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  • Michelle Obama's dating advice sounds familiar….

    All the sisters want to trap themselves a Barack Obama archetype, and are in search of the perfect poison to put in their potion of love to get them an instant presidential candidate. You all know how I feel about it — it’s not like I think women should opt out of college or a…

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  • Single Fathers = Glorified Babysitters

    I’m a big fan of K. Danielle Edwards’ blog, where she muses about black moms, black marriage and generally basks in the glow of her successful nuclear family. It’s hard to hate on someone who has found love and can make it work — I know Danielle, so I know she deserves it. But I…

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  • Anthony Sowell: Neighborhood Pervert

    By now you have heard about the case of the horrific serial murders of black women on Cleveland’s East Side and wonder how it could happen. How could bodies be sitting up rotting in somebody’s house, stinking up an entire neighborhood, and nobody get to the bottom of it? How does a pervert move in…

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  • Color Commentary After Dark

    We have a number of late-night contenders of color on the horizon, and it begs the question why people of color have been unable to keep a late-night show on the air for any extended period of time. It’s probably got something to do with Da White Man holding us down or whatever, but Newsweek…

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  • Sharpton Family Values

    After the Rev. Al Sharpton’s ex and his daughter get arrested for running a red light to get past an unmarked police vehicle, color him perplexed. “How what was apparently a minor traffic dispute ended up with two arrests with desk-appearance tickets is highly questionable and unusual,” said Mike Hardy, Sharpton’s mouthpiece. “We will pursue…

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  • Barack, Michelle and the Myth Of Marital Equality

    So, the New York Times wonders how you could ever hope to have equality in a marriage when your husband is the President of the United States. The answer is that there is no such thing as equality in marriage, and most people who have been married know that. It’s a test of wills, a…

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  • Real-Life Balloon Boy

    So, it turns out that the Heenes were not the first to get the wise idea about sending your kid up in a balloon to create some kind of media fracas (the mother has confessed, FYI). There was some goofball up my way in the early 1930s who tied his boy, Bill Crawford, to a…

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  • Tracy Morgan: Man on Fire

    The hipsters are musing over Tracy Morgan’s recent appearances on Terry Gross and at a reading for his book, wondering why he is so “unstable.” I think it’s sad that people expect him to be pulling his shirt off and talking about malt liquor all the time. Even Richard Pryor was occasionally somber and introspective. …

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  • Black Men and Sexual Harassment

    I read this account comparing and contrasting the handling of two different ESPN talents with great interests. On the one hand, a brother seems to have been fired to merely hugging a female co-worker, but Steve Phillips, a white talent, was only suspended for diddling around with an underling. I don’t like looking at things…

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  • Woman Beats Man on "Tyra"

    Tyra Banks had a segment on her show about girlfriends who beat up thier boyfriends. It reminds me of scenarios I’ve witnessed play out on the street. This is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and I’ve written about the issue a bit. So I’m glad to see this being discussed. Troubling is the fact that this…

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