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        <title><![CDATA[How Truth Killed a Friendship (and I’m okay with it)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie I was "de-friended" by an actual friend of mine on Facebook last week. We'll call her Angela. Now truthfully, I don't follow my updates on Facebook but I decided to check on Angela's status updates because we had exchanged "words" with a few weeks ago. So it wasn't until I went to find her Facebook page I was told she was no longer my friend. Hmm. I felt some kinda way about that. I could have picked up the phone or fired off an email but in reality, I was okay with it. We have been friends for over ten years but talked to each other less and less in the past few.
Long story short, a few years ago Angela called to tell me she was worried that her young daughter was becoming sexually promiscuous. I bit my tongue (darn near in half) but she kept asking and asking my opinion. "Do you really want to know what I think?" I asked her. She assured me she did. I told her it was not going to be pleasant but she said she really wanted to know. Finally, I just said it. I told her that perhaps (jus]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[John McCain Would Like To Deny You Your Rights -- For Funzies!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed It's all a slippery slope. Isn't that what we on the left have been saying all along? That if you deny the rights of non-Americans it's only a matter of time before people start thinking the Bill of Rights was printed in invisible ink. Right now Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman are floating a bill that would allow for American citizens to be detained without charge. Sure it's unconstitutional, but that's never stopped them before.﻿
More after the jump.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Open Letter to Bookstore Dude, we’ll call this BougieTale a #HollaFail]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie My twitter friend @CarolynEdgar coined the phrase "HollaFail" yesterday to describe some grown dude trying to holla out of the passenger window of a car (No Scrubs, sir. No Scrubs). For those in need of an ebonic to bougie translation – HollaFail = an epic failed attempt to pick up someone of the opposite sex for romantic purposes. Anyway, I'm stealing the term for this BougieTale about the fella I met at the bookstore on Sunday. I decided to pen him a little note:Hey Dude,
Remember me? Sweats, ponytail minding my own business in the fiction section? You came up all handsome smiles to the magazine section next to me. And while, "Um, hey, um," may not be the smoothest opening line I've ever heard; your flashing dimples make it seem okay. It was clear by the way you grabbed the first magazine your eyes fell on and then immediately turned back to me with the dimples and eye-twinkle that this was a roll up. Even though I'm on a self-proclaimed man-break, you were cute enough for me to at]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[7-11 Muslim Funny Man]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White I stopped by 7-11 tonight to get some beer and got a bit I did not expect. As I approached the counter, the customer in front proceeded to engage the two Middle Eastern check-out guys in some chit-chat. They went along with his jovial banter and I thought nothing of it. As I put my stuff on the counter, the other customer exited - and then it got interesting.The first checkout guy turns dead-pan to the second and states in a heavy accent, "so what do you think?", nodding toward the door, "gay or straight?" Huh? I must have had that WTF look on my face. The second guy looks at me with an ‘oh-shit’. And time froze.And then time thawed. Second guy nervously interrupts, saying, "he didn’t mean anything, he thinks he is a comedian”. “Yes”, says the first guy in a serious face, “I think I'm funny”. I pointed at the first guy and said sternly, ‘look(!), for the record, I’m not saying shit to you or him, so when I leave, you better not ask your friend shit about me, you und]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Raise your Wonder Woman Cocktail up: It’s International Women’s Day]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie It's been a while since we had a Bougie Cocktail Moment. But go ahead and raise them up. Today is International Women's Day.International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, IWD is a national holiday. Women's Day was first celebrated in the United States in 1909. Two years later, more than 1 million people attended events in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland during the first International Women's Day.
During International Women's Year in 1975, IWD was given official recognition by the United Nations and was taken up by many governments. International Women's Day is marked by a national holiday in China, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
This year, World leaders and international organizations are calling for more ri]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Love Is the Root Politik:  Letter to a Faithful Reader]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: soulbrother v.2 First of all, allow me, please, to apologize to you. I should have gotten back to you sooner. I should have responded when I first saw the notice. But I assure you I am not as rude as I seem. I assure you that I am not arrogant or that I do not appreciate the emails and other correspondence of those who think enough of me to take time out to communicate with me; I am simply a man who is sometimes overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the tasks I have before me.And yes, to answer your first question, I do have a number of other white readers, but the funny thing is that most of them, well all except you and another, choose to comment by email instead of leaving comments on the page. I think that they feel as if they will be verbally accosted or something. In fact, for a good while now, I have been carrying on a running dialogue with a Jewish man somewhere in New England. But let’s deal with those issues you have raised.At this point in my life, I have grown bored of talking about race]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dating Is Not A Democracy (Menfolks)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed "As much as I may miss the thrill of dating, sleeping with, meeting someone new, I regularly thank my wife for not being crazy. When we are out, one of our favorite things is to pick out the couple who is dating and thank goodness they aren&rsquo;t us," Joe, Married In Maryland, 30.

It's ugly out there. But then, when hasn't it been?
