What we learned from the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March
Summary (Just a woman's perspective)
- It wasn't a traditional social event; It is considered a social-cause movement, and the theme was Justice or Else!
- You had a "modernized choice" of viewing it on a local, TV cable channel such as C-SPAN or hosted event streaming. Don't you just love live streaming?
- BET cable-channel did not air the gathering which has caused African-American audience disappointment of the latest re-branding effort of the network.
- I've learned that women-of-color really do intrude the man cave. ... an all-male focused conference ... I am embarrassed of such actions, and I take this moment to apologize to the men present: Sorry. If your man doesn't trust himself--alone--to be in such a social setting, then he shouldn't attend with you (of the female gender :) The speech, Ladies: "It's all about respect and trust. Respect for the socially focused event. Respect of self. Respect for marital or personal relationship. Well, of the subject of trust ... A man is going to find a way to do what he wants to do whether you are around him or not. An orgasm and meet-up doesn't take detailed planning."
- Where else would you have begun such a movement? Chicago? The ATL (Atlanta, Georgia)? Philadelphia? Baltimore? No, no where else but the chocolate city of Washington, D.C.
- There were probably a million or more in D.C. for the gathering: 10 10 15.
- It was a diverse gathering: Native-Americans, Latinos, Hispanics, African-Americans, Africans, Whites, Asians, and other racial identities.
- The original inspiration for the movement was the overall threat of extinction of the Black males in America (1992).
- A religious leader by the name of Minister Louis Farrakhan (A Muslim religious leader of the Nation of Islam) announced an invitation to men (for the second time ... at age 82) and
- Lastly, now it is up to the men to go back to their specific states, communities and neighborhoods to do what must be done. It would be nice--just a woman's perspective--if some one from the male gender would create a website, and Facebook or social media page specifically of the on-going progress of national community improvements inspired by the 2015 Million Man March movement.