Welcoming America In A Profane Way..(F*ck It)

So I was checking out my facebook and stumbled upon a post by the Philadelphia Inquirer about people being outraged by the "profanity" dropped by the musicians during Philly's "Welcome America" celebration concert. Groups such as the Roots, Black Thought and Nicki Minaj performed this year. I read through the comments on that facebook page and what I read disgusted me. People launching insults with comments like "that's what you get when you invited monkeys to perform", "they're thugs what do you expect" and well I just am not going to repeat the other comments because I do not want to give them idiots that.

Really?! Comments like that aren't profane? What is so profane about the F word? What is wrong with the word "shit"? how about "bitch"? Within the very city of Philadelphia people are being beaten and shot to death and this brutality spreads from Philly throughout the state, throughout the united states and throughout the world. Is THIS not the only profanity going on in the world? No bombs (that would hurt anybody) were dropped on Philly during this performance. The real profanity is life. The real profanity is reality. These streets are profanity. These politicians are profanity. These ignorant racists are profanity. It's not our fault that society is vulgar. The people complaining are the ones guilty of the most profanity with their racist, hateful rants about those "niggers" at the 4th of July celebration.

These are the kinds of people who scream and holler about our Troops over in Iraq & elsewhere, they wave their american flags and yell about how they support the troops! and they yell about FREEDOM and the "american way"...
Having numerous friends that were in, and some that currently are in the military, I got to thinking. If these young, black, white, asian, korean, latino, straight, gay/lesbian, christian, muslim, jewish, etc. AMERICANS can fight for their country and die for that "freedom", then why is it so many of these patriotic dumb asses can't have respect for said "freedom"? Those men and women who make up our military, many of them dig the music that was played at the concert, they love the Roots, they love Black Thought, even love Nicki Minaj, some of these soldiers even drop F bombs here and there and I could have swore freedom of speech was one of those many "freedoms" that these brave young people die to protect. Isn't that the most popular belief regarding these wars? Isn't that what it's all about?

Why is it that Americans love when Americans fight and kill for freedom so that Americans who haven't done a damn thing to nurture freedom can sit around and point their fingers and tell people what they can't do, what they can't say, etc.?  No actual bombs were dropped on Philadelphia on July 4th, I say be happy they were only F bombs. Over seas, rockets are being fired, bombs are being dropped, machine guns are being emptied out into homes & churches and who knows what else/where else. THAT is the profanity. The world is vulgar and you expect people of this planet NOT to be vulgar?  The truth is explicit.

And let us please stop acting like hip-hop music is the only source of "curse words". I think that's only fair, so knock it off with the "nigger" shit and "what do you expect from thugs" b.s. There are many classic rock, rock, heavy metal songs that say a lot worse than what was said at this event. Movies and television also should plead guilty to being explicit and dropping profanity bombs at us. How about the "I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" by Country Joe McDonald (performed live at Woodstock) where at the beginning he spells out the word F-U-C-K and asks the crowd what it spells and all those people screamed it out loud and cheered it on? Great song that protests the war in Viet Nam and was a great song too, but the music of the Roots deserves the same respect.

Stuff like this proves that America has a lot of growing up to do, especially white america in many aspects. I am sometimes ashamed of my own damn people because of the way they act. Profanity. What's profane is asking black people to perform at a festival to honor a nation that enslaved them and even after "giving them freedom" still continued to degrade and insult them, murder, rape, brutalize and starve  them and enforce a stupid and idiotic sense of "supremacy" over them. THAT is profranity. THEN when these young men and women do these performances to show the nation some love (even though by all right they should be wiping their asses with that flag and that bill of stinkin' rights), you idiots insult them and rag on them about PROFANITY!?!??!!?!?!

I love all people, I don't care what color you are, your sexual preference, your gender, your nationality, your religious belief (i'm atheist by the way, nice to meet you), etc, i got nothing but love and respect for you as a human being. You can dislike a people, place, thing, but you MUST learn how to at least have some respect. To an extent you can blame their parents for not raising them right, as we all know racism and hate are taught, nobody is born hateful. I just wish more people could think like I do when it comes to stuff like this. I'm getting tired of seeing how people (especially white) act.

With all of that being said, I would like to thank The Roots & all other performers at the Welcome America celebration in Philadelphia. Thank you all for the beautiful music you've been giving to those of us who truly love and appreciate it. Please always remember that there are a lot of us who really dig what you're doing and you've been a true inspiration to us. I must say that my Roots cd's and Pac, and Public Enemy and my Mos Def and my Onyx and my Nas cd's have opened my eyes and my heart to the world and at the same time helped me to get through a lot of bad times. I think I would have had a successful suicide if it hadn't have been for hip-hop (and of course my Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon BOTH of which were considered profane!).

Anyway, get over the profanity America, if you can't then you can blow me...

PEACE

Joey (AKA Sarz)