Ever since the day your pa stopped rationing off your hymen for a couple of goats ... wait. It wasn't cool then either, was it? Ever since Massa ... wait? That was kind of messed up too, right? Damn. It's really hard to romanticize the lives of women past. The lives of women who had few choices -- if they ever had a choice at all. We fought and died for choices. And now we have them. Unfortunately, dating is not a Democracy. Heading out on the open market means your destiny (and happiness) is in your own hands. Maybe you find the right guy/girl for you. Maybe you don't. No one wants to hear about the "don't" part. We all want to believe there's som]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Oscar Re-cap: Mo’Nique, Precious, Tyler Perry and Big Girls…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Let's all join hands and sing Kumbaya for a moment shall we? We simply are not going to get on the same page about a lot of things. That's both the beauty and the irritation of the human race and the African American culture. The only thing we will ever agree on is that we all breathe air, need water and think differently.That "think differently" thing was made abundantly clear Sunday night as I watched (sort of) the Oscars. More than watching the show, I watched the comments from folks on Twitter. Here were some of the issues where people simply could NOT agree to disagree:
Mo'Nique: Some people felt she deserved to win the Oscar, others thought she did not. There was a belief that "we" (African Americans) only win Oscars if we are pimps, abusers, victims or monsters. (I counter with Whoopi Goldberg and Sidney Poitier). There was also irritation that she mentioned Hattie McDaniel in her acceptance speech. Not sure what was wrong with that.
Tyler Perry: They panned on Tyler Perry in th]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[White privilege strikes yet again...in New Orleans]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear In June 2006, then 16 year-old, Colorado High School jazz saxophonist, Daniel Weidlein, (Wait!  Let me say that again - 16 years old!!)  placed fourth in a National History Day contest for creating the following short, documentary film detailing the making of  Billie Holiday's, "Strange Fruit" - and the horrific acts of racism upon which it was based.  I needed to begin this post with it, to help]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Precious, Lord! - Part 1]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear I watched Lee Daniels' "Precious" on December 9, 2009 - online - because I wasn't about to go to a theater and watch it in "mixed company" - white and Black, male and female, particularly.  I started writing a post, back then but,  found it difficult to finish - for a variety of reasons, personal and not.  

Hollywood will - tonight - reach the culmination of their, "]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sunday Short: Urban Prep Success Story]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Now here is a story I would like to see highlighted on CNN's Black in America 3 (but probably won't). In Englewood, one of Chicago's roughest neighborhoods sits the charter school Urban Prep. It was announced last week that all 107 seniors were accepted into college. Every. Single. One.Chicago's only public all-male, all-African-American high school fulfilled its mission: 100 percent of its first senior class had been accepted to four-year colleges. Mayor Richard Daley and city schools chief Ron Huberman surprised students at the all-school assembly Friday morning with congratulations, and school leaders announced that as a reward, prom would be free.
The achievement might not merit a visit from top brass if it happened at one of the city's elite, selective enrollment high schools. But Urban Prep, a charter school that enrolls all comers in one of Chicago's most beleaguered neighborhoods, faced much more difficult odds.
Only 4 percent of this year's senior class read at grade level as]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Saturday Video Shout-Out: Regret/Feels Good]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Happy Saturday, ya'll. Let me take a minute to shout-out my ex currently blowing up my cell phone. [Note to Ex: If someone doesn't answer after NINE calls, they aren't trying to talk to you. The next message you hear will be from my service provider informing you that this telephone number is no longer accepting your calls]. By the way, I had no idea who LeToya was but I will download almost ANYTHING with Luda on it. Reppin' for the Dirty South ya'll. I know, I'm so very, very hood. Enjoy:And since I like to keep it positive around these parts, let me share a video that explains exactly how I feel about hitting that "IGNORE" button on the cell phone today J:
Love Rahsaan Patterson, he's one of the most slept on artists out there. Hope you're having a great weekend. Anyone want to send a musical shout-out this weekend?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Coming This Monday -- Menfolk: How You Doin'?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Coming to a Snob Blog near you, a new feature I like to call "Menfolk: How You Doin'?"
As womenfolk we can sometimes find ourselves talking into circles over sex, love, dating, marriage and other issues that sometimes involve those people with penises. So, I decided to hit up some black male long-time readers of mine -- some married, some not -- and ask them what they thought about the so-called "Black Marriage Crisis." After all, the black men in this debate were rapidly turning into Ralph Ellison's famed "Invisible Man." Either painted as no-good layabouts, players or white women-chasing, self-loathing miscreants who wouldn't piss on us even if we were on fire. Naturally, with all this negative press SOME dudes would be all "AHEM! I'm standing right here and I can HEAR you!"
I asked my readers/friends to be BLUNT. In some cases painfully so (but not mean). What I learned was fascinating and I will be sharing my report, warts and all, come Monday.
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Poor Blacks talk in movies, and not just to each other. Oddly, they talk and/or about the people on the screen, as if a response is somehow possible. The non-Black and non-poor find this rude. I would agree. That’s why I am very selective about theaters and attendance times. A White guy in Philly capped a brother for talking in Benjamin Button – I guess it really pissed him off (here). Philly’s a tough town.So then, what’s up? First off, Black folks have no corner on the rudeness market. Rudeness is up everywhere. Don’t believe me? Check out the study (here). White kids are rude, even when they’re not imitating Black kids. Discipline is down, acting out is up. However, when poor folks act up people really get in a snit, because if you are poor in America, you are supposed to be quiet and unobtrusive. Poor Whites got that memo, poor Blacks folks did not. Also, to the MSM, White ignorance is embarrassing and not news, while Black ignorance is entertaining and sells.There are]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie "Chivalry is dead and Prince Charming fell off his charger years ago…" ~Renee Nightengale, character from Heard It All Before by Michele Grant (me!)
