Wednesday, July 11, 2007

bothered

this past week i have gotten back into the habit of running, for two reasons:

1. it makes me feel better about myself

2. it helps counteract the process that happens when i choose not to run

anyway, i was running last night on a pretty busy road when the most bothersome thing happened. as i was running, i heard a horn honking. now it's not that i'm vain enough to think they were honking at me, but for some reason it's a natural response to look when you hear a horn honk. so, that's what i did and as i looked over my shoulder i saw an suv driving by, with a skinny teenaged kid behind the wheel, flipping me off with both hands.

i don't know why it bothered me so much, but it did for some reason. i wasn't doing anything but running down the road, minding my own business, trying to burn a few calories. seriously? you're flipping me off? what's the world coming to!?!?!?!

Monday, July 09, 2007

Okay, so I just read online that the NAACP is holding a funeral for the "N" word, complete with hearses and processionals waving banners that say, "Death to the 'N' word". Are they serious?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as long as you have songs on the radio that freely use the "n" word, it will continue to be accepted and repeated in our culture.

What really frosts my gizzard is the fact that you have some people enraged because the word is still used and yet, they themselves are the ones that continue to make it common vocabulary. It is the skinny white kid, singing along with Kanye West about, "I ain't sayin' she's a golddigger/but she ain't messin' with no broke ni**a", that feels the brunt of the outrage. Then there's this whole idea that as long as the "n" word is used in appropriate circles in the desginated environment, then it's okay. Or the ever famous "ghetto pass" that allows you to use the word as well. Talk about double talk and double standards. And don't even get my started on the proposed differences between the word "ni**er" and the word "ni**a"!

Either use the word or don't use the word. How can you expect some redneck in West Virginia not to use the word, when you use it yourself? How can you really expect to "kill" a word that is still alive and thriving in pop culture, especially when you continue to breath life into it every single time you say it? You can't!

Maybe they should bury the NAACP instead. Just a thought.