The Worst You Ever Had With "The Best You Ever Had."

Being a blogger, I like to read so many of other bloggers. It is like they are family to me. One of my favorite bloggers, is my man AverageBro (check him out if you have time. He has some of the most sense-worthy posts I have ever read). I always check out Average’s “Name That Sample” post because of my love for the digging in crates of old school music that I have checked out on a hit that either I recognized and at times never heard until he throws it in there. Today, he hipped me on three things, a top 10 hit that I haven’t heard in a while, the thought of the sample being a jump start to a Rapper career, and…………..

……the fact that some record companies still did not get the memo from MC Hammer and Rick James about jacking beats without paying royalties.

Canadian rapper Drake is being sued for copyright infringement by Playboy Enterprises over allegations that his breakout smash "Best I Ever Had" samples a '70s hit owned by the company.

In a lawsuit filed June 24, Playboy alleges that Drake's mixtape hit contains Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds' 1975 soft-rock tune, "Fallin' in Love."

The suit names Drake -- whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham -- as well as Cash Money Records and Universal Music Group.

Okay the parties involved have a partially and full responsibility about this issue.

For Drake: He is the man with the name on the track, and he does not know better about people jacking beat without paying royalties. Just because you did a mixtape with 9^th Wonder hitting a serious rendition sample of Anita Baker’s “Sweet Love,” does not mean you can just go all out and do it mainstream without permission. Still, when you are in the game, you should not follow the mistakes of other artist who started big. Examples include Robbie Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice song “Ice Ice Baby” ties toward popular rock group Queen and their song “Under Pressure.”

For Cash Money Records: This is good example of cheating your way in the game can catch up to you. You can rob some people for royalties and sorts but not everybody. Brian “Baby” Williams have been cheating producers and original song artists for a long time. There are many producers who either complained, don’t want to deal with them, and are suing the record company for money.

For Universal Records: Plain and simple, they don’t care. People and sub-record companies like Drake and Cash Records are like buses, they come and go.

Track records about artists who have got caught sampling without permission and lost the settlement have not really came back from their career fiasco. Let’s hope Drake can learn a lesson from that.

What do you think about Drake getting sued by Playboy. Do you think Cash Money Recods was bullying their way in the industry and now just got a taste of their own medicine?

Playboy is suing Drake for copyright infringement. SMH!

Louisiana Wants to "Power Up" on Lil Boosie

- My business is about the streets not in the streets.

Derek Luke - Notorious

I always said that Lil Boosie reminds of that young kid that you knew when they grew up he could make lemons out lemonade but also can either impact the state of anything just because you know he is going to tell it like it is, whether you like it or not. The conception about Boosie is that the while the cRapper artist is more like art imitating life or even life imitating art, Boosie was the real deal. Bossie was the reason that from the Southwest Mississippi to Baton Rouge, every little kid who love hip hop had something to represent for. Those little hip hop heads from that area in Mississippi didn’t care for David Banner because he did not relate to what was people talking about in day to day life. They were caring for Lil Boosie because he talked and walked the line of an everyday person in those areas where there is no hope but to act wild and be strapped.

….but that line is shown now how Lil Boosie has become public enemy No. 1 to the State of Lousiana.

In 2009, Torrance “Lil Boosie” Hatch was sentenced to 10 years in prison on gun and drug possession charges. He began serving that sentence at Dixon Correctional Institute(DCI) in Jackson, Louisiana. On Thursday, Boosie was indicted on a first-degree murder charge. He was transported from DCI to Louisiana State Police headquarters and thereafter, was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. Boosie claimed his innocence as reporters asked him if he was involved in the murder for hire scheme of a Baton Rouge man. The rapper is accused of paying a man to kill 35-year old Terry Boyd, who was shot to death through a window while inside of his home at 16837 Vermillion Drive on October 21, 2009.

I know some people are thinking “Another rapper in jail,” and saying that all rapper are like that. The entertainment business is a mutha_____. It is funny that real hip hop artists are kept on silent (Lupe, Joe Budden, and Bun B) or was inside CB4 (Slick Rick). I have money that Lil Boosie is going to be like another Snoop, Tupac , Shyne, or C-Murder, either he is going to beat this out or be in jail and still rapping.

My money is…..you can the person out the hood…but you can’t take the hood out the person.