Okay, don't shoot me… I absolutely don't feel this way today but I definitely did during a super bitter phase I went through twelve years ago when I first wrote the opening line to my first book, Heard It All Before. As a matter of fact, reading over the book now is like visiting an old friend that you still find entertaining after all this time. Flipping through it to prep for an interview this week it made me wonder… if I could go back to Michele from early 1998 – what would I tell her? She was living in Northern California having a fine old time. It was the tech boom and everyone was making money. Even people that weren't trying to make money were making money. Life (as I knew it) was good and uncomplicated. So what would I tell myself assuming I don't want to end up exactly where I am today? (Which , by the way,  is not a bad]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Yesterday morning, I was pleased to meet a young Kenyan man where I work out.  He is in town for a conference on micro-finance, an activity whereby loans are made to very small businesses/individuals in developing countries, like Kenya.  I have known many Africans, but this man’s features stood out cleanly and most candidly.  I said to myself, now this is an African!Anyway, after pleasantries, I jump right into asking how he has ‘found’ the US, on his initial visit.  His observations got right to it.  To start, his sight-seeing consisted of one place, the University of California, Berkeley.  No Golden Gate Bridge. No Chinatown. No Fisherman’s Warf, just Berkeley.  The man had education on the brain, and reinforced why African immigrants are such high academic achievers on US soil.Second, he was amazed at the infrastructure of the US.  The roads; traffic lights; light/electric poles; sewers; sidewalks; everything!  He thought it was glorious to have so much.  I could relate to h]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dear Harold Ford Jr., I'm Sorry I Called You A Princess]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Because it's insulting to princesses mostly. Not because I feel bad or anything.
Anyway, unless you've been living under a rock, my favorite sexxxxy*, pretty, pretty ... um ... Shit. Now I need to think of a new nickname. Pretty Pretty NotPolitican? Pretty Pretty Pundit?
Yeah. That's better.
My favorite, sexxxxxxxy, Pretty Pretty Pundit, Harold Ford, Jr. punted on running for Senate in New York after everyone in the whole wide, wide world of sports told him it was a TERRIBLE idea.
Why was it a bad idea?
More after the jump.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie I didn't set out this week to write a Black Feminist Manifesto. It wasn't my intention to rally up the Sisterhood with the "I am Woman Hear Me Roar" battle cry. Don't get me wrong, we are awesome though. We totally rock and if we wanted to get matching t-shirts and cabbage patch backwards down Pennsylvania Avenue to "Sisters are doing it for themselves"… well let me know when and I'll order up the frozen margarita machine. I really just wanted to squash the negative rhetoric, get a few things off my chest and share an anecdote or two. And I kinda thought I did that, with far more impact than I expected.But… wow! Along with the great uplifting and supporting comments came the blowback. Thanks to my readers' passion for the subject, the post calling for a halt on the Black Girl Beatdowns was retweeted and reposted all up and through the internet. Essence.com picked it up, it was "buzzed up" at Yahoo, landed on Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Technorati, Live Journals and places that I didn']]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Politics of Loneliness]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: soulbrother v.2 People tease me about my office, especially my desk.  Both are an absolute mess.  In fact, my desk has almost ceased to function as a desk;  it has, instead, become simply a place where I stack my stuff.  Then the stacks eventually fall over, and I just seek out a new surface on which to start a new stack.    But there is one corner of my office and my desk that is clean and absence of the ubiquitous clutter.  That corner is reserved for my friend, my colleague, who has an office just next to mine.  When I am here, she is usually here too there in her corner, reading, checking papers, on her laptop.  Sometimes we chat.  Sometimes we laugh.  Sometimes we discuss books we’ve read.  Sometimes we get all deep in discussing the problems and questions that have vexed mankind since the beginning of time.  But mostly we just sit, each oblivious to the presence of the other, as we work on our respective tasks.  She is sitting there now, composing some document on her laptop.  She looks up.  S]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mo'Nique's Hairy Legs + "Open" Marriage = TMI]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed I forgave Mo'Nique for "The Parkers." It had to go off the air for a few years and UPN had to die, but I eventually forgave her for introducing that abomination of a show onto the world. My hatred of The Parkers is something rich, fertile and pure and I could write invective-filled sonnets about it. But I won't because Mo'Nique has managed to become bigger and better than The Parkers ever were. Kudos. So, now they are forever obscured by her other exploits and her Oscar nomination and she is not solely known as the fat chick who screams "Haaaaaaay Professor!" at a man who doesn't want her.
But Mo? Can I call you that? Or Nique? Is that more apropos? What's up with all the too much information lately? I know we're currently living in the Age of the Overshare and I know I've overshared on more than one occasion, but I didn't know you'd recently become an ambassador for hairy legs and open marriages?
