Great Minds

I guess Ta nehisi Coates and I were thinking along the same lines. I had seen so many references to Martin Luther King Jr. leading up to President Barack Obama's (damn don't that sound good) inauguration that I felt the need to look for some Malcolm X to remind folks of the fact that there were other leaders of that time that helped to shape the discourse and were instrumental in inspiring black people to fight for their rights. This is a long speech but its well worth it, especially for those who have only learned of a caricature of who Malcolm X really was. He was a very dynamic speaker much like President Obama, and they also shared other traits as he was also very intelligent and prescient in ways that I am not so sure that other black leaders of his time,including Martin, were. You see Malcolm X not only wanted us to fight for our rights. He also wanted black folks to prepare for the trials and tribulations that would come with embracing those new rights AFTER we won the fight for them.

This is "The Ballot Or The Bullet" from 1964.

On Second Thought

Ok I admit that I had a good ole time laughing at the story about the guy chunking his penny loafers at Bandar Bush. But then it hit me. What if those weren't shoes? The fact that this guy was able to throw not one, but two shoes at a sitting POTUS (and come damn close to finding his mark I might add) before anybody was able to subdue him is totally unacceptable. I would hope that each and every guy on that Secret Service detail gets their asses fired or at the very least are blacklisted and NEVER allowed to guard President Elect Obama. Like the saying goes, its all fun and games until someone gets hurt.



Don't make us have to go and get Denzel and nem to protect our PEOTUS.