Rejection
Now Playing: Miami Mass Choir - I've Been Changed
Topic: Niggas and Negroes
I've noticed something. Now that I'm getting older, I seem to be attracting the young boys to me (I mean like 18, 19, etc). I make it a rule to not really get to know anyone under 23, and especially not under 21, because what can I do for them and what can they do for me?

Enter Kenny. He wanted so badly to try and talk to me on the first day that we bumped into each other (and I mean literally bumped into each other) downtown. But today I had to tell him that it just wasn't going to work because of his age and the fact that he smokes weed (I try not to date weed smokers either). He snapped and I hung up the phone...three times. This after telling him I'd call the cops if he ever called me again. Suddenly the calls stopped. I guess young boys don't take rejection too well.

It made me think back to when I was that age. I don't recall acting like that, if someone didn't want to be bothered I'd just leave them alone with no hard feelings. But now-a-days it's totally different. Some of them won't stop calling. Some act like it's a fatal attraction. I guess what they say is true, society has changed, and changed in such a way that we as black boys and black men are willing to destroy ourselves and hurt others for no reason what-so-ever. It's sad really. When stuff like this happens I think back to the good ol' days, the days where it was just all about love, about being real (I mean REALLY about being real). The days where you could go outside and not worry about being shot, the days of the good clubs like The Generator (can anybody remember that place?), hanging out on the lake and just talking...can anybody remember those days or am I alone here?

I'd give anything to have those days back, but since we can't turn back the clock, I guess I, and everyone else, will have to get used to it.

Another entry later...