The Babbler #16: Where going to die, 2012 version

According to several theories (most prominently the Mayans) that the world is going to end or something such as WW2 will change the world forever this year (2012). In my opinion, who knows and who really have time to worry about that.

I’m just saying in every era of man or generation there were those who claimed that the world will end this way or that way, which to be honest scares the shit out of me. But I rationalize the screaming people who claim that it’s almost over for mankind with, most were wrong and nobody knows a God personally so no one really knows when it’ll be over. So shut up. I don’t think it will end my life time. Plus who has time to worry about the end of the world when I go in to the kitchen and find out that I have peanut butter and jelly but no bread.

What I get from all the misinterpretations of the roots that started the modern doomsday scares no matter if it’s from a major religion or an ancient civilization, we as humans want a change to occur. I mean that most people on earth want something so crazy to happen that it changes our world completely. Well that’s what I think is deep inside of people minds but even deeper people just want to shake up the daily routines of life in which for the most part is repetitive in the fashion of the Greek myth where a man pushes a rock up a hill and when he reach the summit it rolls back down and the man has to repeat this over and over.

But would it not be fun to actually be a survivor after the major event that messes the world up? I think so because I already have my plan. I will take control of part of my city and become the king. I would have a cool nickname like ‘The babbler King’.

Other than being a good conversation starter the talk about the world ending bother me none now because I have a lot important things that I would like to do before it’s over. And I want to live the way I know and learn as I go alone about life and don’t want to be shocked by something as depressing as everyone dying, especially in a world where it’s easy to do something stupid to cause your time card to be punched early.

What I’m going to do on one of the dates they think will be the last day as we know it; I’m going to get some bread for my peanut butter and jelly.

The babbler # 15: Gay Marriage

As a heterosexual African descendent American I tried to look at the Gay Marriage issues and how it would affect Obama in the coming president election and on  America and the world.

Obama,  made his decisions on the subject to support it even thought it will affect him at the polls on November 2012. Why? Because his biggest supports, Blacks and young voters, are at odds on the subject, evidenced in 2008 in California, when young voters came out to oppose an amendment that would ban gay marriage, while African Americans supported it. According to the Washington Post, one in six people who raise the big bucks for the Obama campaign is gay.

Why do people oppose Gay Marriages? Because of religion, what they have learned from their parents, etc., etc. Think about this for a second, how would gay marriages affect you personally? If you are gay, I guess it will greatly. But for non-gays what bad would it bring. The only thing I see here is the church or religion elements of our nation finding it wrong because of what their book said. But I thought America was build on the idea of the church and the state not becoming one.

Gay Marriages don’t affect me at all. Who cares, really? I know there are people who make this their fight instead of finding causes that actually affect them directly; like the health care system or something. Even the faith based people have to admit that in the same book or books that they use in their fight against gay’s marring it says something about loving your fellow human. Humans are humans no matter their sexual taste, religion nationality, or what ever. And America was built on individual freedoms and I would like it to stay that way.

The Babbler # 14: Stop Snitching

The so-called Stop Snitching’ movement gained national attention in late 2004 when a DVD called Stop Snitching! Released by Rodney Bethea appeared inBaltimore,Maryland. However in some form or another stop snitching sentiments has always existed.

It’s not hard to figure out why people want others to not snitch or tell someone that would get him or her in trouble. Here I’m not just talking about just informing to the police. People have been ratting out other including their friends since the beginning of time. Angels told on Lucifer, Judas told on Jesus, American slaves told on other Slaves, Jews informed to the Nazi, Anna Sage told on John Dillinger, Sammi the bull told on the Mafia, Alpo told on drug dealers from D.C, I could continue but I bet you get my point.

The philosophical question here is, is it right to inform the authorities against others? Being totally objective here I will give some scenarios:

If you committed a crime with another person and you get caught and offered less time or your freedom back would you tell on that person?

If you are fighting the establishment with a group deemed outlaws and you were caught would you give up information on the other members of the group to save yourself or your family?

If you witness a crime (from petty to murder) would you call the police?

If you witness a crime committed by a friend, girlfriend/ boyfriend, or a loved one, would you call the police?

