This blog had me pacing. I'd like to give a very serious disclaimer regarding this one. I AM NOT A RACIST, I AM A PRETTY PROUD AMERICAN -WHEN WE DO HUMANELY GOOD THINGS-. However, with that pride there is a sense of freedom of speech which I am getting ready to exact that is ugly.
Images and characterizations below are almost paramount, biblical, mandate-ish, in their discussion and statement. I'm almost sorry I've decided to write this blog, very, essentially, sorry I'm putting out in the public... YET proud that I'm doing so because someone has to say this and no one is doing so at this point.
WARNING: this will be the longest blog yet on this forum. If you arent a reader... be warned, you are getting ready to read and YES Chris Rock, I know who will NOT be reading this blog.
Blogs are close to freestyle rapping. They come out like vomit when they happen and different events, pictures. movies, and/or other items of consequence tend to trigger them. I am sorry about any spelling or grammatical errors I miss.. I'm NOT being edited -sort of like MSNBC writers.
This blog was triggered by my interaction with The Professor and several writers and board posters on the WWW.
If I havent already, let me tell you a little about me and The Professor: I am an graduate educated guy having walked away from my dissertation in Microbiology and Immunology without writing my degree. As you can see, my fear of writing is minuscule. I can write for days at a time if I am inspired and my thesis degree project, as assigned by my professor was dull, to me. So I walked away when offered a chance to move from the East Coast to the West Coast because in my heart and soul, I've always wanted to come out here. My dissertation was to regard the physical construction of the genome of Streptococcus gordonii, a strange little bacterial that inhabits the mouth soon after birth. YAWNnnNNn...
I moved to San Diego in 97, bumped into the professor, earned a "new brother" and soon after left my lucrative career "consulting to patent attorneys" because they knew I had the science background.. minus the Ph.D. Sort of like a person with a masters degree -lol. I'm now a writer and filmmaker trying to do what we do "make it". I'll never leave this place.
My compatriot, The Professor holds a degree in Law, yet he really doesnt use it either, his reasons are his own. He can tell you when he gets crazed by American events and finds a need.
Both of us are BLACK, African American, Negro, NEEEEEGROW....
This blog was squeezed out of me by the death of Sean Taylor, a defensive player for the Washington Redskins -the irony of the name, Washington REDSKIN, will either be pointed out more throughly, or not... but you've got a hint of some of the strange issues my American society is providing me right there.
Hang in there with me, I will try to be as entertaining and perhaps thought provoking as possible.
Lets number the sections.
Section 1. Who I am NOT, and with what I am associated (NOTE: if you do not read "good writing" often, please hang in there .. I will try to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition -which apparently is allowed now, but not by my dead grand dad who lives in my head).
Okay, THIS is a gorilla.
Wonderful racists on the planet enjoy saying Black people are gorillas.
NO, we are not -hold on.
Okay, this is a chimpanzee (not a MONKEY hooded idiots).
Wonderful racists on the planet enjoy saying "dont they look like little niggers"..
No, we dont -hang in there.
This post is going to emotionally hurt so if you havent read THIS BLOG of ours please read it first so you understand from where we are coming.
This is an orangutan.
Again, NOT me, not me at all, not anyone I've ever met. Though .. never mind.
and THIS, is a Bonobo, one of the most social animals on the planet, having a matriarchal society and even evidence of tool use -which used to be used as the classification of what separates US -humans- from ANIMALS.
Now with that understood by any crazed Klansman that has stumbled upon this blog, let me tell you WHY you have been wrong in classifying any Black American with these animals.
THEY DO NOT KILL EACH OTHER AS A RULE. Nor do they destroy their environment/homes.
GOT THAT..
Black Male Americans DO!
We kill each other.. often... Me and the Professor have one real concern, due to our visual relationship with all of "our Black Community", in that America in 2007, as evolved into a place that lumps groups of people together based on color and country of origin to such an extent that The Professor and I (did I tell you The Professor is black as well?) read and watch the news like many others like us, with fear that something, somebody, some event will happen somewhere involving a Black person, and it will DIRECTLY EFFECT our lives due to a blanket coverage that is given to us as a "group".
