Reality Check

Is it just me or does Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, need a new speech writer? Maybe the previous person evacuated during the hurricane and never returned? Who knows! But what I have figured out is that this brother is doing a fantastic job of putting his foot in his mouth. And the crazy (or maybe "sad" is a better word) thing about his chocolate comment is that the same people who were "upset" about his comment have made over $60,000 within the last week from the sales of t-shirts tooting "Willy Nagin & The Chocolate Factory. " Don't get me wrong...Nagin was wrong. His choice of words were...umph what's the word I'm looking for? Stupid! Did you know that it was the non-black population who's votes put him into office in the first place. Try 90% verses the "chocolate citizens" 10% of his election votes. Maybe Ray is looking for any easy way out? Maybe he is having one hellified time trying to replace his last writer? Don't know and I don't care. What I do know is that in addition to Ray getting that new writer ASAP, he needs to copyright his name and image and get something good out of his clueless comment too!

Now I know this doesn't have anything to do with Louisiana, but could someone please tell me why have our youth resorted to beating & killing homeless people for the hell of it? I mean really...what IS the world coming to?

If you get a chance check out Danyel Smith's blog. Why am I promoting someone else's blog? Because last week that sista got some stuff off of her chest that had me bobbing my head in agreement the entire time I was reading it. She put some stuff "out there" that I think many of us were thinking, but never voiced when it comes to African American literature.

And why I am at it, why in the world did anyone think the governor of Cali would spare the life of a 76 year old inmate when he wasn't the least bit concerned about a Noble Peace Prize nominee getting the needle (remember Tookie Williams.) This elderly guy had a massive heart attack a few months before his scheduled execution and asked the prison to let him die, but noooo! Instead they do CPR, save his life then turn around and use tax dollars to kill him? What kind of sense does that make? Talk about a reality check.