1. Why do women complain about men leaving the toilet seat up? Even if we leave it down yall still have to look down and pull it back up.
2. Why do "straight" men feel the need to brag to other "straight" men about material possessions.
3. Why do most aspiring models end up stripping once their modeling aspirations don't take off?
4. Why are women considered "bitches" and "hoes" after the guy figures out she isn't choosing?
5. Why do most blacks feel obligated to eat hamburger instead of chicken when presented with the choice at a mostly white gathering?
6. Why do some women try to act bougie in a 25 dollar dress, and 50 dollar heels? (Like men don't know how much it cost)
7. How come men are only deemed thirsty when the level of attraction isn't mutual?
8. Why do niggas sell drugs just to buy Jordan's and a Polo shirt? (you might as well work at McDonalds)
9. Why do ppl who have never been out of their zip code complain about their city the most?
10. Why do single women always feel they need to express on social network sites why they are wife material?
11. Why do gang members feel the need to inform you of their hood affiliation during debates?
12. Why do "us" men still mess with a girl even though we are aware she is crazy beforehand? (must be the ass)
13. Why are so many girls acting like "hood niggaz"?
14. How come when a man moves in with a woman or he says, "I want to be with you forever," she starts claiming they are engaged?
15. Why aren't you and/or your best friend following me on twitter @blove402?
Monday, May 28, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
10 Things that Real Negros Do
1. Wait till all the light bulbs burn out individually before changing them.
2. During offering at church we put one dollar in an envelope to make it seem like we gave a bigger contribution.
3. Never riding on a full tank of gas, only filling up to a 20 dollar maximum.
4. While on the job at work making numerous to trips to the bathroom and standing in the stall to take unofficial breaks.
5. When becoming aware of when a girl is going to get drunk we text then prior to ensure that we are a candidate for a drunk txt/call later.
6. Hit up grocery stores and personally sample green grapes.
7. Will not pay .25 extra for a ranch or BBQ packet at a fast food place.
8. We search a whole room looking for a remote, but we refused to walk over and change the channel on the box.
9. Will speak on other jobs that are "lined up" once we get fired.
10. No matter how much money we have in our pocket we still pay rent on the 5th.
2. During offering at church we put one dollar in an envelope to make it seem like we gave a bigger contribution.
3. Never riding on a full tank of gas, only filling up to a 20 dollar maximum.
4. While on the job at work making numerous to trips to the bathroom and standing in the stall to take unofficial breaks.
5. When becoming aware of when a girl is going to get drunk we text then prior to ensure that we are a candidate for a drunk txt/call later.
6. Hit up grocery stores and personally sample green grapes.
7. Will not pay .25 extra for a ranch or BBQ packet at a fast food place.
8. We search a whole room looking for a remote, but we refused to walk over and change the channel on the box.
9. Will speak on other jobs that are "lined up" once we get fired.
10. No matter how much money we have in our pocket we still pay rent on the 5th.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Dr. Omowale Akintunde on separating church influence on government policies.
Omowale Akintunde
Hi, Cori! I read your post and I have multiple things to say. And like you, I am concerned about the length of space my response would consume. It is impossible for me to respond succinctly. Additionally, I am certain that I would introduce concepts that might be foreign to my faithful FB friends. I have posted on this issue continuously. I have used my classroom as a platform for elucidation on these issues. You will probably find my response a bit problematic despite the fact that in the end we actually agree with each other. For me, religion is truly the opiate of the masses. LI don't care about Christian interpretation because Christianity ITSELF is the problem here. Like all proselytizing religions, it inculcates people into blind allegiance into some of the most ridiculous ideologies imaginable. As I posted earlier, if you believe in talking snakes, that's on you. My problem is when you begin to presume that all people must and that you have the right to extrapolate your religious beliefs as the foundation for human "knowing." This is what is called epistemology. Knowing is a social construct. Religion is a social construct. The notion of morality (axiology) is a social construct. Now, I hate to jump all academic on everybody but that is the problem here. People are using religious dogma as a means for interpreting social reality (ontology). Now the problem with this is that all religions have different and mutually exclusive epistemologies, ontologies and axiologies. The Christian believe that Mary woke up one morning pregnant. No sex. No nothing. Just woke up pregnant. Further she deduced that God was the baby daddy. Then there's the prophet Muhammad interpretation that says this is a total lie. God spoke to the prophet Muhammad giving him revelations through the Angel Gabriel. Then there are the Jews who say, poppycock. No such person as Jesus or Muhammad existed and the Messiah has not come. As a result of these conflicting "truths" with each group believing their "truth" is ABSOLUTE, there have been a succession of slaughtering wars that have gone on for centuries.
