On a recent episode of TVOne’s “We’re The Campbells,” the reality show centered around Mary Mary gospel singer, Erica Campbell, her producer husband, Warren Campbell, and their three children, some very real issues were addressed. Their eldest daughter, Krista Campbell, came clean about extremely disheartening experiences she’s having regarding her beautiful chocolate skin.

Daughter Shocks Erica Campbell With “Darkie” Confession

In one video clip, Krista and Erica were having a chat with their family and friends, when Krista revealed that she had a confession to make. She told her mom that she had been getting teased since the fifth grade, when some of her schoolmates told her they didn’t want to play with “a darkie.” Ever since that incident, 13 year old Krista says she’s struggled with self esteem issues.

Needless to say, Erica was utterly shocked by the fact that she never knew her daughter had been going through such a heartbreaking experience. But that wasn’t all…

‘Daddy Only Likes Light Skin Women’

In a separate clip, Erica had a one-on-one talk with her Krista about the colorism topic and self esteem problems she’s having. That’s when Krista revealed that she also has issues with boys, due to her curvier frame and again, her darker skin. The thing that probably stung Erica just a little more, was when Krista pointed out a reality within their family structure. Krista told her mom that not only do the boys at her school attract to “light skin girls” more, but so does her father and other male figures in her family. That beautiful young girl then asked a heart wrenching question, “Am I ugly?”

Again, Erica Campbell was in complete shock that her baby was going through so much. However, it was evident that she had no clue what to say, nor could she actually relate to her daughter’s dark skin experience, because she hasn’t lived it first hand. That’s also what Krista so eloquently communicated to her mother, who admitted that she didn’t know what to do in that scenario.

Even though Erica Campbell didn’t know what to say in that moment, we applaud her for allowing such a personal issue about her baby, to be displayed on national television. Why? Because unfortunately, the ignorance regarding the dark skin vs. light skin topic is a socio-psychological plague that affects many and needs to be addressed on public platforms like “We’re The Campbells.”

Most importantly, we salute Krista Campbell, for being brave enough to discuss something so heartbreaking at such a young age, in front of all those television cameras. Let’s think back to when we were 13 and ask ourselves if we would have been brave enough to expose our most hurtful experiences in front of the entire world. Most of us would probably say, ‘HELL NAW!’ So again, salute to that young Queen for doing so.

The Reality vs. The Brainwashing

Hopefully, one day Krista will eventually understand that the kids who are teasing her, or the boys who may overlook her simply because she has a melanin-rich complexion, actually have a disdain for something about themselves. Their parents have directly, or indirectly taught them to disassociate themselves from the melanin rich tones that remind them of who they and their ancestors actually are and the beauty they possess(ed).

Krista Campbell may one day learn that this Black on Black colorism is a learned behavior, instilled within the fabric of America ever since the first slave ship docked here. It took generations to psychologically infect our society and sadly, it may take generations to recondition it back to a non-brainwashed state. The sooner Krista and others can understand that the sooner she will truly know that she is beautiful inside and out.

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ILOSM family, we wanna share this with y’all to see if it now changes your perception of Chrisette Michele and Mary Mary gospel singer, Tina Campbell, or not. Earlier today, we shared a series of emotional Instagram posts Chrisette shared with her fans, revealing the personal tragedies she suffered due to the Trump inauguration backlash she received. She revealed that she became suicidal, suffered a miscarriage and was dropped from her record label.

How Chrisette Michele Overcame Suicidal Thoughts After Trump Backlash

Now, she’s shared how she’s overcome her suicidal tendencies (SWIPE)…

https://www.instagram.com/p/BaxQFYtD1Xf/

Soon after sharing how yoga saved her life, Chrisette then took the focus off of her and placed it onto another Trump supporter, Tina Campbell.

