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        <description><![CDATA[  Afronary.Net is tracking a total of 119 Black Blogs.  There have been 92 total posts today.<br>
		There are 13 blogs in the category Culture.  There have been 4 posts in this category today.<br>The blogs are organized into 35 categories.  <a href="http://www.afronary.net/">Click here to view all the categories we track</a><br>]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Video: Mike Tyson Sounds So Sweet With Autotune]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed While I'm primarily known for my knowledge on politics, cultural issues and history, there are a lot of other things I know insane amounts of useless information about. Like sports! As I've mentioned in the past, Papa Snob is something of a sports aficionado. (Mama Snob is still staring out of the window wishing for this thing called an "off-season.") Meaning, I think I've seen almost every one of these press conferences referenced in this video at some point in my life. Most of them I watched as highlights on ESPN with my father. And how we laughed and laughed and laughed. Hence taking those moments of athletic braggadocio, autotuning them, scratching/mixing/cutting them up and setting them to a club beat makes me very, very happy. The only imperfection is that this track could have been an epic three hours long if they'd made it just of MLB players and coaches shouting things. It is summer, after all, and Tony LaRussa would probably enjoy another avenue for expressing his displeasur]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Obama talks Sherrod, Education, Not Knowing "Snooki" to the National Urban League]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Crappy pictures by me, stuck behind the press platform at the Washington Convention Center Thursday.President Barack Obama said Shirely Sherrod "deserved better than what happened last week" as he addressed the National Urban League in Washington, D.C. on Thursday as part of the organization's annual conference and 100th anniversary.
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        <title><![CDATA[Shirley Sherrod Suing Andrew Breitbart]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Who saw this coming? Shirley Sherrod, who got caught up in the matrix last week, announced to the National Association of Black Journalists that she will be suing conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart for his release of an edited piece of video that made it appear as if Sherrod had willfully discriminated against a white farmer. After the video popped up online via Breitbart and was played on FOX News, Sherrod claims she was forced to resign from her position with the USDA.
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        <title><![CDATA[RWNTD*: Get Real Already: Don't Date what you can't deal with]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie My blog cousin Slim Jackson wrote a post over at Three Ways To Take It on women who do not appreciate the random small gestures that men make. He felt that some women expected men to jump through hoops for their love. And he further goes on to say that it's really hard for men to even remember to make that effort because they are so caught up in their day to day lives.&nbsp;The effort isn’t because we’re reluctant. It’s because sometimes we get caught up in the flow of life and forget. Other times we don’t do things simply because we know that within hours, the gesture will be forgotten because it’s expected or because shorty got used to the small acts. I know women that have dated really nice guys who did stuff for them all the time, but let that dude mess up once. There’s a chance she’d hold whatever he did over his head for 6 months to a year despite everything else. I can speak to this because I’ve been that guy multiple times before.First of all, that's a trifling]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Essence Hires White Fashion Editor; Gets Raised Eyebrows, Tempers]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed But will the models, make-up, clothing and fashion shoots still reflect the desires and tastes of Essence's core audience (Re: black women)? I'm going to go with a likely yes despite how the hiring of former O: Home Magazine and Us Weekly editor Ellianna Placas, who happens to be white, looks to people. But in a fashion industry where there is a lack of women of color, both as models and as people behind the scenes, some folks are not happy. They are not happy at all.
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        <title><![CDATA[Wyclef Running for President of Haiti]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Recording artist and activist Wyclef Jean is considering a run for President of Haiti. Which is somewhat exciting. Yet kind of terrifying. If you were Haitian would you back Wyclef? You wouldn't if you were one of his former Fugees bandmates. He hasn't even made the run official, yet he's already lost the "Pras" vote.
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        <title><![CDATA[RWNTD*: Who's the rabbit?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Guy wants girl, girl finds out and flings herself at guy. Guy gets what he wants, loses interest moves on. Guy approaches girl, declares his fervent interest, girl takes advantage of all the fervent interest and puts guy in friend zone. Just two examples of stories we've all heard before. What went wrong?

