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29Jul 2019 by Gravy

Villains are Heroes Too

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I’m sitting in my hotel room in Elmina, Ghana, Africa. I’ve been here four days now and it has been an emotional, but life changing. To say that I thought I would never come to Africa wouldn’t be accurate. Ive always believed in myself and been confident in my abilities, yet I never knew how I was going to feel until I actually got here. Witnessing and walking the paths of our ancestors overwhelmed me. It gave me a sense of peace and deep introspection. I kept thinking about history and the suffering: something I speak often about. Then I got to the point where I started to feel this fire in my belly. It wasn’t hunger. I wasn’t thirsty. I felt heavy and it wasn’t from breakfast or because…

24Jan 2016 by Gravy

12 Days of Gravy: The Overman

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On the 1st day of Gravy ‪#‎theoverman‬ gave to you: Sticks and Stones - What ever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me?" Seriously, has our disillusioned society devolved so far that we need safe zones for name-calling? In my day we hit them with the "sticks and stones" and kept it pushing. We have lied to generations of kids who think they're feelings should be hurt because they don't like what someone said. Only the real intellectual lives by this credo. I been called all kinda names, sometimes daily, but you know what? Say what you want, just don't touch me. It is no wonder we have a society of cry babies who are offended by the most trivial…

26Jun 2014 by Gravy

Celebrating Mediocrity: the Lowering Academic Standards and Expectations of America’s Youth

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The last thing I want to do is come off as a “negative Nancy.” I certainly agree that every person deserves their day. But we have got to stop the madness. Are we really throwing graduation ceremonies for graduating Kindergarten? 6th grade? People, we have to start celebrating SERIOUS accomplishments. Here is one way to measure: if you have a class of 20 Kindergarten students, and they all pass on to 1st grade, what is there to celebrate? Now, if only 5 children graduate, or a much smaller proportion, fine, you win. But don’t we expect all kids to pass kindergarten? Are we expected to reward children for meeting not only our own expectations, but accomplishing what 100% of their classmates also accomplished? Graduating from Kindergarten is no…

23Apr 2013 by Gravy

A Degenerative Culture, Part I: Put Up Your Dukes!

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Everyday someone posts some new video on Facebook: some patriotic scene of a U.S. soldier or a heart-warming tribute to some young, cancer-stricken teenager. Or even some funny video of a monkey slinging it’s feces. But I never click to watch. No, there is only one type of video out there that I consistently take time out of my day to watch: fights. That’s right. There’s nothing like a slightly grainy video of two people throwing hay-makers until someone gets knocked out. They take me back to my youth. Reminds me of a better America, you know, before we became a nation full of sissies and tattle tells. I am reminded of one of my favorite Eminem lyrics: “Whatever happened to catching a good-old fashioned passionate ass-whooping/ and getting your shoes,…

10Jun 2012 by Gravy

Downside to high standards, everyone holds you to them…

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The general level of what is currently acceptable behavior in society is low; what is required of people in America is less and less, especially morally. People set low expectations and have low standards for themselves, others, and society so that they can be unaccountable and don’t have to do anything significant without being judged too harshly. They also have low values and sense of self-worth which adds to their low level of expectations and low standards; settling for BS because deep down they know they are full of BS too. The best they can do is to hope to never be found out by others exactly how full of it they are, or find someone else equally full of it and the two go on and live “happily” ignoring…

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