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie As a follow-up to yesterday, I'd like to share the story of Miss Violet – my "maiden" aunt who was in all ways my grandmother and lived to somewhere around 100 years old (no one is really sure).My Aunt Violet was no joke. She was the second oldest female in a family of thirteen kids born and raised (literally) next to a sugar cane field in the Northeast Region of Guyana, South America. She assisted in raising all of her younger siblings, sacrificing her own schooling, ambitions and marriage options to do what was best for the family. My father was the youngest and ironically, the one who headed out for America first. He was, she often told me, the best and brightest of them all. He reached America, got worked like hell and eventually sent money to bring over as many of his older siblings as possible. My Auntie Vi came over and settled in New York City for a while. After my father moved to Texas and established his medical practice, he put the down payment on a house for her and told]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yesterday, for the first time in my career, a student called me a nigger]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: soulbrother v.2 A student called me a nigger yesterday. And he just didn’t call me nigger all quick and simple like, but he drew the words out as he said them, snarled them at me—neee-grrr—in such a vindictive, baleful manner that I knew he did so with seemingly the deepest hatred, the most malicious intent.I sat with the dean on one side of me, and this lady from some administrative office (I don’t quite remember her function) on the other, and as the last syllable of the word reverberated throughout the room, it seemed that something else entered. It seemed as some awful miasma filled the room. It caused the dean to turn beat red. It caused the lady to gasp and clutch at some imaginary pearls. And it caused my mind to suddenly pitch backward to another incident.This is the very first time that some student called me a nigger, though I feel as if I have almost been called a nigger, or I have at least been called a nigger in so many words, many times since I began teaching.But my mind went bac]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Congratulations to my LGBT brothers and sisters in Washington, DC!!!!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear So, after filing suit last November, opponents of same-sex marriage have been dealt a serious upper-cut with this - Chief justice denies stay of District's same-sex marriage law.  Now, all those who waited, can start applying for licenses tomorrow!  For now.

Since Congress didn't act within the 30-day required time period after the bill passed first reading on December 15th, their only recourse]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White My kids drive me crazy with their grammar (some of it probably on purpose). I feel like they were never too young, or now too old, to learn the correct way to speak. This is what parents are supposed to do, or so I was taught. It’s not ‘me and so-and-so’, but rather it’s ‘so-and-so and I’. Instead of ‘where you at?’ it’s ‘where are you?’ And kids pick up bad speech like colds. I am not above dryly asking my son if he plans on working at McDonald’s after high school, grammatically speaking. So, I was intrigued to see some research on the actual cost of sounding identifiably ‘Black’.My backdrop for this post is the Urban League’s (UL) consistent yearly lament that the average Black person earns approx. $.73 for every White $1 pocketed - due to racism. To hear them tell it, racism makes Black kids and their parents forfeit the benefits of reading, writing, and arithmetic, stem to stern, dropping out at the 55% level. And business owners, presumably White, sho]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Stop telling me how I think, what to do, how to look, who to date, when to exhale… I beg of you.]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie I get it. I really do. Bashing or even borderline bruising black women is what hot in da streetz. By bashing I mean telling us why we ain't nothing, ain't gonna have nothing, ain't gonna have nobody to share nothing with. Sure, it gets you book deals and blog views and radio shows and talk shows and photo ops and movie deals and basically… paid. I get it. You found a hu$tle that works and you only have to kick a group of people that are already down to do it.Oh, you think you're being helpful offering up your "self-help" and "how-to" and "best way" opinions to us? Even those of you that are not directly  authoring the yada-yada, do you really think you're helping by adding in your "tsk-tsk" or "co-sign" two cents response to the media swirl about all the problems with the sisterhood? You're not. You are adding to the already cacophonous wall of noise. I respectfully request that right after commenting on this post J… everyone just shut up. I am talking to celebs and so-called relat]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dead dogs and stripper poles? A look at The Marriage Ref]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie I'm not sure why I thought checking out The Marriage Ref, a new reality show created by Jerry Seinfeld was a good idea. That was a half hour I'll never get back. For some reason, I thought the concept was about helping couples solve actually marital difficulties with the help of a professional coach (which I would have found intriguing). It is not.It is about making married "ordinary" people seem real trifling and making celebrity panelists appear witty and hip. Only the trifling part worked. On Sunday night's show, one couple fought over whether or not to allow the husband to keep his stuffed dead dog in a constructed altar in their home. The other couple fought because bruh-man (yes, they were of color) wanted to install a stripper pole in the house. Are these difficult questions to answer; are these deep and probing marital issues? And are Jerry Seinfeld, Kelly Ripa and Alec Baldwin (!!!) people you want offering their opinions on your relationship? No, no and hell to the no.
