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Slurs, epithets, unflattering racial vernacular. Will this insanity ever stop? The bulk of this blog post, I already posted as a topic for discussion in one of my favorite BP Groups, but I wanted to blog it here as well. Bear with me here because y'all know I ramble...I logged on this morning and the first thing I saw was a banner that informed me that Lyndsay Lohan referred to our new President as colored in an interview on ET. The article even had a video of the interview in question. That... (continue reading)

My Dearest Readers, It is with mixed emotions that I post this blog. The first call I received, after the news was announced, was from my oldest brother. With tears in his voice, he recalled a conversation between the two of us from the '70's about the first black President. Never in our lifetime little sis, he said to me with the bold certainty that often accompanies the very young. I replied, Oh yes it will happen, you just wait and see Big Brother!, I vehemently declared with as much surety... (continue reading)

For the past two weeks, I have been involved in a situation with a friend who was injured by some words I spoke out of concern. In speaking these words both to the friend in question and to another I have caused emotional injury. Unintentional, of course, but I caused harm to my friend nonetheless.Being African American and, as such, I have been, more often than not, the object of ridicule and the target for scathingcomments and opinionsof the ignorant. Consequently, I learned at a very early... (continue reading)