Millions More Moved...

This past weekend I decided to do something proactive and be apart of something larger than myself...for anybody who knows me from undergrad that doesn't sound too much outside the norm but lately I've been lazy. Anyways, I decided to take a break from the challenging routine of graduate school and the selfish mentality of "getting mines" and to wake up early and go out to the Millions More Movement. I don't know what I was expecting. Maybe that overwhelming sense of pride/anger/love you get when you watch Malcom X or that sad sense of imprisonment you get when you watch Eyes on the Prize. I really didn't know what to expect and what I got was the opposite of what I would have thought I expected.

It was all love! For real for real, it was love. One love. I thought it was beautiful how my culture could come together and exchange ideas and sing songs together in the pursuit of one goal, equality. I know it happened once in our history, but who would have thought that the some of those sentiments from the civil rights movement still remained? Christians, the Nation of Islam, Jews, atheist, whatever were all there sharing their views. And not only was it the old men left over from the last civil rights movement (no disrespect to the Rev and the Minister) but they had my generation up there and young kids up there. They had the Native Americans and the Latinos and the Asians, they had representatives from all over the African Diaspora. It was truly beautiful. I am not saying that I agreed with everything said or that people out there were perfect, but they were there for the same reason.

What made it more beautiful is the fact that it was raining here in DC for eight straight days before that and on top of that it was a bit chilly. Saturday was the most beautiful day that DC has seen in a long time. The skies were a perfect Carolina blue and no cloud in sight. So not only was it a beautiful day it was a blessed one.

For more on what went down this past Saturday check out:

http://www.millionsmoremovement.com/news/press_rel10-15-2005.htm