Perspective

Perspective

By Chuka McCoy

Hi there

It is nice to meet you

You don’t know me but I have heard a lot about you

The question I have for you is

Is it better?

Is it better for you to spend billions of dollars

On advertisements set to divide this world

This land and the people that live on it

Than to use it to better each of those things

To shine a light throughout the land

Bring peace and treat people

Like people

Well you might say

It’s not my job to do that

I understand but we all do our part

To help people in our own way

The fact is it would be cheaper for you

To increase minimum wage throughout the land

Than to bend people into your way of thinking

You will still be rich

But you would be twice as rich

And your soul will shine from it

We know that you have the basketball

But there are plenty of people on the court

Ready to play

And competition is always a good thing

So is sportsmanship   

An Open Discussion

An Open Discussion

We are people who care

Who feel and can touch others' souls

 We are love

That is a representative of God's love through us

 It reaches from our core to others

 Do not let the injustices

Stop us for connecting

 Growing with

And loving each other

 That will bring a revolutionary change

This world won't believe

From the book The Hero in Us All by Chuka McCoy, which is available on Amazon.com. 

Pointing At Us

Pointing At Us

By Chuka McCoy

This hot air balloon

Shaped like a gun

Is about to blow up your spot

Because you see

The symbol we see

In front of your store

Holds us hostage

Normalizes how much

All around abuse it brings

Your store brings it out to

Attract attention and business

But this neighborhood

This world

Doesn’t need that pain

That anxiety

That reminder

Pointing at them everyday

Pop that balloon

Blow up some hope

Respect

Love

And put that on display

Commercials that are like nails on the chalkboard

I've being holding a grudge at particular company because of their commercials. I was just going to put my TV on mute or fast forward through it(like I always do). With the bad commercials that debuted in the Super Bowl, I felt it was time to discuss that commercial and another one that debuted on Super Bowl.

The first one is the series of commercials put out by Checkers featuring a talking bag. I find this mascot, named Mr. Bag, annoying on so many levels. First,  his voice is straight out of a bad blaxploitation film. The bag is always sounding like he's trying to keep his hustle game strong. His look is very suspicious.He has stubble around his mouth (I call it stubble) that resembles that of a hobo clown and he looks like he's scheming all the time. Why would I buy something from a mascot like that? Even the Hamburgler didn't have that much of a creepy factor. That, among other reasons, is why I won't eat at Checkers anymore.

 Onto the second commercial which is for Mountain Dew Kickstarter. It features a character named Puppymonkeybaby(which picture is on the bottom of this page). It is (wait for it)a creature that has been spliced together the  parts of those three things. It goes around saying"puppymonkeybaby" while walking around like very creepy marionette puppet. At least Mr. Bag kept in the realm of what it's suppose to be selling. Is this commercial suppose to alert us of the acid trip we're about to go on when drinking a Kickstarter? I think I will pass on a drink that its commercial makes me think of the movie The Human Centipede.