What do you think about Lil Boosie felony charge?

Rap recording artist 'Lil Boosie' is facing murder charge.

The C.Y.N.I.C.A.L Side of: The 2010 Election Year....So Far

I see that the 2010 primaries are in rare form this year. Between both parties, Democrats and Republicans are feeling the sting. I can tell you from these primaries that these are the most heated in years. Here is the rundown of the survival and prediction of this year’s primary.

People REALLY want change – I like Obama as a president, but his cabinet members…..well not so much. He is really doing the same thing and making the same mistake Bush did. This time it is a turn-around from that ole Kanye West, “Bush hate black people thing,” Even though the Oil Spill is as much of BP screw-up as the government, you can really say the same from the Corp. of Engineers. Both disasters were screwed up by lack of responsibility and both administrators were lacking in response and pointing fingers. Sorry, but that is the exact reason why one was mad then and one is mad now.

People are TIRED of the same songs- I know we wanted change in office, but very few did not understand why people wanted change. If you go by the same rules, people will get tired of them, plain and simple.

People DO NOT like just to be talking and the representatives DO NOT give them any action – Some people just do not get it. Just because you have worked in the same office for many terms does not mean you can turn a deaf ear on the people who put you there. Just ask Representatives Rep. Alan Mollohan, Parker Griffith, and Senators Bob Bennett and Arlen Specter (Yeah, Mr. Steroid Guy).

People REALLY HATE being abandoned – Exhibit A. Artur Davis

That “Obama Effect” only works on one person, BARACK OBAMA – Davis got upset due to him being conservative with his swaying away from the people who put him into office (see the previous point), and McGlowan lost due to her being naïve (Come on, Seriously, I said I was rooting for her. I also knew her election run was going to be literally all of Oxford and that is it.)

People had been through some really rough patches throughout this decade, ENOUGH SAID- I mean if you were born literally between 1978 and 1990. You really had to deal with very little. Now health care, the economy, people stealing money, serious natural disasters, and finger pointing like we are little kids. I can really said Reagan and Clinton were merely the only two problem-solving presidents that really came into mind during the years I have been in this lifetime unless someone can beg to differ with Reagan. I know for a fact Clinton dealt with some serious issues but the only thing he was known for is getting brains in the office. Everything he did was a serious success.

Obama is really not going to be challenged unless someone is has a serious team – I know The Obama Administration is full of it at times, but seriously, who can run against him in GOP. Haley can’t even take care of his own people, Palin got fraud out by LL, Huckabee likes his TV Show, the GOP don’t respect Jindal, Mitt Romney still looks and acts like a Pixar character, Guiliani still think American is all about 9-11 (Playa, get a new line), and Bob McDonnell placed a joker card on the black people in his own state, yet alone fueling fire in the South.

Some Tea Partiers are good for the goose and other are…well just look at RAND PAUL – Nikki Haley could still has shot but she is definitely no Rand Paul. As for others,

…..well just look at Rand Paul, Arizona, and you will get the idea.

So if you want change, listen to all the incumbents and their challengers. See where they stand on issues that are important in your life. Go vote or we will have another 2 more years in turmoil.

(On a side not: Although Bennie Thompson has not done anything to improve the state of the 2^nd district. He will be running against either Richard Cook or Bill Marcy. Personally, Bennie Thompson will win anyway because those two cannot connect with people across the Second District. They are too busy thinking about the cities where it is the rural areas that run the show in the 2^nd district. So Good Luck on the Bill Marcy or Richard Cook.)

How do you feel about the 2010 election so far? Are you voting? What can be done for the incumbents to win general elections? What can be done for challengers to win also?

Voter Backlash could be a sign of new times in America.

When the POTUS goes GANGSTA!!!

Sometimes, We often wondered "When the POTUS will turn his articulate status in straight gangsta mode?"I even thought at one time that although the President is too cool, someone will screw up so hard and test the President's crown jewels so hard that one day go into a mode where Barack Obama will transform into Pimp C (UGK fanatics will feel me on that one). Well the world (...and Bill Maher), I think BP did test his gangsta.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

..and you still wondered was that him in the Tag Team video?

How do you feel about the POTUS statements? Are they too harsh, fair? Do you like this part of the POTUS?

