Friday, March 16, 2012
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Feb 1st Black History Month
It's that time again. To take the next 29 days and watch McDonald's gospel commercials. To see all of primetime pretend that the three show arch of the "Black" lawyer shows that they have diversity. and for more photos that help us to laugh when hopefully we can at the same time acknowledge the places we have been as a country regarding race, and the hurdles we wish to over come!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
"Go The Fuck Back to The Middle East" Hate Crime?
Last week I woke up early last week to take a nice long walk before heading to work. As soon as I stepped out on the street I hear this women yelling,
"Go The Fuck Back To The Middle East You Mutha Fucker!!",
over and over and over and over and over again.
It was almost like she had the hate speech form of Tourettes.
Every time she yelled I felt like I was being shot in the back. I was standing on the same block that I spent September 12th, 2001 through the 17th with friends. Some of them muslim, me including, consoling each other and lifting our spirits.
I couldn't see who she was screaming at till I turned the corner and saw a dog walker. walking about 10 dogs and he could have been Dominican, Indian, America, Canadian, I thing you get the point.
I know that as they say in "Avenue Q",
"We're all a little bit racist"!
But GD woman you are so in the wrong!
Part of me wanted to fight fire with fire and beat her down with my umbrella yelling,
"Bitch go back to the uneducated rock your crawlled out from under and stick a (*&$(*) in it!"
But as we New Yorkers tend to do in these situations I, Holding my composure trying not to whip her ass, I walked by and minded my own business.
It's becoming more and more difficult for me to walk by such hate with out getting involved. I mean if she were yelling Gay hate speech at a child I think I couldn't stop my self from getting involved but is this any different?
Looking back, maybe calling the police would have been the best thing. I don't know if yelling racist slurs is a crime, (freedom of speech) but, it seemed like she was disrespecting the person she was screaming at, me, the dogs, the human race and herself.
I feel ill just remembering this low point in my life experience.
What would you have done?
"Go The Fuck Back to The Middle East" Hate Crime?
Last week I woke up early last week to take a nice long walk before heading to work. As soon as I stepped out on the street I hear this women yelling,
"Go The Fuck Back To The Middle East You Mutha Fucker!!",
over and over and over and over and over again.
It was almost like she had the hate speech form of Tourettes.
Every time she yelled I felt like I was being shot in the back. I was standing on the same block that I spent September 12th, 2001 through the 17th with friends. Some of them muslim, me including, consoling each other and lifting our spirits.
I couldn't see who she was screaming at till I turned the corner and saw a dog walker. walking about 10 dogs and he could have been Dominican, Indian, America, Canadian, I thing you get the point.
I know that as they say in "Avenue Q",
"We're all a little bit racist"!
But GD woman you are so in the wrong!
Part of me wanted to fight fire with fire and beat her down with my umbrella yelling,
"Bitch go back to the uneducated rock your crawlled out from under and stick a (*&$(*) in it!"
But as we New Yorkers tend to do in these situations I, Holding my composure trying not to whip her ass, I walked by and minded my own business.
It's becoming more and more difficult for me to walk by such hate with out getting involved. I mean if she were yelling Gay hate speech at a child I think I couldn't stop my self from getting involved but is this any different?
Looking back, maybe calling the police would have been the best thing. I don't know if yelling racist slurs is a crime, (freedom of speech) but, it seemed like she was disrespecting the person she was screaming at, me, the dogs, the human race and herself.
I feel ill just remembering this low point in my life experience.
What would you have done?
"Go The Fuck Back To The Middle East You Mutha Fucker!!",
over and over and over and over and over again.
It was almost like she had the hate speech form of Tourettes.
Every time she yelled I felt like I was being shot in the back. I was standing on the same block that I spent September 12th, 2001 through the 17th with friends. Some of them muslim, me including, consoling each other and lifting our spirits.
I couldn't see who she was screaming at till I turned the corner and saw a dog walker. walking about 10 dogs and he could have been Dominican, Indian, America, Canadian, I thing you get the point.
