…I’ve always known we’ve done a poor job of teaching Black
history, but as of the last few days it’s so clear to me why history classrooms
reference Dr. Martin Luther King almost as if he’s the only significant civil
rights activist. It’s not because of his
effectiveness; truthfully speaking, if we wanna talk about effectiveness, we’d
do better to talk about the brilliant organizer A. Philip Randolph who, behind
the scenes, made that fateful marching day and so many others possible. Or, we’d talk more about Thurgood Marshall,
who won the cases and made the rulings that secured our futures on paper and
not just in romantic demonstrations.
Nope. We don’t teach
Dr. King because of his effectiveness; we teach Dr. King because it’s our way
of protecting the status quo. Our way of
reminding the actors in the civil rights stage play of their ‘proper roles’. “Okay, this is our routine, guys: we do the brutalizing, and you sit there and
take it and catch us on camera, then you give the powerful speech, and that’ll
bring the change.”
As a self-proclaimed music aficionado, sometimes I get ideas. I think like a producer, so every now and then I hear an artist at work and think to myself, "It would be so dope if..." And through blogging, I found out that sometimes, if I just throw an idea out into the atmosphere, it actually comes into being--- sometimes in ways I never expected. So what the hay; I've got an idea. 
Okay, I’m old school--- my instinct is to shoot down all incoming
bogeys with Guile’s flash kick, period.
That’s just how I always did things.
And it’s not that I didn’t know about things like his crouching
uppercut, I just always used them differently in the II series. For instance, my favorite thing to do was to
go from the crouching HP (I called it the Statue of Liberty Uppercut) right
into his heavy Flash Kick. Nothing like
a good two piece, plus it just looked cool.
Marilyn Mosby. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Caesar R. Goodson Jr. Garrett E. Miller. Edward M. Nero. William G. Porter. Brian W. Rice. Alicia D. White. …These are the names you need to be
familiar with surrounding the killing of Freddie Gray and pending federal
investigation of the Baltimore PD.
Ask yourself a question:
do you love your country, or do you just love the makeup your country
wears? Do you love “Good Morning, America”---
with all of her bad breath and plaque and body odor and bed hair--- or do you just
love “America, the Beautiful” after she’s been sanitized and dressed in designer
fabric?
