Fake ass CSI…
To rummage or not to rummage that is the question…
Had an interesting conversation regarding the right to “James Bond” your significant others belongings in search of contraband and the like. I’m kind of on the fence with that…I mean…I ain’t got nothing to hide but I would despise being treated like a convict on lockdown at 26th & California. The “whys” don’t really matter because the justification only has to be formed in the mind of the person doing the spying and that’s the rub. This allows whatever insecurities real or imagined to manifest and dictate the relationship. Most women I have talked to believe this to be an acceptable practice. They feel that they empower themselves by using these tactics to stay one step ahead. To that I ask one step ahead of what? I mean…once you find a phone number or a pair of thongs stuck between the seats of the Buick it’s pretty much a done deal…your following up on shit that has already transpired. In a sense you’re too late….more like a step behind. I understand that people have baggage and past experience or pain may trigger a flashback of some sort and you may want to engage in this behavior but you need to make sure that’s not your only contribution to the union.
Relationships have to be feed…they demand it…and if your starving it because your to busy dusting your man’s or ladies cell phone for fingerprints with your “my first CSI” kit then you have become a cancer to the situation. To me…you can check all you want but if we ain’t taking advantage of some alone time to have us a “Barry White” moment then we got a serious issue. You have just extinguished one of the bright spots of our relationship and if you ain’t got no Emeril-like chef skills our can’t do some tuckpointing around the house or install break pads on the whip…..let’s just say it ain’t looking good for you. Your usefulness rating has taken a hit….
My thing is if your handlin’ the business upfront then you won’t have time for the nonsense…if you got time to check every pocket, hack into some emails, call all the numbers in the cell phone that you don’t recognize then you can rest assure that you are damn sure lacking in every other category. So, don’t come to your mate with that ‘ol “who you on the phone with” or “you didn’t tell me you was going out” until you pull your shoes up and start being a participant on this journey and stop planning the demise of it.
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Here are the keyords in the essay:
13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 2012 Election, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Booker T. Washington, Bryant Park, Cipriani’s, Colin Powell, Criminal Industrial Complex, Deb Slott, Do The Right Thing, Heidi Klum, Hip-Hop, Mark Penn, Melting Pot, Pink Elephant, Racism, Reconstruction, Robert Johnson, Seal, Segregation, Shelby Steele, Sidney Poiter, Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Tavis Smiley, Terrence Yang, The Dance Flick, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Virginia Davies, W.E.B. Dubois, Zero Mostel, Politics
Prologue to Obama 2012
We approach the future walking backwards, our gaze forever fixated on the past. Predicting the future is not a passive exercise; we invent it every day with our actions.
I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared his candidacy. I had spent much of the previous 18 months living abroad as an entrepreneur and statesman of sorts, and I was slightly out of touch with the pulse of life on the street in the United States. I learnt about Sen. Barack Obama’s Springfield, IL speech formally declaring his candidacy for president of the United States through one of the international cable news channels and thought how great it would be to have a fresh start after years of mediocrity in Washington and a plummeting reputation around the world.
By September, after what seemed like raising a six-month-old child, my sketches had turned into Why the Democrats Will Win in 2008 the Road to an Obama White House. It was my answer to the burning question everyone had back in March: Can he really win? Actually, not everyone thought it was a question. For many people, including Mark Penn, director of the Clinton campaign, the answer was an easy “no way.” This strategic blunder made it that much easier for the Clinton campaign to be defeated. Then there were Black pundits like Shelby Steele, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, who came out with a 2007 book entitled A Bound Man, Why Obama Can’t Win.
Being Black did seem to be an automatic disqualification, but then why did someone need to write an entire book arguing what should have been patently obvious? Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell came to my mind and I remembered that he could have run for president in 1992 as a war hero. But Colin Powell was Ronald Reagan’s protégé and got a special pass on the race question. Black conservatives like Justice Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were careful to disassociate themselves from liberal thinkers and activists like Jesse Jackson, who lost, as expected, the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries. Ultimately, Colin Powell, in spite of all his honors, declined to run for president. His wife Alma feared for his safety. Common sense said that a candidate like Obama, for numerous insurmountable reasons, didn’t stand a chance of winning the Democratic primary, let alone a general election in which 10% of the electorate is African American and Republicans controlled the White House for 20 of the preceding 28 years. But I decided that Obama’s chances merited a closer examination. In it, I would bring to bear my gambling skills.