Cogito Ergo

Anyhoo, later in the day, before I went the bed I did a little channel surfing and lo and behold who did I see?  Chris fucking Brown on Jimmy Fallon. Somehow we all seemed to have forgotten the fact that this dude beat the shit out of Rhianna.  This wasn’t just some girl with a bloody swollen face.  This wasn’t a groupie or some chick that got lippy in the line at Burger King.  This was Rhianna!  She was a beautiful young woman with a great career in a high profile relationship with this dude and there she was, looking like Rodney King. What was almost worse than the bruises on her face was the look of shame she had in the photos.  It was the look of defeat. I know Rhianna has claimed to have moved on but here’s the thing.  Abused/abuser dynamics are a situation most of us do not understand fully.  What I do know is that the abused often stay because they feel so devalued that maybe they can’t see a better situation so it is up to all of us to let the abused and abuser kno

This is how the game goes.  If you don’t work, you don’t eat so you get out on that corner and work, bitch and don’t come back here without daddy’s money. Now I’m sure not too many of us get that exact same speech every morning (or night) but we do get similar prompts to get off of our asses in more deceptive forms such as “The baby is almost out of diapers” and “I don’t have anything to wear, sure wish I had money to go shopping.” And what do we do?  We get out there on the stroll for 8-9 hour shifts and give ourselves away to the man with the hope that one day we can have saved enough nickels to maybe do some pimping of our own. Why do we participate in this dire situation?  Because the hoing is all we knowing.  Work, eat and repeat has been drilled into our heads since grade school and so we don’t see anything wrong with it.  Somewhere in economics 101 we all learned that profit is earned when a good or service is purchased for a higher amount than the cost of production.