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        <title><![CDATA[White privilege strikes yet again...in New Orleans]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear In June 2006, then 16 year-old, Colorado High School jazz saxophonist, Daniel Weidlein, (Wait!  Let me say that again - 16 years old!!)  placed fourth in a National History Day contest for creating the following short, documentary film detailing the making of  Billie Holiday's, "Strange Fruit" - and the horrific acts of racism upon which it was based.  I needed to begin this post with it, to help]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Precious, Lord! - Part 1]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear I watched Lee Daniels' "Precious" on December 9, 2009 - online - because I wasn't about to go to a theater and watch it in "mixed company" - white and Black, male and female, particularly.  I started writing a post, back then but,  found it difficult to finish - for a variety of reasons, personal and not.  

Hollywood will - tonight - reach the culmination of their, "]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[You Just Have to Find the Light]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life Every now and then I get to a place that I don't like very much. It's dark, empty and very lonely. I've been making visits there for as long as I can remember. My first conscious memory of visiting the dark place was when I was five.

I've been thinking about writing about this place for years. I used to think that I was the only person who visited the dark, empty, lonely place but I eventually learned that it wasn't true. 

Last week I read about&nbsp;Andrew Koenig, a man whom I've never met, but I know him. He was a fellow visitor&nbsp;of the dark place, but he lingered there too long and was unable to leave.

I recall the theme song from M*A*S*H; it had&nbsp;that refrain&nbsp;that hypnotized me: "Suicide is painless; it brings on many changes; and I can take or leave it if I please." I sang that refrain in my head for years. 

The first time I tried to kill myself I was fourteen. I took an overdose of Valium. My dad has been in an accident on his squad car and injured his leg. The d]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Congratulations to my LGBT brothers and sisters in Washington, DC!!!!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear So, after filing suit last November, opponents of same-sex marriage have been dealt a serious upper-cut with this - Chief justice denies stay of District's same-sex marriage law.  Now, all those who waited, can start applying for licenses tomorrow!  For now.

Since Congress didn't act within the 30-day required time period after the bill passed first reading on December 15th, their only recourse]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[At last - VINDICATION!  - Danziger 7's finally going to jail]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear When I volunteered in New Orleans with Habitat for Humanity in 2006, I got to sit and talk with a lot of Black New Orleanians who said the shooting on the Danziger Bridge had nothing to do with self-defense.  Their take?  The crooked NOPD was "protecting" the people on the predominantly white, other side of the bridge, scared that the poor and predominantly Black folk were coming to take their]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[My Personal Fight and Frustrations with Religion]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot If I were to summarize my religious experience in a word, it would be "rollercoster." I have been low like during my childhood when I'd pray every day for God to save me from hell. I have been high when high like when reading the Bible and listened to sermons everyday. And then I've been up in the air like now when I wish I could forget about religion completley. Sometimes I marvel at the huge change--from the point where my beliefs about Christianity were as solid as a rock to now where when I see Christianity instead of a placid stream I see a muddy quagmire. I can point to the exact point of this change. It started when I wanted to receive the gift of speaking in tongues but could not. (I was raised Charismatic and was always taught that speaking in tongues and salvation go together.) I couldn't understand why I didn't get it because I was as sincere as a Christian could get about it. At that point, I started reading a lot about the subject and later was questioning the practice all]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Little Less Conversation and A Lot More Action: Join the Virtual March for Health Care Reform]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life Oops! This post is not complete. Somehow I lost half of my post! Please come back later.

If you follow me on Facebook, pieces of this post will sound familiar. 

President Obama released his proposed health care reform legislation this week; you may find the complete text as well as highlights and summaries at whitehouse.gov. The hue and cry that President Obama's health care reform proposal doesn't include a public option began immediately following the release of his proposal. The public option has become both the boogeyman and the holy grail of health care reform. 