Obama says he's finding out whose responsible for the Gulf disaster

Yes, Being Unprofessional Can Cost You Millions, Exhibit A

What you are about to hear and see is Workplace Training Rule No. 1: Always stay professional! Failure to comply leads to epic fails and you not getting a job unless you end up becoming in the business for yourself.

Let add this up. That is $50,000 in mental anguish and $1.5 million in punitive damages for a $200 dollars bill which leave them losing about $1,549,800 dollars. Well sucks to be the caller and the collection agency who did that. They have just literally gave this man a cool 1.25 million, due to the lawyer fee.

Do you think that is fair?

Vulgar voicemails force debt collector to pay $1.5 million

The Suite Life of a Teacher of The Year (AKA How Keenon Got Her Groove Back ... and Shafted Too)

(These teachers today are really something serious (and not in a good way). Just last week I gave a feel good post about a teacher retiring after 63 years and now I have to talk about another teacher of the year in a bad light. When will teachers learn that they are the one who mold the generation next to us.)

Now during my time in school, I have had crushes on my teachers (….well just one, the rest of the teachers were seriously not my type. I mean they were old, married, or just plain ugly.) , but I will never would have encountered having a lil fling with my teacher. The two reason is that although I was a teenager, I would have thought that is low and she is thirsty where no man have gave it to her (Note: I started dating older women after high school, not during.) and being a honor roll student in high school 12 out of 13 times with a 3.56 GPA, I would never jeopardize my future of going to a nice college like that. I do thank God that our class never had to encounter that due to the fact that we were country folks and we, as children and adults, have morals. These teachers today are possibly a little older or younger than me. So when I heard this in the news, old or not, I just had to evaluate this the best way I can.

Shiloh High School’s Teacher of the Year resigned last month after she admitted she had been involved in a sexual relationship with a student, Gwinnett County Public Schools officials said Thursday.

Language arts teacher Keenon Aampay Hall, who began working at Shiloh in 2005, submitted her resignation letter April 20, a day after Gwinnett County Public Schools launched an internal investigation into a student’s claim that Hall lowered his grade after he refused to impregnate her, according to documents provided Thursday to the Post. Hall’s letter said she resigned for medical reasons, school district spokesman Jorge Quintana said.

The 18-year-old student said the relationship began in October, when he was 17, and lasted until the day before spring break, the documents show. Hall, however, wrote that the “consenual (sic) relationship” took place from February to March.

In his statement, the student wrote the relationship began in October when he stayed after school to receive extra help from Hall.

“On that day she began touching me on my leg, and then asked me when I was gonna let her molest me,” the student wrote. “I said never and we begun to laugh, then she asked me agin (sic) this time handing me a phone number and asked me to call her.”
The following week, the student wrote, Hall paid for a cab to bring him to a hotel, where they had sex.

…..Okay she lives in Atlanta, you are telling me out of all those guys out there……..

…..Well never mind. Note to guys that live in Atlanta and are single; she really told off on you guys to stoop to a teenager, yet alone a student in her class.

Stories like this one is the reason when my uncle asked me “How come you never moved to Atlanta when some of your hometown people move there;” I just shrug and say “Just did not want to move there.” I wouldn’t know who is worse off the teacher or the student. I have to look at it through both crystal balls.

She will always have that on her record and that is like a serious cloud in the sky. She won’t be going to teach at a prestigious school anytime soon. (Everybody knows once you did something wrong in the school system and it is on the national news, that’s a wrap.)

He could end up being a bum after high school, because for black males, high school and college are so different it doesn’t make sense. That will make her look like she has a lack of taste in men.

She is already looking thirsty so guys are going to pursue her very different.

I hope she can find another teaching job because she seems like she has a promising calling, but stuff like this don’t go away easy.

Who do you think is at fault on this? What are your views on teacher/student relationships whether male or female?

Gwinnett teacher quits after affair with student

Alicia Keys and Gabby Union: Why They Can Get Away With It and You Can't.

Seems like Homewrecking is what hot around the streets. Months ago, we were talking about the D-Wade, Gabirelle Union, and Siohvaughn Wade and just yesterday, the net was buzzing about the pregnancy and engagement and of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats. But the rumor mill was out months prior that Alicia Keys was dating him while he was married to F-List R&B recording artist Mashonda Dean and had two sons. He ended up divorcing Ms. Dean and is paying child support.

