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        <title><![CDATA[Bigotry Isn't Only a Southern Brew]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life I'm a native North Carolinian and my state turned to the dark side this past Tuesday, voting to amend or state constitution to prohibit gay marriage, indeed any type of union other than a so-called traditional&nbsp;marriage&nbsp;between a man and a woman. I don't know if that means in the tradition of Kim Kardashian or if those who voted for the amendment have something a bit bit longer in mind before it counts as a marriage.

I voted against the amendment as did all the people with whom I'm still speaking. I have no patience with&nbsp;bigotry&nbsp;of any sort and there is no rational basis for such beliefs. The I'm&nbsp;entitled&nbsp;to my opinion" argument doesn't fly with me. I'm entitled to discontinue all&nbsp;association&nbsp;with you if you choose to be a bigot.

However it is not my intent to rant about bigotry in this post.&nbsp;

I am disturbed at a trend that I've spotted among quite a few non-southern folks to declare this anti-gay marriage bigotry to be a southern problem.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The President and Gay Marriage]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life After hearing the president's announcement of his personal support of &nbsp;same-sex marriage, I just wanted to enjoy the president's positive statement. I figured that there would be affirmation and support for the president among progressives. Was I wrong!

PZ Myers post over at Pharyngula is an accurate reflection of the critiscism that the president is reaping from some progressives and some members of the LGBT community who feel that the president's statement was weak and insignificant. Myers writes:
That’s the best we’ve got from Obama? Seriously? It’s taken him this long to “evolve” to the point where he can take a personal (not even a political) stand on civil rights?&nbsp;What do people expect from this president? He has gone further than any president has before.&nbsp;What is there to be skeptical about? This was not a clever campaign move designed to garner votes. In taking this position he stands to lose some Black and Latino votes, two groups with numbers signifi]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[2012 FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW It is no secret that African Americans are still ranking high in the national unemployment statistics.  Center for American Progress April Economic Snapshot cited: 

 The African American unemployment rate stayed way above the national average at 14 percent, the Hispanic unemployment rate was at 10.3, and the white unemployment rate was at 7.3 percent. Youth unemployment stood at a high]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I Just Want To Be Free!!!!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Tell the truth. Shame the devil. I have been hiding behind weaves and braids for six years (!?! I can't believe it's been that long). There was a big chop in January of 2011 so I have mid-length natural hair. If pressed, my hair would be to my shoulders. Frankly, I'm tired of the hiding. I want to come out of the hair closet and start wearing my own hair-no weaves, braids, straightening combs, etc. I want to finally enjoy&nbsp;the head of hair God blessed me with.&nbsp;I am fearful of having to learn my hair because (tell the truth) there is a learning curve when going for-real, for-real natural when trying to get natural black hair, through the right processes and products,&nbsp;to be obedient. But enough is enough. Once these individuals come out within the next couple of weeks, it's on. I say that now (eye roll)...but I'll keep you posted.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Living While Black]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life It is a sensational story. An unarmed, black 17-year-old male is shot while walking in a residential neighborhood in which he was visiting while coming back from the store with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. The only thing that we are certain of is that the man who shot him thought that he looked suspicious,and that the man who shot him says that it was self defense.&nbsp;

The basic problem that I have is the willingness of so many to accept George Zimmerman's account of events as fact. Without the public outcry of the black community and some whites there were no plans to charge him with anything. This case should have always been headed for trial to determine the facts. You cannot kill someone and say it was self defense without offering facts to support your claim. That's what is meant by an affirmative defense. Yes, I killed someone but I had good cause.

There is nothing cut and dried about Zimmerman's claim of self defense. There still has not been a medical report con]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Zimmerman finally in an orange jumpsuit]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear George Zimmerman being charged with murder in Trayvon Martin case:

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Amid furious public pressure to make an arrest in the Trayvon Martin slaying, the special prosecutor on the case went for the maximum Wednesday, bringing a second-degree murder charge against the neighborhood watch captain who shot the unarmed black teenager.

