Soon To Be Inmate T.I. Gets A Reality Show

T.I. Headed To Jail - Gets A Television Show

If this is not put into its proper context the gravity of this perverted celebrity culture that we are living in will be lost.

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr was arrested for the possession of and illegal purchase of a powerful automatic weapon.  This was acquired through a "Staw Purchase".  

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr stated that he purchased this weapon in preparation for the "threats" that he felt on the wake of the BET Hip Hop Music Awards show in which several fellow "Drug Thug" rappers were in town to celebrate themselves and their erosion of our culture, our dignity.

There is a 99.99% that had the gun been used to neutralize a threat to T.I. - a young Black male would have been on the receiving end of these bullets.

I get frustrated because this is where the Black Political Establishment shows its utter fraudulence on the isssues of:

• Illegal Guns - Straw Purchases
• Gun Violence in our Communities
• Black On Black Violence and Homicides
• "Life Imitating Art" & "Art Imitating Life"

To bottom line it all - both this establishment and the Hip Hop scene is anti-establishment.  In as much those in the establishment would sooner attack the gun shop which Clifford Harris purchased the gun from than they are inclined to condemn him for his motivations to purchase the assault weapon.  Yes this very assault weapon that THEY THEMSELVES frequently lobby in support of a ban.  Please note once again - the BAN would be focused on the bricks and mortar companies that sell these weapons.  Clifford Harris who demanded and purchased this weapon that they hate so escaped their damnation.  This is but derivative behavior that he is acting out upon.  The SYSTEM should never have allowed him to get his hands upon it in the first place - just like my young son should be stopped in consuming prescription drugs in my house because of safety caps on the medicine containers.

Clifford Harris has gone on to shoot a commercial with former mayor Andrew Young.  He has been allowed to do community service in some of the most troubled schools in metro Atlanta who believe that T.I.'s message, now that he got caught, is a positive message rather than one of hypocrisy that was placed in reverse order.  This is where the person is provoked to condemning his actions of just a few short months ago after being caught.  Had he not been caught he would still be acting just as he had been.

THANK GOODNESS FOR AUTHORITY!!

Authority seems to be a  REDEMPTIVE FORCE

Just imagine if the ultimate authority in this present society was ordered just as Clifford Joseph Harris Jr is working everyday to customize it into?  Do you believe that he would be held accountable for his actions or would the rules not stand to the whims of Celebrity? 

T.I.’s MTV Reality Show Debuts Feb. 10

As previously reported here, MTV cameras have been following Atlanta rapper/actor T.I. since he pled guilty last March to federal weapons charges.

“I’m not looking forward to being incarcerated, ” he told the AJC shortly after the plea. “I have a long road of redemption to travel. … I realize completely I violated the law, and I take it very seriously.”

Now fans will get a glimpse of just how seriously.

“T.I.”s Road To Redemption: 45 Days To Go”, bows Feb. 10 at 9 p.m. on the cable channel. Described as part “Diary,” part “Scared Straight,” the show will follow his attempts to change the lives of troubled teens, as well as offer a behind-the-scenes look at the two-time Grammy winner’s personal life, including the birth of his sixth child.

The title will change each week to reflect the time left until his sentencing, scheduled for March 27. After which, the last episode is set to air.

“MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the unknown side of T.I.— one of the world’s greatest artists at the most precarious time in his life,” said Tony DiSanto, Executive Vice President, Series Development and Programming. “In the face of impending incarceration, T.I. is driven to ensure others do not make the same mistakes, and our cameras document every step along this road as he impacts and changes lives for the better. It is real-time redemption.”

“We visited T.I. early in 2008 while he was under house arrest in Georgia and found a man utterly unlike his rap persona,” said Ish Entertainment principals Stella Stolper and Michael Hirschorn. “He felt that he was undergoing a karmic reckoning, a time when he would have to balance the scales of his life and integrate who he was with who he is. We’ve never seen someone so introspective, so smart about how who he was back in the slums of Atlanta is affecting who he is now.”

Is this something you’d watch? Have you heard T.I. speak to a school or community group - part of the 1,000-plus hours of community service he must perform as part of his deal, and documented in this reality show? (If not, see a YouTube clip BELOW of him talking about the importance of education to fifth graders). And if so, was he convincing?