So this weekend I decided to pop in Seven Pounds to see if I would cry again. Well let me back track and say this, the first time i watched was during allergy season. And that's all I have to say about that.
So the first thing you need to know about the movie is.... Rosario Dawson is still fine as hell even though she's playing a dying chick. Oh... spoiler alert.
So Seven Pounds is about a man who through a traumatic experience decides his new life mission is to help others and he is willing to die in order to complete that mission. So it starts with Will Smith calling Woody Harrelson, the young guy from Cheers, at his work place and harassing him about being blind. It's actually quite cruel and if you're one of those soccer mom types who are against bullying you might turn the movie off right then and there. Immediately after hanging up Will Smith's character begins to cry which is just a sample of whats to come. The guy is really unstable... He did accidentally kill seven people so maybe that's why. Anyway, he follows these not so random people around to make sure they deserve what he has to give them. He then presents himself as a IRS tax agent to get close to Dawson's character. This is where I got confused. The chick has a bad heart and the doctor said she has roughly a month left to live. SO what does Will Smith's character and Hollywood decide to do? They decide to let Will smash! The broad passed out walking down some stairs yet she survived a pipin??? And how rude of that man to even smash a chick who heart barely pumps... Anyway, right after smashin he decides to go run (in the rain) to the hospital to talk to the doctor. Doc tells him ol girl only has a 3% chance of finding a donor. So he rushes home and kills himself so she can have his heart. Now i left out a bunch of major parts to the movie but i reserve the right to do so. Point is, he stalked this chick and almost murdered her. His pipe game must not have been about nothing. But thats enough of me discussing another man's pipe game.
They have been talking Huma Abedin's Weiner all day on the news! Anthony Weiner that is. In case you don't know who he is, Weiner is a man running for mayor of New York city. He is also a former US congressman. He resigned aka he was politely fired a couple years back after he was "exposed" for sending sexual text messages and photos to random broads online. Well naturally this fool didn't learn his lesson the first time and was back to his old antics again last summer. He was put on blast again recently for committing the same foul in the game. But that's not why i write this. I write this to say big ups to his beautiful imported wife Huma Abedin for standing by his side in the public eye. Some of you skeezers at home could learn a thing or two from her.
So a couple weeks after his acquittal George Zman is spotted saving lives! Four to be exact. Legend has it there was a overturned van on the side of a Florida highway (a few blocks from where he killed Trayvon Martin) and Zman sprung into action again! Now I know some of you might say, he didn't learn his lesson and he is trying to be a cop still. But i think this act just reinforces him just being kind hearted. I also love the fact that he is still in the same area in which the incident occurs. Call me crazy but i think that goes to show that he was telling the truth. A guilty person would've definitely fled. But I'll let y'all take a look.
So as a typical ignorant Black man from what some would call the ghetto, I would like to say F*** all them cracka b*****s on the jury, that cracka b***h with the gavel, all them cracka prosecutor, and that sellout oreo bailiff!
Now as a logical human being with at the very least, a reasonable thinking process I would like to say, "Job well done" to the jury. It pains me to say that but I must. It's not difficult for me to say that because a "white-Hispanic" (WTF is a white- Hispanic???) shot a black man. I don't want to say it because then I would have to admit that a group of women did a job correctly without the help of any man. Maybe I should give them more credit in the future...
Anyway, i digress as usual. But to be honest no matter how you felt about the trial there was not enough evidence (if any, but that's a matter of opinion) to convict Zman. It didn't help that the prosecution team was horrible either. What a lot of (black) people don't understand is exactly what Zman was on trial for. It was never a question as to who killed who. However the question was, was he under enough stress to fear for his life at THE MOMENT he shot Martin. And with Martin dead there was no one else there who could opposite. It's a messed up situation but that is the way the law is set up in that state and many others.
What I don't understand though, is people's frustration at the law. Some even go as far to call it racist. But that same broad law has "helped" many people of various colors.
This describes Kam 110%! He always be at work using his junior college words when he talk to the other man! Then he want to come around the homies and try to front! We on to you!
In 2013 it seems like White people get more offended than anyone else over the word nigger. Guilty much??? Okay that was too low a blow too soon.
But I absolutely hate when I see them pale faceded crackas on TV discussing the word nigga or nigger (if you nasty). But it doesn't stop there, I would feel the same way if I saw a man on CNN having a debate on how harmful the word CUNT is to women. Sit down and shut up!
I watched a interview with Matt Flour, i mean Lauer and Paula Deen and during the course of the interview he said, " The N word is the worst word you can call a African American". Well that just further solidifies my stance on being anything but a African American, because I can think of far worse things a person can call me other than a nigger. Criminal, liar, failure, bad father... are just a few things that would sting me more than someone calling me nigger. Honestly I've only been called a nigger a couple times in my life, and in both cases I acted out in a violent matter. Not because i was offended but because I was taught that was the proper response by my peers coming up. As i got older i realized that type of mentality is what has a lot of my peers behind bars. Acting autonomously to situations that don't really bother them, just because that's how they were trained.
Like i do with any conversation over a word I'll present you with a definition of the term. Merriam-Webster had this to say:
Definition of NIGGER
1. usually offensive; see usage paragraph below: a black person
2. usually offensive; see usage paragraph below: a member of any dark-skinned race
3. : a member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons <it's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers … all the people who feel left out of the political process — Ron Dellums>
Nigger in senses 1 and 2 can be found in the works of such writers of the past as Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens, but it now ranks as perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English. Its use by and among blacks is not always intended or taken as offensive, but, except in sense 3, it is otherwise a word expressive of racial hatred and bigotry.
Now the reason I like to use a dictionary definition, is to take the emotion out of the word and make the argument strictly professional, for lack of a better word. Now how I feel about that word is this. It is simply a WORD. Any word only holds as much power as the receiver gives it. My dad told me something long ago that I will never forget. My father (yes I know who he is) is a very smart and talented man. He has taught me a myriad of things to which 80% of them I don't remember, but this one thing I will never forget. He told me this during a commercial break of my favorite show of all time, The Wonder Years (I'm full of surprises), he said, "Son, do you know what N.A.A.C.P. stands for?" I stuttered out, 'Yea, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People'. He told me "No. Niggas Ain't Always Colored People". And from that day on, I never took direct offense to the word. How can I get mad at a White person or any person other than a black person for using the same word that is screamed and shouted from every rap rooftop? These entertainers do shows in Europe and have the crowd rap nigga filled lyrics back to them. So what are these fans to do when they have a celebrated Black man pretty much justify their use of the word? Are they supposed to know that it's not okay to say it after the show? The way I see it is, Black people have two options: stop being so sensitive over a word you flaunt in front of the world, or simply keep the word in house. I seriously have a playlist of "nigga free" music i play when i have White people in the car with me. Just because i personally don't believe other races should say it in public or my presence. Yes its a double standard, but our society is full of them. I wouldn't call a random broad or ho a bitch to her face, even if she refers to herself as one. Nor would i call one of my gay friends a faggot in their presence but i might say it when describing them to someone else. "He a fag, but he cool though". These are things that i believe that 75% of us do. The White people i see on TV keep asking, "Why can you say nigga and i can't?" My response to that is Why do you WANT to say it so badly? Just respect there are double standards in life and this is one of them.
I could've been more eloquent but hey... I mean who actually reads the stuff anyway? When we get 100,000 views then maybe I'll rehash everything I've already said.
