Jesse Jackson reacted to Dan Gilbert’s letter to Cavs fans regarding Lebron’s departure from Cleveland by describing Gilbert for having a ‘slave master mentality,’ and that Lebron honored his contract and he was no longer obliged to the services of the Cavaliers organization.

This is not the first time someone has drawn the comparison between the relationship of athletes and owners, and slavery. William Rhoden wrote a book examining this relationship called ‘Forty Million Dollar Slaves.’ The difference is Rhoden’s examination was supported, Jackson’s comments were ludicrous, and self-righteous.

Lebron did honor his contract, and it was well within his right to pursue another place to provide his services. And no Dan Gilbert does not own him. Another important thing to consider is the consequences of slavery, and segregation have impacted African-Americans of today significantly. Specifically the inability to acquire capital during the era of racism, has left a lot of the generations that followed them behind, may have caused a breakdown in the family structure because of poverty, and is one of the reasons the incarceration rates are so high for black males (Here’s another reason). But this comment is way out of bounds.

A Missouri V.A Medical Center has left over 1,800 veterans in danger of contracting hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV. Since 2009 the medical staff at this facility had not been sterilizing the dental tools properly. This is concerning on a number levels, for one how could a medical staff fuck up that bad? Also why do Veterans get fucked over so harshly.

There have been over 900 US troops killed in Afghanistan, and almost 3,000 severely injured. In Iraq, almost 4,500 troops have been killed, and well over 30,000 have been injured since the beginning of June.

Nothing pisses me off more than a person who causes an uproar from their self-induced shortcomings, like what Abbi Obermiller has done by hiding in her boyfriends attic which caused a massive search for this silly-headed fuck.

She joins the list of that dumbass teenage sailor who got lost, and ‘Baloon Boy’s’ fucked up dad as people who should have their vocal cords detached before they influence somebody with their fucked up ideals.

Ideas such as gutting the whole approach to how we treat drugs in this country by eliminating the ‘War on Drugs,’ and even going to the extent of decriminalizing every drug are dismissed as kooky, radical, and stupid. However, the epidemic of drug use in this country, and the setbacks we encounter fighting the epidemic need radical change in order to have a more effective program to prevent what is destroying lives all across the country in various forms.

I’m just thinking of all the different type of ways that Joran Van Der Sloot could be executed. Spare me the bull shit about the courts will determine his guilt or innocence, I don’t want to hear it. If this guy is openly admitting he sold Natalee Holloway into the sex-slave trade, and five years later is admitting to bludgeoning Stephany Flores Ramirez in Peru, it shouldn’t be his court date that is planned. Instead they should be picking out the rocks and planning the order of throws to stone this sick motherfucker.

One of the most poignant contemporary remarks ever to be spoken on the Israeli-Palestine relationship was by a rapper by the name Immortal Technique who said, “You can criticize human rights in Cuba, and China. But not in Israel, or Philippines, or places you find that are allies to the country I live in.”

If there ever needed to be another case for Jimmy Carter’s accusations of apartheid inflicted by the Israeli government. The raid by the Israeli military on a US vessel, that was going to provide goods for those affected by the Gaza blockade is just little league shit. Since the state of Israel was recognized in 1948 the conflict between them and Palestine had been potently accelerated.

Some feel Barack Obama has not provided a sufficient enough intervention concerning the oil-spill that British Petroleum is responsible for in the Gulf Coast. They feel it is necessary to compare it with Geroge Bush’s domestic failure concerning Hurricane Katrina. However, the two instances could not be any different. The disaster involving Hurricane Katrina required immediate protocol to spare the lives of people who were in immediate danger. Instead they were left on their roofs begging for helicopters, that sat afloat, to come and rescue them. The failures were also compounded as the citizens of New Orleans were left for stray by FEMA who did not provide enough support for handling such a disaster in many instances including supplying trailers containing formaldehyde to the victims which are not suitable living conditions.

Politics, sports, music, and other miscellaneous bull-shit talk is about as compatible as an acquaintance between Lauryn Hill and Don Imus. Maybe I’m the guy that can mend these things together (I don’t know about the Hill-Imus thing though, some things are better left alone).

At this point the new state legislation in Arizona, which gives law enforcement increased reign for detaining people is old news, and old news these days in no news. With that being said, this is an unprecedented law that would require you to refer back to the domestic policy towards Japanese-Americans during World War II, and Jim Crow as far as sanctioned discrimination.