You can blame yourself for the fighting in Congress!!!

Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing – after exhausting all other alternatives. ~ Winston Churchill



Why is it that a single mother can prepare a budget better than a politician?  It seems like all they do on Capitol Hill is argue about money.  You have politicians that don’t pay taxes and others that spend money like drunken sailors on shore leave.  They even vote on wars that America can’t afford.  And now they are fighting over raising the debt ceiling!!  The concept of raising the debt ceiling has been around for years.  But some of the folks in our legislative branch act like they don’t know what it’s all about.  Hold on….wait a minute…my bad….they don’t know!!  With 87 new members in the House of Representatives and 12 new Senators it makes perfectly good sense.  These new Republicans came in under the wave of discontent for our current political process.  Tea Party Members were well organized when they executed their game plan in the 2010 Midterm Election.  And President Obama’s fan club all but vanished in 2010.  In my voting precinct in particular, if you were a Democrat or had an ethnic name (i.e. black) it was a wrap.  You weren’t going to get a first term in office or “back” into office.  It was just one of those years…..


Flash-forward to now and, if you look in the distance, you can see the chickens coming home to roost. To sum it up:  we got what we paid for!!  The fighting that is going on regarding the debt ceiling is one that was caused by us!  Yep, you got it!!  The Tea Party was able to get their folks into office by holding their feet to the fire.  Not by being seduced by “Chicken Dinners” and the occasional church visits.  Obama didn’t capitalize on his 2008 election and lost a lot of folks in the process.  People wanted “Hope” not “Beer and Peanuts” on the White House lawn.  Obama missed an important opportunity to educate his followers that were new to politics.  When they saw the name calling, fighting and overall ill will.  They just tuned out.  All he has left are loyalists.  And to be honest, some are just following him because he is black…ooops..did I say that?


Our current divided government is a representation of our country. We are a nation that is divided by class, color and sexual orientation.  What might be good in San Francisco is horrible in Tuscaloosa.  If it is a sure thing in New York, it might be suspect in South Carolina.  We are a divided country that only comes together for sporting events and alien invasions.  So don’t be shocked by the deranged behavior going on by our politicians.  Either you voted them in or you didn’t vote at all. 

After 4 ½ months the NFL Lockout is over!!! Congratulations to the Groupies and Mistresses.

The streets are alive again!!!  Football is back!!!  For all of those loyal fans that thought this was going to be liquor-less fall and a tailgate free winter.  You can rejoice and know that Millionaire$ and Billionaire$ are back to doing what they do best – making that money!!!!  Granted, there will be some bitter folks that aren’t happy with the deal that was struck.  “First Round Draft Picks” who will be receiving a smaller paycheck than previous first rounders.  And their handlers Sports Agents that will be receiving an even smaller check. In the end, everyone will still be rich….well except for the fans that watch the sport.  But let us celebrate the win win situation for those that truly benefit.  The people that would have been hurt the most by the lock out.   Let’s give a round of applause to the true winners. 

Groupies – Things were looking stark for these individuals.  They were sandwiched between a National Football League lockout and a pending National Basketball Association lockout.  It appeared that they wouldn’t have anyone to chase behind.  Hockey Players?  Sure, I guess they could.  But Hockey groupies aren’t that colorful.  And if you don’t watch baseball, you couldn’t name a player if you tried.  But Football is America’s game.  Every Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday and even on Holidays you can see a game.  They even have Arena Football that is played indoors on a smaller field.  Then there is Fantasy Football for the “white collar” set.  Hotel Lobbies, Bars and Clubs (the frequent hang outs of Groupies) would have been empty all over America with a lockout.  Just think of all that money being lost.  The Club Owner makes his living by rustling up some lucky individuals to sit in the club’s VIP section.  The Hotel Doorman sneaks women up to the player’s rooms.  Look at all of these people that would have been out of work.  We can’t afford anymore unemployed folks in this economy!!!  Happy Hunting Ladies!!!

Mistresses – Without a football season, the players have fewer excuses to get out the house.  It’s hard to make a trip to see your jump-off when you are out of work.  How many times can you keep using the lifting weights excuse before it gets old?  These women needed this lockout to end more than anyone else.  They needed bills to be paid (mortgage, rent, car, gas, electric, clothing allowance, hair care, and jewelry).  Being a mistress is a part time job that makes up at least 30 – 50% of their monthly income.  Someone has to make sure these modern day gladiators are ready for battle (sexing them as much as possible).  Unfortunately their wives can’t do it because of their busy lives (tons of children to take care of/daily visits to the salon and spa).  Mistresses around the country can now let out a sigh of relief and rejoice in the good news. Go get your paper!!!

