Get a life.

So the Louisville Cardinals lost in the Elite Eight today. I'm a Kentucky fan so normally I don't like to see Louisville do well. But they played a damn good season so I had to give them props. 

What's killing me is the face that niggas want to be all hostile just because a damn basketball team lost. I've heard of people actually fist fighting over a damn game. College educated MEN fighting over a game. 

Like, are you serious?

Do you think any of those players would fight for you? Hell to the no! They are already planning their next move and your dumb ass is sitting in jail over a game.

And don't get me started about how UK is a racist team and no black person should like them. I've heard from so many people, many of whom have never stepped foot on a college campus, that "UK is a racist school, don't cheer for them" "They don't admit blacks" and bullshit like that. 

Bullshit.

In all honesty, 99% of predominantly WHITE schools have some kind of a racist background, including U of L. So all of the crap I hear about why I shouldn't cheer for a damn sports team is irrelevant to me. I get sick of hearing that UK doesn't admit blacks. I know a slew of them that attended and GRADUATED from the school. People my age and older. This is what I wanna know about the people who bitch and moan about its admission policy.

Did you apply? Did you get rejected? Did you ever think that it was because you are not QUALIFIED? Did you even graduate from high school? Tell us why you're really mad!? 

I cheer for a sports team. Not for school admission practices. I wish people were as passionate about uplifting these kids out here as they are about basketball. People can talk about how fucked up it is out here, but half the people I hear talk about it, don't do shit. You can talk all day about how blacks need to step it up and do better, but what part are you going to play in that? You say you don't know any black professionals, well clean yourself up and get out here and meet some. Expand your horizons a bit. If you're intimidated, figure out what the problem is, work on it and meet some people. My mother went to a college that has a long racist history (Ole Miss) and she still managed to make valuable contacts and she does not dwell on the things she went through. And this was in the mid-80's. She saw Klan rallies like we see pep rallies. 

Me and a few of my friends are in the planning/fund raising stages of putting together a local mentoring group for teenage girls and eventually boys that will allow us to draw on personal experiences in order to help them not make the same mistakes as we did. We plan on pulling in prominent members of our community to help us achieve our goals. So forgive me if I have to laugh at the time people waste bringing up old shit. This is what I care about:

I care about the young woman who was killed in broad daylight last week.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990324032

I care about the 17 year old who was killed last week.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009903260400

I care about the kids who can't walk to the store around here anymore without seeing drug transactions. I care about the kids who have dope fiend mothers who don't give a shit. I care about the kids who can't get a good education because the schools are crap here.  I care about 14 year old girls searching for love getting pregnant and AIDS and shit from these nasty ass GROWN men. I care about the fact that kids are out here killing kids. 

So forgive me for not giving TWO FUCKS about a damn basketball team's racist past. Or the fact that Adolph Rupp was a racist and I shouldn't like UK because of a man who has been dead damn near 40 years! I can't dwell on the past, I'm fighting the battle for our future, while remembering the past. 

The shit does not affect my cash flow, my education or my family. With that being said...

Get a damn life!!