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  I had too much time on my hands this weekend and no soaps to watch. I had also seen all of the episodes of every other show I may have thought to watch so I decided to try my hand at the "On Demand" menu. I came across a guided tour of the latest "Real World" house. People who have read my other blogs will know that I'm not a fan of those "reality" shows that their main purpose is only to interact with others. If I wanted to watch people talking, I'd just look out a window. I also find it strange that people would want to watch the lives of others instead of living their own. I don't mean a fictitious television show on occasion or even a pro sports event but have so many American citizens become so lazy that they would rather "watch" life rather than participate in it?

  I did watch the house tour though partly because I like design and enjoy Australia, which is where this one was. Anyway, they named off some of the names of the, I believe American, castmates. The Australian hosts came to the name "Dunbar" and said that it must be his/her surname, lol. The reason I'm mentioning it is another seemingly American tradition as of late. A few of my blogs back mentioned how names such as Amber for the snotty head cheerleader and her cptain of the football team boyfriend Cooper have become all too common in mediums such as television, film, etc. Girls with names after jewelry settings and boys with first names that sound more like their last has become just too overdone. No offense to anyone who has any of these names, I myself like some of them, but I don't see anything wrong with the good old-fashioned Mary & John.

As I went out with a few friends last night to go out to eat, there was some older guy that came up to me & asked me were the people I was with were my friends & I told him "yes". He looked shocked & surprised because one of the guys I was with was black, the other was latino & one of the girls we were with were black as well. It took me by surprise because no one has really ever approached me with a question like that about my friends before.

 

I bring this up because it also reminded me of the other times when I was asked simular questions in that reguard. Like for an example, I was asked one day by a friend do I perfer a woman in any race? I was very shocked by the question at first because I didn't know how to respond to it. But I told him it doesn't matter to me because while physical attraction does play a part in dating & such, I could be into ANY woman & find her attractive after awhile if she was a good person. I've always had the thought that it's all about the inner essence of a woman when it comes to dating more than physical attraction. For most who don't know, I'm actually biracial myself so that's why it doesn't matter with me. As I go out nowadays, I see A LOT more interracial dating than I would even a few years ago. The sad thing is they still get pretty dirty looks from others in our society that can't accept that times have changed. My mom & dad had it pretty bad in the 70's when they dated because back then, it was still a very rare thing to see interracial dating so they would get all sorts of words from others. But even today, you still have some that can't get past the fact that we're all human & that skin color is nothing but just that, skin. The color of your skin does not & should not define who you are as a person but even today, some can't accept others because some was just brought up that way.

 

The whole Imus thing is quite funny IMO & it's not because of what he said, it's because if it weren't for all of the controversy, he wouldn't of even got suspended, let alone fired. Sorry but despite free speech & other factors, he still should of been fired. The fact that the dude had the gall to call most of those girls on the Rutgers Basketball team "nappy headed ho's" was just disgusting. & sorry, but with me, his apologies to those girls don't mean a damn thing to me & it shouldn't of meant anything to them either because this isn't the first time he's said something that bad. He once called a black woman who's a New York Times publisher a "cleaning lady" & he's said that black people are all nothing but "thugs & common criminals". I wonder would he actually feel that way if he did go into the hood one day & actually see that not every black person was bad & not just only black people live in the projects. He was just downright abrasive & offensive with all of his comments & if it wasn't for the fact he made CBS & NBC money, he would of been fired on the spot.

 

All the Imus comment & incidents I have used in this entry shows is that we still have a LONG way to go in our everyday social life.