Forget Jay Z & Beyonce…
I’m trying to be like Barack & Michelle. “All I need in this life of sin, is me and my [successful, educated, intelligent, innovative, history making] boyfriend.”
Things that Crank My Gears – SEPTA edition
For all you non-PA residents – SEPTA: Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority.
AKA the bus, the subway, the train.
The only type of car I’ve had in my entire life is a BMW (Bus, Metro, Walking) so I am used to public transportation or calluses. But, since being in college I’ve found myself using my BMW a lot more often. Especially this semester as I am an intern in downtown Philadelphia but I live in North Philadelphia. So three times a week I join thousands of other workers, students, and parents and board some form of SEPTA. Even though we’re all boarding together, here are a few things that CRANK MY GEARS about the service, passengers, and other things.
1) WHY does every form of SEPTA ALWAYS smell like urine? Every day I burst off of the subway yearning for fresh air. Then I get off and what do I smell? The stench of Philthadelphia. But, I’ll take that over urine any day.
2) Headphones were invented for a reason so why am I listening to Lil Wayne on my ENTIRE ride to and from my internship?
3) Why did the price of tokens go up by twenty cents yet nothing about my ride has changed? At least use the twenty cents and by a car freshener so I don’t have to smell urine.
4) To the man selling…EVERYTHING on the train. No I don’t want a pair of socks, that new Tyler Perry DVD, that stuff in the bottle that you claim is perfume, or a pack of starburst. But, it will be raining later in the week and my umbrella broke so catch me on the orange line at 7:45.
5) I don’t mind conversing with other passengers on the train but how come when I don’t wanna give you my number NOW I got a big head? #imjustsaying
6) To the people who hear the train coming and they’re STILL walking dirt slow. You obviously have nowhere to be but you’re slowing down the rest of us who do have places to be and things to do. Move.
7) While I don’t mind conversing, I also know how to keep my conversation volumes and topics both limited. Some of other passengers should learn the same. I.E. : The girl who was telling her friend her boyfriend gave her VD on friday, the ninth grader (I know because she said it) who was bragging about all of the guys she had sex with (I’d say the number but I’m going to have respect for her seeing as she didn’t have respect for herself), The older woman who was telling all of her neighbor business (apparently he has three baby mamas, he’s not paying child support, and he telling them he trying to get a job even though he lives with soon to be baby mama number 4).
8) The fact that the SEPTA machines now only take dollar bills and no coins. So let me get this straight, you raise your prices from 2.90 (then I would put three singles in and get a dime in change) to 3.10 and now I have to put a five dollar bill in and get 1.90 in change. That;s annoying and noisy.
I don’t think I could ask for anything more
India Arie (My FAVORITE vocalist) + Yo Yo Ma (My FAVORITE cellist and possibly the greatest cellist ever) = Musical CRACK. I will die a happy woman.
Ohhh India
"Had to run to the arms of curiousity, just to find what was here in my life all along. I have found that the art of simplicity, simply means making peace with your complexities". - India.Arie
..And THATS the reason I’m sold OUT!
“I came home and found Jesus slitting his wrist in my bathroom. He said because ‘apparently the holes in my wrist weren’t large enough to fill your sorrow.'” – Philly Youth Poet
“For the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand saying unto thee, Fear not, I will help thee…Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” – Isaiah 41:13; 43:19
Obama and Black People
Barack Obama changed and made history. Point. Blank. Period. This is NOT a fact that I will deny. However, I have come up with a list of things that I feel I need to…”inform” black people of about Barack Obama.
**DISCLAIMER** This post does not reflect any political views. It is simply the observations of the relationship between a group of people and their President.
1) I’m sure all blacks (and any minority around the world) are proud of Barack Obama and the feat he has accomplished. However, Barack is NOT your uncle/cousin/brother/best friend/God father/baby daddy. So please, take his family photo out of that frame hanging in your cubicle at work. You do NOT know him.
2) Barack is G R O W N. Yes, the media is overly scrutinizing and criticizing him but guess what? He’s a politician and quite frankly this is what he signed up for. And why yes it is frustrating to hear him get thrown under the bus for incredibly minute issues (and issues that he did not create *cough cough George Bush*) he’s grown, he can defend himself. He does not need you coming to his rescue and cursing out your coworkers, neighbors, and people you ride the subway with to defend him. He got elected president of one of the most influential countries in this world and that’s the best defense he will ever have (besides Jesus of course).
3) Barack alone has made great strides for black people. So lets help him out by not setting our people back. i.e. doing something ignorant and then screaming “MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK!” Keyword PRESIDENT. He’s the President so HE can do what he wants. You’re a non tax paying citizen, keep your mouth shut.
4) Obama is the President of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. For those of you who don’t know, the USA is made up of Black…AND white, latino, asian, and a combination of these races (as we all can’t keep our hands to ourselves). He has to satisfy more than Black people. Blacks are not the majority in this country and in about five years we won’t even be the majority minority. If you like him in office he has to make everyone happy so that everyone will vote for him.
5) Our president is Black and for the next two years no one can take that from us. Even with all the scrutiny that he has undergone, he is still standing strong and his opponents have yet to find any REAL dirt on him. Just how he’s made us proud, lets make him proud and prove his opponents wrong by working that much harder and being that more cordial with each other and those outside of our race.
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