Last week was the Republican National Convention and all I could hear was how mavericky maverick of McCain to choose someone whose every pore oozes of maverickness like Sarah Palin. She is fertile and has even gone to labor for twelve hours in a plane just so that she can give birth in Alaska. Shame on you other women who cannot even go one hour into labor without asking for the epidural.
Some of her skill sets include being able to shoot a wolf from the air. Skills that will come in handy when she follows Bin Laden to the gates of hell since she will be able to shoot him from the air right before he goes through the gates. She can handle Putin and has vast foreign policy experience because you see Alaska is right next door to Russia; just like I can perform surgery because my office at work is right next door to the chief of Surgery.
All that maverick talk though made me think of the sitcom Living Single. Some of you may not remember Living Single or you may be too young to remember. However, back in the day when Fox, yes the Fox of American Idol, 24 and Prison Break; the Fox where you now hardly see a black sitcom. I digress. Back in the day when Fox was trying to be a legitimate fourth network channel, circa 1993, it was full of African American sitcoms; sitcoms such as In Living Color(starring a bunch of Wayans, Jamie Fox and some weird white guy named Jim Carrey), Martin and yes Living Single. Living Single was the Friends for African Americans only it was a year earlier than Friends.
Living Single featured a group of friends in their 20’s who lived in a brownstone in Brooklyn. They were all professional women and we (most African Americans) follow their lives as if it was our own. This is the show which, by the way, made Queen Latifah a household name. She was the main character of the show along with Kim Fields (Tootie from the Facts of Life). The show was nominated for several Emmys.
The episode that got me thinking to the maverick issue was the one where Maxine Shaw (Erika Alexander) ran for Alderman as the Maverick. Hence the name of the episode “Ride the Maverick”. She dubbed herself the maverick because she was adept at spewing nonsense and shooting from the hip. She did not know what she was talking about, but she sure could make it sound good. She even said it herself that as long as what she was saying sounded good, it did not matter to the voters. Let’s face it she was an a$$.
She was running against a little known high school teacher who also was a community organizer, named William Perez. Perez knew the community and was trying to clean it up. Maxine’s friend, Kadijah the reporter (Queen Latifah) refused to endorse Maxine in her magazine because she knew that Maxine was not qualified to become Alderman and she only wanted the job for her own selfish reasons. Hmmm I think I see some parallels to this election. Ultimately Maxine saw the error of her ways and came clean to the voters about her selfishness and backed Perez.
I wish that was the end of it, but the voters moved by Maxine honesty voted her in anyway.
What is the point of this story?
1)The press should be a friend to John McCain and call out his lies and nonsense. By doing this they will be truly putting the country first.
2)McCain should run an honest campaign
3)He does not need to lie. Be a true Maverick and tell the truth. Who knows? The voters might still vote him in.