If You're Happy & You Know It Clap Yo Hands
Today, while I was minding my own business, my homegirl Feoshia sent me an article she knew would get my mind a rolling. Now I must say I was rather pissed when I began checking my mail, Gas Prices are through the roof, I wanted to do the grown up and had no one to do the grown up with and to top it all off, I didn't get to watch Girlfriends. But then suddenly it all started to make sense, after I read this article. You see, according to an extensive survey of 1,280 people ages 13-24 by The Associated Press and MTV, 72 percent of whites say they are happy with life in general, compared with 51 percent of Hispanics and 56 percent of blacks. (Which was probably 6 out of 12 people)
I had no idea, that white were generally happier than blacks, sure Tom, comes to work damn near hopping while sipping his 7 dollar latte from Starbucks. I thought that was just how they act, but apparently that's how happy people act. My life began falling in line, i realized that Aquanetta at McDonalds wasn't just pissed at her job, but she probably hated me, her manager, the sesame seed bun, and the color purple, not the movie b/c despite how pissed we are black folks always like movie "the color purple".
All jokes aside, the fact is racism is still a big factor in this country, while Vick is about to serve at least a year, Lyndsey Lohan got a day for cocaine, Nichole Richie for 82 Minutes. A black New Jersey resident, named Martin C, surveyed in the poll said "It doesn't surprise me. There's a lot of issues out there for African-American young adults. You can still go to certain places and feel uncomfortable, like you don't belong there." No one respects blacks, I was personally followed by this Arab in NYC who lurked from Isle to Isle in the video store. I noticed he was acting like he was cleaning up, but It after I went back an isle and he returned to mop the floor, he has just mopped. So, I decided to hit him w/ a fake out, I faked left and went back the other way and when he returned to the bottom of the isle he was just at, he arrived to find me staring directly at him upon his return.
We don't help the race issue, when you have some black people who still support racist antics, you get a feeling of how can we achieve the vision seen in Martin's Dream? When Blacks name their children names no one but them can pronounce, whose at fault. I support individualism, but is ShaDiamonique' LaShaTasha Jenkins not professional? If Not when Why is Sundeep Trinisvasanini Patel?
Racism is the ever lasting black eye of this nation, an apology would be nice.
