Erik DeSean Barrett
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On This Day in 2016!!
Tuesday March 1st, Terry McAuliffe was the 72nd Governor of Virginia, Paul Fraim, Norfolk’s Mayor since 1994 was in four months to the day preparing to ride off into the political sunset, and this was day I told the world, via Facebook, I was heading to the polls for the 2016 Super Tuesday Elections. I expressed my excitement with a photo, the one attached to this blog post here. It was special to me. This was my 4th time voting in a presidential election, and my first time attending a rally connected to same. I was hyped, scared, confused, and embarrassed to show it. I remember arriving to Lake Taylor High School, Monday February 29, that was also the last time we had a leap year, which if I can take this side note, because I find it fascinating, EVERY PRESIDENTIAL RACE falls on the same year as LEAP YEAR.... 😳😳😳 now back to work..
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in The Swamp
Am I Still EDB??
The year was 1984. Calling this a super productive year, would be without question an arguable statement... The Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins, 38–9, to win Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa, Florida. TED (conference) founded. Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, announces his retirement. Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father, a day before his 45th birthday. The Edmonton Oilers win The Stanley Cup, beating the defending champion New York Islanders by 4 games to 1. The Boston Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers in 7 games to capture their 15th NBA Championship. Jeopardy! begins its syndicated version, with present-day host Alex Trebek. Republican President Ronald Reagan defeats Democratic former Vice President Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% popular vote victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia. Future U.S. Secretary of State and 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry gets elected as the Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and was in office until 2013, when he resigned to become the Secretary of State, succeeding Hillary Clinton. White supremacist and Order leader Robert Jay Mathews is killed in a gun battle and fire during an FBI siege on Whidbey Island. And with all that going on around the world, smack in the middle east end of these states united sits a young baby full of opportunity.
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in Motivation
You’ll Always Be Second Place
“Vanity, Vanity, All is Vanity” Vanity, the quality of being worthless or futile (pointless). This is my thought, as I sit looking at the struggles we face as a society. For me as a thirty five year old BLACK MAN, its easy to get swept into the societal waste basket of life. I remember coming home one day, talking about all the things I’d learned at school that day. I talked about the fun conversations my friends and I had, the even more awesomesauce things we did. I remember one of my family members, then a good fifty years old if a day, former Vietnam Veteran, standing up shrugging his shoulders like, kid.... I am glad they let you play with em.. As the silverware forcefully hit the table, along with folks present soul, he made his exit. What a stupid thing to say to a kid. I bet many of you are snapping right now reading this, and would more than not slap the taste out of someone’s mouth if they’d said this to your child, yet alone said it to your five year old.
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in Motivation
NFKs Church St.
All my life I have lived in Norfolk; a city which for almost thirty six years has taught me to fear Church Street. It was the red light district of Norfolk, home to drugs, sex, violence, and most importantly home to the weakest, and poorest of Norfolk. A lot of these imagines in my head are placed their by words told to me, because I was never allowed in that part of town. Many members of my family and connected members weren’t fast drivers, yet anytime we’d find ourselves in or near Church Street, the engine would begin to race, the scene become blurred, as we smoked through those 10-12 blocks as fast as we could.
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in The Swamp
I Was Emotionally Destoryed!!
🙋🏾♂️There, Beautiful People of the Internet. I am writing this note to you on day seventeen of Feburary, day forty eight of twenty twenty, and day eighty two before my thirty sixth birthday. So here on this day, I decided I should take this moment to make a confession. I have not been well these past forty eight days. I have been trapped inside an emotional vortex, and like a rapped 2007 market crash, so were the days of my life. I found myself just going through the motions, trying to convience myself I was fine. I was like a dude on the field who was determined to play despite the ravaging pains. For forty eight days, I powered through confusion; through frustration, through anger, and YES.. For Forty eight days, I powered through Hurt.
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in Motivation
GoodBye!!!