Recap Of Tina Campbell’s Trump Support & Backlash

Many of you know that Tina has adamantly defended her vote for and continued support of Donald Trump, even after all of the divisiveness he’s displayed during his presidency thus far. When questioned about it by her fans, Tina defiantly stood by her Trump support and pretty much says whoever doesn’t like it, to hell with ’em (not in those exact words of course). In response to Tina’s stern Trump support, many Mary Mary fans have also defiantly responded to her. Low ticket sales caused their recent tour to plummet to the depths of hell and they had to cancel their tour, before it was barely even started.

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Tina had to ultimately post a lengthy message online to try to save face and explain the cancellation and that they will shoot for a reboot of the tour in 2018. Fans were happy, not about the reboot, but that the tour was cancelled due to Tina’s support of a man who’s said some White supremacists ‘are good people’ and that he randomly ‘grabs women by the p*ssy.’

Chrisette Defends Tina & Offers Support

Chrisette can clearly empathize with what Tina is going through, because like we said, as a result of her Trump inauguration performance, she too has become ‘enemy #1’ in the eyes of many fans who once supported her. Now, Chrisette is showing support for Tina and reaching out online to try to lift her up…

https://www.instagram.com/p/BazNF-KjcOz/

Although Chrisette said she is not a Trump supporter -even though she performed for him- at this point, neither she, nor Tina Campbell, have revealed if they now regret their Trump supporting efforts- either through performance or through voting. What are your thoughts on this one ILOSM family? Should their fans forgive and forget, or nah?

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Tina Campbell has been getting slammed left and right lately. Ever since the Mary Mary singer revealed she supported Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, fans have been giving her the side-eye. Then after she explained her support of Trump, she put the nail in the political coffin when she admitted she voted for him. Of course, fans wasted no time dragging Tina yet again. But in addition to the social media drag session, it looks like fans are hitting Tina where it hurts – her pockets. According to Essence, the famed gospel singer is canceling her tour for a very disheartening reason.

Lack Of Interest?:

The It’s Still Personal tour was scheduled to kick off in November but apparently, Tina Campbell is pumping the breaks. On Tuesday, October 24, Tina took to Instagram with an announcement about the tour. Apparently, she’s canceling due to low ticket sales.

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She shared a photo of herself along with a lengthy statement announcing the cancellation. However, she insists the recent cancellation is more of a “postponement” as she hopes to hit the road in the Spring of 2018. “I’d like to say thank you to all who have purchased tickets for the It’s Still Personal Tour,” she said in an Instagram post. “Our hope is that all who have attended, have been thoroughly blessed. We are grateful for those who were planning to attend but our overall ticket sales haven’t shown that we have the support that we need to continue the tour at this time.”

Tina added, “We’re convince that many more would love the opportunity to attend this praise-filled, faith filled, entertaining, worship experience, so we have decided to give ourselves time to reach all of those people and bring this amazing tour back in the spring of 2018.”  *In other words, translation: What that statement probably means is the Mary Mary singers are gonna wait until 2018 to see if Tina’s ‘Trump train’ drama fizzles out and hopefully fans forget she ever decided to support him.*  Hmmm…

When All Hell Broke Loose:

Tina Campbell’s tour cancellation follows heightened backlash over her public support of Donald Trump. Despite all of the controversial things he’s done, along with his not-so-subliminal disapproval of African Americans, Tina Campbell admitted she voted for him and she even revealed she prays for him. Of course, Tina’s Christian fanbase consists of people who love God and treat people with respect, but many still cannot fathom how she could support someone who has made his sentiments of minorities very clear. But despite all of that, Tina recently shared a different perspective: “This man is not our God, and God has given us instruction for this man, which is to pray for him,” she told Essence Now host Makho Ndlovu.

“So me saying I stand with him means I pray for him, even now. I disagree with almost every decision the man is making but I still pray for him because he took an oath to represent this country. And we can say, ‘He’s not my president.’ But he’s still the president of America and God gave us a responsibility to pray for him.”

Unfortunately for Mary Mary, most fans obviously don’t agree. Best of luck to Tina Campbell with that though.

