5 Things That Will Piss You Off This Week

W. Island
W. Island
Jul 25, 2017 · 4 min read

1. Michael Vick Gives Colin Kaepernick career advice.

Michael Vick who spent time in jail for running a dog fighting ring out of his multi-million dollar, Virginia home advised Colin Kaepernick to cut his afro if he wanted another chance as an NFL quarterback. That’s right, you can be given another chance to play football if you kill dogs like Vick, knock your wife out cold in an elevator like Ray Rice, be implicated in a murder like Ray Lewis, beat your son like Adrian Peterson or charged with sexual assault like Ben Roethlisberger, Jameis Winston, Mark Sanchez, Richie Incognito, and Pacman Jones (there are actually too many to list here). But a silent protest during the national anthem destroys your career.

2. Donald Jr Gets Called A Boy

Tamir Rice, 12 years old, wasn’t called a boy. Trayvon Martin, 17 years old, wasn’t called a boy, but the Washington Post had an actual op-ed discussing whether or not 39 year old, Donald Jr. should be labeled a boy. Jared Kushner also gets a pass for looking younger than his 36 years while black kids get tried as adults based on their real age no matter how they look. Hell in the eyes of police apologists, Tamir Rice at 12 looked like a grown man while there are plenty of people who claim Jared Kushner at 36 is just a fresh faced naïve kid who also happens to be in charge of solving the opioid epidemic in this country and bringing peace to the Middle East. It continues to piss me off how black kids are never just kids. But white men get the “he’s just a boy pass” even when it involves Russian collusion in our elections.

3. Trump Boy Scouts Speech

This is the President of the United States speaking at a Boy Scout Jamboree.

“[Levitt] he sold his company for a tremendous amount of money. At the time especially — this was a long time ago — [he] sold his company for a tremendous amount of money. And he went out and bought a big yacht, and he had a very interesting life. I won’t go on any more than that because you’re Boy Scouts, so I’m not going to tell you what he did.”

“Should I tell you? Should I tell you?”

“Oh, you’re Boy Scouts, but you know life. You know life. So — look at you. Who would think this is the Boy Scouts, right?”

“So, he had a very, very interesting life, and the company that bought his company was a big conglomerate …”

“He so badly wanted it, he got bored with this life of yachts and sailing and all of the things he did in the south of France and other places. You won’t get bored, right? You know, truthfully, you’re workers. You’ll get bored, too. Believe me. Of course, having a few good years like that isn’t so bad.”

I have nothing else to say.

4. Confederate

I love the Game of Thrones. It’s one of the few shows that I like to watch during the original air date. I don’t want to wait and watch it later and miss all of the live tweets. But it pisses me off that the Game of Thrones showrunners decided it would be a good idea to create a show where the south successfully seceded and slavery wasn’t abolished.

I’m not against movies or television shows depicting slavery. I watched the “Underground” and paid money to see 12 years a Slave but this idea is just stupid. Not Family Guy stupid but funny. Really, really offensively fucking stupid.

Right now we have white supremacists working in the white house, reverse racism is seen as a bigger problem than actual racism, and saying Black Lives Matter gets your NFL career killed (see above). Even democrats are out chasing the “white working class” because they are seen as the one group that no one listens to even though every election and every party always talks about the “white working class”. They even get called the “working class” when most are on social security, disability or just unemployed because as they claim the Mexicans are taking all their jobs.

Now we are supposed to embrace a series where these two white guys imagine that the south succeeded and those uppity black folks were back in the slave shacks. Umm, I’m gonna pass.

5. OJ Was Paroled

I’m not pissed that OJ was paroled. He served his time for the crime he was convicted of (the burglary). I’m pissed that so many television hours were devoted to watching this sad, old man’s parole hearing. With all that’s going on in the world, this hearing should never have been on so many news channels. Enough of OJ already.

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Analyst, social justice advocate, blogger and proud liberal Black woman. Follow @WandaSpeaks67

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A mother and daughter tackle race, social justice, and intergenerational feminism.

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