Thoughts...

• Why in the glittery gay hell did the Macho Man Randy Savage use Pomp and Circumstance as his ring entrance?  Nothing says tough guy like  ”Please hold your applause until all names have been called” music.
• On a related note, the biggest reason I love Wale is that he makes more Pro Wrestling references than any other rapper.  Except maybe Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, but I don’t know what they’re saying half the time, so who knows.
• How come in the movies, the serial killers always have newspaper clippings of their victims and targets?  Do they really sit around every morning with a nice warm cup of joe, reading the newspaper?
• If you were banned from using the words “tight” and “dope” to describe something that you enjoyed or appreciated, what would you do?
• Sorry about that last one.  The only thing that irritates me more than Poison Ivy and BET is an excessive abuse of slang.  Do they make an oatmeal bath for etymological and linguistic snobbery?  Or perhaps a cream?
• As I was writing this, I spent nearly an hour writing the most eloquent, articulate paragraph I could muster up to make my next point, but what’s the point? I’m much too intelligent to waste time trying to sound intelligent, so I’ll just get right to it.  Our people are dying, in large numbers.  We don’t yet have a way to rescue them once they fall prey to the system.  So for now, let’s focus on PREVENTING the younger ones from ever getting there in the first place.  How?  Turn them against BET.  Turn them against the BET culture.  Turn them against the BET mentality.  Turn them against BET music and imagery.  Turn them against BET.
• Wait, Mr. Brownbino?  You can’t say that.  We have to support black.  Hooray for black-owned businesses!  Yay Debra Lee and Uncle Tom Johnson, I mean Bob Johnson!  Cheerio!  BET paved the way for Michael Jackson, Hip Hop, Usher, and the Keyshia Cole Family Reunion Nightmare Coonery on Broadway Show!  BET is made up of pioneers!  Take that back Brownbino!
• The truth is, the pioneering mentality and the pride and power of Black People and the Black Community which was once proudly displayed by BET has been replaced with a sick twisted perversion that dares call itself “black culture”.   Just like Nas said “Before we came to this country, we were kings and queens, never porch monkeys”, I can tell you that we are not the hypersexual, overly enraged, money-driven, ignorant, senseless, amoral drains on the economy that BET has made us out to be.  Within our veins runs the blood of decades of ancestors who overcame this country’s greatest oppression. We have royalty and power; we have strength and honor; we have CHARACTER.  We still can be that.  Any influence that negates our history, and more importantly, our promise as a people, must be called out for what it is.  But it’s no longer enough to be willing to criticize BET for what it is, (and when I say BET, I mean anything that constitutes what we know as the “BET culture”).  We can be pro-active.   We can start by exposing our youth to something different, something positive, something stimulating.  We can plant the seed in their minds, that there has to be a healthy balance in their mental intake; that what seems like harmless music, images, ideas, etc., is actually embedded within them and becomes a part of their subconscious, and can….(wow I’m doing it again.  Getting kinda lengthy.  I’m sure most of you have stopped reading anyway because this isn’t the type of stuff you care to read or entertain yourself with….you get the point though.  For those who stuck with it, thank you.  For those who did not, whether you realize it or not, you are bastards.)
• My point was, let’s try and give our young kids a chance.  I saw a pretty popular youtube vid of a 2-year-old who knew all the lyrics to “oh let’s do it”.  Is it cute to see little black kids singing and dancing and rapping? Sure.  Is it cute to ever hear a 2 year old saying “drug dealin’ music”?   The devil got a kick out of that one, I’m sure…
• I’ve only had one person in my life ever present semi-honest intelligible view on why the “BET culture” is not as bad as it seems.  At best, I came away agreeing to disagree, but still willing to debate and hear other ideas.  If you really strongly about this, I’d love to discuss it with you as well, and hear your viewpoint.  Feel free to email me at kissmyassyoudumbbastardifyouthinkimwrongaboutbet84@gmail.com.  Look forward to the responses!
• If you haven’t yet, I encourage you to check out FX’s original series Sons of Anarchy, Wednesdays at 10pm.  Completely underrated show.  Not hearing alot of buzz about it, and if it gets cancelled, I will blame each of you.
• Signing off….go hug a black kid.