Why the Brock Turner sentencing tells us that RACISM is alive and well! "Conscious"

"I'm smilin' because it's easy to do in my world bruh!" 

Abraham Joshua Heschel, the well-known Jewish philosopher, once said, "Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." Alex Haley, the author of the best-seller Roots, gave it to us like this, "Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics." Then Rosa Parks put it where the goats could get it when she spit, "Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics." 

Well playas...for all of the suckas that want to walk around this country and act like racism isn't alive just look at the news everyday. As a matter of fact, just wake up in the mornin' and be conscious. Just this week Brock Turner, an All-American swimmer at Stanford University of sentenced to a mere six months in prison after bein' convicted of raping an unconscious woman on campus. However, just a couple of months ago Corey Batey, a football player at Vanderbilt University, was convicted of that very same crime and was sentenced to 15 to 25 years in prison!! 

Now let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Because we live in America you can guess blind folded which one of these kids is white and which one is black! Now don't get it twisted playboy, both of these pieces of trash should be spendin' their lives in prison. No one has the right to take advantage of a woman's most precious asset, her body. So don't think that I'm defendin' the brother on this foolishness! His butt deserves EVERY freakin' year he got! And that's the edited version.  

If the law states that a boy should get 15-25 years for rape then he bought it bruh! But to give a dun 6 months for violatin' a woman is a slap in the face not only to the victim but to society in general. 

Here's the crazy part bruh, ole boy is eligible for parole in 3 months!!! This dun is goin' to be out of jail by Labor Day and the brother will spend the most part of his life in a state prison!! 

I forgot to mention that the white kid isn't even goin' to spend his sentence in the state prison. They're goin' to allow him to do his time in the local jail because the freakin' judge, who was a swimmer at Stanford as well, said that prison would have a negative impact on him. Well you idiot, that's what prison is supposed to do. It's supposed to deter a dun from ever wantin' to return. 

Racism is alive and well in THESE United States for all of the suckas that wanna act like it isn't, just wake up in the mornin' and breathe. George Zimmerman shot a black kid to death in Florida for walkin' down the street minding  his own business and he gets off without spendin' a day in jail. Then he has the nerve and the demand to be able to sell the gun to the highest bidder just recently. 

A black woman, Marissa  Alexander of Jacksonville, Florida, the same state that allowed Zimmerman to go free because of the "Stand Your Ground" law, was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to 20 years for firin' a warnin' shot while bein' attacked by her husband. No one was injured and she was still sentenced to 20 years!! 

Would you like for me to go on bruh? Police can pull boyz over and shoot unarmed black folks to death without the hint of bein' convicted of committin' a crime. They can choke a man to death on the street on camera and not be disciplined for it. I could name hundreds of over cases by why? 

We can see an overt racist win the Republican Presidential nomination in 2016 and listen to people all over this country defend him if you're conscious! If you really decide to wake up in the mornin' you'll know that racism tried to change clothes and look different in this country for about 25 years but now it has put it's 1960's outfit back on and it's proud to where it. 

Here's what completely blows my mind bruh, the very same folks that would agree that it's justifiable to sentence Brock Turner to only 6 months, allow George Zimmerman to go free for murder, kill unarmed blacks, send Marissa Alexander to prison for 20 years for a warnin' shot and attempt to elect Donald Trump president will read this Hot Joint and walk away callin'  me a racist for statin' the facts and bein' conscious. It's sad that we still have to have these dumb conversations in America! Stop me when I start lyin'! 

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Why Stephen A. sounds like a fool tellin' black kids racism doesn't exist for them! "Reckless"

"You talkin' about me bruh?" 

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Frederick Douglass gave it to us like this, "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." Then Confucius made it plain and simple for a boy when he spit, "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

Well playas...if that's the case then Stephen A. Smith is runnin' in the negative on knowledge because if you told this dun that what he said to a group of University of South Alabama black students wasn't reckless and ignorant you'd have to fight him in the parkin' lot. 

Ole boy was speakin' to the students as part of their Black History Month celebration when he told the black students that racism doesn't exist for them. So that you boyz won't say that I'm lyin' and makin’ stuff up here's exactly what this dun said: 

“Racism doesn’t exist. Obviously, I’m lying. Of course it exists, but not for you. See, you don’t have to go to the back of the bus. You’re not denied the opportunity to eat at restaurants, or to enter night clubs, or to patronize businesses. You have the right to vote. You’re not being lynched. You’re not being hung.”

