You are now a Peauxboy, Dig?

pargo has traveled fargo

2008-08-15T17:38:00.000-07:00

I read THIS today and was surprised, but unsurprised at the same time.

My man Janero Pargo is going to play for a bball team in Moscow Russia man, wow! I guess money really does matter, he's getting paid $4 milli a year (twice the salary he earned in the n.o.) overseas and it's a trend that's probably making NBA owners shake in their boots.

I wonder how feasible it would be to start a team overseas, it seems like the Europeans are fascinated with the play of American (African American) players and are willing to pay top dollar in order to get a piece of this bball express pie. It would be a great idea to get together some 2nd tier NBA players and college kids, put together a team and head on overseas to see how much money's able to be made.

These kids probably would be stars and raking in millions a year, not to mention they may even whoop some serious ass.

If you steal this idea you owe R.J.J. half. (that's the biz)

dig?

Maybe you heard

2008-08-15T17:11:00.000-07:00

Maybe you heard about the events that have been recently taking place in my city. Nagin's administration created this non profit called NOAH that handles blighted property and hands out city contracts for them to be gutted and the grasses to be cut (it's law that blighted property be gutted and the grass manicured).

Well, the Nagster's brother in law is the 4th largest contractor under this program (i believe) and these contractors are allegedly (come on !) being compensated for properties that: don't exist, another organization has gutted and haven't been tended to all together.

The buck doesn't stop there, the director of NOAH's name is Stacey Jackson and she formed a company called T.J. Enterprises, her company bought blighted property from NORA (the agency that oversees the properties) and hasn't fixed one piece of wood on them.

Catch the full story here.

The point is, this sucks for New Orleans, we citizens try so hard just to be able to live in a semi corrupt environment, but we don't even get shown any type of appreciation.

As a matter of fact, New Orleans really has no new issues that's come into play post Katrina. We've always had high crime levels, low poverty, a shrinking middle class, poor infustructure, dissatisfactory sewage, corruption and black/white tension.

The only difference is that the storm has exposed these issues and made them public for the nation to see. My fear is that the citizens believe a new mayor and DA would change the problem. NO!! It takes communities to change things within the community, if we can all set aside our differences and work in conjunction with one another, we can get alot accomplished.

do the homework kids.

Two forty Aye Ehm

2008-08-15T00:40:00.000-07:00

What's up blogworld... world of bloggers. It's 2:40am ct and this is the first blog (obviously) of what (hopefully) would be many more to come. This idea for a blog came to me out of boredom and while looking at another blog that I recently stumbled apon. I've had about 2 blogs before this one but neither of which I could manage to maintain passion and focus to finish what I've started, so hopefully 3's really a charm.

The name of the blog is peauxboy (pronounced poboy) because I'm a native (and citizen) of New Orleans, this blog is messy, meaty and as substantial as that famous sandwhich.

My brain is warped and I have nothing else to say really. Tomorrow (today, it's the wee hours, we refer to the day day as a next day lol) I should have some fresh material for you guys.

Oh and I almost forgot, I would like to focus on New Orleans politcs, and national politics as it pertains to my city; the national media and music as it pertains to real life (i.e: real life) and current events.

I'm very interested in social philosophy and race relations as well. Be prepared.

Peace out,

R.J.J.