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Day: October 22, 2007

November 2nd, Blackout day – YEAH RIGHT!!!

This was an email that my mother sent me from a cousin.  And I’m putting it out there that THIS DOES NOT WORK as far as I’m concerned.  Let’s analyze this from an economic perspective.  If I make no major purchases for three days, November 1st-3rd as the email advises me to do, then that […]

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“Stop buying shoes for the little grasshopper Negroes.”

That is a quote, almost a direct quote rather, from my Ethics and Society professor here at the ITC, while in the midst of a jeremiad against the black church, young black professionals and the well-to-do members of the hip-hop generation.  This is not uncommon for him to refer to black people as “colored” or […]

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