So I give a hearty salute to the Groupies and Mistresses. And I wish for them to have a Good Season!!

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If Joe Jackson is making cologne, it must smell like sweat and underachievement!!

I’ve heard all the different ways that black folks have tried to humanize Michael Jackson’s father. I never knew that terrorizing your children and pimping them out was viewed as quality parenting. I can only imagine what kudos you get for beating them with an extension cord vs a belt. Joe Jackson is what he always was. A Pimp!! Even after his son is gone and buried, Joe is trying to make money off his name.


Joe Jackson had a deal on the table to create a “fragrance” using his late son’s name. No word yet if the bottle is designed to look like Bubbles the Chimp! The company that is guardian over MJ’s commercial rights has put a kibosh to the planned project. I’m not shocked that Joe was trying to circumvent the company in charge of MJ’s name in order to make some side cash. Joe is only doing what Joe knows how to do.


Living off MJ is a Jackson trait that was passed down from Joe Jackson. Everyone except for Rebbie and Janet are always letting you know that they are a Jackson. The worst offender is Jermaine Jackson, who looks like an exhibit at Madame Tussauds. How is it possible that for such a talented guy, “per his own definition,” he is not bigger in the music industry? If it wasn’t for the Jackson 5 you wouldn’t even be able to pick out the rest of them. It’s an absolute shame that MJ’s legacy will always be used by someone that carries the Jackson name. I don’t know who this Franck Rouas character is that Joe was doing business with. But it appears that Joe might need to watch his back on this one. For the first time in his life he might be the one that gets pimped.

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Representative Anthony Weiner ain’t thru catching Hell yet!!!

Poor @RepWeiner!!! I’m personally not shocked about his photos!!! The pictures that he sent aren’t that shocking. It would be the same if Bishop Eddie Long was white and skinny. You do have a right to be mad at Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart did you dirty but that’s his job. He is a conservative crusader who has yet to have his own card pulled. But it was you that eventually got caught slipping. I do feel bad for Weiner because I just found out that his wife works for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.


The good news is that his wife might not leave him.


The bad news is that his bedroom is going to be cold for awhile!!! A long while!!! A long long long while…


Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is the personal assistant to Clinton at the State Department. She has been with Clinton since 1996. Can you believe Weiner’s wife actually works for the Ice Queen herself!! Trust me!! No matter how big the mainstream media makes this out to be. No matter how the Republicans use this against him. You can best believe Weiner is going to get his!!! You saw the way President Bill Clinton was looking after the Monica “Original Supa Head” Lewinsky scandal broke. He looked like a whipped dog. He is just now getting his swag back.

Great American Hood Heists - Waka Flocka Flame and Some Random Dudes.

Waka Flocka Flame (I can’t believe I’m actually typing this name) came to Charlotte NC in February to upgrade his tour bus stereo system. While he was enjoying our fair city his brother was an “almost victim” of an attempted robbery. Flocka Flame (real name Juaquin Malphurs) was hanging out with his fans in front of a car stereo store (how cliché is that) when the shooting began. The gunmen (Six Men!!!) were attempting to rob Flocka Flame’s brother of his jewelry. Flocka Flame’s brother was wearing more than $100,000 worth of jewelry.


Side Note: $100,000 worth of jewelry? Just let that sink in for a moment.


Who has that much Gold on? Or was it Platinum? I can’t keep up with the latest trends and fashions of the pseudo-rich. Eventually the robbers were caught and the shooting was in broad daylight so this should have been a closed case. NOPE!! The District Attorney was not able to close the deal on locking these would be robbers up. Although one person suffered a gunshot wound the witnesses could not identify the shooter. They also did not have evidence that the robbery took place. SAY WHAT?!?! Didn’t all of this happen in the daytime?? The court paperwork to dismiss the case said the following:


"There has been no identification by any alleged victim or witness of any of the six defendants as being present and/or firing a weapon during the incident. Although many details of the incident differ, these defendants were in agreement that no one who went to this stereo store had any intent to rob anyone, They said their intent was to 'chill,' 'hang out,' or 'holler at' the rap artist.”


Side Note: It’s obvious that the no snitching campaign has been a smashing success.


