So...My President is about to be Black

As I woke this morning with the sun beating on my face...three things came to mind that are special on today.

1) Today is MLK day and I don't have to work...
Of course I could just sit around and do nothing, but I have to be productive because everyday I must wake up with a purpose. It took me back to that song the King Chorus sung called "King Holiday". You know what I'm talking about...it's one of those "true story songs" that you can actually jam too and surprisingly that I have on my iPod and on my Zune. So since it's cold (yes, I'm officially a Floridian) and I am not about standing in the cold to watch a parade... I instead decided to truly mark this day as the beginning of giving my writing and thoughts to the world. Of course, I've been giving my poetry to the world for years...but now it's easily accessible on the web. But I must think can my writing have even the smallest influence on the world as Dr. King had on a nation? Hell, I don't want my own national day, but I have always wanted my own day in my home town. So keeping to the dream, I have no choice but to add to it and keep it moving for generations to come. The dream now is continuing the dream...dang waking up after 8 AM is a beautiful thing. Come with me!

2) Today is the eve for President-Elect Obama to be inaugurated...
It's not been a topic I've really spoken about, but yes on November 4, 2008 was the first time in my quarter century that I could truly identify with "I'm proud to be an American". And I’m about to work for "the Man" and "the Man" looks like me. A man who is labeled a category not chosen by our own yet publicly identified to a nation visually and politically as an "African-American" will be President of the U.S. of A. Yes it is a monumental occasion, but folks as happy as you are about this you must know that he is not the first. He is simply openly the first that will be written into our history books as "the first". Which brings me to, "YES!! I am super happy" to have a man who considers himself an African American to be my President. But it also raises the question...what would the "others" think if the history books read that Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge were Black Presidents....please remember if there is even a drop of black blood in your gene pool then yes by America's standards you are black (hmmm...think about that drop of "colored blood"). So wait...oh yes, I have more on this but of course let's move to my next topic while I'm listening to my jam "My President by Young Jeezy...the realest words he never wrote"

3) How Am I going to celebrate this MLK weekend?
I'm going to follow the words of the song...I'm going to take this day to love somebody, not because of the song but because I am loved and my nature is to love.


King Holiday - Various Artists
my favorite verses)
Once a year we celebrate
Washington and Lincoln on their birth dates
And now a third name is added to the list
A man of peace, (Drum Major for Justice)
Now, now, now every January on the third Monday
We pay homage to the man who paved the way
For freedom, justice and equality
To make the world a better place for you and me
It's a holiday, it's a gathering
For the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King

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Let the hero shine
Every day in your life
Yours and mine
Everybody shine, whoa...
Let it shine, let it shine, woo...whoa...oh...



Paradigm of Parodies: Paradise, Peril, and Peace by ACE Jaunty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.