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  • Pie That Doesn’t Melt, Lacrosse and Other White-People Stuff

    Don’t let my Neon Carrot-crayon complexion fool you. Both of my parents are Negroes. Mind you, they’re also Neon Carrot Negroes: Pops is Louisiana Creole—a (literal) cotton-picking product of the rural Jim Crow South. Mama was raised around the housing project culture of Detroit in the 1950s and ’60s. I was born in Detroit near…

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    Dustin J. Seibert






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    December 1, 2015
  • Maybe You’re Single Because You’re Wack

    Maybe You’re Single Because You’re Wack

    Perhaps it’s not them and the dating pool isn’t filled with pee…it’s just you.

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    Dustin J. Seibert






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    November 19, 2015
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