Loud voices on the progressive left have repeatedly stated that they would rather see no health care reform than have reform without a public option (the holy grail of health care reorm). They've made the inclusion of the public option the litmus test of health care reform legislation. Loud voices on the conservative right,&nbsp;have demonized the public option and are just as&nbsp;vocal in asserting&nbsp;that they will]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Interracial Dating as a Weapon]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot A picture says a thousand wordsI just heard of this book by CW today. The cover pretty much sums up the depths of self-hated to which we have sunken. It's no secret that there is a gender war of sorts in the African-American community. Scores of us are verbally destroying our Brothers and Sisters in order to justify why we want to date anyone who isn't of our race. However, people who do this fail to realize that no matter how much they deride African-American (wo)men, they are pretty much shooting blanks as far as their argument is concerned. Here's why:1. Let's just be honest. You just see European as better.What all of these arguments come down to is a denial of racial bias. Rather acknowledging that they simply have a bias to Europeans, they put the blame on all of those of the opposite sex, saying that their in inadequacies forced them to find a mate outside their race. But anyone who is not in denial can see straight through this. We were all raised in this Euro-centric culture,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["Can't we all just play some - GOLF!!!"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear With this being the Year of the Tiger and all (some interesting and eerily similar characteristics in there), I thought I'd pull him from my next "Ruminations..." post and ruminate on him all by himself since I'd not written anything about any of this.  Well, that and the fact that since I've been ruminating about plenty these days, the post would have just been too damned long!

I was at the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Black and White: Examples of English's Bias]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot I was reading a book a couple of months ago that mentioned the biases in English. It pointed out how although most words relating to humanity are masculine (mankind for example), the vast majority of those words that are negative are attributed to females. Obviously, the biases in our language are impressed upon our psyche as well, as women are judged more harshly than men in society. The book didn't mention English's bias regarding race, but of course, one has to take this in account as well. Calling Europeans "white" and calling Africans "black" for a life time must lead one to associate the races with the attributes that the words carry respectively. With this in mind, I will post the definition of each (from M-W).White: free from spot or blemish: free from moral impurity : innocent: not intended to cause harm: : favorable, fortunate: marked by upright fairness:  of, relating to, characteristic of, or consisting of white people or their culture from the former stereotypical associat]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Conservative's words came back to bite them...well almost]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot I did an earlier post complaining about how the Conservatives had been crying that we need to start racially profiling people because of how the Muslims are all out to get us. But now today we have a white man smashing his plane into a Federal building because of his anger with the government. If his name were Abdul, we would have an uproar right now. Glenn Beck, Palin, and their minions would be waving this triumphantly as another example of why we need to stop being so "politically correct" and start racially profiling people to keep those scary dark sinned people at bay. However, since he has an "American name" (Beck should be happy about that), let's see what sort of reaction from them we get. Of course, so far he hasn't been labeled a terrorist. Apparently, if you are white and crash a plane into a building, you only want to commit suicide, but if you are Arab/Black and want to do the same, you are a terrorist. Well, since we have this rule, the Conservatives won't have to address]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life I like John Mayer's music and the man can really play a guitar. Unfortunately, he's not so good when it comes to giving interviews. He seems to have&nbsp;two basic topics--sex and race. He touched on both and even mixed the two together in his interview with Playboy magazine.

The two remarks that have put him on the hot seat are:
MAYER: Someone asked me the other day, “What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?” And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a hood pass if you really have a hood pass? But I said, “I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’"PLAYBOY: Do black women throw themselves at you?MAYER: I don’t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’m going to sta]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why Stereotypes Are Unbreakable]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot I'm bothered when European-Americans say or imply that the treatment that African-Americans receive is a direct cause of us behaving in stereotypical ways or, in other words, more often that not we live our lives in harmony with a stereotypical script. As a result, many African-Americans fervently hope that if one day we can stop all of us from behaving in a stereotypical way, we will have a better image. I wish for the day when all African-Americans will stop behaving stereotypically as well, but not for the hope that they will be eliminated completely because they never will. African-Americans will always be stereotyped as inferior in every aspect to European-Americans because this has been ingrained even before this country was founded and now is in the fabric of our culture. Successful African-Americans are thought of as being propserous in spite of their Blackness. They are an exception, an example of the positive outcomes of assimilation, or simply they "act white." In short, the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Madame C. J. Walker Passed Us the Ball. We Dropped It.]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot "I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I have built my own factory on my own ground." Madame CJ WalkerDuring this month as we recognize African-Americans' achievements, no doubt Madame C. J. Walker will be a prominent figure, as she indeed should be. She was born of former slaves and was orphaned at an early age. Yet despite her impoverished background, she founded her own company and became the first female to become a millionaire because of her own achievements.Now, I suppose that if you lived in the days Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company was founded, the future of industry for Black America would seem exceptionally bright. After all, an innovative African-American lady has already taken steps to establishing the hair care industry for us and has become a millionaire. With a]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear CONGRATUALTIONS, CLIFF - AND ALL A YA'LLl!!!

