What is a legacy? ...something left by someone before you, some ancestor who paved the way, laid the foundation for the future for others to follow---on which to build. If it weren't for George Washington Carver or Ralph Ellison, no Benjamin Banneke ...
Posted Sunday, October 7th 2012 at 5:49PM
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Somebody said that you are what you live. Just what does that mean? If you live in a pig sty your are a pig? If you live in a German community, you are a German? If you live in the wilderness, you are wild? If you live in the ghetto, you are poor???
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Posted Sunday, October 7th 2012 at 5:17PM
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The Documentary, What Black Men Think, corrects some misconceptions about Black Americans and contridicts statistics circulated through out the media about Americans who are black. We need to start a campaign telling the truth and teaching everyone ...
Posted Tuesday, September 11th 2012 at 4:30PM
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1. Do not accept minority status by referring to yourself as a minority.
2. Do not dumb yourself down.
3. You can't change people; you can only change you.
4. Make an investment in your future; make what you want to happen happen.
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Posted Tuesday, September 11th 2012 at 12:38PM
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Caught Up Midnight Dessert, a collection of poems that speaks to the lover in you.... It is the magic that comes to life at midnight.... It is passion that sizzles, it is untouchable molten lava, it is raw emotions that we hide....It is what Etta Ja ...
Posted Sunday, September 2nd 2012 at 7:32PM
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Contributing failures in life to slavery is a popular relief mechanism, it is a fact that all people of African descent in America are not desendents of slaves. It is also popular for Blacks to blame the Jews for their economic deprivation; there wer ...
Posted Friday, August 24th 2012 at 9:14PM
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"Black people are saying a very powerful, complex, yet simple thing: "I am a man." The struggle of racism all along has been a struggle to regain the essential manhood lost after the European expansion into the broader world and the attempt to ...
Posted Thursday, August 16th 2012 at 2:23AM
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"I really want to make as big an inpact as I can among younger black people about the vital importance of us going to our oldest people and talking with them and finding out what they know about our families. There is black history untold in the ...
Posted Thursday, August 16th 2012 at 1:35AM
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This is a salute to Gabrielle Douglass, America's Darling. She made history. I went back and looked at the previous "Darlings" of America and the world and found that she out shined many of the previous ones. If they had not changed the scoring metho ...
Posted Monday, August 13th 2012 at 12:07AM
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"The use of religion to justify this oppression ...causes people to believe they deserve to be oppressed, exploited, or excluded."
Many people in the United States use the Bible and religion to justify the enslavement of a group of people. And, t ...
Posted Sunday, August 12th 2012 at 11:36PM
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Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom, we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in the proportion as we learn to dignify ...
Posted Monday, July 23rd 2012 at 3:53PM
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Do we need to celebrate Black History Month?
Would our history become more lost if we didn't?
How cn this problem be fixed?
Is Black History also White History? ...
Posted Friday, June 8th 2012 at 12:59AM
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The family unit is where a child learns dignity and how to face individual destiny. It is where children learn role modeling and the kind that you do not have to identify. It is in the family where children learn confidence and all the basic skills ...
Posted Monday, May 14th 2012 at 6:52PM
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The break down of the family has caused monumential destruchion in many ways, but the greatest is the lack of teaching that comes from just being a part of a family. All members of the family are important. Some people discount the father and think t ...
Posted Sunday, May 13th 2012 at 4:29PM
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The first amendment of the constitution grants freedom of speech to all citizens. How far does this go? "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise there of; or the abridging the freedom of speec ...
Posted Wednesday, April 18th 2012 at 2:02PM
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Some people want to raise the age of majority when a kid can legally drop out of school. The age is not 15 and 16, depending on the state. If the age is raised to the legal majority for other things, then it will cost an extra 54 million. Would we ra ...
Posted Thursday, April 5th 2012 at 9:31PM
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We need a fresh perspective on this sight. Where are all of the people who clicks on the blogs but do not speak? This site seems to have dwindled to the same few bloggers and we seem to discuss the same topics. Race, and Religion seem to get the mos ...
Posted Thursday, April 5th 2012 at 8:53PM
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What does it take for a man to handle his manhood? Growing hair on the face , a little peach fuzz was the mark to strive for. Then it came down to the voice, deep gravelly , trying to be sexy. Then next came always checking to see it was still there ...
Posted Monday, April 2nd 2012 at 11:57PM
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I have something to say because somebody attacked my friend and that , IS A NO NO.
There seems to be a problem for members to express unpopular opinions on this site. There were two blogs that discussed a religous group that seemed to tick everybod ...
Posted Monday, March 26th 2012 at 5:41PM
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I am still whistling Beethoven
So you will know who I am
Don't run from me---
Don't hide your purse---
don't cross the street---
Don't scream in the dark.
I walk on the edge of existance---
Have no fear; I won't grab you.
How long will I have ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2012 at 11:41PM
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In an essay written in 1986, by Brent Staples, he explores a facet of the dilemma Black men face walking while Black. He expressed the idea that no matter how a Black man is dress, what his educational background is, regardless of what measures he ma ...
Posted Friday, March 23rd 2012 at 11:23PM
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The death of a child is probably the worst of the worst. It doesn/t matter who the child is, somebody loved it. The fact that it is helpless is huge. The innocence of that young life is added to the horror. Don't get me wrong, the killing of any def ...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd 2012 at 3:34PM
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I can remember a time when "Black" people were not very interested in politics. They became Republicans because that was the party that freed them and gave them the right to vote. Then, when the new day republicans disapointed them and Roosevelt came ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 1:29PM
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Even though the heiracy of the LDS declares racism anti christian, the supremist attitude is alive and well in the LDS. On the outside, they seem to be receiptive to all people, to be put under pressure as Mitt was about the death of Martin,, their t ...
Posted Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 12:37PM
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