Shit! People are homeless?

By now, you all
know the story. A homeless man is saved from the streets by the
discovery of his amazing voice. After ruining his life with
drugs and alcohol, Ted Williams has become an overnight sensation.
It's the Susan Boyle story as imagined by the writers of The Wire.
Now the media is off and running with this great feel-good story.
Bullshit. This whole thing stinks. Here's why:

Condescending white man.

"I'm going to make
you work for your dollar," says the morally sound reporter. "God
bless!" responds the homeless, disheveled Ted Williams. He probably
should of said, "Thank ya, kindly sir! How bout a little chuck and
jive as you drive away. You sure look warm in that perdy car. Have
a nice day at your cushy job, motherfucker." If you want to give a
bum a buck, more power to you, but don't be a dick. The reporter
was probably thinking, "Shit, I'm gonna get canned if I don't come
up with something soon. Hey, look at that sorry, black Christopher
LLoyd looking sucker. Where's my flip camera?"

The sad
DEPICTION of the Black man.

Here's another black man
whose life was ruined by drugs. Now millions of middle America
families will see this story regurgitated on their local Fox news
affiliate. They'll feel sorry for him, and might eved say a prayer
for him at the dinner table. But at the end of the day, he's just
another crazy black man on TV. Add him to guests on Maury and
rappers on BET. This is what White America thinks Black America
looks like. It's okay, it won't be so funny once their daughter
brings Jermaine* home. *Side note. My computer doesn't even
recognize Jermaine. It suggests Germaine, German, and Germane. Have
they never heard of the Jackson 5? That's racists!

They'll build you up to tear you down.

Now
everybody is throwing dirt on his name. TMZ dug up his rap sheet
and a CNN video ends with the shocking statement, "He has 9
children!" Of coarse, bitch, he's a crack-head!

This
makes crackers feel better.

They took him to a Holliday
Inn, showered him, trimmed him up and put him in a suit. Now the
man can sleep at night, knowing he saved a black man's soul. A few
million more and Blacks and Whites should be about even. What's
worse, now they will parade him around like a show horse, whoring
him to TV shows.Even ones he's never seen.Because he didn't have a
TV.Because he didn't have a home.

The real problem goes
unnoticed.

Because of this story, people will feel
better about the sorry poverty crisis this country suffers through.
What about the teenage mom without the golden voice. What about the
man whose family sleeps in their station wagon. Can they get jobs
with the Cavs too?I know I'm hating on a really popular story right
now, I'm aware of that. I'm happy a guy has a second shot at life.
I just want you to realize what is really going on here.
Unfortunately, if I had to point this out to you, we have a long
way to go. Also, I heard he's taking his talents to South
Beach.