Hmmm...

I'm going to be hella busy in the next few weeks so I'll only post my random thoughts. Unless I become inspired (as I was tonight) and instead of the three lines I intended to write an entire post emerges.

Hopefully my random thoughts give you pause. Maybe you'll be inspired to look at the world around you in a completely different way. If you're on the wrong side of history now, perhaps you'll get on the right side by the time you're finished reading.

According to census data the population of Amerikka will become increasingly brown over the next twenty years. If you are a member of the demographic that's about to become the minority wouldn't it behoove you to behave better towards our nation's first African American president?

What exactly is the difference between this POTUS asking children to write down what they could do to help the president and JFK saying Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country? Why the hell wasn't this the response from the White House?! Oh that's right, we're democrats. We don't respond to ignorance we ignore it because that worked so well for Bill Clinton in the Whitewater investigation and Al Gore and John Kerry in the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns.

Some parent on the news said that President Obama should not be positioning himself as a role model; only parents should be role models for their children. To which my sister pointed out "Why then when an athlete gets in trouble he should be ashamed because he's a role model?" I suspect that in the minds of the majority, as athletes Black men serve less as role models and more as validation of stereotypes. But I digress.

Rachel Maddow (my current fav) played a snippet of Reagan's 1988 speech to school children. Watch as the beloved Gipper responds to a young lady's question about what he's done to promote diversity by saying he has instituted programs to help Negro schools of higher education.

I'm a rock in an ocean....oh fuck it.

I admire Barak Obama. I admire him because he has carried the mantle of being first with a grace NONE of his detractors could muster. However, after witnessing the latest ridiculous episode; I hope he rethinks post racial. Malcolm said, "If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress is healing the wound the blow made. And they won't even admit the knife is there.”

I will offer this caution as the majority becomes the minority--there are many good examples of how to nobly gain and sustain equal protection under the law, fair hiring practices, etc. Conversely, there is a wealth of examples from the current majority in vicious, inhumane disrespect and ignorance.

Chickens welcome to your roost.

Fight the power!

Note: MS Word spellcheck marked O-B-A-M-A as a misspelling. Guess what suggested spelling it offered?

I am a rock in an ocean of chaos.