Reggie

Reggie Dabbs spoke at my school today, and I must say he’s one of the few speakers I’ve ever heard that I’ve really appreciated and concurred with. Reggie is this enormous black man, who if he was to sit on someone as he occasionally threatens, he would squish them. But he is excessively funny. I particularly enjoyed what he had to say on games/sports:

"There's three types of people around here, the Black man, the White man, and the Latino. And we all have our different sports for our people... for example, the white man's game is pool, 'cause the white ball knocks around all the colored ones, and saves the black one for last…

The Latino's game is soccer, 'cause they get to kick around the blacks and whites... and lastly…

The Black man's game is bowling, 'cause you take a colored ball and roll it down they alley to knock over a bunch of white rednecks!!"

But all in all he was an excellent speaker with a good message. Essentially he spoke about respect, and in particular, respect of women. I thought that was a very good message to have in high schools because too few guys treat females with too little respect… and that really pisses me off.

I think Cyrus Grissom (played by John Malkovich) puts it rather nicely in Con Air: “a rapist is somewhere between a cockroach and that white stuff that forms on the side of your mouth when you’re really thirsty.” But on that matter I consider those individuals that don’t treat women, particularly the one they are involved, with the utmost respect (yes, as if she were a princess) to be in that same category.

But that’s just me...