Broken down to the most elemental basics, relationships begin with the chase. Sometimes a short chase, sometimes a long, drawn out exhausting chase where you wonder if the prize is even worth it at the end... but I digress. It's a rabbit hunt if you will. Someone's got to be the hunter, someone's got to be the rabbit.
In a traditional male-female meme... the woman is the rabbit. Let me repeat that for every damn body: The WOMAN is the RABBIT. Not the man. I don't care how many mainstream media outlets try to convince you that there is only one decent heterosexual black male left in the Western Hemisphere. That's no cause to fling your drawers at everything with an XY chromosome. Ser]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Black People Don't Watch FOX News and Wyatt Cenac Is A Really Nice Guy (Unrelated Things)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed In your latest dose of obviousness, less than 2 percent of FOX News' viewers are African American. In other percentages, 100 percent of all Danielle Beltons hate Jon Stewart's beard, but still enjoy The Daily Show. Also, 100 percent of those same Danielle Beltons would like more Wyatt Cenac on The Daily Show. And those Danielles are not just saying this because Wyatt Cenac gave her and a friend free tickets to see his show last weekend at the Arlington Drafthouse as a thank you for giving him directions to Marvin several months back. But ... you know? That doesn't hurt or anything.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ieshuh Griffin Is Her Own Woman (WTF)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Image via GawkerI don't know who this "Whiteman" fellow is, but Milwaukee's Ieshuh Griffin is most certainly not his bitch! It says so right there on her poster! Also, I love that despite this Word 97 themed campaign poster, on video, Ieshuh is amazingly coherent and easy to understand. If you're going to be the kind of black girl who declares who you're not a bitch for on posters I like it when you can conjugate those verbs. Also, IESHUH GRIFFIN/ALVIN GREENE 2012!!!! (Video, h/t AverageBro)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[RWNTD*: Don’t give a test you’re not sure they’ll pass (pt 2)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Yesterday, we learned about the woman who basically self-sabotaged her relationship trying to run game on her man. Today, let's learn about a man who thought he was running game but in the end... not so much. Let me break down his letter for you:

Bless His Heart Dude (BHD) meets Somewhat Needy Chick (SNC) at church. She is (according to all the church saints) a "good woman" who has just had a few bad breaks in life. Had a baby young, got screwed over (literally and figuratively) by her baby daddy and was working at having that better life. It did not hurt that SNC was bangin' of body and cute of face.

BHD is in his late twenties and tired of that single life. He wants to settle down with a "good woman" and "get on with his grown-up life." He decided to give SNC a try. They dined out and on the first date, she's not quite as "refined" as he would like but he saw through lack of etiquette, diction and table manners to something that both interested him and attracted him.

Fast forward]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[My Ninja]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Food for thought.  Make you smile.  Make you think.H/T: American Black Chick in EuropeJames C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: My Ninja, Nigga vs. Ninja, Parody, Blasians, Asians, Acting White]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Benjamin Todd Jealous (Guest Post)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed In this guest post author and journalist Amy Alexander "goes there" on NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous in the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod fiasco. At very detailed length, Alexander describes her time as the "voice" of Jealous, writing his editorials, crafting his talking points and attempting to get him media ready. The key word is "attempting." Many people have remarked that Jealous' jump to erroneous conclusions on Sherrod smelled to high heaven of someone who's not media savvy (or even regular savvy). Alexander paints an even more damning portrait -- of a man in love with himself and in love with the limelight, but incapable of meeting the needs of the 101 year old, historic civil rights organization.
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        <title><![CDATA[A little about patriarchy - and some about the hypocrisy of 'Civilized' white women]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Okay - so the horse isn't dead yet.  

I was "talking" about this with The Fabulous Kitty Glendower of AROO in the comments on Thursday.  And with that razor-sharp clarity for which these ladies are known, she said:
"And I don't care if Ms. Sherrod wants a beer summit or not, I don't appreciate how it has already been concluded that she does not deserve a beer summit."That pretty much sums up the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[RWNTD*: Don’t give a test you’re not sure they’ll pass (pt 1)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Normally, I'm a tactful person but I received the most-stupidest (yeah, I said it) letter from a grown woman recently that I simply must point out the rampantly ignorant error of her ways. I'm not going to cut and paste the letter because it was long and painful to read. Let me paraphrase:
Thirty-two year old woman met "good man" also thirty-two years of age. Grown-Ass Woman (GAW) and Grown-Ass Man (GAM) are six months into the dating thing and it's all good. But GAW has doubts, is GAM really all he is cracked up to be? She thinks he's The One but does he feel the same way?
GAM devises a plot [if I soundtracked the blog here's where I would insert the ominous piano chords] to test her man. She enlists a "friend" [the quotes will be self-explanatory shortly] to help her with this test. The plan is for cute sexy friend (CSF) to roll up on GAM and see how he responds. Does he take the bait? Does he flirt? Or more?
To GAM's credit, the first time CSF ran game on him he smiled and politely]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This week on BnB: Relationship “What Not To Do” Week]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Thank you so much to the 112th person who tweeted, emailed and Facebooked me to ask when the next Relationship Week was going to be. Well, here we are. Relationship What Not To Do (RWNTD) Week. We're going to talk about the viability of "testing" your S.O., who should chase whom among other fascinating topics. Drop by and join the discussion.

Disclaimer: I am not a relationship expert not do I care to be. But I've lived and loved and I have eyes, ears, a brain and a keyboard. Let my tragic yet never dull dating history be a lesson (or two) unto all of you. Here endeth the disclaimer.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bougie Movie Review – Inception]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie I was forced to flee my house Saturday. It was being over run by youngsters and I just didn't have it in me to be Aunt Chele all day. After treating myself to brunch and a little retail therapy, I decided to take in Inception. My head still hurts... but in a good way. Like my brain had a good workout and just needs to rest for a second.