(Allow me a little schadenfreude here, Cliff - I told you so!!)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[If Ignorance Is Bliss There Are Some Very Happy Folks in America]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life My friend Jack (Self-Sufficient Steward)posed&nbsp;some questions to me that I've been mulling over for a bit: 

What would happen if Senate Democrats MADE the Republicans actually use the filibuster to kill a decent health care bill? (Perhaps a bill without the pork, but with a public option.) How would the country respond if they saw the Republicans reading the phone book day after day to kill health care reform?I don't think that it would matter. I think that the people who support health care reform would continue to do so and become even more disgusted with the Republican party, and those who oppose health care reform would continue to express their opposition and cheer the Republicans on for protecting them from Obama's plans for advancing socialism.

I wasn't certain of my answer when I read Jack's questions a week ago, but yesterday I read the results of a&nbsp;recent poll&nbsp;that confirmed what I have suspected for some time--how do I say this in a civil fashion--there are a]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot The past couple of weeks have been wearing fros, which is a first for me. This new feeling has caused me to contemplate the relationship that I've had with my natural hair throughout my life. The experience has taught me a most valuable lessons: do not fit a square peg into a round hole.My hair has never been permed or straightened at any point in my life, so during my childhood I always felt that my natural hair, in its pigtails, was a curse. The highest point in my elementary school career, during the third grade, was when I got braids for the first time. I was so proud that my hair could swig like "it should." However, my elation didn't last. My hair wasn't long enough. I knew that I couldn't get a relaxer because I had been told that they fry hair, and I definitely didn't want to look like the scores of girls I'd seen with relaxers so bad that it looked like their hair had been set on fire. The only option left for me was to get long braid extensions. Those were great to me. I had]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Power, Patriarchy and Police Brutality in the belly of the beast]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear This just a mental bookmark for the above-titled post which I began writing on 1/31/10.  Situations are such that I can't publish it in its entirety right now - but I will.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW The NAACP has established a site during Black History Month that I am really feeling.

Unsung Heroes of Black History Month is a project that encourages you to tell our story from a personal perspective.

You upload photos of your unsung hero and share details about their achievements.&nbsp; (Link to NAACP Unsung Heroes)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Two Voices Remember: The 50th Anniversary of the Sit-in of the Greensboro Four]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life One of the unexpected pleasures of blogging is making new friends. I met Nance Meeker, Mature Landscaping, through&nbsp;a mutual friend,&nbsp;Jack, Self-Sufficient Steward. Recently, Nance, a fellow southerner, proposed that we co-write a blog entry to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sit-in of the Greensboro Four. The sit-in by four college students at the Woolworth’s lunch counter marked the start of the modern civil rights movement. This is a rather long entry, Nance and I each had a lot to say about how and why the sit-in resonates with each of us. Our voices alternate, weaving our independently written pieces into what I hope is a cohesive whole.


Nance: February 1st marks the 50th anniversary of the Sit-in of The Greensboro Four, an historic event which, due to the media attention it received and the momentum it launched for desegregation, has been called the Dawn of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. My hometown marked the anniversary by opening the International Civil]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What!  No "Beer Summit" scheduled for FLOTUS and her home-boy?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear H/T to RedDragon62 not only for this video, but for his outrage:
"What shocked me is the lack of outrage at what this animal had to say. Not one Liberal blogger, not one "Progressive site, Not ONE came to the defense of the poor! Not one called this asshole out on his RACIST... (yeah I said it) RACIST remarks!"

I'd read the story earlier and intended to link to it for this post.  But havin']]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How 'bout dem Saints!!!!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear I was ready to write, "Who in the hell punts on 4th and 1 in the first damn quarter of a championship game, UNTIL - the interception.  I am so damn happy and proud of those Saints!  They were able to bring euphoria back to a place that has seen so much pain and suffering.  Perseverance is something else - for the team AND the city.

I'm not even looking past today - I just want to savor this]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life A good friend recently observed, "Democracy is about majority rule, and Obama wants consensus." I actually agree with&nbsp;my friend's broader argument&nbsp;that Obama needs to assert authority and take the reins if he is to succesfully move his agenda forward, especially health care reform. However, I fundamentally disagree that democrary is about majority rule.

