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NAACP honors Donald Sterling

Something people have never quite understood from me is my take on race relations. I'm a Black woman growing up in the South. I would rather someone call me N-word to my face and "friend" behind my back than to call me "friend" to my face and N-word behind my back.

See...what you call me to my face won't hurt me...after all it isn't what YOU call me, but what I answer to that matters. However...if you are the architect of deception and cutting a shine in my face while working my demise behind my back...WE HAVE A PROBLEM.
I believe everyone holds biases and prejudices. That being said I give a special kind of side-eye to people who claim to be post-racial or colorblind. Child PLEASE! This is especially true when it comes to the issue of interracial-dating. Usually the colorblindness is subjective and it only applies to the person the colorblind person is sleeping with on a regular basis. Take Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, for example...he sees his ha…
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Why do you stand with Porsha?

I'm an admitted reality TV junkie. I have watched Real Housewives of Atlanta since DeShawn and Lisa were in the cast. So of course I watched the RHOA Reunion last night and witnessed the Porsha vs Kenya debacle.

Today, I was on Twitter and saw a hashtag that seemed so stupid to me: #ISTANDWITHPORSHA.

Really? Why do you stand with Porsha?

These people were claiming that Porsha merely stood up to a bully when she dragged Kenya down by her hair. I call BS. Porsha lost her cool and resorted to a five-year-old's tactics.

What exactly makes Kenya a bully? She does exactly the same things that the other women on the show do. And I mean EXACTLY THE SAME. It only gets labeled bullying because people don't like Kenya for what ever reason.

Porsha is a grown woman who behaves very childishly on the show. I clearly have no earthly idea what she's like outside of the cameras...but anyway...onto my point...

The Housewives Reunions shows are like battle raps. You go in knowing that y…
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Bloggers Feast at Tupelo Honey Cafe in Charlotte

Let me tell you...I am still full from Friday night! Yes...it is Tuesday morning. One night, I stopped by this restaurant called Tupelo Honey Cafe that opened in Charlotte in December of 2013. After visiting and thoroughly enjoying the food, I tweeted about it and was contacted by someone in their social media department.

 I was invited back to review with Bloggers FeastTM, a collective of invited bloggers who review businesses, events, and restaurants. It is the brainchild of myself and a fellow blogger.

Mar 19 Tried in ...I was very pleased. Expand
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Starving student athletes

Shabazz Napier said he's gone to bed hungry while playing ball in Connecticut...his team the UConn Huskies just won the NCAA B-ball championship.

I'm blogging this because I happened to have graduated from a D1 school...and two of my best guy friends played D1 sports. One played at UNC where I was and the other played at one of our rival schools.

Now the UNC friend and I always argued about athletes getting paid. He called me a hater...because I said NOooooooooooo way! I went to college on academic scholarships and qualified for a Pell Grant, but because my scholarship covered well over my tuition and everything else, I think I only got to use the Pell Grant one semester.

Let me get to this hungry athletes thing. Are there really starving student athletes?

I don't recall any of the dudes I knew on athletic scholarships scrounging around for food. They had meal plans, stipends, and training table. And to be honest...I got quite a few meals from some of them...I'm just be…
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