Yeah, I wore Black...but why does it feel like I've been here before?

About every 9-12 years we go through this moment where we act like we really wanna pull together and bring back the movement. We get sick and tired of being sick and tired. We will trudge through a regime that doesnt feel especially engaged to our issues so we get out in the streets and handle business for ourselves. We will accomplish something significant and a head or two will roll and the winds of change blow enough to make us feel more comfortable about our overall situation.

Then we Gloat.

We'll kick around some medallions and kente cloth...
or some new saying...
or some new fashion statement...



and ride that until the novelty wears off;

This all takes about 3-4 years. and Then we'll go back to our regularly scheduled programming.

We skip an election or two...get especially materialistic and self-absorbed...and the Ls start to pile up. Before you know it...We angry again.


Lather
Rinse
Repeat


follow the trend.

1968 marks the defacto end of the movement with King's death and the undoing of the Black Panthers.

1977 you have Roots and The re-rise of Black folk claiming their African Roots

1985 marks the quest for the King Holiday

1995 marks the Million-Man March

2007 you have the Jena 6

With each movement, you'll have this underlying sentiment/hope that the movement is BACK and that we will rise and return to being the activist engaged people we once were.

Then we kinda go back to what we were doing and life goes on, such as it is.


Sigh...My black doesnt feel so...Black anymore.