I'm not going to spoil the plot. I couldn't if I wanted to. It's one of those films you have see to understand. And even then, I'm positive I missed a few things. It is a very smart movie. One of the smartest and slickest I've ever seen. Great cast, any one of which could've carried the film. You don't know who to like or how to feel or what is around the next corner.&nbsp;
It's not a movie that leads you. You just have to strap in and go along for the ride. And it's quite a thrill ride. It is visually jarring and extremely well scored. You start to associate certain sounds with certain things and you find yourself tensing up. Listen, if you don't lik]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Random Artistry: Doorwerth Castle Netherlands]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Click on image to see detail.  Doorwerth Castle, built in 1280, is a medieval castle on the Rhine river, near the city of Arnhem, Netherlands.Pointillism is a technique of impressionist painting, developed in 1886 by Frenchman Georges Seurat, in which small, distinct dots of color are applied (in this case drawn) in patterns to form an image, akin to images on US paper currency.FYI, this drawing is comprised of approximately 60,000 colored dots, plus or minus a few.James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Random Artistry: Doorwerth Castle Netherlands, Pointillism, Stipples, Fine Art, Castles, Acting White]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Saturday Video Shout-Out: Ne-Yo]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Champagne Life by Ne-Yo is a damn catchy-ass song.

Got penthouse property on cloud nine (Oh)&nbsp;I got the sun jealous 'cause the way I shine (Oh)&nbsp;And reserved for time 'cause that's how I do mine&nbsp;Nice meal and a good wine, definition of a good time&nbsp;I'm living out my dreams, watching them come true (come true)&nbsp;Baby, I'm a boss, I don't know what they do (they do)&nbsp;You've put down the ride, come on and I'll take you&nbsp;
The long version of the video was doing too much so here's the short version. Enjoy.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Just the other day I saw a youtube of women fighting in a fast food parking lot. On top of it all, the main antagonist was obviously pregnant.  My embarrassment won't let me link to it, but the imagery stayed with me. These combatants, with their clothes and hair weaves in disarray, showed no reluctance to put themselves or their animosities on public display. No one had any shame, and hence, the title of this post. Some may see this proclamation as a no brainer, but what is not obvious is how it clearly spells out our reduction.  You heard me right – the absence of shame will be our great un-doing.  Yes, releasing ourselves from shame was suppose to free us, but it did just the opposite.  Our ability to feel shame, a critical skill for advancing, is missing-in-action.  What we need in this country is some good old fashion shame building.  You heard it here folks.What?  First of all, the rich have no shame, they flaunt their wealth as if it springs from DNA that they composed with th]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Video: Alvin Greene Knows How You Feel Because He's Unemployed Too!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Well. The Internet wins again! A here's a music video heralding non-working man hero and South Carolina Senate candidate Alvin Greene. It has everything! Old school fly hip hop lyrics. A slammin' beat. Off n' poppin' LeBron highlights! Michael Steele would approve! (You know he's rocking this ditty out at his barbecue this weekend. Yet somewhere Rep. James Clyburn frowns.) This has to be the most dope, fresh, chill thing ever to pop up on the ol' YouTubes. A song for party people both red and blue, so open up your minds and stop the hate! Incumbent Republican Jim DeMint (a bad man) is going down! ... Then back to D.C. to peacefully serve out his next term. Democracy is magic! (YouTube)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Random Thought - 10 minute vacation]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie This is the view from a vacation villa at&nbsp;Four Seasons, Jimbaran Bay, Bali. I want one.
I was running (literally) through Target Thursday. I had a grocery list, a schedule to keep, a looming deadline and fifteen different things on my mind. I was inexplicably irritated that I couldn't find the package of pre-prepped diced rosemary and herb potatoes. I was thirsty and still hot from the 100° heat outside. Plainly put, I was tart. I went in search of a potato alternative and as I wheeled around the corner something caught my eye.
Over by the fresh flowers an older attractive black woman sat. I don't know where she got the stool from but she was perched with a smile on her face looking at the flowers. As I wondered what sister girl was doing sitting in the middle of the aisle in Target, she dug around in her bag and pulled out a crumpled piece of paper. She smoothed it out carefully and propped it up next to some yellow daisies. Then she sat back looking at her picture nestled among]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie I'm not trying to be flippant. I really want to know. I heard this question posed on a news outlet and the entire panel went silent. As I started to purse my lips I realized... I don't know either. Not really clear on what their action plan is.
Recently, they asked the Tea Party to stop being so mean. They politely requested that the Senate reinstate unemployment. They got "snookered" into almost ruining a good woman's reputation by a right wing blogger. They celebrated their 101st anniversary and FLOTUS&nbsp;spoke&nbsp;at the convention. That's all I've got.&nbsp;
&nbsp;I checked their website and reviewed their Action Alerts. It appeared to be cosignage of programs and policies that other people are working on. Then I looked at the Citizen All Action Alerts where folks report on police misconduct and hate crimes. But it doesn't show if anyone is following up on these reports.
So I posed the question on Twitter - just exactly what color people are they advancing these days and how ex]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Not to beat a dead horse but, people (young Black folk in particular) should really see and listen to the entire version of this woman's speech because it seems some have no idea how she got here, from there. Having been born and bred in one of the original 13's in the 1950s, this speech rings as true for me as it did for the people in that audience.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear NAACP Statement on the resignation of Shirley Sherrod:
With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA Official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias.