A lawyer for one of the alleged gunmen said his client “was an innocent bystander who only went there to talk to Mr. Waka about getting a record deal” If he had of seen the movie “Hustle and Flow” he would have known that never works. We have such a hard time locking people up around here. And when they are wearing their ankle bracelet, they just cut the thing off. What will it take before we can bring these criminals to justice? We need to do something fast because they are already starting out young.

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Nothing against that lovely couple in Jolly Ole’ London but when is the Wedding going to be over??

I enjoyed London when I visited back in the day. I even enjoyed riding the “Tube” (their rapid transit system…i.e. subway) and I’m not a fan of public transportation!!! The best part was that I only spent 100 dollars to get to England (I believe in balling on a buget!!) So when I tell you that my disgust with America talking about a wedding (in another country!!!) is not personal, it’s not!!! I just believe we have bigger issues to be concerned about right here in America!!!


Right now in our very own country we have:

People that have to make a decision between paying their mortgage or feeding their family.

Politicians that are millionaires arguing over how the middle class and poor folks are going to live..i.e. health care, employment and retirement.

A broken Education System that is more concerned with how you take a test than how you actually learn what you were tested on.

Millionaire Athletes and Billionaire Athletic Team Owners fighting over money.

A pre-presidential race that is overshadowed by investigators combing through hospital birth records.


And don’t get me started on our Churches, Local City and State Governments and the fact that every U.S. President (as long as I have been living) says we are going to stop our dependence on Oil but Gas is almost 5 dollars per gallon??

Wedding my arse!!! We got issues!!! The only thing we have in common with the wedding - America is like the bride’s father. After all the festivities are over we are alone and left with the bill….

10-minute short film "Clap" by Pharoahe Monch

I could have told Jalen Rose that nobody wants to hear the truth.

You can tell a lot about a university and a country based on who it excludes and who it exploits.

~ Mdotwrites



Upper Middle Class and Middle Class Black Folks can be mad at last Sunday Nights “The Fab 5” documentary on ESPN all they want. But, kudos to the Jalen Rose produced documentary that earned high ratings. I’m just sorry that the folks watching didn’t get what they watched. Instead of dealing with the issue of college athletes being exploited, we have spent a whole week on who is and isn’t an “Uncle Tom”. Who knew that “The Fab 5” would air black folk’s dirty laundry?


Jalen Rose said the comment below in the documentary -

“For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke. And I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms.”


This is what Upper Middle Class and Middle Class Blacks heard when he said the above comment –


“Blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah if you were black and played for Duke University you are an Uncle Tom”.


Keep in mind that these comments were made when Rose was a teenager. Jalen Rose also said the following –


“Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt that they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms. ... I was jealous of Grant Hill. He came from a great black family. Congratulations. Your mom went to college and was roommates with Hillary Clinton. Your dad played in the NFL as a very well-spoken and successful man. I was upset and bitter that my mom had to bust her hump for 20-plus years. I was bitter that I had a professional athlete that was my father that I didn't know. I resented that, moreso than I resented him. I looked at it as they are who the world accepts and we are who the world hates.”


The above comment apparently bothered Grant Hill and he felt the need to write an op-ed in the New York Times. In it he quoted some Latin (good to know that someone else besides Clergy, College Professors and Treasure Hunters in Movies know Latin). He mentioned his ties to my frat brother the great Historian - Professor John Hope Franklin.

Side Note: Usually blacks get mad at our white counterparts when they reference black folks that they know in order to seem like they are cool with black folks but I digress…

He also talked about former Duke University players and how successful they are now. To all of this I say…..yawn!!! I have nothing personal against Grant Hill. We are from the same state and we both come from 2 parent homes. He was an excellent player in college and he seems like a nice guy. And his wife is HOT!!!!! But he read into this statement and wasted his time trying to defend what can’t be defended. People call Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and “Uncle Tom” all the time. Do you think he cares?? He doesn’t care what black folks think about him. He probably doesn’t even realize he’s black until he looks in the mirror. If someone calls you an Uncle Tom, laugh it off and keep on trucking!!! That title is so played out that it should have been retired with the word “Honky”.

Side Note: In the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” where the name came from, Uncle Tom was not the person that he has been portrayed in modern society. Uh Oh! My bad for ruining that for black folks that love to hang that title on other blacks.

Let me break down what Jalen said so we can separate what he meant and what you heard.

WHAT JALEN SAID: Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt that they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms.

