Defending Michael Strahan

Defending MS

Wed Shevat 1, 5775

Recently, I watched a Barbara Walters special, something about the "Ten Most Fascinating People of 2014."  It was much like all the other specials of hers, her 'fascination' is only about wealth, money.

I find fascinating things about most people.  The single-mom that works two jobs, and somehow raises two kids, she drives junk, wears thrift-clothes, but somehow manages to take her kids to the Cathedral for Mass and offer donations to the needy, a few coins or a loaf of homemade bread.  She fixes her junk car alone; hammers a broken step, carries her own firewood and washes many of her clothes by hand.  A credential was something for "rich folk" and kids that lived at home 'til they were 25 or 30, to her.  She is by no means stupid, but 'equal opportunities' is a myth.  She reminds me of my grandmother.  She worked liked that, and was one of the best cooks I've ever known.

Or the mechanic that owns his own business, that fixes anything, oftentimes for free, or trade for some 'favor' or another, usually a 'favor' that is shortchange to be certain, but helping others, time and money allowing, is the blue-blood in his veins.  He supports various clubs, and even though he has a plethora of "personal issues" that would make him "unsavory company" around kids and 'mormons," he's done more nice things for all the 'unsavory types' that the 'church crowd' hates than a dozen church Wards and various Protestant groups combined.

And there's a man with a head injury from a logging accident, that lives like a "cave man" by "modern standards" or to "city folk."  But what he isn't doing is raping, robbing or murdering "in the name of jesus" or "allah" or hating for either.

There's the retired school teacher whose wife died of MS, who is so traumatized by it, a trauma few understand or can even comprehend, and yet still remembers the names and is still concerned for the school kids he taught decades and decades ago, to this day.  I learned more from he and his wife than most.  They will always be on "my list" of Fascinating People, not just this year, and not just last year, but every year.

Walters interviewed Strahan.  He's the guy on GMA on ABC, the black guy with the 'gap' between his front teeth.  He seems to be everywhere on TV these days, that Entertainment Conglomerate's mediocre effort to give the appearance, a facade to be certain, of 'equality' and 'equal opportunities'.  He faced the same thing on the school grounds and then on the football field.  He retired from the NFL a millionaire.  Now, he talks and talks and talks with the "women in the morning," and gets paid for it -- probably the only way any man can handle it.  lol

Anyway, Walters' interview was troubling.  She SET HIM UP.

It's been awhile, and I'm just quickly typing my thoughts, before pasting this to my blog at http://www.BrutalHonesty.Blogger.Com ... oh, wait ... they moved me to BlogSpot.com and never asked for it or wanted it.  Anyway, first, she asked about the gap between his teeth, and he said outright he doesn't have to pretend anything, or fake anything, "I was born this way," in essence.  That proves self-esteem more than anything.

 -- THEN, she set him up, talking about "comes naturally," being "a natural," as though he never had to work for anything, he was "born with it", handed to him on a "silver spoon" or something.

"No!  I'm not natural!" he replied -- unawares of her SET UP.  She ENTRAPPED him, into using words that claim he is a FAKE.

Backup a moment:  everything about a female these days is FAKE, fake hair, fake teeth, fake hair color, fake nails, fake pre-pubescent body-hair "look and feel," fake boobs, fake, skin tone, fake skin coloring, fake, fake, fake ... and they work hard at FAKING "natural."  There is nothing "natural" about hair dye, or the chemical soup of skin-color changing makeups, lip gloss, eye shadow, etc., or removing one's  body-hair to simulate a fake pre-pubescent.  It's like a "job-requirement" for a woman to work in broadcasting, or be seen in public, and the very reason why Islamists hate it, and Islamic women wear Burkas, to celebrate diversity, not fakeness, like Drag Queens, which is what Drag Queens satirize, btw, always trying to "out-do" one another with "bigger is better" blown-out-of-proportion melodrama-styling and behaviors.  Drag is satire of that, for that reason, or who-knows where Womens' Rights would be today, eh?  To-the-ankle gowns and head-coverings, like the Amish, or be stoned-to-death?  Ticketed?  Denied employment, housing, credit?

