MLK’s Dream Wasn’t to End Up On Your Club Flyers
Y’all play too murch. TOO DAMB MURCH! I know folks love clubbing and promoters love getting people in there to buy expensive, watered-down drinks while getting their shoes stepped on while listening to terrible music for 4 hours. But must they use some of the tactics they use? Like:
Seriously??? Why y’all got my main man Martin Luther King Jr. on your club flyer for some “weekend shuffle”? Not just that but they got him looking like he gon take me for ALL my money. Like he’s gonna challenge me to a game of craps and if I say NAWL, he gon tell me “Yo, why you scared, doe?” Y’all ain’t gon do him like that. THIS version of MLK looks like he couldn’t be trusted because he was always asking you to support his newest hustle. And they gon use him for the club party. I wouldn’t e’em wanna go to a party where this dude gon be at. The other men there will probably have on socks and sandals and short sets.
NOPE. Not for me.
Well, technically, my point is supposed to be that they shouldn’t e’em have MLK on tacky club flyers with parties in his name. But umm… the MLK above is the one pre-movement, it looks like. Don’t be pulling out his super young pics so folks can think your party’s gon be about that life. If you ARE gon use the man, use a visual of him in a suit, not that it’ll make it better. Like below:
They got this man on some flyer rocking some bootleg non-Beats by Dre headphones, looking like he doesn’t approve of anything that might could go on at this shindig. I mean, is he supposed to be a draw? REALLY? MLK ain’t gon be at this party. Why are y’all using him as your marketing tool? Uh uh. Nawl. Talmbout “No Worries Bash.” That’s foolishment.
Black people (and others), I need us to stop using Martin Luther tha Kang’s pictures for janky clup flyers. I need us to stop having MLK themed parties around his birthday. MLK’s dream was not for y’all to have “Drop it like it’s hot” Sunday in your janky club in his name! It surely wasn’t. How does this honor his legacy? Martin is prolly hitting his dougie in his grave. Chile, womp!
This is just like that episode of the Boondocks, when MLK moved to Canada and said he was leaving y’all to your devices.
Tell your cousins to stop using that man’s image for their club nights. Martin ain’t march all over the south for y’all to abuse his likeness like this. Y’all already tried it with the Trayvon Martin hoodie parties that popped up all over the place last year. YOU. TRIED. IT. MLK parties at the club are like Gandhi keggers. They are foolish and make no sense!
We MUST do better.
So whatcha’ll think bout MLK night at Club Grown and Sexy? You going or nah?
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Le sigh… this is why I withdrew/resigned/chucked the deuces at the black race this Sunday. I can’t take it! I’m gone!!! What’s next? Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth on flyers… I’m scared to see what is next y’all!
Holy crap Yeah Tam, don’t say that too loud, someone may make that come to fruition. I can just see somebody promoting an event at Club Groove talking about “show us your best underground rail road twerk CUZ YOU IZ A WOMAN” and there will be pictures of Soujourner and Harriet on there. GIVE IT TIME- IT WILL HAPPEN
I rebuke my original comment in the name!! lol
Truth be told….young MLK,Jr. could have got it…twice on Sundays…
I’ll see my way out :0\
lmao!!!
This generation is so lost. If they know what the man was about, yet they still use his image for the coonery that he was against, then this proves that a great deal of them cannot be educated. This makes me want to move to an island uninhabited by said coons and wait for them to self-implode.
Taj, you bring up a good point about there being a serious disconnect between some folks and our history (because, it’s not just young people either. I know people in their 30s who lack knowledge of history). When I was growing up, I remember for a period of ten years straight, my parents made my brother and I watch Eyes on the Prize (I and II) on PBS. That is not done so much now because PBS doesn’t air that documentary anymore.
so can we blow up the idiot’s Twitter feed? This is wrong on so many levels. I believe in positive reinforcement…but a good dose of shame never hurt. They need a big scarlet letter hung around their neck. “I am not really black…I just pretend to be to shame the others”. Make em march in Selma with a big sandwich board. Go to the Lorraine motel. Visit … never mind. I am gonna go spend some time with a child today so they won’t be the fool of tomorrow. Hmph…find me a church nurse… got me walking and mumbling. It was just first Sunday done took communion and I am already fighting the air… and I am babbling.
Someone should forward this to his family, and they should sue. Just to prove a point. This is ridiculous.
Just go on and add me to the “MLK can get it” crew. He is fine AND he got a dream? Yeah.
I just imagined that way back when MLK was young Alpha at Morehouse and some young enterprising bruh was promoting an exclusive party with a picture of W.E.B. Du Bois on the flyer–instead of grown and sexy it was “The Talent Tenth”.
Absolutely not! Don’t you say that.
Reason 50132 as to why we aint free. That is all.
*reaches into wallet to cut up black card for the 813th time*
LOL!!!
This is some damn coonery. This generation is lost. This is NOT what MLK marched for. This is some Hoodrat supreme behavior. Trayvon Martin’s posters were another foolery. I saw one where they can get in before 12 with a bag of skittles. This and the usually foolery that happens is the reason why I can’t with black clubs. Besides I like a variety of music and don’t want to be grind on.
Foolery, Coonery, Tomfoolery, etc. This is why I can’t do the black club scene sometimes. The Trayvon Martin’s flyers were foul and disrespectful. And this one is a shame. MLK did not march for these hoodrats to pop or drop it. Or to get drunk. People were lynched, beaten, spray with water hose, and died for our rights. This generation is lost. Nothing is sacred to them. I remember there was A Thanksgiving Clap 4 Canned Goods club event in the DMV. Yeah, that’s right Clap 4 Canned Goods and they are not talking about clapping your hands. -__- *fights air and rolls around in carpet* They made charity work ratchet. Sigh, IWeep for some if our people.
Clap 4 Canned Goods?!
*wall slides* This cannot be life! Nothing is sacred.
And MLK with the studio headphones…I cannot deal
i’m so mad at the headphones, tho..smh…foolishness!
Lol@post. You are a riot Luvvie. I am sorry but this is a man known for sleeping with prostitutes while he was married. I can see him going to these events to get his freak on. I mean, all that marching and dreaming can wear a brother out. Let’s learn to laugh at ourselves, black folks. It’s not that serious. The high murder rate in our communities (500 murders in Chicago in 2012) now that’s what we should be angry at. We have bigger fish to fry than some negros putting MLK pic on flyer. So- called Jesus gets made fun of all the time.
Y’all are so rachet for lusting over MLK! So damb disrespectful……
……goes back to photoshopping my face over Michelle’s in the Obama wedding photo…..
Lmao!! I can’t handle this!!
I hollered SO loud at this that someone came in my office to see what I was laughing at. Tryna get me fired!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I cannot breathe!!
*faints*
Oh … then I ain’t so bad for photoshopping my face over the President’s! Thought I was the only person doin’ such heresy.
The First Lady is Hot.
PS: I did play wit da color mix a lot though … she didn’t look right against pasty … tone and hue were my friends.
Oh please don’t forget the foolishness that is the ‘Martin Loofah the King’ exfoliating glove. iCan’t!
http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Loofah-King-Exfoliating-Glove/dp/B003OCLES8/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
No. No. No. No. iCannot with Martin Loofa King. Martin did not march for this to be his legacy!
I guess I’ve been away from the club scene too long. I ain’t never seen anything as janky as this! Wow… that’s like blasphemy or something right. I mean in grandma’s house his picture is right up there next to Jesus and Obama!
Martin “LOOFAH” King. Seriously. Google it.
Luvvie you have me lmbo.. This is sum tomfoolishness.. I will not be in attendance to any of this mess.
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