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        <title><![CDATA["La Baker" continues to live - as do we!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Back from an extended - "Homecoming" (MUCH more on that later).  Thank y'all for allowing me the time and space to piece it together.  In the meantime - a beautifully, wonderful, Black History Month "building upon"...



My, my, my - isn't this just what we've wanted??  For the songs, the stories, the truths - the Culture - to continue, and be built upon?  I can't lie, this just gives me shivers]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Think you're "grown"? 5 ways to prove it]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Grown&nbsp;\ˈgrōn\- adj. Having achieved full growth. Possessing maturity. Produced or cultivated in a certain way.


We've talked a lot this week about being grown - as in putting away childish things and &nbsp;being&nbsp;responsible&nbsp;for one's own actions and decisions. We've heard a lot of people claiming&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;grown. And I think we can all agree it's not so much an age as a state of being. You don't get magically "grown" on your whateverth birthday. It's an evolution, a destination, a place to which (unfortunately) not everyone arrives. We all know one or two people "of a certain age" who act like they are one step out of kindergarten. That Peter Pan Syndrome is nothing to play with.



So you say you're grown... here are five ways to prove it:



1. Act like it - Children whine, point fingers, pout when they don't get their own way, find it hard to articulate their feelings, throw tantrums, cry with little provocation, require guidance, a steady stream of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ask a Bougie Chick - But he said it was okay!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie [Disclaimer - Le Dude is out of the country for the next six weeks. We have no such agreement or drama as the one described below nor do we plan to. Nobody need come at me sideways.]



We're just going to dive in today. Our letter comes from Janae. She's twenty-seven and she's been in a committed relationship with thirty year old Kendrick for three years. They live together in Kenner, Louisiana. Here we go:


Hey Chele and all the bougie dwellers:

The whole point of this letter is to ask if I'm right or wrong or does is just not make a difference?&nbsp;



Kendrick and I have been together for three years, it's been a great relationship and I hope we get married someday.&nbsp;Right before Thanksgiving, Kendrick left to spend a year in Africa. I spent ten days with him and then came back for my job plus my family and friends are here. Before I got on the plane to come back, Kendrick and I had this long talk about our expectations for the upcoming year.&nbsp;&nbsp;



He said he had]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney: Mormon Baptisms For The Dead]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White "Mormonism (or the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) teaches that baptism by water is a necessary ordinance for people to return to God their Heavenly Father. Mormons assert that the ordinance must be performed in the proper way and with the authority of Christ's priesthood.Many people have died without receiving a valid baptism, and they cannot undergo this precious ritual as mere spirits. "Because all on the earth do not have the opportunity to accept the gospel during mortality, the Lord has authorized baptisms performed by proxy for the dead. Therefore, those who accept the gospel in the spirit world may qualify for entrance into God's kingdom" One thing that should be made perfectly clear about Mormon baptisms for the dead is that each deceased soul has the personal choice to accept or reject it. There is nothing in Mormonism that states that the person who is being baptized by proxy must accept this ordinance; he or she is simply given the opportunity]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Age ain't nuthin' but a number: How low will you go?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie I'm over 40 so as much as I might eye up Cam Newton like he's freshly grilled lobster dipped in drawn butter laying on top of roasted garlic smashed potatoes next to a chili-rubbed filet mignon... that ship has sailed. (I also might be hungry but that's a different topic)



I gotta just say no to young men that I could have given birth to. That's my line in the sand. [Though um, Cam - you know - if you &nbsp;are reading this, we can be friends. Special, special friends. Once or twice.]



As it is, Le Dude is over five years younger than me and every once and a while we bump into an issue where I have to remind him, "You needed to catch me in my late twenties, early thirties for that to work." He just rolls his eyes for the most part though I did catch him muttering, "Some days I feel older than you." under his breath. Side-eye to you, sir.



I don't really get the cradle-robbing feel with David. The age difference is less than a decade. He's his own man, mature in his own right]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney Wants to Ruin "America The Beautiful" For You (Video)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Why are you doing this to me, man?* Why are you doing this to yourself? 
Mitt Romney won't stop singing/ruining "America, the Beautiful," one of the best and most beloved songs from the Great American Songbook. I think he thinks singing it constantly looks patriotic rather than pandering and pathetic. But if you're going to turn every campaign stop into Country Bear Jamboree you need to actually be competent in carrying a tune.

While "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the National Anthem, my favorite patriotic song about America is and has always been the much easier to sing, less war-like and considerably more melodic "America, the Beautiful."
Like "Star-Spangled," "America" also has about five extra verses I've never learned, but it's my number one favorite patriotic jam, followed closely by "Battle Hymn of the Republic." (Which, in all actuality, is simply the best version of another American folk song "John Brown's Body.")
Then there's Ray Charles' legendary gospel version of "America]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[@Racialicious said it best - Jan Brewer done lost her mind, yo]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Hey all, I got nothing today. I was going to do a blistering post on entitlement. Who has has it, who needs it, and where can we find some. But the good folks at Racialicious handled some of that for me. Check out their post: Five Thoughts on Why Jan Brewer Should Keep Her Fingers to Herself.



Sidebar: Am I the only one who would've been hard-pressed not to catch a federal case&nbsp;smacking&nbsp;the shiggity out of her? A finger pointing in the face is like spit flying - it's a red flag saying Eff Yo' Presidency. I hope you good folks in Arizona don't need any&nbsp;federal&nbsp;assistance while old girl is in office... I'm just saying.