George Zimmerman, 28, was jailed in Sanford - the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Problem with White Guilt]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life I recently read an article by Mark Judge in The Daily Caller entitled, The end of my white guilt. Mr. Judge recounts how the theft of his bike on Good Friday made him let go of white guilt. Judge concludes that black people use "...the moral authority of past generations for their own personal gain and self-aggrandizement." But his grand conclusion is that black pain is no different than white pain, which is the fall back position of the "but I'm not a racist" crowd. We're all alike and it's black people who insist on holding on to the past.&nbsp;

It's a convenient position. It allows white people to take no responsibility for current discriminatory laws and policies and to blissfully attribute racism to the willingness of black people to play the race card. Of course, they never consider that black people play the cards but white people deal the deck. When we insist that racism is still a factor in the social, political, ad economic structure of this country, they shake their heads i]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

How politically expe-e-edient of him!  (:rolls eyes:)

I'm sure the faithful will be swooning.  Hell, if this NYT piece and the comments here so far are any indication - it's already begun. {smdh}

Now that the guys over there on the left, have been laid down with his whole, "If I had a son.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Politics of the Hoodie and How Black Men Have Tarnished Their Image]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow We all know about the Trayvon Martin case. Trayvon Martin was headed home, was assumed guilty of being in the wrong neighborhood and up to no good, was approached by Zimmerman. There are disputes as to whether or not their was a fight or who prompted the fight but it all ended in the death of a 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Our deepest sympathies go out to the parents.On a&nbsp;woman of any color, a hoodie&nbsp;is used for warmth. It symbolizes sthat the weather is a bit nippy and one is trying to protect themselves from the elements. I believe this holds true for non-black men as well. However, a hoodie on a Black boy/man can symbolize being a part of a thuggish, dangerous,&nbsp;questionale&nbsp;lifestyle. Where does this stereotype come from? The Hip-Hop Culture. Black&nbsp;men already have a jacked up collective image but&nbsp;when a young one, like Martin, dons a hoodie particularly with a certain demeanor, people get suspicious. Think I'm lying? Ask Mark Zimmerman.&nbsp;Ask yourself]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Augusta Masters: Some Traditions Need to be Buried]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life The Augusta National Golf Club's no women allowed policy has been in the headlines for the last couple of days. The golf club's membership is populated by Spanky and Alfalfa of Our Gang fame, who would on occasion declare that their clubhouse was off limits--no girls allowed!

Since it's inception in 1933, Augusta hasn't allowed women to become members and just began allowing black males to wear the hallowed green jacket in 1990. The headlines pose the same question, Masters Controversy: Should Augusta Golf Club Admit Its First Female Member?&nbsp;Why now? Well, in addition to its tradition of not admitting women, Augusta also traditionally bestows membership on the CEOs of the Masters' three corporate sponsors. One of those sponsors is IBM, and its CEO is a woman, Ginni Rometty.

Augusta is confronted with a quandry as to which tradition to follow, the one that discriminates and treats women as second class citizens or the one that bestows a green jacket on the CEOs of the corporate s]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[April 4, 1968 - more than an assassination of the man]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Today marks the 44th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, and in ways totally antithetical to those things for which he fought and died, we - with increasing gullibility and neediness - continue to accept the absolute, all-about-power wretchedness of the euro-centric powers-that-be.  Yeah, they knew exactly what they were doing when they killed him.

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        <title><![CDATA[Political Cartoons That Moved Me]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I love political cartoons. i often get my fix from http://www.cagle.com/. Here are two that stung me. RIP Trayvon RIP Trayvon]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not an April Fool's joke]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear I know, I know - I said I'd try to post less about politics in general, and the Changeling in particular (especially since the country continues its descent into a political and moral vacuum with this two-party system of only a choice between hell and more hell - a vacuum from which I can see no signs of retreat in the near future) but, it's important to be aware that a Black face in the White]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear ...they cleaned him up and fixed his nose in the cruiser, on the way to jail?  {smdh}

(Video courtesy of ABC News, via Your Black World - "George Zimmerman Video Shows He Had No Cuts and Bruises.").



