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Entries from June 2007

Kill the Demand Not the Supplier

“I was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me. And it wasn’t born in you, and you can make it. Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don’t you […]

Categories: Social Commentary

Women’s Longstanding Date with Destiny

Women’s Long-Standing Date
Its probably because I’m a man but I don’t think I’ll ever understand a women’s willingness to plan “the most important day of her life.” I’m not sure I’ll ever understand it. Maybe its not all women (but from my perspective, and from those of my boys) its all women who cannot […]

Categories: Blogging · Social Commentary · Television

Is this all that black entertainment is and will be?

“Lift up yourselves. Take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the stars”
-Marcus Garvey
I love BET. Actually I like BET. I watch it so I know what’s going on in the black community the hiphop community. But that’s the problem. Our community (the black community) is not soley based upon entertainment. True […]

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