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The topic of interracial dating/relationships has always been a topic of debate among our people for years and years. I've heard it from both sides, brothas and sistas. Brothas and I mean some brothas have said that sistas are overbearing, have attitudes, gold digger, can't be trusted and a few other stereotypical assumptions. Sistas have stated that the only good men that are left are either dead, married or gay. As the title of this essay says, this has nothing to do with a white man or a... (continue reading)

Got Swag?
Hell Yeah I Got Swag But Not The Kind Of Swag You Thinking About.
My Swagger Comes From Knowing Who I Am.
I Have The Swagger Of MLK JR, W.E.B DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, The Black Panthers And Many Others.
I Have The Swagger Of The Ones That Fought For What Is Right And For Their People.
What Do Some Of You Base Your Swag On?
Do You Base It On The Ones Who Came Before You Or Do You Base It On Bull%#&@$!?
Do You Base It On You... (continue reading)

Have we become desensitized to each other's plight??? I mean have we become so cold hearted as a people that we don't want to understand what our fellow brothas and sistas are going through? Have we already made judgements about them, ignorant ones at best because we only can see what's going on outside of their situation? We call out people lazy, unfit and unprepared. Most of the time we don't even know that they could be making strides to better themselves and to correct the bad mistakes... (continue reading)