Having reviewed the full tape, spoken to Ms. Sherrod, and most importantly]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shots Fired! Sherrod Calls FOX News Racist]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Shirley SherrodWell. All they did was smear a good woman's name in the pursuit of ratings and "Reverse Racist" shame the NAACP and the White House into piling on. But, bump that! Former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod isn't going away without a fight!
From Media Matters via Plum Line:

She said Fox showed no professionalism in continuing to  bother her for an interview, but failing to correct their coverage.
"I think they should but they won't. They intended exactly what  they did. "They were looking for the result they got yesterday," she  said of Fox. "I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger  thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago.  Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks  in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a  whole person."]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[NAACP, White House, Pundits, et al, Get "Snookered" By FOX News]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Yet all they did was end up with egg on their face. It was Shirley Sherrod who lost her job, was blasted as a racist online and on TV and was used as a political football between the Right Wing and the NAACP. Yesterday was just another day in knee jerk, reactionary 24-hour-news cycle. Where your career can end due to some poorly edited tape.
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        <title><![CDATA[Random Thought - Beware the Baggage]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie So I was having coffee with New Dude and my mind was actually on about twenty different things. I finally noticed that he was silent and looking at me with arched brow.&nbsp;
"So what's up?" He asked.
I shook my head. "Nothing just working through some stuff in my head."
"Like what?"
"I don't want to bother you with it." I shrugged.
He got super still and said. "But that's what I'm here for. To be bothered. I'm trying to be bothered."
Uh-oh. He pulled out the "tart" tone of voice. "Um. Okay."
"I'm not clueless or incapable of picking up on signs. You've got trust issues and you rarely take things at face value. You don't pour out your feelings or wear your heart on your sleeve. I get that. But damn, I'm trying to earn your trust here. I'm trying&nbsp;to&nbsp;be that guy. Put you first, pay attention, the whole nine but you gotta give me a chance."
"I do, I mean... I am!"
"You know half the time you are giving me a side-eye just waiting for me to say or do something terrible. And I hav]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Paint the Tea Party Black]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Washington Post PostPartisan blogger Jonathan Capehart brought up a widely spread column by anti-racist writer/activist Tim Wise from April today, rehashing Wise's question of "What If the Tea Party Black?" in Wise's post "Imagine:  Protest, Insurgency and the Workings of White Privilege." In the essay, Wise illustrates the nature of White Privilege when it comes to fringe movements. How one persons' anti-government, homemade sign party is another person's dangerous hoods and radicals. 
More after the jump.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not so random thought: Did he say “Baby, it’s just sex”?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Okay, let me put it in context. One of my college youth that I call myself mentoring called me all bamboozled and halfway hoodwinked by the shiggity her boyfriend was throwing at her. They had been together since high school and now in the summer between their freshman and sophomore years, he got caught cheating. Caught in the act by her. Why fellas don't cheat somewhere their S.O.'s aren't likely to walk right in and find them? I don't know, maybe they want to get caught? Anywho… he tried to break off a Jedi mind trick by dropping that old Eddie Murphy line&nbsp;(link is to YouTube. Video is NSFW, Language &amp; Mature Subject Matter) on her: "I [effed] her, I make love to you." When that didn't work he said, "Baby, it's just sex. It has nothing to do with you and me."
{strategic pause}
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        <title><![CDATA[New Black Panther Intimidation in Philadelphia]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White More in the spirit of listening to the horse speak, the leader of the New Black Panther Party, Malik Shabazz, seems to accept the charge of voter intimidation by his followers in 2004, while giving Obama and AG Holder credit for acting as Black 'protectors'. See if you see it the same way.James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: New Black Panther Intimidation in Philadephia, Malik Shabazz, Eric Holder, Obama, voting, Acting White]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mark Williams Tea Party Express Implosion]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White In the spirit of accurate information, I went hunting. Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP  accused the Tea Party movement of harboring racists elements. Got it. In response, Mark Williams, leader of the influential Tea Party Express, writes a letter to Abraham Lincoln, in the voice of Black folks, to do what? - prove Jealous right? That makes sense. In turn, the National Tea Party Federation boots Tea Party Express and Williams. Amazing!Read it for yourself...Dear Mr. LincolnWe Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!In fact we held a big meeting and took a vote in Kansas City this week. We voted to condemn a political revival of that old abolitionist spirit called the 'tea party movement'.The tea party position to "end the bailouts" for exam]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Minorities are the Borg]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot A great disadvantage of being a member of a minority is constantly being seen as only a part of a collective. For example, European-Americans are regarded as individuals, while a minority is just seen as a member of the racial or religious group to which he or she belongs. If John is EA, his actions are only seen as a representation of himself, and he is not expected to conform to any racial standard. However, as a minority, his every action would be evaluated on how closely he fit into a stereotypical mold, and if he did not, he would just be deemed an exception. I call this perception of minorities the "Borg Effect." We aren't expected to have our own voice, and the actions of a few are seen as the responsibility of all. I saw the Borg Effect at work today after reading Sarah Palin's objections to a mosque being built two blocks away from Ground Zero. She tweets:Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in int]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Living In the Land Of Anybody But "King" Adrian Fenty]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed This morning, the minute I stepped out of my house a woman was getting out of a van. She had on a giant green and white sticker on her suit lapel. A "FENTY" sticker. And I was coming out of the house where my landlady had a giant ANYONE BUT FENTY sign for DC Council Chairman Vincent Gray in the front yard.
The woman quickly asked me if I was registered to vote and I told her yes. Then she shouted, "We need your vote in September. Vote Fenty!"
No joke.
Considering how I can't talk to anyone I know about Fenty without them either flying into a spew of explitives or explaining to me the depth of every Fenty-based conspiracy in town I'm going to gather he really needs my vote.
But he's not going to get it.
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie I don't want this post to come off all Palin (all rhetoric, no fact or intellect) but nor do I plan to give a dissertation on all that is wrong with the Tea Party… we could be here all year. But I am seriously starting to wonder if the Tea Party isn't turning into Klan Lite – all of the hatred, none of the hoods or hangings (yet). Who exactly is their leader? Is it just of bunch of angry Jim-Bobs and Bobbie Jean's that long nostalgically for the days of plantations and keeping darkies in their place? I don't know, I haven't done the research but what I do see looks like a trip to CrazyTown. Did I see someone really comparing the Tea Party to the New Black Panther Party? Is the revolution about to be televised?