THE BREAKDOWN: No the players aren’t Uncle Toms. That is silly and something I would expect a teenager to say. But he was right about Duke being selective in their recruiting. Duke basketball players are usually well groomed, well spoken, and tattoo less. In college and after college, you never hear about them getting arrested. These are all good things and it should be something Duke should be proud of. But let’s be honest….. Duke has a reputation for being snobby and everyone knows it (well except for Duke Students and their Alumni).

Side Note: most of the people I know that have a degree from Duke are cool people. But they weren’t snobby to begin with either.

The only people that like Duke are people that went to Duke and people that wish they could have gone to Duke. Talk to long time black Durham N.C. residents and see what they have to say about the university. But again, let me say that all of this is completely okay. Duke Head coach Mike Krzyzewski has the right to obtain the type of players he wants. And Duke has the right to enroll the type of students that will enhance their reputation.

WHAT JALEN SAID: I was jealous of Grant Hill. He came from a great black family. I was upset and bitter that my mom had to bust her hump for 20-plus years. I was bitter that I had a professional athlete that was my father that I didn't know. I resented that, moreso than I resented him. I looked at it as they are who the world accepts and we are who the world hates.

THE BREAKDOWN: Jalen admitted that his anger came out of him being JEALOUS!!! What part don’t folks understand? His logic is the same reason kids make fun of other kids for doing well in school. Or why kids are picked on for wearing designer clothes, taking ballet or speaking proper English. There is a resentment among blacks that is based on our economic standing. This isn’t anything new!! It’s just that Upper Middle Class and Middle Class Blacks don’t want to discuss it. It’s uncomfortable to talk about because they hate feeling the need to justify why they live in a nice neighborhood and their children attend good schools.

So what was not discussed this week? The exploitation of college athletes from the schools they attend and the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association). All the money that the University of Michigan made from selling Fab 5 paraphernalia and they never received a cut. All the money the NCAA made from their television games and ticket sales and the Fab 5 never received a cut. Now this is the part where you probably say “why should you pay college athletes?” I was the same way until I realized the money that these student athletes were making for their schools. You have student athletes who can’t afford a hamburger and schools are making money off these kids. They could at least receive a stipend for their service. Even a pimp lets his ho keep some of their money from trickin….

Of course Charlie Sheen is Winning!!!

Success is the strongest intoxicant America legally supplies ~ Jason Whitlock

Charlie "The Messiah of Malibu", Sheen, former star of the television show “Two and a Half Men”, was recently fired let go from his 1 million plus dollar job. Sheen was essentially making money playing a caricature of how he is in real life. Duh!! It ain’t “The Tragedy of Hamlet” people!!! Last week we were witness to the madness or genius, depending on who you are, of Sheen. CBS/Warner Brothers made Sheen the highest paid actor in a comedy series. Dude doesn’t even do standup outside of t.v. I’ve never seen him on Def Jam or The Comedy Channel. Sheen’s private demons have been public for awhile (too many to name so just Google Charlie Sheen). One of the reasons CBS/Warner Brothers put a halt on his latest foolishness was because of his diss on “Two and a Half Men” producer Chuck Lorre.


Side Note: General Rule in Hollywood, you can’t talk about Jews and Gays. Chuck Lorre is of Jewish decent.


So with Sheen being out of work and gaining new legions of fans, how is he winning??

Minorities and individuals from low income neighborhoods have been arrested for having less than an ounce of weed. And Sheen is a known drug user and he keeps getting a pass.

Individuals solicit prostitutes are arrested for just asking how much for a “Blow Job”. But Sheen keeps associating with prostitutes – REPEATEDLY associating with them.

Black actor Isaiah Washington called one of his former co-workers a Faggot back in 2007 (Notice I Said Former Co-Worker) and he was kicked off “Grey’s Anatomy”. Washington was last seen on the failed reboot of “Bionic Woman” in 2007. Have you seen him since? Sheen is on radio, television, the internet….his Tweets on Twitter or even sponsored now!!!

Side Note: *Side Eye* to Shondra Rhimes for letting other people run her business!!!!

So compared to most people in America that fall below the poverty line or are middle class. Sheen is winning!!! Hell, he even beats out his peers in Hollywood in winning (well of course his minority peers)!!! Maybe it’s because of his complexion for the connection or just dumb luck. But so far, Sheen is Winning!!!

And I thought this was a myth!!!!

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