No Father Wants to be Laurence Fishburne Right Now

          Her name is Montana "Chippy-D" Fishburne.  You may recognize the last name.  In fact, she is the 19yr old daughter of one of my favorite actors of all time, Laurence Fishburne.  You've seen him in everything from Apocalypse Now, School Daze, The Color Purple, King of New York, and The Matrix, to What's Love Got To Do With It, and even in a solo production of Thurgood on Broadway in the Spring of 2008.  He of course has played many different roles, even a leading role alongside Angela Bassett in August Wilson's Fences, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in 2006. We could ramble on for days about the roles this great actor has played.  But he now finds himself in a precarious situation, an unenviable role to say the least.
          Chippy D, "Othello's" daughter in the photo, has made her first career decision...and she made it publicly.  She has decided, with all of her conscious mind, and all her energy, creativity, resources and skills, to enter the very lucrative porn industry! She is quoted as having said that she was inspired by Kim Kardashian and the attention she received as a result of Kim's leaked sex tape.  For those who don't know, Kim Kardashian and singer Ray J made a sex tape and it leaked online in 2007, leading to a lawsuit ending in $5m settlement between Kardashian and Vivid Entertainment.  I personally cannot attest to the tape's value, or lack thereof, but since then Kim Kardashian has garnered a lot of attention and earned a lot of money.  This led Chippy D to say the following, "I've watched how successful Kim Kardashian became and I think a lot of it was due to the release of her sex tape by Vivid. I'm hoping the same magic will work for me. I'm impatient about getting well-known and having more opportunities and this seemed like a great way to get started on it."
          Some of you may have heard of a gentleman by the name of Brian Pumper. Me neither. Well, I recently saw a video of this gentleman talking about his porn business, how he goes about directing the videos and handling the women.  Apparently he will be the first man to unveil Chippy D to the porn industry!! He will in fact provide Chippy D, Laurence Fishburne's daughter, the paid opportunity to engage in sexual acts on video for the whole world to see. In the interview discussed above with Pumper and Chippy D, Chippy also says she believes she has the skills because she has had "plenty of at-home experience" and the camera loves her.
          Larry Fishburne must be fuming! This is every man's nightmare, or so I hear, once he has a daughter.  Well, one of his worst fears may be that the daughter might become a street prostitute on crack with no way back.  But it is all relative.  No father raises daughters to willingly have sex with every Tone, Vick and Larry before being able to legally drink alcohol.  A father has too much pride to be seen as the Dad of a daughter who has a Big Papa, especially not a Big Papa named "Pumper".
          This is telling to me not only because Larry's daughter has chosen the adult porn industry, but because she cited Kim Kardashian as her role model.  Chippy D says she is "too impatient about getting well known"?  I presume the whole going to acting school, landing commercial spots, cameos, etc was just too much work, time and effort with minimal and uncertain returns.  All I have to say is WOW!! I thought only hard up women in the hood or other economically impoverished area chose this lifestyle because there is no other viable way for quick money.  I mean, even Kim Kardashian is not happy her video came out because no man will marry her now! Right, Reggie?
          Fathers, I urge you to take care of your daughters.  Be there for them, teach them the value of their bodies, their lives.  There are so many dangers involved in the porn business, so many risks, and to do it all for immediate fame is scary. 
          Don't get me wrong. I'm all for "to each her own" and believe that people simply must pay the consequences of whatever actions they take.  But never did I think the day would come where a 19yr old daughter of a superstar Hollywood actor like Fishburne would first choose the porn industry* as a means to a celebrity end.

But what if Larry Fishburne is well aware of and supports his 19yr old's career goals?  Or maybe underneath there is a story to tell of neglect, and of Chippy D being able to roam free unsupervised as a teenager for months at times while daddy's away working?  Is Larry Fishburne going to denounce his daughter?
Will he dare to disown her like Alan Keyes treated his young adult daughter Maya in 2005 after his uneventful 2004 Presidential campaign when he learned Maya was a lesbian?  Maya no longer had a home.

Or will there be an intervention of sorts, where Fishburne works to save his 19yr old from such risky activity and direct her to Dr. Drew? She may need sex rehab. She could start her career there as opposed to starting and ending it through the porn industry. Is this a girl's cry for help or a woman taking control, like janet jackson? You decide.

*Please note I am not judging or disparaging the porn industry or any of its individual actors. It is legal. The industry rakes in $13b per year in the United States alone.  However, what too often comes along with the benefits are violence, disease, self/group disrespect and maybe death.