Messages By: sarelda

They should have Damon Wynans on too.  He put a lot of this into perspective yesterday on The View.  I don't usually watch The View but caught it.

We are getting way out of hand whenever anyone does or says anything.  If it offends you than don't listen or watch or whatever.   Political correctness is gone overboard. 

People should get the whole story instead of only parts of it.  Before jumping to conclusions and pointing fingers We really need to find a common ground but people need to stop being so sensitive over ignorance.  How about pointing out the ignorance rather than calling for peoples heads/jobs over a stupid comment they made.  Why do we need press conferences and consolers for this stuff like...

Imus--no he shouldn't have called those girls names but so what. Did it really hurt them. Did they really care what he thought about them.  How many of them had even heard of him?  He shouldn't have lost his job. No, He should have just said, I shouldn't have said it I will try better in the future.  That is what I try to tell the kids in day care when some calls them stupid or fat or whatever.... Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me.  Are adults are acting worse than 2nd graders over stupid comments.

Jena--Wow, I really think this went overboard.  Those kids obviously did not want to kill that young man.  In the heat of the moment they got carried away.  He didn't die (yes he could have with one wrongly aimed kick  but he didn't)  yes assault, suspension and maybe some community service.  As for the young man who was in adult jail over this.  He did have a previous record for violence.  I think people need to be treated the same according to what they did and their previous records.  We are ruining to many lives by the way we react to things.  People like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson need to spend their time trying to mentoring young men, teaching and supporting others into mentors rather than stirring up trouble.

Dog--Private conversation, he thinks those things so he will say them.  Most of the people he deals with(white, black, yellow, brown) are criminals.  He is used to that type of language and stuff.  He should not talk about someone in his family like that but I don't know the story behind why he feels that way. But is it really any of our business?  We should wonder what he son is trying to do/start since he was taping a private conversation.  I will not judge a family dispute I don't live his life or deal with his son and his girlfriend.  It is not my place to judge.  As long as he doesn't speak to people he doesn't know like that, some random lady at the store why do we care.

I know that his opinion will not be popular. But we need more common sense in today's world.   I think unfortunately there are many prejudice people out there on many different subjects.  But we really are nit picking and getting our feelings hurt a little to much.  Some things (not all) you can just shrug off and realize that its ignorance talking. 

Wow, what a cop out.  I support my son on $7.45 an hour 6 hours a day.  You can do it if you try.

There is subsidized housing.  Metropolitain housing.  I pay rent, electric, gas, I also have to pay for car insurance, and stuff like that.  My son's needs etc... and I do it.   There is help if you ask for it.  You don't have to have help forever just while need it.  That's what it there for.

It's not easy.  We don't take vacations or drive a new car, we don't eat out a lot but hey you have to make sacrifices.  I work in a child care center.  We have lot of families who struggle and have to pay for day care, work and go to school.  They do it.  Some are single parents and do it.

I had to be home to see my son do stuff. WOW, how selfish is that.  Your child needs you to be a good role model and to take care of his needs.  He needs his own room, a place to play.

They are both lazy, a bit snobby to think flipping burgers in below them.  A job is a job and if you do it right than you can be proud of it.  People need burger flippers more often than they need a lawyer. 

I wish you luck.  It's hard because he is your son but you have got to lay down the law.  Get a job at least 2 or 3 hours a day or your out.  The college has jobs, fast food, mow lawns. anything.