legitimacy" is acceptable. Thereby giving the act a far more destructive effect. Moreover, unlike the women basketball players at Rutgers, offended church goers, Eve and Beyonce, the children being disrespected often have no voice speaking on their behalf. For that reason, it is that much more imperative for us to check ourselves.

It may be a stunt, but it's a damned good one. It's mature. After all, as Jamocha said "the half-sisters shouldn’t have to wait til their 20 to meet and form a bond just because their dad’s trif."

P.S.: The biggest revenge is looking good, and both Nicole and Mel are doing it very well.

My point is that the concepts are not treated as the derogatory garbage they are. Would you be as willing to give Imus a pass if he'd put the quote fingers up so that those who watched his show on cable would know he was just poking fun? Or what about a white person who wanted to call you "my Nigga" out of endearment because they'd heard other blacks say it? Quotes don't, or at least should not absolve responsibility.

The point is Eddies should be ashamed of himself. But, then again, Melanie is the one airing their dirty laundry for the world to see. It could be my computer, but is that a nipple showing on the first photo of Melanie holding the baby?

Wow, ladies. Remind me never to become a medium level Hollyweird star, coerce you into bed with me, promise you the world and more, inflict my 'bizarre lifestyle choices' on you, knock you up and dump you on a German television show, further disrespect you in the press by saying 'I don't know who's child that is, until it has a blood test', get publicly engaged to my airhead executive producer beard girlfriend, give her a big rock and still withhold child support payments even after the world and his dog knows that that is my child and that I need to be responsible.

Because if I did that I'm pretty sure anyone of you could concoct something mean to come back at me with. Your comments alone let me know that you're fierce.

Edmund, is that you?

"Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue? …
I grow; I prosper:
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!"

–King Lear, Act I, Scene II

(My point is that, unlike the Imus thing, the whole legitimate/illegitimate political-correctness debate has nothing to with race. It's an age-old societal issue … Besides, the only reason it was used in the original post was to take a jab at Eddie Murphy's idiotic point of view regarding his two daughters.)

After basically being called a ho by Eddie on Danish television, Mel deserves the right to clear her name. The baby was planned. They both wanted it. Their relationship was a lot more serious than we thought. Eddie won't come see his baby.

I don't think it's unique to shame a negligent baby daddy into taking care of his responsibilities. If he doesn't, that little girl can't say her mother didn't try. She seems to have kept the door open and that "man" has yet to take advantage of it. I've never seen Eddie with any of his kids, so maybe he's just a bad father to all his children, "legitimate" or otherwise.

I don't know if that's a nipple, but she definitely seems to be nursing

Mel is doing what so many women can't: make the deaD beat father of her child take some responsibility. It is just as shameful and looks just as bad for Eddie to be running around with Glenda the Good Witch with her 40,000 teeth smile all the while denying a child and defaming a woman he claimed to have loved and cared about. Eddie Murphy is a douche.

HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED.

I think Ms. Brown should be ashamed of herself, trying to trash Mr. Murphy for being the "baby daddy" in her life when she purposely got pregnant by him and admitted so much. Ladies, why is that you decide that you are going to have a baby when you are not the only in the equation? How can you make a man stay with you when he doesn't want you and bring a baby into the mix to make his life miserable for a couple of dollars? So many black men are being entrapped in this "babies for bucks" controversy because of a woman's personal wants. If she was so concerned about her babies well being, she should have made sure that her relationship was on sound ground with Mr. Murphy and let him have a say in whether he wanted another child. Just because you laid down with the man doesn't mean he's yours and no matter how much you give him, child included, is no guarantee that he will stay. I'm not saying that Mr. Murphy should not pay child support; hell, I'm a single mother of two and I wish I could collect child support (the fathers of my two children are both deceased; one was a good supporter and the other was a denial of paternity which I am still fighting). But my children will never do without because I am still a parent all by myself and I will see that they never do without nor be the center of controversy by me trashing their names. People have a serious sense of non-accountability today, always placing blame on one another, but never looking at one's self to see what we've done wrong in the situation. Ms. Brown should not have tried to hook Mr. Murphy in such a way because she gives all of us a bad name for making a man be a father to the children we decide to bring into this world and then dragging his name into the mud for our own satisfaction. She's a golddigger in search of a new financial backer since she has no career: Mr. Murphy fit the bill.

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