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        <title><![CDATA[The Black Agenda: Black Leadership in the Age of Obama]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: soulbrother v.2 Take just a second and listen to the exchange embedded above between Tavis Smiley and Rev. Al Sharpton.  Can you tell me just what is happening here?  First of all, I’m a bit surprised that this very public and seemingly acrimonious disagreement took place the way it did.  Usually, African Americans do not air our dirty laundry in public like that.  But most importantly, I am wondering what are they arguing about anyway?Many times I’ve asked readers to enlighten me on just what is this “Black Agenda” I keep hearing so much about.  And not only that, what this “Black Agenda” consists of.  Furthermore, just who set this “Black Agenda”?We have any number of people claiming the mantle of leadership in African America, and any number of people claiming to represent “The Black Agenda,” but I cannot for the life of me figure out what this “Black Agenda” is, nor can I find it articulated anywhere.  Not only that, I cannot figure out exactly who is out front leading, and]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Summarizing Black History Month – It is all just a joke? (a guest post)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Today on BnB, we simultaneously wrap up Black History Month and Smart Guest Post Week. Our final contributor is a future muckety-muck somewhere in DC, I guarantee it. I call him "the Captain" but others may know him as SpkTruth2Pwr, the voice of The Apathy Remedy and a driving force behind The Younger Writers' Block. Show him some love.
As Black History Month (BHM) comes to an end, I would love to do a post-BHM wrap up.
You know- a post on how the story of our black ancestors is a story of hope in the midst of struggle and how black history month is an ode and a perpetual lesson for not only black people but also all people in America.
But instead, I can only approach the end of BHM with sadness.
Why?
I went to a Black History Month play this weekend.  It was a community church production called "From the Slave House to the White House."
It wasn't a large crowd - mostly teens attending as part of a program. I was looking forward to it, The message behind it was progress and how our anc]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why this will-Spring-ever-come weather is President Obama’s fault…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Yes, yes - I have the latest. Something else for the conspiracy theorists to kick around. This crazy weather is not climate shift, global warming or environmental pay-the-piper time. It is the direct fault of the 44th President of these here US of As. You know why? Because for more than 200 years, folks of all races, colors and creeds uttered these words:

It will be a cold day in Hell before a Black Man is elected President of the United States of America.
And here you have it…  

 p.s. Who's in on the collection to bribe Mother Nature to kick-start spring? I am WAY over winter.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[NY Gov. David Paterson Won't Run (Because It Looks Mad Sketchy In Here)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Amidst the crazy sound of other shoes dropping, New York Gov. David Paterson said he wouldn't run for election* in Friday news dump amidst a snow storm. (*Can't say re-election since dude really wasn't elected. Something about the previous governor and whores ...)
Anyway, the thing that did him in was his thuggish ruggish aid, who, apparently likes to smack around women. He likes it so much that his boss may have had the state police intervene in a case against him by pressuring a woman to not push charges. He also *may* have contacted her himself. Classy.
Gov. Pattycakes got gently nudged out of the picture for a variety of reasons and despite being warmly welcomed after former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's "Pay your prostitutes with checks" scandal, he never seemed able to catch a break ... from anyone. The press totally hated him. Large swaths of the public were unhappy with him. It just wasn't working out. Of course, Pattycakes became governor in the middle of a recession where there was e]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed By now you probably know that everybody's favorite Zulu Queen, White House Social Secy. Desiree Rogers has announced that she's leaving her post. It might have had something to do with those famewhores who crashed a party and made everyone miserable for weeks. While I'm sure Desiree will be all delicate, graceful and classy about her exit three months after those famewhores ruined EVERYTHING, I don't have to be.
Boooo! Hissss! The HATERZ won!
More after the jump.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White I have always heard people, numerous Blacks and some Whites, say that Black patrons are poor tippers.  I have witnessed this as well, but never thought my personal sample was valid on the entire group.  I have even called out a few poor tippers in my day, and they always say they are bad at math, or the service was poor/racist, or they were distracted, and this is why they tipped poorly, to which I mutter BS.  So are Blacks really bad tippers? Also, does the race of the participants affect the tip?  Check your seat belts and air bags folks.A little bit of robust research at Cornell (here) presents that not only do Blacks tip 20% less than Whites, Black servers get smaller tips all around, including from Blacks, AND Blacks tip Black servers lesser amounts than do Whites.  Wow!  There's that Black-on-Black racism question again.  A few more facts: tip disparities remain despite comparable service; Blacks are less familiar with the 15-20% tipping norm than Whites; socio-economic status of]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed So when The Good Rev. Al Sharpton gets into a slight tiff with Tavis "Accountablity" Smiley who's side does The Snob choose? Mama Snob is permenantly on Team Al, so I won't ask her opinion. She'll just go "Tavis who?"
I wish I had a BIG, HUGE opinion about this (becuase I know how ya'll love me going on a big, huge CRAZY PANTS opinion tear about things), but I don't. I think Tavis is full of it. (Booo-ring) and that the good Reverand is ... well, IT'S AL! I just can't.
Anyway, I'm going to let the man my day job boss calls my "boyfriend" because I quote him so much on the New Security Action blog, TAPPED's Adam Serwer take this one:

Smiley has taken the same sort of position that Republicans take on national security issues -- Republicans say Obama doesn't say "terrorism" enough, while Smiley doesn't think Obama engages in enough direct public advocacy on behalf of black Americans. Smiley doesn't actually engage on the question of whether or not Obama's attempts to de-racialize black]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed One. Get 15 cats.
Two. Keep reading articles like these.

