A Step Forward for College Football

I commented recently in my facebook status that I was somewhat confused about how the NFL (with 32 teams) had as many Black head coaches (7) as the NCAA, which has 120 teams? And only one in the 65 school in BCS conferences. Be reminded, the NFL is the highest level of football in the world. We've seen coaches fail in the NFL and prevail in the NCAA; we've never seen it the other way. So how is it that Blacks are "qualified" or more appropriately "given a chance" in the NFL but not College Football. I'm a big football fan so I hear all these Black coordinators that have been prime head coach candidates for years getting passed up for young white coaches with no head coaching, and in some cases no coordinator experience. So in the week or two since I posted it, there have been 4 Black head coaches hired in reputable conferences. And Pat Forde, a white sports reporter in his 40s, wrote an article entitled "College Football Finally Joins 21st Century with Coaching Hires" in which he says From Louisville to "Charlottesville to Memphis and beyond, this may be the winter when college football drags itself out of the plantation era and joins the 21st century. One year removed from eradicating 75 percent of the African-American head coaches from the "big six" conferences, the sport is improving its diversity." Somebody heard me, I'm excited. Golf clap for the NCAA rising above the racism so abundant in many groups of alums and boosters and hiring deserving Black candidates. I tip my hat to you.

Here is the link for the Article: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=4730681

One chick called me racist for highlighting race as a consideration in how people are hired. I felt like saying "Bitch, I'm considerate, not stupid. I know employers see that I'm Black when I come through their door for an interview." But maybe I am a little racist for wanting to see Black coaches succeed. Fuck it, I've Been Called Worse...

Do Better: Paying to Make Ur Kids Look Crazy In Pictures

This isn't a picture that I got off of some gossip site or randomly ran across. This is an old picture of a young lady that I know personally. This is why I won't even dilute this article with adding other ignorance. But the bottom line is, he parents were dead wrong for PAYING to dress her up and take pictures of her like this. My gut reaction when I saw it was "This look like some real racist shit. This is like a minstrel show waiting to happen." Like I had a fleeting urge to backhand whoever planned this photo shoot out. I love my black ppl of all skin tones, but u have to kno wut u can and can't do with ur skin tone. And let's just say, this Black Rhinestone Cowboy shit should not have been allowed to happen. She look like a slave for Conway Twitty. I feel like this picture was taken in the 40's by white ppl, but in reality it was probably taken in the last decade, which saddens and infuriates me. I'm not gon do the chick too dirty. But today, she unfortunately became an example of Black ppl doin their kids dirty. This goes right up there with the chick whose name is Marijuana Pepsi Jackson. Black people, Do Better...

Hail To The ACC Champs

They did it!!! The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are outright ACC Champs for the first time since 1990. Despite a valiant effort from the Clemson Tigers and a Heisman-like game from CJ Spiller (224 rushing yards, and over 300 total yards), we won the Dr. Pepper ACC Championship Game and won that beautiful trophy you see. This picture is so significant becuz of how rare it is to see Paul Johnson smile. Between games, practice, and randomly seeing this man on campus, I can honestly say that this picture is probably the 2nd-3rd time we've seen him smile. We're going to the Orange Bowl, they say this will be the first time we've had a bid to a big bowl since 1966. I dont' get that becuz we won a National Championship in 1990 and you have to be at a pretty big bowl to be in position to do that, but whatever. But the Boys will have their hands full with TCU if that's who they end up playin. But we'll worry about that as we get there. Hopefully Jon Dwyer, Morgan Burnett, Derrick Morgan, and Demaryius Thomas stick around for another year. They'll be even more dangerous next year. CHEERS TO THE JACKETS, THIS BUD IS FOR YOU!!!! As the Tech fight song ends "FIGHT, WIN, DRINK, GET NAKED!"

Do Better: Trannys, Finish the Job

I live in Atlanta, notorious for a large population of Black Gay Men and transvestites. The lesson from this picture would be: If ur a guy who wants to be a woman, finish the job...
I hope everybody caught it. LOL. Shameless Humor, I know.