Oh.. there may not be many segueways in this piece. I may jump around, but trust me, YOU WILL "GET IT" at the end... mainly because I will give it to you. Also, I have wonderful Windows Vista on this new laptop and it was supposed to come with a full version of Microsoft Office -it didnt-, so I'm composing in a small cramped window!!!!
Okay... we got the monkey/gorilla racist crap out of the way for the black folks out there who have had to, even today, deal with people who slip periodically and compare black people to Apes. We have settled the argument that Black People are different than Apes because we have a habit of killing each other.
Now, let me tell you, there is a writer I enjoy reading periodically who writes for ESPN Page 2 named Jemele Hill, called by your's truly "Jimmy-Lee". She has an article on the net right now that deals with the Redskin Defender's death. LINK. In the article she points out the many strange society ills that effect/affect (I always use those words together, ok, maybe not always) young black men like our own Mr. Sean Taylor. In her article she cites that since 1990 (or so) young black men have a six times higher chance to die via MURDER than other races both in America and world wide. -stop-
Follow me:
DNA's essential structure was discovered and elucidated by Watson, Crick and Franklin (I always give her credit because without her, Watson and Crick than simply a professor). Watson recently came under fire because he says, claims, that black people are genetically inferior to other races. THIS infuriated me because I have witnessed in my own life that I am smarter than other people. I was NOT the person to fail the preliminary exam required to pursue my Ph.D., a test that covers two years of intense study at the graduate level at Temple University Medical School. NO. The person who failed that test was NOT BLACK.. so what is Watson talking about... WAIT... perhaps me, and others I know are somewhat mutated..? Perhaps there are a group of us who have our KILL RANDOM INNOCENT PEOPLE OVER STUPID ASS SHIT are different. After all, I'm alive, I did not add to or produce any dead black young men by the time I was 24, or older... it bothers me to the core of my being that I can not explain this discrepancy, however, I have The Professor as a friend and confidant and he is wayyy more Uncle Rukus than I am. He has stood steadfast that something makes US (black people) different that isnt related to poverty or racism.
I was both perplexed and elated because I could release my pain.
I've protected, for years, that black folks station in life is a result of "the media". I've screamed that what we see in the media leads to young black men behaving the way that we do. I've hollered that its not our fault, it is that we stand out due to our contrasted hue! But The Professor argued back; are you hinting that OUR people are soooo simple that IMAGES lead our lives..? That we as a "people" have a six times higher chance of dying before we are 24 beecause we are THAT STUPID. "How about", The Professor would say, "we have something IN US as a group that can be pulled back, reduced, stopped and/or mutated, that leads some of us to be simply SAVAGE! Ugh... noooo... NOOOO.. that can not be...
Then he points me to the Southern "horn" of Africa, the few million that have been slaughtered, the premiere/president/leader of one country who claims to cure aids with a strange concoction he uses after having extramarital sex with infected hookers... I can only tilt my head like a puppy, curious, wondering.. where is the argument. If I argue that particular leader, who has a society in his hands who have an AIDS rate higher than most promiscus homosexual communitys PRE-1984, I'm stuck either saying he's stupid.. ..or his cure works -remember my education. CRAP.
He points to the high murder rate, and explictly tells me.. HOW HARD IS IT TO NO KILL A MUTHA FUCKA??? HOW HARD IS IT TO FOLLOW THE LAW...? HOW HARD IS IT TO JUST BE-FUCKING-HAVE???... and this always leads to me trying, digging, searching for an answer. Well, I have none.....
So, I started this saying it was forced out of me because of Sean Taylor's murder. The reason that is important is:
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Morning Commute: Saving the DOG
You know the deal.
I drive to work and periodically something will be stated on the radio that makes me realize that again, either I am truly from another planet, another dimension, perhaps another era, or, I truly live amongst IDIOTS.
First, let me say that I've missed the strange morning radio program that has a segment where men or women call in to have the radio hosts phone a person they recently dated to find out why the person hasnt called them back after a few days post-date. I'm okay with that. Every time I get to hear that segment I find myself one more added day closer to moving to a mountain top, getting dark glasses, and working on my U.S. Postal rules.
