Tune In Next Week, by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #209

March 11, 2011 Michael Davis 0 Comments

I had a real good rant already to go this week. It was the rant of all rants! This was the kind of rant I sent to my lawyers to make sure I was just ranting and not inviting a lawsuit!

They said, RANT AWAY MY BROTHER!

This from my Jewish lawyers.

What, you ask, was the rant about? I’ll tell you, it was about how no one from DC Comics has called me to contribute to the Static Shock tribute issue. No one from DC Comics has reached out to me to contribute to a book I co-created. They have called people who I hired to work at Milestone but no one from DC Comics called me. They have called people who I discovered to work on the Static Shock tribute book but no one called me. Why have they not called me?

Simple, they have not called me because I’m a Warlock and they are trolls.

Oh and it gets SO much better from there but this morning I awoke to the horrible news about the earthquake in Japan and suddenly my rant just did not seem important.

I know a lot of people in Japan and I’m really quite worried about them. The last report I saw said the quake was almost 9 on the Richter scale. That boggles my mind.

That’s bad enough but there is a real concern that there may be damage to a nuclear plant.

I pulled the DC article because I’d feel foolish ranting about another obvious slight when hundreds perhaps thousands of people are dead from what many will call an act of God.

During WW2 we dropped two Atomic Bombs on Japan and surely would have dropped more if they not surrender. The Nazi’s get all the ‘war crime’ press but Japan was pretty fucked up in that department also. Some of the shit the Japanese army would do to prisoners of war would make Charles Manson scream, “That’s FUCKED UP!”

Japan also has a not so nice history when it comes to the treatment of Black people. You can still find racist images depicting Black people on products sold in Japan today.

Yet, still I feel the bigger issue, bigger than the horrible stories that dot Japan’s past like the bouncing ball of those old movie sing alongs is the human story of where we are now as a nation.

Where we are now as a nation and where Japan is as a nation is we are friends.

Our friends are having a horrible day. I know if my friend was having a horrible day then I’m having a horrible day.

That’s the human story, that’s the important story and that’s the story I wanted to tell today because it’s much more important than yet another slight by the company I made millions for.

This week my heart goes out to the people of Japan. My prayers are with them.

Next week is another story.