Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need

just trying to live my own reality show...sans the miscellaneous hoes and commercial breaks. I've been able to take care of a good 3-4 resolutions that needed to get dealt with. i signed up, got trained, and met my new mentee last week. i got the pic of my 3 great-grandmothers all together. i signed up to do some outreach work this weekend (Brooklyn on Saturday and Boston on Sunday). and i found someone to take the reigns of the alumni association. nice. however, i haven't opened rich dad, poor dad in over a week and i desperately need to finish it because it made me realize some extremely obvious shT that also needs to be dealt with with the quickness. it also spawned several deep, introspective observations that may be much too personal for me to share here, but I do need to talk through.

but now on to other matters...

...this unfortunately answers the question as to why I had to take that detour around Baltimore Monday morning. quite the sad story. and i'm sure more will come out in later days.

...and apparently, the n!ggas have not left the building. yet another shooting; this time in Quincy, that claims another life. interestingly enough, i just so happened to come across this essay by John Chuckman. I'm a bit conflicted in how I feel after reading it. There is a sensibility in me that nodded at many of the points he had to make. However, it was tinted much too much with an air of contempt for me - the black male - than I may be able to stomach. A little bit of bias sprinkled in with some scholarly rhetoric and a dash of immigrant animosity definitely makes it a interesting read to say the least. I was instantly trying to search for a deeper meaning while also extrapolating it to apply to Boston. We got neighborhood sweeps to proactively start rounding up cats with outstanding warrants, while we also have a governor who is barely here that plans to veto a bill that would allow illegal aliens that graduate from MA high schools to pay in-state tution rates.

yet, shT is apparently very real in the field, B. this shT is astounding. from the mouth of a student. regardless of race, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, or what hood s/he reps; there is an obvious issue at hand. this should be required reading for all city officials. man up, b!tches.

1 comment:

winterssoulstyce said...

i thought everybody had miscellaneous hoes at their disposal..maybe that's just my folks, lol...

the more cops thing...i don't know. i am never a fan of more of anything if it hasn't proved it's effectiveness, and as far as i am concerned, the country's local police departments still have that in question.

all three great-grandmothers in a pic. i envy you.

and you know niggas are like roaches. they never actually leave the building once they get there. just hide in the walls until someone fumigates their asses with drugs or gunplay.