Put Your Hat Back On!

I’ll admit that I’ve kind of been baffled by gender roles. Like, I never understood why I couldn’t hit girls, especially if she hit me first.  I never understood why a man was supposed to walk on the street side with a woman–especially when it seemed Mama Uppity frustratingly was the only woman who seemed […]

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Don’t Hate on My Swagger

Raving Black Lunatic wrote a while back about swagger in regards to Barack Obama and this whole idea of him coming off as overconfident, and arrogant and dare I say–uppity.  But, I debated after hearing yesterday’s sermon from Rev. Otis Moss III as to whether or not I wanted to write about swagger, and I […]

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When Boycotting Goes Wrong

Every major city has it’s resident black media hound, Atlanta has Rev. Markel Hutchins of Kathryn Johnson fame.  This person is often out of the black religious tradition, not always, but often they are.  They often seek change and they attempt to do so through running for an elected office, be it city council, state […]

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Sponsoring a Dream

We all have seen those commercials with children looking lost, with flies lighting on them, distended stomachs from severe starvation; playing or standing on piles of rubbish and garbage and outright sewage.  Most of us turn away, including yours truly, because it’s really hard and painful to watch as most of us sit in the […]

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A ‘Premature Autopsy’

Today, I had a little change in my pocket so I finally drove up and down the main drag here in Gaithersburg looking for a barber.  I saw something that had “platinum” and “barber” in the same name and I figured that it was a black one.  So, I got my haircut, experienced my first […]

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