they said we could have it all… they just didn't tell us how.
You’ve seen the movie (I have six times, once we bought tickets and did not even go to the cinema), and now that is is on DVD I have seen it near enough everyday with my friends, nieces and nephews, alone… because it is such a movie that resonates with me. You know the story…
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At 4:35 p.m on the 12th of April, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson walked into Starbucks in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, to wait for a mate with whom they were meeting. They’d asked the manager to use the bathroom, but were denied so they waited for their mate to turn up. At 4:37 p.m the…
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In a bipartisan meeting about immigration policy in the White House, donald trump asked why the United States allows immigrants from “all these shithole countries”, (in reference to African countries and Haiti) instead of immigrants from countries like Norway. Basically, immigrants from predominantly white countries are preferable to those from predominantly Black countries in his…
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History is prone to repeating itself because men, yes MEN, do not learn from the lessons of the past. Going by the recent headlines over the past few months, the ways of men have led to the downward spiral of the world today. From the white supremacists protesting the decline of their “supremacy” in the…
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Its hard. It is so hard. These days its hard not to get angry at everything and everyone. Its hard to breathe because it hurts when the breath settles in and you realise the current state of affairs of the world. Several times this year, our faith in humanity has been tested and several times humanity…
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Before I start you should know something, I love Marc Jacobs, I have five Marc Jacobs handbags, or six, all his perfumes, Marc Jacobs Men’s fragrance was my very first of his from way back when and I still use it today, I have revered his collections for forever, have mad love for the Stam bag, Frances…
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2008. What a year. What a time to have witnessed. The world was captivated by the newly elected President of The United States. A Black man. The first ever in a country that was built on the backs of his enslaved ancestors, residing in a house built by slaves. We couldn’t quite comprehend the meaning of…
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If this is the the time you tell me all lives matter- don’t. For until Black Lives Matter, your all lives matter chant is ignorant and counter productive because until you understand that all lives will only matter when Black Lives do, we cannot have a conversation. Black people are being murdered by men in law enforcement,…
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Somewhere in heaven Nina Simone is having deep conversations with whomever cares to listen about this movie. I bet she is not happy about it either. I am not happy about it, a lot of us are not happy about it but here we are and Hollywood is at it again. A lot of outrage has…
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