Saturday, March 26, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
They Say So Much
In the midst of March Madness, I can't help but to look out and see the issues in our world. Earthquakes are natural disasters but what about the famine in the families, the corruption in our government, calamity in our school systems, inflation in gas, the ability to rule the world financially by just killing off your own people. These issues should not be ignored, the inability to have substance on the radio but the full access of your own people to promote sex and drugs to our youth. This is not what you want to hear right now but I'm going to say. The parents who have so much to complain about but never attend a PTSA meeting. The brother who loves to borrow money but when he has it to spend he never wants to donate. Talking about the fathers who say they got children but they ate three hot meals today and have new Polo on, but their babies are struggling at home with their bitter mother. Why? Well maybe its because of that young girl who was raised by a single mother and never knew what love really was because her real father was absent in her life and the only man that she respected was a janitor at the high school who really wanted to only have sex with her. Maybe its that female who is looking for love in all the wrong places and tends to be mad at everybody except the person she sees in the mirror every morning.
Perhaps I am wrong because I have an opinion and feel it should be valued as well. Or maybe disturbed the mentality of Southern republicans who crucify our president yet we got some many complaints right while the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi promised a long war. Your freedom is argued every day, because you don't feel like going to work, yet I got family and friends out here risking their life so that you can debate on what outfit you going to work to the club.
People in Haiti still haven't recovered from the Earthquake, yet their country has an opportunity to chose a new leader and hopefully reclaim some type of recovery. After reports of over 230,000 people killed and over $9 billion in damage, how many years do you think it will take for them to recover. See, our country has suffered economic loses but more due to misappropiation of funds, poor leaders, and the disassembling of some big spending drug cartels. Did I just say that? Yes, think about it, if some of the Drug leaders were still free think about how many retail stores would still be open.
I wonder how many pre-teens, teenagers, and their parents know who is the wealthiest man/person in the world. Do you? I asked a class the other day "How many future doctors do I have in the room?" I had one girl and one boy, then the boy decided that he was just stretching. The little girl wanted to be a pediatrician. This was a room of 30 seventh graders. I know they are young now, but I honestly feel the exposure to real substance and believeable characters rather than a dope boi, pusherman, rapping, robbing image is so fictional in this storybook lifestyle of the poor leading the blind that I am about to start pushing harder towards leadership groups and pushing harder on these young men 25 and older that I refer to as OG's because technically and sadly we are. So many young men are losing their life at a young age including prison sentences that we are the survival kits to the new generation.
Schools are suffering because of lack of funds, almost having to place every old school under probation because of lack of funds and poor test results. Thoughts of doign away with the trades/elective style classes because leaders feel that it is a waste of money and time. As if the students don't need a break. Majority of the adults have low attention span so how you expect the chidren not to act up or out when they are forced to stay in a classroom all day. We are paying superintendents in Georgia roughly about $250,000 on average this includes salary, bonuses, car and phone stipends. A quarter of a million dollars to one person. I'm pausing because I know some that are reading this don't know. Yet we are in the hole as a state in budget, oh, but we do have enough money to build new schools each year. Schools may I add that have to be maintained yet are million dollar facilities. Who said you don't need Algebra we you become an adult? What's x + y(z) = ? Don't worry I'll wait, for those who pay taxes every year and have children check your W2 and YTD start putting 2 and 2 together. Better ask more questions start being more involved. Your parents didn't raise you to be just like them, you were designed to be better.
Normally, people go on blogs and facebook and begin to flex and flaunt about what they got or wish they had. I'm the type to talk about real life. I had a lil' boi come to me the other day and say he was from Thomasville, well my family is from Thomasville too sir, but you're young enough to be my child so what you remember about Thomasville might not be the real.
I wanna say I love my full Family, Earleys (Thomasville), Minters (Mechancsville & spreaded out throughout the U.S.), Rowe (Fairburn & the Southside/Westside), Sneeze (Custer Ave & the Westside).
Understand I'm a YOUNG HEART & OLD SOUL.
Perhaps I am wrong because I have an opinion and feel it should be valued as well. Or maybe disturbed the mentality of Southern republicans who crucify our president yet we got some many complaints right while the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi promised a long war. Your freedom is argued every day, because you don't feel like going to work, yet I got family and friends out here risking their life so that you can debate on what outfit you going to work to the club.
People in Haiti still haven't recovered from the Earthquake, yet their country has an opportunity to chose a new leader and hopefully reclaim some type of recovery. After reports of over 230,000 people killed and over $9 billion in damage, how many years do you think it will take for them to recover. See, our country has suffered economic loses but more due to misappropiation of funds, poor leaders, and the disassembling of some big spending drug cartels. Did I just say that? Yes, think about it, if some of the Drug leaders were still free think about how many retail stores would still be open.
I wonder how many pre-teens, teenagers, and their parents know who is the wealthiest man/person in the world. Do you? I asked a class the other day "How many future doctors do I have in the room?" I had one girl and one boy, then the boy decided that he was just stretching. The little girl wanted to be a pediatrician. This was a room of 30 seventh graders. I know they are young now, but I honestly feel the exposure to real substance and believeable characters rather than a dope boi, pusherman, rapping, robbing image is so fictional in this storybook lifestyle of the poor leading the blind that I am about to start pushing harder towards leadership groups and pushing harder on these young men 25 and older that I refer to as OG's because technically and sadly we are. So many young men are losing their life at a young age including prison sentences that we are the survival kits to the new generation.
Schools are suffering because of lack of funds, almost having to place every old school under probation because of lack of funds and poor test results. Thoughts of doign away with the trades/elective style classes because leaders feel that it is a waste of money and time. As if the students don't need a break. Majority of the adults have low attention span so how you expect the chidren not to act up or out when they are forced to stay in a classroom all day. We are paying superintendents in Georgia roughly about $250,000 on average this includes salary, bonuses, car and phone stipends. A quarter of a million dollars to one person. I'm pausing because I know some that are reading this don't know. Yet we are in the hole as a state in budget, oh, but we do have enough money to build new schools each year. Schools may I add that have to be maintained yet are million dollar facilities. Who said you don't need Algebra we you become an adult? What's x + y(z) = ? Don't worry I'll wait, for those who pay taxes every year and have children check your W2 and YTD start putting 2 and 2 together. Better ask more questions start being more involved. Your parents didn't raise you to be just like them, you were designed to be better.
Normally, people go on blogs and facebook and begin to flex and flaunt about what they got or wish they had. I'm the type to talk about real life. I had a lil' boi come to me the other day and say he was from Thomasville, well my family is from Thomasville too sir, but you're young enough to be my child so what you remember about Thomasville might not be the real.
I wanna say I love my full Family, Earleys (Thomasville), Minters (Mechancsville & spreaded out throughout the U.S.), Rowe (Fairburn & the Southside/Westside), Sneeze (Custer Ave & the Westside).
Understand I'm a YOUNG HEART & OLD SOUL.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Selfish or Stupid?
In the above link you can read more about the story on ajc.com courtesy of Kristi E. Swartz, but ladies and gentlemen, we boast and brag about the talent in Atlanta but why our talented young athletes keep flushing our credibility down the porcelain. This young man in the above picture was a great Georgia talent, I coached against him as well as witness his blazing speed on a track. The only question I have is....Is the financial woes of the college athletes this discouraging or are they being very selfish towards the people who have to go and pay for their education. I just don't understand. My coach told us when we were in high school that it only takes 0.2 seconds to make a STUPID decision. I am not convicting or accusing Antonio of anything but I want him to know that the choices you make as an athlete can easily hunt you for the rest of your life. Use this experience to be humble and ask for understanding that EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON!
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