I have to admit. Swiss is taking the road less travel is cool and for real, Swiss went from a Lexus to a Bentley when he got with Alicia Keys. Although Swiss got the girl like Nick Cannon, he still has to be ridiculed for cheating (You know...because he was married at that time).

…..but this is not about ole Swiss, he know what he did.

This is really talking to all the jumpoffs and homewreckers that think this is a success story of “I’ll take your man,” and tries to grow some vagina lips to snag a guy that you have been wanting for years. I will give you five good reasons why this can be an epic fail for you.

1 1 . She is Alicia Keys, and she is Grabrielle Union and YOU ARE NOT: They are stars in the limelight and can snag any guy they want to.

2. When they get away with it. Tabloids are buzzing about them (which they don’t care), when you do it, chances are the news will be buzzing, but it will either be in the streets, the 10 o’clock news, or Cheaters. Like this:

3. You think those guy are going to replace them? Well they could (See Howard Hughes), but just remember, you are just are replaceable as the woman you took him from.

4. What so different: Ginuwine can talk to you on that.

5. Brenda Harvey syndrome: You never know what a woman that has been married for years is going to do.

…To add to that extra note. You want to know why black relationships are at an all-time low. Sometimes people will have to check who is doing the homewrecking.

What are your thoughts on celebrity homewreckers? Do you think men cheating , women taking married men, or both is really hurting the black family?

Swiss and Alicia confirm pregnancy and engagement.

Black Stations Are Singing A New Tune

When it comes to driving, I only listen to possibly two radio stations. One is ESPN the radio, and the other is NPR. I guess since 21, I realized that most of the black radio shows don’t play anything that is new and fresh. Most of the times it is a song, either done by Beyonce, Lil Wayne, Trey Songz, or somebody from the south rapping about a minstrel dance, saying how much they got, or something that is just downright ignorant. I looked at a bill today from Rep. John Conyers (Yeah, that dude whose wife really Eff’ up Detroit) and saw that some people just don’t want to hear and if they want to hear it, they rather let the stations pay for what we hear.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) President Roberta Reardon and American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) President Thomas Lee joined with members of Congress today to announce a strong push by the union movement to pass legislation that supports the fundamental right of American musical artists to be paid for their work.

The Performance Rights Act, H.R. 848 would close a loophole in copyright law that allows AM and FM stations to duck royalty payments to performing artists. The United States is one of a handful of countries that do not provide fair performance rights on radio. The others include Qatar, Iraq, Iran, North Korea and China.

Hold up!!!

Big Radio has launched a propaganda campaign against the legislation led by Cathy Hughes, owner of the African American mega-company Radio One, which claims the legislation would hurt African American and small radio stations.

Last year, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) and the NAACP endorsed the legislation saying it would not hurt black radio and that musicians, like all workers, deserve to be paid a fair wage.

Radio One is a classic example of corporate greed, Trumka pointed out. In the middle of the recession, Radio One executives fired workers, cut salaries and slashed benefits while setting themselves up with millions of dollars in bonuses.

Personally I don’t have a Radio One or do I care about Clear Channel, so if these guys want to play nonsense on the airwaves, let them have it. It doesn’t matter what you play when you know that you don’t have to give a dime to the person who you play. If this bill past, you will be seeing radio execs catching a selective view of what artist they play. It will have to be super hot for execs to play and last time I checked, I never saw a radio executive say “Gucci Mane is my No. 1 fan.” Well there is always getting in line with doing talk shows, but who wants to hear comedians try to reincarnate Petey Greene, because they can’t. I say let it ride because Black Radio needs to be taught a lesson.

Sorry, I just call this one BS like everything else. Maybe killing off BET as a whole is next?

What do you feel about this bill? Should radio stations pay for the good or crap music that they put on the airwaves? Do you feel like Cathy Hughes just got shafted in her own game?

Time Start Paying Musicians

The Performance Rights Act Threatens Black Radio -- Or Does It?

Kenny's Second Shot

~ We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking. ~

Andrew Greeley

Today, I was catching up on some reading today before I get the see the Queen graduate from college. I got an article that was a pretty decent timing of an NBA guard who really turned his life around. I am talking about Kenny Anderson. Now I can tell you my story about him.