Does it seem as though all the overtly crazy, racist "We Want Our Country Back" crap is starting to see the light of day and the "Regular" right wing is thinking now is a good time to back away? Let's be clear, there are conservative policies and values and then there's the]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Woo-Hoo, I'm in the home stretch editing my second book and finishing up some articles so this week, feel the joy of "Shorts" – short random thoughts from the corners of my mind. Pop in and take a look. Who knows what'll rattle around in there.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie This song never gets old. Mos Def's Umi Says stays in my rotation.


Any music to shout out today?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[No Shiggity: Gloom and Doom]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie My least favorite people on this Shiggity List are folks that can never see the silver lining. It's all black cloud no glimmer of sun. Negative Ned, Gloomy Glenda, Sorrowful Sue, Morose Marcus - the whole lot of them make me tired.
Okay so bad things happen in this world, I get that but does focusing on the half-empty side of the glass ever help? I think not. Take the case of a sorta-friend. We used to be close but she wore me out. Everything was some drama bordering on tragedy and I realized that I would leave her presence exhausted and wrung out but exhilarated to be getting away. I moved her to my "talk to you twice a year" list. Here was our conversation from a few days ago:
Me: Hey Girl, heard you got a new job. Congrats!Her (sighing): They are working me like a damn slave and I'm underpaid.Me: Well, at least after nine months you found something... that's a blessing.Her: Not hardly, between gas and childcare and my nerves I barely break even.Me (changing subject): How are the kid]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White The Los Angeles Police finally caught the two-decade long serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” - then the argument started, or maybe not.  The alleged killer, Lonnie David Franklin, Jr., was captured when the DNA he left at the scene of many of his eleven victims was matched to a relative whose DNA was on file in a police  database.  Prior to familial searches, the police looked for exact matches, and Franklin's DNA was not cataloged.  With this technique, if you live in Colorado or California, expect authorities to come knocking in the event one of your relatives is suspected of some serious ‘crime-ing’.  (Story here)"This case is the poster child we have been waiting for," declared Harvard geneticist Frederick Bieber, a medical school professor. "We have been waiting for a case like this to hit a home run."  So why is this case the poster child? Because it is racism-proof.  Franklin, a black man, committed a high-profile crime that does not ring the race bell - black-on-]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie "Listen sister, your Jesus may not be like mine!" These words were fired at me during a church lifegroup session where I innocently (okay maybe not so innocently) asked how one particular woman who was&nbsp;constantly&nbsp;smacking us around with her goodness and holiness reconciled lying to her friends and family for ten years about something fairly important. She said she was positive that Jesus forgave her and understood why she had to keep lying. Umm... I wondered if Jesus was that cool with repetitive sin for selfish reasons? And that's when I got screamed at.&nbsp;So most of you know, I love me some Jesus... but I don't pretend like I don't have quite the ways to go in my Christian walk. So while I will rep for JC on the regular, I tend not to beat folks&nbsp;upside&nbsp;the head with the Biblical Badgering. We all know some folks who call themselves Christian, stay up in the church house and still act any old kind of way. Check out this BougieTale:&nbsp;
I met Brad through frien]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed In light of the NAACP coming out against racist elements in the Tea Party I began to wonder: if the NAACP is going the reactionary, Catholic League route for fighting injustice, why haven't they spoken out on the many other frivolous things that annoy black people? After all, a lot of things annoy me and as a black person I insist they consider the following worthless, symbolic resolutions. The N-word isn't the only thing that needs to metaphorically die!
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie For those not in the know, pimpin' without paper is living flagrantly beyond one's means.&nbsp;
Why do we do it? Goodness knows I used to be guilty of this back in the day but I'm too old for nonsense now. As a matter of fact, I try like hell to pay cash for as much as I can. My "if I can't pay for it outright, I don't need it" philosophy took me ten years to fully embrace and sometimes it's still not easy but knowing at the end of the day that everything under my roof is owned by me and not a bank... priceless. I spend way more on books, music, clothes and shoes than I should. I gave away eight bags of clothes and shoes in the last six weeks and my closets (yes, plural) are still full. But I own it all, bless my heart. So today's peeve is: why do folks always try to be glossy and flossy with zero bank to back it up?&nbsp;
Folks wanna drive an Escalade on Escort dollars. Want Champagne on a beer budget? Wanna live Malibu when your bank account screams MLK Blvd? Rocking designer labels]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tonight on BnB Radio Network - Getting on the Path]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Up next is Episode 3 of the Diva Summer Series with me, Carolyn Edgar and Yvonne Bynoe. This summer, we're discussing Creating the Life &amp; Love you want. Next step: Getting on the Path.&nbsp;
