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Published: Thursday, 04 April 2013 15:00
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Written by Katrina Taylor
Bad Days: Creating Your Own Rainbows
Let’s face it. We all have bad days. Most anyone who says they don’t have bad days is either not aware or deluding themselves. Although the storms do lessen over time when we find the remedies that work for us and help us to grow.
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Published: Tuesday, 19 March 2013 03:26
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Written by Katrina Taylor
It's All In Black & White
President Barack Hussein Obama has been celebrated as the first African American president and rightly so. In a way, he is the quintessential African American in that his father was an African and his mother, American, bringing together two continents united by a troubled history. That his was the genesis of this shift in American politics is profound.Through self-discipline, study and an insatiable hunger to understand people and what makes them tick, Barack Obama has forged an exemplary life.
The mantel of "first Black President" stands as fact, shown in the response from racists who couldn't handle it any worse than if President Obama actually was a beret-wearing, fist-pumping militant negro. But Barack was raised by his White mother and family and they played the greatest role in his development. We know that the President is biracial but we don't talk about it much. But It was his mother who kept his academic nose to the grindstone and taught him to respect others as he would himself.
Barack's White grandparents joined the ranks of grandparents caring for their grandchildren and furthered his growth through their love and commitment as their daughter sought to make her own way. Living abroad in Indonesia and the multicultural landscape of Hawaii expanded his horizons, informing his sense of humanity and helped him to overcome personal boundaries limited by black & white lines.
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The flawed legislative bodies that form the Prison Industrial Complex amount to nothing more than modern-day slave factories.
By Tim Adams
I did get it a little twisted a couple weeks ago about which books were available for free download but Michael Baisden has now made an honest woman of me :)