The year 2016, the year this wild and many times obnoxious ride began.. It was in 2016, we learned that a long time business mogul and political loud mouth would seek the presidency of these states united.. We learned of a woman, who also sought the same position. A woman who couldn’t make a dog cum, even if Lola bunny gave him a head start.. It was also the year, I EDB, decided to put my hate into the community activism system. It was time I thought, I could make an impact, both socially and economically in my city of Norfolk Virginia..
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in The Swamp
Finding MySelf
JUST STUPID.. THE WORLD IS JUST SO FUCKIN STUPID!!! I know that sounds very lazy, and believe you me, I hate speaking in such terms, but I’m struggling to find the right words to describe who we as a culture have become.. I am struggling to understand what it is, or was that has lead us to this point in time. 🤷🏾♂️... I am a content creator. Weird huh? It is weird that I would just slap this statement in the middle of my growing social observations. It is weird I would just switch gears, mid thought!! Truth is, I have found my life to shape out like this train of thought. May 27, 2010, I launched my YouTube channel, and from that moment until this, I have been pleading my case to a seemingly un interested society. YOU ARE WHO, MANY GASPED? YOU DO WHAT? They’d follow up with a seemingly disgusted voice, finally concluding with I don’t get that internet stuff, its all bull 💩💩 to me, pointless, a john brown waste of time... (by the way, WHO IS JOHN BROWN?? AND Why does he always come up when 👵🏾 is pissed TF off?? (asking, for a friend!!)
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in Journal
Moving Out This Sex Tunnel!!
I come from a weird time period. A period in time worst than the Soviet Union. A period in time worst than the reign of Hitler. A period in time worst than Jim Crow. A period in time worst than Slavery. I EDB come here from the nineties. The nineties is a sick place, and at the same time, a vibrant one. Today I was talking with one of best friends Matt aka (BidNugget). We were reminiscing our childhood. We talk about the Glory days of Television. We talked about our childhood heroes, and yes even our boyhood crushes. There isn’t a kid from the nineties who didn’t have one of them special dreams.... (DON’T MAKE ME SPELL THIS OUT!!, I’m trying to be CLEAN!!).. about Jodie Sweetin, you remember her, Stephanie Tanner from FullHouse? OR how about Kellie Shanygne Williams, Laura Winslow from Family Matters, Brandi, Tia and Tamara from Sister Sister, what I am trying to say is our parents had there work cut out from them.. Our sheets were always soiled, under pants were same, but we couldn’t help it, because the culture constantly fed it to us. These were the days where women were objects, eye candy, tools for a mans pleasure. FRIENDS? There was no such thing as “JUST FRIENDS!!” And even if you were, the culture said otherwise.
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in Humans
WHO IS EDB?
Insanity, a word which as many definitions. (1)the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness. (2)extreme foolishness or irrationality. All of those are good, but the one I am most familiar with is one we have used in these streets. A train of thought which must have escaped the academic minds. The TRUE DEFINITION of insanity is... “Doing the SAME THING looking for a Different Outcome!!” Another key word I want to focus on is SAME THING.. Ya see doing the same thing has a lot of layers. That could mean, working for the same company despite it constantly keeping you pissed TF off.. It could mean hanging out with the same people, who constantly leave you wanting to vomit, or even attending the same places which trigger unpleasant thoughts and or feelings. If you are like me, you constantly ask yourselves, why you keep putting yourself through this 💩💩??
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in Motivation
Don’t Give Up!!
This thing called life is hard. Its draining both to the mind, and the soul. If you are not careful, it will suck the very desire to live right out of you. I am not one to discuss those who have taken their lives; in all honestly I know nothing about it. I know I have thought about it once or twice, but nothing more than a thought. You see I was always afraid of taking my own life. I always believed if there was anyone who could screw up a suicide, it would be EDB. TruthBeTold, I would say if it wasn’t for this process of thought, I might not be here writing you!! I didn’t want to be that guy, who had to face everyone after he’d screwed up. WHICH BRINGS ME, to another point. Is there a lower level to depression? Meaning most of think, those who take their lives have reached rock bottom right? Suicide is the final straw to a brewing fire of emotion? But does something live deeper down?
By Erik DeSean Barrett4 years ago in Motivation