The Synergistic Pen

My cousin hipped me to this youtube video and warned me that I'd be.... amused by it...

It seems, someone had a message to give. I got the message... wonder if you will when you see it...





Ms. Rene Marie, I think, was "preparing" use for something most of us aren't ready for... unity.

If you peruse some of the comments attached to this and similar videos on the subject, you find 2 things:

people who think this is part of the great conspiracy that will result in Barak Obama becoming the first black president of the United States...
and...a whole lot of white folk haven't a clue who James Weldon Johnson is....

both of which are a damned shame...

Don't get me wrong here... I am shocked that she was bold enough to do it... at the same time, I'm almost ashamed for her, as it was really not the forum for such a political statement.

Or was it?

This woman, apparently, is a singer... it might have been some sort of self promotion stunt... which, oddly enough, in this day and age of 15 seconds of fame, will definitely work for her...

But, if, on the off change it was a political statement...damn, what a way to send a message and what a way to expose hypocrisy...


it caused me to think for a moment... I, for reasons that have more to do with spirituality than politics, usually don't sing the national anthem. Oh, I stand up, I acknowledge the flag, but I don't put my hand over my heart and I don't sing...

I don't always sing the "Black National Anthem" either... for the same reasons...

to lift up a song and make it a mantra for who one is politically, kinda, rubs me the wrong way... and I've explained my position on the matter to people who look at me funny, shrug their shoulders and mentally place me in the radical negro catagory before moving on to more neutral topics.

Bold statements from the "little people".... only in America baby...

ya gotta love it...