Haters Gonna Hate

Comedian Katt Williams spoke some truth here.  

So what she/he keeps talking about you and hating on you. What do you think a hater's job is...to hate. If you have someone hating on you right now you better think of how to get five more people hating by Christmas. You need haters to make you stronger..without haters most people wouldn't try to become better. Just tell them b***h you just hate me because you can't be me.' 

 Well, I have a one line sentence that encapsulates the same thing to my haters.   .  

'You hate me because you wanna emulate me.'

And to paraphrase President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,  I welcome your hatred. 

It lets me know I'm on the right track in doing what I need to do.  It lets me know that you're 'scurred' of me for whatever reason in your minds. It lets me know that you are so bothered by the fact that I am speaking my truth, uplifting a longtime downtrodden community and fear me doing my part to get Black transpeople to see themselves in a positive light.

When I'm getting inspiring e-mail from people around the country and the world telling me they appreciate what I do, a post I wrote inspired them, or a post I wrote dissuaded them from committing suicide, that means more to me than any sniping or derogatory commentary you haters can come up with.

But haters gonna hate   Take a number and step in that long line of people that wanna spout vitriol at award winning Moni with the award winning blog 'nobody reads'.   

All you're doing is talking loud and saying nothing while I empower, educate and enunciate my thoughts as to how we make the trans community better, the TBLG community better, and the nation and the world better..
 
On that note, I wasted enough bandwith on y'all.   Time to do as Dr. King called it,  some more hard, solid thinking and writing on subjects that matter.

Moni's Going To NFL Prognosticate This Season

When the 92nd NFL regular season finally kicks off on September 8 with a battle at Lambeau Field between the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers and 2010 Super Bowl champs the New Orleans Saints, there's going to be a new feature on TransGriot I will initiate and continue all the way to Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis on February 5, 2012.

For fun I used to pick the winners of NFL regular season games back in the 80's and 90's and was pretty good at it, but lost interest in keeping up with NFL football for a few years after the Tennessee Traitors backstabbed all us long suffering Oiler fans and moved in 1997.

Naw, I'm still not letting it go, even though we have the Houston Texans playing in Reliant Stadium .      

Ahem, back to the post.  I can get my football hate on for 'Bottom Line Bud' Adams and the Traitors twice a year when they play their AFC South Division games against the Texans on October 23 and end the season January 1 at Reliant Stadium.

I thought about doing the TransGriot prognosticator thing for the 2010 NFL season but got distracted with other issues and before I realized it the first two weeks of the season had elapsed. 

Speaking of the Texans, will this finally be the year they make it to the playoffs?   Once again they start the season with their AFC South Division nemesis the Indianapolis Colts at Reliant, and hope they can repeat what they did to the Colts in last year's season opener.

With all this talent on the squad, I hope they can take it a step further and win the division.   They lost six games by a touchdown or less and flip that stat and they win the division.   But they wouldn't have stayed in the playoffs long with their corners and secondary getting toasted like Quiznos subs. 

Well, that's why Wade Phillips was hired.  The defense is getting a 3-4 makeover with Mario Williams moving to outside linebacker and free agents safety Johnathan Joseph and corner Danieal Manning being plugged in to vastly improve the Texans secondary.  

Now that training camps for all 32 NFL squads are open and the NFL is about to kick off its preseason slate of games on August 11,  I'm beyond ready for some football to be played.   I'm also interested in seeing how all the old faces in new NFL places affect their teams and who gets to play in the Super Bowl at Lucas Oil Stadium.

And I know y'all are waiting to see if the TransGriot can actually do a better job than those well paid NFL analysts on CBS, NBC, FOX and ESPN in picking this season's games.