"Black women are in market failure," says writer Karyn Langhorne Folan. "The solution is to find a new market for your commodity. And in this case, we are the commodity and the new market is men of other races."

Market failure? I didn't realize black women were GM stock! Black women! The Detroit of womenfolks!
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Next up on Smart Guest Post Week… Damon from This May Concern You. Dame brings his introspective eloquence to BnB with a look at racism… that isn't really racism. Show him some love…At my best, I am a thinker. Don't get me wrong, I write. I love to write. But my love of thinking supersedes my love of writing. Hell, I think that I love to think about writing more than I like to write at times (yes, this can be a problem). At moments, I think aloud, and sometimes thinking aloud means that I take to some form of social media with my thoughts because I feel compelled to share what I'm thinking.
One of the few things I think about a lot, but I'm not to quick to share my thoughts on, is racism. I'll admit it. I do catch that "Christmas in July" spirit when it comes to writing about racism from time to time. I know that it's real. I know it's institutionalized and systemic. I've experienced my fair share of it, I suppose (I've been called a reggin in reverse by a former co-worker on a j]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear When I volunteered in New Orleans with Habitat for Humanity in 2006, I got to sit and talk with a lot of Black New Orleanians who said the shooting on the Danziger Bridge had nothing to do with self-defense.  Their take?  The crooked NOPD was "protecting" the people on the predominantly white, other side of the bridge, scared that the poor and predominantly Black folk were coming to take their]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot If I were to summarize my religious experience in a word, it would be "rollercoster." I have been low like during my childhood when I'd pray every day for God to save me from hell. I have been high when high like when reading the Bible and listened to sermons everyday. And then I've been up in the air like now when I wish I could forget about religion completley. Sometimes I marvel at the huge change--from the point where my beliefs about Christianity were as solid as a rock to now where when I see Christianity instead of a placid stream I see a muddy quagmire. I can point to the exact point of this change. It started when I wanted to receive the gift of speaking in tongues but could not. (I was raised Charismatic and was always taught that speaking in tongues and salvation go together.) I couldn't understand why I didn't get it because I was as sincere as a Christian could get about it. At that point, I started reading a lot about the subject and later was questioning the practice all]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Village Report with W. Eric Croomes                                                                                                                               The recent exchange of temperaments between the Reverend Al Sharpton and Tavis Smiley has generated a lot of buzz regarding black progress – or the lack thereof.  Smiley and “Rev. Al” didn’t mince for words on this past Tuesday after Smiley appeared on the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show and basically singled out black leaders – including Sharpton – for being soft on President Obama’s apparent reluctance for giving due attention to the woes of African Americans and inviting these leaders to debate the issue next month in Chicago.        At issue is whether President Obama should move forward with a so-called black agenda; that is, should he expend some of his political capital to address what ails the blac]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: soulbrother v.2 That tiger didn’t go crazy.  That tiger went tiger!  --Chris Rock  Of course you have heard by now.  Yesterday a killer whale that is part of the Orlando, Florida, Seaworld orca show killed one of its trainers during a show.  It has not been readily determined if the incident was an accident or an act of aggression on the part of the killer whale;  some animal experts have that the killer whale was simply playing.  To the 3,000 pound whale, people are simply toys.  However, it has been noted that the killer whale in question has killed twice before.  In one instance, the killer whale grabbed a biology student in its mouth and dragged her around the pool.  When the student attempted to escape, the killer whale managed to block her path, and then the killer whale and two other whales tossed the student around between them.  Sounds like a game of catch to me.  The killer whales were probably having the time of their lives.  Let me get this out of the way before I go any further.  My hea]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White OK, OK, the Oakland AC Transit brouhaha is done (skip it if you must), but in the interest of fairness the Black man who got whupped (Michael) deserves some air time. BTW, Tommy Slick's Old White man story is getting crazier by the day, and where the hell is this 'Bob' character (a voice in Tom's head?).  I frankly don't know who is telling the truth. So the moral of this saga is, 'don't drink and ride (AC Transit) or expect to get your butt kicked and show up on You Tube!'H/T: SoulfingerJames C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Whupped Oakland Black Man Gets Radio Interview, Thomas Bruso, Vietnam Vet, AC Transit, Oakland Thug, Acting White]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed I was worried at first when I started to watch this based on the title alone, but then it became deliciously hilarious towards the end.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Next up on Smart Guest Post Week, it's the fellas' turn. Kicking off Thursday morning with some knowledge dropped from the incomparable thinker, Inkognegro. If you have not had the chance, check out his weekly blog talk radio show: The Black Odd Couple. Today, The Inky One will be going on of the state of popular culture today and just who exactly is to blame…In honor of my guest spot here in BnBworld, I celebrated by actually purchasing a copy of Chele's book, Heard it All Before. I say this not because I am looking for brownie points from her, or even because I think she needs a jump on the March mortgage. I bought it because it is part of my master plan.
What Plan???
My Plan to help rehabilitate Black Popular Culture.