Etc., etc., etc. I could keep on with the question which would be pointless. The moral and the rational of society would have no problems with theses questions. But what we forget to factor in is the ethnics and moral laws of criminals. I’m in defense for no one but as humans we must realize that in the human condition we have different values and slightly different moral codes and criminals fit as a prime example. People would think; how does a bad person have morals? Easy, not all criminals are back people. Circumstances could put a person in a messed up situation and help turn him or her on the wrong side of the law or against the government. The Jews during WW II wasn’t criminals to modern people but to the law of that land (Nazi Germany) they were. Anyhow, even the murders have morals that they do not cross such as not killing children, or molesting a child, etc., etc. And not ratting out a friend and to mind your business are important. So looking at a criminal and their ethnics one could understand why a crook would look at snitching in such a way. Not saying if snitching is bad or good but I will say, one will never know that they will inform against someone one else; a family member , friend, or stranger, unless they are in that situation.

To me a Stop Snitching movement is stupid because 75 to 85% of people will snitch to save his or her life.

The Babbler #13: In Time

The movie In Time was released on October 28, 2011. The movie is set in the future where time has replaced money. It’s a place where everyone doesn’t age past 25, but the day of their 25th birthday a timer is set for a year and if this timer runs out you die thus making time the currency. The poor live by the day in the Ghettos while the rich live for centuries and thus become immortals.

I will not go deep into the movie because that’s not what’s this Babbler is about. I want to focus on the concept. Time is money in this movie and it represents how important we make money in our lives and that time is a lot more important then money. Or is it? Is money as important than time. Some would say no but money could get you the right heath treatment so that we could live longer, right?

Time is more important than money because no matter how much you’re able to save or money you could generate before you die time runs out and that’s it. If you have money and lose it you can always gain capitol but you can not get any more time when yours runs out. Money some times can prolong life if you could afford the cost of the medicine or surgery.

But we all take time for gained. We prolong doing things we need to be cause we think that we have the time to do it later. We waste so much time complaining or dreaming about things and not actually making our time hear worth living. We work all day and sometimes forget to have fun while others have fun and forgo the work. What do we live for? Why are we born with a timer? Who knows? But the one thing I do know is that we have the opportunity to make our lives into the way that we want to. And my faithful readers I’m going to leave you with that.

So now go out and make your time here mean something, because I will.

The Babbler # 12: Let’s Talk About George Zimmerman

In the last Babbler I talked about what we knew that happened the night Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman and what I thought about that situation. Now I will talk about the arrest of George Zimmerman and the racial backlash all over the Internet, T.V, and radio.

Okay, some black kid was going to his pop house and some man thought he was out to do something wrong in his community a fight happened and then the man shot the kid. The man first called 9-1-1 and alerted the police of his suspicions and he was told to stop following the kid and we all know that he didn’t. Now take what I had said above but just for a moment take out the race (just for those who aren’t sure George Zimmerman is white and Latino) of the kid and the guy and think, just think, about it and I’m going to leave that for you to deal with.

Now moving on to what I really want to talk about. And what I want to talk about is the racial backlash and the racial division. It seems to me when everyone thought he was a white guy it was white V.S black and a whole racial incident. I agree something went wrong that George Zimmerman was not arrested that night. But as I keep saying I believe that by us making this a racial issues took away from the real issues at hand, which is the problem with the Stand your ground laws and the self defense laws. But neither of those laws should have been ever mention because George Zimmerman may have been the aggressor. Why do I think that? Because I heard the police call and I’m sure you have as well. I also read the affidavit (http://media.trb.com/media/acrobat/2012-04/69353440.pdf). And in my opinion he was wrong. Anyway, I have Googled this cause to see what’s going on and the most interesting part of the posts I read were the comments. When we all thought he was just white it was a lot of talk about how blacks are killing blacks and other not really relevant shit. The blacks killing black thing is stupid because if you look at violence in America or any where else out side of war people of one race normally kills someone of their own race because most of us grew up around people like us. Meaning if s disagreement starts in a Latino community most likely the person shot and the shooter are both Latino, right?

The other glaring thing I see on comments are is after we found out that he’s not all white people making jokes about the media getting it wrong. But it seems to me that everyone is missing the point here. Fuck if he was white or blue or red or green he shot an unarmed child. And I’m tired of hearing that Trayvon Martin was 6’3 or something. No matter what happened, if Trayvon did beat George ass once the gun was pulled out wouldn’t most of us back down, especially a kid?

I really had a lot to say about this but I won’t because I’m going to sit back and watch the outcome of the cause. So all of you can go back and forth about this but I believe in Karma.

