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The Moment of Impact
Back to The Vow. You know the story. Car accident. Wife loses memory. Can’t remember husband. The end. Nothing remarkable there. But what does stand out to me are two sets of quotes about moments of impact: My theory is about moments, moments of impact. My theory is that these moments of impact, these flashes of…
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Black-White Relationships: Which Gender Does It More?
Damon Young writes: While the vast majority of the black people I know date/marry other black people, I personally know more black women my age with white boyfriends/husbands than black men my age with white girlfriends/wives…and I bet most of you do too. Actually, for me, using “more” is somewhat misleading because, well, I don’t…
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Black Men Aren't 'Allowed' to be Human?
Damon Young writes: For years people have written, spoken, and even created art about the fact that African-American men are burdened with a suffocatingly rigid definition of who and what a man is supposed be. It’s also common to blame this on a combination of history, socialization, and sexual expectation. Basically, black men are the way…
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How To Be a 'Good' Guy? Assume Women Are Liars
Damon Young writes: After breaking the seal, they’ve had sex at least once a week for the last three or four months. Apparently, she had feelings for him for some time. And, although she knows the feelings aren’t reciprocated—a fact he made very blunt after they slept together the first time so she wouldn’t get “the…
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Does 'N-gger' Trump All Other Slurs?
Panam Jackson writes: A few weeks back, one of the homeys sent me a video of an incident on a Metro train in DC. See, some wayward white man on the Green Line (notoriously known as the “Soul Train” in the area due to its propensity to run only through Prince George’s County, MD and DC),…
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When Some People Think You're Marrying a White Woman
Damon Young writes, in a follow up to his pre-April Fool’s Day post, “How I Fell in Love With a White Woman.” You know, whenever I watch videos like the one where the father was beating his daughter after catching her making a twerking video, I wonder if people who believe in corporal punishment are on…
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Is President Obama Tired of Jay-Z?
Damon Young writes: Imagine for a moment that you are President Obama. Of course you aren’t because if we pull out your wallet, it will not say “Bad Motherf-cker” on your license. However, for a moment, you can pretend to be. Now imagine that while in the midst of being President Obama and doing something…
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How To Be Great At Being A Black Man
Damon Young writes: How To Secure a Loan for $30,000 1. Find the nearest bank. 2. Rob it. 3. Return the next day with all of the money. This will build trust. 4. Do this two more times. After the third time, the bank manager will be so impressed by your magnanimousness that he’ll allow you…
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Does Obama Get Banished to the Couch, Too?
Damon Young writes: When seeing the reaction to President Obama’s compliment of Kamala Harris, I couldn’t help but wonder how exactly this would go over in the Obama household. Taking the Pres and the First Lady and any other politics-related concerns about women and sexual harassment and sh-t out of it, and just looking at it as “high status…
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Rappers Have Always Done And Said Dumb Sh*t. Why Is This News Now?
While a part of me is encouraged to finally see rappers asked to answer for their lyrics, this criticism seems a little disingenuous, and raises more questions than it answers. For instance, why now? We’ve all heard worse lyrics than the ones being criticized now, so where is this pushback coming from? Also, when does it…
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