Monthly Archives: January 2010

… and so much has happened.
First of all, I have to send thoughts and prayers to the people of Haiti. They need our help and they need it fast. If you would like to donate, you can send funds to: Wyclef Jean’s organization Yele Haiti, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army or organizations like Doctors Without Borders and Mercy Corps or whatever organization you choose.
I also want to say RIP to Teddy Pendergrass. The world lost a great singer and musician in Pendergrass. If ever the world needed to hear the song”Wake Up Everybody” that he sang lead on with Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, it’s now.
Thankfully, my mother raised my siblings and I on good music, so we heard our fair share of Teddy Pendergrass. From “I Miss You” to “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” to “Bad Luck” onto his solo music, our childhood was filled with his voice.
He was recently treated for colon cancer and has what his son called a difficult recovery.
Now that I’ve done that, I must say, it is true that disaster and death bring out the worst in people. Look at how families treat each other when a loved one passes away and how people are treated in the face of disaster. Since Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti, the talking heads have risen up to spew more hatred and misinformation than ever.
This week, I have been downright shocked and appalled at the bile dripping out of the mouths of Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh. Under normal circumstances, I let them and Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck and all the rest of them go without so much as a “Humph!” But this is really grating on my last good nerve and I can hold it no more.

Down with Rush

Limbaugh is officially the douchiest douche bag on the face of the Earth. On his radio show, he actually suggested that the POTUS will exploit the dire straits in Haiti to gain “favor” with “both the light skinned and dark skinned blacks.” Since he’s such an effin’ expert I wish he’d tell me about these “in between blacks” and whether or not he needs their approval.
His pledging aid to Haiti has absolutely nothing to do with “gaining the favor” of anyone. He, the POTUS, has pledged aid because it’s the right thing to do. It’s the least we can do. For decades upon decades, Americans have watched Haiti suffer hunger and poverty and natural disasters and haven’t so much as sent a fucking saltine cracker and now that they have less than nothing, people like Limbaugh, open their mouths and verbally shit on relief efforts. Give me a break!

He's why Jesus wept.

If that weren’t enough, a Christian man said that the Haitians have gone through what they have because of “a pact they swore to the Devil” hundreds of years ago. What?! And he’s serious. He suggests the rest of us pray that they turn to Christ. *sigh* I grew up Christian and as much as I curse and act a fool, I still identify as such.
Since I don’t want anyone questioning my relationship with the Father and the Son, I won’t question his. I will however question which Bible Robertson’s been reading. While he certainly looks like he was around to witness the first testament, I gotta wonder if he’s read the second one. You know, wonder if he read about the birth of Christ, God’s son. Read about the life He led and how he was put on this Earth to die for all the sins of people for generations after Him and how it’s not man’s place to judge. I mean, that’s what I learned in Sunday school.
I don’t know what Robertson read and studied, but according to what I was taught and what I read, we’re not supposed to be sitting on our high horses and spouting out bullshit about what God did and didn’t do now. I was under the impression that the vengeful God who brought wrath and destruction gave the world His only son so that we would not all be doomed to a life in Hell.
This is why so many people are turned off from the church and church folks. The Word says “Greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world.” So, long story short, YOU, WE, CHRISTIANS are the church. It’s not a building or a place. It’s us. We could all be the only God, the only church that some people ever come in contact with and if we SOUND like Robertson, it’s no wonder people don’t WANT to be Christians.
I don’t think this is at all what the forefathers had in mind when they gave us the freedom of speech. With that one right, Americans are wealthy far beyond material riches. Effective words have the power to move mountains and start revolutions.
But, at the same time, to whom much is given, much is required. Freedom of speech is something that needs to be handled responsibly and with care. Both Limbaugh and Robertson have been reckless and irresponsible with that and they need to be shut down. I don’t think their freedom of speech should be taken away, but their forum should be.
Join me in telling everybody I know to turn off Limbaugh and Robertson. This foolishness must end!