Candace CP 3 Parker is having a baby! Cool! Cool! Cool! Congrats on the great season! Congrats on the degree! Congrats on the nuptials! Congrats! And May the God (IAM) richly bless you, your husband and new addition.
Now that I got that out of the way I kinda ticked off at the way AOL presented the story. The AOL story begins with Roger Federer and his new baby as well as the fact that he is married "Now"! Of course this is celebrated! But as the article points out Candace Parker, The Los Angeles Sparks Forward is also married but had to be at least three months along when she and her husband Mr. Shelden Williams got hitched.
So What! Mrs. Parker Williams is a grown azz woman who earned a college degree from the University of Tennessee and is in the 1st year of a Master's degree when she won her Championship during the last Tennessee run. So, you can keep all that shame bull ish to yourself! She has nothing to be ashamed of. Nothing! And if she has anything that she feels uneasy about that's between her family, her Husband and her God! It ain't to be judged by anyone else. She chose to get married! She didn't have to.
Is Candace Parker a role model? Hell, yeah! And she's a damn good one too. Name me one role model besides Jesus of Nazareth that you can look up to without finding anything imperfect? Exactly! She's educated! She's degreed when so many Male athletes with half her talent leave college without a degree and have multiple babies with multiple sistahs and ain't thinking about taking near one of them down the aisle. Candace Parker and most athletes and public figures step up and try to be good role models and citizens but they owe you nothing! Nothing, except to show up to work and perform! Anything else is extra and God Bless them for it!
Again, the hypocrisy must end! Go ahead Candace! God Bless! Now, do some Yoga and hit the weights and when baby comes be ready to play for the Sparks!
BE Careful! BE Mindful! BE Prayerful!
BE Careful! BE Mindful! BE Prayerful!
Jaycee