AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 ----- BODY: Put all the blame on one little girl who in the 1950's opened up "Pandora's Box" by kicking and screaming and stomping her feet after being told to go to the back of the bus. This paved the way for the Civil Rights movement and gave people like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X, Louis Farrakahn, and Rev. Jackson a platform...an agenda...a reason to bitch and talk about being oppressed and discriminated against. You can thank Rosa Parks who passed away yesterday at 92. Going out on a limb here, I'd suggest Miss Parks was a rather quiet woman. A nice old lady. She was probably one of the ladies you'd come across that couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. Probably just a girl having a bad day who had enough of verbal and mental abuse and spoke up. Equal Rights was a good thing BUT, too bad in 2005 the tide has turned too far in the other direction. If you're poor, need medication, or help with your bills and utilities and you're white, you're outta luck. The same can be said for other things too. They have a Miss Black USA, their own college fund, BET and UPN, radio stations, award shows, Billboard music charts, and the list goes on. Whites aren't welcome at their events HOWEVER, blacks have their own things in addition to all of the other things. There's no such thing as a White Miss America or a "whites only" CBS, NBC, or ABC. When was the last time you heard an all white "American Top 40?" All this for being stubborn in giving up her seat on a bus? Have you taken a ride on Greyhound in your life? That's the first place the blacks go to -the back of the bus. Oh yeah, back there you can smoke dope, pass a brown paper bag and play dice for money and you're far enough away where the driver won't see you misbehave. We whites need a Rosa Parks to call our own. Someone to storm into the offices of BET with an idea for an all white sitcom and then refuse to leave the building until it gets produced. Carrot Top would be good for that. This could have happened easily in the late 1960's when rockers "Rare Earth" became the first and only white group to record on the all black Motown label. Obviously, they dropped the ball! ...I can't believe someone actually wasted the time to tally up the numbers at US Cellular field of what "Astro's" fans were gobbling up from food vendors. What's more, I have no idea how it was determined that the Astro fans were buying this stuff. Did they ask everyone who they were rooting for? In any event, the "Chicago Style" hot dog (you know, the one with pickle spears, tomatoes, peppers, pickle relish, onion, mustard, and celery salt on a poppy seed bun) which I guarantee is not served this way at the game unless you have a skybox or take a walk to the concession stands yourself. Next up was a slice of pizza, and rounding out the list was nachos. I really don't think this survey was limited just to visiting Astro's fans. I think this is the way the list looks all the time no matter who is in town. So there ya go...a $4 hot dog is the "weener" here. Oops, pardon the pun. -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: A Rosa Parks tribute: "The Chicago hot dog"

Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

A Rosa Parks tribute: "The Chicago hot dog"

Put all the blame on one little girl who in the 1950's opened up "Pandora's Box" by kicking and screaming and stomping her feet after being told to go to the back of the bus. This paved the way for the Civil Rights movement and gave people like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X, Louis Farrakahn, and Rev. Jackson a platform...an agenda...a reason to bitch and talk about being oppressed and discriminated against. You can thank Rosa Parks who passed away yesterday at 92. Going out on a limb here, I'd suggest Miss Parks was a rather quiet woman. A nice old lady. She was probably one of the ladies you'd come across that couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. Probably just a girl having a bad day who had enough of verbal and mental abuse and spoke up. Equal Rights was a good thing BUT, too bad in 2005 the tide has turned too far in the other direction. If you're poor, need medication, or help with your bills and utilities and you're white, you're outta luck. The same can be said for other things too. They have a Miss Black USA, their own college fund, BET and UPN, radio stations, award shows, Billboard music charts, and the list goes on. Whites aren't welcome at their events HOWEVER, blacks have their own things in addition to all of the other things. There's no such thing as a White Miss America or a "whites only" CBS, NBC, or ABC. When was the last time you heard an all white "American Top 40?" All this for being stubborn in giving up her seat on a bus? Have you taken a ride on Greyhound in your life? That's the first place the blacks go to -the back of the bus. Oh yeah, back there you can smoke dope, pass a brown paper bag and play dice for money and you're far enough away where the driver won't see you misbehave. We whites need a Rosa Parks to call our own. Someone to storm into the offices of BET with an idea for an all white sitcom and then refuse to leave the building until it gets produced. Carrot Top would be good for that. This could have happened easily in the late 1960's when rockers "Rare Earth" became the first and only white group to record on the all black Motown label. Obviously, they dropped the ball! ...I can't believe someone actually wasted the time to tally up the numbers at US Cellular field of what "Astro's" fans were gobbling up from food vendors. What's more, I have no idea how it was determined that the Astro fans were buying this stuff. Did they ask everyone who they were rooting for? In any event, the "Chicago Style" hot dog (you know, the one with pickle spears, tomatoes, peppers, pickle relish, onion, mustard, and celery salt on a poppy seed bun) which I guarantee is not served this way at the game unless you have a skybox or take a walk to the concession stands yourself. Next up was a slice of pizza, and rounding out the list was nachos. I really don't think this survey was limited just to visiting Astro's fans. I think this is the way the list looks all the time no matter who is in town. So there ya go...a $4 hot dog is the "weener" here. Oops, pardon the pun.

posted by Dave Sypniewski at Tuesday, October 25, 2005

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