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Monday, October 17, 2005

The Movement a Waste of Time, but Niggas were getting Numbers...?

Black people have suffered two disasters in the past couple of months, hurricane Katrina and the Million Man Movement. It was a disaster. It’s me your friendly neighborhood author Brandon McCalla and I am here just to give you a very brief vision of what went down…
nothing but niggerism went down and that aint even a word. But it’s the only way I can describe the function. Two of my spies were on the scene and they were mortified. I had one very stern thug in the place and a very militant black dame who rocks an afro. They called me up periodically during the day with bits and pieces of information. But on Sunday night they both called me and gave me a substantial amount of gossip, ahem I mean information and none of it was nice.
     I heard Erika Badu gave a speech just like that guy in In Living Color, you know the inmate, the guy in jail who spoke with a bunch of big words that didn’t make any sense, that was Erika.
     Wyclef performed and did an excellent job, until he started doing back flips and handstands on the stage… Why was he jigging with such vigor? I thought that day was supposed to be a day of enlightenment and I thought we were beyond jigging now… I guess not.
     Jim Jones came out to speak, but he came to the stage with his non radio edited music. So nigga and bitch was being blasted in abundance and a hook intricately explaining how better he is living than the average nigga with his 24 inches of rims and diamonds galore was riveting throughout the courtyard via a terrible sound system. How low have we become as a people…
     I heard a slew of Christian ministers were on the scene preaching, whoops did I say preaching I meant recruiting like they were the god damn army. It seemed almost despicable and my home girl with the afro described these black Christians as the white Christian missionaries who waltzed into Africa… sad but true.
     Of course the pot was being passed around via Louis Farrakhan but then there were peddlers, street fiction authors selling books, niggas selling mix CD’s and people selling tee shirts (of Biggie and Tupac like them niggas are our damn saviors, like they perished on a cross or something). What is wrong with us? My thug correspondent said that a few Bloodz n Crypz were in the house like they were a political party and they were being treated as such. He said that shit even baffled him and he’s a damn repeat offender and a former convict, a hoodlum. He said that shit made him wanna seek some sort of solace in his existence.
     The two people that I had on the scene hadn’t gotten a bit of enlightenment; actually they said they were left in the dark. And ironically enough though the call for homosexuals to attend was given; only one homo spoke at the Million Man Movement…
     I want feedback on this. I want the people who actually attended the Million Man Movement to share their experience because my two cronies said it was a horrible experience and was a waste of time and effort. What do you think? And mind you when Wyclef has to do four back flips and three handstands, well that just means that the crowd really wasn’t that enthusiastic but if they weren’t enthusiastic about that and still no enthusiasm over the speeches since on television you could see a hundred or so hoochies with their hands combing out their weaves, popping gum and on their cell phones. And a whole bunch of dudes taking glances at fat booties; I saw that from my house on C-Span. I friend of mine taped about a good six hours of it and I was shocked. I caught a nigga getting a number right on television and I was at first like Holla!!! But then I was like yo, this is the Million Man Movement, I could tell he wasn’t gonna enlighten her when they hooked up, he was hooking up with that dame for some ass.
So I say if people didn’t attend this thing for the unity of the people, what did they attend for?

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