” The Big Mistake “

Hi Family,

Hope all is well with my blog family around the world. I was just here wondering how in the world am I going to get my bowl of Louisiana shrimp gumbo now that the entire Gulf of Mexico is turning black. If I could only convince the Republicans and “The Lipton Tea Party” to take a dip it would serve them right. They would really know what it feels like to be black. The only thing they would need is a good stocking-cap and a wave brush. There would be no need for Nu-Nile grease because there would be enough oily gunk to help slick down that hair. I would love to see the look on their faces as each one made their way to the oily beach for an informal barbecue with Clarence Thomas. When will some of these politicians and right wing radicals come to their senses. The only thing destroying America right now is their mentality. Years and years of political gridlock in Washington and Albany that has done nothing but make us all suffer. Now we have a natural disaster that will exceed the magnitude of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska. Half a million to a million gallons of oil pouring into the Louisiana waters per day. As of now 39 million gallons total. Nothing could infuriate me more than the dumbfounded look on the faces of all the executives while they try to explain. It’s quite clear that they don’t have a clue on how to stop this leak.

The look of despair and desperation on the faces of all the people whose livelihood is being affected is even worse. This will undoubtedly turn out to be one of the biggest screw ups in American history. As the oil ascends from the bottom of the ocean floor to the top in four hours we may never know the full ramifications of this disaster until years to come. It seems like Louisiana just can’t get a break. Not even with a Superbowl win or the “Essence” music festival. What was ” The Big Mistake “? Corporate greed of course. To put a pipe in the ocean floor and suck up every drop of oil without ever thinking to put a safety mechanism in place should something go wrong. Every BP executive and every engineer that helped design and build that platform should be fired. Billions of dollars a month in profit and only one machine in existence that may have a chance to stop this leak. Now they feverishly attempt to use a solution that has only been used above ground. How stupid and greedy can human beings get. The beautiful ocean that God gave us to enjoy now being ruined by man. Taking everything for granted that God has given us that’s ” The Big Mistake “. To blame Obama for this is an even bigger mistake.

Speaking of mistakes ,we just had a recall of the “Miley Cyrus” jewelry from Walmart. The jewelry was deemed unsafe because of toxic materials. Well what is “The Big Mistake”in this debacle. Made in China, that’s the bottom line. As I write this blog let me randomly look at five items and tell you what country they’re produced in. A pair of “Nike’s” in Vietnam. Yamaha keyboard made in “Japan”. Television in “Mexico”. VCR made in “China”. Microwave in “Korea”. So lets get real with ourselves for a minute . Either we’re plain crazy or we just don’t want to work because all the American jobs are overseas. Since when did we think that giving a job to someone else would create a healthy economy for us. Every unemployed person in America should be scratching their head right now even if you have a little dandruff. Just think of all the tax breaks these corporations have been getting year after year as they produce these products from the work of slave labor. Entire cities throughout the United States can not produce enough jobs for the people that inhabit them. The only incentive we’re giving young people today is to go buy a pound of weed and cut up an eight ball from Washington Heights. Don’t you think it’s time for America to get back to those old-school principles that made it such a great nation. I think some of the problem is that we have gotten plain lazy. Do we really want to do anything besides collect a check?

Speaking of a check, Lawrence Taylor just signed a check his ass couldn’t cash. Oh, what Lawrence am I talking about? Big,Bad Lawrence. The one with all those sacks.Linebacker for the New York Giants. If I ever saw a big black man look like a puppy dog it was the look on Lawrence’s face while in the courtroom. It was a look, oh so familiar. I’ve seen it on the faces of black men many times before. Not even the media was aware of what that look on Lawrence’s face meant. ” When I get home that black woman gonna kick my ASS “. That is just a reality that no black man wants to come home to. No black man wants to come home and get hit upside the head with one of those black heavy iron frying pans.You know the frying pan I’m talking about. The one that has to be treated so the food doesn’t stick. Those pans are heavy and they will bust a hole right in your head. In the case of Lawrence I think he got really lucky. He is in the hands of a good black women. Although I have never met this women I did hear some of her comments regarding her husbands issue. I was proud to hear that woman tell the media,”I’m gonna protect what’s mine”. I was relieved to know that there are real black women still around. We have become disillusioned with the image being portrayed from these reality shows. There are some really good women out here and the men have got to step up to the plate and do a better job than this.

Okay so Lawrence didn’t commit the rape. What the hell we’re you doing in a hotel room with a sixteen your old girl, my brother ? We as black men have got to put ourselves in better situations than that. There are a million other things a man of L.T.’s stature could be doing other than being in a hotel room with a 16 year old girl. The one thing that strikes me with the L.T. case is the hotel room. I start to see a pattern of the black athlete being set up in the hotel room. One of the most infamous being the second O.J. case. So what is “The Big Mistake”. Not learning something from the mistakes of others. God puts it out there for us to see in black and white everyday. Somehow we go about our way everyday and never pay attention to the picture God is presenting. Everything else is more important. Somebody like Lawrence Taylor should be out in the community trying to help these young men stay right. What is ” The Big Mistake”. Thinking with the wrong head. Yes men, we have got to stop thinking with the wrong head.

As we approach what I believe will be one of the most violent summers in cities across the country, what is really ” The Big Mistake”. Quite frankly I believe it is the failure to concede that all the races will need to ban together to help us get out of this mess. I’ve been listening to our next New York Governor Andrew Cuomo with his clean up Albany rhetoric. Haven’t we heard this all before. Even the once untouchable Andrew Stein is being accused of being a part of a ponzi scheme. This misuse of public trust has been going on for years and will continue. Lets not be fooled into thinking that we’re going to wake up to a completely righteous world. Yes there are plenty of people here doing the “Electric Slide” straight to hell. Unfortunately many of those same people wind up in a position of power. It is causing unrest all over the world. In Bangkok, Greece, now Kingston Jamaica. Violence is becoming a way of life. Just in my town a shooting over a cigarette. The collapse of the famous “Cromwell Center”. The biggest recreation center on the north shore of Staten Island. The lack of money is wrecking havoc on our infrastructure.  The shooting in Detroit of a 7 year old girl by police. A set of 13 year old twins just jailed for killing there mother. Now I hear child star Gary Coleman is in critical with a head injury. Details are sketchy but it sounds to me like it was a little more than a slip and fall. So lets all ban together because the worse is yet to come. Lets not make “The Big Mistake”. To forget that life can be so good and full of joy……Stay Alert……….Poppas Out