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How Omarosa became my shero or how I just want to be good enough

May 23, 2017November 2, 2013 by Shay

The cultural mandate to stand in our own personal truth has reached the point where it is almost meaningless, after all who defines truth? What does it even mean to stand in our own truth? What if my truth is different than your truth? Clearly “truth” is in the eye of the beholder; yet sometimes …

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Categories Current Events, Racial and Cultural Tags Bethenny Frankel, Omarosa

Why Blackface just won’t go away

May 23, 2017October 28, 2013 by Shay

It seems this weekend while I was busy learning the fine art of how to become a yoga teacher, the social media world was ablaze with a viral Blackface problem. I wish I could say that I am shocked but I am not. Last year when my now grown up kiddo was slugging away in …

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Categories Current Events, Racial and Cultural Tags blackface 2 Comments

A belt is not a belt…structural racism 2013

May 23, 2017October 24, 2013 by Shay

Shopping while Black, the ultimate in personal humiliation whether your goal is recreational retail therapy or securing much needed items. The shopping while black experience strips you of your retail goals and your humanity as store clerks in retail establishments decide that based on the color of your skin you are a threat to the …

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Categories Current Events, Racial and Cultural 4 Comments
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