Go check out the Racialicious post and tell me what you think. Entitlement? Mad disrespect? Temporary&nbsp;insanity? All of the above?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Going Newt-clear In Florida, Romney Surges Ahead Vote]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Today's the day of the Florida Republican Primary! (Although early voting has been going on for a bit and more than half-a-million votes were cast before today.) Although its still (technically) a four-man race, Rick Santorum is tending to a sick daughter and Ron Paul is focusing on greener primary pastures. That just leaves your unloveable front-runners, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
And Mittens is in the lead ... (for now).
That lead didn't come easy, since Gingrich was on the rise after race-baiting his way into a South Carolina win. But will a poor debate performance from Gingrich and a lot of passive aggressive "Isn't that so sad that Newt Gingrich is so unfaithful and pathetic? He just can't help it!" from Romney.
From The New York Times:

&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re part of the housing crisis, you&rsquo;re probably not going to get elected president,&rdquo; Mr. Romney said of Mr. Gingrich, attributing that perception, more than any other, to Mr. Gingrich&rsquo;s steep fall in the la]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bougie Bachelor Chronicles - Twitter troubles]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Le Dude has a crew of guys here in Dallas that he knows from his Georgia days. Some were his line brothers, others they adopted to the crew along the way. We've come to call the main group of six the Georgia Boys. David found BougieLand first and then joined Twitter. Trey followed and eventually Jay, Shawn, Wes and Bryan followed suit.






When all of the Georgia Boys joined Twitter, they thought it would be a fun way to keep up with each other and&nbsp;folks&nbsp;they'd met on the Innanets. There were some growing pains - they had to learn the difference between what you text and what you tweet. There was a learning curve about how to check and reply to DMs. (Some of them are still challenged.) There were rules of engagement about how much to share and what to keep to yo' damn self. Others realized that alcohol and Twitter are a dangerous combination. And some were slower to understand that what happens on Twitter is pretty much broadcast out into the world forever.&nbsp;Foreve]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gingrich: Adultery Makes Me More Human Than Mitt "Only Sexes Up His Wife" Romney]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Can you see past a weakness so hard that it turns into a strength? Presidential wannabe Newt Gingrich tried to pull that off in an interview with CBN's David Brody where Gingrich tried to spin his "past weaknesses" as making him more "human" than everyone's favorite Republican Robot, Mitt Romney.
From Brody's blog:

In a one-on-one interview with The Brody File, Newt Gingrich says that he has &ldquo;not hidden from the facts of my life, that I have confessed my weaknesses&rdquo; and he believes that, in part, is a reason why evangelicals are able to get behind his candidacy.
He goes on to say that, &ldquo;it may make me more normal than somebody who wanders around seeming perfect and maybe not understanding the human condition, and the challenges of life for normal people.&rdquo;

Yeah! Don't we all repeatedly marry and divorce women, get busted for ethics violations, fined $300,000 for those violations, get forced out of office by our own people, lobby under the table, lie about it,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[BP Blog: Beware of the Ego Monster]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed In today's post for BP Magazine's Bipolar Blog I talk about how remembering the needs of others, even when going through my worst bouts of mania and depression, helped me stay anchored to reality and not the world of negativity in my head. I wrote: "(W)hen my Bipolar Disorder became dramatically worse in my 20s, the world that began and ended inside myself returned. Only instead of the self-centeredness of a child, I had the hyper-focus of someone so in love and in hate with themselves. I could build up and destroy myself all within the same hour with the thoughts in my head, all consuming thoughts that devoured me until all I could see was, 'I'm happy. I'm sad. I hurt. I vent. I have feelings. I need someone to pay attention.'"
Read the full post at BP Hope.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Five things women say to men (and vice versa) that drives them crazy]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie So after yesterday's post about conversational miscues- there was a lot of commenting&nbsp;about&nbsp;things the opposite sex says that drive the other crazy. I've listed the top five of each. Enjoy...



Five things women say that men can't stand:

1. "Nothing" - As in the&nbsp;answer&nbsp;to, "What's&nbsp;wrong?"2. "It's fine" - When it's clearly not fine.3. "Whatever" - It's a&nbsp;cop-out. You know it, we know it. So be it.4. "We need to talk" - Strikes fear in the hearts of men globally.5. Nothing at all - As in, we say nothing. That's when they know something is really, really wrong.

Five things men say that women can't stand:

1. "Let me call you back" - Thanks. Now we know we'll be hearing from you on 33rd of Neveruary.2. "Babe, we cool." - So you're just using me for cocoa and I'll never meet your mother.3. "She's just a friend." - Really tho?4.&nbsp;"Did you say something?"&nbsp;- Weren't you listening?5. Nothing at all accompanied by a shrug. - &nbsp;As in, the sanswer]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Return of "When Obama Love Goes Wrong": OBAMA HULK SMASH]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed During the 2008 campaign we were inundated in any and everything Barack&nbsp;Obama. From dolls (both cute and scary) to music (both good and Black Eye Peas bad), to tacky velvet paintings of Obama, MLK and Malcolm X while Jesus looks on them from Civil Rights Heaven. While Obama-mania is unlikely to strike twice, he's still an iconic and historic figure (that's what you get when you're the first of something), worth immortalizing in weird ways. In my first "When Obama Love Goes Wrong/Extreme Obama/LOL Obama" of 2012, I now announce the president's re-election campaign in full swing. I give you -- Obama Hulk. He HULK SMASHES Republicans. You wouldn't like him when he is angry. (Via Animal NY)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[GOP Establishment Realizes Hurricane Newt Is Coming For Landfall]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed There's another GOP debate tonight! Batter the hatches!&nbsp;
They thought he was dead. They thought they killed him in Iowa. They thought wrong. Newt Gingrich is back, baby! And&nbsp;like the awful B-Movie he is, he's out for revenge.&nbsp;At first it was just about teaching that damn Mittens a lesson, but the Newtster messed around and race-baited his way into a South Carolina primary win. Then Mittens lost Iowa several weeks after winning it. And now it's all come up Gingrich. Even an old sex scandal couldn't stop him. He just kept swinging and won't go down.
If I didn't find the man completely repugnant I'd almost admire his audacity.
I never thought I'd see anyone run for president out of pure spite, but Newt is doing it and he's not backing down in this game of chicken he's playing with the Republican Party.
Like Sherman's march to the sea, he's burning everything down in sight, and since they don't have government reconstruction programs for severely damaged political parties,]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Heated debate ensued yesterday because I answered a question with the phrase, "Hmm... interesting." Now in my mind, when I say this it's because I 1) find what was just said interesting 2) need more time to marinate on what was said or 3) have nothing else to add at that time. Apparently however, when I use this phrase it is perceived as me saying, "I don't agree but I don't want to argue, keep it moving." Hmm... interesting.



