Politics

Why can Pres. Bush push for an immigration bill which he has been on a bad side of all this time but he is stuck on one side of the war situation. Politics. He sees that he has to a certain extent lost the battle with the immigrants so he is sort of waving a white flag. Why isn't he doing that with the war effort. Doesn't he know when to lick his wounds. I would think that looking at this situation that he does but this just shows me that he is at the point to where he does what he wants when he wants and damn anyone who has a problem with it. God help us if he has any problems with a nuclear powerhouse.

Black Village

I read that it is uncertain the future of Leimert Park in Los Angeles which was a hub during the riots in the 90s riots. Of course this area needs to be preserved. Why wouldn't it be. If people are trying to make a positive out of a negative which they were before the riots as a matter of fact, then why should that be held up. That was a rough point in American history and a functional place as a monument to me means more than any statue, especially because of what happened. I mean how can you put a monument up to mark the moment when the officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted. You can't. But it needs to be remembered for future generations so that the past doesn't repeat itself. Look at that place and remember white folks what can happen when you piss us off.

So Many Breakups

When I look at my local paper I can't help but notice all of the divorces. I can't understand why. One reason I think is because I think that people rush into marriage too young. People think that just because they get with someone in the ninth grade and stay with them through graduation that means they should be together through life but that is apparently wrong. I understand that youngsters aren't the only ones who make up the divorce bracket but they make up quite a few. What anyone needs to know is that divorces cost more than marriages regardless of the circumstances. Problems, problems.

Some Blame

I have to believe that the head people at Virginia Tech have to be held somewhat responsible for some of what occurred on that tragic day last week. After the first shootings, there was no reason for that campus not to be shut down. They played right into the killers hands. That just shows you that the campus was more worried about putting on a front to cover up a tragedy than getting the word out to make sure everyone was safe. The way I look at it, just because of a rumor, I would rather have safe students and a drop in enrollment than 33 dead people and 25 wounded because of the way I thought it would make my school look to the public. I mean they act as if even if they did shut the school down and the mass shooting wouldn't have occurred or if it was an isolated incident as they claim they thought it was, they still would have had to go to the press about the first 2 student shootings. Jail time, nah, but some lost jobs, probably.

What's Deserved

I have heard that the young guy that has been charged with raping and killing a 2 year old little girl has been having a hard time in jail. Rumor has it a couple of broken arms, broken ribs, continuous beatings, and serious anal damage due to continuous rape. Can the guy even blame his fellow inmates. They're giving him the same chance he gave that little girl. I have heard over the years that child molesters and the like have the worst time in jail and I guess that must be the truth. Lord be with him and I guess he is getting or will get whatever he deserves.

Lives Changed

Today was the first day of the 2007 NFL draft. For these guys there lives have changed forever. Money and notariety are at their feet. As for what they will do with both of them remain to be seen. I wish as a 23 year old that I could look forward to the coming months and know that I will be seeing a couple of million dollars in the mailbox. And the sad thing about it is that some of these guys have been given to key to changing generations in their families that aren't even born yet and will blow it. If I only knew back in the day what I know now.....

We Wonder Why

As a young black man, I hear my peers all the time complain about why we don't have too much to do in my area but after going to Conway, AR last week for the festivities tied in to the End of the World Greek show, it is no wonder why there isn't much for us to do because there is always going to be a good number of people out there to mess things up. Cars getting hit, fights, people getting shot at, drugs, drunk driving, I see why the Man doesn't want to give us too much to do because there will always be ignorance. Now if we as a people knew how to get together peacefully and chill there wouldn't be too much but people look for that one little thing where we mess up to hold it against us and thats what these young folks don't seem to understand. This was my sixth and most likely last year going because it seems that the generation after me is more worried about looking tough and making bad names for themselves than just getting out of town and having fun. I don't know where my people are headed honestly. Children are the future my ass. They say one apple spoils the bunch, well how about a couple of hundred.

Controversy Coming

I see that Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees has hit 10 home runs in 10 games. He is on pace to hit, well we're not going to talk about how many he is on pace to hit, but at this early point in the season everyone is applauding his skill level and off-season preparation. I bet that at the end of the season if he has broken a couple of sacred records by a rediculous amount, someone will come out and scream controversy. Especially steriods. Now I know that I am not the only person to see that A-Rod has filled out quite a bit. Personally I am not one of these people that would claim that, keep in mind that I am a Barry Bonds fan, but regardless what people need to keep in mind is that if you can hit a little round ball with a skinny round bat and the ball is going 100 miles per hour, it's a treat to even make contact, let alone hit it out of the park. A-Rod the greatest baseball player, not of all times, but for the moment and for Yankees fans hopefully the season, take ya' curtain call homie. Just know that the haters are lurking.

