This is bulls**t!
Pure f**king madness the things are going on in Chicago. I'm purposely not including the mess that is happening in the other parts of the world because I don't have the mental capacity to even try to fathom the death and carnage that's happening in other parts of the world...
So what I do know is that I know Chicago! From what I know it's a terrible place to live these days!
I don't know if its me, but I'm sick of the following words:
- tragedy
- travesty
- outrage
- community
- ministers
- outreach
- activist
- gang violence
- unintended target
- victim of mistaken identity
I'm so sick of hearing those words because some, if not all of these words are constantly used when we hear about killings..
Following those words I tend to hear the following phrases:
- the police aren't doing enough
- parents aren't doing enough
- the schools aren't doing enough
- they do this because of the music (rap or rock) that they listen too
- its because of the clothes they are wearing
- the bracelets on their arm represent this or that
- its because of their childhood
Sometimes I want to scream out...'if anybody was an expert...nobody would kill anybody! Why is it that people think they know all the answers...most times the people who commit these acts can't figure out a valid reason why they do some of the things that they do....there's no validity that's why.
Derrion Albert got a raw deal! It's so unfortunate what happened to him...I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the video...then when I I heard that a makeshift memorial was burned, I wondered what was going on these people's mind...insane perhaps..maybe...I don't know...
I like most people don't really know what goes on in a person's mind...I just hate to hear when everything is blamed on some one's subculture. What's good for one person may not be good for another....its a fact. Stop all of judgemental mumbo-jumbo people....
When listening to the radio earlier...a lot of people started calling in saying that the guys who killed Derrion did so because of the rap that they listen to...
What? Who makes this sh** up! Why is it only rap and rock that I hear... Why is it that a young boy doesn't hurry off skipping all the way to Alabama because he hears the song 'Sweet Home Alabama" ...they don't because I don't believe it the music..it has to do with that persons personality and/or mental status...Sometimes they just lose control and 'wild-out'...how do we know unless they tell us the music made them do it....
I'm a hardcore listener of rap....been listening to it for as long as I can remember, and when it turned negative I was still listening to it...I went to my first concert in the 7th grade at the UIC Pavilion...the rap stars was the group N.W.A. Rap didn't turn me into a killer...Rap doesn't make me feel less of a woman cause someone says b**ch...Rap doesn't make me want to go beat someone up...some of those songs have inspired me to be honest..
But..sometimes people are known for doing things they hear and see on the radio and TV. Paris Hilton had everybody running around with their dogs like fashion accessories...reality shows made looking like slutty like alcoholics cool...Paris again made it cool to be a dumb (acting) rich blond...Stars made it cool to have sex tapes...stars made it cool to adopt foreign children...Ellen made it cool to be gay...Rosie O'Donnell had a tougher time with it...Elizabeth Hasselback gives us her view like a veteran, but she another reality show bastard...Flava Flav...the ugliest man alive even got a chance to put that gross mouth and and surprisingly inflated ego to the test on televsion....Sarah Palin talks about ethics and shoots moose...Obama speaks of change...but he forgot about that when he called Kanye a jackass...Oprah had the whole world 'putting it out into the Universe...
Here's my point...there are too many outside influences to blame bad things on one thing...my guess...is to start the search at home... (I'm being mean...probably contradictory...but that's what I believe, we are only as good as our human nature allows us to be).
