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Dealing with people on a daily basis, up close and personal is more mental stimuli than I need and it truly inhibits my creativity. I have so many thoughts, feelings, comments running through my mind it is hard to focus and put them down on paper. Sometimes the negativity keeps me without energy, sometimes their duplicity leaves me shaking my head in dismay so frequently that my head aches from the motion.

I was reading an article at work the other day ab...

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Wikileaks’ release of documents containing pertinent information on the war in Afghanistan and the possible connection between Pakistan and the Taliban have me shaking my head to clear the, I told you so out. It also has the potential to make people realize the futility of this battle which government officials and military heads keep trying to convince us is a winnable battle.

After nine years of warring, with a $60 billion war funding bill on...

Not being into politics, not wanting to run for public office and having lived my life as a black American, I can be as truthful about race as I want to be and I say that in order to have a relevant conversation about race you have to be willing to face some truths and being politically correct hampers the effect of truth when it comes to race relations.

As I watched the conversations generated by what happened to Shirley Sherrod over the last week I ha...

This is a prime example of white racist attempting to flip the script, like they always do and make it appear that it is blacks who are the true racist.

Based on lies and manipulations of a speech made by Shirley Sherrod, they gave the impression that her remarks were indeed racist when in fact her speech was of growth and understanding, something racist whites will never be guilty of.

The main people guilty of race baiting, racist attitudes, racial hate and straight stupidity are white Am...

One thing that still amazes me is the attitudes of some white people. Now I am not racist, I do not hate, it involves too much negative energy but I am a perceptive observer of things in the world and especially the attitudes of white Americans.

I have watched the Tea Party Movement develop and witnessed the signs they carried, the attitudes they displayed but more importantly, the words they have used to express their desires to "take back their government" now that a black man is preside...

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As Americans discuss the corruption in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti and other governments, I stand witness to the bully mentality of our local government here in California where state workers are being threatened with minimum wage salaries as a means to force them into contract agreements that are not completely in their best interest.

Never mind the fact that having just come back from mandatory furloughs where they lost 15% of their salaries for a period of 18 ...

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Yesterday marked the 6-month anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. Six months later and people are still living in tents; six months later and rubble still inhibits movement, six months later and international funds are still nothing more than pledges.

As hurricane season threatens to add insult to injury no move has yet been made to assimilate those people living in tents into a sturdier home base. They say it is because of the ‘corruption’ that is taking...