What’s up y’all, welcome to the Yes We Will blog at BET.com, where a few of us will be serving up a regular slice of delicious blogitude for those of you with an appetite for affirmative analysis. Now I know it seems a bit counter-intuitive to welcome you with “A Fond Farewell,” but I think it is most appropriate given the historic nature of what is happening in our country.Yesterday I watched as our soon-to-be ex-President George W. Bush gave his Farewell Address to the nation. The most remarkable thing about this speech in my eyes, was it’s genuine lack of “remarkability.” After 8 years, 2 wars, 4,000 US soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq & Afghanistan, 3,000 citizens of the globe lost on 9/11/2001 (including my Uncle Japhet, may he rest in peace), the gutting of American moral standing around the world, and a global economic crisis well under way…after all this the man at the heart of the greatest social, political and economic maelstrom in our lifetimes left by saying…nothing. Read the rest of this entry »