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Posts Tagged ‘Mirrors and Magnifying Glasses’

Calling Obama the Great White Hope is the Same as Calling him a N-gga.

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

The word N-gga means something only because Jamestownmeans something. Because because the fact that Black Wall Street got torchedmeans something. Because 1968 means something. Because acting white means something. Because 40 acres and a mule means something. Because Black WWII veterans got systematically robbedand nothing has been done about it. In 2008, I have become [...]

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Are Black Bloggers Meaner than White Bloggers?

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

In last months Essence Nia, Gabby and Sanaa asked whether thatBlack Blog sites were meaner than the white bloggers. Essence: How do you deal with the 24-hours-a-day gossip that comes out on the Internet? Gabrielle: Just last week somebody gave me a baby. This isn?t Perez Hilton or the White gossip people, these are women [...]

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