A Warped POV by A. Dacosta Brathway

January 27th, Friday... So I'm flipping channels and I stumble up a show that I do not watch: It's A Brad, Brad World, which is a show about a homosexual fashion dude. I'm watching this guy talk about his childhood, while crying. He is unshaven, hair a mess. He has on fashionable sun glasses and he is going on about how he and his father never got along and I am wondering, what is the perception of a black heterosexual male these days?
Last time I checked, I have an idea of what the white heterosexual male looks like. He is Tim Taylor (Tim Allen) who worships tools and grunts like the Neanderthal man. Are black men now represented by the "rapper" image. You know, hardcore, educated by the street in the hood, life expectancy to 25 years old? (Talk about an endangered species!) Stereotypes abound, I am talking about perceptions. Now-a-days it seems like TV is the portal to the world for most in America. What you see, is! Network TV, news included, is stupid! Cable TV puts it out there! The bad part is the more cash involved, the more idiotic the scenarios. "Reality" TV shows really show to what length people will act (up). Needless to say, black women do not fair well in this genre. Dressed up, weaved up, made up women dating no account men, driving expensive cars and throwing drinks at each other during a stupid argument has the ancestors twisting in their graves like a crocodile performing the death roll!
As outragious as it looks, I wonder what the future holds?

A Warped POV by A. Dacosta Brathway

December 15th, Thursday... I keep reading where the extremely rich wants to maintain Bush's tax cuts while the economy sinks deeper and deeper into the abyss. CEO's of Fortune 500 companies are getting buyout increases... Bogus mortgages are being issued. Foreclosures are (still) on the rise. The perception of a recession is present while construction of new buildings is also present and I have to ask myself, why does the powers that be in America keep fucking with its people!
Maybe I have the wrong explanation about politics and politicians. Maybe what's happening is supposed to happen. I thought (like an ass) that the system was in place to help the poor and middle class. I (now) see that it (the system) was designed to destroy those entities! I mean, where else can war be looked upon as a business? Capitalism is about statistics... Body counts and dollars and cents. Fuck the people! Procreate so that the species can be replenished so that the numbers will be there when it's time to do the fucking over!
2012 is the year when it has been prophesied that the world would come to an end,,, C'mon 2012!

A Warped POV by A. Dacosta Brathway

October 12th, Wednesday... I just got finished watching the whole first season of BRAVO's A Work of Art and I am absolutely inspired... to do nothing! I thought the artist's were great. They did motivating work but my issue is how do you get the opportunity to create art considering the state of the world?
I don't really fault the artists. I guess I got caught up with the critics assessments of the works. Who are these people? How do you get to sit on your ass and look down on the creative masses and judge their work? Can you even judge the concept of some one's work? If I'm judging how you perceive the world, I am saying that my perception sets a standard that you have to align yourself with to be relevant! WHAT? And, where is your work being displayed so that I may be able to make my comparisons? And, how can I get me one of those "judging" gigs? And, if I lose the competition, am I now irrelavant in the world of art (after all that work I did)?
Shit... considering what I just wrote, am I now what I detest?