Might wanna pull your pants up if you are in Florida....Bill passes banning 'sagging'...

I can HEAR THE OUTCRY from here..(Although it has actually been in discussion and the outcry was GREAT FROM THE OUTBREAK..)


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Great intentions with this law one would think right? Some of the 'language' was purposely not made inflammatory. Too bad they messed it by EXPLAINING things in detail when asked...smh...


"This pro-family, pro-education, pro-jobs bill provides each school district ... adopt a student dress code of conduct, a policy that explains to each student their responsibility," she said. "This would make for a better school district and more productive students."

"Although no rigidly academic analysis of the history of 'sagging' has yet been conducted, it is commonly thought that 'sagging' originated in prisons where belts are not issued because they may be used to commit suicide or used as weapons. The lack of belts combined with loose, ill-fitting pants result in pants falling below the waist."


Now they would have been fine if THIS were the only thing they said...Maybe...I mean lets face it, we are talking about mainly minorities and the lower class of people @ who this is aimed at. Now I am actually not a PROPONENT of cats running around with their ass hanging out. I am also not a proponent of bullshit like this being blown up my ass as to why I should be okay with the bill. Just say what it is. You want people to be dressed a certain way. Don't tell me this 'It is better for the economy' bullshit....Or at least insult me less by phrasing it like this...


Capitol gadfly Brian Pitts said committee members would be remiss if they viewed the legislation simply as a sagging pants bill. "The bill says proper attire, it doesn’t say anything about saggy pants," he said, adding that it's necessary these days when students are trying to dress like Beyonce, Madonna and Lady Gaga.
"Set a standard that’s proper, and Lady Gaga can stand outside, Madonna can stay outside, Beyonce can stay outside. All those other people can stay outside ... Oh, by the way, (rapper) 50 Cent can stay outside too."

....Cause when I read shit like this.....I don't believe you again. That girl got raped by savage ass dudes because THEY WEREN'T SHIT. Period. I wouldn't let my 11 year old run around that way but to PIN THAT ON WHY SHE GOT RAPED IS ABSURD. Seen too many types of rapists to pin it on dudes wearing sagging pants. Professional ones. Scraggly looking white dudes. Corporate white and black dudes. Old men. Men of the Cloth. Yeah...you get the point. I don't see you dress coding them. Sorry. Thanks for playing though. @ this absurd shit.

"There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gangraped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute," she said. "And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students."


Like I said...might wanna pull your pants up in Florida. This is their 'excuse' to get you hemmed up....Which I guess means ultimately, they get what they want. @ people not doing this. Damm shame it has to be done in this fashion...

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Halle Berry in Ebony....cover and talks about race....

“I think is that that’s something she’s going to have to decide,” Berry says of her daughter’s race. “I’m not going to put a label on it. I had to decide for myself and that’s what she’s going to have to decide-how she identifies herself in the world. And I think, largely, that will be based on how the world identifies her. That’s how I identified myself. But I feel like she’s Black. I’m Black and I’m her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory.”

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Bullying....Its about TIME they actually started recognizing it...

I touched on this topic again here....About a month or so later...

http://thewarehous.blogspot.com/2010/11/open-letter-timeto-those-who-dont-get.html


You know I had this LONG DRAWN OUT POST I WAS GOING TO DO in regards to this but the title post sums up how I feel pretty much.

For the longest time, like most bad things in the World, we as a people were just flat out DISMISSIVE when it came to bullying.

A. It is kids being kids.....
B. It adds character.....
C. Life isn't fair so a kid might as well learn that early on....

These are just SOME OF THE BULLSHIT EXCUSES I have heard when it comes to that shit. Then something 'funny' happened. Only it wasn't so funny. The bullying escalated and so did the 'retaliation'. Mofos started getting shot once they reached the breaking point. Then they started pulling the trigger or taking out the noose so that they were no longer with us. Leaving the bullies dead (or seriously maimed) and no one to exact 'justice' on. Just like it was when we kept 'brushing the subject off'.


I wonder why that is? Do you think that for all the 'inferiorness' that the 'bullied' persons had they actually saw that they weren't going to get justice? That those who were bullied as children grew up to be in charge and actually sought change? Kids are 'weaker' now? Talk to me people! I mean I have my own theories (a mix of all three actually) but all I know is that someone FINALLY TOOK NOTICE to the fact that maybe it isn't so 'cool' to just let this 'rights of passage' just slide on through. ESPECIALLY since now we have a 'machine' (The Internet) that can DOCUMENT AND ARCHIVE all the bullying that is taking place thus repeating the humiliation OVER AND OVER AND OVER again.

