I know I make fun of or get mad at people during my WTF Moment, but VY is classic in Nashville since coming off the bench.
I feel sorry for Matt Leinart when playing against Vince Young. He is still getting gassed-face for the USC- Texas game, and then there is this from Sunday.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Black Men I respect - Charlie Martin
If the school system would have more teachers like this. They will understand what we understood.
A major shout out to the Blog "We Are Respectable Negroes"
A major shout out to the Blog "We Are Respectable Negroes"
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
From Barbour to HBCUs and Women College: Screw You and Here is a Bird To Go With It.
Okay, I have heard some rants and raves in Mississippi in years, but this one tips the cake. I remember AverageBro talking about Obama does not care for our HBCUs, but I also see he is not the only one. Check this out from a “somewhat” 2012 presidential nominee Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says the state should consider merging some of its universities to save money.
Barbour, in announcing his budget recommendations Monday, said Mississippi University for Women should merge with nearby Mississippi State University and that Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley State be merged into Jackson State.
Barbour said none of the campuses would close.
The Democratic chairman of the House Universities and Colleges Committee, Rep. Kelvin Buck, opposes the Republican governor's proposal. Buck says Mississippi would hurt its own economic future by limiting higher education.
Barbour's consolidation proposal is part of his suggested budget for the fiscal year that begins next July 1.
I mean talking about killing the HBCU and women’s college, he is planning on giving African-American and Women College the lethal injection. Oh and chopping the public school from 108 to 100. It seems like this guy do not care about Mississippi. Each College has a rich tradition and a legacy that is a combined over 300 years. Alcorn State University represents the Southwest part of Mississippi, MUW is a rich tradition for Mississippi women just like Spellman for African American women and other women's colleges, and Mississippi Valley State is the Mecca of the Delta when it comes to institutions of higher learning. It comes to a factor that Politicians from Mississippi do not care about education, nor jobs, or expanding the state. They just want to make it a rest haven for just being poor. Yes, I am talking about every Mississippi politician from the U.S. Senators, the U.S. Representatives, State Senators, and the State Representatives. Mississippi neighboring states Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, are not even touching their public institution because that is what makes a better head for education and tradition. But for Mississippi, it is vice-versa. The rich gets rich and the poor will never have a shot at making it.
I am going to stay tuned. This is going to turn ugly in post-racial America.
Barbour: Merge Miss. universities
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Happy Veterans' Day
Happy Veterans Day.
Let Me Upgrade You.
I was on good ole’ YouTube today and I was just listening to some tunes then something popped into my mind.
“As much as Beyonce is a real popular singer, how come she don’t stand out as an icons who have serious nicknames like
Aretha Franklin – Queen of Soul
Anita Baker – The Songstress
Madonna – Queen of Pop
Mary J. – Queen of Hip Hop
Koko Taylor – Queen of Blues
Tina Turner – Queen of Rock and Roll
Well let’s dissect this in the way it should been dissecting a long time ago for you kids who don’t know these people.
Anita Baker- Beyonce has some songs that are real nice, but she can not put a feeling into them like Anita Baker. Anita Baker not only sang the song, but she lullaby it to a person like a baby sleeping at night. Just to think about it, I have never heard a Beyonce song with any feeling to it. Her best duet with a little feeling into it was not even in her albums, but a soundtrack. (Note: Look for “Everything I Do” feat. Bilal from the Fighting Temptation Soundtrack) B needs to feel those songs and stop sounding like a robot, which leads me to the next icon.
Mary J. Blige – B and Mary J. are in the same era with a talent that most will die for. Mary J. got the title not because she was in the era that started the Biggies and Pacs, but for the fact she lived liked how she sang was enough. Mary J. can tell you her life literally. (Hear ever album and check the chronology of her and you can see the things I am talking about) To just a regular music lover like me and maybe a count of others, B have been living the perfect life since Destiny’s Child. As much Ne-Yo want to vouch for B, for a music lover, you just can’t. Everybody deal with weight gains and so much, but seriously if you want to be taking serious. You have to have experience serious issues. In B’s entire album, I really can’t see it, public or private which leads me to this other icon.
Madonna – You talk about upgrade, B is in the late twenties - early thirties. Madonna that era did it. She was successful female of that era only to be surpassed by another pop icon named Michael Jackson. B literally is in a league of her own, which is good and bad at the same time. The question is can she still emerge herself when she is older. Madonna did it and surpassed it. She did do some crappy movies before she won a Golden Globe Award in “Evita.” That made me thinks “When she gets older, how would she stand out to the next icon.”
Koko Taylor – In all honesty, Koko simplified it all with her genre, she knew she was blues. B is confused if she is Pop or R&B, and you can tell it on her albums. She was plain and simple which leads me to the next icon.
