Now What?

I've been sitting on this one for awhile. Now is the time to put it out there.

When the "Million Man March" was done, I wondered "What happens now?" Will the men go home and go on living the lives they lived or will they "do something"?

About 1 year later I asked that question on the 'net some where and received responses that documented the increase in volunteer work by Black men. A few years later, I think I remember seeing an article that showed that increase sustained itself.

I asked the same question after "The Black Covenant". I wrote that I expected nothing to really come of it but time will tell.

Now, Coz is sounding off again, and I wonder, "Now what?"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but those who are going to hear him speak, are they the ones who DON'T need to hear it?

In Baltimore, I was told that people who "needed to hear it" were taken to hear it. But if they have people who would take them to hear what Cosby had to say, didn't need Cosby in the first place; they already have someone.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I find it interesting that conservatives who tell Blacks to put away the groupism, have no problem in individual Blacks taking on group responsibility for individual actions.

"Black leaders" have received some grief, rightly, for talking but not doing anything. How is Cosby different?

Here's my point: there are plenty of individuals and groups doing things to address problems in the Black community, but if it's not done by the media appointed "Black leaders," the work and deeds of these people are mostly ignored.

From what I was told, the work of people in Baltimore wasn't highlighted by Cosby. So, what's the point? "Now what?"

Anyone who says that "we" speak these things "in private" but not in the open and they state that's bad, I respond by asking them to define what "in private" means?

If these individuals and groups are working to better things, then so what if it is happening under the radar?

And I will ask again, why aren't "they" show casing those people and groups who are working to better things?