My girlfriend and I just finished a good 5 mile jog, and sat down to read our favorite letsrun message board. Wow, this thread is like a soap opera! We decided to do a little Google hunting to piece together some context, and it's not looking good for the loving couple Dawn and Alonzo. Here's our take:
JJK tries to give Dawn some advice, and Tommy Sotomayor tries to give Dawn's boyfriend some advice. For those of you who don't know, Tommy Sotomayor is kinda like our Jon Stewart of Bill Maher, a little rough but funny as hell and usually on point. When you don't want to listen to people in your own community trying to give you advice, I suppose you gotta ride the wave! This is classic ish:
JACKIE JOYRNER'S ADVICE TO DAWN HARPER:
"Everybody wants sponsorship, everybody wants to be marketed. But not everybody is marketable. Just get the job done. Don't worry about who's getting attention or not getting attention. Get out there, focus on your lane, execute, and what's going to come your way is what's going to come your way."
DAWN HARPER'S RSPONSE TO ADVICE: "Ummm, no thanks, I'd rather act ghetto."
TOMMY SOTOMAYOR'S ADVICE TO DAWN'S BOYFRIEND (ALONZO NELSON):
Tommy Sotomayor (@tjsotomayor)
18 Aug / 1:33pm: way to go classless
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
18 Aug / 2:13pm: Why would you make such allegations? What truths r u writing frm... Ppl clearly will believe whatever they want to.
Tommy Sotomayor (@tjsotomayor)
18 Aug / 2:26pm: DUDE YOU RETWEETED A MAN CALLING LOLO JONES A HOE, WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING? SERIOUSLY HOW DOES THAT HELP DAWN?
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
18 Aug / 2:31pm: Oh! I hear you. Got ya. Funny how one retweet gives one a false perception of another.
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
18 Aug / 2:36pm: The mind is an interesting machine. It causes you to remember things you want, forget things u do; & at time quote things ppl never said...
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
18 Aug / 2:37pm: Tack!
Tommy Sotomayor (@tjsotomayor)
18 Aug / 9:29pm: I was just saying u might want to delete the tweet. That's all.
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
19 Aug / 2:43am: So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger?
ALONZO NELSON'S RESPONSE TO TOMMY SOTOMAYOR'S ADVICE: "How dare you expect me to mean what I say. It's preposterous that my words and actions have any meaning to them. Foolishness! And oh by the way, let me quote some scripture to let you know you're messing with one of God's chosen (me, of course). And it's because I'm one of God's chosen, I can freely retweet/tweet about people being 'hoes on prozac'. That's God's will! And one more thing. BOOM just like that."
Whew... this Alonzo character is right out of a Spike Lee movie. Reminded my girlfriend and I about alot of the black pastors in our neighborhood, preaching for three hours on Sunday about righteousness, and then secretly screwing two or three women in the church on the side and embezzling half of the building fund, cause he's "one of God's chosen!" Dude can't even admit he made a mistake, apologize, and move one. YWMV oughta do a video just on this guy.