I definitely have some conversational tells in my lexicon.&nbsp;

As I'm becoming irritated: &nbsp;"You know what..."&nbsp;

When I'm flummoxed: "Uh... alrighty then"

Starting off a long-winded story: "So the other day..."

Wrapping up a phone conversation: "Well okay girl..."

In the middle of an argument that I'm losing: "This is not working&nbsp;for&nbsp;me"



But when I asked others how they perceived those phrases, they had a multitude of varying interpretations. One of my exes would ask me how I was doing and I would&nbsp;answer, "Just peachy." Th]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer's Finger Remains Unbitten In President Obama Confrontation]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's finger found her way into President Obama's face Wednesday when he stopped in the great state of sunning seniors and low allergens to do "presidential stuff." But another day, another indignity from people who act like it's the hardest thing ever to respect the office even if you don't like the man.
From The Los Angeles Times:

President Obama's warm reception in sunny Arizona on Wednesday lasted about as long as it took him to step off Air Force One and greet Gov.&nbsp;Jan Brewer.Brewer, champion of her state's controversial anti-immigration law, welcomed Obama on the tarmac with a handwritten letter and an intense conversation in which, at one point, she pointed her finger at him.

Brewer used this opportunity to plug her book, the same book where she claimed Obama once was patronizing and condenscending to her, a description the president allegeldy took exception to.
Apparently Brewer and Obama, shortly after greeting each other on the tarmac, started talki]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[President Obama's Approval Ratings Up Post-SOTU (Photo Gallery)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed President Barack Obama hugs Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., on the floor of the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., before delivering the State of the Union address, Jan. 24, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows President Barack Obama's approval numbers are on an upswing. For the first time in six months, the presidents' approval rating (48 percent) exceeds his disapproval rating (46 percent). The president's numbers have been on the rise since the economic picture started to brighten a bit late last year. In December, a Washington Post/ABC News poll found that while Obama still had a low approval rating on his handling of jobs and the economy, his overall approval rating numbers had improved with certain segments of the population, including young adults, seniors and independent voters. The narrowing of the approval and disapproval ratings can be seen in the latest Gallup Daily Poll, but Gallup still has the pres]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clutch Magazine: Two Ex-Wives Don't Make the Third One Right, Newt]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed For Clutch Magazine this week I tackle the complicated path the third wife of Newt Gingrich&nbsp;must walk. Last week, Gingrich's&nbsp;second wife spoke to ABC News about how she got dealt dirty by former Speaker of the House... just like his first wife. And the story of Gingrich's past loves is a series of other women becoming "Mrs. Other Woman." But can you cry victim in a relationship (as Marianne, wife No. 2 has done), when you knew he abandoned his first wife after she got cancer? Can wife No. 3 Callista Gingrich ever feel secure when she's married to an impulsive serial adulterer?
From Clutch:

I can almost (emphasis on &ldquo;almost&rdquo;) understand how someone falls into this trap. Love being blind isn&rsquo;t a clich&eacute;. Many of us have made past bad choices in the dating department. And it&rsquo;s pretty typical for those with cheating hearts to say all those sweet nothings about you being &ldquo;special&rdquo; and &ldquo;different&rdquo; and that their former partner]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed On Wednesday, The Snob returned to the Beauty Shop segment of NPR's "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin. &nbsp;We talked about President Obama's State of the Union address, the GOP response (Ugh, Herman Cain ...), The Washington Post's recent survey on Black American women, and the end of Victoria's Secret model Heidi Klum and "Kiss From A Rose" singer Seal. Normally Michel can count on me to make fun of celebrities because 90 percent of the time I'm the "Who cares?" girl. But it was about divorce. Divorce sucks no matter who you are. Best of luck Heidi n' Seal.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Enjoy nearly two minutes of two instruments that we rarely get to hear or see up front, by two greats. Making it up on bass is my friend Nathan East, chasing some serious digital percussion by David "Fingers" Haynes. Turn up the volume and enjoy.James C. CollierH/T:Patrick Telev-KaranfilovicREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Random Blackness: Two-Minute Bass-Percussion Jam At NAMM 2012, Nathan East, David Haynes, Fingers, Entertainment, Acting White]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed President Barack Obama talks with Jon Favreau, Director of Speechwriting, in the Oval Office, Jan. 23, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
State of the Union is tonight! It's time for the president to tell us what's what! (And to unofficially kick off his 2012 re-election by reminding you of what is at stake, making his case on why he should get another term.) If we get lucky, maybe he'll finish singing that Al Green song so we can get a proper assessment of the tonal quality of his crooning.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Almost daily around there here Innanets, I see people pontificating about various topics that they may or may not know a damn thing about. For the most part I let it slide. I mean opinion is opinion, right? But when those opinions start easing towards a "knowledge share" or advisory slant - I need the good people calling themselves writers, bloggers, columnists, whatever to leave expert topics to the experts. Or at the very least, speak from a position of intelligence.