So what's next in Creating the Life &amp; Love you want? Now that you have taken a good look in the mirror and cleaned out your closets... it's time to take that first step. In order to do that, you'll need to take advice straight out of the theme from Mahogany: Do you know where you're going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know? Come on through and let's talk about it. Join us tonight at 8:00pm central/ 9:00pm eastern as we discuss letting go, moving on and stepping up.
Yvonne Bynoe is the creator of SophisticatedWomanandMama.com. Her mission is to teach professional women how to go from being underpaid to earning their worth. Carolyn Edgar is a New York City lawyer and writer. She is a frequent speaker on legal career and workplace issues,]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Fired Billy Martin six times, rehired him five times. Now that was comedy!James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: George Steinbrenner: 1930 - 2010, Yankees, Baseball, The Boss, New York, Acting White]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[NAACP Pushes Back Against Thing That Doesn't Affect You That Much But Is Still Annoying Anyway]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed The NAACP is voting on a resolution today to condemn racist elements in the Tea Party Movement. I wonder if they're also going to condemn my last five places of employment for having me as their sole black employee? Or if they're going to condemn my old college and public school district for the occasional racist person I had to deal with who worked there or attended my classes? Are they going to denounce the guy who shouted "niggers" at my family when we were driving to Northwest Plaza that one time? Meaning ... dude? Really? I didn't think they could top the uselessness of holding funerals for the N-word, but condemning someone's racist grandma who thinks the President is a secret Kenyan Socialist Muslim makes about as much sense as drafting "Rush Limbaugh really gets on my nerves" amendments.
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Village Report with W. Eric Croomes    Reverend Jackson's "Runaway" CommentsI’ll be the first to hold my hand up and admit that Americans simply cannot get away from race, nor does it appear we ever will, given the magnitude of the egregious political climate we’ve seen the past quarter-century.  But we most definitely won’t outlive race when race is obnoxiously injected into a conversation about business, legal and ethical issues – as well as matters of one’s heart.  LeBron James’ super-hyped decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers to play for the Miami Heat provided the perfect platform for those issues to be hashed out. It was a business decision with legal ramifications bordering on an ethical dilemma (just how long was LeBron going to leave the city of Cleveland in the dark?) that sprung from the heart of a superstar.       So when the Reverend Jesse Jackson recently commented that Dan Gilbert’s overreaction to James decision was akin to a slave owner going ballistic over his “runaway sla]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Right now I'm busy preparing for my first ever blogger's workshop, Jump Start Your Blog! The three-hour session on how to get your blog the attention it deserves is happening tomorrow (Wednesday) in Washington, D.C.
The funny and frank three-hour session is for new and current bloggers who are looking to take their burgeoning sites and ideas to the next level. It's about creating effective strategies to boost your blog. It's about building outstanding content, attracting the attention of advertisers, promoting your site and increasing readership.
I've been blogging since 2004 and in the three years I've had The Black Snob, I've gone from a readership of my sister, my best friend Tiffany and my cat to nearly 2 million readers in less than two years, as well as countless media appearances. For me, blogging was the great equalizer, allowing me to not just cut out the middleman holding me back in my writing career, but kill that annoying pest once and for all.
During Jump Start Your Blog,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fly Black Chick Discovers Some "Smelly Business"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed My friend [flahy][blak][chik] and I share some of the same beliefs about the current media phenomenon regarding the "unloveableness" of black women. As in people should just ignore it, lest they will drive themselves insane. After all, the media message about black women and men is so thoroughly depressing, I'm convinced it's part of some covert effort to destroy us via the power of suggestion. (You're too picky/angry/successful/insane, black women! Oh ... and black men ain't worth a durn. Why don't you all just go kill yourselves already?)
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        <title><![CDATA[No Shiggity: Please grow up]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Cue the music... Hit it Teddy: "I like the way you work it. (No shiggity) Got to back it up. (Back it up) No shiggity. No doubt." What? That's not the way the song went? Maybe we can get T.R. to remake "No Diggity" into "No Shiggity" just for us... whatcha think? No? Okay... moving on.
Welcome to No Shiggity Week on BnB! For those A Different World aficionados out there, in the last two seasons Jenifer Lewis played the Dean who walked around with a notebook and anytime someone got out of line she wrote it down and said through clenched teeth, "You are ON. MY. LIST!" Tell 'em, sister. Point is... this week, I have a list too.&nbsp;
Let's start out with grown folks (over the age of 25) who still act childish. I mean childish to the point where you have to say and wonder, "Seriously?" I have no patience for that form of shiggity.&nbsp;
Here are some examples...

