Errance Mentale: when we believe it, we'll see it.

My first posting regarding the situation of MECA in the DC area did not go unchallenged. I appreciate all the conversations about the content. For all others, I really have nothing to say. I will make some changes based on these reactions, not out of fear of being controversial, but because I was wrong in my assessment of some people's roles. I gave them reverence they later proved was undeserved, an I'll leave it at that.

The Manyu community in the diasporas is set on self-destruction. The creation of NOMA, and the TRC are just examples of what happens when a people refuse to apply common principles and the law. Everyone can confirm that the disqualification of members who run for office is a taboo subject. This penchant for cuddling friends, even in their waywardness and a leadership style that has been based on fear and pampering has created an imbroglio: a web of lies, half and overstretched truths to keep a following that we have failed to inspire. Why do some get so bitter when it comes to Manyu community affairs? There are many reasons. To begin with, some of us are just eternal pessimists, people who know that nothing will ever work. There are other reasons, but I want to exploit one that I have heard iterated by all: EGO. My principle in GBHS Eyumojock, when I was a teacher there, liked to say this: "if you hear that a man has died somewhere, three things could be the cause: woman, money a

This mail will mean nothing to you if you are not from Manyu, and if y ou are, you will be disappointed t o know that the context is MECA-USA/MECA-DC. If you live in Maryland, Virginia or the District of Columbia, we generally refer to you as a MECA-DC member, that is, if you belong to the meeting and identify yourself as such. I became a member in 2004. It was not what you would exactly call a meeting then, in comparison to testimony of what it was before and what it became after. Don't be distracted by this statement. My intention in this mail is to give you some background information on the MECA chapter in the DC area as you set to choose which chapter to belong to. You must belong to a meeting and you must attend often and you must participate. If you don’t, never complain. Few things have happened here in DC in the past years that have shaped the organization the entire MECA-USA organization. Let me take you down recent memory lane. I know you are smart enough to tell wha

So, it finally came and went and I still have not been blessed abundantly per the promise. Ah tricky emails from cunning friends! They came, the emails I mean, with all kinds of info/promises. There was the google or microsoft hiring (I think it is still going on), the coca cola savior mail, the Tommy Hilfiger racist campaign, the Black people don't read words, sent to ... Black people (I wonder how they got that!), the human slaughtering (in the presence of a photographer!), the sunglasses-wearing-when-it-is-raining- nugget which I tried and realized it only works for real believers. There was an unprecedented laziness in 2009. Did you realize that text messages with best wishes come with bad practices like not naming the recipient of the email? I got tons of messages, and while I am delighted that all those people thought about me, I would have loved to see the sweetest name in the world, mine, just before the message proper. I am equally jealous that I wasn't as ingenuous.