My older brother is a doctor. I am not. The extent of medical advice that I give out generally sounds like, "Nyquil is the bomb. Heating pads are miraculous inventions. Migraines were created by the devil. Drink more water." See what I did there? I shared my experience and told you what worked for me, you are free to draw your own conclusions.



Similarly, do I not always (always, always) tell people that I'm not a relationship expert? I can only give my opinion based on the crazy-azz life I've lived and the out-o]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney Wants You To Know How Awful Newt Gingrich Is]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Newt Gingrich. Did you know that he's an awful old curr who gets run out of Congress by his own party, took a whole lot of money to become an ... ahem ... "influence peddler" and is probably eye-balling wife No. 4 somewhere in the crowd? What? You already knew that? Hmmm. What if Mitt Romney shouts that a little louder? Does that help? Will that make people stop voting for Newt, who recently creamed Romney, beating him by double-digits in the racially tinged, bitter South Carolina primary?
Hahaha. No. Because the problem many GOP voters are having is that while Newt Gingrich is a duplicitous character, Romney&nbsp;isn't exactly "Dream Date" material either.
As I tweeted during the most recent GOP debate when Ron Paul was talking about electability:
"Now, now, Ron. None of you are electable."
The other folks running for president not named Romney and Gingrich were reduced to a not-so-colorful sideshow, as Rick and Ron barely got a word in and were positioned in the periphery of the Mit]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Random Slovakianess: Musician Rolls With Nokia Ringtone Punch]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Some comments to this entertaining video argue that the musician's response is staged, but I think they miss the point, altogether. Staged or not, the editorial and lesson is both witty and good for all to hear, if they might avoid the cynic's vortex....and Nokia, once the shining star of Finland, presently needs all the help they can get.James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Random Slovakianess: Musician Rolls With Nokia Ringtone Punch, Lukáš Kmiť, Slovakian Viola, Orthodox Jewish, Snappy Comeback, Acting White]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is the entire country grading on a curve?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie There's a widespread epidemic I must address today. I'm sure you've seen it, lamented and wondered what can be done about it. I'm talking about the acceptance of things that are just so-so and calling them excellent. Taking C-level work and calling it A+. It's everywhere - music, movies, schools, work ethics, books, actors, politicians, opinions - people are cosigning and elevating some regular-assed shiggity to legendary status. It must stop.



I have to accept my part of the blame in this. There have definitely been times when I have described things as "epic" or "uber" or "best ever" when they really, truly weren't. They were good, maybe even great but&nbsp;greatest&nbsp;of all time? No. Here are a few pop culture examples of what I'm talking about:



Exhibit one from Facebook: "I think Fantasia is the next Etta James." And someone co-signing! Okay now, Tasia Mae is talented but ur.. uh... Etta James (RIP) level? Stop it. Let Tasia stand on her own and leave Etta out of it. I]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Red Tails is a good movie, not a great one. If you are expecting a sweeping historical epic that takes you on a heart-racing journey, this isn't that. If you are expecting a pivotal snapshot of an important moment in Black History a la Malcolm X, this ain't that. Red Tails is an aptly-written, beautifully filmed enjoyable two hour movie. Period.



For those who don't know, Red Tails is about the Tuskegee Airman training program. The film was written by Aaron McGruder (The Boondocks) and John Ridley (U Turn, Three Kings, Undercover Brother). Anthony Hemingway (Ali, Changing Lanes, The Wire) directed the film. George Lucas executive produced this movie and felt so strongly about it, he wrote a personal check for upwards of $50 million when he couldn't get a studio to back the project.




I will admit, I felt compelled to support the movie after bitching about the TPization of the film industry and lamenting about "where have all the black films gone?" time after time. I have no de]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cobb GA Mother Arrested For Tattooing 10 Year-Old Son]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White From the video above, it is clear that Chuntera Napier, the arrested, while well-meaning, is also very ignorant. At minimum, the recipient of such needs to be eighteen to legally bear the risk of contracting any number of potentially fatal diseases, like hepatitis, from getting a tattoo. The misdemeanor charged Ms. Napier clearly misunderstands, like many folks, that all rights, including those of parenting and religion, derive from the constitution, not the bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, or the back of a cereal box. This is a good example of where children, and their desire to make adulthood decision, need protection. I hope the example of Ms. Napier's prosecution sends a strong signal that tattoos are for adults, period.UPDATE: Police are looking for the alleged tattoo artist, but Ms. Napier is not cooperating, so far. The artist could face criminal charges, and so could Ms. Napier, for obstruction.James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Cobb]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Snob To Talk The Affairs of Newt Gingrich With HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Jane Velez-MitchellThe Snob will be on Headline News at 7:30 p.m. EST tonight talking about the many loves of Sir Newton Leroy Gingrich. Are those loves controversial and will voters care about this latest ex-wife "open marriage" bombshell? Find out when I chat it up with Jane Velez-Mitchell on HLN tonight!
The Snob will also return to HLN's big sister network&nbsp;CNN on Sunday to talk politics again with anchor Fredricka Whitfield. I'll be on again around the 4 p.m. EST hour.
Check it out!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Perry Drops White House Bid; ABC News Has An Ex-Wife Bomb For Newt; Nobody Knows Who Won Iowa]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Rick Perry (Click to Enlarge)Rick Perry, in his effort to be your man in Washington, has finally realized it's time to pick up his Buzz Lightyear and Woody cowboy dolls and threats against our NATO allies and go home to Austin. I imagine there will be a lot of grimacing and pouting, but the dude had to go home at some time. He was polling at four percent in South Carolina ahead of the primary.
Does this mean he's going to skip out on tonight's CNN debate? Considering how much Perry loved the debates that proved he was unelectable, I'm going to guess he's watching this one from the TV in his hotel room.

