Fast Eddie Friday.....End of 2009 wrap up....

Not really, there are too many people regurgitating the Best Of and Worst Of shtick, like we all don't know that this past year was as fucked up as a soup sandwich. So we will just carry on here like it's another day. Here we go fat man, fast and loose.

“This is similar to the O.J. [Simpson] trial in that it is race, it is a star athlete and there’s a young blonde woman,” D.L. Hughley

People are jumping all up in D.L. Hughleys Koolaid for comparing the reaction of folks over the Tiger Woods hot mess to O.J. Simpson. Nothing invalidates accusations of racism like showing your own racial bias. That's exactly what D.L. has managed to do. There is no comparison to Tiger and OJ, other than the color of their skin and their taste for blond headed pink toes. OJ cut the throats of 2 people, Tiger only cut his own. Are there white racist types who are tickled shitless over Tigers fall from grace? Of course. The big problem with Hughely, other than the fact that the guy just ain't funny, is that he is showing his own prejudice by making the Woods thing, a Race Thing.


Let me give you an example of why the Tiger Woods mess isn't about race. Derrick Thomas. Black, sports figure, 7 kids by 5 women, and people love the guy. White, black, doesn't matter, folks love them some DT. Thomas probably bagged half the sports groupies in the city, spread his seed far and wide, killed his passenger on the fateful day he crashed. White sports fans think DT is the best thing since sliced Wonder bread. Tiger's fall from grace and the nonstop coverage has nothing to do with his skin color, and has everything to do with the media. People love to watch folks fall from high places. Though most won't admit it, they kind of want to see that guy on the High Wire lose his balance and take a spill.


Tiger always carried himself above the fray, he was composed, stand offish, never involved in any kind of drama. When he slipped, by way of slipping it to a bunch of Waffle House and Hooters waitresses, the media jumped on it like a fat guy on a bowl of bacon grease ice cream. Tiger, much like D.T. was bigger than race, he had more white fans than white detractors. Just because there is a segment of society who are racist, doesn't mean the majority of white people are of a similar mind. You don't shoot the whole litter because one or two pups have fleas. Hughley did just that, and he is a race baiting douche bag for doing it. O J was a killer, the only thing Tiger ever killed was the hopes of anyone who played against him, big fucking difference.

"I can't be angry," he said. "People had a job to do back then. It's just sad the way the outcome was." James Bain.
James Bain is a happy guy today, after 35 calendars he is free for a crime that he didn't commit. DNA evidence cleared him of the kidnapping and rape of a 9 year old boy in 1974. He stands to receive 50 k a year for every year he was locked up, that comes to 1.75 million. Bain spent his 20', his 30's, and his 40's, in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Think about that, he spent the best years of his life in prison. The fact that he could make the statement he made speaks volumes about the caliber of this guy. Make no mistake, once the newness fades from being a free man, the anger is going to kick in. Thirty five years in a Florida prison, dealing with the baggage that comes with being a convicted child molester, knowing every night as you lay awake in bed, you are innocent. That's a hell of a thing to deal with. Now he steps in to a world he witnessed unfold through television. There was no Internet, no cellphones, AIDS was unheard of, the Vietnam war was still underway when he was locked up. Bain is a stranger in a strange land. He deserves all the luck and best wishes in the world. He should be every news magazines Man of the year. Anyone who can smile and claim to be free from anger after losing 35 years, is a better person than most of us will ever be.

The world is about to end, Armageddon is fast approaching. I'm not hardly bullshitting here.
So what are the signs you ask? Wars. Plagues. Locusts. Nope. I'm sitting here watching it unfold as I write this post. Martha Stewart is making brownies. With Snoop Dogg. D O double G, Snoop Dogg. Martha has on a red Christmas sweater, Snoop is clearly high, Martha just put 12 ounces of chocolate in the recipe, Snoop made a weed joke. Snoop just put his whisk in the bowl and said he was gonna "get up in there and twist it around" Yes , Snoop just made a sexual advance on Martha. I suggest all of you people make peace with God, or somebody, because the world is coming to an end.

Have a safe weekend. And if you haven't already, head over to KC Free Press to read my latest opus.