Have I gone soft on ya'll? Hell no. I know life isn't 'fair'. I know life isn't 'Little League'. We all can't 'win'. It is set up that way for a reason. There is also no need to run around and CONDONING bad behavior either though. On some 'It is what it is...'. You won't be talking that shit when some NERD/GEEK/MISFIT what have you comes to your kids school (assuming you give a shit about your kid to begin with) and comes and shoots the whole place up. Leaving your kid paralyzed or dead. Shit won't be so 'trivial' then will it? You will be all up in arms and all of that 'hood' shit won't be able to BRING HIM/HER BACK. They will be gone. Like it or not champ, there are RULES TO LIFE. You have to follow them. Just like Life isn't 'fair', there are also rules you have to abide by.


 Bullying doesn't equate to that..what the hell are you talking about Mr. Blogger?? I am confused...

If you are confused than you are not as smart as you want everyone to think then...It is this simple. Being given a pass to harass people as a child usually leads to you thinking that shit flies as an adult. It doesn't. It leads to things like 'HARASSMENT AT WORK'....Stalking your bf/gf....you know things that you can CATCH A CHARGE FOR? Is it starting to become clearer for you? Not enough? How about running around physically assaulting people as a child because they are 'different'? Let me see if you can guess what type of mindset that could lead you to as an adult if it is not nipped in the bud....Oh you can't make the correlation? Let me help you. Those that do that usually are the types that think it is okay to go around beating up people who are 'different'. You know 'gay bashings' and things like that. Did I do a study? No. I have LIVED NIGGA. I have SEEN IT. Folks who never got checked on their ways as a kid have ended up in more shit because no one told them any better. They were 'allowed' and in some instances ENCOURAGED to carry on this behavior. @ bullying people. Only after they got the proper 'treatment' did they realize the error of their ways. Too often by that time, someone was seriously hurt or damaged because of it though. Hell, even THAT DIDN'T HELP THOUGH and unfortunately some of them had to lose THEIR LIVES 'cause they fucked with the wrong person. So this isn't some 'clinical' study or some information I have read, I have SEEN it. With my own two eyes. People I know. People I grew up with or around. In my family. Not in my family. My friends. My enemies. It is CRYSTAL CLEAR. Like usual though, my community in particular wants to 'cover it up. Much like the underlying mental health issues that contribute to the behavior as well. So I don't need a 'PHD' or to have conducted some study. My life has been that way. Fortunately for me, I have always been physically able to quell such bullshit but that doesn't mean I didn't see it or haven't been tried. Unlike most of you though, just because it didn't happen to me like that I didn't choose to ignore it or look at it like it is/was no 'big deal'. It is. Which is why I am glad the schools are doing something.


Here is something that I find even MORE INTERESTING THOUGH about the dynamics of this. Especially when it pertains to my community. When these SAME TACTICS are used against 'us' (Yes mofo

So to me this is yet another example of 'us' trying to do some shit that we have no business doing ESPECIALLY when it has been done to us over a LONG PERIOD TIME as a minority. I can't say 'race' because basically if you aren't in 'power', you are gonna get 'bullied' and shitted on. So I REALLY don't understand how 'we' can cosign that behavior to the fullest. Preparing our youth for the onslaught of bullying via INFORMATION and such? Sure.. No problem! Thinking that the mindset that we carrying out is somehow 'helping' the VAST MAJORITY OF THEM? No. We see how that turns out. Half of them don't know when to apply it and they like the 'power' it gives them. Thus it does them no good. They either end up in jail or dead. So we can't really afford to blindly co-sign this agenda. At least not to me. It does 'us' no good.

Now if you are a 'non person of color' reading this, this may not make much sense to you at all. Hell, if you are a PERSON OF COLOR who subscribes to the theory of 'bullying is not such a bad thing', you might not either. But if you are a person of ANY COLOR with any OUNCE OF COMMON SENSE, you should be able to see the point I am trying to make here.

Bullying is wrong and there are MUCH BETTER THINGS TO SPEND YOUR TIME ON besides 'building the character' of someone you really don't care about. That is a shot at the BIGGEST EXCUSE people come up with when doing it. @ that ole 'I was helping them become a stronger person' bullshit....

So I am glad the schools (like my daughters) are FINALLY WAKING UP AND TRYING TO STOP IT. Can they 'stop it' totally? No. We can't 'stop' a lot of things. Imagine what THE WORLD would be like if we didn't even TRY TO DO IT THOUGH? (Yes, I know some of you who don't have shit would LOVE THAT....)

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Once again a case of your feet in my Nikes- A Tribe Called Quest. Chad Ochosinco & the 'lack of black woman' on his dating show.

This is another one of those topics that I have sat back and watched my social networking circle (and those immediately outside of it) go ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT. I heard it all.

