CHINCHECK
by Charlamagne Tha God cthagod@gmail.com
ANGER ISSUES When you live in a society or world like this that is founded on racism, sexism, and unbridled materialism, we who have been servitude slaves, never finding justice, have anger in us. We have anger, not because we think we have been disrespect – we know we have been disrespected. If Allah (God) ever asked us like he asked Cain, “Why has your countenance fallen and why are you angry?” we could quote the honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and say, “God, it is because of 400 years of injustice. 400 years of watching our women be raped and disrespected and our children be slaughtered. Why shouldn’t we be angry?” Praise be to Allah! Only the minister could put everything into perspective for me and make me understand I’m not crazy. In the fifth grade, I was clinically diagnosed as being bipolar, having attention deficit hyperactive disorder, being emotionally unstable, and manic depressive? All this just because my fifth grade teacher said I had “anger issues.” One trip to the punk-ass guidance counselor almost had me on Ritalin, Lithium, and Prozac. They were ready to label me EH (“emotionally handicapped”). I would’ve been going to class in the trailers all the way in the back of the school, eating lunch before all the regular kids, and riding that short yellow bus with tinted windows. All because they thought I was angry. Well, I was angry! And still am! So what is pissing me off today? Well, damn it, where do I start? How about Michael Vick? This brother had the NFL in the palm of his hands. He’s a multimillionaire bringing in all types of bread, but the one thing this guy chose to invest his money in had to be illegal – dog-fighting. You see how us coloreds do it? Now, don’t get me wrong. Fighting pitbulls is a way of life where I’m from (South Carolina all day) and I totally understand the culture, but when you’re a young black millionaire, you have to play the game better than that! You can’t even remotely be involved in no stupid shit like dogfighting. I can’t even understand a man who can afford to go anywhere in the world wanting to be in a dirty ass pit with fighting dogs. That shit just does not make logical sense to me, but that is where my grease for Michael Vick stops because the punishment that brother is receiving does not fit the crime. There is a big difference between dogs and humans! If Michael Vick had midgets fighting and he was electrocuting them when they didn’t win, I can understand him getting a year in jail. I can understand him being suspended from the league indefinitely. I can understand him losing all his endorsement deals. But for some damn dogs?!? All you holier-than-thou types know that if you ran over a dog in the street with your car, you’re not going to stop and turn yourself in for committing Scooby Doo homicide. The 50+ pitbulls they took off Michael Vick’s property are going to be put to sleep if they’re not claimed. If the powers that be are planning to kill the dogs anyway, what is the issue here, people? Someone told me they have to kill the dogs because they’re not tamed and are trained to fight, which makes them dangerous. Okay, well, here is my solution: Bring the troops home and dump the pitbulls in Iraq. Let them go fight that unjust war, or build a halfway house for pitbulls. Keep them in a nice cage, feed them, and keep them sedated on all that medication you offer to people like myself when you diagnose us with “anger issues.” Let them die a natural death. Michael Vick did commit a crime because dogfighting is illegal, but I don’t think he is inhumane, nor do I think he showed a lack of compassion. You know what I think is inhumane and shows a lack of compassion? The fact that there are so many tax-paying African Americans here in the USA with littleto-no healthcare. When I watch a movie like John Q and hospital doesn’t want to give a little boy the surgery he needs to survive because he doesn’t have proper healthcare insurance, that is inhumane and shows a lack of compassion? By the way, the title of that movie is a reference to the term “John Q Public,” indicating that the struggles in the story could be experienced by any average American, white or black. Damn right I’m angry, because blacks keep getting caught up this damn injustice system. Look at what they’re doing to
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those poor kids in Jena, Louisiana. It’s a blatant racial injustice, but we’re too busy doing the “Supaman” to notice. What we don’t realize is that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s statement that “an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” is the truth. The powers that be know that black leadership in America is finished. They know there’s no one that’s going to fight for these kids. We’re too busy to give of ourselves, stage sit-ins, and protest. There are no more Malcolm Xs, Denmark Veseys, or Nat Turners, and the government knows this so they take advantage of it. We couldn’t get them to spare Stanley “Tookie” Williams’ life, we didn’t scream loud enough about racial injustice after Hurricane Katrina, and we’re damn sure not doing it enough now to assist those kids in Jena, Louisiana. Matter of fact, if you are reading this and don’t know what I’m talking about when I speak of the “Jena 6,” then I challenge you to kill yourself! Die! You’re already mentally dead, so what’s the point of breathing? Now, I will leave you with this thought: The American justice system needs to be applauded for putting Foxy Brown’s manicurist-attacking, Blackberryslapping, probation-violating, still-thinks-she’s-a-celebrity-but-chick-thisain’t-1996 ass in jail! Who the fuck does she think she is? She’s had more than enough chances to straighten up and fly right. Truthfully, with the behavior she has exhibited, I thought she was trying to get into prison! I’ve heard of people trying to break out of prison, but breaking in? Someone needs to tell this broad that nobody cares. Foxy might as well be on the next season of Charm School on VH1. Her career is finished and she’s going to need Jesus or the Golden Child to resurrect her situation. Someone called the radio station and said, “Charlamagne, don’t you think Foxy will go platinum when she gets out of jail?” After I finished laughing for thirty seconds straight, I responded, “Foxy Brown wouldn’t go platinum if Jay-Z wrote all her rhymes, 50 wrote all her hooks, and Jeezy did all her ad-libs.” Since making that comment, I have changed my stance a little bit. Foxy could go platinum if she was signed to Jehovah Entertainment by God himself, and Jesus is the executive producer of her next CD. Her first single would have to feature fresh new 2007 verses from the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Big Pun, Big L, Left Eye, Soulja Slim (for the South), and feature Aaliyah on the hook. If Foxy can make that happen, angry black men like me will be buying her next album. Until next time, earthlings, Charlamagne Tha God says peace.