I think that&nbsp;it is a valid assessment of what&nbsp;Democracy has become, but the truth of what Democracy is intended to do is to make certain that the rights of the few aren't trampled by the many. That was the intent of the founding fathers in their drafting of the consititution. 

This isn't just supposition on my part; it's based on the writings of Jefferson, Franklin, and others on the principles and purposes of government. The founding fathers were well read men, familiar with the theories and principals of government. They certainly had their flaws, but they did not lightly undertake creating a new nation. It's not]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW "Standing On The Corner"
Spoken Word Artist:Underscore]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wyclef, mon coeur pleure pour le Haïti aussi...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear I say in the title, "Wyclef, my heart cries for Haiti too."  And it does, and it has, and it will - still.  Because with all of the monetary aid pouring in, with all the "temporary suspensions" of debt and policies, Haiti will continue to be at the mercy of countries (including our own), who fail to understand - worse yet care - how self-determination works for those who've not had the luxury of]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW (Sally Sanders stands in front of her new home on Monday January 18, 2010 image from The Dayton News)

HAMTRAMCK Mich-More than 40 years after her family was forced from their home because they were black, Sallie Sanders received the keys to a new house built to settle one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the United States.





"My parents would be ecstatic that their offspring would be able to enjoy the things they couldn't," the 60-year-old Sanders said Monday before a ceremony to celebrate the milestone on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.



Hamtramck agreed in 1980 to develop 200 family housing units to make up for violating the civil rights of blacks whose neighborhoods were targeted by white officials to make way for urban renewal projects in the 1960s.



Hamtramck still hasn't met that goal, although officials predict it will by next year. The city of 23,000 is now extremely diverse, with immigrants from the Middle East, Africa and Bangladesh passing by a]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Conservatives Win; Progressives Whine]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life I've never been so depressed by the results of a another state's election of someone to the U.S. Senate. Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Oakley for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Massachussetts Senator Ted Kennedy.&nbsp;Brown ran on his party's platform--he opposed gun control, tax increases, gay marriage, and partial-birth abortion and supported waterboarding to interrogate suspected terrorists.&nbsp;He also&nbsp;promised to be the "41st vote" against the health care reform bill&nbsp;now in Congress. Coakley&nbsp;ran on&nbsp;her party's platform as well--she supported the Democratic health care bill, abortion rights, gay marriage, and climate change legislation with a "cap-and-trade" mechanism. However, she opposed Obama's planned troop increase in Afghanistan.

The one point on which I agree with the commenters following the news story that I just read is that Brown's victory is evidence that a lot of people oppose health care reform or Obama care as]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sometimes The Sky Really Is Falling: The Conrad/Gregg Commission Bill]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life It just goes to show you; it's always something.--Roseanne Roseannadanna (Gilda Radner)

I just read Senate Bill 2853,&nbsp;entitled the&nbsp;Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action. It's also referred to as the Conrad/Gregg&nbsp;Commission bill. By any name, it smells like rotting meat. A fellow blogger, Nance of Mature Landscaping, alerted me to this nasty little piece of work making its way to a Congressional vote.

Bill Content
The bill creates a bi-partisan task force to "to assure the long-term fiscal stability and economic security of the Federal Government of the United States, and to expand future prosperity and growth for all Americans." We all want fiscal stability, so what's wrong with this bill?

It assigns unheard of power to the task force that it creates. The 18 member task force is to review our existing fiscal imbalance, analyze the factors contributing to the imbalance, and propose solutions including legislation. Still doesn't sound like the sky is falli]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[CREDIT CARD COMPANIES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR GENEROSITY DURING HAITIAN RELIEF]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW If you have made a donation to the Haitian Relief effort by using your credit card-you might want to visit MoveOn.Org after reading this post.

The credit card companies were charging additional fees to handle relief funds for Haiti.&nbsp; When this information became public the companies tried to save face by temporarily suspending those charges.&nbsp; 

Move On has detailed information about this practice. A petition is available to sign if you want to see this type of profiteering stopped on charitable donations.
You can link here to read the information. (link)


Profiteering off the misfortunes of others is so predictable!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Concerns of All Humanity]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King&nbsp;was a man of words and his words&nbsp;reveal much that resonates with me. The above quotation is one of my favorites. It expresses what I believe to be at the core of hope for positive change. We are individuals and we are humankind. In the words of John Donne, "the death of any man diminishes me." The Christian Bible states the same concept in terms of being our brother's keeper. Other religions express the same concept of a responsibility to the whole of humanity that transcends individual needs and desires.

