Category: African Americans
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Traditional Black Womanhood
Traditional Black womanhood is having a hard time in 2019. It is having a hard time being heard, respected and taken seriously by anyone, even or I should say especially by other Black women. It seems that anytime a Black woman speaks from a traditional point of view (I’m not talking politics) she is often […]
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The “NYT” Makes Me Cringe
I don’t like the New York Times. I find a lot of the articles to be cringe worthy. The NYT caters to a White, affluent, liberal, East coast audience that lacks self awareness. That’s well and good but I’m not of that demographic so I don’t relate to their stories or understand their tales of […]
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“The Bluest Eye” and What it Means in 2019 – Toni Morrison February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019
Literary hero Toni Morrison died earlier this week. Her powerful novel The Bluest Eye is what makes Ms. Morrison a legend in my eyes. The book was released in 1970 and exposed ugly truths about Black women and self image and the effect it has on an individual’s psyche and overall well being. I read […]
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Organic is Great Until it’s Too Organic
Every Wednesday morning during the summer there is a little farmers’ market that operates out of the parking lot that I park in at work. It’s called the KCK Farmers’ Market. The farmer’s market is in an inner city neighborhood that doesn’t have a grocery store nearby. It’s great that residents of that community can […]
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The Greatest Generation
The title Greatest Generation is typically reserved for those that came of age around WWII. For Black Americans the Greatest Generation is those who came of age during the Black Civil Rights era. People such as Sadie Roberts-Joseph who recently lost her life to a senseless murder in Baton Rouge, LA changed the world and […]
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More Feminist Confusion
The feminists are at it again. These people are harder to understand than calculus. Music producer Jermaine Dupri made a comment that most female rappers today make songs about the stripper life. Social media feminists got upset for some reason and somehow Jermaine Dupri has become a prudish hypocrite in their minds even though their […]
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The Little Mermaid 2019
There’s been a lot of discussion about the young actress Halle Bailey playing the part of Ariel in the “The Little Mermaid”. Most of the conversation has centered around race. evidently some are upset that a Black woman is playing the character and others are upset that someone is upset. I don’t have any strong […]
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A Dangerous Precedent Has Been Set in America
I’ve read two very disturbing stories this week and both ended with Black men being killed. In both stories White people were made to feel uncomfortable and they thought that their discomfort was enough of a reason to confront and kill a man. This precedent has been set by American law enforcement. We’ve all heard […]
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Grace and Hypocrisy in the Black Community
The African American community is very hypocritical. I’m sure you’ve seen the video of the woman that licked the ice cream at Walmart and put in back and left the store. Yes, it’s nasty and childish and she is facing criminal consequences for food tampering. But I think that the social media drama is another […]
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