He Want That Old Thang Back! Jobless Junkie Lamar Odom Still Fighting For His Swirly Matrimony-dom
Posted on March 19th, 2014 - By Bossip Staff
Categories: Ballers, CELEBRITY, Dirty Dog Diaries, Divorces, Drugs Are Bad M'kay, For Your Information, matrimony-dom, News, Reality TV, The Swirl
Categories: Ballers, CELEBRITY, Dirty Dog Diaries, Divorces, Drugs Are Bad M'kay, For Your Information, matrimony-dom, News, Reality TV, The Swirl
Too little too late?
Lamar Odom Wants To Work On Marriage With Khloe
Lamar Odom has revealed he isn’t ready to give up on his marriage just yet.
Despite wife Khloé Kardashian having filed for divorce from the troubled basketball star three months ago, the 34-year-old has opened up about his hope for a future with the woman who stood by him
for so long.
‘I want to make it work with Khloé,’ Lamar tells the latest issues of In Touch magazine – on newsstands now.
Speaking from his New York City hotel, where he is receiving physical therapy for a back injury,
the star reveals he will soon be heading back to Los Angeles – and hopefully into the arms of his estranged wife.
‘I’m going to see Khloé. I’m going to see her soon,’ the hopeful-sounding NBA player shared of his plans.
Having briefly relocated to Spain, where he was playing for the Baskonia basketball team until an injury cut short his season, the athlete is now focused on getting his life in order.
‘I’m focusing on getting better,’ he tells the publication.
And it seems that part of getting back on track means not only making amends with his ex, but hopefully reuniting with her, too.
Despite warnings from concerned family and friends who don’t want to see her get hurt again, the 29-year-old is reported to be willing to give their relationship another chance.
‘He confessed his feelings and cried his heart out to her on the phone,’ an insider tells the magazine of the conversation that occurred in mid-March and turned everything on its head as far as Khloé’s concerned.
The source adds: ‘She’d been avoiding his texts and calls for weeks, but when she heard him pleading with her to take him back, she melted.’
Whether purely coincidental or not, Khloé took to Instagram on March 16 – the same day Lamar sat down with In Touch – to share a poignant message with fans.
The inspirational image posted to her account hinted that a reconciliation wasn’t completely out of the question despite the pair still having plenty of obstacles to overcome.
‘I declare that I will live as a healer,’ the message began. ‘I am sensitive to the needs of those around me. I will lift the fallen, restore the broken and encourage the discouraged.
‘I am full of compassion and kindness. I won’t just look for a miracle; I will become someone’s miracle by showing God’s love and mercy everywhere I go. This is my declaration.’
Man Describes Growing Up White And Black Families Rejection This is pretty fascinating, especially since he did not have an actual relationship with another black person until he was 25-years-old. According to NPR.org: Chad Goller-Sojourner is African-American. In 1972, when he was 13 months old, he was adopted by white parents in Tacoma, Wash. He and his siblings are all different races than their parents. They were raised in a white suburb, but worked hard to expose them to other people who looked like him, and checked out every library book with a black author they could find. They even sent them to a more diverse school in a different neighborhood. But Goller-Sojourner, now a writer and solo performer based in Seattle, says there was a limit to what his parents could provide. “One of the things I think was hardest for me is I didn’t have any independent relationships with black people, especially adult black people, till I was an adult,” he says. “I was 25 before I saw a black doctor.” As a child, he experienced racism before he had the language to understand it, he says. “For instance, shopping: I learned pretty early on that when people knew I was with this white lady, that they treated me differently,” he says. As he got older, he realized that if he didn’t want to be followed in a store, he’d better make sure people knew he was with her. “I would hold up some outfit and say, ‘Hey Mom, could I get this?’ And she’d be like, ‘No!’ Which let everybody within earshot know that I was with a white lady, and then suddenly, that privilege came back over me.” “My source of love and hate came from the same well,” he explains. “My parents looked just like the same people who were calling me a n**ger or porch monkey. … My mother and my parents were in my corner, but it was still difficult to process.” In college he began what he calls a “descent into blackness and out of whiteness.” He describes it as a journey, giving up the privileges he claimed as a child of white parents and learning to accept his identity independent of them. He added Sojourner to his name. “I moved to New York City, where for the first time I found my own reflection pleasing,” Goller-Sojourner says. “I learned to fall in love with myself and being black in my mid- to late-20s. And although it was a beautiful experience, it shouldn’t have taken 25 years to do that.” He says that while a black home may be best for a black child, he’s not opposed to transracial adoption. “Here’s what gets people upset: Part of my story is, I was 13 months old, and according to the social workers in my file, I’d already been passed over by two or three black families because they considered me too dark,” he says. His parents were among the first wave of transracial adopters, and did their best to prepare him for the real world. Parents today can do even better, he says. “I don’t have a checklist,” he says, “but if I did, it would sound something like this: If you don’t have any close friends or people who look like your kid before you adopt a kid, then why are you adopting that kid? Your child should not be your first black friend.” 
