RF 23 - Where It Stops
RF23 - Where It Stops
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Jason Whitlock has done it again. And it seems that after he broke, "What really happened" in Vegas during the NBA's All Star weekend, Jason is now challenging blacks to "who ride" and blow up, what is called the hip hop culture. Look we're not hermits here, we see the problems within our own neighborhoods. We see the kids, especially boys, with their pants almost down to their ass and calling our daughters, bitches or ho's. We see our girls talking and behaving just as worse as boys. We see both groups act disrespectful to grown ups and ultimately we see the same age group in the news either about to be buried or locked up for the rest of their lives. It's an ugly cycle and when it boils down to the nitty gritty...It's our fault. I when I say our, I mean everybody. The politicians who want to make laws that make no sense, like the war on drugs, disparity in sentencing between crack and cocaine, not one politician regardless of what side of aisle they sit on actually does their damn job. I know we're not suppose to rely on the government, but damn...The government has enacted programs that is easy prey for corruption. How long will they continue to fund public schools without getting the intended results. Education is supposed to award the student with hopes of a bright future, not reward the school board administration for dimming the lights of our future. How long can we continue to see the eroding of our neighborhoods either by neglect by the same government or abuse by the same kids that now terrorize it. How long?
And this is what Jason is talking about...He's saddened and dammit I am too! It doesn't make sense...Where did we go wrong? Did we die with Martin Luther King, Jr., cause it seems like we did. Or, some of us get it and others are still waiting for reparations for a slavery they never experienced. Jason mentioned Rosa Parks, and it's strange that he did, cause this year, I purposely left out Mrs. Parks from my Black History Month. I thought that Parks, Tubman and King get too much play. It seems that I may be wrong, maybe I should've reflected on Rosa Parks a little more, maybe I should have thought about Harriet Tubman a little more and I should've thought about Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was Rosa Parks thoughts of Black America the year she died. Here she refused to give up her seat, so the next generation wouldn't have to "yassa sir, I'm moving boss" to the back of the bus. Most folks think that the deed of refusing to give up her seat, was just that...No, it wasn't. It was the fight for common courtesy and decency. It was the fight to say, dammit, I'm a freaking human being, I'm a lady, and yes, my skin tone does not match yours, but it doesn't mean I'm less of an American and therefore have no rights.
And now we have Jason Whitlock calling a spade a spade. Will he take some for it, you bet. Word has it that Scoop Jackson, the same Scoop Jackson, who told a bunch of school kids that they have a better chance of making the NBA than being a sport editor, countering Whitlock's NBA All Star column.
How ironic....You have Bill Cosby going around the country telling black folk that we aren't doing our part of the bargain and quit blaming the white man for your failures and no sooner than he said it...Michael Dyson dismisses Cosby's triumph of overcoming and becoming a success as "self hate."
Click or past links..
Whitlocks Columns:
http://sports.aol.com/whitlock/_a/hip-hop-serving-up-plan-for-failure/20070227103009990001
http://sports.aol.com/whitlock/_a/time-to-stop-looking-past-black-kkk/20070222104609990001
Scoop Jackson's Reply to Critics of the NBA All Star Game in Vegas
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/070228
www.keepingitright.blogspot.com
Jason Whitlock has done it again. And it seems that after he broke, "What really happened" in Vegas during the NBA's All Star weekend, Jason is now challenging blacks to "who ride" and blow up, what is called the hip hop culture. Look we're not hermits here, we see the problems within our own neighborhoods. We see the kids, especially boys, with their pants almost down to their ass and calling our daughters, bitches or ho's. We see our girls talking and behaving just as worse as boys. We see both groups act disrespectful to grown ups and ultimately we see the same age group in the news either about to be buried or locked up for the rest of their lives. It's an ugly cycle and when it boils down to the nitty gritty...It's our fault. I when I say our, I mean everybody. The politicians who want to make laws that make no sense, like the war on drugs, disparity in sentencing between crack and cocaine, not one politician regardless of what side of aisle they sit on actually does their damn job. I know we're not suppose to rely on the government, but damn...The government has enacted programs that is easy prey for corruption. How long will they continue to fund public schools without getting the intended results. Education is supposed to award the student with hopes of a bright future, not reward the school board administration for dimming the lights of our future. How long can we continue to see the eroding of our neighborhoods either by neglect by the same government or abuse by the same kids that now terrorize it. How long?
And this is what Jason is talking about...He's saddened and dammit I am too! It doesn't make sense...Where did we go wrong? Did we die with Martin Luther King, Jr., cause it seems like we did. Or, some of us get it and others are still waiting for reparations for a slavery they never experienced. Jason mentioned Rosa Parks, and it's strange that he did, cause this year, I purposely left out Mrs. Parks from my Black History Month. I thought that Parks, Tubman and King get too much play. It seems that I may be wrong, maybe I should've reflected on Rosa Parks a little more, maybe I should have thought about Harriet Tubman a little more and I should've thought about Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was Rosa Parks thoughts of Black America the year she died. Here she refused to give up her seat, so the next generation wouldn't have to "yassa sir, I'm moving boss" to the back of the bus. Most folks think that the deed of refusing to give up her seat, was just that...No, it wasn't. It was the fight for common courtesy and decency. It was the fight to say, dammit, I'm a freaking human being, I'm a lady, and yes, my skin tone does not match yours, but it doesn't mean I'm less of an American and therefore have no rights.
And now we have Jason Whitlock calling a spade a spade. Will he take some for it, you bet. Word has it that Scoop Jackson, the same Scoop Jackson, who told a bunch of school kids that they have a better chance of making the NBA than being a sport editor, countering Whitlock's NBA All Star column.
How ironic....You have Bill Cosby going around the country telling black folk that we aren't doing our part of the bargain and quit blaming the white man for your failures and no sooner than he said it...Michael Dyson dismisses Cosby's triumph of overcoming and becoming a success as "self hate."
Click or past links..
Whitlocks Columns:
http://sports.aol.com/whitlock/_a/hip-hop-serving-up-plan-for-failure/20070227103009990001
http://sports.aol.com/whitlock/_a/time-to-stop-looking-past-black-kkk/20070222104609990001
Scoop Jackson's Reply to Critics of the NBA All Star Game in Vegas
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/070228
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