May 21, 2013

The Bridge: The Giving of Thanks

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“We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.’ -Malcolm X *The above quote from Malcolm X is in reference to the celebration of the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock in what they would call New England, ultimately creating the Mayflower Compact and laying the foundation for the United States. Malcolm used this [...]




The Bridge: Understanding Men

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*Pick up any given women’s magazine, and you will find something that has been enduring: Information about men. The problem is that much of that information comes from women. Typically, the magazines provide lists that women should follow in order to measure the worth of potential male mates. Those lists also explain what men must [...]




The Bridge: Looking Up, Looking Down

*Sometimes, we look at people in a way that reveals exactly how we feel. We can look with love, or we can look with hate. Sometimes, we can look with indifference or with judgement of those we assume are beneath us. We do this when we see people on the street, asking for money. An [...]




The Bridge: Obama, Race & Politics

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*Some people still don’t get it. But anyone with eyes, ears and a working brain knows that President Barack Obama has brought out all the racism in America that many people lied about. Many people lied about racism being on the decline and how Obama’s election ushered in a “post racial society.” But to the [...]




The Bridge: American Dummies & The Vote

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*Americans love to believe that they are a smart people. But then they go about the business of doing things that are not very smart. For example, America spews rhetoric about the separation of church and state, but for many Americans, the church should dictate the state. We’ve seen this in recent times when politicians [...]




The Bridge: Dumb Ass Columbus

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*Each year this time, the nation celebrates one of the dumbest explorers in the history of exploring. Good old Christopher Columbus (born Cristobol Colon) is given credit for “discovering” the “New World,” and set up as some master explorer when such was really not the case. Dumb Ass Columbus was actually commissioned to find a [...]




The Bridge: Living In Fear, 2012

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“America is filled with terror from North to South and we thank God.” – Osama bin Laden “Either you are with us, or with the terrorists.” -George Bush *America is supposed to be the greatest nation on earth. Its citizens are supposed to live better than any other nation. But that just isn’t true. And [...]




The Bridge: Dirty Black Secrets, Part 4—The Dirtiest Secrets

*One of the dirtiest Black secrets of all is that Black people have kept themselves enslaved. The enslavement has been perpetuated largely by pretending that there is no racism. But also by passing lies and mythology about ourselves. Many Blacks think we are doing worse than we really are because of the lies they pass [...]




The Bridge: Dirty Black Secrets, Part 3 — Alphabet Soup

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*A dirty little secret that no one wants to tell is that many of the same organizations that were founded to “help” Black people have now become serious problems for Black people. Those problems are alphabetical—all of the acronymic organizations from the NAACP to the NUL (National Urban League) and even the Black Greek alphabet [...]




The Bridge: Dirty Black Secrets, Part 2 — Countering Lies & Deception

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*Last week, I discussed a powerful dirty Black secret: Many Black women are a huge problem for Black America. One of the reasons is that they are the strongest perpetuators of feminism in this nation. We saw in the 2008 election a powerful rejection of Hillary Clinton by older white men and younger white women [...]




The Bridge: Dirty Black Secrets, Part 1

*Black people have some dirty little secrets. We all see them, but we’re not supposed to talk about them. But you already know that I just don’t care. Here’s one:  Some Black women can be a huge problem for Black people. Old crazy Darryl James has been saying it for years. I first talked about [...]




The Bridge: Paying The Cost

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*How sad is it that in today’s economy, women are still complaining about how much men spend on dates? Really? First off, dating is supposed to be a process by which two individuals get to know each other. If you already have rigid standards and expectations of people you haven’t even met, chances are things [...]




The Bridge: The Walk of Shame

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*Traditionally, men were hunters and gatherers and held the sole responsibility for initiating the mating ritual, which included marriage proposals, asking for the first dance and initiating first contact. First contact. That’s the dreaded first “hello” or the first smile. And it used to be fairly simple. Men did it. Until society was turned on [...]




The Bridge: Ask Obama, Ask Them All

*It’s funny to me—not in a “haha” way—that dead brained American sheep have found all kinds of courage to challenge and disparage the first Black President, but find no courage to challenge anyone else. This is true of non-Black American racists, but even truer with self-hating American knee grows, who will go hard on Blacks, [...]




The Bridge: Keeping It Real, Part 2 — Loving The Real Us

The phrase “keep it real” falls from the lips of far too many phony people. They have no idea what it would take to actually keep it real, and even if they knew, many of them wouldn’t do it anyway. If we truly wish to keep it real, we must first learn to love each [...]