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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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Now, why you gonna make me cuss you??!

Awwww, man, I gotta share this story to set this up right.  Years ago, my dad was dating this woman and he was playing with her by pushing her around and wrestling with her.  Now, she clearly didn't like this so she told my dad to stop.  Of course, my dad being hard headed kept on messing with her.  She warned him again that she did not like a man 'man handling her' and that she didn't like wrestling.  I say again, my dad being hardheaded kept messing with her.  The next thing I know, "PA POW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"!  That's right, she hit him with a two piece:  One to the gut and the other to the shoulder.  NOOOOOOW, my dad wanted to get serious and said "Woman, are you crazy?!" She then said, "Those were warning punches. The next time will be to your face!!".

Now, I'll be the first to tell you that THAT was funny as hell to me! However, it did bring up a unique point.  Isn't it interesting how people will PUSH you to show that OTHER side of your personality EVEN when you warn them??

I've had always had the feeling and belief that we all have a DARK side of us.  You know what I'm talking about! That side of our personality that we keep on lock so people don't think ill of us.  However, it's like the Pit BULL in the fenced in yard in the dog house.  Even though you don't have a sign on the door that says "MAD DOG", you keep the key handy in case you need to let the DOG out on someone.

The thing that I am always amazed is how people can see the dog, hear the dog, KNOW the dog will bite and will continue to antagonize the dog until FINALLY, BAM, tear a knot out yo ass!!!!  LOL

People, I will never understand it.  Now, some people have a SICK sense of pleasure of watching someone get gangsta.  True story, BAAAAAAAAAAAACK in the day when I was pledging, I remember my line being sent to this one young lady's room who was a member of Delta Sigma Theta.  The running comment was that previous pledges in the past had been sent to her with the task of asking for one of her 'undergarments' (yes, juvenile, I know).  Well, this Delta had a reputation FOR cussing out pledges for asking for these items.  And HERE we go and all I could think was "Why would you do this to us KNOWING we gonna get cussed out??!!".  Fortunately, she didn't do it this time but you get the point.

Then, there are those persons out there who just don't believe that someone will put the dogs on them.  How many times have you had someone "Push" you and you tell them stop before it gets ugly and they STILL do it??  You know what I'm talking about.  They keep on and on and finally BAM, you gotta break out that GANGSTA side of you!

Listen, some people just NEED to get that RIGHTEOUS cussing for them to recognize that if you keep playing in the kitchen, the skillet of hot grease will eventually get knocked off the stove and BURN your ass!!