Vince, New Dude's friend, rolled over to his house at one a.m. (Yes, that's 1:00 in the mornin') Saturday and laid on the doorbe]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White So what the heck happened I wonder?  Child-rapist Polanski gets ensnared by the Swiss, only to get away.  This sounds like a case where the outcome has little or no resemblance to what kicked it off.  Yes, the Swiss were ready to hand Polanski over, but on condition that the US show that he was not double-crossed by the judge in the rape case, as Polanski claimed.  Unfortunately, it looks like he was indeed double-crossed – at least in the Swiss view.I tend to believe the Swissies on this one, since they are in the position of looking sleazier by every neutral-minute that this extradition thing hangs on.  It looks like Polanski’s original US prosecuting district attorney and judge cut him a sweet deal on the rape charge - 90 days of evaluation in prison - without understanding that the evaluator could cut Polanski loose early, at his/her discretion. Once Polanski was free in less than 90, the judge recalled and reformed the deal – and Polanski skipped.The real question is why Pol]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Act accordingly!
From Bloomberg Businessweek:

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin&rsquo;s political action  committee raised $865,815 in the year&rsquo;s second quarter and she used some  of that money to help a primary challenger to incumbent Senator Lisa  Murkowski, a fellow Republican, in her home state.
Palin, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential  nominee, gave $82,500 through her PAC to Republican candidates from  April through June, including $5,000 to lawyer Joe Miller, who is  challenging Murkowski in Alaska&rsquo;s Aug. 24 primary.