Now, having missed that little segment hasnt freed me from dealing with other aspects of morning radio that are simply frustrating and mind numbing. For example, there is a DJ here in San Diego who apparently gets paid for his "work" who reads us listeners the news. That would be fine if the idiot could READ. Without fail, every single day, when it is his turn to provide us with top entertainment related news items, he stumbles through each sentence/word as if he was in the god damn 6th grade. SADLY, I think the dude is black, so they will probably keep him on the air because he is perfectly continuing the stereotype: He cant read, well; He is a notorious skirt chaser; and his ignorance (along with his co-workers) about the field in which he is earning a living is pedestrian at best, but closer to simple farm animal intelligence in the least.
So, it is today, that I get to hear this idiot stumble through news items regarding Mario Lopez. Your wondering, what did the news entail? What did Mario Lopez do? I really do not remember. I honestly was listening and then the IDIOT and for the love of god THE GUY WHO ESSENTIALLY RUNS THE PROGRAM decided to start making comments about Mario because, as they said, "The dude is obviously an idiot, I mean, he (insert buck toothed laughter here) is the guy who cheated on the Doritos chick".
Uh, first of all, the "Doritos chick" not only has a name, but if you work in the entertainment industry and you fail to have a brain that doesnt fire off perfect neurons when your mind passes over the idea of Mario Lopez CHEATING ON ALI LANDRY, YOU SHOULD GIVE UP THE MIC AND GO BACK TO MCDONALDS.
I was at a loss.
You dont do that. That would be like me sitting here on a sports blog and suddenly saying; yeah, I dont think we will have many more great heavyweight boxers like that "Im the greatest" guy who is all sick and shaky nowadays.
Its a sign I tell you. A sign that we are limited to what we remember from a few hours ago, and we are being entertained by idiots with low IQs -which is why Howard Stern is a billionaire. He would NEVER make any of the mistakes above and HE CAN READ!!!
So, let me get back to the commute.
DJ Idiot is reading the news and he tells me this story, in this manner:
Dog the
bountyhunter
recen-tly found
he recently foundhimself
under fire due to because of
because of some comments he made to
some comments made duringaphone call with his son... [screw it, you get the point, THE GUY CAN NOT READ]
THE STORY: DOG the bounty hunter was speaking with his son in a private conversation and he said nigger... many times. He told his son, who is dating a black woman, that he would like it if he either got another job or if he leave his girlfriend. His reason is that on his job, at his "office" Dog tends to use the word nigger often and wanted to make sure his son's black girlfriend didnt hear him use the word and then bring down his budding television career.
DOG said at least three things that made me feel sorry for where his TV career, and life, will be going as a result of the tape: ONE he said that she wouldnt understand that when him and his ilk (other bounty hunters) use the word, they arent using it in the old southern, hateful, soulless black coon creatures of the earth way (which is funny because that is what black guys say); TWO he said he didnt have a problem, as his son already knew, with his son dating a black woman; and THREE, she wouldnt understand it and he knows for a fact she would ruin his career with some damn racism "indictments" that werent warranted.
If you didnt know what DOG looks like, now you do. I've watched his show. Watched about 10 minutes of it and realized it was "Cops" without cops.
I think about DOG and his statements and realize he's right. I KNOW he says nigger. I KNOW he says nigga. WHY DO I KNOW THIS... first READ THIS BLOG ENTRY.
DOG hunts PEOPLE WHO DO NIGGA SHIT! DOG HUNTS PEOPLE WHO CALL EACH OTHER NIGGA SO MUCH you'd think you were at a Klan rally. IF you are hunting niggas, and you see a nigga or you catch a nigga, you know what you say in your own world, around your own company, within your own circle? YoU SAY WE GOT THAT NIGGA, HAVE YOU SEEN THAT NIGGA.. we are going to GET THAT NIGGA. HOW do I know that is what he would say? Because, when I see a black man on the run from the law because of some "nigga shit" I say "oh they are gonna catch that nigga and potentially beat his brains in before arresting him".
