A Year To Remember … or Forget!
Father Time
Each person will reflect on the passing year with their own intellect and emotions.
Being a person who sometimes feel too much, I will first remember the great pride I feel when I think of our new president, Barack Obama. I also feel fear for the same reason. Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, along with Malcom X, can look down and tell us what evil walks this world when good people come into power and have the possibility to make a great difference.
We have lost some people who have been around so long that they were not only famous but icons in our society. Eartha Kitt, Van Johnson, Isaac Hayes, Bernie Mack, Suzanne Pleshette, Cyd Charisse, Roy Scheider, Charlton Heston, Richard Widmark, George Carlin, Sydney Pollack, Ivan Dixon, Harvey Korman, Estelle Gettys, Bo Diddly, Ike Turner and many others who will never be seen again except on reruns. And will salads ever taste the same without Paul Newman? Then there was also a modern day sleeping beauty that no Prince Charming found the time to kiss and wake up, Sunny Von Bulow.The world is in a financial crisis that no one saw coming. People who thought they had worked and built up a nest egg in Real Estate has seen it sink faster than the Titanic.
WallStreet has had so many ups and mostly downs that it looks like a basket ball in the hands of Dwaynne Wade. People who were put in charge of keeping our financial instutions in order acted like they were one the opposing team and sent them to the discard pile. People with stocks and bonds have seen them disappear faster than anyone could ever imagine.
Prices soared to the point that new words have to be made up to explain the situation. Staycation is a word for those of us stuck at home during the summer. My daughter HILARIOUSLY reminded me that we, Black people, have been experiencing Staycation for a long, LONG, time.
This may all sound black and gloomy but remember it is darkest before the dawn. We have our new president, Barack Obama, who has promised that he will get us out of this mess even if it isn’t overnight. I believe the American people will stand behind him and bring this great country back to a place of pride.
New Year everyone! We will survive and conquer rising to greater rewards!!