There's a reason why a slave's hands were cut off for reading but they were Christianized. Once you brainwash a person to believe in your deity absolutely you can get them to believe anything! That includes talking snakes, babies that appear out of the clear blue with God's name on their birth certificate, angels that appear with revelations, and a host of other bullshit. AND THEY WILL DEFEND THESE THINGS TO THEIR DYING BREATH! The reason I admire this President is that he has pushed through the bullshit and has attempted to create a society that is beyond these stagnant oppressive "truths." For me, the proof is not in religion but rather outside of it. This is why folks like Bristol Palin, an unwed mother, knocked up in the 11th grade, and high school dropout has the nerve to attack the President's stance on equal marriage and his daughters based on that bible of hers. Mind you, that SAME BIBLE was used as the basis for enslaving Blacks, denying us the right to marry White people and to vote. Now WE are using that same bible to justify gay oppression. The funny thing is more than 70 percent of Black babies are born out of wedlock and Black mothers are 10X more likely to be at or below the poverty line. Yet they lead the charge against marriage equality!! People will continue to die, Cori. They will continue to die because of the hypocrisy of religiosity. The only way we can move beyond this is to educate our people away from the invisible man and their White savior and move toward or more humanistic interpretation of reality
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
Hi, Cori! I read your post and I have multiple things to say. And like you, I am concerned about the length of space my response would consume. It is impossible for me to respond succinctly. Additionally, I am certain that I would introduce concepts that might be foreign to my faithful FB friends. I have posted on this issue continuously. I have used my classroom as a platform for elucidation on these issues. You will probably find my response a bit problematic despite the fact that in the end we actually agree with each other. For me, religion is truly the opiate of the masses. LI don't care about Christian interpretation because Christianity ITSELF is the problem here. Like all proselytizing religions, it inculcates people into blind allegiance into some of the most ridiculous ideologies imaginable. As I posted earlier, if you believe in talking snakes, that's on you. My problem is when you begin to presume that all people must and that you have the right to extrapolate your religious beliefs as the foundation for human "knowing." This is what is called epistemology. Knowing is a social construct. Religion is a social construct. The notion of morality (axiology) is a social construct. Now, I hate to jump all academic on everybody but that is the problem here. People are using religious dogma as a means for interpreting social reality (ontology). Now the problem with this is that all religions have different and mutually exclusive epistemologies, ontologies and axiologies. The Christian believe that Mary woke up one morning pregnant. No sex. No nothing. Just woke up pregnant. Further she deduced that God was the baby daddy. Then there's the prophet Muhammad interpretation that says this is a total lie. God spoke to the prophet Muhammad giving him revelations through the Angel Gabriel. Then there are the Jews who say, poppycock. No such person as Jesus or Muhammad existed and the Messiah has not come. As a result of these conflicting "truths" with each group believing their "truth" is ABSOLUTE, there have been a succession of slaughtering wars that have gone on for centuries.
There's a reason why a slave's hands were cut off for reading but they were Christianized. Once you brainwash a person to believe in your deity absolutely you can get them to believe anything! That includes talking snakes, babies that appear out of the clear blue with God's name on their birth certificate, angels that appear with revelations, and a host of other bullshit. AND THEY WILL DEFEND THESE THINGS TO THEIR DYING BREATH! The reason I admire this President is that he has pushed through the bullshit and has attempted to create a society that is beyond these stagnant oppressive "truths." For me, the proof is not in religion but rather outside of it. This is why folks like Bristol Palin, an unwed mother, knocked up in the 11th grade, and high school dropout has the nerve to attack the President's stance on equal marriage and his daughters based on that bible of hers. Mind you, that SAME BIBLE was used as the basis for enslaving Blacks, denying us the right to marry White people and to vote. Now WE are using that same bible to justify gay oppression. The funny thing is more than 70 percent of Black babies are born out of wedlock and Black mothers are 10X more likely to be at or below the poverty line. Yet they lead the charge against marriage equality!! People will continue to die, Cori. They will continue to die because of the hypocrisy of religiosity. The only way we can move beyond this is to educate our people away from the invisible man and their White savior and move toward or more humanistic interpretation of reality
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
Monday, May 7, 2012
Bridging the Gap
"I pray that I'm forgiving for caring about how they living, and loaning a little money and keeping them out of prison...I'm just telling you the basics of growing up with your friends and being the one who made it"
In the above mentioned quote Drake (rapper) spoke a message that many people in below middle income and poverty experience daily. Contrary to popular belief their are people who live to make it out of socials conditions where selling drugs, minimal education, gang affiliation, teenage pregnancy, and jail/prison terms are expected. I never wanted to relate to the dealer who was only moving pack just to help keep the lights on for his mother because those doubles and triples aren't earning much. I never wanted to live it I just wanted to author his story to the ones looking down so that they wouldn't judge, but be able to understand.
