Everything CA brings to the table is either liberal or gay with almost little to blend itself into the rest of America. Don’t get me wrong, not everyone in CA is gay, but there is enough on TV, magazines, stereotypes, and in the news to make you think that the state will bend so much more till it’s a complete circle. It’s hard to believe this was even a court hearing at all and not just a few phones calls to say,”Ya, I’m fine with that.” I mean the surprise was to the point of being equal to Iowa calling me to tell me they are going to start farming corn. Either way I have no hog in this fight and take the stance that I wish a lot more men would get together so there’s less competition on the home front. It’s only the bi-sexuals I have a problem. Take a position and stick with it. I hate people that tetter totter.

As a man that pays another woman after divorce I do look forward to seeing one man pay alimony to another man or woman to woman. I do look forward to reading about judgments in divorce. I just think it’s nonsense to have these issues. I would rather see tax laws rewritten and health coverage for families change that see states change the way the human equipment is suppose to work. So to our politicians I thank you for being so stubborn that rather change the way we operate you would rather change the way people operate. The only thing now that California can do to make headline news in my book is to start digging a ditch around itself and pushing off to start a new country.

Is this anti-gay? No it’s not. It’s a different way to look at it as many Americans sit and read yahoo news thinking the same thing. I guess for me personally I am just tired of the “coming out of the closet speeches”, the crying becuase you know who you really are, the Will and Graces of America, and the in your face parades. If you want to be gay then do it, but really I am good without knowing or caring about it. You will never be remembered for being gay by myself and many Americans. I will never call it the alternative lifestyle, or the same-sex couple living down the road. You don’t see other states showboating nearly as much on subjects that don’t matter. This makes me wonder if they will even have to build a fence along that southern border now.

To the Californians that might see my point in all of this I thank you for having such an open mind to entertain this straight guys takes on the news that you received today. For those that won your right to marry good for you but please spare me the news, stories, blogs, and crying of how happy you are.

So I am agnostic, and I found this revelation stunning that it would make even the Today Show with the off-beat and queer conversational pieces they provide metro America. I just wanted to drop everything and call the Pope and ask if everything was OK. I mean is it possible they found another book in the Bible where one of the Apostles were abducted, but sent back with an old wooden anal probe in his ass? This would be huge to have the Bible slightly bigger with an intriguing story like this! Go right from Psalms to Aliens? I bet if they threw this into that luscious book of stories it would go for some serious dollars (mostly because of the weakened dollar). I am actually surprised someone hasn’t come up with something to juice the Bible up to get profits going. I don’t think to date that book has made much money actually. If someone just stepped up to the plate like Lil Jon or Jessica Simpson and added like 26mm rims to it or a book on Sean Jean or maybe the Tomb of Maybelline that thing would really take off.

Ok enough about the off topic stuff. Let’s get onto the relevancy of church announcements like this. Honestly, did someone out there need this and finally when they heard the news just felt the weight of the world lifted off their shoulders? Did someone riding the subway in downtown Manhattan just shit themselves in excitement that they could come out of the closest about loving aliens? This is one of the most ridiculous news items in months. Maybe I am missing the point of it all and some of you find people will help enlighten me. Last time I checked I have a life and the freedom to believe in what I want to in the 21st century. Are there still people wandering around like robots saying, “Shhh, don’t let the Pope hear that!” This is ludicrous that someone would need to hear something like its OK to believe in life from other planets. I mean you already believe in something that doesn’t exist so at least so at least you fair the same odds as believing in something that most likely exist in the stars.

The difference between aliens and God is more people have possibly seen aliens than God unless God is referenced as a figment of life altering events. I agree that thousands of years ago this would have been something huge and needed to be announced on a global level today, but honestly after homosexuals appeared in society in droves and everyone embraced them I could care less about whatever else you might have to surprise me with. This world has no taboo for us anymore, and for the most part we can thank the porn industry for that. This is just not edgy stuff anymore and the church should just do what they do best, keep predicting the wrong date for the end of the world and pray. (And you guys thought I would say the kid joke)

Ok back to reality here. This is not higher education or competitive jobs we are talking about. This is water, and if I remember correctly I first learned how to maneuver in water from my bath tub. I eventually lucked out and found a small body of water called a pond. Once I figured out how to kick my legs and move my arms I could eventually go out further into the deeper water. Is this about me? No this is about the want to learn how to swim. For the most part it is free and some town hall’s have indoor swimming pools and offer lessons for free. So why is it 60% of the black population can not swim? Is it possible that rappers on BET don’t normally swim in pools? Is it becuase the motivation to go and get in the water is not there? Is someone holding them back? I guess we will never truly know, but I find it hard to believe this is a real issue we are facing in America.

