Really folks?  Really? An over dramatic, on cue and extremely convenient breakdown, some fake tears during a Michael Jackson tribute and now all is forgiven with Chris Brown now?  I’ll give it to Brown; he finally got a PR team worth their money.   I really shouldn’t say “all is forgiven” because contrary to popular belief this isn’t about forgiveness.  No, this isn’t about judging or forgiving.  Chris Brown didn’t harm me or any of my family and therefore he doesn’t need my forgiveness.  But as a commentator on social and political issues, it’s within my right to voice my displeasure with letting someone who committed such a vicious crime, go right back to their job making millions doing something that is a privilege.  It’s within my right to point out the glaring hypocrisy of showing him leniency solely because this young man is a celebrity.  I don’t question his talent.  But being talented shouldn’t be a reason for excusing bad behavior.  Yet we seem to do it every day.  YES, allowing him to perform is excusing his behavior.  Singing and dancing is a privilege.  There should be a certain amount of responsibility that comes with that.  But for the purpose of our own entertainment, we ignore that.  And it is for that reason why I’m done shaking my head in disgust at Chris Brown.  Now I’m ironically looking at the man (people) in the mirror.

See Chris Brown’s not the problem.  No, the problem is larger than Chris Brown and it’s with us.  We put celebrities on these pedestals that they need not be on and then when they come crashing down to earth, showing themselves to be nothing more than pathetically flawed mortals, we don’t want to believe it.  We don’t like seeing celebrities back down at our level and accepting the same rules that we do.  So we say “oh they’re human, they deserve a second chance (and a third and a fourth and a…)” knowing very well we wouldn’t be saying that if they were just normal people. And we do it to everyone with celebrity status.

If Chris Hansen did a show called “To Catch a Woman Beater” and a bunch of regular everyday folks were caught in a sting, most people would be calling for their heads.  There would be no talk of “well they are human” or “they deserve a second chance.”  No, there would be calls for them to be thrown immediately in jail and to be permanently tattooed as a wife beater for the rest of their lives. If someone found out their child’s teacher was arrested for beating his wife, I highly doubt they’d be happy with him being back in the classroom.  Yet it’s cool to let our young children watch Chris Brown, R. Kelly and a bunch of other morally/criminally corrupt people solely because they are celebrities and “sang & dance good”.  And before you tell me I’m exaggerating, the truth is, this has already happened.  How many people still support Robert Kelly because “well I can separate his personal problems from his music” or “But he’s so talented” but then are screaming at the guys on To Catch a Predator to have their balls removed?  We’re disgusted at the doctors, lawyers, priests and teachers caught in those stings but then turn around and “Step in the name of love.”  We’re pathetic.

In order to earn back respect, prestige and the “forgiveness” of others, true remorse and reflection of ones own actions isn’t required.  I’ve narrowed it down to three requirements:  Momma, God and tears.  A lot of times just one of these is sufficient, but in truly egregious cases (as with most celebrity fuck ups) you need a combination of all three.  Take Chris Brown.  He first brings his mother out on Larry King. +1 for Chris Brown.  Then there’s the constant that every celebrity relies on, God.  When you bring in religion, you win with people automatically.  It’s why every celebrity who wins an award, no matter what morally bankrupt thing they’ve done or are planning on doing thanks Jesus at the podium.  It’s why politicians claim to be renewing their faith when the scandal breaks that they were cheating on their wife…with a man.  Sure it’s lip service but it works.  Say “God” or “Jesus” or “Faith” and a lot of people automatically cease to question.  Then there are tears and last night Chris Brown provided those.  That’s all most people really needed.  They needed tears to “feel” that he was remorseful, never mind the fact that tears can be faked.  And it’s not just Chris Brown.  Look at Tiger Woods.  He had his mother, Buddha and tears.  Kanye West…mother, God and tears.  The list goes on and on.  This pattern is so frighteningly consistent I believe every PR firm in L.A. has “Momma, God and Tears” written on a board somewhere in their office.  What I haven’t figured out is if most people know they are being taken as fools and are just playing along or if they really have fallen for it.

