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0There Are Too Many Damned Graduations (For Kids)
So Iâm at work the other day, and a 20-something-year-old co-worker asks me to switch days with him. He stated that it was very important to him that he have that particular upcoming day off because he wanted to travel out of town to attend his...
3President Obama, Men & The Dangers Of Complimenting Women
âNo man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.â --Frank OâConnor As I have said in previous postings, I am a proud male chauvinistâ¦in the traditional sense. I believe in...
13Compassion Fatigue - Why I'm Tired Of Trying To Help People
Dedicated to Francis Williams of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who passed away unexpectedly yesterday. She was one of a small group of people who (unknowingly) helped me find my purpose of impacting the world we live in the world when I had no purpose. ...
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Bernard Hopkins Win Provides A Lesson In Life
Let Saturday nightâs fight between former, now reincarnated boxing great Bernard Hopkins be lesson to you trumpeters of youthful vigor out thereâ¦very seldom will youth trump experience! Before a crowd at Brooklynâs Barclays Center, the...
14What's Wrong With Gay Marriage And The Traditional Family
Let me start out by saying that as a straight African-American male, I donât profess to understand just what homosexuality is insomuch as human behavior. Most conservative Christians donât believe that God would âmakeâ someone gay by intent....
5Gun Rights...And Wrongs!
NOTE: I would ask that you share this article on Facebook if you are interested in justice and equal protection under the law! Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee hosted the first of public hearings on the issue of gun control. Among...
6The Future is Now…and It Sucks! (or..."When I Was Your Age...!)
I realize that every day, there are parents out there who complain about the way the younger generation does things, from the style and manner of dress to the music. I also imagine that there are individuals belonging older generations who think,...
9The 5 Things Black & White Americans Do That Annoy The Hell Out of Me!
Youâll have to overlook my rant. As an African-American born and bred in âthe âhood,â reality often reminds me that I am one of those rare individuals who has been fortunateâor not so, depending on your perspectiveâto have lived a very...
12Contemporary Taste In Music & Why I Hate Trey Songz
Trey Songz For the nostalgic among the readership, allow me to set up the basis for this article by taking a stroll down Memory Lane. I belong to the aging generation demographers and social scientists refer to as "Generation X," those born...
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America's Lack of Sexual Modesty (...or "Sex & The Prude")
Iâm a little reluctant about writing this particular piece. Not because I feel embarrassed about my about my observations and/or stance on the subject, but because when it comes to the issue of sex in America if youâre not sexually...
19Employers…Shut Up & Listen!
A funny thing happened to me about a month ago while applying for a position for employment (not ha-ha âfunnyâ but what the ****? âfunnyâ). Theoretically, it could have been any position but as it happened was one in the social service...
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Why Are So Many Black Women Single, Part 2
In Part 1, the question was explored of why so many black women were single (between 60-70% some estimates). Among some of the possible reasons was the failure of black males to basically assimilateâat least on a practical, not necessarily an...
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Why Are So Many Black Women Single, Part 1
So Iâm listening to one of the countless personality-driven morning radio shows on my way from (thatâs from, not to) work recently when the subject matter worked itself around to the issue of black women. In particular, the issue was why so many...
18Men Are The New Women
Questionâ¦when exactly did it become socially unacceptable to be a man? Was the pinpoint moment sometime during the period between the publication of Betty Friedanâs The Feminine Mystique and the rise to notoriety of gyno-conspiracy hawk Gloria...
19To Spank Or Not To Spank? (Hell Yes!)
Growing up throughout the 1970s and halfway through the 80s, many of the children I knewâmyself includedâreceived both love and consistent discipline in a less than sophisticated balance that made most of us Generation Xers appreciate being...
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The Negative Influence of Southern Rap Music, Conclusion
Continued from Part 2, http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Negative-Influence-of-Southern-Rap-Music-Part-2 So what is it about Southern rap music which feeds some of the most negative elements of current pop culture? It could be the gratuitous levels of...
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The Negative Influence of Southern Rap Music, Part 2
Continued from Part 1 (http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Negative-Influence-of-Southern-Rap-Part-1) With current musical trendsâled by Southern rapâdripping with raw, and in most cases perverted sexuality, its hard not to believe that the...
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The Negative Influence of Southern Rap Music, Part 1
At the risk of sounding like a prude, Iâd like to declare that I can now understand why so many teenagers from low-income familiesâespecially those deemed âat-riskâ and those in the Southern U.S.âhave such openly lax attitudes about sex...
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Stop (Not) Snitching! Part 1
Despite having worked with troubled young people in one capacity or another for over the last decade, I still have to remind myself that although I myself was young once, todayâs youth are growing up under a completely different social...
