Another essay from my friend on theroot.com.
If elected, Obama would be the first African American, and more specifically, the first biracial president of the United States. He would be an instant role model for children of color everywhere. I’m inclined to wake Simone.
I just want to direct you all to my latest favorite blog: To Blog Or…..
Dude is HIGH-larious. Between him and lacochran’s bloggery I get at least one good gut laugh a day.
OK, lacochran’s bloggery got me! And I’m going to get you, too. Ha!
RULES
1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
7 FACTS/True Confessions:
1. When I was 2 my cousin slammed a window down on my hands and I had to get stitches to keep my left middle finger from falling off. You can still see the scar from the stitches.
2. Eleven years ago a dog put my whole face in its mouth then let me go and licked me cause it thought we were playing. I have a scar on my nose from this incident.
3. In college I had a friend with a crazy stalker ex-girlfriend and once when he came to pick me up from my dorm, she followed him and we had a highspeed chase through my college city. We were in an old Beetle and everytime we turned a corner, I thought it was going to turn over. I had the time of my life (told you I love fast cars!).
4. I have to work at being nice and friendly, which is funny because everywhere I work people think I’m *so* nice when I’m really hateful and bitchy.
5. When I was a kid I wanted to be a cash register. Not a cashier, a cash register, cause the register had all the money.
6. When I was in college I was in a sports car with a guy and he revved the engine for like 10 mins, then took off driving as fast as he could toward a brick wall and then at the last minute he turned the wheel and we swerved around 180 degrees and drove off. If he had been cuter he could have gotten it after giving me that adrenaline rush. (I told you I like fast cars!) I realize now that I could have died or been horribly mangled.
7. I sneak food into the movies. I’ve taken a dozen Hot Donuts Now! with milk, buffalo wings, chili dogs, sandwiches with chips and pickle — anything I can fit in my purse and I feel like eating goes to the movies with me.
I tag the following people: Prince of Petworth, photocynthesis, AverageBro.com, FreeMan Press, Isolated: Stories of a Black Professor on a White Campus, The Breaking Point and Black and Married With Kids.
Because we need to wipe it from the American lexicon, but for real, when I read this quote from 50 Cent, my first thought was: n—- PLEEAAAZZZZZZZE!** Anyways, here’s what Fitty said:
“I’m a big fan of Jay-Z, but outside of the States and Hip Hop circles, no one really knew who he was until he married Beyonce.”
Jay-Z ought to pimpslap Fitty’s ignantazz in the middle of 125th and St. Nick, then step over him and keep it moving like he had swatted a fly. Fitty WISHES he had skills like Shawn Carter instead of the incoherent mumbling of school yard-level rhymes he does on the mic. And don’t hate on Shawn/Jay-Z/Jigga man cause he locked down the baddest chick in hip-hop next to Mary J. Blige. (I should note here Jay-Z would be my star crush if it weren’t for Idris Elba permanently filling that space).
**I return to my regular stance on the n-word after this slippage.
Take a clickety click on this: perspctv
“I am hard pressed to find anyone my age who isn’t trying to act like they are 21. Everyone wants to go and party like they don’t have to go to work tomorrow. Everyone wants to smoke weed, drink and have sex with everyone like there are no consequences to their actions. Everyone’s wardrobe is some kind of teenage mix of some blue jeans with a french cuff pink dress shirt capped off with a sports blazer capped and don’t forget some skittle colored Air Force Ones!. People are still getting tattoos and piercings well into their 30’s. Grown Men are playing John Madden seriously like it is a get rich seminar. Vivica Fox had plastic surgery, Puffy cut his hair into a Mohawk, Kanye dresses like a bull fighter, Cube still wears Chucks, Common looks like a skateboarder with a suit, Steve Harvey has us wearing Cab Calloway suits and my Barber still drag races his car at the street races!”
Read the full posting on FreeMan Press.
BLACK WOMEN, BLOW THE TRUMPET!: ON BEING "THE EXCELLENT WIFE"
“Today, I want to encourage an examination of the aspects of our upbringing as black girls that directly impacts our preparedness for marriage.”
AverageBro.com: Barack Hussein Obama vs The United States Of America.
… it’s clear from anyone listening to talk radio, watching the news, or simply overhearing any level of Conservative discourse that this year’s race isn’t about getting their guy into office, it’s about keeping the potentially evil Beige Negro out.
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