I remember back when I wrote an opinion column in my college newspaper and I got into a heated e-mail debate with another columnist, a black dude whose first name was Jason but whose last name escapes me, about White Privilege.
He had written an expose about White Privilege and how it was still prevalent in [...]

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I got an e-mail the other day from an old bong buddy I’ve regrettably lost contact with through the years in which he said:
we need an honest person in office. someone who is completely ignorant of how corruption works. you keep coming to mind. how in the fuck does one get the funds to run [...]

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I was a rotten damn kid sometimes. There was this kid who lived across the street from me in Decatur, Illinois when I was growing up. His name was Jamie Bone. His dad’s name was Hoobie. I don’t know if it was a nickname or not but it sounds now to me [...]

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Not even I am dumb enough to purchase a new Microsoft operating system the day it launches although I must admit that I got sucked into the hype machine. Just the idea of operating under a new system must stoke the same pioneer spirit in me that existed in millions of Americans throughout history. [...]

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I received the following scare mail from a buddy of mine about Barack Obama which many of you have likely received as well:
Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack TH Hussein Obama, Sr., a black Muslim from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white atheist from Wichita, [...]

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After much deliberation, I have decided to leave the Powerblogs platform. There are a few reasons for this. Antimedia was the one who convinced me to transfer platforms from the free Blogger site to a paid hosting platform and I’m still thankful for that advice.
Powerblogs allowed me to take ownership of my blog to [...]

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I can’t begin to tell you how draining my trip to New Orleans was last week–draining in a good but complete way. I had exactly zero inspiration to pull out the keyboard this weekend and instead whittled my hours away in my LL Bean bathrobe and slippers, playing Lego Star Wars on the XBOX 360.
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My aunts and uncles are in their seventies. My mother was born almost 30 years after my youngest aunt was born–she was a surprise to say the least.
So my aunts and uncles are much more like grandparents than they are aunts and uncles. And my maternal grandfather was a wonderful son-of-a-bitch. He [...]

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I was very privileged this afternoon to have been in attendance during a lecture given by Professor Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History and director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University. He spoke about his direct involvement in the Katrina disaster and its recovery in New Orleans. He just [...]

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…Holy SHIT!!! Talk about raising the bar. This show is incredible!
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