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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
I showed these comments to my father... (An old skool Alpha man). He is the Western Region Life Membership Chair... He was pissed off and told me different will be used...
Folks fail to support the parade because the organizers are confrontational for reasons that go beyond medicated comprehension... As you can see from the above list of some titles, they are unwilling to let go of some thoughts...
Most Seattle folks have NEVER seen another cities MLK Parade. If they did, the Seattle folks would feel...
I have a philosophical disagreement. I think the MLK Parade should be about empowering people to be the change or to live to make it better for others. I think that MLK Day should be service-oriented. A day on, rather than a day-off for the white sale at Macy's.
But as folks read these themes, very few of them discuss any of the aforementioned concepts.
I have very little time in my schedule, but somehow, I keep getting the emails... Aside from finding them quaint and amusing, there may be questions that "certain powerful people in Seattle" are beginning to have about MLK Day and its "validity"...
Justification as a holiday is what is at stake here...
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First off, please extend fraternal salutations on my behalf to your father
(I attended a Western regional convention in Denver about 2 or 3 years ago and the brothers of the Far West did it up right.)
If the parade is constantly non-supported by Seattle's citizenry, you would think its organizers, out of their love for the time-honored principles Rev. King espoused, would welcome new ideas and new insights. It seems that operational control of this committee is where the change needs to start.
A few questions about the committee... Who sponsors it? In your opinion is its' make up sufficiently diverse? Is this a city-sponsored committee or a grass-roots type thing? Where are my Seattle bruhs and the AKA sorors; have their voices been heard?
In your response to Professor I noted your frustration with the "wackness" of the committee. I can understand it, but as I'm sure you know walking away may be what they want you to do.
If they won't hear you, then they must feel you. Maybe it's time for a competing, more focused MLK event? Know anybody, or any groups out Seattle way that might want to set something like this off?
Tenacity, my sister, tenacity.....
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