Now let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! This cat must be drinkin' out of the same trough that both Charles Barkley and Stacey Dash is throwin' up in. Now he's out dancin' the jig for boyz just like them. 

Racism doesn't exist for them? What world is he livin' in bruh? Does he not see the GOP front runner holdin' rallies where dun's are showin' up with Confederate flags and holdin' KKK signs up, pushin' a young black woman through the crowd because she just happens to be black and at the rally? Does he not see the support that a Presidential candidate in 2016, that is the front runner in the GOP Party, I might add, is gettin' that is advocatin' the separation of groups of people in America? Did he not see a boy walk into a South Carolina church and kill 9 people simply because they were black?

I guess this dun has been in a deep sleep over the past several years when young black unarmed men and women have died at the hands of the very people that have been sworn in to protect and serve them. Did he not see a 12 year old kid in Cleveland gunned down by police for playin' with a toy gun without even tryin' to figure out if it was real or not. Did he not see the kid in Chicago get shot 16 times by police with his back to them? These are just a few examples of the foolishness Stephen A. says doesn't exist for our young people. I could go on for hours with examples but you get my point. 

If he hasn't seen all of that then I'm quite sure he hasn't looked at the current criminal justice system that’s lockin' up black folks for double and sometimes triple the time as their white counterparts for committin' the same crimes! Oh I'm lyin'? Accordin' to the Bureau of Justice Statistics people of color continue to be disproportionately incarcerated, policed, and sentenced to death at significantly higher rates than their white counterparts. One in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime accordin' to those numbers. And that's not because they're committin' any more crimes than their white counterparts. They are just more likely to be convicted. 

The Department of Justice also says that blacks and hispanics are three times more likely to be searched durin' a traffic stop than whites. That's called racism playboy! Stephen A. has lost his darn mind!! And that's the edited version!! 

It's sad to say but I've got more respect for Michael Jordan's ole non opinion havin' butt than Stephen A. at this point. I can't stand that Mike NEVER has anything to say about nothin' but at least he doesn't say a freakin' word. I'd rather you say nothin' than to say something as ignorant as racism doesn’ exist for young black folks because they aren't bein' pushed to the back of the bus, or because they can eat in a darn restaurant or because they aren't bein' lynched! Killin' a person that is unarmed is modern day lynchin' bruh! WHERE YOU FROM BRUH?

  

If you can’t contribute to the conversation of race and culture intelligently then just stick to talkin’ crazy about sports. We’ve got enough clowns dancin’ the jig out here makin’ us look crazy without you joinin’ in too! Stop me when I start lyin’! 

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Why Trump is appealin' to the dark side of America and the GOP is in trouble! "Affiliated"

"When you open the can of worms this is what you get bruh!" 

Princess Diana once said, "The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other." Mahatma Gandhi gave it to us like this, "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." Then William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, broke it down like an ole playa at a pimp convention when he spit, "Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution."

Well playas...once you say that if you become president you would stop Muslims from comin' into the country until you figure out what's goin' on. You open the way for the rest of the bigots that didn't have a voice to jump into the ride with you and act a darn fool. What all of these fake media-types that keep hypin' up Donald Trump don't realize is that he's appealin' to the dark side of America. He's givin' voice to all of the duns that have essentially been silenced over the years. 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I didn't say that we still don't have racists and bigots walkin' around this piece. They just didn't have huge a platform to be heard or seen. Now that Trump is out here spittin' all of this rhetoric boyz are climbin' out of the wood works supportin' him. He may not say it like they would but he's openin' the can of worms they like to swim in. 

What's so crazy is that he hasn't told a soul what his plan is for makin' America great again. He's just talkin' crazy and duns are followin' him around. We've seen video of the Latino kid at his rally gettin' spit on by a Trump supporter. We've seen the white supremacist groups jump on aboard to support him. We even saw the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, issue his support. However, none of these media-types have the guts to speak out against Donald Trump's campaign and where this foolishness will take this country. Why? Because it's great for ratings.  