"Oops" on this whole candidacy, Rick. Oops indeed.
Word on the street is Perry will endorse the ever-punchable looking Newt Gingrich (which is somewhat surprising since I thought he'd be more of a Santorum/Anyone-But-Mittens guy). Gingrich, of course, has problems of his own. Like how it's only fighting dirty when someone else does it. If he does a bunch of race baiting, has a Super PAC]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White I continue to believe that Affirmative Action needs a revision, to focus on the greater inclusive group of economically-disadvantage Americans, rather than race, gender, or otherwise. This would exclude well-off minorities, while including those whites held-down by their meager economic background. Anti-Affirmative Action crusader Ward Connerly was never about this kind of fairness, but rather lining his own pockets, and it seems that it is all catching up to him (here), via a credible insider.Stay Tuned.James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Ward Connerly Facing Misdeed Allegations By Former Staffer, Prop 209, Anti-Affirmative Action, UC Regent, Funds Abuse, Acting White]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The more things change...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie I have so many questions about this picture. Why am I sitting in the fireplace like Cinderella? Why am I leaned up against logs like they are super comfortable? What am I reading? WHAT AM I WEARING? Le Sigh.


You can handle birthdays a few ways - you can be shell shocked at where all the time went, you can be melancholy about time lost, you can be giddy that you're still here, or you can ignore the whole thing. I tend to be a little mood swingy about it. But this year, I'm just happy to be be here.



I did stop and think what's different, what's changed and what's stayed the same over the years. Here's what I've come with...


1) I used to be quiet and self-contained. Now I'm reserved until I'm comfortable and then I speak my mind.

2) I used to be a book worm. I still am.&nbsp;

3) I used to be shy. Yeah, that ship set sail a while ago.

4) I've been an optimist then a pessimist than an optimist again. I'm firmly in the between of those now.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Wow! Watching this horrible scene made me wish I was there to even things up a bit. Who would be surprised if the Asian kid started carrying a gun after a beating like this? Who could blame him? Very sick. Very tragic. And on top of it all, repeatedly calling him a Nigga' speaks to the universal standard that demeaning blackness has achieved, and that's everybody's fault (within/without).James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Seven White Attackers vs. One Asian Teen In Chicago, Asian Assault, White Gang, Chicago Attack, Asian Called Nigger, Acting White]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama dance together during the Governors Ball in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)Get it, gurl. Go, Michelle. It's your birthday.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clutch Magazine: Your Womb Might Be On A Different Timetable From Your Professional One]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Hey! Yeah, you! The woman of child-bearing age! While some women have no problem pushing out babies well past their mid-30s, for many others they run into fertility issues. And psst. It's not just lady parts not working right. Dude parts are screwing up things too! So I wrote a post about it for Clutch. You know? So you could make sure to stay up on your gynocologist visits and you dudes could stop sitting your laptop directly on your lap if you plan to have kids someday.
Or so you can panic? Who feels like panicking!
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If you&rsquo;re serious about being a first-time mother&nbsp;you need to learn the truth about fertility. While science has improved and our world is striving towards equality, your womb is still on the same biological schedule as it was back when people got married as teenagers. Don&rsquo;t let the female celebrities over 40 baby boom fool you. Complications, fertility drugs, debates over surrogacy are all the reality for many who delay having children &nda]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Colbert Super PAC Labels Romney: "Mitt the Ripper" (Video)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed What I love about this is that if I didn't know this was an elaborate stunt to point out how ridiculous our campaign financing laws are put together by comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart there's a good chance I'd think this was a for-really real ad. It's no less hysterical that what's passing for attacks these days. Dare I say it -- this satire is almost too good. (YouTube)]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Jon Hunstman, the Republican president candidate who could never shake that "Obama hired me to be Ambassador to China," moderate conservative stink off himself, dropped out of the GOP race today. Huntsman, naturally, endorsed the man who he most resembled without all the complications of being a horrible phony -- Mittens Romney.
Mittens, known for his robotic qualities and pathological inconsistencies was somewhere in South Carolina giving a poor black woman $60 in cash. It was a perfect storm of annoyances -- from the optics of a black person getting an actual "hand-out," to reinforcing the ideology that occasional donations from Daddy Warbucks should take care of our poor and not a strong social safety net built on our tax dollars, to reinforcing the belief that all poor, begging people are black people.
There's nothing not to find irritating. Right down to the woman saying God told her to go to Romney when reporters asked her about.
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed The legacy of slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. is always in flux. This summer he was immortalized as the first African American and non-president to get a monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The statue (which is a lot more impressive in person than in photographs), was almost as heavily debated as who King was and how we speak of him. While some feel its important to look at what King accomplished while also acknowledging he was human, with all the good, bad, complications, issues and flaws that come with humanity, others prefer a lionization of his image, and to some extent, a complete sanitization. Leading to what scholar Cornel West once famously called the "Santa Clausification" of Martin Luther King Jr.&nbsp;
It's important to remember that King was a man. An extraordinary man, but a man all the same. There is this tendency for people to believe they can't have an impact on their world around them, that one person cannot make a difference, and that tho]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Hey BougieLand. I know it's early in the year to be pressing pause and yet... I gotta. Just looked at the to do&nbsp;list for this week and something had to give. Unfortunately, it's the blog. In addition to celebrating a birthday on Wednesday, I'll be helping Le Dude pack up since he'll be spending the next two months traipsing around Europe, starting with Spain. Yes, I'll be crossing the pond for multiple visits. I also want to tighten up the first few chapters on my next book to present to the publisher in addition to planning the publicity strategy for Pretty Boy Problems which comes out this summer. And oh yeah, I guess I should pay some attention to the day job.



