Two different America’s

We’re definitely living in two different America’s. I mean this country has always had so many identities over the years and you have to ask yourself…”Has anything really changed?”  There’s rich America and then there’s the rest of us. Surprisingly these two America’s have nothing to do with race to an extent. You can have a good paying job, have your kids in great private schools and school districts. You can try your hardest to move away from the colored folks and PWT’s, but you will NEVER be a part of that one to five percent of the American population which includes millionaires and billionaires. So just keep on thinking you’re exempt from the reception that the middle and lower class receive. Regardless of your political views (liberal, progressive, moderate or conservative)…if you don’t have the coins of that higher epsilon, then it really doesn’t matter one bit.

Between Trump’s new bullshit budget proposal to this college admissions scam…if you don’t see it by now then I don’t know what to tell you except for to wake up. And these are just two things that have happened this past week. I can speak for myself when I say that I worked my ASS off to get into Hampton University which is a top tier HBCU. The same went for graduate school which I attended at a private college. I was passed up for scholarships and grants which I was completely qualified for in turn having to take out tens of thousands of dollars in student loans leaving me in debt for years to come. All while this admissions scam has been going on forever. This is nothing new. I’m pretty sure that half of our administration and Congress…that includes that trash bag of a President as well benefitted from schemes and scams to get into Ivy League and top colleges as did their children and their grandchildren will as well. Not only can these rich kids, and kids of privilege, in general, are able to get into schools that most of them didn’t even want to go to in the first place; they were able to obtain scholarships. Do you know how many people were passed up by these schools because someone undeserving took their spot? Do you know how many people worked hard on their grades, athletics, and essays, yet were still unable to get any assistance when they didn’t have the means to pay? Way too many. Truthfully, all these shady ass parents had to do was write the school a nice check and I’m sure their kids would’ve got in. I’m not saying that’s right either, but they chose the dirtiest way to get in which is how they’re used to operating in life anyway. Shady and dirty. NeNe Leakes tried to warn everyone…”You can’t win when you’re dirty!” I also refuse to believe that these kids didn’t know what was going on. I REFUSE! But they’ll get away with it because we don’t want their futures to be messed up because they were just kids. FOH!

Here comes the race card! Buckle up!Black men especially are made to feel inferior or stupid regardless of how a student they are when they obtain athletic scholarships. Mind you these athletes bring in billions of dollars to these PWI’s that most likely would admit them. (Predominantly white institutions) In the meantime…they’re rich white kids who have forged their way into these athletic scholarships to the point where photoshop is involved. Pathetic. The children should feel ashamed as well due to the fact that their parents didn’t have the confidence in them that they would be able to get into any of these schools on their own. If that’s not shade…then I don’t know what is? These kids have had everything in life handed to them and even as adults they still don’t have an idea what it is to work things out on their own; which causes a huge disservice to them.

The crazy thing (which I guess I shouldn’t be surprised) is that you hear more about affirmative action (an actual law) than you do about this scam that occurred. The only reason why it made so much noise is that two of the people who were caught were well-known actresses (where we have yet to see a single mugshot of anyone taken into custody). Yet…as I mentioned in my podcast Oprah had to hold it! – Episode 12 it’s a statistical fact that white women are the biggest beneficiary of affirmative action. They want us to believe that it was only put into place so that undeserving black people would be able to get into any college and to get any job that they applied for. Nope…sorry…it doesn’t work that way. I for one have never benefitted in any way from affirmative action and I’m glad that I didn’t. I know how it is to work hard for what I got. It’s a great feeling. I know what it feels like to be let down and to be told no numerous times in my life. When things don’t go my way, I know how to bounce back.

The America that I live in is unfair, unjust and full of shit. I do get tired of seeing the “fortunate” get away with murder…no pun intended, but pun intended. We keep getting screwed over while at the same time telling us we have to earn everything. No shit! The irony is that this is told to us by people who have had pretty much everything handed to them. Now make that make sense. So pretty much…my finances are going to shit due to a fucked up budget which was put in play to keep me and others like me down. I won’t be able to afford to buy my nieces and nephew into a good college. That doesn’t matter because Auntie’s babies are going to HBCU’s anyway! What we can teach our children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, god-children, cousins…those coming up is the way that the world really is. We have to keep it real with them like our families did with us. We can’t soften up as a generation because you feel the need to protect the children around you from the evils of the world. It’s better for us to teach them, then for them to learn from someone else who won’t care how that message gets across to them. Like I was always told growing up, as were many black people…you have to work twice as hard…to get half as far. I don’t even know if twice as hard is good anymore.