It becomes hard when you don't strive to be Carter from the penthouse or Jamaal from the projects, you just want to Brandon, just someone who is accepted by both. I would be lying if I said it didn't bother me when I know that no matter how high of an income I obtain, or how many degrees I earn to some upper class elite I will still be looked at as a "nigga in a coupe" or no matter how much I fight for, strive, speak for social equality for those whose skin looks like mine I will still not be accepted by some because my jeans aren't baggy enough, I choose sweaters over tees, and square toes over foams.
People tell me frequently that "they may not like but they'll respect you", but it's human nature to be accepted. How do you bridge a gap between two different classes when it seems like no matter hard you try both sides keep pushing you away? Even though it seems difficult and nearly impossible I feel that alienating yourself myself from negative conditions and showing the friends that I grew up with that it's other avuenues that life can drive you towards without giving you the feeling of selling out. They say, "you are a direct reflection of who you hang around," I agree partially because if you make it I thinks your moral responsability to help someone up if they are willing to give you their hand. Too many times people not only forget where they came from, but they forget what they had to do to get where they are at and to help lead others out.
Im still astonish at the fact that whenever I visit my people in Chicago, or Gary, In I'm always reminded of war stories of my uncles and how the we're respected for things they did good and bad, but those uncles always remind never to be like them, but to become someone that brag about who made it and to never forget my roots, but to start a standard that being from "the hood" doesn't mean your story has to end there.
In the above mentioned quote Drake (rapper) spoke a message that many people in below middle income and poverty experience daily. Contrary to popular belief their are people who live to make it out of socials conditions where selling drugs, minimal education, gang affiliation, teenage pregnancy, and jail/prison terms are expected. I never wanted to relate to the dealer who was only moving pack just to help keep the lights on for his mother because those doubles and triples aren't earning much. I never wanted to live it I just wanted to author his story to the ones looking down so that they wouldn't judge, but be able to understand.
It becomes hard when you don't strive to be Carter from the penthouse or Jamaal from the projects, you just want to Brandon, just someone who is accepted by both. I would be lying if I said it didn't bother me when I know that no matter how high of an income I obtain, or how many degrees I earn to some upper class elite I will still be looked at as a "nigga in a coupe" or no matter how much I fight for, strive, speak for social equality for those whose skin looks like mine I will still not be accepted by some because my jeans aren't baggy enough, I choose sweaters over tees, and square toes over foams.
People tell me frequently that "they may not like but they'll respect you", but it's human nature to be accepted. How do you bridge a gap between two different classes when it seems like no matter hard you try both sides keep pushing you away? Even though it seems difficult and nearly impossible I feel that alienating yourself myself from negative conditions and showing the friends that I grew up with that it's other avuenues that life can drive you towards without giving you the feeling of selling out. They say, "you are a direct reflection of who you hang around," I agree partially because if you make it I thinks your moral responsability to help someone up if they are willing to give you their hand. Too many times people not only forget where they came from, but they forget what they had to do to get where they are at and to help lead others out.
Im still astonish at the fact that whenever I visit my people in Chicago, or Gary, In I'm always reminded of war stories of my uncles and how the we're respected for things they did good and bad, but those uncles always remind never to be like them, but to become someone that brag about who made it and to never forget my roots, but to start a standard that being from "the hood" doesn't mean your story has to end there.
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