The point is, it is NATURAL for a MAN to give EVERYTHING toward what they endeavor.  He is a "natural", a natural man, and proves it, by his hard work, discipline, and efforts to do outreach in a country still divided by racist and bigoted ideals, systems and institutions.  He wears his natural teeth because he isn't trying to be FAKE, or prove he's "better than you" or me or anybody.  He works that hard to do the best he can with what he has, what "g*d gave him naturally."

My mom had bacterial meningitis when I was born, and was very ill, she almost died, and nursed me on bad milk, and I got sick and almost died.  I've struggled with infections my entire life, high fevers, and things like that which caused some brain and kidney damage, and then had my head cracked open when I was 5, and multiple concussions.  I see halos around things and have tremors up the right side of my body, and need the finger of my left hand against my right index finger to sign my name or use a pen or it's too shaky to read.  I have to try harder at things in order to accomplish anything, and in most cases, "mediocre" is a blood, sweat and tears major-event that exhausted me and all my resources, and even when I'm laughed at, I'm proud of myself, and those that ridicule and scorn, can take their supremacy-issues and fuckoff.

We all try as best we can, with what we've got, and give thanks for it, cuz it could be so much less.  I am not "slow" but to the "fastest," I'm sure I am.  I am small, I do not have the strength of a giant, either.  So?

I have exercises I do regularly, speech pathology, enunciation of words, and learning word-substitutions for words that my tongue, in my dialect, cannot pronounce or trips over all-too-often.  I read the TaNaKh aloud and give commentary, in private, for example.  I don't care if somebody thinks I'm "talking to myself" or "talking to g*d" or "talking to demons" -- why are they horning-in to my privates?

I read piano music for both mental alacrity and finger dexterity, and struggle with it.  I don't do it to prove anything to anybody.  I don't do it in the "hope" of a career in it.  I have no experience in accompaniment.  But some people seem to think that my efforts at it should be used to judge me, humiliate me, shame me, embarrass me, in the pathetic attempt at making themselves-out to "look" or "feel" superior/supreme.  That's what the Brown Shirts did, too.

 -- if my cheeks burn, it is not because I am ashamed, or humiliated, or embarassed about myself at all ... I'm not mad, either ... but embarrassed for those doing it, as they loft themselves OnHigh, in a PillarOfCloud (complicated explanations, replete with ridicule and scorn of me), judging me, perverting testimony to pervert the favor of the Mighty (whatever church or group or company or family they work for or desire attention for themselves for).

But I have full college Music Education, Pedagogy, Theory and Orchestration training.  I am by no means stupid, nor ignorant about these things.

Anyway, everybody has challenges, and the playing-field is never completely 'level.'

Very few will achieve the speaking-skills and personability-skills of a Michael Strahan.  Never judge "the rest" by a few, or one's expectations are always disappointed.  He is exceptional, in that he is a NATURAL MAN and proved just how hard a man can push themselves, can achieve, given opportunities and circumstances as he was allowed (provided by g*d?).  He didn't waste a thing.  And he certainly doesn't fake it.  That is inspiring to all people equally, man or woman, of any persuasion.  (yes, I'm Gay, but not attracted to him; I want to make that clear; I'm not writing this because of some secret fascination or anything like that; frankly, men that size, scare me, regardless of skin-color, religion, language, nationality, heritage or anything else).

So, I am defending Michael Strahan, because what Walters did was a SET UP, part of a much broader agenda, in a 'field' unlike any he's played-in before, until quite recently.  I do not know of Walters did that on her own, cognatively by design, or subliminally, or what.  I don't really care.  Her "fascination" is all "money oriented," mine is not.  Each to their own.

Kind regards, always,

CLAYTON LEON WINTON citizen#C03183395