I know his birthday was yesterday, but since we don’t work on Monday’s we had to move the celebration back a day so we could have an excuse for the government to not have to go to work. So Happy Belated Birthday Marty!!
If there’s one day I think everyone should take time to reflect upon, it’s Martin Luther King Day. I mean, next to Loyalty Day, it’s definitely the most important secular holiday our country celebrates.
It’s kind of ironic that, after working so hard to end segregation and racial discrimination, society segregates itself a lot of the time. Just go to any high school in America to see this in action. Maybe it’s just human nature to separate ourselves, or maybe Dr. King didn’t get to finish his quest because he was shot (or was he…?). It’d be interesting to see what Marty would say today if he saw our society. Would he be happy with how the whole desegregation thing turned out?
(Caution: blasphemy to ensue. If you’re easily offended, you might want to stop here.)
I’m gonna go ahead and say that he wouldn’t be very happy with it, but would have four platinum rap albums and a soon to be released movie with Tupac and Notorious BIG. He’d be a rapper on Diddy’s label (Bad Boy Records) and rap about how hard life was back when there were lynchings everyday and people had to eat sand to survive. There’d also be a rap companion to the “I Have A Dream” speech.
Luckily for you, I have a time machine and went back in time, prevented Big Marty K. (as he goes by in the rap community) from being shot, went back to the future, and downloaded an mp3 of his hit single, “Ya’ll Best Be Dreamin’ Bitch”. I’ve transcribed the lyrics below:
Yeah, word, yeah
I gots a dream and all these wiggas be frontin’
Theys think they bad but the brothas they huntin’
The U.S. got a creed that I’d like to address
All men is made equal that is what it profess
Ya’ll must be dreamin’ bitch, cause you know dat ain’t true
Brothas shootin’ brothas in the ghettos and zoo
I gots a dream ya’ll, I gots a dream (okay)
From the 229 to the 601 (yeah)
Every brotha will be brother to all the white
sons with dads who used own slaves
And my kids won’t be judged by color of they skin
But rather by the character of who they bein’
And I want the little black boys and girls to play
With all the little white boy and girls today
I gots a dream ya’ll, I gots a dream (yeah)
I gots a dream ya’ll, let freedom ring (word)
I gots a dream ya’ll, I gots a dream
I gots a dream ya’ll, let freedom ring
Big Marty K. for life (Bad Boy!)
770 represent ya’ll
