Raising Gang Bangers!!??!!

This was so horrid that I had to put the whole article up there. I have no word to summarize this high level of ignorance.

Open letter to Bob Johnson

Dear Bob Johnson,

Everyone’s entitled to their own opinions and to vote for their own candidates. Tavis Smiley, Rep. Maxine Waters, and Maya Angelou are all prominent black people who have chosen to support Hillary Clinton. Although it is not the same choice that I have made I can respect that and respect them. It’s you I have a problem with.

Single Parents and Divorcees’ cost the nation money

According to Studies sponsored by several conservative groups, single and divorced parents U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year. They also say that the government needs to put some programs in place that encourage marriage.

Problems in the Black Community

This Article was linked in the “Black in the Bay” News Letter.
It’s a very interesting perspective on the supposed problems in black America.

Celeb Baby Picture!- Garcelle Beauvais

Garcelle and Husband Mike Nilon

Because I love little people I have to show you a picture of Garcelle’s new bundles of Joy!

Regina King’s Documentary

One of my Brown Sugar Babies (readers) sent this to me. =)

Regina King has a new documentary out. The former “227” star served as the executive producer of “Side by Side: the Story of the 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone”

Who in the Hell Left the Gate Open?- Ward Connerly Edition

Ward “Yes Massah” Connerly is at it again. This time he’s using the achievements of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as a platform for the ending of affirmative action. He believes that The fact that a black person and a woman are serious contenders for the highest office in the land means that we’re over race no longer need it to ensure diversity in schools or the workplace.

Black Women-The Great Divide

I was talking on the phone to one of my best friend, railing on and on about some sort of injustice. She abruptly interrupted me with this question. “Are you a feminist?” I quickly answered “No of course not.” I believe in equality for all people in spite of personal preferences. I believe in a woman’s rights to choose what’s best for her (career, motherhood or both, chivalry or going Dutch etc etc) and yes, I’ve taken a number of college courses and read a bunch of “Feminist writings” (Audre Lourde, Betty Freidan and more) but as a heterosexual. Christian, Black Woman, I don’t feel like a feminist.

News Bits- Quotes and Sympathy from the Republicans

There are some new sympathizers in the Obama/Rev. Wright/”damn America scandal…. Republicans

Black and Mad!

I read this in my local daily paper (TBT), and I thought it was an excellent piece. It originally ran in the LA Times, But I found it online on the Baltimore Sun Newpaper website. Here it is

Black and mad
The controversy over Obama’s pastor reflects white fear of African-American anger
By Erin Aubry Kaplan
March 20, 2008

I’m mad. Let me qualify that - I’m black and mad.

The mad I’m talking about I inherited from generations of black people before me. I learned early in life that this mad is not curable (not yet) but that I could manage it. But sometimes I get flare-ups of anger that defy management.