Random Thoughts Of Cerebral Violence 15.

*****Warning: The Ability For Critical Thinking Required Before Reading This Post. High Levels Of Sarcasm And Bloody Humor Present. May Hurt The Feelings Of The Thin Skinned And The Weak Minded, The Slow Witted Need Not Continue.*****




**** We all know about the tragedy of Haiti and while I was donating money and trying to hunt down relatives I absorbed what ever news came out of there.

One of the stories that came out though gave me reason for pause.

There seemed to be this rush in taking children out of Haiti who were orphans or newly turned orphans.

Now this was going on within a week of the earthquake, and I remember thinking that they were moving faster then needed with that.

I can understand the need to help but this type of rush with out fact checking can do more damage then good.

Haiti to my knowledge does not have a welfare system, no Section 8 for housing, no Food Stamps/EBT for food.

This safety net that is here in this country that allows a mother to keep and care for her children is not present in Haiti.

So a family in Haiti who can not take care of her child has one of two options either give their child to a family who can afford to take care of the child and in return the child becomes a house hold servant, (I remember having a very young "nanny" as a child that was a result of this method) or give the child to an orphanage.

In either case the mother and father are NOT putting up her child for adoption or even giving up rights to the child.

They are just placing them in a place that will give their child the best chance to survive.

So when I hear things like adoption groups and well meaning organizations all of a sudden make a move to make off with a army of Haitian children and use the many having the idea of giving the kids out to adoption alarms flash through my head.

Words like kidnapping and abscond pop into my head and I am reminded of the Aboriginal "Lost Generation".

Now I don't think anything that sinister is meant by these groups to put them in the category of what happened in Australia.

But when your rushing to take kids away from their native land and shipping them them to another country with no ties to their culture, race and roots thus damning them with a life time inferiority complex...........

When you don't even check to see if the child's relatives are alive and can provide care...........

When you make off with kids who make up a large part of the population there by threaten the future existence of the country......

And when you do mess like this........


......taking kids to the Dominican Republic?

Didn't bother to do any research on the historical racial tension between the two nations did you.

When you do thing like this you need to slow the hell down and ask some questions first.

And preferably you ask the people your trying to help.



****Miss America?

Now I admit I don't pay attention to this stuff but when i saw this pic pop up on the computer I couldn't help but wonder how similar the contestants look, even the ones of different races.


I don't want to be the cynic here but.............no....to hell with that that's exactly what I want to be here......exactly what part of America do these women really represent?

How about putting some bald headed chics up there, some fat ones, dreadlocs, pierced mouths, or have some rainbow dyed hair.

Let one of the ladies show how to diffuse a dirty bomb in some dude's under wear while budgeting her check book and slipping on a thong on the talent portion of the show.

Do that for me Miss America.

That way I wont see you as a cookie cut out of some one else's dream.

And another thing the panel of judges included radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, actress Vivica Fox, musician Dave Koz, Miss America 2002 Katie Harman, gymnast Shawn Johnson and former "American Idol" finalist Brooke White.

Now I wasn't expecting a panel of the world's leading scientists and philosophers and what not but...........come the f&@# on y'all couldn't do better then this?

And Rush?

What?

He thinks cause he voted for some black chic he gets a get out of bigot prison pass?

You still cant have a football team bastard.



**** There some people who watch the Superbowl for the game and then you have those watch it for the damn commercials.

I cant lie back in the day the commercials were pretty good.

But it was only a matter of time before someone would take advantage of the millions of viewers to push a political agenda.

In this case a Pro Life ad featuring college football Saint Tim Tebow, (no surprise here) and a gay marriage commercial.

I happen to support both causes but I would rather just be thinking about football at that time.



****My play daughter had her period a few months ago and I was "blessed" with the task of getting her her first pack of pads.

Well her mother is a nasty mutha when she is on and her daughter apparently has inherited that trait......excuse me as I smirk.



Boy to be a fly on the wall in their house.............


*****Do I like the idea of flesh colored underwear?


OF COURSE I DO.

But even I know that a televised sporting event is not where you should be wearing it.

Which ticks me off because now I have to give a side eye to Venus Williams for playing stupid and wondering why this was a big deal.

You really need to wonder why this is not a good idea?

Better yet exactly why are you faking showing your ass anyway?

Woman just go ahead and show your ass if your going to.

Don't play about it, be about it.



*****And speaking about not playing around with it.

I'm not sure if I should put this down as a win for people with disabilities or a massive fail for the economy that would force some one to do this.


I'm sorry.....a one legged stripper?

Are times that hard?

Down here in the south the booty club is serious business, so serious that rival clubs regularly engage in guerrilla type war fare with each other from inserting rodents and bugs into rival clubs to get them shut down to actually burning each other down.

Now that I think about it this might not be a sign of hard times but a sign of desperate measures by club managers to get some attention.

Either way,call me crazy if you want but I got to see that.

Seriously now, how many people can say the were in a strip club and got a lap dance from a one legged stripper?

Go ahead......ask around.......I'll wait.......

Just to say you did is worth going.

Good News Tuesday: Helping Hands In Haiti

The news out of Haiti has gotten worst as expected when there is so few resources and the people get more desperate.

But keeping with the Good News Tuesday theme I would like to point out the positives involving Haitians cause I already know the media is going to suspect when reporting the news from the island.



1- Senegal President offers Haitians a home.

PARIS — Senegal's president on Sunday called for Africa to make room for victims of Haiti's earthquake to restart their lives on the continent from where their ancestors were snatched as slaves.

"The repeated calamities that befall Haiti prompt me to propose a radical solution -- to take measures to create somewhere in Africa... the conditions for Haitians to return," President Abdoulaye Wade told France Info radio.

"They did not choose to go to that island," he added, referring to the mass deportation of African slaves to Haiti, then a French colony, from the 16th century.

