Month: January 2010

Cupid Shoot Me With Your Rifle Love

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With Valentine’s Day a little over a month away there are many anxious and angry single men and women out there who are thinking of ways to avoid the torture of the heart sensationalized holiday. But why is that?  Why can’t there be  a holiday for single men and women to unite and celebrate the fabulousity of living a single life?  The flowers and the candy, and if your lucky the romantic evening only last 24 hours.  Then the smiles are smacked right off the couples faces and you are quickly remembered why he or she got on your nerves in the first place.  It’s funny to me, and I hate to be a hypocrite, but for once I’d like to step out of the the single-black-girl shoes and enjoy the 24 hours of love…  Dont get me wrong I’m not rushing to the online dating sites or scanning my phonebook looking for a valentine, just having an open heart this time cause maybe I might get to celebrate this holiday!

“Negro” is a really a choice for Census

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When filling out applications and the equal opportunity section comes up, do you call yourself Black, African-American, or…..Negro?  You would think that this name would be buried and put to rest.  A name that was given to African-Americans and what the whites refered to use to describe our rich skin tone since the civil rights era.

The new Census Bureau has implimented a new option for you to check of in the race/ethnicity portion: NEGRO.  The word is now included under one answer along with African-American, Colored, and Black.  Many people are upset by this and I don’t blame them.  Who wants to have such a derogatory name put into a category that has to be marked because of their race.  It would be an uproar if in the white answer they put; European, Irish, and honkey. Exactly.