#7 - Moments in Black History

My Top Ten Moments in Black History countdown continues.  Thanks to all the new subscribers---and YES I do write all these.  

Now, #7.  Enjoy.......pc

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Moments in Black History – The Taxi Cab

November 9, 1986: 

On a rainy evening, New York City businessman Elijah Cole stood outside his office waving his arms and hands towards the busy oncoming traffic. Cole had conducted himself in this manner for several years, mimicking individuals standing next to him on the sidewalk. Cole was told the others were "hailing taxi cabs", as they called it. Unfortunately, Cole---a black man---was apparently not moving his hands appropriately, as he was unsuccessful in luring the vehicles, unlike the others. That is, until years later on November 9, 1986, when lady lucky finally smiled upon his rain drenched soul. 

Approximately, twenty-five minutes after he began his daily routine, a taxi cab operated by Muhammad Fubarro pulled alongside Cole and offered the surprised black man a ride. Upon entering the taxi cab, Elijah Cole became the first black man to be picked up by a taxi cab and took one giant step in African-American history. 

Later, when told what he had done for Cole and the African-American people, Fubarro replied: "Holy shit, I thought he was Mexican." 

Today, Fubarro is more cautious. 

This is a Moment in Black History.

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."   Booker T. Washington

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BONUS BHM

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Moments in Black History – The Academy Awards

 

March 5, 2006:

Pimps, hustlers, and hos all over the world watched the 78^th Annual Academy Awards shedding tears of joy and dancing in the streets when Memphis hip-hop artists Paul Beauregard, Cedric Coleman, Taraji P. Henson, and Jordan Houston of Three 6 Mafia won the Academy Award for the Best Original Song featured in the Craig Brewer/John Singleton film Hustle and Flow.

“Oh, sh*t,” shouted Moses “Big Daddy” Walker of Dallas, Texas, who claims to had missed the show due to business obligations.  “Pimpin’ ain’t easy, bitch; and now everyone knows it!  Hang on a second…..BITCH, WHERE IS MY MONEY!  YOU KNOW DAMN WELL PIMPIN’ AIN’T EASY!!!” 

Shortly before exuberantly accepting their Academy Award---and becoming the best speech of the evening---Three 6 Mafia performed “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” in front of the Kodac Theater audience in Hollywood, California, and millions watching the nationally televised ceremony. 

Faye Green, retired ho, watched from her bedroom.  “It was crunk up in here, fool!  Considering my side of the business, I cannot speculate how hard it is out here for a pimp, but I do know this: It got crunk at the Academy Awards tonight!  Awww sookie sookie now!  Heyyyyy!

Three 6 Mafia became the first African-American hip-hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song and also the first hip-hop artists to ever perform at the ceremony.  Even Steven Spielberg mouthed the words to the infectious pimp industry melody.

Truly, it is hard out here for a pimp.  However, on March 5, 2006, for one day, pimpin’ got a little bit easier.

This is a Moment in Black History.

 

“People pay for what they do and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”      James Baldwin