It's Memorial Day Weekend so Why All the Traffic on South Beach?

It's Memorial Day Weekend and South Beach is crazy like always at this time of the year. The crowd, from what I see on the news and hear from conversations, is noticably smaller than past years.

Guess what that means to me? Nothing. I don't travel in that direction if I can help it. Traffic is way too congested. I've never so many scantily-clad females and loud, obnoxious males in one place. It's amazing, embarrassing and sad.

Memorial Day Weekend reminds me of the spending power of Black people or perhaps I should refer to it as the mis-spending power --- on Miami Beach. Not, Miami, the city where most Blacks live and have a rich history. You know, the city that is one of the poorest in the United States now, yeah, that one. It's a damn shame.

This wan't supposed to be that kind of blog, but for the life of me I don't understand how folks can support someone else's neighborhoood while allowing their own to crumble. Sure, there aren't fancy hotels in the predominantly Black neighborhoods anymore. There aren't likely to be any either if the dollar doesn't circulate in the Black community.

Cash, cars and plenty of bling will be the norm for the young people who want to lay and play in the South Beach sand and surf this weekend. Celebrity sightings and alcohol. The madness will be over soon. Until next year.

Since we don't teach our children history as we should, they are being raised by rap stars and designers. It's not really their fault anyway. How many of them really know what Memorial Day is about?

Thank you to all the men and women in the armed forces who protect us in the U.S. and others around the world. The price of freedom is not free. Ashe'