Kids: Cheat Often, Win Big, Confess Later

I am really getting tired of the sports formula: "Win at all costs". There have been so many high profiled athletes over the years to have done everything to be the best. They win many trophies, stats and awards only to come out years later as cheaters. There is rarely any punishment for these individuals as they try to come clean and shed their guilt in hopes of gaining respect.

This comes on the cuff of "Big Mac" Mark McGwire announcing he used performance enhancing drugs throughout his entire professional baseball career. I am actually impressed that he does not have a book coming out shortly and was doing this as a publicity stunt like Jose Conseco and his book "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big". These guys made huge amounts of money while playing professional baseball, were worshipped, retired, and then sold their harrowing stories of drug use to continue their revenues.

There is no shame left in American sports. Someday soon, others such as international cyclist star, Lance Armstrong will admit to PED usage only to sell his story to the media and publishers. The glory days of athleticism is dead, as we slowly move further into the era of "cheat to win". There are stories of athletes hiding their own sexes to find competitive advantages. Swimming is suddenly about who has the slickest suit. Running is about the lightest shoe, and baseball is about the biggest coverup.

Just ask New England Patriots coach, Bill Belichick, about having to comply to NFL rules and forgo the spying of your opposing team during a game. Seems without cheating, the Patriots are just as vulnerable as everyone else. No one will be taking back any of his superbowl rings.

Bill Belichick Talks About Disappointment

So kids, you might as well stop resisting. Until the government opens up a real war on drugs here in America instead of overseas with truth, not fear filled public service announcements and outdated in class propaganda; you will need to "cheat to compete". That is the new America. From politics, to jobs, to relationships, to sports, you must cheat to be the best. Cheating is only going to get worse if we do not cut it off from the top down.

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Harry Reid Said Nothing Wrong

Harry Reid may be an old, rich white man who once called a then Presidential candidate Obama, "light-skinned” with an advantage as a candidate because of “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

Can someone explain to me what part of that was inflammatory. Barack Obama is clearly a light-skinned, biracial African-American man. Reid never said that as a derogatory phrase, so why any controversy at all? Is it the context, or somehow going against freedom of speech? Seems perfectly ok to say in a society so very accepting. I am a darker skinned, Caucasian man, and that is just stating a fact. No controversy there.

However, the next part about Obama lacking a "negro dialect" is the phrase that seems to have many conservatives furious. Perhaps they need to step back and realize that Negro Dialect is perfectly acceptable as it is an internationally recognized aspect of American English.

African-American Vernacular English

Coined in 1973 by Robert Williams of the Oakland School Board (Oakland, CA) as Ebonics; the concept of African-Americans having their own patterned and unique dialect has been well documented since. You can take Ebonics, or Negro Dialect, courses at many public and private universities world wide. The fact the Harry Reid stated that Obama did not use such a dialect in his own speech, was both a statement of fact, and an arguable advantage. By not having the dialect of a small percentage of Americans who speak it, Obama had an advantage for appealing to the masses.

This is a genuine opinion, and if Conservatives want to cry foul, maybe they should first figure out why we are still advancing Ebonics as a teachable dialect in America.

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