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OSU article- The Cost of Being Black in America

Thanks aw for sending this my way… Source: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/531012/ Description How much do white Americans think it ?costs? to be black in our society, given the problems associated with racial bias and prejudice? The answer, it appears, is not much. When white Americans were asked to imagine how much they would …

2008 is the first time Mississippi school integrates prom

I remember writing a super controversial article for my high school newspaper, back in the day, after learning that we had a “regular” court and a separate minority court for homecoming.  Apparently, it was the school’s answer to trying to get some minority recognition during homecoming.  No, I didn’t attend …

Who knew?? We HAD the right to refuse to show id at TSA security checkpoint

I’m half asleep listening to CNN trying to make sure Armageddon has not set upon our planet while I catch my zzzz’s, and I hear this story about our right to refuse to show id at the TSA security checkpoint is ending 6/21 (today). Ummm, I never knew that was an option. The catch was if you refused id, you had to be subject to a secondary screening. I don’t know about you, but I’m not so sure I’d go through all of that just to exercise my right, but CNN cites Univ of Kentucky Law School student Nick Kloiber as someone who thought it was worth it.

Should I be bitter?

Poor Obama can’t catch a break anywhere…That’s what you get when you try to break into the largest old boys network…The White House. Take your licks like a good boy and hope that Black America won’t hang you on a cross like Jesus after all is said and done…Meanwhile, tell …

Our new Miss USA is a sista!

I caught a glimpse of the last couple of seconds of the Miss USA pageant last night. Just enough to see the winner was black and catch moment where she does the pageant shocked face look. Crystle Stewart (another “negrotization” of a name…lovin’ it!), I extend my congratulations and hope …

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