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.