Until VERY recently, I used to have real issues with people giving their kids "black" names. When I say black names, I'm not referring to African, Arabic or even European names that we appropriated (Leroy, Antoine, Tyrone, etc), but what we might call "made up" names.

I really thought they were the indicative of ignorance, and when parents who "should know better" started giving their kids those names, I took it as a sign that our worst element had successfully shaped Black Culture in their image. Now, I think there's a beauty in the fact that these names are uniquely Black, and uniquely AMERICAN. Other than "native" names, it doesn't get more American than Black names.

It went from "who cares?" to "man, let them folks do what they want/need with each other"

A coworker/friend who is gay in GA was separating from her partner of over 15 years, and it was killing them both, because they had no legal leg to stand on. Shit got nasty/messy/ugly, pretty quickly

and structures that *can* simoplify things. And that's to say nothing of things like illnesses

now i feel like there are better ways to discipline your children.

i even apologized to my daughters. one hit me with the shaq face

http://blacksportsonline.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/shaq-face-3.jpg

for coming to that realization AFTER she experienced whoopins while the other appreciated the new outlook.


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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

I had a kid

I had a kid

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

http://blackpeopleonlocalnews.tumblr.com/

I used to not really give a fuck about the america aspect of that picture. Now I find it the most important factor in the equation.

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Big PEMFin H & z's
"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

https://banafrit.com/
http://middlebrainmedia.com/

Activism, the arts in general, marriage, monogamy, careerism

Realized that believing some people deserve to die and supporting the death penalty are not the same thing.

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I check for: Serengeti, Zeroh, Open Mike Eagle, Jeremiah Jae, Moka Only.

enough money for a good lawyer youre screwed cuz theres people out there like that that aree innocent

so now i do not like the death penalty


i dont have colors
my mmsic:
www.soundclick.com/sylana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brb8g8f18xE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgNuVHrEKI

in my late teens/early 20s, i used to be a nigga who thought calling other niggas coons was some righteous conscious shit.

now i recognize it as the zenith of self-hatred.

-30-
You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

fuck you.

fuck you.

.

hahaha.

http://www.celebstoner.com/news/celebstoner-news/2014/03/25/cosmos,-cannabis-and-robert-hooke/

late pass, catching up on The Cosmos

this shit made me say, what the fuck!?!

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If you can't understand it without an explanation

you can't understand it with an explanation

porn
hunting
organized religion

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Navem nu, cuando sol
Tutu nu, vondo nos nu
Vita em, no continous non
Nos nu ekta nos sepe ta, amen

When the sun shades the ship
We sweat and life is not safe
To swim or to touch not
When we unite we hedge amen

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Sometimes you have to look reality in the face and say 'No!'
-Ben (Reaper)

If you need any help, don't. Hesitate to ask.

i've changed to: most white people aint shit.

911

Not much of a conspiracy theorist

but the science behind 911 being a setup can't be argued against

I don't think I was able to get past the tragedy of that day

to look at it objectively

but having it explained scientifically

yeah, that shit was a demolition, not a fire.

ae911truth

GMOs

A good friend has been yelling and screaming about buy organic, etc...from day 1

me...ehh, whatever

but again, after seeing some of the science

yeah, they putting poison in our food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsglbfZLc_0#t=89

Israel

= war criminals

Noam Chomsky

US Legal System

the whole damn system is guilty as hell

again, from a scientific view

the disparity in race by census vs race by inmates

yeah, that shit is on purpose

The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

Terrorism

we are the terrorists

Anwar al-Awlaki and his son

the first US born citizen to be killed by a drone

and his 16 Y.O. son being the 2nd

Dirty Wars - Jeremy Scahill

Drug Addiction

again, there is absolutely 0 science in the war on drugs

Adderall = Methamphetamine

everything we've ever been told about drugs/addiction is a lie.

High Price - Carl Hart

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If you can't understand it without an explanation

you can't understand it with an explanation

A guy they wanted to be with, but weren't in a relationship with (yet).

Mainly bc I saw soooo many girls get used in college, hooking up with dudes and then being heartbroken bc dude never wanted to be with them.

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at the end of the day, though...