She's pulling in the dough AND spreadin' the wealth around! (Better to create some of that nice influence powerful rich people enjoy!) I swear, running for President has to be the world's greatest Ponzi scheme. Especially when two-thirds of the American public will not vote for you. You get people to give you money based on the "idea" that you might run for President and it's a real life Brewster's Millions!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[And Now For Some Slave Metaphors From Jesse Jackson on LeBron]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Personally, I thought Cavs owner Dan Gilbert sounded a lot like Miss Celie in his now infamous Comic Sans "I just got dumped by LeBron" letter. He practically ripped off Alice Walker, telling LeBron that until he does right by him everything he does will fail. Jesse Jackson thought Glibert sounded like an angry slave owner. To-maaay-to. To-maaah-to. Both versions involve someone losing something they love! (Newsflash: Both those things are money.)
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed In two days I'll be hosting my first ever bloggers' workshop, Jump Start Your Blog! The funny and frank three-hour session is for new bloggers who are looking to take their burgeoning sites and ideas to the next level.
During Jump Start Your Blog you'll learn how to make your site stand-out, how to create killer content that gets page views, how to network and approach other bloggers and how to better flesh out your Web ideas and dreams. It will be a comprehensive workshop, taking a look at EVERYTHING from naming, branding and design to content development, promotion and advertising! If you want to start a blog or take your blog to the next level, I'll be there talking about my own experiences and how you can make your site a success!
Click here to sign up!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fashion Felonies for the Fellas - Summer Edition]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Gents, I have not forgotten about you… no sir. You were all giddy and happy over #SundressMonth so I just let ya’ll enjoy that. But now, it’s time for some of you to get your brethren. Literally, go snatch them up in the streets and ask them what the hell they are thinking. Summer is no excuse for flagrant foolery in the wardrobe department. We have just skated past another BBQ holiday and it’s time to pull your coattails… literally. 
Some of you know better, some of you clearly do not give a damn but I beg of you... Read this and pass it along to a friend (or two). It’s America the Beautiful, not America the Brokedown. I'm not even going in on the 5x white tee with denim shorts. Unless your name is Pookie and you're standing on the corner, I don't know what to tell you but - what are you doing with your life?&nbsp;
I’m going to assume you recognize that your clothes should fit.&nbsp;Let’s start with the basics. (By the way, you can click the pictures to see the full-s]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sunday Good News Story:@MusicFanFirst (Eric Roberson)'s Brilliant New Video - Still]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Well real music still exists and here's an artist that continuously delivers quality. Eric Roberson, as you know, is one of my favorite artists. Listening to his voice is&nbsp;like&nbsp;wrapping yourself in chocolate satin and sipping red wine... smooth and sexy. This video from the Music Fan First album, "Still" is beautifully filmed and not afraid to make a meaningful statement. Make sure you watch to the end for the powerful message. I had to clutch the Kleenex. My mom is a breast cancer survivor so this one hit close to home.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Whatcha know about Stevie Ray Vaughan? Cannot believe it's been twenty years since he passed away. Stevie Ray was born in Dallas and was on his way to being one of the greatest blues artists ever. I had the please of seeing him perform live a gazillion years ago. What an experience! Anyway, enjoy the brilliance of "Couldn't Stand the Weather" - apropos for this week, I believe.&nbsp;

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        <title><![CDATA[LeBron Move Benefits Tea Party? (Wait? What?)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed This doesn't happen often, but Joshua Green's post for The Atlantic called "How LeBron's Move Helps the Tea Party" is the first article I've read in a long time where my brain fought with me as I tried to read it.
"Nope! NOPE!" went the brain. "I ain't making room for this!"
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Tomorrow’s (today’s) story.  A Los Angeles County jury convicted former BART officer Johannes Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter, in the killing of Oscar Grant.  This surprise verdict is the least severe of the guilty options available.  Over the coming days we will find out what the jury was thinking, if they choose to reveal themselves.  Until then we can only wonder.  Do not be surprised if the Feds (Justice Dept.) step in and charge Mehserle.Last night’s story was one of anarchist against the Oakland PD, with a side order of thuggery.  There was an expected protest gathering in Downtown Oakland, over the verdict.  All was peaceful until darkness, when the uninvited anarchist reared their heads.  They are easily identified as young white kids in hoodies and masks, with a determination to provoke the cops.  Mix them in with a smaller group of black thugs, with an eye for footwear, and the result is a trashed Footlocker store.  BTW, the majority of the arrests were ‘anarchie]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Anger in Oakland over the Oscar Grant verdict only slightly overshadowed by ESPN dedicating an hour to LeBron James reciting the lyrics of the Will Smith summer jam, "Miami." (You can bet there's a "party in the city where the heat is on" tonight!) Also, the government sues the state of Arizona and your children may grow up in a world never know what the hell a "Radio Shack" is.
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie For those of you living under a rock, LeBron James took all the airtime in the world Thursday night to announce that he is joining D.Wade and Bosh in Miami to play for the Heat. Robin Roberts scored the first one-on-one interview, it will air today (Friday) during Good Morning America on ABC. Enjoy the media frenzy. Here's my at-a-glance at who's happy and who's not after the announcement:
Happy J– Miami, they do love the blingswagger and no one brings it like LeBron (usually).
UnHappy L – The fourteen designers who begged him to wear their suits which he apparently declined, looking like a buppie lumberjack with a Rick Ross beard for some reason. Obama in the White House, wear a suit for primetime television youngster.
Happy J– Hoochies and Hos. Like I said last night on Twitter, the clatter of clear heels heading to Miami is deafening right now. The ranks of the Miami Chapter of Sports Groupies has just been&nbsp;multiplied&nbsp;by 100.
UnHappy L– Jordan… where was his prim]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Lest we forget... 



After the jury rendered their verdict, 120 Arrested In Violent BART Protest:
“We live a life of fear and we want them to feel fear tonight” an unnamed demonstrator told KTVU at the height of the violence.
And yes, there was this:  Live blog: Cops pour in to Oakland to try to stop looting.  But while the headline concentrates on the looting, the photo array it contains stands]]></description>
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