Beautiful Memorial Day

So many times I get on here and immediately start complaining.  I would like to thank all of the fallen heroes who have engaged in battle and destroyed the tyranny and evil that is in opposition to our accustomed lives of freedom and privilege here in the USA.  I am not going to spend a lot of time pointing out that our freedom is largely imaginary and our rights are getting fewer and fewer by the day, or that the privilege is only enjoyed by a minority of our citizens due to the system that has been slowly implemented throughout our history to ensure that the haves continue to get and the have-nots stay in the slums and welfare lines, like I usually do.  But I will be talking more about Memorial Day.

I didn't know until today that Memorial Day was started by African Americans.  Indeed, it was a group of African Americans in Charleston SC who dug up the dead soldiers (who had been disposed of in a hasty mass burial) to salute them by giving them a proper burial.  This act of remembrance was out of thankfulness for the Union troops willingness to fight and die for the then slave's freedom.

Now I want to talk about the New Slaves.  My boi Kanye went hard again on this new track.  At first I was a little incensed by the title, figuring it was more boo hoo hoo bs about the black man struggle...which, don't get me wrong, I am not at all racist but this tune is more than a little worn out 150+ years after the Emancipation Proclamation... but the song does talk about how blacks are slaves to the consumerism that is destroying our planet.  Granted, I don't think Ye talks about the environment so much as he does the "sheep mentality" that we often get swept away by.  And I am not talking about just black people here, people of all color and creed fall prey to it.  It's the same mentality that caused peaceful Germans to join National Socialism and otherwise bright young females to listen to and obsess over no talent hacks like One Direction.  I also like how he throws the DEA and the New World Order out there as being the drug pushers they are, encouraging our young brothers and sisters to join gangs by keeping them exposed to constant glorification of drug use, materialism, misogynistic sexuality, and irreverence to social norms of "white society."  It all goes back to the white man's pocket book.  Follow the money trail, you will come to the same conclusion.


Anyhow, I am sad that Chris Perez is out for a while for the Tribe.  This along with the 1-3 record against the Red Sox and now an away series with the legitimate World Series contenders on the river Cincinnati Reds...it is looking like we will be lucky to be limping into the All Star break at .500.  I am however very excited to go to Great American BP tomorrow.  Taking the old man down there to see the Tribe in action, and it will be my first time in the new park.  Look forward to touring the stadium while the game is being played if we are losing, which will more than likely be the case.