New Beginnings

I spent most of the summer reflecting on what to do next. During that time I really didn't write a lot because I was either distracted or looking for a job.
The good news is that I am no longer unemployed. I was just recently hired by another financial institution. The job is more responsibility and more money. I want to thank all my friends and the people who have stopped in here to read my sporadic ramblings.

My new job requires that I wear a suit. This is very huge for me because I never thought in a million years I would be one of those guys people see on the train. You know what I'm talking about. The guy in the suit and briefcase he looks like he's got it all figured out. He looks like he makes a ton of money. The truth is. Just cause a guy wears a suit to work and carries a briefcase doesn't mean he's got it all figured out.

Losing my job was one of the most challenging things I ever had to go through and I would not have made it if it wasn't for God, my beautiful girlfriend (Professor Angry) and my family. And when I say family I'm including my friends cause I love them just as much as I would a family member. This was truly a test of a man and I'm happy to say that I pasted the test. For the first time in my life I feel like a man.

Thank you all for indulging me and please stay tuned.

Black people loot, white people find.

Upon seeing this I could have easily taken the high road and be a good Negro and say that these pictures came from two different sources and that people are blowing this out of proportion. But who the fuck would I be kidding?

I was so pissed off when I saw these photos that I responded to an email with the following message:

White people in these situations always talk about how black folks steal. I got one question for all my white friends.
How the fuck do you think we got here in the first place? The answer WE WERE STOLEN! So don't talk to me about stealing.

Some of my white friends that are reading this will think that I'm doing the old angry black guy bit but I assure you that I mean every word I said in that message. Who else out there is sick and fucking tired of this bullshit? Who else out there just wants this race shit to come to a fucking end? I for one wish to God that white people (and black people) could see the stupid shit they do to perpetuate this crap.

I've seen this story reported on other blogs and some people don't seem to understand how blatantly racist this is. And that's the fucking PROBLEM. White people don't understand why it's racist. Their logic is, "Well the pictures are coming from TWO different news sources and two different photographers took the pictures"

My response to this logic is. SO F*CKING WHAT? It's still wrong. And if you can't see that, then there's a problem with the way you perceive things. The point is WHY would one reporter look at two white people with food and say they FOUND food while another reporter looks at a young black man and say he STOLE the food.

And while I'm on a roll, can I ask y'all something? WHERE ARE THE WHITE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA? Seriously it's as if all the white people were warned and all the black people just decided to stay. Now I know that's truly not the case because the police would never do something so racist as to just warn the white folks and leave the black people to suffer.

Here's what I think happened. You have a LOT of black people out there who didn't have the means to evacuate. Meaning they didn't have cell phones, money, cars or family that would take them in, so they were left to brave out the storm. Now of course no one thought the levee would break but it did and the rest is history.

Now getting back to my original rant about racism in the media, A picture speaks a thousand words but it's the caption that everyone reads, and that's the problem. People just need to open their eyes and maybe just maybe we can take a step toward ending the bullshit. What do y'all think?