Copy Cat

Well after I have seen that the shooter at Virginia Tech sent a tape to NBC to boast about what he was about to do I knew that it was bad but when I saw that on the package he paid tribute to the Columbine High School shooters, I knew that this was on a whole other level. That means to me that people need to be on the lookout for people that may idoloize mass murders, especially school shooters, and attempt to take what they did to another level as in this case. To send a tape to the news to exploit what you are about to do, man. And to see all the preparation that he went through like calling in bomb threats the week before to check the police reaction time and when he did the first shooting, this guy knew that he was going to get his plan across to the extent that he had time to go to the post office and mail a package. Psyciatrist, beware and be ready to break the law of patient, doctor confidentiality. Which would people rather have, a doctor's license taken away or a campus of dead students. Speak out.

Oprah

I watched the Oprah Winfrey Show Tuesday and she showed me why she is so popular with women. She is a man basher, like people have told me before but I have never really watched her show. But I have seen through blogs on the net that she is a rapper basher for sho'. She had entertainers and CEO's of record companies on her show and damn near roasted them fully for the Don Imus incident blaming the rap industry fully for the way people portray black women. The bottom line is people look at black women as they are. Oprah doesn't want to admit that there are bitches and hoes out there. Now I will say that they're not only black, but to say that rappers portray all black women is wrong. The girls that are willing to get in those videos half naked are the ones that they are speaking about, a woman that is willing to use her body for fame or to get what she wants or to get where she wants to be, the street meaning of a hoe. To bash Russell Simmons, a non-rapper and peace advocate as well as Common and others alike is unfair. She sees rap as totally woman hating but I see her as fully man hating. Oprah, Stedman is there, marry his ass and maybe you won't be so negative towards anyone with a penis between their legs and be less prone to be booty buddies with Gale whatever her name is. Is there a problem, yes. Do rappers and entertainers cause it, no. Do they add to it, maybe, but if yes minority wise. Don't dump society's woes on one category of people. If Oprah was so smart she would see that she is doing the same thing that white folks said about black folks generations ago about ruining society. Get off the high horse O.

God Bless

Lord's prayer be with the families or any grieving over the tragedy at Virginia Tech University on Monday. This is just another senseless shooting at another institution that had no idea that this was in the plan of a madman. The only thing that I'm angered about mainly is how the adminstration handled things. After the first shooting two hours before the mass shooting, the campus should have been shut down and evacuated as most say. As a college student, if I come to school and there was a shooting earlier that morning, damn trying to make the school look good and safe and let me know the deal so I can get outta harm's way. That's one thing that I see in TV that translated Monday, adminstration at a campus worried about school outlooks than student safety. In my mind had that been tended to, there would have been at least 30 plus lives spared. God be with those lost and with their families and friends.

After Jackie

I found it honorable that Major League Baseball allowed players to wear Jackie Robinson's number 42 on the 60th anniversary of him crossing the color line in baseball. The thing is that people always have to look for contraversy. Some people said that it shouldn't be allowed and that the number should be held sacred but I say as most that if people want to pay tribute to a great man for a great feat, why fight it. As for what Jackie would say today about the state of baseball, well his wife said there is much to be done because of the percentage of blacks in baseball but the way I look at it, where we have dropped off in baseball, we have picked up and made great strides in other major sports. Jackie, we're tryin' to hit em' outta the park for ya'.

Shocking Results?

How many people didn't know that the paternity test for Anna Nicole Smith's baby wasn't going to say that Howard Stern wasn't the father. Personally, I guessed as much from day one before she passed. I think she knew that even if she lived, that there was going to be money drama with Larry Burkhead if she admitted it was his baby. Plus I think that Howard probably has more of the baby and Anna's best interest in mind. But in Burkhead's defense, how many men wouldn't want to knock up a gorgious millionaire. The last sign to me of what was coming was when Howard dropped his petition to keep the results a secret. He knew it was just a matter of time before the truth came out. So know the question is will there be any of Anna's money left when the baby turns of legal age after her birth father gets through with the money if the court's don't mandate it to be put into some kind of trust. Again, as with the rest of this soap opera, only time will tell. It seems that everytime I think I have written my last blog on this saga, something else arises. Stay tuned.

Who's To Blame?

