I am sick and tired of the tremendous amount of ink wasted with complaints about Halloween costumes. Hello out there! This is Halloween! A time when we dress up in costume. It is a time to become someone else, scare away the ghosts, the goblins, the meanies, and to poke fun at ourselves. Do you get it? It is a costume — it is make-believe. It’s not racist, it’s Halloween.
Get over yourselves. Choose your battles and get offended at the important matters — just like I do.
For instance:
• I am offended by politicians who serve only their own purpose and forget why they were elected.
• I am offended by a president who continually hides behind “I didn’t know about it” excuses.
• I am offended by a population that keeps on voting in the crooked politicians because they are too complacent to care.
• I am offended by celebrities who use sexuality and bad behavior to get attention.
• I am offended by the politicians who caused the government shutdown, yet kept collecting their salaries.
• I am offended by a government that does not pay its service men and women a decent salary.
• I am offended by idiot reality TV shows that promote stupidity.
• I am offended that after a whole year after Superstorm Sandy the Whitehall Ferry Station still does not have working escalators.
• I am offended by a nanny mayor who cloaks all his machinations behind a platform of “but this is good for you” fecal matter.
• I am offended by a mayor who changed term limits and went against the will of the people running for a third term.
• I am offended by people like the Rev. Al Sharpton who use tragedies to spur hatred and benefit their own agenda.
• I am offended by race baiters.
• I am offended at the parents that turn their cute, innocent little girls into hooches by dressing them up in far too adult outfits, allowing them to perform provocative dances, and compete in contests that send an entirely unrealistic image to the rest of the little girls in this country — just so they could live out their own unfulfilled fantasies.
• I am offended by all those companies and corporations that still don’t recognize and pay women equal pay for equal work.
• I am offended by all those who choose to ignore the big problems and only focus on the minutiae.
Not for Nuthin™, but you have got to choose when to fight and when to walk away. You need to be sure that the collateral damage is worth the effort. If you want to be offended, do so, but make sure it’s a hell of a lot more important than razzing on silly Halloween costumes.
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