The Extended Martin Luther King Day Celebration

Don’t go out to your mailbox on Monday. The postal service celebrates Martin Luther King day. Coincidentally, many blacks in this country are choosing to take the next day off too. You have one man who is worthy of a legacy to celebrate, and one man who has done nothing but made promises to celebrate the next day. Regardless what he does with those promises, the postal service and other government agencies will celebrate a new federal holiday after the death of Barack Obama (if not sooner based on some sociological thought in this country).

It’s amazing how little it takes to be great in America these days. We fail by setting the bar low and celebrating mediocrity, which best describes the life of Obama. We still don’t know that much about him because the media would rather run stories that Obama is ’soothing.’ I don’t know if that’s a quality I want in my President. I would go further in saying he’s hypnotic to the irresponsible generation who have been told they are great all their lives without ever lifting a finger. They call them Millennials.

So, we may see an inauguration like no other. The standard pomp and circumstance that surrounds the ceremony may be lowered to a Who Let the Dogs Out, Idiocracy like disgrace. Many aren’t celebrating Obama on Tuesday. They know little of him, because his past is written in fiction. It’s unclear if he even wrote his books. What they do know about Obama is he is black. They celebrate his blackness, which they questioned months ago. Our once proud inaugural that celebrated our new President no matter his party is now a celebration of a color.

I hope one news organization records the truth. I hope they asks the black people in the audience what do they know about Obama? Will the typical Peggy Joseph answer follow? “Barack gonna buy me a car and pay my mortgage, right on!” Or will they provide a thoughtful answer? I am not optimistic there will be much thinking beyond he’s black, which is a half truth.

Asante Bradford wants to ‘whoop it up’ for Obama on Tuesday. I am sure this may be the first time someone will ‘whoop it up’ as they deliver Oath of Office. Visions of the old Arsenio Hall show flash through my head–fists in the air whoopin’ it up. “I decided if I couldn’t be (in Washington D.C.), I’m just going to take the day off, just so I can scream and holler.” It makes you wonder if bars around the country added extra staff for Tuesday’s lunch hour.

Being at work is not an option,” said Brenda Wilson “I wouldn’t be able to get any work done, wondering what was going on.”

Lady this isn’t the Super Bowl. We traditionally don’t start keeping score until the 21st of January. Although, I know this year Obama has already received a huge handicap on the scoreboard. Funny, they didn’t give Jackie Robinson the same handicap on his first day in the major leagues.

Let me explain it for Wilson. He puts his hand on the Bible, follows the Chief Justice, says his own words, parades around, dresses up, and goes to some balls while the taxpayers pay over $100 million for all of this to go down. My mother always said there isn’t any baseball players worth a million dollars. I am adopting her beliefs for this one. There isn’t a man worth spending $100 million for one day. The price tag should outrage Americans, but we can’t say a whole lot about it because they will be label us racist. Which I bet will be a theme for the next four years which tells me that all of this is in vain. Black President or not, if that term is thrown around carelessly so Obama can walk through Washington untouched, we really haven’t advanced since King.

Originally Published at Bungalow Bill’s Conservative Wisdom
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