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First of all apologies because I am really tired this morning. Didn't get home till after midnight then watched ANTM on tape and now trying to rush back to work. Thank God its a short week.

Previously on America's Next Top Model (ANTM) . Click here and here.

Now I'm not even going to try to be objective here. Brandi aka Glamour Girl Sue get unfair this week. It was a conspiracy. Ask Brother Malcolm if you don't believe me she was hoodwinked, she was bamboozled, she was led astray, she ran amok and in the end she was eliminated while Lluvy the "unconventional beauty" remained.

The show started with the girls lining up to use the phone to call home to their loved ones. Somehow Brandi had been waiting to use the phone and a whole group formed around the phone and she got bumped to the back of the line and she wasn't having it so Brandi got a little upset. Now I always hear my mudda say when a dog duz suck eggs anytime eggs missing he will get blamed and such is the case with Brandi. Its already been established that she has an attitude problem which may just be a case of her just standing up for herself more than others would like and so anytime she says anything the other girls are ready to go with that whole cliched attitude problem and say oh Brandi's just acting up.

So Brandi got a little upset over the phone issue. Luckily Tiffany was there to calm her down. Tiffany decided she was going to play the role of big sis to Brandi because apparently she "used to" wild out and understands that behavior. Apparently Tiffany is now a changed woman. NOT!

Fast forward past the silly Ballerina exercise to the girls night out for Dinner. In quick form Tiffany lik back 4 glasses of white wine like it was a 40 of shiltz malt liquor. Next thing I know Tif giving us a whole bunch of drunken rumshop talk. "Man I love all y'all and you girls had a profound effect on my life blah blah blah" Two seconds later Tiffany's head is below the table and she's puking up her guts. cuhdear! What a shame. Memo to ANTM producers: next season screen for alcoholism.

Then we see a tender moment where Tif's explaining she has issues with leaving home and leaving her child with her baby father etc. Guess that was this weeks' excuse for strange behavior.

After this they got to chat with Beverly Johnson who was the first black woman on the cover of Vogue back in 1973 apparently. It was funny because when they first met all of the black contestant faces immediately lighted up while some of the other girls clearly looked like huh who is she?

Onto the main drama. This week's test was a shoot on a tennis court where the photographer was being deliberately nasty to the girls. It was a test to see how they did under pressure. The guy was deliberately rude, condescending and annoying to the girls making nothing they did appear to be correct. Some girls cried, some were ready to kick his ass and some just managed pained expressions on their faces. None of the girls however beat the crap out of him although I know Tiffany and all of her 70lbs was ready to give him a beatdown. Memo to photog: don't mess with the alcoholic girl.

Speaking of 70 pound Tiffany. It was only this week while outfitted in their tennis outfits that I realized how skinny Tiffany was. Seriously no wonder she couldn't handle her liquor well. I don't really want to go off on her and how "poor raky" (another bajan word fa y'all) she look but honestly she's a bit too much skin and bones for a girl who lists Popeyes hot wings as her favorite food on the show's website.

Anyway after the girls each had their horrible experience with the tennis shoot, they were in a room chatting about how bad things were when one model Tatiana said something catty to Brandi. Now who tell she say dat! Brandi was already upset by the photo shoot and her belief that the judges would blame her attitude for her having a bad shoot when Tatiana goes off saying something smart. Brandi definitely wasn't having it. She called Tatiana on it and was ready to beat her down and to be honest I cant say I blame her. So Brandi went off on her and the other girls were all acting like why are you acting like this. Why all the attitude? Why cant you be docile like us?

Now I feel I would be remiss if I didn't say something here. I know most of my readers have noticed but I feel the need to reiterate that this racist b.s on TV where black women are always being portrayed as having attitude problems and ready to fly off the handle is out of control. There are cases where these sisters are being deliberately put in positions where they are forced to defend themselves and then we get to view a skewed picture of the situation to make it look like they are crazy or overly aggressive.

Either they deliberately look for fragile individuals like Tiffany or Brandi to perpetrate this myth of the hostile angry black woman or/and they go out of their way to put black females in situations where they will fight back and be aggressive. There are aggressive black women, there are overly aggressive black women and then there are not aggressive black women. Just like all other races of women, black women run a range of attitudes. We have docile black women too ya know but you wouldn't believe that if you watched TV these days.

Why is it that every black woman who speaks up for herself on these shows suddenly gets a rep as hostile etc? I'm not standing up for Brandi here 100% because she did go off unnecessarily (from the viewpoint of what was televised) two shows ago and she does appear to have issues. But its just frustrating no make that annoying as hell seeing this play out on TV with black women in almost every reality show as it reinforces stereotypes just like the black man as criminal/drug dealer/hustler/misogynist/illiterate/pimp playa that TV seems to perpetrate on the daily.

Plus just imagine the effect this crap is having on black kids growing up. Just something to think about amongst yourselves.

Ok down from soapbox and back to the show. There was a brief interlude where three girls got to meet Serena Williams who talked about her backtofront company AnereS and watched the girls do their model walk.

The final event was a photo shoot where the girls were dressed as zodiac signs and were suspended in the air. To be honest it was a bit cheesy but the main highlight was Tatiana involved in a whole discussion about Brandi threatening her and basically dissing Brandi again. This time Tiffany stood up for Brandi. Black women of the world unite! She said that the other girls were egging on Brandi with their behavior and that it was unfair for them to be trying to get under her skin. See I tell wunnah is a conspiracy. Anyway Brandi caught the tail end of the conversation and was straight ready to whoop Tatiana's ass and I was seriously hoping that she would beat her down but Tiffany restrained her.

We get to the finale and Tyra does her little talk, while wearing a rather revealing top showing off nuff cleavage. Real or Fake get your votes in now. Looks like Tyra the Tyrant trying to steal the show from the young gal dem.

It comes down to one more picture and the final two contestants are Brandi and Lluvy. Now get this. Tyra and the others absolutely hated Lluvy's photos. Clearly she will not be top model because she is as I said last week "beautiful in her own way". While looking at LLuvy's photos the judges said she looked like a dead fish and Tyra went as far as saying she took the worst pictures in ANTM history. They also said that Brandi has a great face and loads of potential.

So how can the dead fish beat out Brandi? I guess it all came down to the attitude problem.