In the words of rap great Grand Puba, "Sorry I left You"

In the words of rap great Grand Puba, "Sorry I left You"

This blog is taking a new direction. I felt I didn't have time for this shit. I still don't. I'm a student on a quest to not have mediocre grades. So I study until I have zombie brain. As a result I fell asleep studying in bed with my laptop and accidentally flung it to the floor upon waking, ruining my hard drive. The replacements been here for a couple month....ever since my fingers touched the keys they have burned with the desire to get these thoughts and words out. Its been calling me to blog it out, to express what was on my mind. Not because any reason besides my head is just way too full of opinion that nobody cares about but me, and I gotta get it down. So are you down? Cus' I'm still the peoples champ, and I'm ready to ride. I won't bs you and promise you regular post and all kinds of supertastiscal content, but I will curse, vent, share, relate, care...and write whatever I want about things that matter to me, things that are on the current. Like a mind surfer. A silver surfer. Come ride the wave...

Champion of the day: Papoose

People may pop mess about Papoose but I respect this man for standing by his woman, his loyalty to Remy Ma is beautiful and fitting of a king who loves his queen. The rarity of a man taking care of his incarcerated woman, which he speaks about doing in this video, 

http://www.vladtv.com/video/163015/exclusive-papoose-on-continuing-marriage-with-remy-ma-in-jail/fb_action_ids=10201118563274414&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582 

is so sad, it is the way it should be! For better or worse! When I worked in Rikers it was heartbreaking how the families, husbands, boyfriends, baby fathers would desert the women, even for a short term petty thirty to sixty day sentence sometimes. Female inmates get fewer visits, and the "why this is" interests me deeply to research.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/women-rikers-island-visitors-men-inmates-article-1.945039 

No visits, letters, or money or her books for food and essentials. It is so Un-Christ like to abandon someone helpless behind bars paying for their mistakes. It’s easy to throw stones, until you walk in those shoes. 
Yet women support the men, are at every visit with the kids, even sometimes bickering & fighting with sidepieces who show up, or realizing they are the sidepiece when the main event comes to the visit and they are sidelined! Jail and prison visit rooms are just messy for women.

 I wonder why women’s loyalties lie so strongly in these men, who studies and research show, will not do the same, and do not feel the same way, about them. It is sad indeed. I celebrate Papoose. And I implore women to make the right choices, so they don't end up in Remy's position. I need my people of color to wake up and see that #massincarceration does not discriminate between sex, just race, ladies you can get it too! Will he be there for you if you get caught out there? Shit happens, and if you are paying attention, the long arm of the law is getting longer every day! Everybody’s a criminal 

By the way, welcome home Melissa Alexander! Stand your ground, no woman deserves to be abused.