What is about athletes that captures our attention and dollars? I mean are they doing something that I/we can't do our selves if we had the time, the drive and the equipment? I know personally I was an average basketball player all my life, but who knows what couple have happen with a small push from parents (not that I am blaming them). I am more than sure that I would not be writing this blog from work, but from a small island in the south pacific!
O.k. back to reality, the thing that got me tripping on this day is the expectations and treatment of the celebrities that we create! If need be-we can go back to the Roman Gladiator days down to Babe Ruth to Micheal Jordan to Tiger Woods. Do we, as spectators, expect perfection both on and off the field? Take for example, this baseball player who didn't chase down a baseball recently with the zest that the fans wanted. Well the manager checked him and took him out the game. The player was like so what! Later the next day the player apologized to all his team mates and got back in the starting line up and got a homer in the next game. I guess all is forgiven and forgotten now-right? Honestly that seems to be the way it goes for super stars because the baseball player I was speaking of has a guaranteed contract for $70 million. The team could release him today, but they still would have to pay him. Therefore, he can get away with anything as long as he says ""Sorry"".
Well this has got me thinking about our youth today. In schools, kids can cuss out their teachers, fight other students, act a straight fool on the school bus and let us not even think about completing homework! The punishment........a stern talking with, in school suspension or maybe a day or two outta school and then its back to the same old thang! Why did we ever stop paddling these kids? Like the super star athletes.....there is no deterrent or fear of anything. At the end of the day, it starts at home. If parents don't train a boy up from infancy, how will he know when he is older?
I don't expect perfection from anyone consider how many things I need to work on my dang self, but I just get bummed out sometimes at how the double standards of those who have and those who have far less are treated! It seems like society can accept the missteps or lapse in character judgements from a person who entertains them vs someone who just irrates them. Need I say Mel Gibson, Kramer from the Seinfeld show, Dog the bounty hunter and Lindsay Lowhand...wheeeew! All have messed up royally and back on top! But what about the 18 year black boy who have sex with his 17 year old white girlfriend? Why did he have to go to jail? Was it was because he was on the honor roll with a 4.0 GPA or was it because he wasn't shooting the ball through the hoop with a 85% accuracy rate!
Its crazy but I feel the message society is telling us is- that if you are a 40 million dollar slave you got a license to ((ILL)) until you stop doing what you do! Suckers.....
I aM WaRd....
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