Tina Turner – Though she praised Tina Turner for being the Queen of Soul (which B need to get her genres right.), Tina knew how bring back her roots. B acts like she is scared to say anything about Houston or even towns in Texas. So really that is the reason she was caught with stealing songs. B forgets that the number one rule into becoming an icon is to talk about someone that you have seen or even heard. I guess she became clueless about that and also it is the reason she had so much heat on her on some of the songs that she did not write. Now that mix-up leads me to the last icon.
Aretha Franklin – Basically, it was perfect timing for Aretha, blacks (not African-American) citizen were not treated fairly, wars, rights, and even economical times were in her era and she knew how to adapt. She was a woman that could rally guys and girls to do anything. B can’t even rally herself. If she could, then this post would not be there. B level of “Irreplaceable” cannot even measure to Aretha “Think” and I know as much as “Single Ladies” and “Crazy in Love” were top hits, comparing that to “Respect” or “Rescue Me” is a joke. Those songs are still here and will be until something new (and I mean moving new) comes out.
Out of all, B has the staying power but can she really reach the stars. Stay tuned, I know I am.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Fear Those Guys with the Blue Turf.
Okay football is in rare form. Everybody knows the scenario.
The Heisman race is heating up for the best player.
There are upsets and shockers around the whole of college football.
Team will either clinch their division to go to their respective championship game to get to the BCS.
Boise State is undefeated……………….
Wait a minute. Boise State is undefeated!
You probably want to know what I am getting at. Well, for the fourth time in five years. Boise State is undefeated and still the BCS want to give the hoax for the third time. They want to play serious team. So the question is the following:
Why are the team who call themselves top dogs (Florida, Ohio State, USC, Bama, LSU) are scared of Boise State on the blue turf or even at there home?
Let me re-count the session of why they are scared to play Boise State.
2004 Boise State was undefeated and people were saying “They were not playing anybody” They ended up playing in the Liberty Bowl and lost to Louisville. Bobby Petrino life has never been the same. He when on and up and down meltdown courtesy of Louisville highs and Atlanta and Arkansas lows.
2005 brought Boise State to a somewhat pretentious season losing to BCS teams Georgia, Oregon State, BC, and at rival Fresno State. They really found something out that season. Buzz Peterson found out that he could play with the big boys, but now he needed to hit a little harder.
2006 was the start of something serious winning all their games (oh yeah, revenge was sweet against Oregon State on the blue turf) and ended up playing in the best BCS game since VY versus USC. It also showed that Big Game Bob was not so “Big Game” anymore.
2007 was their year to shine again. The only railroad was that the challenge was not the blue turf but on the road, losing to both Washington and BCS buster Hawaii. Buzz new challenge was now beat BCS teams on their own turf.
2008 was the year they took their state in taking their show on the road. They dominated BCS teams Southern Miss and No. 17 Oregon on their own turf. The only railroad was a domino effect. Losing the chance to another BCS series run to Utah, who railroaded Bama, and losing to TCU in the battle of the undefeated.
2009 was another year for Boise State to show they can run through the competition. They beat an Oregon team in which LaGarrett Blount (the WTF moment of the college series) could not even show his stuff on the Blue Turf. Also they are running their opponents into frenzy. Still, they cannot get the respect since 2006.
So why don’t the BCS big shots are scared of them, just ask any team that could have been BCS style teams. Oh and ask Oregon and Oklahoma. They will prepare for you and defeat you
Fear the Horses and the Blue Turf.
The Heisman race is heating up for the best player.
There are upsets and shockers around the whole of college football.
Team will either clinch their division to go to their respective championship game to get to the BCS.
Boise State is undefeated……………….
Wait a minute. Boise State is undefeated!
You probably want to know what I am getting at. Well, for the fourth time in five years. Boise State is undefeated and still the BCS want to give the hoax for the third time. They want to play serious team. So the question is the following:
Why are the team who call themselves top dogs (Florida, Ohio State, USC, Bama, LSU) are scared of Boise State on the blue turf or even at there home?
Let me re-count the session of why they are scared to play Boise State.
2004 Boise State was undefeated and people were saying “They were not playing anybody” They ended up playing in the Liberty Bowl and lost to Louisville. Bobby Petrino life has never been the same. He when on and up and down meltdown courtesy of Louisville highs and Atlanta and Arkansas lows.
2005 brought Boise State to a somewhat pretentious season losing to BCS teams Georgia, Oregon State, BC, and at rival Fresno State. They really found something out that season. Buzz Peterson found out that he could play with the big boys, but now he needed to hit a little harder.
