Reaping What You Sow.

I can't remember the last time I actually blogged about somethin on here not sports related. But every now and then somethin will capture my attention and I have to write about it.

People are hella quick to make judgments on others...but even more so when you got fame because the target on your back is that much bigger so people can use more ammunition to mark that back. Also, you become more liable to get joked on...regardless of the subject matter. I come to find out yesterday that Pleasure P had been molesting his niece & nephew when he was 16-17. Hella disturbing right? Instead of feelin pity for him, we relentlessly crack jokes on him (and yes I'm guilty of doing so also). Is it deserved? Usually not. Do we derive pleasure (no pun intended) off of another one's problems? Almost always, because we are a sensationalist society. We never truly take a step back & think about if our families were put in situations like these because we're too caught up in the moment.

They have shows such as "To Catch A Predator" which do nothing but clown on potential child sex predators. We watch them, we laugh at them as Chris Hansen exposes them and at times we have pity for them. Do they deserve more so our pity however...or do they deserve what they're gettin by being exposed because of the deliberate acts? No, we mainly laugh at them. R.Kelly is yet another example. Although disturbed about his peeing act at first, we took it upon ourselves to take that joke & run with it all the way to the bank. Hell, the Chappelle Show & the Boondocks have run episodes strictly on the man ha. Michael Jackson is the third. No matter how fucked up we know it is (and hell we'll never know the truth); all we did was clown the man for allegedly touching boys, Neverland, and his multitude of Plastic Surgeries. When the man died there were still smatterings of this lying around. Shit, even Tiger Woods' "domestic dispute" has been the center of controversy & jokes all week. Check out the front cover of the New York Post by the way if you haven't done so.

With fame you can use that to your full advantage. But at the same time a couple of false moves here and there & suddenly you can become the butt of jokes. And with the way our cynical minds work now, there's no such thing as a joke being too soon. You reap what you sow regardless of whether it's unintentional or not, whether you apologize or not, all of that. It's not just these people's lives and reputations that get ruined...but behind closed doors this is devastating to the people closest to them. We never think about the latter because those people are Everyman like you and me. Life's a bitch it really is. But we're also human too.

And so on.