Dr. King conditions having a meaningful existence, what he calls "really living," on moving beyond viewing the world only through the lens of individual goals. To really live, we have to move beond a me centered life to a life in which we see ourselves as a part of the whole of humank]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear One can't help but see how far we've not come when listening to this, Dr. King's final sermon, "The Drum Major Instinct:" 



And using some of his own words as eulogy, his request WAS honored:



Those of you continuing to conflate the current resident of the Burning House with Dr. King, not only insult his life and work with revisionist history - but our memories of him as well.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL OF OUR BLESSINGS FLOW!

Wake Up Everybody
Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes
Featuring Teddy Pendergrass



Open Our Eyes
Earth Wind and Fire



Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away
Stevie Wonder



Inspirational Sunday was created by my on line twin over at Sojourner's Place. Please stop by and see what she has prepared to up lift your spirit.

Have a blessed week. May God bless your going out and your return to be safe.&nbsp; 

Keep the people in Haiti and throughout the world in prayer.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[DAMMIT TAVIS!! - Guess YOU don't want to be "Accountable" anymore]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Okay, because I'm always telling folk - "Don't step to me, unless you're willing to own your shit - and  if you're not, I WILL call you on it." - I have to own my own shit.  I was WRONG about Tavis Smiley for all these years.

There!  That feels good!

When I read this, Tavis Smiley Ends State of Black American Union Show, Continues Media Lockdown of Obama's Black Critics at Black Agenda Report,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[SPEAKING FROM THE HEART FOR A MOMENT]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I have been sitting here this a.m. trying to come to grips with the death and devastation that has occurred in Haiti. I just finished having a teary moment after visiting The Intersection of Madness and Reality.&nbsp; There is a photo on a post written by Rippa that broke my heart.&nbsp; Rippa is from Haiti originally.&nbsp; His post raises some very good points about being hopeful during a time of such devastation.

Ironically, I had selected Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticant as one of my audio book selections.&nbsp; Danticant is from Port Au Prince. She is a brilliant writer.&nbsp; If you are not familiar with her works-you have been depriving yourself of a great reading experience.&nbsp; I will begin listening to Krik? Krak! while playing games over on My Yearbook. I really like this particular social media site.&nbsp; You can earn what is known as lunch money to donate to different causes. Today I will be playing for Haitian Relief Funds to be donated.&nbsp; I can give thousands of]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I love a good&nbsp;printed smack down.&nbsp; A friend of mine over on Facebook shared a link that I want to share with you.

The Devil Writes Pat Robertson A Letter.&nbsp; 

Check it out!&nbsp; It hits the mark from the begining to the end.

(h/t to Mwalimu W. Kabaila)]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I have been chilling this p.m.&nbsp; I have just completed my first week at my new work site.&nbsp; It has been a time of adjusting to an entirely different learning community and culture.&nbsp; I am working with Somalian children.&nbsp; It has been a real challenge just to adjust to the change in my work hours and learning community.

But it is all good!&nbsp; I would rather be going to work that drawing unemployment. 

This is really a learning opportunity of a lifetime for me.&nbsp; While it is not the first time that I have worked with families from the Somalian community-it is the first time that I have had Somalians as employers.&nbsp; I have to say that I like the level of respect and communication that they provide at the workplace.

The philosophy that they are forwarding is one that I definitely think many of us should consider in the African American communities across this nation.&nbsp; They want their children to be well prepared to enter what seems to be a hostile learnin]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear He was the epitome of tall, dark and handsome for me back in the day - and Lawd have mercy, that voice!  I'm so, so proud to be a part of this generation of Black music.

Teddy Pendergrass, Philadelphia Soul Singer, Dead At 59









Yes, Teddy - it was definitely a joy to have you...Repos dans la paix.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot I wasn't surprised by Pat Roberson's comments on Haiti considering that similarly he had concurred with a statement that America was being judged for abortion and homosexuals during 9/11. But I won't bother talking about his character (because he speaks for himself) but rather his words because they reflect the sentiment of many Americans. This is a bit of a continuation of "American Christianity"I believe  that the story Roberson references about Haiti asking Satan to lead them out of slavery is myth that was another attempt to degrade Africans through religion, such as the tale that Blacks are cursed for being the descendants of Ham was designed to do. The idea has been propagated to discredit the Haitians for their achievement of being the only slaves successful of taking their land back through a revolt in history. Instead of giving the Haiti's the credit they deserve for their courage and determination, the West would rather believe that it was Satan who just gave the Haitians the]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I am currently on a television fast. I refuse to turn on the news to look at the devastation in Haiti. A picture says a thousand words.&nbsp; I have already seen enough destruction to know that the earthquake has forever altered Port au Prince.&nbsp; My heart felt sympathy goes out to the people who have survived this disaster. May those who have died rest in peace.