When he first started leadin' in the polls months ago and talkin' crazy takin' shots at any and everybody in his path includin' tellin' boyz about of his potential ban on Muslims. I told you boyz in the crazy Hot Joint entitled "Sets & Factions" that his recklessness puts us ALL in danger. Why? Because the world is nothin' but a big ghetto divided up into different sets and factions just like the hood. So if you start talkin' crazy to the wrong cat everybody affiliated with him will be lookin' to get at you. America can't afford to openly offend boyz that care nothin' about dying.  We've been tactful in our dealings around the world and we still have enemies. Just think of how bad it would get if Trump starts talkin' crazy to boyz around the world when he doesn't get his way?  

But these folks that are supportin' Trump didn't grow up in the ghetto. So they don't understand how dangerous he is to America's well-being. When you grow up in the suburbs or in rural America you don't have to understand what diplomacy REALLY is in order to survive the day at school. You don't have to use tact just to get out of a beat down by the affiliation that runs the sidewalk you're usin' to get home from school everyday. 

No they're just the same folks that think like he does from some place where EVERYBODY looks the same, practices the same religion and eats the same kind of pie on Thanksgiving. The rest of us understand that you can't say whatever you think because it's a matter of life and death on these streets when you're dealin' with people from different backgrounds and affiliations. Foreign policy works the same way playboy. 

Unfortunately, for the Republican party, if Donald Trump wins the nomination they're screwed in the general election AGAIN!! Why? Because the GOP keeps makin' the same mistake they made in the last two elections. They keep excludin' groups of people. You can't win in this day and age by excludin' not just black folks but Latinos, gays and lesbians and now Muslims! 

AND PLEASE don't act like black folks were solely responsible for Barack Obama gettin' elected twice. We only make up 13 percent of the population and not all of us voted. There is a certain percentage that wasn't old enough to vote. Then you've got the duns that just didn't vote for whatever reason. And lastly, you've got the duns that couldn't vote because they were either locked up or had been locked up before and now have a felonies. So we didn't elect Obama playa. You know who elected him? White folks that didn't see the GOP as a option to move this country forward at the time. Guess what playa? If Trump wins the GOP nomination it's goin' to happen again.  

Until the Republican party changes the old white man's idea of America they'll continue to lose elections. This ain't 1943 bruh! The world has changed and the GOP needs to change with it. With Donald Trump leadin' in the polls they're shootin' themselves in the pinky toe again. It doesn't matter who wins the Democratic nomination.  They'll win the general election because there are too many folks in the GOP that have good sense that won't allow this country to go to hell in a hand basket by votin' for Donald Trump for the sake of votin' for a republican candidate. I know that I'm preachin' so you can pass the collection plate. 

So unless boyz wake up and start bein' more inclusive and respectful of the difference in people in this country it's gonna be a land slide Democratic victory again.  If you're cool with that, I'm tickled to death by it. Why? Because I'm ALL for people lovin' people and respectin' the differences between them.  God made ALL of us so he expects for ALL of us to figure out how to love each other and Donald Trump isn't the answer. Stop me when I start lyin'!  

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1) Spit: verb - to say
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The REAL reason why I was an idiot for blastin' Brad Stevens! "Ownin'it!"

"Yeah bruh! I messed up but I'm here to tell you that I did!" 

Scott Adams, the well-known cartoonist, once said, "There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot." Anton Chekhov, the Russian physician and playwright, gave it to us like this, "Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out." Then Karl Pilkington, the English travel show presenter, broke it down so that it would be forever broken when he spit, "But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot." 

Well playas...because I didn't do my homework on Thursday I made a complete fool of myself when I blasted Brad Stevens for not coachin' against the Chicago Bulls. When boyz said that he wasn't goin' to coach the Celtics because he was goin' to see a former player that was battlin' cancer. I questioned why they were tellin' people why he was actually not there instead of just sayin' that he wasn't there for personal reasons. Or why didn't he visit with him all day and still make the trip up to coach the team. I accused him of seekin' attention without understandin' just how grave the situation was and for that I feel terrible. 

It wasn't until Kent Sterling of The Kent Sterling Show on CBS Sports Radio 1430AM called me and told me that when Brad got the call that he was told that he needed to come now because Andrew Smith wasn't doin' well enough for him not to come. 

Well let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I stuck my foot in my mouth by not understandin' the situation and just goin' after Stevens. Sometimes in life you learn lessons and then there are times when you learn some hard lessons. This has been one of them. 