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Gospel singer of the group, Mary Mary, Tina Campbell, is making headlines yet again. This time she’s speaking out after a man made claims that he had a long standing affair with her husband, Glendon Theodore “Teddy” Campbell.

Here’s What Happened:

Popular transgender woman, TS Madison, and Miami female rapper, Khia, have a show called ‘Queens Court,’ where they discuss the latest inside info from someone’s living room. The ladies provide a phone number and anyone is allowed to call in as they go live on Instagram to discuss the latest news in social media. While the ladies were conducting their show, an identified male called in with claims that he had a relationship with a man named Theodore. Initially, the ladies were confused as to who the man was talking about, but then he said the name, ” Teddy.” The man claims that he met Teddy -Tina’s husband- when he was a guitar player for the group, Soul Diggers.

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Tina & Teddy Clap Back

As soon as the man’s claims hit the internet, fans and non-fans showered Teddy and Tina’s Instagram page with comments about the man’s claims about Teddy.

After receiving so many comments from people, Teddy and Tina responded to one commenter. Underneath their recent post of Tina singing a gospel-esque version of “This little piggy went to the market,” a fan hopped into the comments and asked her about the gay cheating rumor:

Here was Teddy’s and Tina’s reply:

teddyandtina: …We’re public figures with a tore up past plus a reality show that misconstrues our present by editing our lives to reflect what it was not what it is. They believe that’s what black america wants to watch so they along with all the rest of the controversial media based outlets feed yall lies and yall eat em. Sooo I suppose those looking have the ammunition to create the stories they want to believe.‍♀️. We’ll just be over here living while all those special people keep watching, following, and talkin. Life is too good and God is too good to focus on the dumb stuff

Not The First Cheating Claim

While this is the first time Teddy Campbell has been accused of sleeping with a man, this isn’t the first time that he’s been accused of cheating on his wife, Tina. We were all shocked to find out that Tina’s husband, Teddy, had an affair with one of Tina’s employees, who became a close family friend. Tina, along with her husband, made the shocking revelation on The Steve Harvey talk show.

“The person who it was, she used to work for me, and so, that broke my heart. She was like a godmother to my children, Tina told Steve Harvey. She had access to my home, to come get my kids, and all that kind of stuff. [She] was very intermixed in my family.”

To face the woman she once called a friend, she made Teddy call her so that she could confront her.

She hung up the phone. So I had my answer. It broke my heart, it devastated me, so I spazzed out Tina said on the show. I destroyed three cars, tried to stab and plotted murders and all kind of crazy stuff because I was angry. And I was doing all that like, … ‘Either I’m going to die wrong or live right.’ So we’ve been working on living right.

See The Clip Below:

After a lot of prayer and tears shed, Tina and Teddy decided to move forward with their relationship. In a very public way, Tina shared with the world her decision to forgive her husband, Teddy Campbell, for sexual infidelities and they have even renewed their vows. After engaging in a number of interviews, taking to social media, creating an album and devotional book about overcoming marital strains, Tina and Teddy seemed to be better than ever. They even have their own Instagram page entitled, Teddy and Tina. Recently, a fan asked Tina about the alleged cheating allegations and she responded.

Let’s just say Tina Campbell isn’t having the best week. First, the Trump voting fiasco and now this. I guess the christian roots in Tina would say, ‘the devil stays busy.’

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Lately, Mary Mary gospel group singer, Tina Campbell, hasn’t been a fan favorite, due to her recent political confession. Earlier this year, Tina felt the need to reveal she voted for Donald Trump and now, months later, she revealed that she boldly stands by her decision. Of course, her confessions sparked outrage all over social media. Since then, she’s faced backlash from fans and other celebrities. Now, Basketball Wives reality star and actress, Tami Roman, is the latest celeb’ to share her opinion of Tina’s political Trump train.

Bonnet Chronicles:

The Basketball Wives star recently posted a new video on Facebook and her latest ‘Bonnet Chronicles’ discussion was about Tina Campbell. Tami is wondering the same thing other people are wondering: What on earth was, and is, Tina thinking?