My Grandmama used to always say, "Unjust don't prosper!" - we shall see...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Suspect Was Black and Looked Suspicious]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life Trayvon Martin was 17. On February 26, he walked to the store and then headed back home  with his Skittles and a can of ice tea. George Zimmerman, captain of the neighborhood watch, (an unofficial group as it was not properly registered), followed Martin,  declaring to the 911 operator, "This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something."&nbsp;

Zimmerman never said what there was about Trayvon Martin that made him deem Trayvon to look suspicious. The operator told Zimmerman that there was no need for him to continue to follow Martin as law enforcement was being dispatched to check out the suspicious looking person.&nbsp;

We know that Trayvon was aware of Zimmerman following him because he told a female friend with whom e was chatting on the phone that there was a guy following him. At some point, Zimmerman and Martin interacted. Trayvon Martin, 6' 4" tall and 140 pounds, died from a gunshot wound inflicted by Zimmerman,who said that he killed Martin in self-defens]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ruminating on Trayvon, racism, American imperialism - and a funny...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear I'm with Field on this one:  Miami Heat, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade don hoodies for Trayvon Martin.  It immediately reminded me of two other athletes standing up for something on a much larger scale (IMHO, the comment thread on the Heat story shows that - like the reasons for all of these athletes making a statement - the more things change, the more they stay the same).

A meaningful development]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[KKK in South Carolina feeling a little neglected?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear My cousin just forwarded this to me - and I just have to think that the pointy-hatted, sheet-wearers are feeling just a little put-off by all the publicity this young Black man's death is garnering.

Do pause at the 1:25 click to read the flier. {SMDH}]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Asabanga, over at AfroSpear  - tells it like it is...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear I know this blog is already in my blog list in the side panel, but just in case you fail to click on its newest post, I have sought (and received) permission to cross-post it because - it is so damned on-point family!  Enjoy and ingest!


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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Should Call Trayvon Martin’s Parents

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Well, I was raised in the church and so often you learn about spiritual gifts. One of the spiritual gifts mentioned in Romans 12:6-8 is the gift of giving. I never thought that I had this gift because we were always&nbsp;broke or I was paying bills, paying off debt, or just not being a good steward with what God blessed me with. I would always have an earnest desire to give people&nbsp;money to help them out but I thought I couldn't afford it at the time. As I mentioned in my last post, I got a raise. Yay! And regardless of my&nbsp;bill paying, debt paying outlook, I'm&nbsp;walking in my gift of giving. It is a legitimate gift. I not only want to get rich&nbsp;because ...who doesn't but also to be a blessing to people. Poverty is a curse and as much as you say you love people, it's nothing like putting some much needed cash in someone's hand. So I've been walking in my gift and loving it. I'm in a West Coast City but I've been sending checks back home to people who have sowed into my l]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[ZIMMERMAN 2012: THE CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE FOR TRAYVONN MARTIN]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW                      Zimmerman 2012!

The man in the photograph is George Michael Zimmerman.

He is a 28 year old male who resides in Sanford, Florida.

Zimmerman is currently free after shooting and killing Trayvonn Martin a 17 year old African American teen on February 26, 2012 as he walked home from purchasing snacks from a local neighborhood store.

The Sanford Police Department]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I skidaddled out of the City of Brotherly&nbsp;Love to the City by the Bay (or near it)&nbsp;and I am as homesick as ever. Lesson #1: Don't move 3000 miles away....and then realize how important your family is.Lesson #2: God is my refuuge and my strength. This raise/move was everything I&nbsp;prayed for&nbsp;but once I got it....not so much. God has been holding my tight clenched, tear soaked hand through the whole process. I know a few a of you may not be religious but believe me when&nbsp;I tell You, I cannot live without Him. Lesson #3: God can handle the logistics. He has coordinated everything from my living arrangements to where my cubicle is placed all to my benefit. Lesson #4: Grow up. Anyone who has ever moved by themselves to a new city knows this first hand. You are forced to grow up very quickly. Well, I'm doing it kicking and screaming. Lesson #5: A raise is a beautiful thing. Thank You Jesus.Lesson #6: Thank God&nbsp;I live in the age of modern technology. What did peopol]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Others have covered the murder of this child (here, here and most simply - here) wa-a-ay better than I possibly could right now because quite frankly, I am just speechless - especially after the FINAL release of the 911 tapes:



WTH??!!



Again - WTH??!!