I've always told my kids that when you mess up in life you've got to own it! So I did just that by askin' Kent if I could come on his show right away to tell folks what I was thinkin' when I wrote the joint and also to apologize to Brad Stevens, Andrew's family and the entire Butler community. Again, I'm sorry for jumpin' off of the deep end before I knew what was goin' on. I've truly learned a lot!  

I'm writin' this joint because I understand the big picture and when you're wrong you've got to own it! So I'm ownin' it playa! 

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How Donald Trump's recklessness is puttin' us ALL in danger bruh! "Sets & Factions"

"I don't care bruh! Ima be me!"

Tia Carrere, the model and actress, once said, “I had been gullible, naïve, soft, pliable. That’s why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.” Roy Keane, the Irish football manager, gave it to us like this, “I am not naïve enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.” Then Steve Brown, the well-known radio talk show host, shut the buildin’ down when he spit, “Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naïve about things.”

Well playas…now Donald Trump has completely lost his freakin' mind! On Monday night this dun called for ALL Muslims to be barred from enterin' the United State until boyz figure out what's goin' on! This cat just completely suggested that we discriminate against an entire group of people because some cats actin' a fool in the "name" of the Muslim religion are terrorizin' the world.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Does he feel the same way about the duns in America that enslaved and tortured Africans and African-Americans for more than 350 years in this country in the name of Christianity? Did he feel that way about boyz tarrin' and featherin' black folks in the south in the name of Christianity? Did he feel that way about boyz bombin' churches and runnin' around with white sheets on their heads for darn near 80 years terrorizin' black folks in America? Or how about the duns that have discriminated against folks in the name of religion. Nowhere in the Bible or the Koran states that these are acts of people that represent these religions. So to make that type of statement is asinine!!!! And this dun is runnin' for PRESIDENT of the United States and boyz are actually supportin' it! 

 Now “if” Donald Trump happens to win the Presidency he has the propensity to get us all killed. Why? Because he doesn’t know how to talk to folks playa. I’ve said for years that the best place in the WORLD to be from is the ghetto. Why? Because you learn what the word “Diplomacy” means by the time your 8 years old. You don’t learn what that word really means at all growin’ up in rural or suburban America. Why? Because it’s never been important to exercise it in order to survive.

See…the hood has always been broken down into sections and factions controlled by gangs and sets just like the world is. So in order to move throughout the hood on a daily basis you’ve got to understand who the players are playa. By knowin’ who runs what section and faction, what block or neighborhood, what gang or affiliation you quickly learn how to survive. That’s just gettin’ to and from school every day without gettin’ the brakes beat off of you or killed.

You learn what to and not to say in the presence of boyz you don’t really know. You learn that it’s not wise to allow people to hear you say something about someone because you don’t know who’s affiliated with who. Therefore, by the age of 8 you’ve become an expert at keepin’ your real opinions and feelings to yourself. You’ve learned how to be tactful in dealin’ with very dangerous cats even if you’re related to them.

Donald Trump has boyz all over this country excited about his ability to piss folks off by sayin’ whatever is on his mind regardless of how ignorant is sounds when it comes out. Well here’s the problem playboy, the world ain’t nothin’ but a big ole ghetto that is divided into sections and factions, hoods and territories, gangs and affiliations. You can’t just say what you wanna say to any and everybody playa and think that it's gonna fly. Unfortunately, there are cats out here that don’t like the United States on GP. There are boyz runnin’ around here right now that operate with the “Wish Factor” and are just waitin’ for a boy to get out of pocket.

We’ve already got cats that are tryin’ us now for giggles and kicks. We’ve already got boyz orchestratin’ foolishness and the powers that be are bein’ diplomatic. Just think of how foolish it would get if "The Donald" ran out into the middle of the street and start callin’ some of these fools by name and talkin’ about their momma’s or how bad they look etc.?

Gangstas are gangstas bruh and they don’t care that they may not be more powerful than the cat or his military that’s out here talkin’ crazy. They’ll do some damage just to make a statement and they don’t care about dyin’ in the process. They're already strappin' bombs to themselves and killin' folks and we're playin' nice and not talkin' about their mommas.

Unfortunately, the duns that are rallyin’ behind Trump didn’t grow up in the ghetto so they don’t understand nor can they fathom the danger that this fool puts us all in just by havin’ a slither of a chance of winnin’ the Presidency of the United States.