I know that as they say in "Avenue Q",
"We're all a little bit racist"!
But GD woman you are so in the wrong!
Part of me wanted to fight fire with fire and beat her down with my umbrella yelling,
"Bitch go back to the uneducated rock your crawlled out from under and stick a (*&$(*) in it!"
But as we New Yorkers tend to do in these situations I, Holding my composure trying not to whip her ass, I walked by and minded my own business.
It's becoming more and more difficult for me to walk by such hate with out getting involved. I mean if she were yelling Gay hate speech at a child I think I couldn't stop my self from getting involved but is this any different?
Looking back, maybe calling the police would have been the best thing. I don't know if yelling racist slurs is a crime, (freedom of speech) but, it seemed like she was disrespecting the person she was screaming at, me, the dogs, the human race and herself.
I feel ill just remembering this low point in my life experience.
What would you have done?
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Shoot em' Up Bang Bang
It's becoming more and more clear to me that I live and always have lived in a dangerous world. People with in a block of where I lay my head down are being killed every night.
For the past month I've heard gunfights starting at 3am, going off and on till 4am, no cops, no news articles the next day, no break in this new alarming alarm system.
I've been staying in the Bronx, a place that seems to have a reputation of danger, gang violence, and over population. But I've lived in three separate parts of the Bronx, and two of these places I've never seen cops. It almost seems as if some one came into the Bronx with a boat load of guns and semi-automatics and said, "Here Have fun"!
Now if I just didn't experience a gun fight in Brooklyn near Prospect Park/Lefforts Garden, I'd think this was just a Bronx thing.
Crime is New York is up 17% from last year. Every weekend a "reported" 20 people have been shot and killed in the past month. "Reported" means they made the news, they were in neighborhoods, like the West Village, Chelsea, Harlem, Downtown Brooklyn, middle class Queens neighborhoods, or that they happen to an upper middle class family or were caused by a drunk or out of line policeman.
But what about the shootings we don't hear about. I mean as I sit here typing this article bullets are flying not two blocks away and this has been every night, but I have yet to hear it in the news. I have yet to hear Police Cars speeding in to save the day.
So how do we fix this?
Do we even care to?
If you think this doesn't effect you, think about this.....
As this country looses more jobs, and the poor get poorer, and the middle class become homeless
more women get rapped,
more stores get robbed,
more children have nothing to do,
more shootings at night,
and if you think its just going to stay in one neighborhood ....
Your in for a rude awakening!
For the past month I've heard gunfights starting at 3am, going off and on till 4am, no cops, no news articles the next day, no break in this new alarming alarm system.
I've been staying in the Bronx, a place that seems to have a reputation of danger, gang violence, and over population. But I've lived in three separate parts of the Bronx, and two of these places I've never seen cops. It almost seems as if some one came into the Bronx with a boat load of guns and semi-automatics and said, "Here Have fun"!
Now if I just didn't experience a gun fight in Brooklyn near Prospect Park/Lefforts Garden, I'd think this was just a Bronx thing.
Crime is New York is up 17% from last year. Every weekend a "reported" 20 people have been shot and killed in the past month. "Reported" means they made the news, they were in neighborhoods, like the West Village, Chelsea, Harlem, Downtown Brooklyn, middle class Queens neighborhoods, or that they happen to an upper middle class family or were caused by a drunk or out of line policeman.
But what about the shootings we don't hear about. I mean as I sit here typing this article bullets are flying not two blocks away and this has been every night, but I have yet to hear it in the news. I have yet to hear Police Cars speeding in to save the day.
So how do we fix this?
Do we even care to?
If you think this doesn't effect you, think about this.....
As this country looses more jobs, and the poor get poorer, and the middle class become homeless
more women get rapped,
more stores get robbed,
more children have nothing to do,
more shootings at night,
and if you think its just going to stay in one neighborhood ....
Your in for a rude awakening!
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