And I really believe that as long as Zimmerman stays free - this child, will be scared, as well as possibly, forever- scarred, as he sits in]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Dating....I want to get married but I hate dating. With me, there has always been something. I meet great guys but...there's always something wrong-weird attitude, too short, too many children (more than zero), sexual incompatibility, and the list goes on. I understand that no one's perfect but....come on.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life Somewhere There Is Happily Ever After
I say:Consider this, somewhere Guinevere is faithful to Arthur
He says:You speak in riddles.&nbsp; Be clear.Say what you mean.
I tell you what I mean,I’ve been telling you for years…
Somewhere Guinevere resists,folds her passions neatly awayamid muslin cloth and scarves of lace.
Somewhere the round table still stands intact,as she and Arthur sit sipping tea,holding hands by firelight,while Lancelot hides his broken heartchasing dragons through the night.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear "When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land.  They said, 'Let us pray.'  We closed our eyes.  When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land."
Jomo KenyattaNow I've never been to Uganda, and I won't sit here and tell you that I know anymore about it than those Americans who have.  But I have been to Africa - a few times.  And based solely on what]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear I've really been trying not to write about this circus we call "politics" in this country.  But given the Changeling's recent, begging "...when the chips are down, I  have Israel’s back" speech to AIPAC, I thought I'd jump back in for a minute, turning back to the Master Teacher, Dr. John Henrik Clarke to share some history about the "Jews" and their less-than-reciprocal behavior toward Black]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear "I'm just Black in America.I'm not Afro-American,just a passive Americanmaking believe I'm better thanwhat we've been, what we've been."
As the Oscars loomed yesterday (I did not watch), this song just kept running through my head because it speaks volumes about how we still see ourselves having "to be and behave" in this country - even in 2012.  As I've said before - some of our young people ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life Earlier this week, an Alaskan citizen filed a lawsuit challenging President Obama's legitimacy as a presidential candidate. Just read an article at Addicting Info about the lawsuit, Lawsuit Claims Obama Can't Be President Because He's Black. Seriously.&nbsp;

Gordon Warren Epperly (bet you thought it was Sarah Palin) alleges in his complaint that Negroes and Mulattoes are not citizens, natural born or otherwise, and therefore Obama cannot legally be on the presidential ballot. 

A little bit of knowledge leads to people making complete jackasses of themselves. The crux of this lawsuit is Epperly declares that the Negro race and the Mulatto race (and presumably anyone with any black ancestry) were not citizens and had no rights of citizenship until the adoption of the 14th amendment in 1868.&nbsp;

That's accurate. In 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sanford that anyone with any African ancestry was not a citizen and had no rights of citizenship. However, the]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear My Sister just tapped me on the shoulder and said - "Add this!"  So I did:



Y'all too funny!!  Don't be scared!

All she said was, "I KNOW they thought this song was for HIM - but really - it was for US!"]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[An "NAACP Image Awards" nod and another "Homegoing"  - "Priscilla's Story"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Now I'll be the first to tell you - I've got little or nothing for the NAACP.  They've been such a great disappointment to me in so many ways - particularly since the selection of the Changeling.  However, as I sat watching the "NAACP Image Awards" last night, I was so glad I'd not totally written them off.

I watched, because I thought there'd be a better tribute to Whitney Houston than that]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This young woman just continues to blow me away!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Abagond's recent post about James W. Loewen inspired my posting this wonderful lecture.  Enjoy, but most of all - listen, carefully:]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW Watch Slavery by Another Name Clip on PBS. See more from Slavery by Another Name.
Slavery By Another Name is a documentary film that focuses on what happened to Black people at the end of the Civil War.  It is definitely a myth breaker!  

This film exposes a reality in American History that has not been included openly in the national story.  Slavery did not end with the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Happy Valentine's Day (Sort of)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life (I'm tired of politics. It's a temporary fatigue; I can't stay out of the fray for long, but today I'm taking a break.)

It's Valentine's Day, the holiday that divides the haves from the have-nots--those with Valentines and those without. &nbsp;The haves get chocolate and roses; I've heard rumor that some even get precious stones. The have-nots get a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, which we buy for ourselves. However, there is an up side--we don't have to share it with anyone.

I've had a valentine or two but lately I've hit a dry spell; you might call it a drought. &nbsp;However, I don't think that I'm alone.

I listen to a lot of music. Sarah, my dear friend of more than 30 years, just told me when we were on vacation a few years ago that I sang to myself a lot. I was totally unaware of this. She didn't say if it was annoying or not. &nbsp;I'm digressing.