The Tiger Woods Thanksgiving Accident

Boy, boy, boy. This one gets juicier and juicier every time I hear anybody talk about it. It's not lookin good for the world's first athlete billionaire or his (what's the word??) we'll just say very jealous and emotional wife, Elin Woods. Nah fuck that, this chick is unstable too, just like Rihanna (who broke a glass over her brother's head in a very minor argument) and that chick who shot Steve McNair. But neway, the story as the press first reported it is that Tiger had an accident just feet from his driveway when he hit a neighbor's tree and a fire hydrant. This was at about 2:30 am and his wife supposedly broke the back window out to go in the car and pull him out. This seemed real fishy to me and it gave me questions: Was he drunk?? No, they tested him, he was 100% sober. So then the question becomes where is he in a rush to go at 2:30 am? If he's creeping, why would he leave when his wife is up? Of all things, what causes you to hit a fire hydrant and tree just feet from your driveway? Why in the world would she break the very back window to get him out of the driver's seat? She's a slim Swedish chick, you expect me to believe she punched out the window? How exactly did his eye and mouth get messed up but his nose is fine? If he were to hit the steering wheel with his face, he can't hit his eye and mouth without hitting his nose too. Try it, it's impossible. Why is it that the hospital is calling his injuries "minor" but neither he nor his wife are willing to comment on the accident while he's still in "recovery"? Let's just say something wasn't adding up. So a few days earlier I saw at a gossip site or two that Tiger had a side chick that came to public light. I didn't think much about it for two reasons: 1) Celebrities and powerful people (male and female) cheat often, we know that, for the most part they keep it secret and it is what it is; many times the husband/wife knows and is upset but isn't gonna get a divorce so they'd rather keep it private and they do their own things while the celeb is on the road. It's a dark truth of Hollywood and fame. 2) Gossip sites say someone is sleepin with someone different everyday, it could be anybody they could capture in a snapshot with the celeb. But after the accident, both gossip sites and reputable sites started suggesting that the accident was the aftermath of a domestic violence issue between the Woods when they were arguing about the other chick. The allegation is that they were arguing and she started swinging on him and rather than get physical back, Tiger decided he was gon leave the house for a while. However, as he's headed to the car, she reemerges with a golf club and starts beatin the SUV he just got in. She breaks the back window as he starts rolling and it scares/distracts him to the point where he hits the fire hydrant and tree. Then Elin Woods's rage quickly turns to panic as she realized that she just caused her cash cow to get into an accident. So she hops in through the back window to help him get out and make it to the hospital. Sounds overly dramatic and gossipy, but it answers all of those questions that came up earlier. "Oh, that's why he was leaving in a rush at 2:30 am while his wife was awake." "Oh, that's why the back window was broken and used rather than a closer window." "Oh, maybe the damage to the mouth and eye came from a mad fist rather than a steering wheel." "Oh, they don't wanna comment now cuz they're still in the midst of getting their story straight for the media." EVERYTHING ADDS UP NOW. So, I think there are lessons to be learned from this incident for everyone. To Tiger, u usually keep everything private and all so we don't know how often u do whatever u do, but u're married to a woman who's jealous and will display that physically if she thinks u're cheating. Therefore, u need to pump the brakes on the side chick and be a good husband, take her on a trip, get her some gaudy jewelry or something, becuz I don't think u're gonna get too many good nights of sleep if she is unhappy. I didn't know that's how they got down in Sweden, but apparently so. U're a billionaire so u're not gonna divorce her cuz it's cheaper to keep her. To Elin, I'm not sayin u should sit around and accept him cheatin or nothin, but u gotta keep things non-physical baby girl. All indications are that he's never laid a hand on u, so yell, scream whatever, but chasing him with weapons ain't acceptable. U're married to a professional athlete, which means if he gets seriously hurt becuz of somethin u did, u're screwing both of y'all over. Hell, ask him why he's steppin out, find out if u can b part of the solution. Are u on strike and givin him the blue balls? Are u unadventurous and don't wanna help keep it interesting? Are u an "ain't shit" wife who sits around and blows his money frivolously while the nanny is caring for kid and Tiger is out golfing? Work with him lady, take a look in the mirror if u need and assess urself. Leave them weapons out of it. And to the average Black man in America, despite all that money, Tiger is currently involved with two different white women and the outcome was him ended up battered, bruised and with his car wrapped around a tree. Yea, dammit I said it. Judgmental? Racist? Whatever. I've Been Called Worse...

Religion: Controversial but Needs To Be Said

This comes on the wheels of watching Bill Maher's documentary "Religulous" in which he spends hours at different places around the world trying to prove that religion doesn't exist and people who believe in any higher being are idiots. For anyone who doesn't know, Bill Maher specializes in trying to prove that he's the smartest man in the world who knows everything and enjoys making groups of people look stupid. So I watched the documentary really just to see how he came at the subject. Although I disagree with him in general, some of his points I agreed with and they prompted me to sort out my interesting and controversial views on religion. I consider myself more spiritual than actually religious for a few different reasons. But Maher went way overboard in his total condemnation of all religion and faith as a whole. I know somebody's not gonna like me for some of the things I may say, but we've been thru that before.