I have no problem with DOG. The guy is sincere in his apology I'm 100% certain of it. DOG is not a racist, dog is what most of our celebrities really are when you wipe away the fame and money; poor white trash that made it big (or bruthas from the hood who made it, vatos from the barrio who got out.. etc.). The average celebrity is someone who is honestly living a dream that is very far from their original station in life.
So, I'm writing a lot so you KNOW I must have some sort of issue, and I do. See, getting back to being entertained on morning radio by dufus idiots, let me tell you what I was SHOCKED about with regard to this whole incident.
IT IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE to unknowingly tape a telephone conversation without alerting the person that you may be taping the call. DOG has had his LIFE put on hold due to a conversation he had in PRIVATE with his own son about something he is 100% correct about. NO ONE mentions this! The National Enquirer (naturally) broke this story and my curiosity is why arent they libel for allowing a private conversation to be leaked to the public. Why arent they FORCED to give up the source of the tape, and if it is DOG's SON, well, there ya go -dysfunctional family got a lucky break, became somewhat famous, but the dysfunction has led to this moment-. THIS IS NOT like when Imus broadcasted his remarks (which I believe I have commented on -I had no issue with the "nappy headed" comment). This was a private conversation that someone taped. Someone committed a felony; DOG gets in trouble potentially on an international scale, and not one single intelligent radio host mentions this because DOG SAID NIGGER? IN PRIVATE!!! OH wait "single intelligent radio host" -my bad.. ROFL.. no such thing.
We have our priorities in a mangled bunch. There are black men and there are niggers. There are African American men, and there are niggers. There are white guys, and there are honkey, cracker, hillbilly redneck hick-ass-inbreeds. When in private ALL of us will use words to differentiate the species!
I drive to work and periodically something will be stated on the radio that makes me realize that again, either I am truly from another planet, another dimension, perhaps another era, or, I truly live amongst IDIOTS.
First, let me say that I've missed the strange morning radio program that has a segment where men or women call in to have the radio hosts phone a person they recently dated to find out why the person hasnt called them back after a few days post-date. I'm okay with that. Every time I get to hear that segment I find myself one more added day closer to moving to a mountain top, getting dark glasses, and working on my U.S. Postal rules.
Now, having missed that little segment hasnt freed me from dealing with other aspects of morning radio that are simply frustrating and mind numbing. For example, there is a DJ here in San Diego who apparently gets paid for his "work" who reads us listeners the news. That would be fine if the idiot could READ. Without fail, every single day, when it is his turn to provide us with top entertainment related news items, he stumbles through each sentence/word as if he was in the god damn 6th grade. SADLY, I think the dude is black, so they will probably keep him on the air because he is perfectly continuing the stereotype: He cant read, well; He is a notorious skirt chaser; and his ignorance (along with his co-workers) about the field in which he is earning a living is pedestrian at best, but closer to simple farm animal intelligence in the least.
So, it is today, that I get to hear this idiot stumble through news items regarding Mario Lopez. Your wondering, what did the news entail? What did Mario Lopez do? I really do not remember. I honestly was listening and then the IDIOT and for the love of god THE GUY WHO ESSENTIALLY RUNS THE PROGRAM decided to start making comments about Mario because, as they said, "The dude is obviously an idiot, I mean, he (insert buck toothed laughter here) is the guy who cheated on the Doritos chick".
Uh, first of all, the "Doritos chick" not only has a name, but if you work in the entertainment industry and you fail to have a brain that doesnt fire off perfect neurons when your mind passes over the idea of Mario Lopez CHEATING ON ALI LANDRY, YOU SHOULD GIVE UP THE MIC AND GO BACK TO MCDONALDS.
I was at a loss.
You dont do that. That would be like me sitting here on a sports blog and suddenly saying; yeah, I dont think we will have many more great heavyweight boxers like that "Im the greatest" guy who is all sick and shaky nowadays.
Its a sign I tell you. A sign that we are limited to what we remember from a few hours ago, and we are being entertained by idiots with low IQs -which is why Howard Stern is a billionaire. He would NEVER make any of the mistakes above and HE CAN READ!!!
So, let me get back to the commute.
