Sorry y’all, I just couldn’t…

Something Obama failed to mention on his recent trip

From abcnews.com "Hours before his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa as president, President Obama delivered some tough love to African leaders, urging them to get their houses in order so they can better provide for their citizens. In a meeting this morning with the leaders of Egypt, Algeria, Senegal, Nigeria, Libya and Ethiopia, Obama spoke about his personal connections to both Africa and poverty, and challenged the leaders to set prioritiesfor combating poverty and hunger. According to a top White House aide, 'You could have heard a pin drop.' [...] "The point I was making was that my father traveled to the United States ...

Mamie “Peanut” Johnson: Featured video for the week

Since switching to this latest template, I haven't taken the opportunity to talk about the random videos you see on the right sidebar. This week's featured video is of the living baseball legend, Mamie "Peanut" Johnson. Taken from the website of the Negro League Baseball Players Association (NLBPA) Born: Sept 27, 1935 Right-handed pitcher Indianapolis Clowns 1953-55 Mamie, who along with Connie Morgan and Toni Stone, was one of three women to play in the Negro leagues. Mamie Johnson, the daughter of Gentry Harrison and Della Belton Havelow, was born on September 27, 1935, in Ridgeway, South Carolina. When she was only seven years old, ...

TRENDS: Hair tips via You Tube

For the past year or so I have noticed a steep incline in the amount of videos that are being uploaded by our sistahs instructing other Black women from everything from makeup trends to how to sew in a weave. On the home front I can tell you that my wife has spent numerous hours either at the kitchen table or curled up on our bed learning new ways to style her hair or find out the latest trends on hair braiding. Personally I find this trend very interesting because I can see it at some point developing into an ...

“Judge not…”

Matthew 7:1 is one of the most quoted scriptures in the Bible these days. Even people who do not subscribe to the teachings of the Bible will quickly whip out that passage of scripture and use it as a speed pass to cancel out any criticisms regarding their moral failings. The very Bible that most people today try to dismiss as "out of date", not relative for today, or not to be taken literally is the same Bible these individuals use to deflect criticism of their behavior. Now let's read versus 1 and 2. "Do not judge, or you too will be ...

Finding and losing history

History found Records of freed Va. slaves placed online History possibly lost (suburbanchicagonews.com) "A property once covered in unique objets d'art and so renowned even the Smithsonian Institution took notice now is slated for demolition. Kane County officials this week took further steps toward tearing down the long-abandoned African-American Heritage Museum and Black Veterans Archives in Aurora Township by approving an application to the Circuit Court for demolition of 'dangerous and/or unsafe building.' 'This is the very beginning stage' of the demolition process, said Mark VanKerkhoff of the county's Development Department. It could be three to four months before the building actually is torn down, ...

Part of me really wanted to watch the BET music awards, but I…..I…..just can’t get past Mo’Nique’s voice (grrrr!). I was in the kitchen on my laptop and my wife was in the family room watching the show. She was kind to me by muting out the parts when Mo’Nique was at the mike. Eventually I found myself getting distracted as lil’ man was on his new keyboard upstairs. So I took the opportunity to teach him some basic listening techniques and basic chords (cuz’ that is all I know).

Came back downstairs and saw that my wife ordered Dreamgirls (This is about her 4th time seeing this film and this is my first–I am generally very slow seeing new films).

So did I miss anything?

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Posted by Duane On June - 27 - 2007

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VB Says:
June 27th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Naw…you did not miss a thing! I’m like you in that I can’t get past Mo’Nique’s voice and personality. I was flipping the channels and caught her and her “crew” doing a Beyonce impression…needless to say I kept on flipping.
Roz Says:
June 27th, 2007 at 8:21 am
I wish I had kept flipping. After all the other repeat shows finished at 9p central. I turned in time to see them give tribute to Diana Ross. That was okay. But when lil wayne/flip whatever his ghetto a– name is won an award, I regretted immediately watching. Why don’t we learn, he had his kids up on stage looking like bobo the clown and he didn’t look much better with his baggy jeans and t-shirt. I was so disappointed in Ciara’s performance as well-she was just trashy to me. And I didn’t like the fact that they had flavor flav singing James Brown songs–they could have done much more justice to a tribute of James Brown. You did miss Don Cheadle receiving humanitarian award, which I truly feel he deserves and that was probably the best part of the show. Keep in mind I only watched an hour and felt humiliated and degraded during that time, just think how i would have felt if I had watched all 3 hours of that nonsense. Good choice helping your kid with his music or whatever you were doing, next year I’m going to the movies. Roz
VB Says:
June 28th, 2007 at 9:07 am
LOL Roz that was too funny! Too bad you didn’t flip when you had the chance!