All that being said, this week - might post, might not. But I'll be around, if you haven't joined me on the Black 'n Bougie Facebook page, please do so and if you haven't found me on Twitter - don't delay. I'll be asking a few "question of the day" type things this week and I'd hate for you miss it. Also, we do hav]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clutch Magazine: Hair Raising Anxiety]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed For Clutch Magazine Online, The Snob penned a piece on how the move to natural hair has opened up a whole new bag of anxieties for many women who were already anxiety prone when it comes to black hair and what it symbolizes. How can you separate your politics from your hair when human nature is all about about putting meaning on what others see as meaningless? How do you embrace a movement based on "acceptance" on the one thing you can easily change?
From Clutch:

I used to write about my hair quite a bit, but found myself wanting to write less and less about it because, as a black woman, you always get one of two responses &ndash; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just hair&rdquo; or *insert lengthy explanation on why it is not*.
One side was either &ldquo;over it&rdquo; or completely lacking in empathy. (Or was in serious denial, depending on who you asked.) The other side was so caught up in their hair drama it had turned into a greater metaphor for almost every problem ever created by growing up i]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[BP Blog: Sleep Is Your Friend]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed In today's post for BP Magazine's Bipolar Blog, I write about my past battles with insomnia and how I came to realize I needed to take not sleeping seriously when it came to self-care: "Not being able to sleep was usually an indicator that something had gone terribly wrong, because while the high of mania would eventually wear off, the insomnia would linger for months at a time. Gradually draining me of my positivity, my energy, my interests and my talents. The only way I could combat my illness was by accepting that even if the world was awake around the clock, I couldn't be."
Read the full post at BP Hope.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shiggity Pegreaux Black Men Say...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Pegreaux = Pretentious + (sometimes) Nouveau + Negroes. &lt;~~ Get into it. Ah yes, 'tis the age of the Pegreaux. That species of&nbsp;hustle-disguised-as-know-it-all-ness gentleman heating up airwaves,&nbsp;TV&nbsp;sets and these here innanets. They are everywhere. They are smarter than the rest of us (to hear them tell it) and &nbsp;they have opinions. As do I.



Many of you have seen the various, multiple spins on Sh*t (insert any type of people) say. White Girls, Bougie Black Girls :-/, Purple Squirrels... good times. Everyone else has had so much fun compiling their lists, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon too. Of course when I write a list about Pegreaux... I actually know enough of them well enough to be accurate in my tongue-in-cheekiness. I get that it's hot in the streets to make up a list about the two chicks who deigned to speak to you at last week's Happy Hour because they thought your name tag was cute. I just thought I'd do my list a little differently.



So wha]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Michelle Obama Is So Over This Angry Black Woman Thing (Video)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Pushing back against what the White House has described as an over-dramatized portrayal in New York Times reporter Judi Kantor's new book "The Obamas," the First Lady told the CBS This Morning many have wrongly tried to paint her as an "Angry Black Woman."
In the book (which I'm patiently waiting to be delivered to my house from the publisher so I can see what all the hubbub is), Kantor highlights "incidents" where Michelle Obama appeared to be at loggerheads with her husband's staff. Mrs. Obama, who's dealt with lots of "she looks angry" and "she hates America" and "she has a fat ass" and "Marie Antoinette/Socialist Salad Eater" talk from right wingers, sat Kantor's book over in the "those things aren't me" corner, and poo-pooed on it to CBS's Gayle King.

From CBS:

In a wide-ranging interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King, the first lady also said that some have tried to portray her as an "angry black woman" since Mr. Obama first announced he was seeking the presidency.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Resume Remix - 5 ways to tighten yours up]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie It's that time of year. Usually at the beginning of the year, I end up helping folks out with their resumes. I've done seven so far this year. I don't mind doing it, I've spent over 15 years in recruiting and I know what catches a recruiter or hiring manager's eye. But every year, I see some of the same "old school" resume characteristics. Let's drag those resumes into 2012, shall we?



Your resume is your representative. It has to sell me on you at a glance. I need to know within my first scan that you are worth a follow-up email or phone call. I have 400 resumes in my inbox, yours needs to be the one at the top of the stack. I'm not looking for a reason to keep you, I'm looking for a reason to discard you so I can get to the next one. We're all about decreasing quantity and increasing quality in the HR field. Harsh but true.



Okay, so everyone knows the resume basics: name and contact information at the top. An introduction (see number 2 below) then work history, education, a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tonight! Catch me & @CarolynEdgar on The Return of BnB Radio]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Have you missed us? Me and @CarolynEdgar are back this evening at 9:00pm central/10:00pm eastern with chatter, opinions and more chatter. Depending on time, we're going to talk about something we call Opportunistic Infidelity and why we call bullshiggity on it. We're going to talk about Why the GOP Doesn't Care About Black People and why they really should. We'll ask the question - why is someone calling FLOTUS an "Angry Black Woman" and why that's slapworthy. If time permits, we'll talk about the upcoming movie Red Tails and speculate on why Blue Ivy has folks heated.