DJ Idiot is reading the news and he tells me this story, in this manner:
Dog the
bountyhunter
recen-tly found
he recently foundhimself
under fire due to because of
because of some comments he made to
some comments made duringaphone call with his son... [screw it, you get the point, THE GUY CAN NOT READ]
THE STORY: DOG the bounty hunter was speaking with his son in a private conversation and he said nigger... many times. He told his son, who is dating a black woman, that he would like it if he either got another job or if he leave his girlfriend. His reason is that on his job, at his "office" Dog tends to use the word nigger often and wanted to make sure his son's black girlfriend didnt hear him use the word and then bring down his budding television career.
DOG said at least three things that made me feel sorry for where his TV career, and life, will be going as a result of the tape: ONE he said that she wouldnt understand that when him and his ilk (other bounty hunters) use the word, they arent using it in the old southern, hateful, soulless black coon creatures of the earth way (which is funny because that is what black guys say); TWO he said he didnt have a problem, as his son already knew, with his son dating a black woman; and THREE, she wouldnt understand it and he knows for a fact she would ruin his career with some damn racism "indictments" that werent warranted.
If you didnt know what DOG looks like, now you do. I've watched his show. Watched about 10 minutes of it and realized it was "Cops" without cops.
I think about DOG and his statements and realize he's right. I KNOW he says nigger. I KNOW he says nigga. WHY DO I KNOW THIS... first READ THIS BLOG ENTRY.
FINISHED? GET IT?... If you would like I will add to that ENTRY one more wonderful addition of "nigga shit"; "Da Brat" is in trouble currently because she's at the center of an altercation in which a waitress "bumped into her" at a restaurant/club, which led to some shoving -because of course in a crowded club bumping into people is all about disrespecting a mutha fucka- and finally led to the waitress walking away only to then get BOPPPED upside the head with a champagne bottle. Lacerations ensued.
DOG hunts PEOPLE WHO DO NIGGA SHIT! DOG HUNTS PEOPLE WHO CALL EACH OTHER NIGGA SO MUCH you'd think you were at a Klan rally. IF you are hunting niggas, and you see a nigga or you catch a nigga, you know what you say in your own world, around your own company, within your own circle? YoU SAY WE GOT THAT NIGGA, HAVE YOU SEEN THAT NIGGA.. we are going to GET THAT NIGGA. HOW do I know that is what he would say? Because, when I see a black man on the run from the law because of some "nigga shit" I say "oh they are gonna catch that nigga and potentially beat his brains in before arresting him".
I have no problem with DOG. The guy is sincere in his apology I'm 100% certain of it. DOG is not a racist, dog is what most of our celebrities really are when you wipe away the fame and money; poor white trash that made it big (or bruthas from the hood who made it, vatos from the barrio who got out.. etc.). The average celebrity is someone who is honestly living a dream that is very far from their original station in life.
So, I'm writing a lot so you KNOW I must have some sort of issue, and I do. See, getting back to being entertained on morning radio by dufus idiots, let me tell you what I was SHOCKED about with regard to this whole incident.
IT IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE to unknowingly tape a telephone conversation without alerting the person that you may be taping the call. DOG has had his LIFE put on hold due to a conversation he had in PRIVATE with his own son about something he is 100% correct about. NO ONE mentions this! The National Enquirer (naturally) broke this story and my curiosity is why arent they libel for allowing a private conversation to be leaked to the public. Why arent they FORCED to give up the source of the tape, and if it is DOG's SON, well, there ya go -dysfunctional family got a lucky break, became somewhat famous, but the dysfunction has led to this moment-. THIS IS NOT like when Imus broadcasted his remarks (which I believe I have commented on -I had no issue with the "nappy headed" comment). This was a private conversation that someone taped. Someone committed a felony; DOG gets in trouble potentially on an international scale, and not one single intelligent radio host mentions this because DOG SAID NIGGER? IN PRIVATE!!! OH wait "single intelligent radio host" -my bad.. ROFL.. no such thing.
We have our priorities in a mangled bunch. There are black men and there are niggers. There are African American men, and there are niggers. There are white guys, and there are honkey, cracker, hillbilly redneck hick-ass-inbreeds. When in private ALL of us will use words to differentiate the species!
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