I don't know whether it's hipocritical or not that Snoop Dogg spoke out on the Don Imus situation. This is a rapper that is notorious for downgrading women in a nice percentage of his songs, not that he's not my boy. But it's that all the black leaders are saying that they are trying to get the black community to stop downgrading our own people to show that it's not okay for anyone else to do it, but at the same time, other folks embrace their negative monikers also. Take white people, they embrace cracker, honkey, redneck, good-ol' boy and the like. We can't say it but they can. Mexicans can say wetback. There are many other examples. But it is bad that black folks are under the microscope but at the same time it's sort of because no one else has been degraded and stepped on as much as us. So is it good to get our entertainers to set a good example, maybe because it seems that our music is the most highly embraced among all races and if they sing it in a song they seem to think it's okay to say it during regular conversation, which both times are wrong. People need to know regardless of music or anything else that there's just some things that can't be said by certain people. A white person will put a rebel flag on their car with the name redneck under it but if a black person says the word, they get as offended as we do when we hear the N word. Maybe we need to throw all the words away, hmm.

Respect Finally

A couple of weeks ago the US government announced that soldiers who die overseas will no longer be transported back to the states in the baggage section of commercial jets and unloaded by forklifts unceremoniously in faver of private jets and having full honor guard at the airport to greet the bodies. This is wonderful because the soldiers didn't leave home in a crate under a jet so why should they have to return home that way. To relegate them to be stowed away like so much baggage is just a great disrespect. The government say that flying them back under jets with baggage saves time and money when they don't seem to care about spending extra money anywhere else dealing with the war effort. Finally all extra war dollars are being spent on something that everyone can agree on.

Milkin' It

Looks like the Flavor train hasn't come to a stop just yet. I bet VH1 never thought they would have all these shows after they had Flavor Flav on the Surreal Life. That spun into Strange Love, which led to Flavor of Love seasons 1 and 2, I Love New York, and now the newly dubbed Flavor of Love girls Charm School. You have to wonder where this chain will end because there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. When you have Flavor Flav still roaming around, two seasons worth of women to have their own shows, New York not knowing if she wants to settle down, and now the whole cast of men from her show. I hope Flav's black ass was smart enough to get production credit so he can get the max money out of this situation but hey, probably not.

Done

Well today, to add insult to injury Don Imus lost his radio show on CBS. This coming a day or so after MSNBC dropped the TV simulcast of his radio show. This is way more than I thought would ever happen to him but oh well. This happened to a person who slammed a person some years ago for making distasteful comments about Judge Lance Ito who presided over the OJ Simpson case. Looks like he forgot about his own good example. I guess he'll have time to think about what he's done while looking through the want adds.

Example set

Yesterday, it was learned that two troubled players in the NFL will have to sit out for a while. Pacman Jones of the Tennessee Titans will miss the whole season while Chris Henry of the Cincinnati Bengals will have to miss 8 games because of their off season run-ins with the police off the field. This is good and bad to me. Good because it will teach players that just because they are millionaires they can't do what they want to do but bad because if there is a mishap with anything say racial profiling, an innocent person may have to pay for a misunderstanding. I like the fact that these young black players will have to carry themselves with alot of prestige from now on instead of maybe resorting back to what trouble they were used to getting used to at younger ages. Only time will tell all the positives and negatives.

Class

I can't help but admire the Rutgers Women's basketball team of there reaction to the comments of Dan Imus. Instead of getting up there during their press conference and cussing or acting out, they spoke calmly and fluently and showed the education and class that people said that they had since this incident arose. Now I see that MSNBC will no longer broadcast a simulcast of Imus' radio show. Maybe next time should talk about a white school's basketball and see what happens. Hey he claims that it wasn't racially motivated so that shouldn't be a problem huh?

Shameful

Today it came out in the news that here in Pine Bluff a couple of days ago, a nineteen year old boy raped his girlfriend's two year old daughter which caused her death. What was he thinking. I mean damn what was his girlfriend doing or not doing for him to where he had to do that to a little girl. To be honest this is just dispicable and there isn't much I can say except that child molesters have the worst time of anyone when they go to prison. In a little while he is gonna feel what he made that poor little girl feel.

Imus?

There has been an uproar the past week over radiocaster Imus's racist comments about the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team. He has been suspended but some are calling for him to get fired. He says that he made a poor choice in words but is not a ranting, raving racist. Personnally, I don't want to see him fired. I want to see if he can stand behind what he says. Now if he is what he says he is, I think it is up to him to prove it. I want him to be under the heat of the lights. If he is let go, then he can fade into obscurity and that isn't fare. From now on, everything he says will be under a microscope and that to me is probably a harsher punishment that termination. Let him feel what people like Howard Stern feel after every broadcast where every word that comes out of his mouth is critiqued. Bet he won't say anything else about nappy hair.

