Tag: social commentary
group name: aabookreview
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August 28, 2008 01:09 PM EDT --
Every now and then I write to the companies who use Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben as personifications touting their products. I ask things like: Why can't SHE be Ms. Jemima and HE be Mr . Ben? I have . . .
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August 21, 2009 01:59 PM EDT --
Hi everyone!
I have finally gotten my book self-published and I am so excited! It's mainly for young adults but most anyone may enjoy it. YIPEE!
Malcolm Bakersfield is telling his older brother and . . .
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June 08, 2008 05:17 PM EDT --
There's a lot of buzz going around about how Hillary Clinton has been treated so poorly by some simply because she is a woman.
I can't help but think of the speech Sojourner Truth (Isabella . . .
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April 09, 2009 01:27 PM EDT --
This is an article bringing to light--I hope--that I have been chewing over for some time. It explains why I have told some people on Gather that when writing descriptions about others, folk always seem . . .
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March 16, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
What do you find physically beautiful and how far are you willing to go to be so if you don't already possess that characteristic? Do you know someone who has taken unnatural measures to make their . . .
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October 30, 2008 12:04 PM EDT --
(I wrote an article on this movie about a week ago but Gather's techno-bug wouldn't post it. This was before the tragedy actor/singer Jennifer Hudson is dealing with.).
Have you seen the movie . . .
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December 11, 2008 07:27 PM EST --
Another milestone!
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_state_of_black_america_news/4286
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February 11, 2009 12:12 PM EST --
I like reading and writing what are termed colloquialisms from various sources. I enjoy knowing or figuring out what is the writer's/character's meaning by using such words (think Mark Twain). . . .
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October 12, 2009 11:02 AM EDT --
We now have new black "Barbies (have different names; Barbie must be white)". A small step in the right direction. Their skin colored in many shades just as real black people's. All have long hair and . . .
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August 12, 2009 11:11 AM EDT --
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_re_us/us_militia_movement
http://www.theroot.com/views/birthers-and-jim-crow-20
tolerance.org
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January 01, 2009 10:44 PM EST --
Hi everyone!
I am re-posting the Author's Note from my novel The Magic Pencil because I'd like to get the opinions of new friends and members.
Thanks in advance!
copyright . . .
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September 03, 2009 10:37 PM EDT --
Well, I am busy touting my book and have gotten two stores to carry it so far and have a reading/book signing at one of them in October.
For those of you who may be in the Metropolitan Detroit, MI area: . . .
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September 13, 2009 09:01 PM EDT --
Excerpt from
The Magic Pencil
by Karen E. Dabney © 2009
INTRODUCTION
This story is about YoungStar Malcolm Bakersfield, his mysterious . . .
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February 02, 2009 09:56 PM EST --
Copy and paste for some interesting facts!
http://www.diversityinc.com/public/3074.cfm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=peer360&utm_campaign=DI+Newsletter-020209&utm_content=DI+Newsletter-020209 . . .
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January 24, 2009 11:45 PM EST --
Now that Barack Obama is president, many folk are also espousing that there are no more "excuses" for black people who remain impoverished in hearts and minds.
I have to take issue with this . . .
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May 29, 2008 05:58 PM EDT --
WARNING: This article is scholarly as well as lengthy.
Buried Prejudice: The Bigot In Your Brain
Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst . . .
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March 29, 2009 09:31 PM EDT --
This is a subject that is near and dear to me.
http://www.diversityinc.com/public/4731.cfm
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November 19, 2008 10:46 PM EST --
from my e-mail:
http://www.theroot.com/id/48726
Alice Walker on expectations, responsibilities and a new reality that is almost more than the heart can bear.
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March 06, 2009 06:14 PM EST --
A few folk have asked me how to get a copy of 44th, Barack H. Obama, The Commemorative Edition.
It contains reprinted information of full color front pages from leading African American newspapers reporting . . .
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May 26, 2008 03:27 PM EDT --
Joan G. posted this under the various tags I have been touting. I don't want anyone to miss it so I am posting it to YOU! Please watch and see what you may have been missing! Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvC64lWeu-s . . .
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