I’m beginning to realize that it false to claim humans have no natural predators.  Our natural predators are other human beings.  We feed on the gullibility and sympathy of other humans.  People want to believe and therefore we sometimes sacrifice the truth in front of us because we don’t want to see it.  People don’t want to believe that their favorite celebrity is a privileged jackass whose tears flow on command because they want to protect their revenue stream.  That reality is too harsh for many to believe so we put faith in the fantasy.  Faking a breakdown in front of millions solely to earn back fans to rescue horrendous album sales is too cold and calculating to believe.  So people swallow the blue pill and keep living the dream.  I’d ask that people fight to unplug themselves from the Matrix but let’s be honest, reality sucks.  And I’m beginning to realize some people don’t want to face that.

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Chris Brown isn’t allowed to do a concert in the UK
Does it matter if the UK isn’t consistent?
The sense of entitlement of celebrities
Who the hell is Alvin Greene and how did he win?

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Chris Brown can’t entry in UK because of his incident with his former girlfriend Rihanna.Officials in the United Kingdom announced today that they have denied access to the country to Chris Brown for a concert because of his fierce attack in 2009 at his ex girlfriend.

“We reserve the right to refuse entry to the UK to any person convicted of a felony. Public safety is one of our major concerns, “said British Home Office in a statement. “Each application to enter the UK is considered by the individual merits of each individual.”

“I feel for all the fans in Europe! My trip is canceled. ‘m Pretty sure that’s you will know. My entry was denied in his country. I love you. SORRY! “Brown wrote a message on his Twitter page, which was later dropped in favor of an official statement from his publicist.

“Due to issues related to his work visa in Ireland and the UK, Chris Brown has had to postpone his trip” Fan Appreciation Tour. ” Chris expects to make presentations to their fans abroad in the near future and thanks them for their continued support. ”

Chris Brown had been scheduled to tour for submissions in Glasgow, London and Manchester in the UK, with a stop in the Irish town of Cork. (Source)

Shout out to the British for doing something we Americans don’t have the balls to do.  I’ve made my feelings about Chris Brown very clear.  He’s an unrepentant jackass.  But what’s really always bothered me is the plethora of support Brown got even AFTER he plead guilty to felony assault charges.  Not only has he gotten support, but that support in my opinion has fed his ego and now he’s acting like he doesn’t have to deal with the consequences of his actions.  He puts out an album months after pleading guilty and then has the audacity to bitch about his records not being in stores.  He complained about radio stations not playing his records.  And each time he was backed up by illogical fans who don’t want to admit that for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction.

Which is why I applaud the UK for denying him entry to the country.  This man’s fanbase is young girls and he very recently was convicted of BEATING HIS GIRLFRIEND’S FACE IN.  It’s unbelievable to me that here in the states we can’t see the glaring contradiction and problem with that.

Topics for the show:
Steak & a BJ Day
Happy Black Girl Day and other bullshit “days” & celebrations
Lack of comprehension with studies about black people
Almost 50% of black women have herpes? Black women have a median wealth of $5?
The Internet Age & the dawn of stupidity
Is it Chris Brown’s fault or the fans & record industry?
Chris Brown begs for his fans to help him out
Toure makes yet another stupid claim, this time about Beyonce and being an actress
Texas School Board solidifies Texas’s claim to being stupid
Fox & Friends explains why we should treat people like dogs in our health care system

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Topics for this show:
Kriss announces he’s giving up liquor until the end of the year…then quickly recants
Chris Brown is a jackass and Kriss explains why
Tiger Woods keeps getting himself into a deeper hole
Elin Woods might take half by filing in California
A black nativity scene in Italy causes an uproar, Foreign racism is so cool
Bush’s African baby boom
Parents and the idiotic notion that abstinence only education works
Joe Lieberman does what Joe Lieberman does
Something is better than nothing when it comes to Health Care