"It is our duty to recognise their right to come back to the land of their ancestors."

His spokesman Mamadou Bamba Ndiaye gave further details of the proposals.

"If it is just a few people, we will offer them a roof and a patch of land," he told the radio station. "If they come in large numbers, we will give them a whole region."

This a very generous offer from the President of Senegal, I am curious to see how serious is about it and if anyone takes him up on the offer.


2- In the area of athletics...Dominican Miguel Tejada goes to Haiti to help quake victims By David Brown.....

A native of the Dominican Republic, Tejada arrived in Haiti on Sunday, intent on doing whatever possible to help people he calls "brothers."

Tejada told MSNBC he was bringing water, food and — most of all — himself in response to an earthquake that's killing an untold amount and has plunged an entire country into chaos.

"I was in the States when it happened," Tejada said. "They came to my heart and I'm really sorry for what has happened. That's why I came here, to bring some support for the people here."

3- Doctors Remove Concrete From Haitian Girl Brain

One of the first surgeries performed in the big US Navy hospital ship of the coast of Haiti involved the removal of concrete, yes, concrete, from a little Haitian girl's brain.
She is 12 years old and she will be OK

CNN's Sanjay Gupta was the one who performed the brain surgery.

What do you know... A neurosurgeon was needed to perform the operation, and thank God, CNN sent a neurosurgeon to Haiti to report on the earthquake.

"I am a doctor first," Sanjay said a few days ago, "and I am confortable with that."

Keeping the faith.

Haiti

Cant really say much about this, still trying to get info myself.

The Electronic Village has put up a nice post on anyone who would like to help.


Here are organizations that villagers can contact if they want to help the people in Haiti: Haiti Earthquake: How Can You Help?

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DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA/MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (MSF)
333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001-5004
Traditional, yet innovative medical providers spread across the globe.

LE FLAMBEAU FOUNDATION
1172 S. Dixie Highway, #203
Coral Gables, FL 33146
(305) 596-2819
Foundation established by BMDC member, Brother Jean Gervais of Miami, who is also a native of Haiti

OXFAM AMERICA
226 Causeway St., 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02114-2206
Charity devoted to stopping hunger and providing nutrition to communities in crisis.

PARTNERS IN HEALTH
P.O. Box 845578
Boston, MA 02284-5578
NGO run by Paul Farmer providing health resources to Haiti since 1985.

SAVE THE CHILDREN
Haiti Earthquake Children in Emergency Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
Children-focused relief agency with a special earthquake fund.

THE SALVATION ARMY
615 Slaters Lane; P.O. Box 269
Alexandria, VA 22313
Church-based coordinator of health and family services.

U.S. FUND FOR UNICEF
125 Maiden Lane
New York, N.Y. 10038
Charity specifically targeting children—providing educational materials, food, water and medicine.

WORLD VISION
Haiti Earthquake Relief
P.O. Box 9716
Federal Way, Wash. 98063-9716

YELE HAITI
Text 'YELE' to '501501' to donate $5
Charity operated by Wyclef Jean



Peace.

Deal Breaker 11: Colorism

I was at a lounge spot talking it up with this pretty lady over some drinks.

We were seated near the window so we could see passerby as we talked, the conversation was OK she mostly talked about her job as a corporate of some company I already forgot.

Actually I think she said she was a manager at a prominent hospital here in Atlanta.

Ask me, from what she described, the title "secretary" came to mind.......


.......but hey what do I know.


I kind of tune out when women start talking about their job or listing off their resume as a conversation piece anyway, I'm not hiring you for a job lady.

Actually I guess you could say I am hiring you for a job.....just not one that requires a Masters degree;)





Well.....actually if you have a Masters degree in the type of job I'm hiring for that would be a good thing;)



Wait a sec.......if your that good then I'm start questioning how the hell did you get your credentials:(



My bad........I digress......

Anyway were sitting there chatting when a young dark skinned women walks by the window from the outside, and the lady I'm with, in an attempt I guess to be witty comments on how "black" she is.

But she says it in a way that you get the impression that she is only half joking.

My mood changed with the quickness, there are certain things a women can say or do that just kills it right then and there for me, ain't no going back from that point on.

Noticing color in any negative way is one of them, to me that's the sign of a simple mind.

It tells me you got some self image issues going on with you so you take the opportunity to feel good about your self by stepping on what you perceive to be a flaw in someone else.

I cant say why it annoys me the way it does but it irks me to know end.

Maybe because I see the stupidity in it, for instance this woman was only a shade lighter then the one who walked by.

It's like, are you serious?

A couple minutes in the sun and your as dark as she is.

It's like those light skin women who talk about dark skin women but get all quiet when a white woman walks into the room.

All of a sudden they want to let out the inner Black Panther.

Or like a friend of mine who prefers redbone women, he marries one whose mother cant stand his ass.

Why?

You guessed it, he is as black as the ace of spades.

Funny, no?

Then there are those who like to point to the part of their skin that's usually cover up by clothing like the upper arm and say that is what your real color is not the part that has been exposed to the sun.

Word?

Is that right doctor?

Maybe if you lived in a cave all of your life like some animal wallowing in your own muck and suck on blood then yes...




........yes I can see how that is supposed to be your true skin color.

But for us HUMAN beings that prefer to walk up right in the sun the tan part is are true color.

It's all silly but it rubs me the wrong way.

So anyway I point out to her that she is not that light and she then tells me some what offended that she is not black like that and responds to my sun comment with I walk outside with an umbrella when it's hot.

Really now?

You walk outside with an umbrella during the summer so you wont get dark?

Yeah, that was pretty much it right there, I kept the convo light and made my exit after my last drink not bothering to exchange numbers.

No need pretending about it.

Deal Breaker.