MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK JAY-Z REMIX

If u aint on this yet....im sorry. Shoutout to Battle Axe and Tes for puttin me on this joint but this remix is amazing. Jay-z really outdid himself and i feel like I gotta put something up on the eve of this historic day...enjoy the video....OBAMA!!!!!


Jay-Z My President is black Remix LIVE 1-18-09 from pleasedontstare on Vimeo.

GUESS WHO'S BIZAAAACK!!!!

Man, so much to say! Its been a long while since the last post went out and I'm gonna get to a lot of different topics in this one. First of all the pictures above will be the direction of this blog so bear with me and it will all be made clear soon. I'll start out with the picture of me in the basketball jersey. That picture really isn't related to what I am going to say but it is the most recent picture I have of myself in that Cardinal uniform. It has been a rocky 2 or so months for our team; and I guess I use this picture because it represents the last time our team was NORMAL. This was the game against LMC in which we (surprisingly to some) got our first win ever against them. The next day we had a front page news article in our local newspaper the Herald Palladium talking about the impact of our new coach Fred Paulsen and how our program looked so serious. Since then our team has been anything but that. The next day our athletic director was pressured to fire our coach. After an emotional meeting with all parties involved, he was able to convince the school to give coach a second chance. Things seemed to be regaining normalcy but its just gotten wierder ever since. Instead of moving to 8-4 in our next game against a beatable team, we lost in DISSAPOINTING FASHION. Then Christmas break happened. Long story short not everyone came back, and we played a game after break with 7 guys against another bad team and lost again. We then went out west the past thursday to Walla Walla to play a double header against them. We went there 7-6 with 9 guys due to the fact that some guys still were not allowed to travel with us (emphasis on coaches decision there). Now Walla Walla was a winless team up to this point. Lets just say that the same thursday we traveled there was the first day we had to play them. We arrived there 5:30 local time (we left for chicago at 6:00 am MICHIGAN TIME) and then played at 7.....jetlag is an understatement. They ended up beating us in that first game by 7. So now we were 7-7 reeling from this BAD 3 game losing streak all games we should of had. Then came saturday night. We went into that gym and honestly just decided that we weren't gonna let them beat us. They had a good crowd that liked to talk a lot of junk so it felt literally AMAZING to shut them up. 18 point win....pindrop silence except for the away locker room where we were going CRAZY!!!!! So now we are 8 and 7, we aren't totally happy with that but starting tommorow we are supposed to have our full team back to practice. I honestly can't wait and I am longing for the day when we can have that same feeling back that we had in that LMC locker room, togetherness; toughness; brotherhood; family; thats cardinal basketball.

Moving to the next picture this is just a quick public service announcement for the haters at large. I highly recommend this book swag for dummies because your need to hate (which essentially equals a lack of swag) can be cured by this good read. Like honestly i'll cut right to the chase the whole juicycampus.com thing honestly gave me a nice chuckle. And at the end of the day no blog i write or anything I say will ever really stop you from hating. But i'm really trying to save your life...cause a life without some sort of swag is gonna leave you empty. Cause when u graduate (if you ever do)...all those people u spent time hating on in college are gonna be gone making moves, more importantly not remembering any of the things you've said about them. And to address it directly, I know my dad has thick skin and I wont sweat it. Since I know him and actually listen to the things he says in sermons, I understand where he is coming from. I know what his motives are, I know what kind of person he is. So I use the same logic to analyze the haters. My dad puts his name on everything he's said and stands by it. His haters don't. He makes sure u can put a face to his name. His haters won't. In everything he does he strives to promote unity within our campus, our church, our world by helping us to realize that we cannot keep repeating the mistakes of the past. His haters don't care, they strive to criticize such talk because they like the divided state of our campus, our church, our world, our lives. So the next time you wanna say something about him, you would sound a lot more intelligent if you listened with a clear open mind. When it comes down to it; real talk hurts fake people...enough said.

Lastly, I will direct your attention to the elderly black male at the top of the page. His name is James Presley. He is from Sledge, Mississippi. He is 78 years old. He is also the grandson of a slave. You can read more about him here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/12/grandson.of.slaves/index.html on CNN.com. When you ask him about slavery and the hardships that his family has gone through he can tell you about many of the experiences of his forefathers. He still lives and Sledge and he continues to participate in the family trade: picking cotton. On November 4th, 2008 he was able to make a vote that literally brought tears to his eyes. He never thought he would see that day that a black man would run his country. There are so many stories about the inspiration of Barack Obama and what his inauguration will mean to all of us. But when you really think about a man who was brought up in the slave mindset of submission and inferiority being able to help elect a black man to the highest office in that same land, it has to send chills up and down your spine. The Presley family is a living witness of the progress that we have seen in this country but they continue to be a reminder of how far we have come from in the now election of Barack Obama. I'll leave you with James Presley's message to the world: "The important thing in life is to try to live and do the best you can," he says. "We done had it bad. Let us help give our children a better life, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren. Let's try to give them a better life than we had. But anyway, just keep the good work going, is all I say."
GOD BLESS AND KEEP TUNING IN!