What is up with the title of this book? That is an understandable question and one that can best be answered with straight up facts and attribution. One of my favorite movies is 1983's "Trading Places" and it is a flick where Eddie Murphy was at his comedic best. There is a prison scene in that movie where Eddie is confronted by two large inmates after boasting about all the women he had. In that scene Eddie, in the role of Billy Ray Valentine, is trying to talk his way out of an ass-kicking by the two huge men as a smaller inmate sits on the side witnessing the entire scenario. Here is that dialogue: Billy Ray Valentine: [Billy Ray is in jail] I wish my bitches would get here. I ain't got time to be sitting in this cell with you. Even Bigger Black Guy: Where are your bitches, Mr. Big-Time Pimp? Big Black Guy: Yeah! Billy Ray Valentine: [to cellmate #2] Didn't I tell you that the phone in my limousine is busted, and I can't get in contact with my bitches? Cellmate #2: [to the Big Black Guy] Yeah! The phone in the limo was busted. What is ya, ignorant?" This scene refers to the imaginary women that Billy Ray is pimping as "bitches." For the most part a "mitch" is a male bitch, and the term was created by Kevin Hart in the BET series, "Real Husbands of Hollywood." In simple terms the title of this book is what today's women might say since, in my view, they are the real pimps. And today's males, appearing to be more effeminate than masculine in far too many instances, are today's "mitches," points I began to lay out in the earlier section of this book. The next layer of the theory regarding this entire scenario is an outline of the present-day way that the sex roles were formally flipped. I have already offered that the female has always been in control although it may not have been in a formal setting. In my theory of "the transformers," the sex roles are crystal clear and the female is in charge because the white male has abandoned his role as the male figure and has elevated himself to the level of meta-human or demi-god. Explanations follow. The white woman is now the new white male as the latter gender has elevated himself to the level of "meta-human" or "demi-god." Today's men are more feminine as ever and today's women, replete with "kick ass and take names" approaches to running this white supremacist system, are taking control of the world and the nation. "The Secret Lives of Wives" was the title of the 2004 Newsweek article. That was 14 years ago. It may have been a "secret" to those who saw it coming and didn't want to scare the hell out of the oppressive systems all over the world that were about to get turned on their ear, but it was not much of a secret for those of us who have watched, analyzed and seen the transformation taking place. America is another "European nation" and it values white nationalist history as much as anything else. Therefore the powdered wigs once worn in the European courts should have been a clue. Even American presidents and supreme court justices donned those hair pieces. And that's not the only indicator that shows that the "mitch" has truly arrived. Slowly and methodically the white female is proving at every juncture that she can run a system of oppression and global racism just as well as her man can. You can see it taking place in Washington, DC, Hollywood and all quarters where major decisions are being made. As he eyes outer space, she is more than willing to take over the "throne of oppression" and use what she's learned to maintain white supremacy on all significant levels. Discussions of marriage, infidelity and adultery in the movies will also be explored In other words, this book is an attempt at providing evidence to back up these theorems.
About the Author: AUTHOR'S BIO Matthew C. Stelly is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee working on a degree in Urban Education and Community Policy. He holds three Master's degrees: Urban Studies (1982), Urban Education (1983) and Political Science (2000). He is working toward his doctorate in Community Policy/Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the former editor of the Milwaukee Courier newspaper, former director of the Great Plains Black Museum and the Plano (TX) African American Museum, and lead archivist for The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL) in Dallas, Texas. Stelly has more than 2,500 articles in print and has won two national essay competitions. He is the founding director of the largest African-American neighborhood group in Nebraska, the Triple One Neighborhood Association and Parents Union. He is publisher and editor of the Triple One News, a two-time nationally recognized newsletter. He is the father of five children - Mandla, Malik, Clariece, Charisse and Shannon -- and remains actively involved in community organizing and neighborhood development in several cities, including Milwaukee and Omaha.