Oh, I have 2 more things to say:

1.Shout out to Danny Chang from Boston, Massachusetts who said ‘Hey, white and black people, let the rest of the world know when you’ve resolved your racial issues. Idiots’

2. I listen to Michael Baisden radio show a lot and I even read one of his novels but he lost me when a white woman called his show and she said there’s no difference when it comes to race and he checked her and said there is a difference when it comes to race and he maybe right because we made it that way but to me there is only one race and when we die race will not be a factor unless you believe what the Mormons or NOI or any other hate filled faith. I just think by the fact of us thinking a person of another race or any other reason to hate someone different then us is the reason why there will always be the race issues in America but believe me soon and very soon the only color that matters will be green.

The Babbler #11: Let’s talk about the Travon Martin case

Ok, first let’s start with what’s going on: In Florida a 17 year old black kid Travon Martin, who was serving a 10 day suspension from school for getting caught with a weed baggie filled with residue and having a weed pipe, was coming from an convenient store heading back to his father house. When he walked through a gated community George Zimmerman, a person claiming to be apart of the neighborhood watch, in which he wasn’t, called the police believing that the black teen in the hoodie looked suspicious. The 911 operator told him to stop following the guy, but he disobeyed and continued to follow the shady character that he believed was out to do something. Now this where things get rough. Neighbors said that they heard the shuffle and someone was screaming for help but they could not tell which of the two were the one screaming for help. Whatever happened when it was over, Travon Martin was dead from George Zimmerman, whose face was bloody from a broken or bloody nose, shooting him.

Ok, I think that’s pretty much the facts of the matter. Now let’s talk about this. George Zimmerman should be in jail. Let’s take away the race and let’s focus on what happened. I think that after Zimmerman hung up the phone with the police he approached Martin and may have tried to make a citizen arrest on a 17 year old who may have tried to defend himself. Think for a moment if someone approached you while coming from the store accusing you of ‘About to do something wrong’ like he was one of those policemen in the movie Minority Report, you’re going to try to get yourself away from this wacko, right? But what if you were the wacko and the person you think was about to do something walked away or maybe even said something disrespectful like ‘Get your crazy ass out of here man.’ Or ‘Fuck off pussy’ what would you do? And then the wacko started chasing him and there was a fight and from what we know Zimmerman got his ass beat from a 17 year old. So what did he do? He shot Trayvon Martin.

I know no one can find the humor in this but I do. (Everyone has something to say and always says it’s the media and forgets that in this era of human existence with the Internet and high tech phones we all are the media. The conversations at work, at the bar, the hair salons and barbershops, and on any bus or train are as much media as the news shows or Internet sites. So The Trayvon Martin situation is being talked about everywhere and that is why we continue to talk about this. Plus, it’s interesting and shows the flaws in the American judicious system. Sorry for the out bust but the people who always say something is being over expose are always the people who bring up the topic. But it is being over expose thus the America way). What I find funny is the opinions which really makes this into the media circus it is (‘and this to will pass.’ Thus said our attention span). So I’m going to respond to the opinions being totally subjective.

(Disclaimer: for time and simple laziness I’m not going to explain anything like where I heard this or that opinion from or even really break down the opinion or any of that kind of good reporting shit. I am going to babble as always so hopefully you are caught up on this issue.)

