Big Dap: Yo ... DV. Maaaan, I know you going to the inauguration! I know you going to see God's Son do his thing. I got my plane tickets last night!! DV: Oh yeah? That's cool. Where you staying?
Big Dap: Well ... right now, I am in the Embassy Suites outside Baltimore. But my sister got a friend live in Silver Springs. We going to try to stay at her house.
DV: That's cutting it close. Nah man. I'm going to sit this one out.
Big Dap: What!! Miss the inauguration?! How you going to be "Da Blackest Man On The Planet" and miss God's Son getting sworn in?
DV: Miss it? Man, that's why they make High Definition TV's. I aint missing nothing - except a logistical nightmare. I'm at the crib, with my wife and kids. TV, Green Tea and the Mossberg on my lap.
Is it just me, or is every black American in the country planning to Bum Rush the inauguration? They're acting like Barack is hosting a barbecue at 1600 Pennsylvania and anybody can come if they bring something to drink. You will be lucky to get anywhere near Pennsylvania Avenue on January 20, let alone see Obama.
Yeah, yeah, I know. The parties. Every promoter on the east coast is planning an "Inauguration Party". Sounds like we are headed for a Political Freaknick.
The Good Nurse said...
DV,A colleague asked if I had planned to attend...and when I told her "no" she acted as if I had shot someone! Man, that crowd is going to be a nightmare and the "I just want to be there" negros are going to clown...just because they can. Watch.
Kit (Keep It Trill) said...
Fried chicken. Check.Potato salad. Check.
Giant thermos hot choc. Check.
Thermal underwear. Check.
Ear muffs, scarf. Check.
Dr. Scholls food pads. Check.
Camera. Check.
Secret 007 Taser wrist watch. Check.
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DV,
A colleague asked if I had planned to attend...and when I told her "no" she acted as if I had shot someone! Man, that crowd is going to be a nightmare and the "I just want to be there" negros are going to clown...just because they can. Watch.
I've been having these convo's w/people as well. I have absolutely no interest in attending. Most ppl rushing to be among the crowd as if its some duty need to be saving chips...
Unfortunately, this is the closest thing to a movement anyone from our generation has experienced so I get the emotional response. IMO that energy is best channeled elsewhere.
KP
Enjoy the diversion
Until the next 9II
All the King's men
Be already plannin'
To drop a bomb, a poop
In the Super punch bowl
Come Sunday, their plan
Pre-told will unfold.
LOL @ "political freaknik"
I had been planning to attend. I decided against it because of the unnecessary expenditure and a continuing job search (i.e., if I have a new job soon, I cant roll in and tell em I will be out next week cause I'm black and going to the Inauguration, LOL).
Hadnt thought about the crowds until now. That's another compelling reason to stay at the house!
I want to go with my family so that I can hold my sons in my arms and they watch Obama speak. But, in reality, I haven't made any calls to get tickets. If nothing else, I'd like to go so I can wear my camel hair trench coat on top of my suit. You only get so many opportunities in sunny L.A.
How about giving black folks more credit..., clown just because???
anon,
Yes, just because! It has nothing to do w/ "credit". Rest assured there will be some of Us there who will put on the clown nose, shoes, makeup and attire...and arrive 25deep in a little ass car.
Fried chicken. Check.
Potato salad. Check.
Giant thermos hot choc. Check.
Thermal underwear. Check.
Ear muffs, scarf. Check.
Dr. Scholls food pads. Check.
Camera. Check.
Secret 007 Taser wrist watch. Check.
Why a taser? Push thru the crowds to the front faster.
Heh-heh. Just joking.
Thanks anon. I think it's a symptom of deeper ailment when black people could denigrate other black people for gratuitous and well-intentioned enthusiasm for an unprecedented achievement. I expect some whites to make spurious and derisive comparisons to the Million Man March and Freaknic. But for seemingly intelligent black people to succumb to this is quite disconcerting and tells me how far we have fallen and the arduous task ahead.
Some of the statements that I've read here sound exactly like they could've been written during Reconstruction as educated and usually Northern blacks looked with scorn upon their recently manumitted Southern kin. And for the self-professed "blackest man on the planet" to perpetuate this tells me that he is unimmune Cadillac Flambe.
This is a singular achievement. A black man endured the most rigorous and highly selective competition ever: imagine the NBA Finals, Super Bowl, PGA Championship, and Wimbledon rolled into one. Black people as a whole had a critical role in President Obama's success. This is a proud moment for all of us. Permit black people our freedom of expression. If DV's favorite rapper can adorn excessive jewelry, be covered in tattoos from head to toe, and wear saggy pants 365 days a year, then black people of diverse classes, backgrounds, and regional tastes and accents can get together and participate fully for the first time in our national regeneration without our own folks tearing into us and putting us on blast because of hairstyles, gear, or type of car we drive. Don't worry. Plenty of white boys like byrdeye will take take potshots and attempt to clown us. Most assuredly, the news media will find an eccentric brother or sister to give comments for the record.
But the readers of this blog should know and act better. You don't need to love all black people. You don't need to chill with all black people. But you should respect all black people. It's time. For once, let's give each other a break.
the last line of the second paragraph should read that he is unimmune TO
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