Okay, all the hatin' over the BET Awards show is really getting silly. Don't like BET? Then work on changing the culture FIRST. If you can change the culture, you will decrease demand for what you feel misrepresents Black folks. Do it the other way around, and more "BETs" will pop up. Need an example? Some of y'all may remember back in the day when local churches would stage protests in front of local porn shops. Did they manage to get a few of them shut down? Sure did. But how did the porn industry respond to meet demand? They moved ...
I think many of us knew that it would not take long for folks to suddenly act as if they have been ardent Michael Jackson supporters for years. Jackson was hammered repeatedly by critics for allegedly being ashamed of being Black due to all the plastic surgery and the mysterious lightening of his skin. Black folks slammed him on this and White folks were given full and complete license to also question his racial identity and joke about it. Then I remember what Jamie Foxx said the other day at the BET Awards show: "Michael Jackson was a black ...
I think a lot of us saw that coming from a mile away. From AdAge.com RushmoreDrive.com, the first black search engine, recently shut down only a year after its launch. This raised the question about whether there is a market for a black version of Google. Rushmore Drive was the brainchild of Barry Diller's IAC, which just reported a "first-quarter net loss of $28.4 million compared to a profit of $52.8 million in the same quarter a year ago." Too bad. Rushmore's failure is not only another negative statistic from the fallout of the economic downturn, but also from questionable planning. (more...) Kevin Walker, ...
From townhall.com "Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he’s declined to comment. University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a “perv dad for fun.” The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted ...
Ever since the uprising in Iran over their recent elections, Americans have been somewhat mixed over if President Obama should move beyond his rather light and empty rhetoric over the situation. Some have insisted that the cry for democracy in Iran is none of our business and that the US should stop "meddling" in the affairs of another country, like Bush did. Apparently Somalia wasn't included in that memo. U.S. Has Sent 40 Tons of Munitions to Aid Somali Government washingtonpost.com The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past ...
A friend of mine on Facebook this morning posted this on their page. This is how I first responded.
"Dangerous statement. God 'ain't' some things as well."
She asked me to explain and this is what I said.
Well....
-He's not a "homeboy"
-He's not a boyfriend or boo (ref. Keirra Sheard)
-He isn't always on our side (I get the gist, but the problem is you have people in other faiths saying this as well. ...More
Christopher J. Priest for PraiseNet.org writes regarding the Gospel Music Workshop of America~
"Local chapters assemble these nice, well-meaning folks together who work very hard all year, running here and there singing their hearts out, looking forward to the big GMWA convention where these folks will finally get the chance to sing before the national convention. The unspoken hope, of course, is that they’ll get a record deal and/or get to ...More
I think that it is fair to say that we all know someone who has been sexually abused. I thought about splashing a few statistics up here, but it occurred to me "How many people are willing to put that kind of information out there publicly?"
Everyone feels for the child that has been abused in any way by an adult. But what about the adult who has spent years trying ...More
Can God forgive a woman who has had an abortion?
Yes!
We hear enough about how abortions are wrong (and don't misunderstand me, abortion is murder). But what about those who already had one? Here are excerpts from two webpages I found this morning that talk more on the forgiveness only Christ can offer to those who want it.
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CAN I BE FORGIVEN FOR HAVING AN ABORTION?
By Ron & Cindy Sutton
Some wounds cut ...More
