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.