By Tezlyn Figaro
Well, here we are in another season of Scandal, so this means another season of everyone talking about every episode on Facebook. Sure, I am also a fan, but what gets me is that if I ask people to attend a rally, attend a get out the vote event, push a ballot initiative or volunteer for a candidate that is seeking office, the enthusiasm dwindles!
When it comes to politics, Olivia Pope is not the only one caught up in a fiction love affair. For far too long, we have voted for candidates based upon who went to our high school, what party a person is affiliated with, who can have the best fish fry rally or simply who looks good in a suit.
Like Olivia, we have become blinded with a ‘fiction love’ that is not real with the ‘hope’ that maybe one day the ‘fiction love’ in private will all of a sudden love us back in public.
As for me, if you cannot love me in public, stand for me in public and fight for me in public as well as behind closed doors, while you serve in public office, then you are not the kind of love that I need! In fact, the lack of true love for the black community is obvious with the highest unemployment rates in the country, highest incarceration rate in the country, highest HIV rates in the country and the highest school drop out rate in the country and sadly the list goes on.
The time has come for everyone across America to take a lesson from the 1996 Miki Howard R&B song and seek Love Under New Management.
Will the real Olivia Pope please stand up? And if you are, then be about the work or sit down!
Check out Miki Howard’s song Love Under New Management. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnVA_UR60CE
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