Vinny B

Joined December 2020

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Good Ol’ Home
Home is not a house, it’s a place. Sometime home is overtaken by unattended grass and snakes. Walls have fallen and windows are broken.
By Vinny B8 months ago in Poets
Value of Myself
Have you ever felt unworthy? Have you ever felt that you can’t meet the expectations of the people around you? Have you felt or feel as if though your life hasn’t amounted to anything?
By Vinny B11 months ago in Motivation
Change Black History Month to Black Celebration Month.
As America shifts through how to properly treat black people, I have come to the realization that some Americans find it hard to treat black people how they would treat their own.
By Vinny Babout a year ago in Humans
Mahomes on verge of being first black GOAT Quarterback
With the Super Bowl a couple days away, everyone is fixated with the idea of a 43 year old Tom Brady winning the Super Bowl.
By Vinny Babout a year ago in Unbalanced
A Good Deed I will never forget.
As I waited at the stop light, I began to open the envelope slowly dreading what I was about to read. I knew this day would come and I would have to suffer the consequences of not taking care of business. I didn’t have the remaining money that was owed to catch up on my past due balance but I thought they would at least give me a pass considering that I covered about 50 percent of my past due balance just a couple months ago.
By Vinny Babout a year ago in Humans
Hank Aaron made the Blueprint for the Black Athlete
Hank Aaron was how I would have imagined Jackie Robinson to be if he had lived in my lifetime. He was cool, calm and collected despite playing under some of the harshest conditions a human could endure. Robinson was the first to endure the racial harassment that enabled Aaron’s success, but Hank was the one who dominated despite of.
By Vinny Babout a year ago in Unbalanced
Dear Donald
Dear Donald, Thank you for revealing yourself as the dangerous alligator that inhibited the same swamp you promised to drain.
By Vinny Babout a year ago in The Swamp
Curtain Call for Legendary QB's
When Athletes reach their mid 30's media and fans look for any evidence of decline that can signal the end. The end for athletes can come overnight once they approach the second half of their 30's, especially with an NFL Quarterback. This weekend features quarterbacks that have defied father time, but father time now has a hold to their jerseys.
By Vinny Babout a year ago in Unbalanced
Stillness, A New Years Resolution Only 2020 can create
Dear Vinny B, In 2020, you were forced to be still. The stillness has inspired you to achieve great things and forced you to acknowledge the not so great things about your life.
By Vinny Babout a year ago in Longevity
Top 10 NBA Stories for 2020-21 season
Top 10 NBA Stories going into 2020-2021 Season This NBA season will be one the more intriguing in quite some time, I can’t remember there ever being so many questions swirling around the league’s top players prior to a season.
By Vinny Babout a year ago in Unbalanced
Turkey Leg Hut definition of Black Excellence
Every time I visit a city I’m looking for something that can symbolize what that city is about. Visiting Houston, TX, for the Thanksgiving holiday, it was a struggle to find something that truly symbolized H-Town. The southeastern Texas city, isn’t much of a tourist’s paradise. As we settled in after 22 hour drive from Las Vegas, we decided to focus on the one recommendation we received from my truck driving uncle, The Turkey Leg Hut.
By Vinny Babout a year ago in Feast