Geraldo Rivera is a dick for even mentioning the word hoodie. He probably owns a hoodie himself. Who doesn’t own a hoodie? But I bet Rivera Knows who owns hoodies Black bad guys, right? Please Geraldo, stop watching urban movies. And please stop adding stereotypes to the situation. That’s way the wacko started this shit in the first please stereotyping black males as the reason for crime in America. And that Brings me to the conversation only heard in the private quarters of other races and blacks in a higher tax bracket who believes this was wrong ‘I wouldn’t had shoot him though.’ (Aww calm down I’m joking. I’m being satirical. So if I offended anyone, bite me.) But anyway, to the people who says ‘The media is making a big deal about a white man killing a black man and what about black on black crime?’ This is wrong because maybe not on a national level all of the time but locally the news stations and radio stations and those non-profits filled with black men who have experience the darker parts of life and groups with family members slang on the street and whoever you talk to this about from one of those communities hit hard from drugs and violence always remind us of this unfortunate problem to toss on the pile of other unfortunate draw backs of American society. But if you don’t listen you don’t care. Moving along to Oprah, who said it was a shame, needs to take her magic wind and turn Zimmerman in to an oak tree. (It was only a joke Miss Oprah. I know you don’t have a magic wind, it’s a magic remote controller.) Spike Lee is a great man and director but I guess when genius get bored they do some dumb shit. He tweeted to his followers on twitter the wrong address for Zimmerman and now he has paid a compensation and said ‘Please leave them in peace’ after the tweet caused Elaine and David McClain the couple whose address it actually was to be bombarded with hate mail and media. But Spike Lee Thought he had the right guy because The McClain’s are in their 70’s has a son by the name of William George Zimmerman who lived with his parents Sanford area home in the 90’s. So Spike was almost right, but players fuck up. I like when Americans march and protest about shit. It’s rallies all around protesting about what happen to Travon Martin. At least this time they are making a point unlike the occupiers. Moving on now to the people who is focus on Trayvon Martin smoking weed and photos of him that popped up on the internet, like the one where he is shirtless and wearing slouching shorts and boxers showing with a white polo hat with his middle fingers up; gangsta, or a teen being a teen? I’m not going to even get into a weed debate because I high off of weed right now as I type this. But everyone has a right to voice their opinion even if it’s out of hatred for a certain people or out of counter hate towards oppression. We all know the history of America and our race problem so don’t act like people don’t have a right to feel outraged. But all I ask people to do is look at it as being right or wrong and put their selves or a love one in Travon’s shoes. Wouldn’t you run if you had just been attacked even if you successfully fought off your attacker? And wouldn’t you defend yourself if someone try to grab you? When it all boils down what’s left is Treyvon Martin was approach for walking while black and shot for winning a fight. George Zimmerman is a paranoid man who has several false reports on his record and assaulting an officer of the law and acting like he’s part of the neighborhood watch who could wait to say he’s not with us because he wasn’t registered. One more thing Robert Zimmerman, George’s brother said he wanted to correct some of the ‘mythology’ and untruths about what his brother did but only said thing that contradicted the truth, like him saying that some how Trayvon Martin got behind his brother and attacked him and that his brother wasn’t following the 17 year old but we all heard the 911 call.

George Zimmerman will go to jail (which will be bad for old George because the type of black man whom he mistook Travon Martin for is in that jail he will call his home soon. And there are no guns in jail. Sorry for the bluntness but old George fucked his life up. And here comes Karma.)

So that’s how I feel about what happened to Trayvon Martin. But the last thing I have to say is how do you really spell Travon’s name? Because everywhere I see it printed it’s different.

The Babbler #10: I have been thinking . . . . .

Although life is short it is also big and filled with a lot of interesting things no one really ponder about because it’s so short. And when we do ponder about things you are either a philosopher or clinically insane. I’m a little bit of both so here are the things that I ponder about:

When it comes to politics in America there is always talks about the Red States and the Blue States, and it makes me wonder are they talking about the Bloods and Crips?

If Rick Santorum ever become president of America does that means Blah people’s welfare benefits will get cut?

Am I the only one thought that if the Boondocks’ T.V show was still around and Herman Cain and President Obama were running for president would have been the prime time to go Doonesbury on them and make Uncle Ruckus (Herman Cain) and Tom Dubois (Obama) run against each other?

Does the astronauts smoke weed in the space shuttle?

Why is the weatherman only right on days you wish he got it wrong?

How much it cost to become a part of the 1%?

Are there midgets (I know the term is little people and I respect that I just like the word midget as well as the word salamander) in the race of Giants?

Why in those movies where a great war destroys everything they don’t still have the Internet?

Could Jay-Z run for a political office and win?

Is weed bad or good for you?

Why does the idea of it being nothing after death scares me more than hell? Are there any beaches?

If a person is intolerant against intolerances isn’t that person intolerant?

Doesn’t an anarchist group defeat the point of anarchy?

If you are a racist and bigot can you please tell me how can you like basketball, baseball, or football?

Why haven’t I ever met some one who has graduated from an Electoral College?

Why is stupidity or seeing someone falling down funny?

Why does the current generation of that particular time blames the one before them for leaving the world fucked up for then and swears that the generation that follows them are making the world worst?

If you switched all the poor kids from the inner city born in the 80’s with their well to do counter parts from the suburbs would that have changed those individual’s futures.

Why do your mouth smile like that?

Who would win in these fights? : Santorum vs. Romney? Jesse Jackson vs. Al Sharpton? Kevin Hart vs. Katt Williams? Chris Brown vs. Chris Brown?

Why am I not going to type more ponderings when I have millions of them?