Kenny Anderson was very known in NYC as a top tier point guard, but I remember when he was playing at Georgia Tech as part of “Lethal Weapon 3,” with Dennis Scott (3-D) and Big Brian Oliver. They were a force on the court, making it all the way to the final four. I still remember when got drafted by the Nets. He was pretty good making it to one All Star game and playing in playoff games. After that he met Tami Anderson from the Real World Los Angeles and married her. After I remember that, it was like his world just turned upside down; moving from team to team, partying, infidelity, and having a big ego throughout his career. All this backfired from him leaving him broke, divorced and serious no education.

Now let’s fast forward to now. Kenny Anderson is now a NYC basketball hall of famer, he runs a basketball Academy at 24 Hour Fitness, which is a private company, and now he has done something that he should have done a long time ago, get his degree.

After the child support and the squandered millions, Kenny Andersonwas the one who registered for college, who mastered the digital classroom, who studied in his spare time.

“My son sees me with books in my knapsack and he says, ‘You’re 39 years old, you’re still going to school?’ ” Anderson said of his son Ken Jr., 9.

The payoff will come Saturday at St. Thomas University in Miami, when Anderson will don his cap and gown and graduate, 19 years after leaving Georgia Tech.

The degree is a statement that his life did not end after 14 years in the N.B.A., after the tangled relationships with hisseven children with five women — much better now, he said — and the vanished salary, somewhere above $60 million. He did that himself, too.

So Kenny, I say congrats to you on your life turn-around. You bounce back in a way others cannot. I really tip my hat to you.

How do you really feel about this turn–around story of Kenny Anderson?

The Education of a Point Guard

Hit Momma and You Will Catch A Hot One.

I know Sunday that we celebrated Mother’s Day; but wow two days after we celebrated a time for our mother, Robert Fultz wanted to treat his mother like a punching bag. The consequence he got from that not only from the police, but his own mother.

Robert Fultz was hitting his mother in the face, so she got a gun and shot him in the buttocks, Jackson Police Department spokesman Officer Joseph Daughtry said.

Now she is one of them ole’ school moms. You know the ones that will whip that ass with anything and if you hit her, she will make sure that her presence is felt with any piece of equipment. I am guessing that the gun was the closest so she had to make him feel what she was talking about.

As for this guy, he is going to get his hole opened up embarrass in jail. One, people that know how to jail don’t take to kindly to women abusers. You know they are going to find out that it was his mother is just going to tick them off. I hope he knows how to jail because if he doesn’t, Bubba and Deebo will be fighting over their new girlfriend.

How do you feel about the ole school mom giving her son a hot one in the butt?

Mother Shoots son after he hits her.

Bobby V Likes True Blood and Michael Beasley Likes The Booty, Literally. (AKA: Things Groupies Will Tell You)

Let me tell you this story.

One day, the Queen and I were having dinner at her place. We got on the discussion on black men and what I as a black man do not find very attractive because she wanted to know my limits. I told her two things in particular that was pet peeves to me

1. 1. I don’t like my sex life out in the streets, single or not.

2. 2. I don’t like my private business in the streets, single or not.

Well seem like Bobby Valentino and Michael Beasley didn’t catch that memo

Note to Bobby and Michael, never do stupid stuff because you have people like this that will air your “nasty” little secrets. Kat Stacks has just opened the floodgates for pure foolishness.

How would you feel if somebody aired out something you did on video?

Groupies are really dumb and disgusting.

Words of Wisdom from Melvin the Stepdad

Today Melvin show you how to reach out to your stepchild in stressful times, even when he is not trying to hear it.

The Mystery of Richard Barrett

Well today I could chime in on that dead horse about single black women thing, but I vow to myself I am not, If you want to know my views on the single black woman dilema, click here and here. I have something else I really want to write about and this one is uneasy for me the following two reasons (I will put these in MLK quotes):

1. Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see (MLK)

2. Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. (MLK)

With that being said , I know that there are very few people that have heard of the name Richard Barrett and if you don’t know him I will just give you a brief description of him.

Richard Barrett was a lawyer, author and founder and leader of the National White Supremacist Organization. According to the Anti-Defamation League, Barrett was able to attract small numbers of like-kind.

