I was watching Aziz Ansari’s “Buried Alive” stand up for the
third time the other day (once live and twice on Netflix) and found myself laughing
again at his bullying jokes. Ansari takes the topic seriously as he recalls how
horrendous the documentary on bullying was.
The
documentary entitled “Bully” is in fact pretty terrifying. The audience watches
as several bullied children tell their parents who proceed to tell
administrators what is happening only to have their fears unanswered and their
children’s problems unresolved.
The
bullies proceed to be physically violent, which I thought all of America was
zero tolerant of and say the most disturbing things. The children of the corn
say less terrifying things and that’s from Steven King’s mind.
I’ll
admit while Ansari’s account of the film had me in tears of the hilarious
variety the documentary had me in tears of the forlorn variety.
Unless
you are Marcia Brady, you have also probably been teased or bullied at some
point in life. People are always going to talk, so give them something good to
talk about I always say. However I never found the things those bullying losers
said to be so despicable that I would commit suicide.
Let the records show that the only
time a bully got physical with me I was physical in return and was never picked
on again. There was also an interesting time in high school when the majority
of the JV football team decided it would be funny to roll houses, mine being
one of them, and I decided to get more than even in ways I will refrain from
mentioning here out of respect for my parents and law enforcement officials.
Basically we all get bullied
because “haters gunna hate” but my fellow shot callers of the Island University
more than likely know how to handle things from there.
What
is probably more disturbing than child bullies choking out their victims, is
the fact that grown men making bank in the NFL are also bullies. How do you
fight against a 300 plus pound bully who claims to be on your team and
represents your colors and all the while is breaking you down and throwing your
game off?
For Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin the answer was a
complete mental breakdown. The
saddest part about the whole debacle is that Richie Incognito aka Dolphins
bully is finding himself with supporters on and off his team. Those unaware of
Incognito’s bully style should know he was ranting off racial slurs to Martin
via voicemail. Take it from a scientist Incognito- evolve or die.
The NFL is trying to claim this
sort of thing rarely, if ever, occurs amongst its teams but something tells me
very few big burly football players have the courage to come out and be honest
about it.
How sad that someone with so much
talent (which is an oxymoron when referring to the Dolphins) money and impressionable
fans would bully a teammate on something as ridiculous as race. Last I checked
the year was 2013 and our Commanding Officer and Chief is a man of color and
culture.
Perhaps if we paid NFL players
based on their final fantasy stats they would not have enough time to worry
about hating and in turn would focus on their own game. To all the bullies out
there I have but two words- bye Felicia.