What bothers me is the response of Pat Robertson.&nbsp; He really makes me so angry when he takes on the role of knowing what is on the mind of God.&nbsp; Which seems to occur everytime there is a natural disaster involving people of color.

His latest remarks about the earthquake and why it was so devastating to the people of Haiti really shows how boxed in his mentality is.&nbsp; You can listen to his remarks here.

This statement is like a pro-slavery stance.&nbsp; Of course when you are not a member of a group of people who have been invaded and enslaved it is easy to see the other side as right.&nbsp; 

I am a Christ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What's the difference between Colored, Negro, Nigra, Nigger, Picaninny, Nigga, Black, African-American?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Answer:  Empowerment and Self-determination!  But white folk - so used to telling us who we are, labeling us like property for hundreds of years - just can't seem to wrap their brain around that concept. Here are a couple of them:



Despite the fact that there's a society-identified Black man in the Burning  White House (or maybe because of it?), old habits DO die hard don't they?  Especially]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW "Daughter"
Spoken Word Artist:Ruby Dee
Featuring Odetta singing "When I Was A Young Girl"]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Harry Reid Affair: Identifying the Elephant]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I think that we need some positive reinforcement.&nbsp; We have been dealing with the issues of "post racial" America for almost a year.&nbsp; It is time for a break in the madness!

One of the most powerful self-determination moves that we made as a group of people was to change our racial identity.&nbsp; We decided to make the transition from being Negro to Black people.

It was not easy to do this.&nbsp; There was a time if you called a colored person or a Negro a Black person-you had better be ready to throw down. Because those were considered to be fighting words.&nbsp; Even when the Black Power Movement began, it was not an identity that was readily embraced by everyone.&nbsp; Even now it is still not an identity that everyone appreciates having or being exposed to.

We&nbsp;know who we are.&nbsp;Just like every other racial grouping&nbsp;on the planet we have good folks and we have made contributions. We also have lost folks to bad habits and poor choices. That is just how life]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Scientist Are Working to Cure Our Hair]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot I recently read on Essence that an Australian scientist is working to develop a pill that will make curly hair straight. This isn't new, however. Five years ago, ABC reported that L'Oreal researchers are creating a pill that will do the same. Apparently, these pills could replace relaxers and flat irons one day, but as Tia Williams pointed out, as scientist isolate the gene that makes our curly, it may eventually be removed altogether.Our efforts to integrate diversity in our culture are being counteracted by this type of "progress." Why should we face the stigma our natural hair has when it is becoming increasingly easier just to chemically alter it in order to forget that we weren't born with what the world labels a genetic mistake. Instead of teaching society to embrace genetic diversity, we will jump at the chance to consume a product that brings us closer to the European standard. To make matters worse, as more of us transform ourselves to look European,  we support the fear and r]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I have raised the issue of Human Trafficking several different times on MBEV.&nbsp; There is an article on Time.com that I want to share with you.&nbsp; 

The New Slave Trade In South Africa and The Campaign to Stop It by E. Benjamin Skinner

For a South African victim of human trafficking, this was the endgame. On a freezing night last July, Sindiswa, 17, lay curled in a fetal position in bed No. 7 of a state-run hospice in central Bloemfontein. Well-used fly strips hung between fluorescent lights, pale blue paint flaked off the walls, and fresh blood stained her sheets, the rusty bedpost and the linoleum floor. Sindiswa had full-blown AIDS and tuberculosis, and she was three months pregnant. Sweat poured from her forehead as she whispered her story through parched lips covered with sores. A few blocks away, the roars of rugby fans erupted from Free State Stadium. In June the roars will be from fans of the World Cup. 

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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I went to the library this afternoon. Which is a usual part of my weekend ritual.&nbsp; This is one of my favorite activities.&nbsp; I live close enough to walk to the branch in my community. I bundled up and headed out.&nbsp; It is a pretty decent winter day here. I appreciate getting a breath of fresh air.

