It's been a over a month now since my last entry and I wish I could say it's because my writing career has taken off so that I'm mad busy, but that ain't so. A lot has happened in the world and not so much with my personal life. I had another birthday last Friday, I'm closer to mid-30's and breaths closer to death. My youngest child had a first birthday this past Friday. I opened a Facebook account, after vowing that I would never and now I'm kinda hooked. I've connected with a number of people I only spoke with on occasion since high school and some I haven't seen since May 1994. I now have some new cyber friends, which is convenient because they don't require more of your time than it takes to write an e-mail or comment and press send.
Personally though, it's still been work, home, family, living check to check, no money for a real vacation and stagnation with my writing so although people are moving around me, events are happening, others lives are changing daily, I feel like I'm standing still, being lapped by life.
The most exiting, well unexpected news for most of the world though, has been the death of Michael Jackson on June 25, 2009. I'll sum it up that he was a very, very large talent and will be truly missed. Also that of Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, E. Lynn Harris, and others in the entertainment industry and from reports on the local news. I'm certain all of those people have someone who will miss them dearly, known and unknown alike.
Well, I don't know what's going to happen to me, maybe I'll get into the race with life and see if I can medal or at the very least, get off the bench, get into the game just a little as to not have it entirely pass me by without me having even tried. I have to at least make an attempt.
Goodnight all.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Last of Black Sitcoms Canceled
I am late with this but I learned this evening that "Everybody...Chris" and "The Game" have been CX'D. I had been on the CW's mailing list and got an e-mail with the Fall line up. I am furious because those shows were the last two predominately Black cast sitcoms on network television and now there's no more. Girlfriends was canceled in a shady manner as well and now with "The Game"especially having a great cliff hanger, the CW has gone and given this show the ax. What, do they not value the ratings from African-American viewers, does our interest mean nothing to them?
I sent the network an e-mail that I will not watch the CW any longer. This is ridiculous, I was thinking of how throughout the 80's and 90's, there were a number of great predominately African-American cast shows, there was variety, well-written shows but into the 2000's, they've been picked off one by one.
Are we supposed to be satisfied with the one and two African-Americans per television show on the other stations, if any, that keep up in stereotypical roles, without love interests, the drug dealer and/or addict, side kick. I saw on Fox that there's a show about brothers with two Black males but the total casts haven't been revealed so it remains to be seen if they aren't the only Blacks on the show.
What are we to do but withhold our ratings and let the programming directors know how upset we are. I doubt it change anything but it's a start.
Protest in numbers.
I sent the network an e-mail that I will not watch the CW any longer. This is ridiculous, I was thinking of how throughout the 80's and 90's, there were a number of great predominately African-American cast shows, there was variety, well-written shows but into the 2000's, they've been picked off one by one.
Are we supposed to be satisfied with the one and two African-Americans per television show on the other stations, if any, that keep up in stereotypical roles, without love interests, the drug dealer and/or addict, side kick. I saw on Fox that there's a show about brothers with two Black males but the total casts haven't been revealed so it remains to be seen if they aren't the only Blacks on the show.
What are we to do but withhold our ratings and let the programming directors know how upset we are. I doubt it change anything but it's a start.
Protest in numbers.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Bailout and Bankruptcy
After hearing on a news blurb today that Chrysler has filed for bankruptcy, I immediately thought of the billions of tax payers money they received as a bailout. It was about a few billion dollars so where was that money spent for them to still have to file for bankruptcy. I have not yet had to file for bankruptcy personally and pray I never will so I must admit that I am not fully knowledgeable about the entire process. It seems only fair that if it's said that all the bailout money was used, than an itemized statement be made available for the tax payers to view. I won't hold my breath though.
GM should have not gotten one damn dime since they destroyed those electric cars. Only if they agreed to began that program again would I be in agreement to giving them anything but even they got billions, it's a shame. That's not to say that I want thousands of people to loose their job but a lot were laid off anyway.
I am so angry. Bailout after bailout went to wealthy cooperations and if they were not then it's obvious they were not sound investors so they shouldn't be trusted with more money anyway. Yet, just a couple billion dollars would have gone so far with housing, food and education of the more financially strapped of us in this country and gotten the economy stirring from the bottom up much quicker than some trickle down effect.
Now with the horrific possibility of welfare rolls and health care for children being eliminated in CA and probably other states, that will truly cause our collective situation in America to go from bad to worse very quickly.
How can there be so many millionaires and billionaires who call America home and it be one child that goes hungry and/or homeless. I'll be fair and say that I realize that if a person don't know where they're next meal is coming from they most definitely should not be having sex and having a child/children. I also believe that, in the grand scheme of things, we are each other's keeper.
I know I want/need to do something, but what and how is my dilemma. Venting helps though 'cause this is enough to make my pressure go up.
GM should have not gotten one damn dime since they destroyed those electric cars. Only if they agreed to began that program again would I be in agreement to giving them anything but even they got billions, it's a shame. That's not to say that I want thousands of people to loose their job but a lot were laid off anyway.
I am so angry. Bailout after bailout went to wealthy cooperations and if they were not then it's obvious they were not sound investors so they shouldn't be trusted with more money anyway. Yet, just a couple billion dollars would have gone so far with housing, food and education of the more financially strapped of us in this country and gotten the economy stirring from the bottom up much quicker than some trickle down effect.
Now with the horrific possibility of welfare rolls and health care for children being eliminated in CA and probably other states, that will truly cause our collective situation in America to go from bad to worse very quickly.
How can there be so many millionaires and billionaires who call America home and it be one child that goes hungry and/or homeless. I'll be fair and say that I realize that if a person don't know where they're next meal is coming from they most definitely should not be having sex and having a child/children. I also believe that, in the grand scheme of things, we are each other's keeper.
I know I want/need to do something, but what and how is my dilemma. Venting helps though 'cause this is enough to make my pressure go up.
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