“I do respect Tina though because she came out and admitted that she voted for the man, because some of y’all voted for him and you don’t want to be honest about it and admit it’s a sinking ship, but she did,” Tami began.

The Figurative ‘Shackles’:

Tami went on to mention the “shackles.” Of course, we all know its the title of a hit song by Mary Mary. However, when it comes to Trump, many of us also know his “Make America Great Again” mission has seemingly become a subliminal reference to some different “shackles”- the ones African American were subjected to during slavery. Each time Trump mentions his infamous slogan, most Black people can’t help but think about what he really means. By “making America great again,” it seems Trump is focusing on re-establishing the slave era’s presumed ‘superiority’ of White citizens.

Every other day, Trump says something to make his sentiments known one way, or another. Therefore, Tami wants to know how on earth did Tina miss those “shackles”? Tami went on to question Tina Campbell’s definition of “Christian” values. Although the gospel singer claims to have voted for Trump ‘because of his Christian values,’ Tami couldn’t help but think of those suffering in Puerto Rico, when Trump turned a deaf ear to their cries.

“How could she miss the shackles, chile? ‘Cause that’s how I feel with Donald Trump in office,” Tami said. “They said she said, ‘She related to his good Christian values.’ But I say, sis, Puerto Rico been sitting in the dark for the past week with no water and no food. What’s God-like and Christian-like about that?”

See what else Tami Roman has to say about Tina Campbell:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZxBL6vlqZi/

Tina, Tina, Tina…:

Tami’s clap back comes days after Tina’s confession. As we previously reported, during a recent chat with The Root, Tina opened up and explained why she’s supporting Trump. “I was faced with two presidential candidates that I really did not approve of,” she said. “And so I had to find something, a commonality with one of them, that would make me feel like if I have to vote, I should utilize my right to vote. Since I don’t prefer either of them, what can I find that would make me vote? And some of Donald Trump’s views on Christianity, honestly, is what caused me to vote for him.”

With the way things are goin’ for Trump, Tina will probably end up having ‘buyer’s remorse,’ just like many other Trump supporters are starting to admit.

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Why she voted for Trump and not Hillary Clinton:

“I was faced with two presidential candidates that I really did not approve of,” said Campbell. “And so I had to find something, a commonality with one of them, that would make me feel like if I have to vote, I should utilize my right to vote. Since I don’t prefer either of them, what can I find that would make me vote? And some of Donald Trump’s views on Christianity, honestly, is what caused me to vote for him.”

Why she still stands by her vote:

“Many of the decisions that he has made afterwards, I have not been in agreement with at all, which I wasn’t in agreement with my last president that I voted for,” she added to The Root. “But however, as a Christian, my perspective is to pray for the president, to not use my social platforms or other platforms to try to destroy this man, because at the end of the day, he still represents the country that I live in.”

Tina also says that Black churches are making Trump a god:

“So all the fear that I was hearing in churches everywhere and amongst African-American people, I was like, ‘Man, we’re making a god out of this fellow. We think that our life is going to go to hell in a handbasket if he don’t get it right. And is he our god or is God our god? Are we going to pray for him or are we going to continue to bash him, which don’t help nothing?’

On why she doesn’t regret revealing her vote and support of Trump in her prior open letter:

“I don’t make those statements to become politically charged,” she continued. “I have an opinion and I expressed it because I was so disheartened from what I was hearing in churches in our community. So that is literally where that came from. Not a ‘Let me tell everybody how for Donald Trump I am and try to get everybody to be on the Trump train.’ That was not it.

Mary Mary’s reality show has had six successful seasons, but as of Spring 2017, Tina and her sister, Erica, filmed their last episode of the show, which premiered on Sept. 28th. Ironically, the show has now been cancelled. So it kinda makes me wonder if it had anything to do with low ratings due to Tina’s Trump endorsement. Not sure, but it’s highly possible. Let’s face it, most of their fans are not down with her ‘Trump train.’

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