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Painted Pictures Worth a Thousand Words
If you want to paint a certain group as being needier and less fortunate than another, you simply use pictures. You get that group front and center at every opportunity. Whether it be on billboards, television, the Internet, magazines, newspapers, etc. Always, always, pretend that their story is one that should be shared with the…
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“Dark Girls” Isn’t the Only Problem Blacks Face
I’ve received notifications about it in e-mails and read about it on Facebook statuses. The new talk is the upcoming documentary Dark Girls. Until last night, I hadn’t viewed the trailer, because I didn’t feel a need to do so. I already know this story. Not so much from personally experiencing the harsh color-based words, but…
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The True Cost of America’s War Holidays
Today is one of those days that when you scroll through Facebook statuses you see all kinds of memorial speeches, quotes, videos, etc., thanking American servicemen and women for the protection of America’s freedoms. At one time, I was kind of there with them. Hell, at one time I was one of those uniformed women…
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