Join us! You can catch us on the web (we'll have a chat window open) or dial in and talk to us at (347) 884-8748. If you miss it, the broadcast will be available for listen and download on iTunes, on the BnB site or on the BlogTalk Radio site. Hope to see you there!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Field]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Caught by the Tale & Talking F.A.S. The on-campus residencies at MACS are seven to ten days each semester. &nbsp;During each residency we experience the world of cultural sustainability through incredible field trips. &nbsp;This week in our Models of &nbsp;Social Entrepreneurship course we visited the Affinity Lab in Washington, DC. &nbsp;to research the intricacies of co-working social enterprises. &nbsp;Affinity Lab is the innovative brainchild of Phillipe Chetrit, Berit Oskey and Charles Planck. As a creative membership model, Affinity presents brilliant solutions to issues that start ups and small social enterprises may inure. &nbsp;It is a flexible blend of shared office space, incubators, and an entrepreneurial club. &nbsp;Phillipe explained, "the space is always about the people." Other key dimensions are collaborative programming, communications tools, and space design. &nbsp;Currently the 10-year old Lab hosts 65 members.My colleagues and I benefitted from engaging and stimulating conversations with Ian Fisk of]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[New Hampshire: Ugh. Is Mittens The Nominee Yet?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed So New Hampshire held the first primary of the 2012 election season (for those playing at home Iowa was a "caucus"), and Mitt Romney won by a healthy 39 percent.
Meaning, Romney is still the front-runner, still the "inevitable" nominee, still destined to go up against incumbent President Barack Obama in the fall. Oh, goody.
Unfortunately, sanity hasn't quite yet returned to the process and how could it? The GOP nominee is still this smarmy, punchable, grown up Richie Rich making $10,000 bets and calling corporations people and talking about how he hates to run out of pink slips. (Or maybe he was afraid to get a pink slip? I dunno. How do you get fired when you're the boss? Can God make an object so heavy even He can't pick it up? Mind-boggles.)
Proof that it's still crazytown can be found how on my first day back in D.C. after being out-of-town for two months I turn on the ol' television to the cable news and Mr. 9-9-9 is there, in the flesh, offering "advice" to Mitt "Mittens" Romney]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ask a Bougie Chick - Is this love?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie We have reached post number nine hundred (900!!!) on BnB. *throws confetti* In celebration, let's read the first Ask a Bougie Chick letter of the year...



Cue Bob Marley's epic Is This Love? for this one. We've got a 30-year old gentleman in Tracy, CA (eastern suburb of the San Fran Bay Area) who wants our opinion. Without further ado, Rodney's letter:


Love the blog! Found it from Three Ways to Take It and lurk regularly. I just turned 30 and I've been dating a woman (Tonia) exclusively for a little over a year now. We get along well, have a great time together. She's easy to be with and she gets me. We laugh a lot, spend most of our free time together. Over the holidays we met each other's families and that went well.&nbsp;



At this point you are probably wondering why I'm writing to you since it's all good. Well I'm curious to hear your thoughts about something.&nbsp;



From around the third month that we were together, Tonia started telling me that she loved me. I told h]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Brief Interlude…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear First of all, a belated Happy New Year!!!


In retrospect...

Just a few 2011 things that I started writing about, but - as has increasingly been the case with me - sat, as drafts:
It’s official.  We’ve got bragging rights to our First, Black Murderer-in-Chief.  No need to really go further into that except to say - Black folk, please stop conflating him with MLK!  That many of you see him as the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hood Chronicles STL]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Hood Chronicles STL ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Slavery Math Taught in Georgia Elementary School]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White As reported in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution..."Gwinnett County (Georgia) parents and activists have blasted the school district’s response following reports that students at a Norcross elementary school received a math worksheet that used examples of slavery in word problems.School district officials said the principal at Beaver Ridge Elementary School will personally work with teachers to come up with more appropriate lessons and will offer more opportunities for staff development following the uproar created by the worksheet that included questions such as the following: “Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?” and “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week?”"I hope 'work with' is a euphemism for 'escort from the building'.Full Story (here).James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Slavery Math Taught in Georgia Elementary School, Norcross, Racist]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rise & Grind? Sleep when you're dead? No thanks.]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Every morning my FaceBook feed and Twitter timelines are chockful of uberhappy morning folks determined to hype me up with affirmations, energy and a kickstart to my day. If I had a dollar for every "rise &amp; grind" or "you can sleep when you're dead" quote, I'd be retired to my tropical island. And I get it, I understand the theory behind it. Let's get up, be productive and make it do what it do. I agree... to a point.



With all of the ambitions&nbsp;and&nbsp;demands on our day-to-day hustle struggles and family/friend duties, sleep seems to be the one thing we are more than willing to sacrifice. When people think of "total wellness" most focus on diet and exercise not realizing that lack of sleep is just as detrimental to our health.



Sleep is like a reset button for your mind, body and soul. It's an opportunity to restore mood, regenerate energy, reduce stress, think without outside interruption and rest our bodies. The average person requires 6 - 8 hours a night to funct]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[GOP Candidates Show Up For A Fight, But ABC Insists On A Debate Breaking Out]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Somewhere, in-between me knitting booties for little Blue Illuminati Carter, the GOP had two debates this weekend leading up to the New Hampshire primary. The first debate, hosted by ABC News had so much promise, starting off with a lot of angry posturing, testy exchanges, harrumphing and epic put downs, but for some reason, ABC thought it would be way too exciting to watch six men on the edge of a breakdown lose their collective shit on stage, so they zapped all the life out that sucker by making the debate about how much Mitt Romney hates "hypothetical" questions about gay people and abortions.

But those first few exchanges were glorious ... before it turned into snoozy tripe. This is one of the few times where I actually would have preferred any of the cable newsers getting this debate so close to the New Hampshire primary. I find it hard to believe FOX News, CNN or MSNBC would have tried to stop the debate from turning into the desperate "Anyone But Mitt, but Not Those Other Four]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A letter to my 20-somethings out there...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie Hey young uns!