He HATES BLACK WOMAN.
The girls he picked weren't cute enough.
Why didn't he have anymore black woman on the show.
He HATES HIMSELF.
He needs to do....
He should know how this looks..

The list of 'projecting type comments' went on and on. It was so vile that it compelled Chad to answer. What I find funny is the same people I see 'typing' all of these responses are the first to say 'I do what I want to do.' 'I march to the beat of my own drummer.' 'Interracial dating? Gays? I don't care what they do. It is a free country. Doesn't bother me.' The minute a man that they 'know of' comes on a dating show, on a network that they ADMIT PRODUCES PRETTY TRASHY SHOWS TO BEGIN WITH, doesn't do as they please that all changes. All of the sudden he is supposed to 'march to the beat of their drum' (beliefs). All of the sudden it is not such a free country 'cause he is making 'black men' look bad. Look, I am a Steelers fan so I don't have too much overflowing love for Chad the football player but as a man, I can't do nothing but respect him. He hustles. He works hard. He takes care of HIS BLACK BABIES. (Ever seen a picture of them? Go use Google.) He hasn't shot anyone. He hasn't poisoned our community with drugs. He isn't appearing in backwards 'Stop Snitching' campaigns or none of that. He interacts with his fans to the fullest AND UNLIKE most of your neighbors, HE TAKES CARE OF HIS KIDS. There are some who have made the decision to do just what you are 'demanding' Chad do who have done all of these things AND hurt the community by not fulfilling their obligations as a father. Shit, some of them are YOUR PARENTS, brothers, uncles, friends. So I am not sure about all this uproar. You might want to direct that anger elsewhere.

So what I don't get is 'Why the uproar?" How do you even feel 'entitled' to feel some type of way about who that man is seeing? Before you ask me, NO. I don't get mad when Halle Berry fucks with white boys. She is not my woman nor do I own the right to make her chose who she dates. Bad example? Whatever. It won't matter who you name. Light skin. Dark skin. Mixed. I don't get mad about that stuff. Never did. It is not one person's job to 'carry that torch'.

Is this a new trend? Hell no. This stupid childish mentality has been going on for decades. I remember in high school I had friends who dated outside of their race. They caught MUCHO FLACK for it from people. Most of whom NEVER INTENDED ON DATING THEM in the first place. How do I know? They ASKED THOSE PEOPLE OUT AND THEY SAID NO. How is that for some bullshit? No, I don't want to date you but I am going to judge the shit outta you for wanting to date her over there because she is a different color than me. Really? Fuck outta here with that. Now before they said 'No' their opinion should not have mattered but after you make it clear you don't want them it REALLY BECOMES IRRELEVANT. That sense of 'entitlement' gets on my nerves far more than anyone dating 'white girls exclusively' or 'anyone not of their specific race'. Far more. You don't own all of black men. Just like black men don't own all black women. People can date who they want.

Now something to get your panties in a bunch about is 'picking bad people to be in a relationship' PERIOD. Regardless of race. Now that, I can see. This nonsense though? Bullshit. Half of ya'll wouldn't fuck with Chad if he was 'Chad the Mechanic'. I know his inner 'ninja' wants to say 'Fuck ya'll' so bad. He is a business man though so he knows just what to say to keep you tuning in anyway. Even as you claim you don't 'buy what he is sayin'. You will still tune in. Here is Chad's eloquent statement...

And I still haven't watched the show...If I did, I would just tell you. I have watched my share of 'train wreck TV' as I like to call it. On that channel no less.



"Imagine if I bought a bag of skittles and only ate the green ones. That would be a waste of a bag of skittles. I'm gonna eat 'em all. Romance doesn't fit in a box, and neither does my Johnson. Ok, all kidding aside, my new reality show is about having fun, meeting women and hopefully finding that ultimate catch, whatever race, creed or color she might be.

As a kid growing up, I developed a strong sense of self-worth from the incredible women in my life, all of whom were black. I am the man who I am today because of black women, and I am forever grateful for the values and strength they instilled in me. With all that being said, I was surprised by all of hate that I got from the decisions that were made on the first episode of my reality show Sunday night. The next day, when I went on twitter and saw a lot people talking about how I didn't pick enough black women or how they weren't cute or I picked them all at the end...it made my stomach turn. Look....if my mama and my grandmama, the two women who raised me, ain't got a problem with the women I choose in life, no matter what race they are, then it shouldn't be a problem to anyone. Bottom line is that I love black women. I got four beautiful children and their mother is black.
However, I'm still single, ready to mingle and a Cincinnati Bengal...so if you see me on the street, please feel to slip me your business card or your number, whether your green, purple, blue or how I like 'em, pink on the inside. That covers all y'all...right? So, I hope we're good. Either you fly with me or get flown over. Love and let live.

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