One thing that I've noticed is that there are far more sad love songs than happy love songs. Think about it, how many songs do]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear                                         (1963 - 2012)﻿]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[8,000 ALLEGED VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN MILWAUKEE]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I am going to share a story that has outraged me as a person.  It is a story about a group of Catholic employees in Milwaukee who are accused of a major crime.  I read this following headline yesterday afternoon:




8,000 New Catholic Child Sex Abuse Allegations Revealed in Milwaukee Archdiocese





This information was revealed during a bankruptcy hearing for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW Michael Morgan (September, 1957)

Musical Director Oakland East Bay Symphony


Michael Morgan was born in Washington, DC, where he 
attended public schools and began conducting at the  age of 12. While a student 
at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, he spent a summer at the Berkshire 
Music Center at Tanglewood, studying with Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa. It 
was during this summer]]></description>
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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[Race, Gingrich, and South Carolina]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life I love living in the south--the mild winters, the summer heat, magnolia trees with those impossibly large white blooms nestled among glossy green leaves. I like iced tea, collard greens, and watermelon. I can make a sweet potato pie that will make you forget that there is such a thing as a pumpkin. I'm southern to the core and while I love my southern heritage, I also know that it includes a dark side, a little problem that has to do with race.

Please don't misunderstand, I know that race is not an issue only in the South. I've seen enough manifestations of racial prejudice in my lifetime to be certain that it is not limited by geography. The South just has a peculiar love/hate affair with its perceptions about race. The white guy with a confederate flag on his bumper and who would disown any child of his that dated outside of his race will stop to help a lone black woman standing by the road next to her broken down car.

This dichotomy of feelings about race is what fuels someone lik]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life A Black Child Remembers Dr. King
by Sheria Reid

He came bearing dreams,
a drum major for truth,
peeling back layers to reveal
the beauty of our blackness.

Mama says I can't go to Selma,
so I find it on a map,
a small dot that may as well be in Timbuktu.
Montgomery is out of the question.&nbsp;

I march around the back yard
singing "We Shall Overcome,"
imagining that I feel the heat rising&nbsp;
from black pavement
and the hoses washing me down.
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We shall overcome someday...

Let's play freedom march!
Slyly I entice my younger brother and sister.
You can lead the march!
But my legs are longer.

I follow him
marching ever onward,
a dark skin black child
reaching for the dream,
believing deep in my heart
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;we shall overcome
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;we shall overcome
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;we shall overcome someday...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life "When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." (generally attributed to Sinclair Lewis)

I grew up in eastern North Carolina. My immediate family converted to Catholicism when I was seven. Some of our relatives were convinced that we were going to hell for worshiping statues, praying to the Virgin Mary, and not being baptized in the name of Jesus only. In other words, I grew up with crazy fundamentalists in my family. However, I never feared their beliefs. They talked a lot but didn't appear to pose a threat to others who did not believe as they did.  

But today I came across an organization known as the &nbsp;The Liberty Counsel and their stated goal is Restoring the Culture by Advancing Religious Freedom, the Sanctity of Human Life and the Family.

Doesn't sound so scary in and of itself, but the Liberty Counsel doesn't literally mean freedom to believe or not believe as you wish. The Counsel believes that it is its mission to advance our freedom]]></description>
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        <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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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life In a comment to a recent post by a friend of a video interview of journalist and author Chris Hedges, I offered my observation that "Entities and systems are rarely good or evil."

Hedges, who identifies himself as a socialist, is a harsh critic of what he perceives to be the betrayal of America by the liberal Left. Hedges chastises the Left for failing to adhere to its own ethical beliefs and work towards achieving meaningful and radical change to restructure the social and economic infrastructure of America so as to perpetrate true equality and access to resources for all Americans.

I agree with Hedges that liberalism hasn't exactly made radical changes in America but I don't view the Left as a sellout, in cahoots with corporate America to trample on the heads of the little people. Hedges believes in absolutes; he is quick to classify institutions, businesses, and economic systems as evil.

I found that to be an oversimplification; hence my observation that entities and systems are]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW It's January 1, 2012.

I hope that you and your loved ones are enjoying the first day of this year.

Everybody needs to take time during the week to just slow down for a moment of reflection, rest and relaxation. It is not written anywhere that Americans will be on the go 24/7/365.  