How you doing? How's life treating you? Never mind that last question. It doesn't matter how life is treating you, blink twice and it will be a whole different world. Listen. No seriously. Unplug your seventeen tech toys, take two deep breaths and actually listen. There are things I wish that someone had sat my young behind down and told me when I was in my twenties. Even more importantly, there are things that people told me that I wish I had listened to. I did not. I was positive I knew everything or that the person telling me was too far removed to really know what they were talking about.







You, my double-decade friends, have an opportunity here. Read it and take in what works for you.







1. You are not&nbsp;entitled&nbsp;to anything or anyone. Nor are you promised anything or anyone. Whatever it is you are positive you deserve, figure out how to live without it. You may get it, you may not. If you do, great - appreciate it and keep it pushing. If you]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White Is this as cool (with folks), as it is funny?  I think so, what about you?James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Southwest Airlines Parodies Black NFL Players, Touchdown Celebration, Dancing, Black Thing, Ignorance, Acting White]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rude Awakening]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Black 'n Bougie It was about 3:00am when the sound of raised voices yanked me from what was some truly extraordinary slumber.&nbsp;Grumpily&nbsp;I sat up to figure out where the&nbsp;noise&nbsp;was coming from. It took no time at all to ascertain that a man and a woman were in the middle of the cul-de-sac screaming at each other in the street... at decibels that were uncalled for in that time and place. Really, any time and place but let's move on...



With a sigh, I got up and peeked out of the window and sure enough, there were Dude and Dudette in the street in pajamas howling at one and other. I didn't recognize them as neighbors. As I looked on with disgust and confusion, Dudette picked up her foot and landed a roundhouse kick squarely in Dude's abdomen. Before I could blink, he bopped her upside the head. Oh. Hells. No.&nbsp;



I dialed 911 and was informed that six calls had already come in and Dallas' finest were already on the way. The words "the way" were still floating into my ear when]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clutch Magazine: Oprah Isn't Enough to Fix OWN]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed In a new post for Clutch Magazine I write how Oprah's OWN network is failing because it's still centered on the guru and not on the larger themes of what a full-fledged network created by the guru should be. People didn't want to see more Oprah, necessarily, they wanted to see what Oprah would actually do with a network. And what they expected was magic, not an unfocused muddle. People wanted Oprah to go big, or go back to basic television. Otherwise, how could she justify such a move?
From Clutch:

If Oprah could create a morning news show, what kind of morning show would she have created? Would she have hired TJ Holmes away from CNN instead of BET? Or would she have tried to woo Soledad O&rsquo;Brien who just started a new morning show there now? If she could create a true crime documentary block, or a news magazine program a la &ldquo;60 Minutes,&rdquo; would she have hired the ballsy Lisa Ling to run it? Or could it have been a platform for Ann Curry before she finally was promoted]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[BP Blog: Coming Out As Bipolar]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed In today's post for BP Magazine's Bipolar Blog I talk about how after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I started to recognized disordered behavior in others as well, realizing that due to the mental health stigma, most would rather be labeled as unpredictable flakes, jerks or "different" rather than have people know they were afflicted with a mental disorder, then face ridicule and discrimination. I wrote: "I imagine it must be hard to live that lie, but as long as there's a stigma, celebrities will claim "exhaustion" or even drug addiction before they'll admit to the mental illness behind it all. Yet being sick should discount anyone's work, anyone's personality, anyone's career. You aren't less for simply having to overcome something more."
Read the full story at BP Hope here.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shit White Girls Say...To Black Girls]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Acting White I thought this was well done, entertaining and thought provoking (more importantly).James C. CollierREAD MOST RECENT POSTS AT ACTING WHITE... Technorati Tags: Shit White Girls Say...To Black Girls, Franchesca Ramsey, chescaleigh, Racism, Ignorance, Acting White]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Case of The Missing Teen Mistakenly Deported to Colombia Makes My Head Hurt]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed A grandmother searching for her missing, runaway teenage granddaughter found the kid in Bogata, Colombia, where our immigration enforcement agency had deported her. Only the kid isn't Colombian, doesn't speak Spanish and had never been to the country before.
Apparently, being a 14-year-old runaway and all, she was in a bad way and was running around under an assumed name that happened to be the name of an illegal immigrant with warrants. But then it all gets weird once the perceived "adults" with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement believe that a 14-year-old American kid -- who doesn't speak Spanish -- is a 22-year-old Colombian illegal immigrant.
The girl was reported missing in 2010 and the Dallas police helped the grandmother find her granddaughter,&nbsp;Jakadrien, who was working as a maid in Bogata. She was deported in April 2011, despite being a U.S. citizen by birth and all, born of citizens, in this country and being African American, not a black Colombian. Adding to the b]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[Melissa Harris-Perry Named New Weekend Host on MSNBC]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Snob Feed Starting February 4th this year, Prof. Melissa Harris-Perry will begin hosting her own show on MSNBC. (All those subbing gigs hosting for Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell have paid off!) Airing on weekends from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern Standard Time, she'll be following "Up with Chris Hayes."
Here's more from the press release Harris-Perry sent out earlier today:

Harris-Perry, a long-standing political analyst and contributor to MSNBC, is a frequent guest of &ldquo;PoliticsNation&rdquo; with Rev. Al Sharpton, and also serves as occasional host of &ldquo;The Rachel Maddow Show&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Last Word.&rdquo; A highly accomplished author, scholar and speaker, Harris-Perry&rsquo;s new program will continue MSNBC&rsquo;s trend of bringing intelligent, informed voices to the cable channel&rsquo;s weekend programming.&nbsp;&ldquo;Melissa&rsquo;s thoughtful analysis has been an incredible addition to our primetime programs and I&rsquo;m thrilled to have her join our expanded week]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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