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Living My Life Out and Loud: The Whiter Shade of Pale
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Living My Life Out and Loud. Sharing My Thoughts About the World Around Me. Looking at The World From a Perspective of the Soul. Thursday, September 23, 2010. The Whiter Shade of Pale. VOLUNTEERS WANTED: Young trendy women needed to bake long hours in the sun. Able to tolerate hours of mindless boredom. Prefer those with light skin and European heritage. It is the proof of a summer spent working- working on a tan. What happens when summer ends and the skin starts to fade? Later on, the working class move...
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Living My Life Out and Loud: Loving Across Racial Lines
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Living My Life Out and Loud. Sharing My Thoughts About the World Around Me. Looking at The World From a Perspective of the Soul. Thursday, September 23, 2010. Loving Across Racial Lines. Who are those who threw caution out the door and dare to challenge a world and dare to enter a world where attraction across the racial line is taboo and forbidden? Who are those who reach out to make contact across that human-conceived divide based on skin pigment? In fact, more alive then before the leap. There are no ...
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Living My Life Out and Loud: Hitting Below the Belt
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Living My Life Out and Loud. Sharing My Thoughts About the World Around Me. Looking at The World From a Perspective of the Soul. Thursday, September 23, 2010. Hitting Below the Belt. I have noticed lately that there are three words that are seldom spoken together in the same breathe: men are oppressed. What rolls more easily over our tongues and through our lips are phrases like men oppress, men hurt others and men are abusive. Is it as simple as "women good, men bad"? I want the secret out. I want my da...
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Living My Life Out and Loud: National Day of Mourning
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Living My Life Out and Loud. Sharing My Thoughts About the World Around Me. Looking at The World From a Perspective of the Soul. Thursday, September 23, 2010. National Day of Mourning. No wonder I was alienated from history. It had no relevance to my present life. The celebration of Thanksgiving continues this glorified and “happy” tradition. So what would it look like to tell the truth, all the truth and nothing but the truth? Were the circumstances of the first English-speaking colony in Jamestown too ...
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Living My Life Out and Loud: They Came, They Discovered, They Killed: History as told to Children
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Living My Life Out and Loud. Sharing My Thoughts About the World Around Me. Looking at The World From a Perspective of the Soul. Thursday, September 23, 2010. They Came, They Discovered, They Killed: History as told to Children. Every October, teachers and parents face the decision of what to teach about Columbus or whether to teach about him at all. The mere mention of Columbus arouses strong emotions. He’s either admired or despised. What objective truths do we want our children to know about Columbus?
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Living My Life Out and Loud: 9/19/10 - 9/26/10
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Living My Life Out and Loud. Sharing My Thoughts About the World Around Me. Looking at The World From a Perspective of the Soul. Thursday, September 23, 2010. We are a country built on the idea that anyone can be an American. On. Crisp fall days, balmy summer mornings, bitter winter afternoons and perfect. Spring days , immigrants from global countries pledge allegiance to the. United States of America and become citizens. They are welcomed into. Stayed in war-torn Japan. Lee is an American of Chinese he...
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Living My Life Out and Loud: 8/29/10 - 9/5/10
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Living My Life Out and Loud. Sharing My Thoughts About the World Around Me. Looking at The World From a Perspective of the Soul. Monday, August 30, 2010. The Nappy Hair Club. I belong to a club. The price of admission is a lock of hair. I am a card-carrying member of the "nappy" hair club - a lifetime member since birth. Black women will drive for hours to find someone who can work with "our kind of hair." I drive two hours. Stores seldom carry products for black hair. I order mine. Legend also has it th...
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Living My Life Out and Loud: Warriors in the War on Poverty
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Living My Life Out and Loud. Sharing My Thoughts About the World Around Me. Looking at The World From a Perspective of the Soul. Thursday, September 23, 2010. Warriors in the War on Poverty. I live in a neighborhood with manicured lawns, groomed pets and well-nourished, well-dressed children who live with parents with well-educated lives who drive in their dependable cars to well-paying jobs that provide plenty of health insurance and well -deserved vacations and retirement plans. Poor and the working cl...
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Living My Life Out and Loud: Counting Sheep
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Living My Life Out and Loud. Sharing My Thoughts About the World Around Me. Looking at The World From a Perspective of the Soul. Thursday, September 23, 2010. I was born with a heart murmur- a heart with an unusual sound heard along with it’s beating. Often it expresses itself as a soft faint murmur. Often the murmur pounds louder. As I gaze out my window, I search for the stars. In my lifetime, this country has had a history of denying groups- women, the disabled and people of color- rights, safety, and...