My concern is basic things like reading, writing, and social skills. I have been to the ocean, lakes, ponds, pools, and even my bathtub and have swim next to every race (except the bathtub). If you are black and reading this and honestly can say someone discouraged you from swimming then my apologies. I am not racists in the bit, but it seems the mainstream media wants to keep putting racial lines out there in these types of articles. If it’s not blacks, then it’s Mexicans, or some other race. Next I am going to read that 95% of blacks can’t ice skate and something needs to be done about it. When are we going to shed this equalness every race is suppose to have? I am not disappointed that I can’t rap, jump high, or play dominoes. I simply never wanted to learn. In fact if I drove my truck up and down the road here and asked all the kids over for a pool party (majority being black) I bet no one would say yes until I said I had beer, and even then they will only drink my beer and ask to hold a dollar.

Some of us want for other things in life. No one is shut out from swimming unless they continuously piss in the pool or can’t stop splashing. Swimming is not a rich disease, and it’s not something other races say we can’t let them do this becuase it’s our secret in case we all want to leave for Cuba one day.

They also went as far as to talk about segregated pools in this new report. I hate to break it to people but the segregation started to stop in 1965. Sure we still have limited racism, but does this really stop people from learning how to get in the water almost 45 years later? Thats two generations and in the inner city it’s more like three. I would easily say by the 80′s the practice of true racism (in many places) and open separation was virtually gone accept maybe in Mississippi. So can we play the race card? I firmly don’t believe we can here. My parent’s didn’t teach me how to swim. I simply just went to water like most normal people do.

Perhaps I live in a secluded world, but when I go around the United States in my travels the country is never anything like the media continues to portray it. They keep us thinking misery, racism, and fear to keep the ratings and bucks rolling in. If you’re black and want to learn how to swim come on over. I will gladly teach you. That offer will probably go unanswered though. If you take me up on it then you better not splash or piss in my pool.

So this is about Obama and not the plastic 60 year old lady that cries when it’s needed, and not when it can’t be stopped. Obama is the only real chance the Democrats have this year. Not just becuase he is white but also becuase is young. McCain has a lot he will have to contend with. A lot of people don’t want the same republican that Bush is. McCain is also old, and set in his ways. He is bland white, where Obama is spicy white with a hint of Kenyan, and the dash of culture from Indonesia. That’s kind of exotic, but is regular America actually ready for that. Sure NYC and Los Angeles is, hell they are up for really anything to include bi-polar lesbian born into an inbreed family living amonsgt the impovershed bayous of LA running for Governor. Thats for another blog though.

The only thing I can see holding him back is black America not excepting him for being white but I firmly believe thus far people are taking a positive interest in him and disregarding his skin color. Barack stands for some great causes, and he brings a lot of energy to many people even if there is no reason behind it. America needs someone to drive us as we haven’t a clue where we are going. This is our answer to what we have been looking for for the last 8 years.

To me being whatever color your skin represents you as makes no difference. I am tolerable to almost anything except eskimos. With people like Al Sharpenton and Jesse Jackson, you can’t help to be fired up and using racial epithets (Anthony Cumia taught me that word). These people intice you to use words and language so you can become famous, start a march, or just a big media patry in your city. They are almost the racial version of Nickelodeon bringing a party to your town, but it’s all based on color instead of fun.

Well Mr. Obama, you have a strong chance this year and are basically garenteed the Democratic Party, unless you get a mysterious knock on your door from Monica Lewinski compliments of Bill (wink, wink). Short of that he is a shoe in and I think he has the right attitude. So I say we put gender aside and let the two white gentlemen duke it out for the Oval Office.

Unlike Halle Berry, Barack is white since one of his parents are white. Unlike the rest of America that makes him black becuase he has one black parent, I am going to choose the other road instead. It’s America that perpetuates skin color as an issues and those that make money from it. People and the media alike insist on calling Barack black, muslim, elitist, ethusiastic, and any other misleading term but instead rejects saying he is white. Where will the confusion end. Sure it’s popular to go around and say your black, but I don’t say I am for the popularity and neither should he. To me, his failure of accepting who he is will be the end of his potential and not his failure to produce a plan to end the Iraq War, or his tax hike plan.