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Dear Chris Brown,

Eat a Dick.  I know, that was kinda harsh.  I usually wait until I’m a few sentences in before I come off so vulgar but honestly I’ve reached my boiling point with you and your idiocy.  Everyone excuses your dumb behavior on you being young but I’m sorry I’m not buying that. I would have thought your mother would have sat you down and explained how you need to adjust your behavior and attitude.  I would have thought an uncle or other father figure would have come out to school you on how to be a man.  At the very least I would have thought your PR team would have stepped in, told you to stay off Twitter and put on an image so squeaky clean and toned down that it would make Rod & Todd Flanders look like Dennis the Menace.  But alas, it seems that none of that has happened. Instead we’ve gotten a peek into your immaturity with your semi-rants on Youtube & Twitter.  You’re like a child that was grounded for beating up another child.  Sure, you got a “punishment” but it’s the equivalent of sending a child to their room when that room is filled with TV, phone and Xbox.  You obviously haven’t come to grips with the fact that people aren’t going to be able to just ignore the horrible things you’ve done and that it will take time for some people to be able to support you, if at all.

Since it seems no one has actually broken it down for you, allow me.  Chris Brown, you are a woman beater.  A convicted felon.  We(meaning the general public.) can argue  about who started it and truth be told, only you and Rihanna really know what happened that night.  But none of that matters.  See, you pleaded guilty to felony assault.  Guilty.  In my opinion you got off  with a slap on the wrist but that doesn’t change the severity of what you did, nor does it change the fact that in court…you pleaded guilty.  That means according to the laws of this land, you are a convicted woman beater.  I can’t stress this enough.  This isn’t like me calling R. Kelly a pedophile.  See, as sick as it makes me, R. Kelly was found “Not Guilty”.  So as much as I call Robert Kelly a perverted sick man who preys on young girls, he is an innocent man according to the law.  You however, are not.  See, maybe your PR team didn’t really explain to you what that means.  What that means is, while you were sentenced to doing community service & probation, the rest of the public (at least those of us with sense) will treat you like the convicted felon you are.  That means if a women’s group protests outside your concert, you can’t call them “Haters”. They aren’t “hating” on you because you are a successful singer but rather because you beat a woman’s face in.  You can’t tweet a rant about how stores have “black balled” you and won’t put your album out on shelves.  Are you that brain dead?  Do you not realize WHY they have black balled you?  You were convicted of beating a woman.  Not just any woman, a famous woman. What did you think was gonna happen?  Nothing? On top of that you went into a Walmart.  First off, Walmart is the bastion of christian existence that won’t even sell a Common CD unedited because it has an “Explicit Lyrics” label on it.  Secondly, are you sure they just didn’t sell out of the album?  Probably didn’t think about that one did you?  See, every time you go on one of these rants, either consciously or subconsciously, you are painting yourself as a victim and I’m sorry, but as a convicted woman beater, you can’t claim to be a victim.  Instead of bitching about how stores won’t carry your album, instead you should be grateful that anyone is carrying your album and that you aren’t behind bars somewhere braiding some guy nicknamed “Big D”’s hair.