After spending a considerable part of 2009 watching family, friends, and strangers decry and bemoan the state of popular culture: HipHop is dead, there is nothing on TV, all our legends keep passing away in music, all the books are about drug dealers and hookers, the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Scott Brown Buried under a Avalanche Hate by Those Who Claimed to Love Him Most]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: soulbrother v.2 It must be really hard out there for a conservative.  Just a little over a month ago, conservatives from every corner were showing mad love to Republican Senator Scott Brown after he won deceased Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts’s senate seat in a special election.  For days afterward, conservatives could not construct a sentence without a subject, a verb, and Scott Brown (sorry VP Biden).    Conservatives were hanging all off Scott Brown like a cheap suit.  He was even being touted, somewhat prematurely I think, as a possible presidential candidate for 2012.  He could do no wrong.  But then recently a procedural vote was held on the Senate floor on the new jobs bill, and Senator Brown had the absolute temerity to break ranks with his Republican counterparts along with four other Republican senators and allow the bill to actually be brought to a vote.  And now the  floodgates of hate have opened.  Just check out some of the responses on Senator Brown’s Facebook f]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Papa Snob finally got a computer and he's now proficient enough with it to browse the Internets and find my profanity riddled blog. So far he hasn't mentioned the profanity (maybe because he's been known to drop a few bombs). But he keeps threatening to teach my technophobe mother how to use the laptop meaning MY MOTHER COULD READ THIS BLOG and she doesn't utter a harsh word AT ALL! She says the word "crap," then giggles and apologizes.
You wouldn't think I'd be all afraid of a woman who says "Oh, my virgin ears!" and wears oversized capes and hats and is only five feet tall and weighs about 2 lbs soaking wet. But you'd be terribly wrong. I'm scared to DEATH of that tiny woman! I'm not going to stop dropping F-bombs or nuttin' cause of it. Cause, you know, the parents are all grown n' shizz. But if they try to friend me on The Twitterz or The Facebooks, we are going to have problems!
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        <title><![CDATA[California Students Sue To Restore Affirmative Action In Universities]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Both friends and foes of Affirmative Action (AA) need to be aware of what is going on here in California.  The friends have an unlikely benefactor, California Attorney General Jerry Brown, the man running for governor of the state (again), come this November.  When asked for an opinion by the State Supreme Court on Prop 209, which banned Affirmative Action, Brown's brief offered, "ironically, by effectively disadvantaging racial minorities and women in the political process, without an evident compelling governmental reason for doing so, [the amendment] seems to accomplish the very evil it purported to eliminate...racial and gender discrimination."The lawyers for the students are claiming violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution (story here).  Recall that it was equal protection violation that brought down segregation in Brown v. Board of Education. The students would say that Prop 209 wrongly blocks them, base on race and gender, from seeki]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wanted:  Press secretary for God.  No references needed.  We know your heart.]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: soulbrother v.2 I realize that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. I cannot understate the importance of these attributes for any supreme being. And I do recognize and acknowledge my whole insignificance in the grand scheme of things. However, I would just like to drop a quick suggestion in the celestial suggestion box.It is my suggestion that God gain the employ of a good spokesman or press secretary because the things being said and done in Her or His name are getting more and more outlandish. It seems that when those purporting to be God’s folk step in front of a microphone in front of a camera, the mainline connection to the throne room gets a little fuzzy, and they say anything that comes to their heads.Of course, people with good, common sense recognize the absolute absurdity of these words and deeds, but the present reality is that common sense is not so common anymore. But let’s catalogue just a few of the words and deeds I’m speaking of.No one could possibly forget when shortly follow]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Smart Guest Post week rolls on here in BougieLand. After yesterday's somewhat melancholy post, we're coming with the happy post today. A story of stepping back up to the plate and swinging for the fences and finally… FINALLY hitting a home run. Join me in showing some love to Tiffany in Houston. She isa  charming, charismatic Texas chick newly engaged and newly unemployed (she did NOT see that one coming… damn economy). She blogs about the trials and tribulations on The Unemployed Bride. And just cause it's relevant, I've inserted a dance break before Tiffany's story: The lovely Aaliyah (RIP – Miss her still!) with Try Again from the Romeo Must Die Soundtrack:Back to our program. Ms. Tiffany:
I was talking with a friend the other day and she was saying how she was excited that I was gonna blog this wedding planning thang and how I gave her hope that she could be married. And I do believe I have spoken to some of you in real life about how quickly my relationship moved. I met my f]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot A picture says a thousand wordsI just heard of this book by CW today. The cover pretty much sums up the depths of self-hated to which we have sunken. It's no secret that there is a gender war of sorts in the African-American community. Scores of us are verbally destroying our Brothers and Sisters in order to justify why we want to date anyone who isn't of our race. However, people who do this fail to realize that no matter how much they deride African-American (wo)men, they are pretty much shooting blanks as far as their argument is concerned. Here's why:1. Let's just be honest. You just see European as better.What all of these arguments come down to is a denial of racial bias. Rather acknowledging that they simply have a bias to Europeans, they put the blame on all of those of the opposite sex, saying that their in inadequacies forced them to find a mate outside their race. But anyone who is not in denial can see straight through this. We were all raised in this Euro-centric