Curse the day that birthed the bastard Who caused your church mass Reverse the crash Reverse the blast And reverse the car Reverse the day, and there you are ?Jay-Z, from ?Lucifer? on The Black Album
A sun of the morning indeed MLK was, chased away by shadowy figures who howl at the moon.
We?ll go out on a limb and say they considered the man ? and anyone else who aspires to inspire ? a black sheep. To that end, some of us prefer better never than late, and I?d be hard pressed to disagree? but look around. Too many people of today?s generation or the one that preceded it, never knew the late civil rights great enough to be influenced by him, an unfortunate fact that resonated on the heels of his special day last week in Las Vegas.
You are missed now and always will be.
Thus, last year we began this themed anthology with ?Spence V Peterson: The MLK Edition?, a brutally classy affair at Barclays Center in Brooklyn that was somewhere in between the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
This past Saturday night at the MGM Grand, 40 year-old Senator Manny ?Pac-Man? Pacquiao (61-7-2, 39KOs) provided more of the same; third world marching and picketing all over the hooded streets of Adrien Broner (33-4-1, 24KOs) without gaining solidarity. Pacquiao, probably the closest thing the Philippines will ever have to MLK, was very much seen? just not heard. As for Broner? oh we heard him, we just never want to see him again. Ever.