I can bear honest witness to the fact that setting up 'me time' is the best thing you can do for yourself. I use]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["A Homegoing": Part 5b - The Center]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear Posted over at The Intersection of Madness & Reality last week, the following video seemed a perfect segue into this, the last part of "A Homegoing."  If you've not yet seen it, please take a moment to watch - and carefully listen:



This beautiful young sister definitely spoke to my own, "single story" existence, growing up Black in America (my collection of Nancy Drew books is still boxed up -]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Merry Christmas Everybody...]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The cycle of internalized racism continues]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Black Bot Each time I hear someone complain, "Well, black people say the N-word. Why can't I say the N-word too?" It always sounds to me like, "You&nbsp;engage&nbsp;in self-harm. Why can't I cut you too?" Unfortunately not enough of my fellow AAs hear this as well. Instead, too many of us view the N-word as some sort of&nbsp;privileged that we can say simply because we are black. In any case, what caused me to think about this today was a quite shocking episode of&nbsp;America's Supernanny, which you can watch in full here. The subjects of the episode are an family of 10 kids (with two more on the way), the Carzells. Needless to say, they are out of control, which is rather remarkable in itself. However, their behavior does not compare to the racism that quickly spews from the children's mouth toward their 9 year-old sister&nbsp;Nevada. (This conversation starts at 7:30)"That girl got something going on with her skin," Desja says, "She is dark!" All Nevada's sisters all begin to laugh at her. "Y]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A "Homegoing" - Part 5a:  Neocolonialism and Juffureh]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear I'd initially included "neo-colonialism" in the title for this piece but, with all the current examples of European and American, wink-and-a-nod R2P policies (encompassing regime change, to include out and out murder - and bragging about it {smdh}); the continued land-grabbing in Africa; and The shadow war in Syria (all which have transpired since Part 4!), I figured belaboring that point ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Our nation is filled with broken people. Anti-Depressants and sleeping pills are on the rise. Struggle and pain crosses racial, socioeconomic, and gender lines. Sadly, I did not know this. I mean I knew it but I didn't believe that white families could have as much crap going on in their families as Black families do. I didn't think Asian people could be as cruel and abusive to each other as Black people. I mean everybody knows Black people are jacked up. I thought we were some type of anomaly.&nbsp;That we were&nbsp;'cursed'.&nbsp; I thought all white women felt loved and complete and valued. I thought all Asian women felt valued. I thought all White men were warm and caring and responsive. I thought everybody else but Black children had good dads and were&nbsp;born into a happy&nbsp;middle class existence. I thought everyone else had strong marriages and produced highly accomplished, respectful children. That Black women&nbsp;must've&nbsp;done something terribly wrong. As I began rea]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let's Be Clear "World AIDS Day: Doctor who first ID'd the disease chats with readers"﻿]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[WORLD AIDS DAY 3011: GETTING TO ZERO]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW WORLD AIDS DAY 2011
Getting to Zero






Today is World AIDS Day. A time when the global community works to educate and advocate for people with HIV/AIDS.  The Getting to Zero Campaign runs until 2015.  The goal is to have Zero Deaths Due to AIDS.  

There are 10 Goals for 2015


Sexual transmission of HIV reduced by half, including among young people,men who have sex with men and]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[War and Efficiency: Unintended Consequences?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life A Facebook friend posted a link to a news story about the use of drones (unmanned aircraft) in warfare, War By Remote Control: Drones Make It Easy.

Warfare used to be a bloody, up close affair. Men killed other men. Death was instantaneous for many and serious wounds eventually resulted in death for most others.&nbsp;

Now, war is too much like a video game. We have improved our methods of killing; invented weapons that can do maximum damage to other human beings from a great physical distance and left us able to distance ourselves emotionally from an enemy that is a blip on a screen. We can kill people whose faces we never see; we no longer have to wait until we see the whites of their eyes to fire on them. There is no sense of connection that the enemy breathes, loves, and lives just as we do, nothing to make us question war itself. &nbsp;We've made it so much easier to kill and so much easier to wash our hands of that killing. Ironic that in a nation that prides itself on being&nbs]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life A friend on Facebook, let's call him Mr. Smith, stated that he doesn't "...support paying for other kids schooling..." as he has no kids.