It was pretty busy when I arrived.&nbsp; The Metro is the only branch that is opened on Sundays now.&nbsp; Thanks to the recent budget cuts the other branches that were also opened on Sunday&nbsp;have to&nbsp; remained closed.&nbsp; 

While I am upstairs going through the music stacks, I hear the sound of ghetto loudness.&nbsp;You know what I am describing. That extra loud tone and smack talking conversation that goes on when individuals have connected in the wrong way. &nbsp;I know without moving from where I am standing that there is an argument going on down on the first floor.&nbsp; I don't move to see what is going on because I figure that it will be over in a matter of momen]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I was supposed to begin my new job on Thursday. That certainly was my plan.&nbsp; At least it was until I hit a snag.
Ohio Child Care Licensing laws require that all staff members have a physical.&nbsp; Which is fine with me and I certainly understand why this mandated. What I did not know is how the laws have changed regarding this requirement.

We now have to provide a copy of our shot records. Like all laws there is an exemption clause written in. People born after 1956 have to provide total information about their shots. People born before that year do not have to provide specific information. But this is not how the law is interpreted by providers and professional clearing houses.

I don't have to provide information about my measles vaccination. Why? Because of the year that I was born in. It seems that if you've had the measles or the vaccination then it is okay. I took the shots and also drank Sabin Vaccines.&nbsp;The taste is almost as bad as a shot. I wanted to smack someone]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW Now that my professional life is settling down, I can re-focus my energies on posting on the subject of children and families.

I began a new blog this week. It is titled Early Childhood Educator.&nbsp; I plan to document the work that I am going to do with the children and their families at my new site. 

While I was searching for sites to add to my sidebar, I discovered an organization that I was not aware existed. The National Institute for Black Child Development. (NIBCD)&nbsp; This was like an oasis in the desert.&nbsp; There are other organizations that deal with the education and well-being of all children.&nbsp; NIBCD focuses in on our children and their families.

I feel very strongly that we have to be united in the effort to see that our children receive all that they need to be successful.&nbsp; That is not limited to what is taught in a classroom. Parents are always the first teachers in a child's world.&nbsp; I believe in utilizing all available resources to help in the]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I am having my own version of OSF this week.&nbsp; My theme is Old School Radio Jams.

While we were out today I listened to the radio. The party was on!&nbsp; 

This is just a small sampling of what I was feeling as we rolled down the highway.

Patrice Rushen:Haven't You Heard




Slave:Watching You


Janet Jackson:That's The Way Love Goes



I could continue my list cause 98.9 was definitely jammin!
I just wanted to share a little bit of what we were rocking to on a snowy Friday afternoon.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Health Care Reform: What's In It For Me?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW PETA's use of First Lady's image in an advertisement angers White House

It looks like PETA and The First Lady are locking horns over the use of her image in their recent ad campaign.

According to Yahoo! News:The ad in question features the image of the first lady alongside the images of Oprah Winfrey, Tyra Banks, and Carrie Underwood underneath the slogan, "Fur-free and fabulous!" The ads, which PETA says features "a bevy of the smartest, most stylish, and most influential women in America," are being plastered all over the Washington D.C. Metro mass transit system, in addition to appearing in various magazines and websites.



While Winfrey, Banks and Underwood are all on record as publicly endorsing PETA's anti-fur efforts, first lady Michelle Obama cannot endorse special interest groups such as PETA. Thus, the White House is mildly perturbed by the use of the first lady's image in the campaign.

"We did not consent to this," a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama said yesterday.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Negritude in America Tarzan met Jane, a US citizen, while studying entomology at Zamunda University in Bugstown New Jersey. They fell in love while dissecting insects and never spent a day apart since. They eventually tied the knot in a little chapel on the Arkansas border and it was time to play house. Tarzan now needed to adjust his status in order to be able to seek full time employment and provide for his family. In order to sponsor a family member’s immigration, a US citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident must sign a contractually binding Affidavit of Support from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Sponsors promise to provide basic support to immigrants they sponsor at 125 percent of the US poverty level. Without undertaking this obligation, USCIS will not grant Permanent Resident status (green card) to the foreign spouse. After a long fight in divorce court and a final verdict from the judge, Tarzan despite the financial support from Jane is unabl]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW "White Nationalism"
Spoken Word Artist:Autumn Ashante
 


Autumn wrote this poem when she was seven years old.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I have some good news to share! I have a new job and I will begin working again on&nbsp; Thursday.&nbsp; It is a better setting and an upgrade from my previous position. Thanks to everyone who shared encouragement! I really appreciate it.

