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Post by Cambist on Jan 21, 2008 17:15:08 GMT -5
So my chapter and several undergraduate chapters got together during the MLK Day Parade to get people registered to vote.
We set up a table on the steps of the state capital (we weren't supposed to but...) and got busy.
Well, as we watched the parade come by...we saw things that probably shouldn't been done in a parade honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Here's your place to list ways we SHOULD NOT honor Dr. Kings legacy.
We should not......
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Post by Cambist on Jan 21, 2008 17:16:09 GMT -5
....be hearing "toot that thang up mommy make it roll" during the parade. Pop, Lock and Drop it is not appropriate for the MLK parade people!!!  |
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Post by GorgeousNgreen on Jan 21, 2008 17:16:20 GMT -5
.......be going to work.
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Post by Worthy Most Ancient Matron on Jan 21, 2008 17:25:32 GMT -5
be staying at home if off work and not do anything.
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Post by FULLOFME on Jan 21, 2008 17:32:10 GMT -5
not be uninformed as to why today is a holiday
(I am 4/4 with the residents I have seen today who are clueless that today is a holiday and then when informed, the reply is what holiday?)
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Post by GorgeousNgreen on Jan 21, 2008 17:33:56 GMT -5
that is sad....I usually always go to the Civil Rights Museum here when i am off....but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I had to go to work!!
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Post by Worthy Most Ancient Matron on Jan 21, 2008 17:39:32 GMT -5
not be uninformed as to why today is a holiday (I am 4/4 with the residents I have seen today who are clueless that today is a holiday and then when informed, the reply is what holiday?) That ticks me off. I remember when it was NOT a holiday and how hard we had to fight to get MLK day an official holiday  |
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Post by FULLOFME on Jan 21, 2008 17:41:10 GMT -5
a huge disappointment to think that people risked their own lives and those of their children and family for negroes to have a right to stand idle and not be a part of the world around them...SAD...
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Post by Cambist on Jan 21, 2008 17:50:44 GMT -5
I'm mad that folks marched, bled and died so that ni&&as could ride in the MLK Day Parade in a 89 Cutlass on 40" Rims bumpin' Trina!
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Post by Southie on Jan 21, 2008 18:02:03 GMT -5
Its an MLK fur special today, and according to the ad, its just in time for the very cold weather. I stayed at home and worked on my paper for Grad School. Education is key.
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Post by MochaD on Jan 21, 2008 18:56:02 GMT -5
So my chapter and several undergraduate chapters got together during the MLK Day Parade to get people registered to vote. We set up a table on the steps of the state capital (we weren't supposed to but...) and got busy. Well, as we watched the parade come by...we saw things that probably shouldn't been done in a parade honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here's your place to list ways we SHOULD NOT honor Dr. Kings legacy. We should not...... ...not educate our youngin's as to who Martin Luther King jr. was, what he stood for and how what he died for has impacted how we live today. It is a crying shame how many young folks haven't a clue who Martin Luther King Jr is but they know who Hanna Montana and Soulja Boy are  |
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Post by Bunny Hop on Jan 21, 2008 19:11:49 GMT -5
remix pieces of his speech with the beat to Akon's "I wanna fvck you" once the song has gone off
I had to turn the radio off when I heard MLK start talking after the song went off.
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Post by Bunny Hop on Jan 21, 2008 19:12:59 GMT -5
Have kids out of school for the holiday but then not know that the electric company was closed for the same reason
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Post by BrnSuga on Jan 21, 2008 21:30:48 GMT -5
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Post by Robelite on Jan 22, 2008 10:27:37 GMT -5
....have to tell kids that his name was Martin Luther King, Jr., and NOT Martin Luther the King.
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Post by Search1906 on Jan 22, 2008 10:45:37 GMT -5
LOL @ Robe. I feel you though.
Cam good topic man. You know this holiday has become just like all other ones...Commercialized and because of it people have lost focus as to what it means. Sadly I think we as a society have become too fickle and may never get back on track. If we do get back on track it will be due to something drastic but even that is iffy look at 9/11 it shocked us for what a 6 months or a year and then it was business as usually. :smh:
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Post by No Screen Name on Jan 22, 2008 12:08:25 GMT -5
Have a "Martin Luther King Jr. Jam" (I know of folks that have done this).
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Post by Alc 06 on Jan 23, 2008 14:17:21 GMT -5
I saw a sign a few years back, at a mom-and-pop TV/Electronics store, that said something to the effect of "Celebrate MLK day with a new car stereo/dvd unit"
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Post by Vudu_Prince on Jan 25, 2008 10:05:53 GMT -5
I listened to MLK Jr. anti vietnam speech. He was coming full circle. Wonder why it isn't played more. If you could switch voices he sounded just like malcolm x wouldve elijah muhammad and other's. Hell him and Muhammad Ali sad basically the same things. One went to jail for it...the other was killed and to this day I think it was a inside job with outside help....Niggah's still living today with blood or there hands...back stabbers
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Post by Cambist on Jan 25, 2008 20:06:34 GMT -5
I agree VP. Martin wasn't all rosey, "I Have a Dream" and "Free at Last". His speeches span WELL beyond him hoping for that day when his children could play with Yte kids and be seen socially as equals.
He was a radical and not many people realize that Dr. King was a hated man when he died. True, a lot of racist folks hated him but also a lot of black folks hated him for "talkin' dat nonsense 'bout bein' all equl an stuff"
He said many times that he constantly tried to be right on the "Question of War." He was a man who's works are watered down, sweetened up and served to the people as concentrate.
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Post by Worthy Most Ancient Matron on Jan 25, 2008 21:09:38 GMT -5
Interesting...
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