47 years later there are finally signs that the “bad check” Dr. Martin Luther King referred to has been torn up and reissued in the form of peace, harmony and Barack Obama.

Still, it seems we aren’t all the way there as a people. We don’t seem to want to help each other like we would have back in the day.

Understandably, we live in the day of the hustler and everyone is out to get theirs. But that’s no way to build a nation.

The difference, I believe, is that once upon a time, we built ourselves up within a group. We helped each other and because of that unity, we were able to erect whole towns, whole communities, blocks and families that supported each other in more racially divided times than now.

The dream is still attainable, but we have to band together and go get it.

A wise man once told me, “Freedom ain’t free.”

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After meeting with a retired federal judge – Daniel Weinstein – for an insane 9 HOURS yesterday, Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao,” were unable to come to terms for the superfight the entire boxing world wants to see.

The back story is old hat by now. Mayweather wants both fighters to submit to Olympic style drug testing. Manny Pacquiao doesn’t feel the need to do so because he’s never had to before AND has never failed a drug test.

Most know the reason Money wanted Manny to submit to Olympic style testing, has to do with his camp’s suspicion that the Phillipine born fighter uses performance enhancing drugs.

Pacquio filed a defamation suit against Mayweather and his handlers to rebuke their claims and collect a few chippers in the process.

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Since entering the league we’ve always known Gilbert Arenas to have a certain mystique about him. Good or bad, he’s always entertaining. Whether it’s his wacky pregame/halftime superstitions or a 60 point outpour, he’s a flat out talented and interesting human being.

Unfortunately for him, the news surrounding Arenas most recently is intriguing for all the wrong reasons. Sadly, he seems to want to laugh off the idea of bringing three guns to the Washington Wizards locker room and brandishing them in front of his teammates and other Wizards’ staff, but nobody will go there with him.

In his defense, Arenas is a self proclaimed goofball and seemingly wouldn’t hurt a fly. Boy scouts, however, pack compasses and pride pins, not choppers.

At this point, there’s no telling what Stern is going to do, but you can bet your bottom bitch he’s going to take action. This incident serves as yet another opportunity to set an example and given the Plaxico Burress error, the Commissioner will likely come down as hard as he possibly can.

One has to wonder though, how hard he can come. Sure, guns are not allowed in NBA arenas (no pun intended), but Agent Zero had a good reason for bringing his: he wanted to keep his children out of harm’s way. Moreover, at no point was the weapon fired and to the day, we don’t know if it was even loaded. He and Crittenton seem to be on good terms and lastly, he didn’t shoot himself.

With local and federal authorities now involved though, the Commish may be the least of Arenas’ worries.

What a way to start off a new decade.

T-Pain is turning into one big ass joke. During the course of one day, Lil Wayne came to his defense (well, it’s actually an interview that’s been sifting out to the Internets part by part), as did Interscope’s newest mogul producer.

Then, to top it all off, we went and found some footage of his asshole arriving to a party in a hearse with select T-Pain signature items (including his big ass top hat and chain) in a coffin, simulating his death, while bumping Jay-Z’s “Death Of Autotune…” so the deejay inside could hear him pull up through his own headphones.

The idea that he thinks enough of the track to reason his own fall and/or failure, is a little pathetic. Why not just go and make a hot song to prove how viable you really are? Instead, this jerk attempts to make a joke out of it, weeks after he embarrassed himself with a wack ass apology (record), due to his misstep in Vegas.

Truth is, no one but you cares about your success and/or failure T-Pain. Buck up homie… or find a cave and dwell in it until you run out of vocoder royalties!!

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Lamar Odom may appear to have an emptiness during post game interviews, but that doesn’t mean he’s slow for one cotton pickin’ minute. (How in the hell could someone with a basketball IQ as high as his be anyway?)

Turns out LO is more than the candy poppin’ milk dud you thought the was. Moreover, according to a member of his camp, he “has a set of balls” and they were not referencing the netted bag of Spaldings that rests on the floor of his personal rec room.

No. While the last Kardashian sister to nab a millionaire took aim at his new $33 million contract -picking out furniture, sports cars and sauna types – Odom was doing a little calculating of his own.

Now, weeks after the ‘happy’ couple were secretly married, it turns out there was no legal structure to cement their lavish affair.

Yeah, that’s right. It just looked good. They said “I do,” but really ‘didn’t’ after all…

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