See…when you’ve never seen how things can go from 0 to 100mph in a heartbeat right outside of your front door just because somebody said the wrong thing to the wrong person, you think that Donald Trump bein’ ahead in the polls is cool. But when you understand that one fool can get everybody in the freakin’ car killed because he said something crazy to the wrong person. I'm not tellin' you what I've heard! I'm tellin' you what I know! 

I was 6 years old the first time a boy pulled a gun on me and the fellas because my boy said something crazy to a old cat sittin' on his porch as we walked by headin' to the Little League baseball field.  So it’s not funny nor entertainin’ to see cats with the influence of Tom Brady etc. endorsin' Donald Trump for a bid to become the President of the United States. And I could care less whether he's a Democrat or a Republican playa. He’s out of control and that isn’t good for ANY of us. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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1) Spit: verb – to say
2) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, girl, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.3) Sets: noun - divisions of different or the same gang4) Afiliations: noun - it's what a boy represents when he's out on the block.5) Wish Factor: to wish that someone would do something to give them a reason for actin' a fool or kill someone.6) GP: just because7) Get out of pocket: verb phrase – to do something that causes others to react.
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The REAL reason why EMPIRE is the worst show EVER! "Tom Foolery"

"Don't look at us sideways bruh! They paid us well for this foolishness!" 

Confucius once said, "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Martin Luther King Jr. broke it down like this, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Then Frederick Douglas spit some real fire when he said, "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." 

Well playas...it's one thing for poverty to be enforced or ignorance to prevail but when a boy helps to organize the conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade then we've got a serious problem. The show "Empire" that comes on every Wednesday night on Fox on PRIME TIME TELEVISION has the be one of the most ignorant shows portrayin' black folks to EVER be produced! When I say that they're doin' way too much! They're doin' way too much!! Just tell the freakin' the story playboy! We don't need all of the extra graphics! The sad part about it is that the black folks that are defendin' this foolishness can't see that they've been set up by the very duns that they accuse of slantin' the news to the right that continuously paints them as whiners and boyz makin' up charges of racism! 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! The story line of the show is great! However, for a television show bein' broadcast in prime time on regular TV shouldn't have graphic love scenes and language that makes a boy cringe that has kids. Just tell me the freakin' story bruh! I don't need to see boyz or girlz or both gettin' it in on PRIME TIME TV! This ain't cable! 

And don't tell me that kids shouldn't be watchin' TV at 9 o'clock in the evenin' because they do and they will! I've got 2 of them and all of their friends are watchin' this foolishness too and talkin' about it at school. Kids are kids and when you give them information and graphics that they aren't mature enough to digest. You create little monsters that don't know what to do with the information that you just gave them. So guess what playa? They start experiementin' and openin' up a whole can of worms that they can't eat.

Here's the sucka that can't see the forest for the trees, "Jay you hatin' bruh! It's a great show that shows real life situations!" Oh yeah bruh! There are all types of real life situations that occur in the real world that shouldn't be shown on regular TV. That's what they make cable for. A dun stickin' a needle full of heroin in his arm is real life too. I don't wanna see it! A boy smokin' crack and abusin' his wife and kids is real life too! I don't wanna see it! Even a dun makin' love to his wife is real life but I don't wanna see it on prime time television!

Just like I don't want to tune into a show in prime time and see some cat gettin' up from his knees in an elevator out from underneath a woman's dress wipin' his mouth like a boy did on the season finale of Empire. Why? Because it's way over the top, ignorant and simply too much. I know that it's real life but do we really need to see it? And on some real talk that's only real life for some fool that has no respect for women. In an elevator bruh? Really? 

Here's the piece that all of you cats that are defendin' this foolishness that Lee Daniels is feedin' you are missin'. Fox is broadcastin' it! The same duns that will tell you that racism doesn't exist and that you're makin' it all up. The same cats that are so far to the right in their views that they've all but cut their left arms off. Why is it that they're producin' a show about the very folks that they make a fool of on their network news show all day everyday? Neither ABC, NBC or CBS touched it with a ten foot pole! Why? Because it's a cable show, not a prime time regular TV joint. But Fox jumped at the chance to put money behind some nonsense that perpetuates the ratchetness of black folks.   