Barrett was often seen at rallies around the nation, touting his nationalist movement and ideology. The former Vietnam veteran was labeled everything from a rising star to a troublemaker. He was in skirmishes, arrested multiple times, and was the suer and suee numerous times in race-relations cases.

The pro-white Barrett never changed his segregationist ways, was never apologetic for his actions, and frequently sought the spotlight. (click here)

And for all that he has done he was stabbed and burned to death in his property in Pearl. Now everybody thinking “Maybe he was killed by his own,” but the shocker (or not) of who killed him was even uneasy because it was a young black man that came fresh out of prison who killed him

“Oh crap, you know that this has added fuel to the fire in this post-racial era. The white supremacists groups are going to try to retaliate and we can’t call it a hate crime because of this.”

…..But hold on, hear is where the mystery part of this comes in.

According to Lewis, the 22-year-old was angry over money. He said his stepson was hired to do lawn work at Barrett's home in Utica on Wednesday.

The two traveled the roughly hour-long trip each way together. After six hours of work, Lewis said Barrett paid McGee $26.

"He thought he was at least going to get $60 or $70 for the work he did. He was kind of upset for $26," said Lewis.

Family and neighbors did not know what kind of relationship Barrett and McGee had, but they call it odd.

That is something I kept stratching my head for because of the following:

1. Out of All the people he chose, why this young black man who was fresh out of prison?

2. Why he could not find any of his Caucasian-American friends to help him out on this?

That is the mystery of Richard Barrett that puzzle not only people within the community who at one-time, saw the hatred of his demeanor toward African Americans in the public. But I do agree with what Dan Hall, chief consultant of Mission Mississippi and Charles Evers, Civil Rights leader, said.

Dan Hall said the following:

"What (Barrett) stands for was hate and was wrong," Hall said. "That he was murdered is no more right than someone who would be against abortion murdering an abortionist. That is not something we should take into our own hands. We exist to be able to have conversations in times like this. This is a great opportunity for Mission Mississippi. We don't shy away from it. We don't take stands, as much as we create opportunity for Mississippi."

Evers said this:

"I hate to know he was murdered, No. 1, and No. 2, when you got to know Richard, he was not that type of guy," Evers said. "I hated when he talked all that stuff. He said to me once, 'I don't hate negroes. I just don't believe in mixing."

What are your views about this mystery?

Arrestee In White Supremacist's Death Identified

Man Arrested in Barrett homicide

Memo to Denard Span..

If you take your mother to your ball game, the bleachers where the net is or box seats are the best bet. Otherwise things like this will happen when you are at the plate.

Denard, you must did not watch "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins."

(An Ace Editorial Thought: I don't know what question to ask)

A Sad WTF Moment - Dee Dee Jernigan

I felt sad for Xavier's Senior Dee Dee Jernigan. Come to think about, I am still feeling her pain now.

How would you feel?

The Dilemmatic Decision for Artur Davis

After all the HCR yielding, time limit, and time expiration, the HCR got passed. Time will only tell in what direction will it takes us. During the time that people were angry, saying racial slurs, and all sorts of things in the wide, wide, world of America, I had to think about the CBC. Everybody was saying that all the CBC was going to side yeah with the health care reform…..

(Tires skewing)

Hold up. There was one member of the CBC that did not vote yes on that bill.

On Friday, Black Caucus members took turns lauding its provisions that specifically benefit minority communities, such as adding health centers in low-income neighborhoods, expanding the Office of Minority Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, expanding the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health, and making more lower-income families eligible for Medicaid. "It is good for America. It is good for black America," said Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill.

Artur Davis, in an interview off the House floor Friday, didn't dispute the bill contains things he supports that would be good for his district: barring insurance companies from dropping coverage for pre-existing conditions; expanding Medicaid; providing subsidies to low-income people to afford insurance; and helping small businesses provide coverage for their employees.

"But all of these things can be done at half the cost without a 3,000-page, near trillion-dollar overhaul of the system," Davis said. "That's my point of disagreement. Where I stand is in support of a more targeted approach that is less expensive

Now you might be thinking “Why did this guy say no to the bill knowing that African-Americans will stand to gain ground on it.” Or you may just call him the House Negro of the Day like in one of my favorite blogs to read "Field Negro".

….but I believe he just step into something that can make him historic.