2006 was the start of something serious winning all their games (oh yeah, revenge was sweet against Oregon State on the blue turf) and ended up playing in the best BCS game since VY versus USC. It also showed that Big Game Bob was not so “Big Game” anymore.
2007 was their year to shine again. The only railroad was that the challenge was not the blue turf but on the road, losing to both Washington and BCS buster Hawaii. Buzz new challenge was now beat BCS teams on their own turf.
2008 was the year they took their state in taking their show on the road. They dominated BCS teams Southern Miss and No. 17 Oregon on their own turf. The only railroad was a domino effect. Losing the chance to another BCS series run to Utah, who railroaded Bama, and losing to TCU in the battle of the undefeated.
2009 was another year for Boise State to show they can run through the competition. They beat an Oregon team in which LaGarrett Blount (the WTF moment of the college series) could not even show his stuff on the Blue Turf. Also they are running their opponents into frenzy. Still, they cannot get the respect since 2006.
So why don’t the BCS big shots are scared of them, just ask any team that could have been BCS style teams. Oh and ask Oregon and Oklahoma. They will prepare for you and defeat you
Fear the Horses and the Blue Turf.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Shirtless Guys Mean No Freedom of Press
By Belle Kim, feature editor of Fused
In an article called “Photos of shirtless males cut from yearbooks on principal’s orders,” SPLC staff writer Joanna Brenner discusses an unwarranted censorship and blatant disregard of the freedom of speech and press that took place in Chatooga High school, Summerville. The new adviser of Chatooga’s yearbook brought to the attention of the principal four pages of a yearbook complied the year before under a different adviser, which contained photographs of shirtless boys playing basketball. After discussing these photos with the first-year principal Jimmy Lenderman, she cut the pages out of each copy of the yearbook that had already been bought by staff and students.
Tyler Barker, the photographer who had taken the pictures that were cut, confronted the adviser, who told him that one of the photos had drug-related implications. The photo showed a smiling male student holding a cell phone and money. To the adviser, that apparently held drug-related implications.
The censorship of those photos led to many complaints from students, who posted their thoughts on facebook and emailed former adviser Dr. Alan Perry. Perry was scandalized that the students’ first amendment rights had been so blatantly ignored and taken away. He remarked that there hadn’t been anything offensive about the cut photos at all, and that many yearbooks from the past had pictures of shirtless boys in it; but in all of his 27 years as an adviser, he had never had censorship problems, nor submitted any page to the administration. Perry put up scanned images of the pages that were cut out on facebook so that students could access them.
Worrying that her position might be threatened, or wanting to look good to the adminstration, the new yearbook adviser actually collaborated with the principal, instead of protecting the freedom of press. She took away the first amendment rights of students at the high school. Lenderman completely supported her and in that way showed that he did not care about preserving the rights of his students. He said that the photos “did not represent the way that we want our school portrayed, and the way the community values itself,” and thus felt completely justified in cutting out those pages that students had labored over.
There are definitely many things that can pose a threat to the good standing of a school.
A few pictures of shirtless high school guys aren't one of them.
Teenagers will be teenagers. Having a few pictures of high school students shirtless wouldn't send across a general message that the school encourages nudity. It wasn't as if the students were being shirtless to be obscene; they were playing basketball and were trying to cool off.
If the school administration were given the power to suppress anything that they thought could potentially jeopardize their school, there would be nothing in their yearbooks.
Nothing.
What did repressing the photos accomplish?
Nothing.
By censoring those pictures, the principal managed to do the very thing that he had been trying to prevent. His actions brought upon more attention to the pictures than could ever have been placed upon them, had they been published uncensored.
In an article called “Photos of shirtless males cut from yearbooks on principal’s orders,” SPLC staff writer Joanna Brenner discusses an unwarranted censorship and blatant disregard of the freedom of speech and press that took place in Chatooga High school, Summerville. The new adviser of Chatooga’s yearbook brought to the attention of the principal four pages of a yearbook complied the year before under a different adviser, which contained photographs of shirtless boys playing basketball. After discussing these photos with the first-year principal Jimmy Lenderman, she cut the pages out of each copy of the yearbook that had already been bought by staff and students.
Tyler Barker, the photographer who had taken the pictures that were cut, confronted the adviser, who told him that one of the photos had drug-related implications. The photo showed a smiling male student holding a cell phone and money. To the adviser, that apparently held drug-related implications.
The censorship of those photos led to many complaints from students, who posted their thoughts on facebook and emailed former adviser Dr. Alan Perry. Perry was scandalized that the students’ first amendment rights had been so blatantly ignored and taken away. He remarked that there hadn’t been anything offensive about the cut photos at all, and that many yearbooks from the past had pictures of shirtless boys in it; but in all of his 27 years as an adviser, he had never had censorship problems, nor submitted any page to the administration. Perry put up scanned images of the pages that were cut out on facebook so that students could access them.