• The Bible isn't a history book and shouldn't be treated as such. Maher and anyone else who dismisses religion as childhood fantasy automatically argues that the Bible makes no sense in a historical and scientific context. This is an easy way of getting religious people tongue-tied becuz they can't explain it. However, modern science has only been around for about 400-500 years and the Bible chronicles events much older, written by non-scientific minds. And most importantly (pay attention, this is most important), the Bible should be taken for its lessons and concepts rather than scrutinized for its minute details and scientific inaccuracies. I can't explain the details of virgin birth to you, that's the point, it's a divine process. I'll be perfectly honest although it sounds blasphemous to religious purists, I'm not sure everything in the Bible happened, or happened just as it was said to have happened. Had I picked up the Bible like a history book and read it, I would have called it bullshit too. But that's not how I think about it. That doesn't take away from my comprehension of the events and very valuable lessons offered by the book.
• Core religious beliefs are unshakable once a person devotes his/herself to them; This is a gift and a curse. Unfortunately, text is not as concrete as it seems in the minds of different people. Someone will say or live by something completely ridiculous and you can not change their minds because "it's my religious belief." These differences in interpretations led to fundamentalists justifying terrorism despite most all major religions advocating peace and condemning violence. But no matter how warped they've construed the text, when they say that's their belief you might as well stop arguing because you're not going to change their minds. People like to paint Islam as this religion of crazies that all have their minds set on jihad; that's not true. The extremists of Islam, as with every major religion, construe the text how they'd like to and convince followers that they're obligated to kill anyone who doesn't pledge allegiance to their religion. No one Christianity advocated violence, but the Great Crusades were wars waged throughout Europe in the name of the Christian faith. Others use religion as a means for extorting people's money for personal gain - some evangelists or mega-church preachers - despite most major religions frowning upon the collection of material wealth. But moral faith that religion provides can be a great gift to mankind also...
• I fundamentally believe that people need to have faith. What makes the concept of karma - the golden rule - work for people? What seems to save people from losing themselves when something very bad happens in their lives? What consistently has rescued people who have gone completely off-track with their lives? Faith. In each of these cases, people benefited from having something to believe in. If u don't have it, there would be no motivation to live ur life better or act morally at all. People deserve to have their faiths rewarded and any religious person has stories of this nature reflecting how their faith has come through for them or others around them that they know. There's a woman who used to be on my school's track team who was diagnosed with cancer, had to get her knee joint replaces due to the damage, and had to go through chemotherapy. However, during this entire process she was upbeat and cheerful to the point where I felt bad, even felt selfish, complaining about schoolwork , pain from practice, or anything else going on in my life. Her faith gave her an aura that was so motivational to me and everyone who knew her. She was on the brink of needing amputation but she was never sad because of her overwhelming faith that she would pull through and be alright. And now she is living a great life with her own business. I personally see something like that and can't see how ANYONE can say that faith is pointless.

So for those who don't believe in faith and religion, keep that to urself, don't bring it to me. I've seen enough that I believe that the hope and karma that makes mankind pleasant is heavily dependent on faith. The faith that living a good life and doing the right things will pay off for you in the future and vice versa. I think anyone, no matter their intentions, should be careful when doing something that may shake that balance. And for the overly religious crowd - that crowd who tries to break up a marriage if the couple lived 2gether before marriage, those who alienate homosexuals or other groups despite their faith, etc - u may not like what I said about the validity of the events chronicles in the Bible. But u'll get over it. I may be blasphemous in ur eyes, but I assure u, I've Been Called Worse...

Food for Thought: Village of 100 People

This was interesting when I saw it. And as u kno, I aspire to either entertain or enlighten with each blog. I hope this one will enlighten you and help us become more tolerant of other cultures. It's a study if the world's population were reduced to 100 people with the same proportions as the current population.

If the World were 100 PEOPLE:

50 would be female
50 would be male

30 would be children
There would be 70 adults,
14 of whom would be 65 and older

There would be:
30 Whites
70 Non-whites

There would be:
61 Asians
12 Europeans
14 Africans
8 Latin Americans (Central & South Americans combined)
5 Americans & Canadians combined

There would be:
31 Christians
21 Muslims
14 Hindus
6 Buddhists
12 people who believe in other religions
16 people who not be aligned with a religion

17 would speak Chinese
8 would speak Hindustani
8 would speak English
7 would speak Spanish
4 would speak Arabic
4 would speak Russian
52 would speak other languages

82 would be able to read and write; 18 would not
However, only 7 are educated above an 8th grade level

1 would have a college education
24 don't have any electricity
1 would OWN a computer
12 have computer access, only 3 of which have Internet access

75 people would have some supply of food and a place to
shelter them from the wind and the rain, but 25 would not
56 have no sanitation
9 are disabled
1 has AIDS

1 would be dying of starvation
20would be undernourished
15 would be overweight

83 would have access to safe drinking water
17 people would have no clean, safe water to drink

6 of them (all from the US) control 60% of the village's wealth
16 live on $1 a day or less
33 live on $2 a day or less
20 use 80% of the village's energy

only 25 have a refrigerator, clothes, a bed and a roof over their head

Google "Village of 100 people" or go to miniature-earth.com to see the video and stats

Remember how fortunate how are and how much of the world is different from you. Take care of yourself but never forget others.