RiRi needs therapy

Somebody come get this child...cause she's runnin' a muck w/scissors. Somebody had the nerve to rationalize her "relevancy" as "someone who can at least still reach young girls". If this is the best young women have...then let's just pack it up and go home. Game over! We lost!

Resumes ≠ Men

As I read the Washington Post article, on Helena Andrews, I immediately started to get tight. I had to muster the fragments of discipline I possess and force myself to give the article and the author they were speaking about a chance. Yet, everything in me screamed…absolute fail. It is ironic, to some degree, that black men don’t have these vociferous conversations in plain sight and especially with the mass media. In that I find a paradigm that I think is part of the reason so many of us are finding ourselves single. How do I know? Well I know, I’ve probably been that chick, that’s a lie I know I was. So, why does it bother me so much that she is? Well one, I had to grow out of that. Two, I had to stop myself, look at myself and evaluate myself---not men. This is the problem with the general relationship trade. In order for all of these bloggers, TV hosts (OPRAH/TYRA), journalists, movie houses, lawyers, etc. to continue to make money and exploit these stories they must keep the story superficial and allow the subject to continuously emote no matter how ridiculous their plight or how glaring their role in the situation. It is fine to be young and dumb, when you’re young and supposed to be dumb. It’s not so cute when you’re 30 and definitely not when you’re over 45!!! (Sidebar: There is a plethora of them both single and newly single or on their way to being single). Nonetheless, as we all dawn on the arrival of our thirties…planning your birthday bash or soiree should be, in my opinion, low down on your list of to-dos. First, should be taking stock of who I am and what I have become and what I would like to be. I mean if planning a party, vacation, whatever that celebrates the departure of one decade into the arrival of a quintessentially different and more exciting era of life doesn’t spark some introspection and reflection…there really is no need to celebrate. The celebration marks a grand change, if that grand change isn’t holistic to some degree, it really isn’t that grand. Sorry. Read More>>>

Majora Carter's tale of urban renewal | Video on TED.com

This is an important cause that all denizens of America's "ghettos" should and must join.

Majora Carter's tale of urban renewal | Video on TED.com

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Robinson. I have long believed and said that education as we know it only has one purpose---to create and mold a sustainable and pliant workforce. The parameters and prerequisites we place on ppl in relation to education and career mobility are there to create natural barriers and a "natural selection" process on the general populace. If it were not so, such terms as unemployable or underemployed would not exist; job fitness would be determined solely on ability to perform a task not on degree attained. Study the history of public education, its rise and acceptance into the mainstream of society. It will coincide with the need for a larger, cyclical, reproductive workforce. Education, is not about intellectual dexterity or a breadth of intelligence; but about who has the best ability for perfunctory memorization, rote regurgitation or a profound ability to network (ie cheat). Disagree if you’d like...but I know I'm right.


Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com