That's all I've got. This weekend was a snoozer. Watched High Fidelity for the 27th time. It is in fact still as good as the last 26 times I watched it. Read quite a bit of The Egyptologist, picked up the new Harry Potter, played a few hours of Tiger in honor of his British Open victory, and tried to ignore the fact that it's been so humid for the past few days, I could drink the air.
Today was the grand finale of the Indiana Black Expo, so there are massive crowds outside my building. If nothing else, today reinforced my opinion that med students today should be studying to be hearing specialists, because in about 5 years, they're going to be raking in the dough. Nobody's going to have any low-end hearing anymore. It also made me happy that my self-esteem isn't based on whether I have a car with 22" rims and a speaker system that can shatter eardrums at 500 yards. (Instead it's based on music, books and movies, but that's a story for another post...) But the worst part about today was truly seeing with my own eyes how much the fear of the black male still governs our society. I made the 4-1/2 minute drive over to Dairy Queen for a little dessert after dinner, and there were literally groups of police officers on every corner downtown. I understand being prepared to handle large crowds, but I've been to a bunch of big events here, and I've never seen a third of the number of cops I saw tonight. And the saddest part? 90% of the cops were white. I'm sure the irony of perpetuating all these stereotypes as they're closing out a celebration of the advancement of African-American culture isn't lost on the organizers.
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