my rants of the day

1. i do not like her. period. exclamation point. sarah palin and her "gee golly bobby" voice and that facial she does makes me want to blinkblink and shove her. this article sums it up perfectly, showing how she is a "pretty" politician who has won some of the shallow american public because she is used to being in the spotlight of beauty pageants. she crawled out from her rock in alaska to get some warm air and thinks that whack jokes and puns will get her into the white house. she drops the "g"s of her words, and thats about all she does to try and "relate". PTA?? HOCKEY??? are you kidding me??? i am seriously reconsidering my citizenship if this woman is remotely near ruling this country. "pray the gay away"? PALIN PLEASE. Take your hideous hair havin, whack suit wearin, backwoods bamma accent, funky facial idiot ass elsewhere and relieve me of ever seeing you again. *woosah*

2. my second rant is african americans in corporate america. i have had two recent convos with my friends who feel the same way, and it still gets me heated. now i have absorbed all i can take of the machine they call corporate america and have tortured myself with its ways for four years in college. but i quickly realized that i would be damned if some white man would tell me what i could wear, when i could wear it, how my hair could look, what i could do for fun etc. now, no he doesnt walk up and tell you, but it is implied that you are supposed to carry yourself and present yourself a certain way in order for you to be successful. everyone cannot be jay z or play basketball so it is the only way out for many of us, but DAMN! i cannot take it. but what REALLY gets me is how now young black professionals have adopted this attitude which we like to call BOUGIE. i absolutely HATE it. in "professional" environments black people are scared to look at each other for fear of..what??? please explain. what? you dont want them to know YOU ARE BLACK??lol people kill me. KILL ME. im not even talking about being ultra expressive of your race/culture/ethnicity etc, because there is a time and place for everything, but please believe that your interests are not important to them at the end of the day. PLEASE BELIEVE IT. So why you are going out of your way to knock down stereotypes and negative images, trust that they are making up new ones! it is a lose/lose situation, and i dont do this to be hopeless or depressing, i just say it to make you aware because in the end, you can work anywhere and do anything as long as you know who you are, but if you don't.....

3. sometimes i think i am an alien and it really ruffles my feathers when PEOPLE DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE YOU. i am working as a receptionist right now and i see it as part of my duties to say "good morning" to all who pass me. this seems normal right? well i guess not!! because people whisp, yes whisp past without even turning their head to look at me. now i understand bad days or how you can have that "fuck it" in your system in the morning. i have it sometimes. well then you can still look, nod, smile or SUMTHIN. it literally seems like people go out of their way to NOT acknowledge you. i find this to be extremely rude and wish i had a button to make the person trip and fall flat on their face if after i say good morning and within the next 5 seconds, you do not answer. when i was in school on campus when people would be walking towards you and go out of their way to look at the sidewalk instead of acknowledging you. *sigh* maybe i am just bitter and ultra nice. w/ever. grrrr.