I don't know what happened to TownHall.com this last week, but I could not get on to blog, and at a time I could have wrote a book on the events of the weekend!  I think everyone who might read this knows about the comments of everyone's favorite candidate, Barack Obama, and how everyone is 'bitter' because they lost their job and 'cling' to guns, religion, etc, etc...so basically you know you're a redneck in a red state(or small town according to Mr. Hope) when you go to church, have a gun rack, and don't like illegal immigrants taking jobs from legal(and hence better qualified) workers.  I guess that's the conspiracy in those small Penn. towns right? All the rednecks are getting together and declaring in their town hall/kkk venues, "We're bitter about everything....so we aren't gonna vote for that Obama feller--he wants us to actually have hope--but he's black, so we sure aren't voting for him...Heil Hitler!" 

It's amazing to me how these 'conspiracy theories' are certainly 100 percent accurate when a black senator says them....or when some jackanape like Alicia Keys comes out and says that Gansta Rap is a conspiracy to make black people kill each other made up by white people(including her mom I guess) and the government.  Especially in minority communities, where some of the most ignorant people are.(They choose to be ignorant by the way, I grew up there and chose to be educated) Rev. Wright said AIDS was devised(which if it was devised in a lab, why doesn't another lab devise a cure so they can make a worldwide profit that would make the oil companies look like my small business in comparison) by government scientists to kill blacks and hispanics.  Again, it's the white people's fault(again, including his mother--which is overlooked by everyone, all these conspiracy blacks are half white, just like most of us--I'm a bit of everything, so yes, I can say that), and that's real right? 

Yet, when Geraldine Ferraro comes out and says that Sen. Obama's campaign is successful is because he's black, she's a card-carrying member of the KKK if you believe the people who support Obama.  I am so sick of the fact that when a black person bumps his gums and says something ridiculous, it's fact, but when a white person says something, it's obviously because they are a closet racist and they want to let the world know---really?

Bob Johnson of BET came out yesterday and said the same thing that Ms. Ferraro said, and it's amazing how I have not heard a peep from Jesse(Jackson) or Al(Sharpton)--or really anyone.  It's hard to argue with a self-made billionaire...black, white, or indifferent.

There was a time when we ignored people who brought up ridiculous ideas like those above, but in the you tube era, it seems everyone's theory is true.

So what are the facts? Depends who you ask right?That's just the problem--we're so afraid to be wrong in this day in age, so quick to blame someone else for our problems, that we as a society have replaced fact and truth with conspiracy, of course, only if you're Black, or a Woman, or some other 'oppressed' minority.

The facts are this: Bob Johnson decided not to believe the conspiracy, along with so many others who aren't in the ghetto anymore, who rose above, who  decided to be better, not bitter.

The bitter ones are those who choose to be so.  Whether they cling to guns, or communism, or the idea that it's all 'the man's' fault.

Here's what I cling to, with no bitterness: G_d, the idea of real hope and change that I can make, and the truth of the fact that I live in a free country where I can change my life and others in the scope of one day. 

I know what's it's like to be down, to struggle, I'm doing it right now: but what I have learned from years of playing football is that the struggle is the practice for glory to come when success is made--the problem is, many of the liberal people in this country believe that the game is rigged.

They can keep believing that--I will go after my victory, and eventually, I will win. 

I know others will win with me, and they will cling to their victory, not bitterness.