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Fuck yo comfort zone

Here we go with this shit again!  Another black woman killed at the hands of police. No, I’m not mad any more.  I’m furious.  We see white, defiant-, gun-toting- people disarmed all of the time (See Dylan Roof). In a country that has a black man as a symbolic figure head we seem to have forgotten the bridge of Selma. We seem to have forgotten the 3/5 rule, the inability to vote, the promise of 40 acres and the waves of ships carrying black bodies through a transatlantic slave trade. The idea that a woman can be shot dead in cold blood further reinforces the notion that blacks are not people when it comes to exercising the same rights that whites do.  There is a double standard by which the forefathers of this American experiment dubbed that “all men were created equal” while blacks were 3/5 of a person. We fail to connect the past with the present as if one had nothing to do with the other.  We do not seem to see the psycholo...
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Lifelong Politicians are the enemy

Photo credit Chicago tribune This is the election of the stubborn incumbents versus the fresh voice of  millennial. Micheal Jordan needed another team before he realized that he had lost his step despite Kobe Bryant ushering in a new era. No one will ever take away the flame that was “His Airness”. The G.O.A.T.! The man built a dynasty twice over. Kobe Bryant studied Jordan, even stuck at his tongue at times. I have never read where Bryant stated that he was better. These stubborn politicians refuse to pass the torch. They refuse to relinquish their portion of “The Machine”. These old politicians have become so comfortable in the quasi-position of power that they truly believe nobody can do the job better than them. It’s time for these old, self-serving people to go. Your voice was needed at the time that you were elected. No credit is being taken from you, but as you continue to travel this journey your legacy is tarnished. Most of you are eligible for social ...
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Peace Be Still (A Requiem For Grandma)

January 6, 2009: A few people ask me if I am doing okay. My grandmother just passed a few days ago on January 2 nd . We, her grandchildren, called her grandma, my grandfather called her Cat, short for her name Catherine and others like her sister from Mississippi called her Poochie—to this day I do not know where that name came from. I remember as a child my mother trying to explain it to me and I remember still feeling frustrated from the explanation. So, I left it alone. My grandmother’s dark complexion and staple long, jet black hair, the gold tooth in her mouth, her optimistic attitude about life, her strong Christian belief, her unselfishness and her ability to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders with so much grace makes it hard for me to come to grips with not seeing her ever again. I am doing as well as can be expected and hiding the pain better than could be imagined. I’ll never get to taste her sweet and spicy dressing at Thanksgiving. No more Oxtails and be...
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