I came home and did some reading on the inter-net.&nbsp; There were a few stories that caught my eye.

A Civil Rights Era icon is on his way to prison.&nbsp; Bobby De Laughter is the former Mississippi proscetuor who gained national fame by successful conviciting Brian De La Beckwith. De La Beckwith is the man who murdered Medgar Evers.&nbsp; (source)

An Obama effigy was discovered hanging in Plains, Georgia. The hometown of former POTUS Jimmy Carter. Mark this one as another blow to the myth of "post racial" America.
(source)&nbsp; In fact, the effigy was hung on a sign that says, "Plains, Georgia Home of the 39th President Jimmy Carter"
(source)

Once again an act of Domestic Terrorism has occurred. This time in Las Vegas, Nevada.&nbsp; A gunman w]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW In January of 2008, one of the stories that I posted about was a shooting death of an unarmed&nbsp;mother in Lima, Ohio.&nbsp; Tarika Wilson was shot and killed while walking down the stairs during a drug raid on her home. At the time of the shooting Tarika was carrying her one year old son who was also shot by the officer.&nbsp; His injuries resulted in an amputation of his finger. (link to the Toledo Blade)

On January 1, 2010 it is being reported that the family of Tarika Wilson has been awarded a $2.5M in a wrongful death settlement.&nbsp; (WTOL11)]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW Congratulations to The Ohio State Buckeyes! 

The Ohio State Buckeyes won the Rose Bowl today. 
Oregon played a fierce game and we have much respect for your competitve spirit!

But, I am a member of The Buckeye Nation and we spell football 

O-H-I-O!]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW The United States Postal Service has announced that there will two stamps honoring The Negro Baseball League. 

According to Baseball Digest.
The Negro Leagues Baseball stamps, to be issued in June, pay tribute to the all-black professional baseball leagues that operated from 1920 to about 1960. Drawing some of the most remarkable athletes ever to play the sport, including Satchel Page&nbsp;and Josh Gibson, the Negro leagues galvanized African-American communities across the country, challenged racist notions of athletic superiority, and ultimately sparked the integration of American sports.




The Negro Leagues Baseball stamps pay tribute to the all-black professional baseball leagues that operated from 1920 to about 1960. The two 44-cent stamps comprise one scene painted by Kadir Nelson. (source)
(h/t to Janet over the Hinterland Gazette)]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I publish three blogs on Blogger. The other two are entirely different than MBEV. The Renaissance Gallery features nothing but videos on the subject of African American History (Our Story). The Art of Afro Zen Gardening is my outlet during gardening season and the space where I do some personal musings and spiritual writings.

I just posted a recommendation about a blog&nbsp;on TAAZG, (how's that for shortening a name?) that I wanted to share here.

AfriClassical is a blog that I've been following for about a month. I discovered while doing some research on African Americans in the field of Classical Music.&nbsp; It is definitely all that, in my opinion.&nbsp; It is a treat to read and believe me, you will learn some historical facts that are worth knowing.

It is well written and informative.&nbsp; I think that it is definitely a blog worth visiting. Even if you don't like classical music, that does not mean that you should not become familiar with the subject matter. I think that yo]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW Photo Image by Andrew Scrivani New York Times

I love Collard Greens!&nbsp; Seriously! They are number one on my vegetable list. &nbsp; I have been known to prepare a pot for my family and eat them all before they even get one forkful.&nbsp; I like my greens with tomatoes, onions, a little salt and pepper and some vinegar. Put some corn bread on the side and it is on! 

The New York Times has a recipe posted that caught my eye. Stuffed Collard Greens.&nbsp; The contents of this dish is supposed to bring good luck during the year.&nbsp; 

In our culture Black Eyed Peas is one of those foods that we are supposed to eat for luck.&nbsp; I'm tell you that it ain't gonna happen at my house.&nbsp; I do not like Black Eyed Peas at all. I have tried different recipes and no matter what they are prepared with-they just do not taste that good to me. I do eat a tablespoon full during Thanksgiving. It is to honor the ancestors bitter times during Middle Passage and slavery. 

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