Say what you want about ole dull Bill Cosby but that dun gave millions of black kids my age something to dream about and something to reach for when he produced the "Cosby Show" and "A Different World" in the mid to late '80's. Now that dun may have been a freak on the low but we didn't see it and if he's guilty of that foolishness then he should be locked up for it. However, the Cosby Show opened the minds of so many ghetto black kids that hadn't ever seen two educated professional parents married and raisin' their kids together in love! So many of my peers had never seen that before. It's because of that show that I know so many black couples now that mirror the Cosby Show (black doctor and lawyer married). 

Every Thursday night as a student at Indiana University my dorm room would be full of other kids that looked like me watchin' those two shows. "A Different World" was about black kids attendin' college and goin' through all of the same things we were goin' through at Indiana or wherever boyz happened to go to school. It gave us hope to become better and more successful than our parents. Now we've got folks that look like us hookin' up with boyz that don't care about us to produce shows that give us nothin' but Tom Foolery and 99 percent of us are defendin' it. 

Now Empire isn't the only show out here doin' damage to the psychology of our young people ! It's shows like "House Wives of Atlanta" where none of these broads are even wives and all they do is fight! Then you've got foolishness like "Love and Hip Hop" where nobody's really in love and nobody's even relevant to hip hop today. 

So I can't just blast Fox and Lee Daniels! I've gotta blast black folks for supportin' this foolishness that is poisonin' the minds of our young people. The sad thing about it is that if there was a positive show on TV today that portrays us like the Cosby Show did it would get cancelled because boyz wouldn't support it. Why? Because all knuckleheads wanna watch is Tom Foolery and chicks fightin' and destroyin' each other's character. Just because something is real doesn't mean that we need to put it on prime time television. Why? Because I can guarantee you that some idiot kid went to school today and got on his knees because Empire made it look cool last night. Stop me when I start lyin'! 

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1) Spit: verb - to say
2) Fire: noun - important information 
3)  Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about! 

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How the media blows my mind pickin' and choosin' who they'll label a terrorist! "Tags"

"We're prayin' for you bruh! Stay strong!" 

Pope Francis once said, "Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities." Vladimir Putin broke it down like this, "Terrorism has no nationality or religion." Then Tony Blair stood in the middle of the cypha and spit the realist 16 bars ever spoken, "The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror." 

Well playas...if terrorism lies not in just the violent act but in producin' terror that sets out to inflame, divide and produces consequences which is used to justify further terror. Then why don't these boyz reportin' the news and recordin' history call ALL terrorism what it really is? While I'm watchin' boyz talk about the terror attacks in Paris on EVERY news outlet on TV, I can't help but ask the question. What classifies certain acts of violence terrorism and certain acts of violence random acts of violence? Is it the act or the person committin' the act? 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! What happened in Paris is DEFINITELY an act of terrorsim playboy! Any time a boy rolls up on a group of people and terrorizes them it's terrorism. To shoot and kill folks for the sake of kicks and giggles or to hide behind some sort of group or set is terrorism. However, why is it that acts of terrorism are ONLY labeled acts of terrorism when the dun carryin' out the foolishness is non-American or more specifically non-white? 

If we've agreed that terrorism is to produce terror that sets out to inflame and divide and like Tony Blair said that it has no nationality or religion or to quote Pope Francis again "But also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. Then terrorism is terrorism regardless of the color of a person's skin or country they're from. 

So why is it that the dun that walks into a Connecticut school and kills 33 children not called a terrorist? Why do we call him sick? Why isn't a boy that goes into a Charleston, South Carolina church and kills folks havin' bible study not called a terrorist? How is the dun in Colorado that walked into a movie theatre and shoots up the joint any different from the duns that walked into a concert hall in Paris and killed folks? How is it that you can call a bunch of cats in Paris terrorists that drive past a restaurant and shoot it up and not call folks in this country terrorists that drive past churches or civil rights leader's homes like Martin Luther King Jr. and throw a bomb through the window? 

 How do you miss the opportunity to call folks that have tarred and feathered black folks for years terrorists? How do you not call a dun walkin' around in a street gang a terrorist if he and his boyz are striking fear into everybody in the neighborhood? These are ALL acts of terrorism bruh! Not just when the person is non-American or more specifically non-white.  

It's not just middle eastern folks pullin' stunts like that, it's white folks, black folks, Asians, Latinos, etc. etc. etc. Growin' up in the hood I saw terrorists EVERY day! Like I just said bruh, street gangs were terrorists! They terrorized the neighborhood selling  drugs, pullin' drive-by shootings, takin' little kid's lunch money and sneakers on the way to school Etc. That's terrorism!

