So Don Imus is returning to radio. This was inevitable in a society that rewards anyone who can bring in capital at any cost and I am not mad at all. This may sound shocking coming from someone who abhors hate talk but at the same time, it is a free country (For a certain group of people, nonetheless!). I actually don’t think it’s a bad thing and I welcome him back to the airwaves simply because I don’t listen to him. I have never listened to him but I may start listening to him based on knowing that I have to expand and broaden my horizon based on whatever is out there outside of my world. I don’t anticipate him doing or saying anything wrong (at least not initially) and he will undoubtedly draw the type of numbers expected based on his return as his old fans tune in and other critics and skeptics of his will be on watch as well. There are far worse people out there that I am more worried about than Don Imus.

Hate crimes are on the rise! Racism is getting worse! For any black or minority, this is NOT news! I know I have been sick over the last several years of hearing how race relations are wonderful! Everything is rosy in terms of different races getting along. Maybe in the suburbs, wait, it’s even worse in the suburbs because ‘we’ aren’t allowed in, we are given certain sections and at a limited number. The only thing that has changed is the reported number of incidences the media is getting a hold of. I encounter racism so much that if I don’t encounter it, I get scared! You know it by the looks, the attitude and just the way you are perceived when you walk in stores, building, on the subway, shit, even at the gas station! Don’t let recent media reports fool you. Racism has NEVER left and will linger for a very long time!!!

American Gangster will no doubt be a huge box office success and although I haven’t seen it, I have many friends who have and I haven’t heard a bad review yet. I do plan on seeing it as I am also intrigued by the ‘lifestyle’ of Frank Lucas and others like him, but not for the reason most inner city children or adults for that matter, want to see it. I was brought up in the manner of karma and doing good by and for people and it will come back in some form. Although this story may be interesting and intriguing, I find it disturbing that in our community, we praise and worship people of this magnitude when there are far more role models to look up to. No doubt he may have taken care of his people but at the cost of what? Death to others? Fear and intimidation? Drug addiction? At the end of the day, it is what it is, but I will never praise someone who hurts people to maintain a certain lifestyle while ruining others. But I will see the movie!