I miss Eazy E

I miss Eazy E. Some people are already like, what crazy shit is danny going to write this time. My ingredients are all over the place. From Johnny Cash to Tupac I enjoy just about every genre. I don't hate on others tastes that aren't mine, because it's all opinion. I might not understand opera and wonder what the fascination is, but that doesn't mean it's irrelevant. 

So I miss the days when things were a little more simple than they are today. Political correctness is such a strange thing.  I've realized that the media is the driving force behind the version of fact and what opinions should be. I could list many examples. The biggest being what they decide to write. 

Let's use Yahoo as an example. We used to read from a newspaper or magazine but now we scroll. The difference is that with a newspaper I know what section Sports is and the same with weather and stocks. In a magazine I skip to the page of the story I want to read. On a website like Yahoo I can't help but read through the titles of articles while looking for an article that I would want to read. 

I catch an article about the Kardashians. On the link there is a picture of a kardashian and a title about some stuff that I guess I could care less about which is sad. I still click for the picture because I guess I'm a pig, sexist, or how I like to think of it. Like A man. Once I get into the story I scroll and there's no picture! There is a story about some risque outfit that one of them is wearing and I wasted a click and no picture? 

I know, I need a life. I'll get to that, this is full on vent mode. I almost don't give a fuck. My youngest kid is 16 and I do owe it to him and my kids in general to be somewhat of a decent human. And to be honest, I believe I am a decent man. We won't get into that just yet though. So I go back to the main page of Yahoo and now I'm completely distracted. I went to see if there was any news going on in the world and I'm wondering if there is a wild new picture to gaze at. 

Back in the day I didn't even see that stuff. I'd open up the newspaper and look for the sports page. Entertainment section was to see what movies were coming out and show times. If you wanted the BS stories buy people or Enquirer. Today? Everyone knows that shit and gives their opinion on it. Oh wait, I'm using a lot of expletives. I should stop, but I probably won't. 

Today, the media has so much control over what we think and so much else, compared to 1992 and before. Sensationalizing is the biggest trend, along with political correctness. A story about anything can be huge for a moment and then the next story breaks. The other story becomes a distant memory and we move on. So back in 1989 I could listen to Eazy E.

Rap always got a bad rap. Pun intended. But I could still listen to it and even get away with saying slang if it was in the context of the song. 

Now, might as well admit you're a racist if you use the word nigga. 

Yet people like the rapper Common think that only black people deserve to use it because his ancestors earned the right.  He tried to explain that black people say it to each other in an endearing manner, and I agree. I used it for that as well. 

I grew up in Pomona and San Bernardino, CA. I lived deep with the Crips and Bloods and many blacks. I was out on the basketball court talking trash and I would also endear my brothers by calling them my nigga. 

Now, I can't tell you the last time I even thought about saying that. In some ways I'm bummed that it got to the point it did but in this example I'm completely cool with political correctness. I don't want anyone to think I feel one color is any better than any other based on color alone. 

Are you kidding me? 

More about that later, cause shit's about to get real. 

My problem with people like Common is that they talk about being equal but they actually want to be special. Let's be real, Common never came close to being a slave. His upper middle class upbringing made my family look like peasants. His color didn't mean crap because people care about money not color. Oh, they care about color but the color of money always comes first. 

Equality should be like get in line with the rest of us and get over yourself. I have a white brother and a black sister while I'm brown. You wanna know what it was like to see us getting on the bus to go to school? It was a situation. 

But to be honest, I don't see myself like others do. And I never saw my brother and sister that way either. I had their back and everyone knew it. This is real life because we don't really know who feels like what because political correctness makes it not acceptable to feel a way that is unacceptable. So, that means they tell you to  your face what you want to hear and then the moment you can't hear them they call you that name. 

Honestly, what is better? Being called something to your face, or thinking they like  you and they're saying it behind your back?

 I digress! Back to missing Eazy E. 

That's my point. We used to be able to say things because as a whole we don't feel that way. At least I hope we don't. There are a bunch of racist and sociopathic haters but there are many more loving accepting humans, right? 

I used to be able to make fun of my black friend liking watermelon while he told me to go eat a burrito. Now, I can't even say watermelon or banana in front of my black friends. I have to say, are you going to eat fruit today? 

Ok, so maybe that's extreme but my black friends don't even want to be black anymore. It's too hard. They don't want to perpetuate the cycle so they avoid things assumed as stereotypes. 

I'm like fuck that shit! I'm a half mexican half white guy that speaks spanglish and married a blonde. I don't give a fuck! I'll be like, cut up my filet mignon and my asparagus, with some au jus. But damn it, wrap it in a tortilla cause I'm really a Mixican. It's in my dna to roll it in a tortilla. 

Just like a black man loves melon. We all come from different parts of the world originally where climate and evolution meant that there were darker people where there was more sun and lighter where it was cold with less sun. Because of the climate different foods were available. The human body evolved to make it easier to consume those foods or vitamin D. 

Just like the birds did that were forced down to the Galapagos islands by winds. The descendants of those birds adapted to the environment to survive. That's all we did as early humans. Some embraced nature and simple life while others advanced their skills and the destruction of the planet. 

The Native Americans only killed what they could eat and used their fur for shelter and warmth like it was intended. The Spanish came in and used the Native American spirituality and assumed primitive nature and used it against them. 

Imagine you own your land and someone comes to you and tells you that they bought the land and you have to leave. As a Native American you're wondering how someone can own the land. As a conqueror you're just doing what you gotta do. 

So where I could listen to Eazy E in 1989 now I cannot even play his song at a party. If a parent hears the word bitch, ass, hoe, nigga, they lose their mind. When in fact, none of that shit matters. It doesn't define anyone. If someone says the word bitch and you get offended? Maybe you need to look in the mirror and wonder how you feel about yourself. A bitch does not equal a woman. A woman can be a bitch but a woman is not necessarily a bitch. 

Why is that so hard to understand? You can apply that down the line. Just because I'm a Mexican does not mean that I'm a wetback. I guess that's not an apples to apples comparison. I guess it's more like Chink, Spick, redneck, etc. 

 You think these words are different than the ones used towards blacks?  If you let someone say one without the others then you're either racist or feeding the problem. 

It's time people are completely equal. I've said it before that if there can't be a White entertainment television then there can't be a black entertainment television. Also, if women want equality, get out there and lay some asphalt girl. You think combat sounds like a good idea until you're out there. No rules in combat.

You're going to find out that you better watch out what you wish for.