The Ku Klux Klan are terrorists! They've instilled fear into black folks in this country for darn near 100 years. Stop actin' like this is brand new because folks that don't look like you are actin' a fool too. Those specific police that harass folks for no reason and those that are killin' unarmed black folks are terrorists!!! Don't try to make it any thing that it isn't. ANYBODY that is instilling fear into people is a terrorist I don't care what color they are or where they're from. The act is what labeled a person a terrorist not the color of their skin or their nationality. It doesn't matter if the dun's name is DeQuan, Hector, Jacob or Abdul from rural, suburban, Hood City, USA or from the Middle East! If he's instilling fear into groups of people he's a terrorist. We've got to learn how to love one another and the differences that make us so unique. Then and only then will the labels, names and tags not separate us. Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 
1) Cypha: noun - when rappers get into a circle and freestyle lyrics. One person starts the rhyme off and then hands it off to the next person. It goes until someone messes it up. 
2)  Dun: the person in question, dude, guy, etc, It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 

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Why havin' money didn't insulate the Mizzou grad student from campus racism! "Privilege"

"My daddy's pockets may be greener but my skin is still the same bruh!"

Frederick Douglas once said, "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." George Bernard Shaw, Pulitzer Prize winnin' Irish playwright, broke it down like this, "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." Then Sarah McLaclan stood up and spoke it like a G at a hustlas convention when she spit, "People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something." 

Well playas...the ignorance in America seems to be at an all-time high and is pushin' to set the world record! Over the last 24 hours or so the dun that started the University of Missouri protest by goin' on a hunger strike, Jonathan Butler, has come under fire because his daddy is rich bruh! What?!!! They are several racist websites that I refuse to mention to give the extra pub to that have the audacity to say that ole boy shouldn't have been protestin' racism on his campus because his daddy is worth $20 million! Really bruh!!? That's where we're goin'?

His father is an Executive Vice President with Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha so these fools are sayin' that he doesn't experience racism because he's rich and therefore was wrong for runnin' the president of the university system out of town.  

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Most , if not all, folks that are racist in this country are racist out the pride of 'white privilege!' That means that a boy wants to keep him or herself on a pedestal above black folks by any means necessary. Even if that means lyin' to him or herself about why it makes sense that black folks are beneath them. So the fact that this dun's rich exacerbates the situation. 

If some white racist kid on campus rolls up on him and he's gettin' out of a newer and more luxury whip than him then he's pissed and more likely to call him the N-word out of frustration than the dun jumpin' out of the Big Big Chevy with the busted tail light. If ole boy pulls out his black card in the union to pay for his lunch and the dun from rural America that thought that ALL black folks were beneath him and poor because that's what is ignorant "A" parents have always told him that they were, that's a problem. So he's gonna experience way more foolishness than the average black kid from urban America on campus. 

When he walks into Saks or the Louis Vuitton store the security guards are followin' him around like he's a thief because they don't think he's supposed to be in their store buyin' anything! When campus police pulls him over and runs his plates every third day because he's drivin' a better car than they do he's experiencin' racism. Why? Because of the 'white privilege' that told them that black folks shouldn't be doin' better than they are. 

Now these are simply examples of why it's ignorant to assume that because he's rich he isn't experiencin' racism on campus along with the rest of the black student body. Just because his daddy is rich doesn't make his skin look any different than the dun from the projects of St. Louis bruh! So to insinuate that he shouldn't protest foolishness on his campus is asinine! That fact that people can't and won't even try to understand what black folks go through in this country when it comes to racism further tells me that the problem isn't knowledge. It's the lack of tryin' to even understand the knowledge that's sittin' on the freakin' table beggin' to be appreciated. 

Now I will say what I've been sayin' all week about this situation. All of the duns that applauded the football team for walkin' off of the field still don't understand that not everybody in that locker room was on board with that foolishness. Only 32 black players initially walked out and there are more than 60 brothers on that team. Therefore, those 32 strong armed the other 70 plus total players. If the entire team wasn't initially on board the 32 were wrong to jump out there. Why? Because a team has to roll as a team. And you and I both know that everybody's situation ain't the same. 

