So, I reach into the mailbox today and grab the mail, some “have you seen me” crap and a magazine, it wasn’t mine, it was Micki’s so I didn’t pay much attention. On the elevator ride up I look at the cover, it’s Cosmo and I’m thinking, wow that is a cute white girl. […]
me: (cleaning my monitor with wet wipe)
Old Guy: Why are you in DOS?
me: I just wanted a black screen so I could see all the spots
Old Guy: Tif, you know you could of just turned the monitor off.
Tif
I mean I like Kanye as much as the next man, definitely more than the no homo guy (after I looked up his page I noticed he blogged about the same thing I’m blogging about this second). I love his music, I love his comment about the president, but c’mon– this pisses me […]
I was strolling by Nia’s spot and I read her Stereotype of a black male post and the comments associated with it and it provoked a lot of memories and even more thought. Being a black male from the inner city you come to grips with the fact that at any time you […]
I love basketball. I really do. When I was younger I used to eat and sleep basketball playing from sun up to sun down, and then our impoverished neighborhood got lights and we played maybe 12 hours a day. I’ve played with NBA players like Pooh Richardson, Dough Overton, Rasheed Wallace, Aaron […]
Police in Brazil kill hundreds, yet stir little outrage
By Henry Chu
Originally published January 8, 2006
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil // The five bodies in the bar were riddled with bullets fired at almost point-blank range. Four of the dead were boys no older than 16. The admitted gunmen: police officers carrying out a raid in […]
“One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” W.E.B. DuBois
OK, I’m not hood– but then again I am- I have denounced the hood– but I was once hood. It’s […]
She weeps
OK where, shall I start, I won’t bore you with the details on when I planned this or how I had the ring picked out for about a year (because I didn’t), but here we go. We are in the Poconos staying in a rented cabin with five other couples that went to […]