Artur Davis For Governor of Alabama

Artur may was thinking about his district, which is majority African-American; but being that Alabama is conservative altogether, he step in for the whole state of Alabama. If nobody remembers, he could be the next Governor of Alabama because 1) he is the front-runner and 2) The candidates the Republican have either have dents in their records or no record of representing the state at all. To African-Americans in the United States this may be just a little “Why did you do that,” but to all minorities and democratic leaders in Alabama, this may be the smartest move ever made. They knew that they were going to get 216 long before that. So Artur Davis just set himself up for the major prize, Governor of Alabama.

Come to think about it, he is a front-runner for Governor of Alabama. Remember Alabama! That is the state that Rosa Parks, refuse to give up her seat, Martin Luther King made a name for himself in this state, George Wallace shouted out “Separate but equal,” and Bear Bryant did not get a black player on his prestigious Alabama Crimson Tide until Sam “Bam” Cunningham of USC roasted them in 1970. So for Arthur Davis saying no, I ain’t mad at you. Keep your eyes on the prize, fella.

Do you think Artur Davis has a chance in becoming Alabama Governor? Was saying no to HCR a smart move or a dumb move?

Davis says no to HCR

No Man With A Woman, No Problem, No Prom.

After a week in the books and taking in the knowledge and putting them on paper for my mid-term test in school, I am finally back. I have to say I was missing my blog for a moment. I heard a week in recap. There was Monique winning an Oscar, Howard Stern pulling a Don Imus, a death of a Lost Boy, a runoff win for a great Democratic leader in our area (Oh, kudos to WDBD Fox 40 for actually showing the guts to at least give the election results the day after. I wonder how come all FOX stations(including FOX News) are usually timely with giving the news than the other major branded stations?), Championship Week (for all the basketball fans), Torii Hunter calling Latinos "posers for African Americans" (you know you are wrong for that Torii), and Rush saying he is leaving the country if a health care bill pass (OOooooh, What are we going to do without Rush? SMH). Oh, did I mention that here in Mississippi we are having a “meth crisis” amongst the elite cities in the Jackson Metro Area. That one is another post coming soon.

Today I want to discuss something that happened two days ago. I want to say that kids are going to be kids and I feel as an adult to only show them a sufficient space of freedom of mind, speech, and all other things. What happened with Constance McMillen, an 18 year old senior at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, and the Itawamba County School System is sort of a free-for-all double edge sword.

The Itawamba County school board announced today it would cancel the Itawamba County Agricultural High School prom after a gay student challenged the district on its policy forbidding same-sex dates.

"Due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events, the Itawamba County School District has decided to not host a prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School this year," school board members said in a statement released through the district’s attorney. "It is our hope that private citizens will organize an event for the juniors and seniors.

"We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this causes anyone," the message concluded.

The announcement alarmed Constance McMillen, the 18-year-old senior who had petitioned the district to change its policy.

"Oh, my God. That's really messed up because the message they are sending is that if they have to let gay people go to prom that they are not going to have one," she said. "A bunch of kids at school are really going to hate me for this, so in a way it’s really retaliation."

I have to say that sometimes adults need to let children be children, especially prom. This part is a case of closed minded adults versus free spirited teenagers. So she wanted to go to prom with another female. Big deal! She could have just said “I go into the school gym and when my date gets there we are walking in together. I am guessing that these board members forgot about the 80s, 90s, and 2000s movies that had prom night in them. Not all of them had a man and a woman together at times. So that is where the closed minded thing begins. Even if she said that she was a lesbian and proud of it, What give you the right to judge a person based on whether she or he go to a function with the same sex. Remember that Matthew 7:1-5 said that “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.” So for the board members and the people who are against it in Mississippi remember. We have been judged a lot, and now is not the time to judge.

Now the other side of me is asking why Constance brought the ACLU into the mix. That is something I never got because she could have won on her own because people in the community would have fought for her. Bring outsiders like the ACLU and the LGBT to a community like that is not welcomed. You need a community voice not a national voice on this. That is why they nixed the prom altogether. I am not saying that she should have shut her mouth, but rather find a way to do it without the school board members and community families looking at you sideways. She should have taken a page out of the black hustlers’ book, do it without them knowing or saying anything.

How do you feel about the school district saying that prom is between “a man and a woman?” How can adults be more aware of children preferences in times like these?

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