Now I know there are some people out there that say you are sorry and remorseful for what happened.  I’m sorry, I haven’t been swindled.  Michael Vick went to jail for almost 2 years and came back and is playing in the NFL as a backup quarterback.  I’ve never seen a man so humbled, yet appreciative of being given a second chance.  I’m sure he’s won some people over with the way he’s acted.  Plaxico Burress came off more remorseful and believable than you and he shot himself.  Think about that for a minute.  Burress victimized himself by pulling a Cheddar Bob and yet he still seems to “get it”.  You on the other hand, with every interview and Twitter outburst seem to only make a mockery of the fact that you were let off the hook.  First you came out with that bogus Youtube apology wearing that red-Captain Crunch shirt that was so awkward looking even Michael Jackson would have said “That’s ignorant.”  Then you did an interview wearing that ridiculous bow tie which I swear was a ploy to keep people from realizing you spent an hour with Larry King not saying shit.  Sprinkle in a few more interviews along with random online postings of you saying “Don’t believe everything you hear” and “Wait for the whole story to come out” and a bunch of other ridiculous innuendo that somehow you were the victim being railroaded in the media and you have what I can only describe as a man who is delusional at best. What you should be doing is thanking the Lord that the majority of your fans either have short memories, a lack of moral fortitude or both.  You should make your music, thank your fans and stay the fuck off the Internet because obviously you have no idea how much of a unremorseful douchebag asshat you’re making yourself look like.  That’s what you should be doing.  And if you don’t, then don’t be surprised when people like me remind others how much of a jackass you are.

With all due disrespect,

Kriss

As I was writing this, it appears that Chris Brown’s twitter account was deleted.  Apparently his PR team woke up from their year long slumber and finally started to actually work for their client.  Having his rants appear on the front page of the HuffingtonPost after he drops an album making him look like a jackass probably is what woke them up.  Sadly, I still don’t think Brown get’s it.

First things first.  I don’t know if the rumors are true.  I don’t know if Tiger Wood’s statement that he just had a simple accident and there was no fight with his wife is true.  I don’t know if TMZ’s account, that there was a fight over Wood’s infidelity is correct.  Honestly, I couldn’t care less which is true.  It’s really none of my business and has absolutely no effect on my life. People are saying “This proves Tiger Wood’s is human”.  Actually, it really doesn’t.  I still think Tiger Woods is some kind of golf playing cyborg sent from the future.  When it comes to his personal life, of course he displays human tendencies and weaknesses.  Who doesn’t?  Even the T-800 displayed fatal human flaws.  People need to learn to stop elevating celebrities to superhuman status.  They breathe, eat, shit and fuck just like everyone else.  If you somehow want to use this incident as some kind of way of taking a jab at Woods for being black and marrying a white woman…kill yourself.  Let’s keep it real.  If Tiger Woods was Tyrone Woodson and he wasn’t a golfing phenom but instead a mild mannered accountant…would most black woman raise holy hell if he married a white woman?  Of course not.  Black woman only care that Woods married a white woman, not because his wife is white, but because she gets to cash Woods’ checks and not them.  Of course most of those same women wouldn’t think twice about marrying a rich white guy who pampered them.  But I’ll save that case of woman hypocrisy for a later discussion.

Anyway, the real reason I’m bringing up this Tiger Woods story is that I want to talk about the hypocritical way some people, particularly women, are treating the alleged case of domestic violence compared to the Chris Brown/Rihanna case.  Let’s assume for a moment that his wife Elin did swing at him with a golf club. I’m sorry, but I don’t care if Woods admitted to having a threesome with Elin’s mother AND sister as her best friend videotaped it, that does not excuse her from swinging a golf club at the man.  Think about it for a minute.  What Chris Brown did to Rihanna was horrible and inexcusable…but even he only used his fists (and teeth…).  This woman allegedly swung a metal rod with a weighted end at another human being.  That’s assault with a deadly weapon.  Women are trying to excuse it because apparently Woods was cheating.  Ummmm…so what?  You still can’t swing a golf club at the head of your husband simply because you think he was unfaithful.  Sorry, but that’s unacceptable.  I can understand screaming at him.  I can even understand an impulsive slap in the face.  But swinging a golf club?  Come on.

