Everybody In the Club Is NOT Getting Tipsy

Dwyane Wade to LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony during the Olympics, "Hey fellas, let's hit the bar after the game and get some drinks." "Okay. Let's go." they say. So after beating the current team they're playing by 100 they shower and head to Sanlitun, the nightlife district of Beijing. As the All-Stars head to a nice-looking bar they're stopped at the entrance by security. Aware of the arrogant image that some Americans portray in foreign countries they stop and ask if theirs a problem. The security guard asks for an autograph. They sign the autograph and head towards the entrance. Again they're stopped. They ask why. The security guard informs them that they can't enter the establishment. They ask why not. Security guard simply says, "Because you're black." WHAT!!! Is this America circa 1935? Nope. Beijing 2008. Home of the Olympic Games. No Blacks or Mongolians allowed. I hope recent reports are true; that its just a translation mixup. But even if it is I think theres a sort of subliminal racism at work when the word that many people associate with evil happens to be the same word that is used to represent the race that I belong to. Blacklist. Blackout. Blackball. Black eye. Black as sin. Think about how this type of language influences kids. They're being conditioned to think that anything "black" is bad. We gotta change that type of thinking.

Come On, Are You Serious Mr. Officer?

The Raw Story | Missouri Police taser injured boy 19 times

A 16 year old kid with a broken foot and back "wasn't complying?" He was such a threat that they had to tase him 19 times?Are they serious? I think the federal and state governments are beginning to regret supplying officers with these tasers. To me they're making officers more irresponsible since they believe they're not deadly. At least with guns they have to really think twice before they pull that trigger.

Bacon, Anyone?

It's funny to me how conservatives, and anti-Obama people in general believe what they want to believe. One of the biggest lies that they put out about Barack is that he is Muslim. You know you heard people say, "His names Barack Obama. His father was Kenyan. He attended a Muslim school as a child. He must be Muslim. He must have terrorist ties." First of all, we all know that isn't true. Second, whats wrong with being Muslim? Conservative Republicans don't believe us when we tell them it isn't true. Well now there's visual evidence. I saw a video of Barack eating breakfast with troops during his visit to Kabul, Afghanistan. What was he eating? BACON! Everyone knows a Muslim would never eat bacon. I actually got hungry myself. But anyway, I hope enough people see this little clip and end all the "He's a Muslim!" talk. It's really getting pathetic.

If You Can't Take the Heat Don't Eat the Habanero

Ahhhh, hot peppers; the perfect companion to many dishes. Loved by many hated by some, you can always tell when something you ate had hot peppers in it. It may take a couple hours but, trust me, you'll know. Recently, on the news, I saw that there was a jalepeno eating contest. It's similar to the pie or hotdog eating contests. Well it reminded me of something that happened at work one day. A bunch of the guys were sitting around talking about the different hot foods we like. One guy had to outshine everyone else and said, "Yeah, I even drink tabasco sauce out the bottle. I eat peppers like Skittles." So us being the bored, sadistic bastards we are, had to make a challenge out of it. We googled the hottest peppers around and decided to get some Habaneros. We challenged him to eat a bag full of peppers with nothing to drink. So I went to the store and got the peppers and we sat down at lunch the next day with the peppers on the table waiting for dude to scarf 'em down. He opened the bag up, popped a pepper, chewed, and swallowed. After about the third or fourth we noticed he was turning fire red and his eyes looked like he smoked a pound of the sticky! We were killing ourselves laughing! But, he did get about halfway through the bag. And another thing; he didn't show up to work after that day. Then I got to thinking how hot peppers burn going in AND coming out. I could just see him at home handling his business, crying for the Lord like he caught the Holy Ghost! Damn, I hope he didn't have to be rushed to the ER for a severe case of the fire pants!

You're A Big Girl Now

I was watching one of my favorite shows, To Catch A Predator, the other night. Now, hold on, its not one of my favorites because I identify with the schmucks who are on the show. Its one of my favorites because it let's me watch one of my biggest pet peeves, dumb criminals. It never fails, the guys who are lured to the house to hook up with what they believe to be a minor girl or boy always say, "I've seen this show before" after they find out its a sting operation. Duh!!! What are you even doing there then?!? If I were chatting with someone and they tell me "Come on over. I don't know you and you don't know me but come over in the middle of the night," a red flag should go up faster than gas prices! And most of them say they never did anything like that before. So they're either lying or just some desperate bum who doesn't know how to talk to grown women. I'll tell you one thing though, the thought of a old dirty, nasty man with one of my underage cousins, alone in a house, makes my blood burn. I say throw these creatures UNDER the jail!

Good Dog/Bad Dog

My wifes Yorkie, Teddy. Don't let the cute face fool you. How could we know that such a cute creature would be so BAD?!? The things this little dog gets into... And I can tell that he knows when he's doing wrong! But then he looks up at you and you're like, "Aww, he's so cute." Devil dog!!!

Why Are You People So Angry?

I'm in the process of taking an ethnic diversity class. In this class we have weekly discussion questions that ask questions like "What's the difference between ethnicity and race?" or "Who are some leaders of the civil rights movement?" A couple weeks ago the question was asked: "How has slavery effected the evolution of the United States?" My classmates brought up different views; some valid, but some just downright ignorant and uninformed. Most of the comments were the same old "It was horrible and I am ashamed that it is part of United States history." I understand that race issues are a sensitive matter and usually signal the group to hold hands and sing a big old round of "Kumbia's" but I think that type of ignoring of the issues is why things are the way they are. Hell, I probably would've sang a couple kumbias myself. Then it happened. I made a post about institutional racism and how it affects minorities in this country and one of my classmates replied that institutional racism doesn't exist. Huh?!? I saw that the young lady was Native American and White but that she doesn't even know anything about her Native American culture. So most people would see her as White. So I could understand how institutional racism doesn't exist for her.

I let that ride, but then another classmates post struck a nerve. This individual had the nerve, or maybe just the ignorance, to imply that African-Americans should be happy that slavery happened since it has lead to us being "the most advanced group of African descended people in the world." Huh??!! WTF?!? I had to proceed to tell this cat that just because he, and the majority of Americans, thinks our country is the greatest in the world doesn't make it true. We may look at other, poorer countries and feel pity for them, but they have something a lot of us over here don't; roots. People wanna know why African-Americans are often "angry." I think the best way to answer that would be with another question. How would you feel if the oldest history you know about yourself is that your ancestors used to be enslaved and brutalized by the ancestors of the very people who are your bosses and supervisors at your job now?