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Words matter

May 6, 2020October 4, 2010 by Shay

I swear I did not want to write anymore posts associated in anyway with the online blitz No Wedding, No Womb. At this point it seems to me it was a good idea that went terribly wrong, make no mistake there is some work that needs to be done in the Black community, yet I …

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Categories Racial and Cultural, Random babble Tags Black women and negativity, bullying, power of words 18 Comments

The White Man Can’t Save You

May 6, 2020September 30, 2010 by Shay

I swear people must think Black women are some of the most pathetic creatures on the planet. Every where I turn I am bombarded with media images that seem to say we are sad and lonely or else we are sex crazed hoes who are thinking with our vaginas and not our brains and thus …

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Categories Racial and Cultural, Random babble, Relationships Tags Black woman, interracial relationships, Single Black women 15 Comments

That is sooooo ghetto…NOT!

May 23, 2017September 29, 2010 by Shay

Oh, how I hate that phrase. Some where along the line the word ghetto has grown from being a word used to describe a slum area in a city primarily occupied by minorities to a catch phrase for describing anything that folks deem to be lower class. Frankly it pisses me off. Recently an acquaintance …

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Categories class, Random babble Tags Cabrini Green, ghetto, Maine ghettos, poor folks, Robert Taylor Homes 23 Comments
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