HHDX: I can dig that. There is a stigma that seems to be attached with being a “video girl.” Stereotypes ranging from not being intelligent enough to having to be promiscuous just to get a gig, are just a few. Those aside, what is one thing that no one really knows about Britni Cardosa?

BC: I think that people don’t know that I have invested time into doing this. Doing music videos just happened to fall into my lap. I started out doing extra work on different television shows and music videos. I did one video at the time. That was “No Daddy” by Teiarra Mari. From that point on it started the video thing. I don’t dress sexy. I’m into school and I graduated from Crenshaw High School at seventeen. I did my first beauty pageant when I wasn’t even a year old in 1986.

HHDX: You go to California State University – Northridge, correct? What’s your major and are you going for a degree or to be able to double your dollars within the marketplace?

BC: It’s both. I know you have to have a backup plan, but I feel that God put me on this earth to do something. I have a beautiful relationship with children. I am associated with this place that helps out with the Arts. It gives them a place to stay and be safe. It doesn’t matter about the industry, I didn’t sleep my way into it, I worked my butt off to get into this business.

HHDX: I know a few of our readers, especially my editor, are into politics. California is governed by Mr. Terminator, himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. How do you feel about the job he’s done running the state?

I think that the whole financing with the schools is messed up. I don’t think he handled the Tookie Williams case right. I think that he just wanted to play God. I’ve noticed different things in my community that they’re trying to clean up. But just because the surface is clear, doesn’t mean what’s bubbling up underneath won’t come up again. I’ve never seen him at any real community event that goes on here in California.

HHDX: Schwarzenegger is Republican and has dreams of being our Commander-in-Chief, but currently, Bush is our “leader.” If they were to invoke the draft, would you go over to Iraq and serve alongside our troops?

Honest to God, I want to enlist in the U.S. Marine corp, regardless of the draft or not. I was in the ROTC for four years. I wouldn’t want to go while Bush is in office. Things are escalating, as you can see, in the press. I would like to be a narcotics officer in the U.S. Marine.

HHDX: So far the nation really doesn’t like anything Republican related. Not too recently, a drug called “Plan B” was introduced and approved by the FDA. The drug is an emergency contraceptive that can prevent accidental pregnancy. Do you think that this drug will encourage teenage pregnancy? Or do you think that its purpose is more positive?

BC: Kind of, I mean technically they already have one on the market. I think that they should make it public to the youth about this product. I mean there is a downfall that there is something out there that’ll allow children to just have sex, but I know that the people need to know. Continued on page 3 »