Over At Last

It has been said that the divorce of Bobby and Whitney will be finalized this month. I know that there are a lot of tabloid writers who are very upset over this. The critics may say that Whitney should have done this years ago and that she would stupid to stay in a situation like this, but had she done so, what would they have talked about. There would have been no embarrassing interviews. There would have been no drug induced concert appearances. There would have been no reality show that looked into the madness. So while the marriage cost Whitney millions of dollars while paying Bobby's court fees, child support, and everything else, there are a lot of media producers out there who put there kids through college because of them.

End of an Era

This week, a sports legend Eddie Robinson died. He coached the Grambling University football team for over 50 years and became is the second winningest coach in college football history. One thing that was made clear long before he died was the kind of man, leader, and pioneer he was. And to make it even bigger the accomplishments that he made were that he did the at a HBCU. He made people look and a conference, the SWAC, that probably would have paid it no attention. When a black coach has nationally known leaders speak of him after his death, you know he was large, not to mention that he sent over 200 players to the NFL and has 7 players in the football hall of fame. Damn, just imagine what would have happened if he was at one of those big name white folk schools.

Price of Fame

I saw on the news today that Justin Timberlake was upset about how the celebrity tabloids make celebrities lives seem like a soap opera. Well, my words to him are that when they print positive things about them, they like the exposure but when things turn sour, they are referred to as the bad guys. I really don't like how the people get portrayed myself but it's that exposure along with the good that makes celebrities into the people we love or hate. One day you see these people posing for pictures and sometimes hiring publicists to make sure they are seen on camera and the next the people are fighting the same cameramen they posed for a day earlier because they are having a bad day. When you choose to live your life in a fishbowl, sometimes you will be stared at.

Pig Sooey

In another embarrassing moment in Arkansas Razorback athletic history, the basketball team hired a coach on Monday, called a press conference to introduce him, had the previous coach get hired to another team the same day which meant they didn't have to pay his remaining contract, and had the new coach renig the very next day. If this isn't a black eye to the program I don't know what is. It was bad enough in the national eye with the Nolan Richardson situation, but this sullies an already bad situation. It makes you wonder who is to blame for all the woes in Fayetteville, the coaches or the administration. Now the question remains who would be dumb enough to come into a circus of a situation like that next. Only time will tell.

Reality

A couple of days ago, Anna Nicole's "companion" dropped his petition to keep DNA results about her baby secret. To me, his petition only confirmed that he doubts the baby is his as many people has said before. As a fan of the woman I would like for the baby to be his because I don't think he would take too much advantage of the situation, unlike the other guy Larry Burkhead. But in Burkhead's defense, how many people go have sex with multimillionaires and don't expect anything in return. Basically he knows that if the baby is his, he stands to gain millions from the bank account that the baby won't be able to enjoy for years. Must be nice to be a couple of months old and know that you're set for life.

Big Loss?

Last week, I tuned in to a Los Angeles Laker game and as always they showed the celebrity fans that showed up and I saw a wig bearing Britney Spears. This made me think of the big uproar that arose after her break from Justin Timberlake. The talked about the fact that he was so hurt but if you look at the events from her life over the past three years or so, was it a big loss really? She got married twice, divorced twice, had two kids, shaved her head, showed her privates on numerous occasions, had addictions that sent her to rehab, etc. On the otherhand, Justin kicked it with numerous fine ass celebrity women and did his thing. So nowadays, who do you think is really crying a river over their split?

Unappropriate

Today, they released yet another statement about Anna Nicole Smith. This one to me hit below the belt and I mean literally. The reports talked about how during the autopsy they remarked about how she had cantelope sized implants. Well duh. Then they went on to say on national television about how she had an imaculate anus. Who in the hell examines breasts implants and anuses during an autopsy that is supposed to be centered around an autopsy. To me it seems that some sick individual got a cheap ejuculation at a dead woman's expense. Sick world we live in huh.

Bonehead?

Last week, the owner of the New York Yankees George Steinbrenner's daughter got divorced. The crazy thing about it is that he has been saying that when he steps down that his son in law would take over the team. So that means to me that this guy gave up millions upon millions of dollars for what? What problem between them was that serious to where he couldn't stick it out to become the head of one of the most storied sports franchises in the world. Years from now when he is old there is no doubt that this will haunt him to his grave. I understand that they say that money can't solve all problems but damn. To "The Boss" if your lil' girl needs a replacement, tell her to give me a call.