See Jonathon Butler already has a degree and a daddy that can pay for him to go to grad school if he gets kicked out. The dun on football scholarship from the projects of Chicago can't afford to lose his scholarship if this joint goes south and it could have. Not EVERYBODY in that locker room both black and white are at Mizzou to get an education. Some of those cats are ONLY there to get to the NFL. So don't tell me that EVERYBODY was on board followin' some cat who's daddy is rich down a rabbit hole that NOBODY knew how it would end. Boyz on that football team got lucky that Tom Wolfe didn't dig in his heels and post up for 3 or 4 weeks. I'm just sayin'!  

Now should the students have protested! You darn right that should have! And that's the edited version bruh! But the football team didn't have to strike to get boyz attention but it's easy for 32 cats to quit if you're 4-5! Would they have walked out if they were 8-1 and in the hunt for an SEC title? I doubt it playboy! Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 
1) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 
2) Whip: noun - car or vehicle 
3) Big Body Chevy: noun - 1985-90 Chevy Impala bruh

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How Jemele Hill totally forgot the RULES of ENGAGEMENT after MSU went down! "Back Talkin'"

"I said it! So what!" 

George Washington once said, "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." Edward Abbey, the famous author and essayist, gave it to like this, "One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork." Then Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the ancient Roman Stoic philosopher, kept it simple for a boy when he spit, "When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people."

Well playas...I've got to believe that ESPN's Jemele Hill is envyin' dumb people this mornin' after the temper tantrum she threw after her beloved Michigan State got beat on the road in Nebraska! Or should I say, how her beloved Michigan State got screwed on the road in Nebraska! After the terrible call that allowed a dun to run out of bounds and then come back into the field of play and catch the rock to score the game winner was beyond me! However, after the game was over you already know that boyz were gonna give her the business because she's been talkiin' $100,000,000 worth of noise since the Michigan game. 

So Rich Eisen, who is a Michigan grad, set it off by tweetin' to her, "Wonder how it feels to be on the wrong end of a bizzare finish you don't deserve that you'll replay over and over in your head." Boom!!! Then ole girl snapped bruh with, "The difference is that our play against you was clean. That was some Bull S---!" WHAT!!!??? Followed by some random cat tweetin', "Somebody check on Jemele!" Then this chick completely lost it and jumped into the deep end with all of her freakin' clothes on with no life jacket and said, "I'm right here! We got F---d!" Then had the nerve to follow that joint up with "I SAID WHAT I SAID."

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Jemele knows how this thing goes playa! When you talk as much trash as she's been talkin' about Michigan State all she was doin' was puttin' money in the bank and boyz have been sittin' in the cut waitin' to make a withdrawal! Now these duns are standin' in line to get their bread back whether it was a terrible call or not. The call is irrelevant at this point bruh! The fact that it's been recorded as an "L" is all boyz needed. Why? Because she's been talkin' way too much trash to get a pass! 

C'mon bruh! She's from Detroit! She knows the RULES of ENGAGEMENT!  Don't talk crazy to boyz unless you can handle the foolishness that's gonna eventually come your way. That's why you gotta win, stay humble and keep it movin'! When you do a rant tellin' boyz that you OWN them and that you're rubbin' it in their faces etc. all you did was make a large deposit in small bills and boyz are gonna withdraw it one penny at a time. 

Secondly, what was she thinkin' bruh???!!! She works for the largest entertainment company in the freakin' WORLD!!!!! Oh, just in case you didn't know, ESPN is owned by Walt Disney bruh! Michigan State ain't payin' her a dime to come to their defense! ESPN writes her checks! That wasn't a text message back and forth with Rich Eisen or any of the other duns she was respondin' to! That was on the freakin' internet for the world to see! C'mon babygirl you gotta think! This is your job we're talkin' about! You've worked way too hard to get to this point to throw it away. 

And what blows mind are all the fools on Twitter that was applaudin' her for actin' a fool because she wasn't a robot like the other people that have real jobs that work for the network or any other company that pays them in bread. Listen up you idiot, it's called bein' a responsible adult and doin' what it necessary to stay employed. 

Like I tell my own kids on a daily basis, "You can't always say what you're feelin' online just because you got upset." Why? Because everybody has a boss or someone that they have to answer to, up to and includin' the dun that owns his own business. In his situation it's called the customer and when you turn them off they'll turn you off. 

I hope Jemele doesn't lose her job or get suspended over this foolishness but if she does she has no one to blame but herself. And you best believer that Michigan State won't give too dead flies smashed either way! Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 
1) Spit: verb - to say
2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 

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