I don’t give a fuck if Andrew Young WAS there.
Posted: April 3, 2008 Filed under: Andrew Young, CNN, Martin Luther King 2 Comments »Dead.To.Me.
I will be back when I finish gritting my teeth.
Fourteenth Day of Black History Month: Love Conquers All
Posted: February 14, 2008 Filed under: Black History Month, Family, Love, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Obama, Women 1 Comment »Barack Obama took the day off to celebrate Valentine’s Day with his family.
Let that settle in for a moment, shall we?
if ANYONE could have earned a pass for Valentine’s Day, it would have been Mr. Obama.
But where is he? At home.
THAT is a man I respect.
In the midst of history in the making, a campaign for the ages, and the very notion of change in the most powerful nation on the planet bubbling all over the world, Barack Obama is at home with his family.
Not nearly enough attention has been paid to this fact.
Because when the Koolaid is all drunken up, and all y’all have pulled your levers and shook hands with history, All Barack Obama is going to have, win OR lose, is Michelle and the Girls.
That is all any of us have.
It is no accident that many of the Giants of our era, were buttressed by Women who were Giants in their own right.
Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz could have been every bit the peers of Martin and Malcolm but they chose to show that strength by playing the most difficult role of all. I will pause at this point and mention that Mrs. King had a particularly difficult role to play in light of the um….er…extraneous issues that were involved in her life.
I could regale you with tales of the women behind the men, but I had a long night with the woman behind me, so I will leave y’all to connect the dots.
Fifth Day of Black History Month: The Fierce Urgency of Now
Posted: February 5, 2008 Filed under: Black History Month, Campaign 2008, Martin Luther King Leave a comment »We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood-it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, “Too late.” There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect.
Those were the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967.
Those words have returned via the campaign of Barack Obama. And with all the talk of voting, apparently folk in the great state of Texas couldn’t wait their turn.
Mrs. Ink reports that the School Clerk spent the whole morning turning folk away who were trying to vote.
Thats all laudable and all, but there was one problem.
TEXAS DOESN’T VOTE UNTIL MARCH FOURTH!!!!
(although early voting starts February 19-29)
As Super Mardi Gras winds down into Ashy Wednesday, one thing seems obvious: (although I will be getting my report on when its all said and done)
We got a long way to go, boys and girls.
I bet Michigan and Florida wish they had stayed their ass in place now, don’t they.