Worrying that her position might be threatened, or wanting to look good to the adminstration, the new yearbook adviser actually collaborated with the principal, instead of protecting the freedom of press. She took away the first amendment rights of students at the high school. Lenderman completely supported her and in that way showed that he did not care about preserving the rights of his students. He said that the photos “did not represent the way that we want our school portrayed, and the way the community values itself,” and thus felt completely justified in cutting out those pages that students had labored over.
There are definitely many things that can pose a threat to the good standing of a school.
A few pictures of shirtless high school guys aren't one of them.
Teenagers will be teenagers. Having a few pictures of high school students shirtless wouldn't send across a general message that the school encourages nudity. It wasn't as if the students were being shirtless to be obscene; they were playing basketball and were trying to cool off.
If the school administration were given the power to suppress anything that they thought could potentially jeopardize their school, there would be nothing in their yearbooks.
Nothing.
What did repressing the photos accomplish?
Nothing.
By censoring those pictures, the principal managed to do the very thing that he had been trying to prevent. His actions brought upon more attention to the pictures than could ever have been placed upon them, had they been published uncensored.
So Much For Freedom of Press
In Summerville, Georgia, students' rights are being threatened. Recently Chatooga High School principal Jim Lenderman decided to cut four pages of the 2009 yearbook because of photos of some boys playing basketball shirtless. Lenderman deemed these photos inappropriate and now the pages containing said photos are being cut from production, outraging students.
While the new adviser was checking the yearbook produced under another adviser, she decided she did not want the pictures in the yearbook, so she took them to the principal, who ordered their removal before yearbook distribution.
These photos were part of a summer spread in the student life section. The student that took the photos, Tyler Barker, was upset with the decision, so he confronted their new adviser. The new adviser retorted with the fact that there were “drug dealing” implications found in a young man holding up his phone and money.
Dr. Alan Perry, Chatooga's former adviser commented, “I’m very disappointed with the decision to mutilate a wonderful yearbook — a decision that was completely unnecessary. There was absolutely nothing inappropriate about the pages that were cut from the book.”
MCCSC's Publications' Policy states, “Should the advisor feel that a story or picture violates the provisions of Section I or Section II, paragraph 2 of this regulation, the advisor will make the decision not to publish the material in question. The student reporter or editor will have the right to appear under procedures outlined in Section IV. In circumstances where the student editor feels that an article, drawing or photograph should not be published, the student reporter will have the right to appeal to the appropriate faculty advisor. Should the advisor agree with the student editor, the student reporter will have the right to appeal to the school’s Editorial Board.”
Schools that have to have to have their publications pre-approved by the administration have been faced with a threat to their first amendment right of “freedom of press” and as a student publication, that could be a very damaging thing. For Chatooga's students, it cost them pages in their yearbook, all their hard work on the spreads, which is not easy, and students memories.
This should be an reminder to student publications everywhere that don't have overbearing vision on their publications of just how how lucky they are.
By: Whitney Taylor
While the new adviser was checking the yearbook produced under another adviser, she decided she did not want the pictures in the yearbook, so she took them to the principal, who ordered their removal before yearbook distribution.
These photos were part of a summer spread in the student life section. The student that took the photos, Tyler Barker, was upset with the decision, so he confronted their new adviser. The new adviser retorted with the fact that there were “drug dealing” implications found in a young man holding up his phone and money.
Dr. Alan Perry, Chatooga's former adviser commented, “I’m very disappointed with the decision to mutilate a wonderful yearbook — a decision that was completely unnecessary. There was absolutely nothing inappropriate about the pages that were cut from the book.”
MCCSC's Publications' Policy states, “Should the advisor feel that a story or picture violates the provisions of Section I or Section II, paragraph 2 of this regulation, the advisor will make the decision not to publish the material in question. The student reporter or editor will have the right to appear under procedures outlined in Section IV. In circumstances where the student editor feels that an article, drawing or photograph should not be published, the student reporter will have the right to appeal to the appropriate faculty advisor. Should the advisor agree with the student editor, the student reporter will have the right to appeal to the school’s Editorial Board.”
Schools that have to have to have their publications pre-approved by the administration have been faced with a threat to their first amendment right of “freedom of press” and as a student publication, that could be a very damaging thing. For Chatooga's students, it cost them pages in their yearbook, all their hard work on the spreads, which is not easy, and students memories.
This should be an reminder to student publications everywhere that don't have overbearing vision on their publications of just how how lucky they are.
By: Whitney Taylor
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