Gourd_Dancer's Blog

I writing about the "BIG DEAL" associated with the Memphis Tigers. Sure they are a great team. (finally) Sure they give Memphians something positive to rout for. I wonder what would happen if all those people that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Tiger tickets and mechandise spent it on actually helping the city. People spent thousands chasing the Tigers down to Texas and then spent tons of money to help out the San Antonio economy. Im not knocking sports fans at all. Personally I could care less about sports. If sports suddenly got banned I wouldnt shed a tear. Back to my point though. Everyone should think twice before shelling out good money for the latest Tiger t-shirt and then while wearing that shirt complaining about the condition the city is in. Perhaps instead of giving money to a Tiger booster club or whatever give it to a Boys/Girls club. If you give it to the Tigers MAKE SURE it goes to one of their programs that hosts basketball camps for kids. Give it to St. Jude those kids need it ALOT more than the ridiculously paid Coach Cal. Please think about our area's youth before you think about the Tigers. All the players and staff of the Tigers have already come up out of it. There are many many many kids that havent and never will because no one gives them a chance. Im sure Ill get some hating from Tiger fans but Im not talking for me Im talking for kids and our city that needs help. Our "city leaders" sure aint going to help. Its up to us. If youre wondering what Im doing to help Im in school and plan to get a degree in youth drug/alcohol counseling. Like I said before Im not knocking the fans or the team just think about priorities. Who is more important? Kids or Tigers?

The way the Fox 13 weather team keeps interupting the broadcast today is ridiculous! They should take a lesson from their own commercials. The blonde chic they have singing complains of the other stations interupting her favorite shows. Remember "its just rain not a hurricane"!! In the 32 years Ive lived in this area I've never seen a tornado in my area. I know other places have them but they are so common they should be used to it. If you dont like it then move. In my opinion the commercials should be changed. The "No Hype weather" thing isnt true. Whenever something actually happens weather-wise the weather team get all fired up like "OMG we get to do something!!" Get over it.

I am so sick of hearing only black and white.  Fox 13 seems to only think there is black and white people in this area.  How about Native Americans? Hispanics? Asians? Arabs? First they had the story "Memphis in Black and White", now its "Congress in Black and White". I and several other Native Americans have attempted to contact every local news station during November, which is Native American history month. We even went so far as to do the research for them so they may feature a different famous Native American like they do for African Americans during Black history month. We never recieved any response. April is Hispanic history month and I have yet to hear a thing about it on the news. This seems rather racially biased to me. Being as how Hispanics are the fastest growing race in the nation it seems only fair that they recieve as much attention as Blacks and Whites. Also Native Americans were the first people in this nation and we get the least media attention. Everytime we have a Pow-Wow we attempt to contact the media for coverage and all we normally get is a small article in the Commercial Appeal buried somewhere in the middle. So WAKE UP people and start seeing color and stop seeing in only BLACK AND WHITE!