culture,]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie As Smart Guest Post Week continues, we turn the keyboard over to frequent commenter, the wise and witty, Jayme C. That's Dr. Jayme to you. Jayme is a professional life coach, mentor, licensed psychiatrist, marriage counselor and friend. She has been married for close to 20 years and seen all manner of relationship tomfoolery yet for some reason, given the opportunity to write about ANYTHING in the world on my blog, she decided to write about me. Serious side-eye. At any rate, I did not (though I was SORELY tempted to) edit her discourse but instead present it to you in all its goodness. Without further ado – Dr JaymeC:Sometimes my roles as mother/wife/life coach/counselor/friend/sistagirl overlap, merge and meld together. Such was the case when Chele called me the other night in what she calls "a state of überPisstivity". Her ex-boyfriend (the one I used to root for) had been calling and they were (for lack of a better term) negotiating the terms of reconciliation. A détente if you]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White I don’t know if I call this acting Black or what, but the ladies of Zeta Tau Alpha at the University of Arkansas weren’t playing when they showed up at the Sprite Step-Off Challenge 2010. BAM! $100,000. See Ya! (Next year should be interesting)James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: White Sorority Girls Get To Steppin' For $100K Prize, Zeta Tau Alpha, Sprite Step-Off Challenge, University of Arkansas, Acting Black, Acting White]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie For the record (and in case I haven't mentioned it eleventy thousand times), I love smart people. People who can communicate, engage and be witty (without malice). This week you will get to meet some of those people. Yes indeed, it's Smart Guest Post Week on BnB. Because I want to hear other voices, I appreciate the brainpower and I have a deadline in nine days. Today, I bring the always vibrant and verbose A.Smith of Diamond Dust. Enjoy and show some comment love…What's the old saying? "People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime." It's really a feel good statement. It helps us recognize that not everyone is supposed to be in our lives forever. It can keep us on the lookout for those people who, if we let them stick around for awhile, might drain us of all the goodness we can muster in a sometimes not so good world. I mean this is a really good saying, full of all kinds of...uhh... well... stuff that makes clichés good. The only problem with it is it doesn't do]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What the World Is Curling, and Why Am I So Obsessed with It?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: soulbrother v.2 Okay, today is my birthday. The word must have somehow gotten out because I’ve gotten mad birthday wishes, and it’s very humbling. Thanks everyone!But anyway, today I’m walking around fall-down tired with my eyes all bloodshot red. However, I ain’t been partying, birthday or not. Instead, this past week I’ve not been sleeping. Now, I’ve been given to bouts of insomnia all my life.In fact, I have been discussing my inability to sleep at night with a good friend of mine who has suggested a number of absolutely crazy remedies. But no matter how crazy the remedies, the insane thing is that I’ve tried them all but to no avail.Yet, this week it has not been insomnia that has been keeping me up. It has been curling. I’ve been watching the Winter Olympics curling matches. Yes, curling. Curling seems to be my newest obsession. Oh, what is curling you say? Don’t feel bad. I barely knew what curling was when I started watching it. And I barely know now.However, curling appears]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[If You Brunch This Sunday, Please? BRUNCH HARD!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: craftysistah.com Sisters share a special bond, talent and perspective. Thankfully they also let us in.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed By Luvvie
Welcome, my *pause* brethren and sisthren! It is Black History Month, 28 days of reminiscing about the colorful past of us melanin-blessed individuals. This is the time where kids get to see Frederick Douglass' afro side-part in class. The children get to learn about gun-toting Harriet, who told folks to either be free or die. "I have a dream" will be recited to PIECES. Even Martin Luther King be giving the *side-eye* from up above like "Dang! Y'all know how to wear something into the ground."
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        <description><![CDATA[From: craftysistah.com Yep, it happens to the best of us&#8230;we love it, but others not so much.
It you have a trinket or two that would qualify for the Ugly Necklace Contest&#8230;grab it and take a pic and submit if before March 15th&#8230;if the person who is taking your picture can&#8217;t stop laughing you may have a winner! [...]]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: craftysistah.com Deadline: March 5, 2010
The Challenge:
Tell a complete story in 8 photographs. Your story should have a beginning, middle and end.
The Art Institutes Storytellers Photography Scholarship Competition challenges those interested in pursuing a photography education to submit eight photos based on the theme, “Storytelling Through the Lens” and an artist’s statement describing the photos. The grand [...]]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Black Authors: Sins of the Mother on Lifetime Movie Network TONIGHT]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Brilliant author Carleen Brice, penned Orange Mint and Honey with the idea of telling a story. From there, she's been on quite the ride. Lifetime Movie Network optioned her movie and it will be on tonight at 8 pm eastern, starring Jill Scott and Nicole Beharie. Here's a clip:


Creative people of color, rise up! Please give this movie a look and come back and tell me what you think.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed So I finally got around to watching Tiger Woods apologize to my dad for not playing golf, forcing him to listen to stories about Phil Mickleson and other things he hates. Because, really, that's who he should be apologizing to -- folks who hate crappy golf. They want to see Tiger be GREAT. This? My pops didn't want to see this!
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Hither and Yon Quilt Block Pattern - I like Hither and Yon, with its pinwheels in opposite corners. The units along the other diagonal add even more visual movement to the block, so there's lots of opportunity for color-play. The Hither and Yon block finishes at 12" square.
Janet Wickell
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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