I have the solution JCPS

Here’s what you need to do: assign children to schools by complete random selection. The computer spits out 1000 names and those kids go to school A, next 1000 kids go to school B, and so on and so forth. You want to see some REAL fireworks? Wait till the east end housewives have to send their kids to Shawnee, Moore or Iroquois high schools. Abandon the whole neighborhood school idea (because population wise it can’t work) and just use computer random. OH MY GOD! Can you see the outrage? Can you see the fastbreak to private schools? (All the privates in town couldn’t accommodate the close to 100,000 JCPS students.) Couldn’t argue with that assignment plan, could you? It’s random, not discriminatory (insert eye roll here). Maybe then every kid would get educated at the high level they deserve. Maybe then every kid would have truly equal chances at success. Maybe then every kid would treated with the same level of expectations if the project kid is next to the trail park kid who is beside the Lake Forest kid. It’s never gonna happen. We are going to be resegregated. Guess what? It hurts white kids more than anyone else. Uh, the world is getting smaller and you want your kid to go through school with no black kids, no kids of color and all rich kids. Thanks Supreme Court. (%$#!&%$#!)

Life in America

Is she crazy??

Ghetto Bus Tour.

One of the many reasons Black people are never taken seriously. This woman is a disgrace, dishonest, and a dimwit. She can't be possibly be glamorizing the bricks, can she? There is a point where the glorification of poverty is beyond a detriment to society, but a downright reckless, disregard for the truth and safety of the community. There is nothing good about public housing as it exists today. Nothing. We should take of women and children but this is not the way. Poor people should not be ashamed of their poverty but it shouldn't be celebrated as a functional and practical way of life. You should be railing against it all times. Fighting to have a better life. Fighting to live better. Fighting to make something of yourself. Fighting. Always fighting. Complacency is not an option.

Who cares about Michael Vick?

I love animals. I had a beloved cat for seventeen years. But jail time for dog abuse? What? I in no way condone his behavior if he is guilty, but jail? Jail? I mean really who cares. Animals are animals. We should respect and care for them, but, hell, we eat the little critters! If Michael Vick had raped 10 women in 10 days it wouldn’t have gotten this much press. If seems more people are outraged about these stupid dogs than they were the Katrina victims. I means humans are more important than animals. I would never abuse a living thing (except a bug), but, dammit, I love hamburger. But, Felicia, we don’t eat dogs! They do in Vietnam! So, let’s get real. This is a waste of tax payer money to prosecute this case. We are in a unjust, costly war. Just had a thought! More people are outraged about these vicious, insane pit bulls than they are over the death of our beloved Military. Gimme a break, people, I don’t care. Fine him a million bucks. He’s already lost his Nike contract, people, now that’s suffering.

Culture of money

In France we don’t think the future is better than now.

French people think American workers are slaves.

We are financial slaves. Fear controls the American public. American corporations control the government and they have their bottom as the goal not the well-being of all Americans. The wealthy, the mega-rich need to understand they should do their fair share because their wealth would be impossible to amass in any other country. They are possible because America is a place of unfettered capitalism. Tyranny of the majority. The Military-Industrial complex with its strangle hold on any value that does not have greed and consumption as its main component. We are taught that later we can rest. We are fed to believe that later we can enjoy life. We are led to believe that we can have quality time with our children instead of quantity. We are told we can be rich too if we work hard enough. Nope, dope. We are chasing a dangling carrot that leads no where. Working will not garner wealth. Sheesh, working will not guarantee the necessities of life. Prices rise. Cost of living elevates. Wages are stagnant, except if you are a CEO or other corporate executive. The real values of America have everything to do with MONEY and nothing to do with little else. Idolize a high school drop-out celebutante or a neurotic reality “star.” Ignore the decaying environment. Ignore as I rob you blind with a unfair income tax. Ignore a president and white house who start unjust wars based on lies. Ignore the reality of moral imperatives of arming young people with sexual education while I peddle exorbitantly priced AIDS drugs. There is no money in a cure only in the maintenance. If we are not careful America will turn into a mythological story like Atlantis or an illusion in the desert far, far from the wet, lush oasis.

(Don't worry I know that no one gets me.)

Anything you done to me, already done to you

Unfortunately, this country’s race healing is suffering a sustaining blow when the Supreme Court ruled that school systems cannot use race to promote diversity within the school district. Many of today are too ignorant, willfully or unwillfully, of the past. Most people want to forget over 250 years of FREE labor of African enslaved peoples. Many people would like to gloss over 100 plus years of Jim Crow or codes/laws that only applied to Black people which relegated Black people to second class citizenship (funny enough they paid the same taxes). Twenty-five years of court supervision to create diversity is a drop in the bucket. It’s nothing really. It’s less than nothing. This country is no longer interested, willing, or concerned with making Black people whole. The people of the country want to forget history, ignore history, erase history because it is uncomfortable and unpleasant. And, yeah, I’m talking about the past again. All Christians talk about is the “good old days” why can’t I mention “the bad old days.”??? I’ve said it before: when every other man and woman’s name is Juan or Maria, maybe some people will see the point of diversity. Then some people will see that anything you done to me, already done to you.

Uh, Bush is a punk for commuting the sentence of his boy, Scooter. But, it’s Re-PUKE-blican politics as usual: power plays, rationalization, and hypocrisy.

You can’t compare Clinton’s pardons to this. All his people served some time. All his people did their criminal acts to benefit themselves not Clinton.

How many days till this PUNK is out office?