Even crazier are the women who think that it’s okay for a scorned woman to swing a golf club at a cheating husband but that it’s not okay if a husband retaliates and defends himself by knocking the woman out.  Whoa, how does that logic work?  A woman slaps me, okay, as a man who is physically stronger than her, I should know that it’s best for me to walk away.  But if I’m trying to walk away and she swings a baseball bat, golf club or even a knife at me, you better believe I’m going to defend myself.  Head trauma can be deadly.  Even something like a frying pan to the head can cause serious damage.  This isn’t something to laugh or joke about.  Once a woman picks up a weapon and swings at a man, not to protect herself from him but because she got upset with him over some bullshit, the playing field is even.  Come at me with bad intentions like that and no amount of Maxwell is gonna save your ass.  Women can’t scream bloody murder about Chris Brown but then cheer on a woman committing assault with a deadly weapon.  Not only is it hypocritical but its giving bad advice to millions of women out there.  Seriously ladies, come at a man like you’re a man and don’t be surprised when he has you doing the stanky legg like Machida did to Rashad Evans.

Come at a man like a man and this could be you ladies...

Listen, I won’t say that hitting another human being is inexcusable.  In a perfect world that would be true.  In a perfect world, women wouldn’t hit men and men wouldn’t hit women.  But we don’t live in a Utopian world and I won’t pretend like we do.  Sometimes a person is being such an unbelievable douchebag that they deserve a punch in the nose.  Take that gay dirty douche Perez Hilton and the incident he had with Will.I.Am.  Was a gangland style beating necessary?  No.  A punch in the eye socket?  Yes.  If someone was to call my mother out of her name, yes, I’d punch them in the throat.  If a lady is being harassed by some asshole in the club, calling her a bitch and making unwanted sexual advances, she has every right to knee him in the nuts.  Yeah, in all those cases, cooler heads should prevail and the “correct” response is probably to walk away.  But again, we are all human.  Impulsive reactions happen.  But I draw the line at obvious extremes.  Beating a woman’s face in because she had the “audacity” to not have your dinner ready?  Unacceptable.  Swinging a weapon at your husband because you think he’s cheating?  Unacceptable.  Getting angry at your significant other and beating them relentlessly until their face is disfigured?  Unacceptable.  I understand there’s gray area.  That’s why I’m not willing to label a man who pops a woman in her mouth after she tries to verbally emasculate him in public as a woman beater.  Its why I understand why a woman who just caught her husband cheating on her might end up slapping him across his face.  But as with everything, there’s a time when an understandable reaction goes entirely too far and becomes extreme.  A golf club to the head falls into that extreme category.  If women want to really take a stand against domestic violence then they should be willing to do so regardless if the agressor is a woman or a man.

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Sammy Sosa has mysteriously gone from being Dark-Skinned to looking damn near white in 6 months
Rihanna goes on her publicity/speaking out on domestic violence tour
Chris Brown should realize he doesn’t have a say in what Rihanna talks about
The Fort Hood shooting and the idiotic reaction by the media and right wing
The House passes a Health Care Reform Bill but Joe Liebermann is still a douchebag

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So I, like many others, watched Larry King’s interview with Chris Brown.  I think I speak for most people who watched it when I say it was a colossal waste of time.  First off, its probably better to describe this as Larry King’s interview with Chris Brown’s mother and lawyer Mark Geragos with Chris Brown making a featured appearance.  Joyce Hawkins and Mark Geragos did most of the substantive talking during the interview as Brown himself could only give us such riveting talk as “Umm” “I don’t know” “It’s a personal matter” and “I don’t want to talk about that.”  Honestly, for the life of me I can’t figure out why if Brown didn’t want to talk about what happened, why the hell he went on an interview with Larry King.  Stay your ass home, put another Youtube “apology out” and go back to working on your album.  Let Larry get back to asking rape victims if they were fearing for their lives during their attack.

Some things that stood out to me during the interview:

1. Chris Brown’s baby blue sweater with his bowtie.  I’m convinced no imagination having idiots will be wearing that dumb looking shit to the club by Labor Day.  Chris Brown’s PR team should be shot  for telling him that shit looked good.  And wtf?  His mother is right there beside him, she should know better.  At least tell him to take off the bowtie, it makes him look like a douchebag.