I like Mr. Smith, but he is so wrong. Naturally, I decided to persuade him of his error in thought. It didn't work, but I put up a hell of a persuasive argument.

An educated populace benefits the growth of the society. We pay taxes to maintain the whole of society. No taxes, then no roads, law enforcement, traffic signals, public buildings, fire departments--the list is lengthy. We don't get to choose where our taxes are spent. I've never been arrested nor a victim of a crime, if I follow Mr. Smith's line of thought, I should not have to support law enforcement. If one lives in society then one must support the functioning of that society. Not wanting your taxes to support education because you don't have any children is a libertarian notion whether one likes that label or not. Btw, I don't have any children either.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I snatched this poster from one of my Facebook friends. It has a message that is worth repeating daily. This is a message that every adult in every community should mantra daily. 

In my line of work it is mandated by law that suspected abuse be reported.&nbsp; Failure to do so can result in a $10,000 fine and possibly six months of imprisonment.&nbsp; I believe that any reasonable minded adult should not need these two incentives to report when a child is being mistreated. 

I have watched the Penn State Sexual Abuse Scandal unfold and it has been difficult not to be angry over what happened to the young males involved. I have a major disdain for pedophiles. 

Right now, the media is focused on the adult males involved in this situation. But what about the victims?&nbsp; Is there anything being done to provide them with the comfort that they need at a time such as this?

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow Plenty...as it does about everything else.For all those who are naturally skinny or who are one of the very few who lost weight by sheer will power and preach the gospel of 'just diet and exercise', I would hasten to say to you that if it was as easy as diet an exercise, America would be the skinniest country in the world. Obviously there is more at play. If we look briefly we will find examples about how food are directly related to our financial situation, emotions, and decision making abilities. I'm still wrapping my head around some of these examples so if I don't give a little blurb about it I just want to throw them out for you to consider. Genesis1) Genesis 3: God gave them many trees to eat from- Abundance of Food is a symbol of wealth and power. We also see this in the 23rd Psalm. 'Thou will make a banqueting table in the presence of thine enemies'. 2)The first commandment with a warning was one connected to food."Thou can eat from any tree in the garden except the Tree of Goo]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling
My visit to the twilight zone started with a story in the Arts section of the Washington Post. A cleaning woman in Germany did a really good job scrubbing the discoloration off a rubber trough. However, there was a slight problem. The rubber trough was a part of a modern sculpture entitled "When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling." The sculpture, by deceased artist Martin Kippenberger, was worth $1.1 million. A reasonable price, after all the artist is dead. The dirt that she worked so hard to remove was actually a patina that had been carefully applied by hand.

I admit that I'm not bowled over by a lot of contemporary art. I can see why the cleaning woman thought that perhaps the trough was just an item needing cleaning. I have an old rubber pan that I use to store gardening hand tools. I'm thinking that I should paint it, surround it with a wooden frame, and offer it to the Guggenheim.

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        <title><![CDATA[BLOG BLAST FOR PEACE 2011]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW MBEV is a willing participant in the Blog Blast for Peace 2011!
You can visit Blog Blast for Peace and check out the international&nbsp;outpouring. Take time to look at the globes from around the world. Find out the backstory about this effort and I am sure that Mimi Lennox would not mind if you decided to join the effort!
Deuces Up to Everybody!]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Let Love and Learning Overflow I used to love this song ...until I read the lyrics.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The Examined Life Warning: I'm in a bad mood. I've been reading comments on a friend's blog (The Rant by Tom Degan) and I've finally reached my limit. I've tried to not let the&nbsp;debate&nbsp;over Obama's job performance among progressives get personal but I've finally accepted that for me, it is personal. President Obama represents everything that I hoped for when I was growing up a little black girl in the segregated South. I remember hearing the grownups talk about politics. They would ruefully shake their heads and discuss the lack of Negroes in positions of authority. No one even spoke of a black man being president; it was so out of reach. But I secretly thought about being president someday, ignoring that my gender as well as my race made that unlikely.

When I read Tom's blog post, "Time to Get Moving," I thought it was reasonably balanced. I didn't fully agree with his assessment of Obama or his review of FDR's presidency but his post didn't engender my foul mood. I concur that a great many&n]]></description>
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