So what's next??? (The day AFTER the Presidential Inauguration)

Family,

Okay...so you spent good money to travel to DC, attained lodging, bought food and set aside money for Obama trinkets. You have hugged a billion strangers, told your fellow brothers and sisters that you loved them, listened to about a dozen speeches and pow-wowed on what the black man should be doing. Then you partied it up at one of the numerous balls, "patroned it up" with some friends you made and rejoiced. After swapping numerous facebook page urls, blackberried phone numbers and i-phoned contact info, you board your train, airplane, car or bus back home.

Now you are back...WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO??? SERIOUSLY...WHAT THE KCUF ARE YOU GONNA DO NOW???

It's all good and dandy that you went to DC to participate in such a historical moment, but all of that will be for naught if you aren't doing a damn thing to put the ideas and principles that President Obama spoke about. How are you going to have a positive effect on your community? How will you become fiscally responsible? What ways will you help the broken family structure heal? How can YOU make a difference in the world??

One too many times, we get together in events like these, get charged up and do not do a **d damn thing after that. (See The Million Man March). I am tired of the empty promises, people. I'd rather you promise nothing, instead of saying some politically correct BS. By all means, I am not asking you to start working on a better future the moment you hit your doorstep, but we can't wait too long to set the wheels of change in motion. We want better schools? We have to work for it!! You want jobs to stay in the US? We have to speak up about it!!! You want better health care? You have to fight for it!!! Sh*t will not get done if we are resting on our laurels.


One...

Cap-D

UPDATE: Some words from my man, DJ Don Luv:

We are on the same page Cap D. I hope that ppl see this as an opportunity to get themselves 2gether. The Million Man March turned out to be a disaster because Black Men who organized the event turned it into a commercial extravaganza instead of focusing on buying into the concept of nation building. How do you organize a million men and after the meeting do not have a financial institution established? Or a security institution for our neighborhood established? Or an educational faculty established? Or just a Black Men support group established? Brandon's assertion that we prefer not to think for ourselves and we want ppl to do the thinking for us is correct. Now its sad to say but there is a parallel of us being hyped for the million man march and the election of the nation's first Black president. Personally, this event is no different. Instead of us nation building, we partied and used our purchasing power to show our delight. This is exactly why we are not taken seriously.

And my dawg B. Easton...

The answer isn't pretty... in my opinion, the masses are fundamentally intellectually lazy, and they prefer other people to do thinking and analysis for them. Think about this for a second, and I know I may offend some people when I say this, but have you ever noticed that SOME super religious people are some of the most anti-intellectual people you know? Particularly hardcore Christians? They are anti-science and anti-socio-developmental progression. Things are peachy as long as it coincides with the contradictory and oppressive lectures from the King James Bible. Folks like that don't move without someone else telling them to do so (i.e. MLK jr in the south). I have a ton to say on this topic, but not enough space to do so.