2. Did I miss the memo that said wearing 2 earrings as a guy is gay?

3. Brown says he “Can’t remember” hitting Rihanna.  Ahh…the classic “I blacked out” excuse of women beaters.  I’m going to try that next time I get pulled over by the cops.  “Sir do you know why I pulled you over?” “No Officer, I kinda blacked out.”

4. It’s amazing to me that Chris Brown and Mark Geragos tried to shift blame at multiple points to the media.  Actually, what they tried to do was use what I’ve deemed “The Palin Strategy”.  The Palin Strategy is when you call blogs and gossip sites “the media” and then get mad because apparently some asshole in his basement wrote some mean words about you.  You beat a woman’s face in, of course people wrote mean things about you.

5. Hey Chris Brown, you beat a woman…you can’t laugh or crack a smile at any point.  I’m sorry, those are the rules.

6. Did that nigga’s watch start beeping during the interview?

7. If its true that Rihanna is still “friends” with Chris Brown, then she’s an idiot.  Plain and simple.

8. I’ve seen some people say “You know how those Caribbean women are.  Rihanna probably has a temper and that’s probably what set off the incident.”  I know some people are joking when they say it, but to anyone that is serious…that’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.  Do you realize that’s how white men used to (and some still do) view black men?  “Of course that black man raped that white woman.  They’re savages and have tempers”

9. The “I’m young” and “No one taught me out to control my anger” has to be the dumbest excuse I’ve ever heard.  So let me get this straight, when you were popping bottles (Did anyone else see how he dodged that question by Larry about whether alcohol was involved), can hang around all these adults, can spend money wildly, drive a lambo and do all these other “adult” things, but somehow when it comes to putting your fists to someone’s face, you need to be taught that is wrong?  Pathetic.

10. After seeing the pictures of Rihanna’s face again, I’m now convinced that Chris Brown’s fists are made out of Adamantium.  Its the only way to explain how he was able to damage to a forehead that size.

11. His mother and lawyer said the Chris was eager to admit to his crime.  Really?  Is that what happened?  Cause I seem to remember Brown leaving the scene of the crime and then having to turn himself into the cops  later on.  If he was really eager, he would have stayed and waited for the cops to show up instead of running to his mommy (Who does that shit?).

12. It’s pretty weak and idiotic to continually say “I’m sure Rihanna did something to Chris Brown” or “The abuse went both ways”.  First off, a single slap doesn’t equal abuse first of all.  Abuse is sustained over time.  Secondly, saying “Well I’m sure in the past she abused him” is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard.  There’s no evidence of that.  Zero.  You want there to be abuse because its easier for you to comprehend, but that doesn’t mean there was.  Also, we’re not talking about abuse that happened in the past.  We’re talking about the events that happened that night.  Fact is, Chris Brown pleaded guilty to felony assault.  We have the photos of what Rihanna’s face looked like.  If it “went both ways” that night, Chris Brown wouldn’t have pleaded guilty and he wouldn’t be a felon right now.

13. If you say “Rihanna deserved it” because you phantomly believe she “abused” Chris Brown some other time in their relationship, then I sure hope that when….

Rodney King was beaten by the LAPD that you were vocally saying “He deserved it from being drunk and running from that cops”

Genarlow Wilson was put in jail for 10 years for getting a blow job from a high school classmate because she was 14 and he was 17.

14. And finally, I’m tired of everyone, including Chris Brown and his lawyer and mother, saying that he made a mistake.  A mistake is when I drink decaf.  A mistake is when I put on mismatching socks.  A mistake is me leaving my iPod at home and having to sit 8 hours at work with no music.  Those are mistakes.  Putting your fists to someone’s face is a deliberate action.  You know its wrong at the time and you did it anyway.  The only reason Brown is apologizing now and trying to show  the public that “he’s sorry” is that he doesn’t want his career to be over.  That’s not only selfish but its the wrong reason to apologize.  If he was really sorry, he’d shut the fuck up, postpone his album and do his community service until his time was up.  You can’t apologize for something if you haven’t had time to reflect on what you did.