I have traveled the world, and experienced many cultures. I have studied religion, social interactions, dynamics, and ways countries differ from one another. I can say that I am an experienced person that has been fortunate enough to take in the amount of difference our world offers. So a question I ask myself each day is how is this small world of my community making such an impact on me and my family’s desire to leave. Yes, I am saying I no longer wish to be immersed in this dreadful and forsaken road I call home.

The racial dynamics are simple. My street consists of me and 2 other white families, I believe 4 Mexican families, and the remaining homes are occupied by African Americans. So you see I am a minority which is not much concern for me as I normally am where I have lived and traveled to. The distinct difference comes in not education, and not opportunities. Instead the differences come in direction and self driven wants in life. I would say the median income of my community is about $25K annually. Comparing that to the cost of living I would say that is decent. Most people here rent but some own their home and almost everyone that is of age to drive owns a car.

During the first few weeks of moving into my home I would spend time in the evening after work relaxing on my front porch to give me the opportunity to meet the neighbors and enjoy the fall air. I distinctively remember 3 young boys, none being over the age of 10 walking up the road and started slinging racial slurs and one even went as far to pick up a rock and throw it at me. This is the first time I had ever experienced this especially while just sitting on my porch. Afterwards my neighbor came over to try to explain that here people grow up with the expectations that they are being held back and my skin tone was enough to cause hell to break loose. This is coming from an elderly black man that I often talk with when I find him also enjoying the evening breeze.

From that day forward it never got better. My house was broken into twice since my stay here in almost 4 years, and the looks of deceptive lies in everyone’s eyes that I say hello too. Is this paranoia? Well I certainly won’t rule that out but I think with my experiences here they are merited. The Mexicans are harmless as all they want to do is celebrate every occasion and introduce tequila to anyone that will allow them too. The black part of the community is different though.

There is never anything truly going on it seems as everyone is always hanging out whether it’s on the corner or in the front of the food store up the road. The gang of boys spend time under the hood of a $100 car that was made in 1960 that’s obviously on it’s last leg before the junkman comes and takes it away. Yet, with a car in that condition they would rather spend what money they have on 24″ rims and a Maaco paint job. As a friend explained to me, this is called the “peacock effect”. As it was explained to me, this is when a man wants for nothing, and has nothing but materially has to show the world he is someone. So he who has the biggest rims, the craziest piece of crap car, is more gangster than the next, or whatever MTV and BET is plugging for the day wins the “Peacock” award. In the end this is how he is able to get the girl he wants over the other males. These things in combination is the poor man’s way of spreading his feathers like he is someone.

I have been mesmerized by this societal demonstration ever since. I have seen this through a shitty car painted in a bright green paint with actual Skittles through the paint job. This man rolls around in what obviously cost him $400 as if he is the best thing since sliced bread until I seen the Reese’s Pieces car, boy that was a sight. The candy competition is incredible here, but the sports teams is coming into a rage of it’s own with GA Tech cars, GA Bulldog cars, and whatever team is the flavor of the day. All these companies are getting free advertising! All of these cars are atop 22″+ rims that are rented. Yes, I wrote rented. It’s a new way to increase your peacock. For $10-$40 a week you can rent rims. So if the first set didn’t rise you above into acceptance you can just bring them back and rent a different set for another try. I am sure you may have seen these cars which have come into a slight popularity in the last 2 years. I always thought jacked up trucks were for the white rednecks, so these jacked up cars must be the black rednecks. Either way these are assumptions and not meant to stereotype as I see a very small percentage of white teenagers fitting in with the same type of cars.

So eventually I stop going out of my house unless it’s to my secluded backyard. I don’t want to indulge in this community any longer. They want to be poor, they want to be this way. I have asked many people in my neighborhood why and they all respond the same way. They say it’s the way it needs to be. I am sick to my stomach with the racism in my neighborhood, the use of the N word (I would spell it out but then my blog may be blocked from certain servers around the world), the way the women have to parade around like skanks so they can get this soldja boy they desperately need, and I am tired of feeling repressed when i am not even black or repressed.

America has a long way to go before we are really ready to face the world. It’s not the white man’s fault, it’s not the Indian’s fault, and it’s not the Black man’s fault. It’s an individuals choice and some individuals would rather be something other than successful. They would rather me feel guilty for being here, and they would rather no one question it.