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Entries from March 2006

Picture Time: Pan-Dark-Man-ness #1

March 11th, 2006 · No Comments

I used to wish I was light-skinned, narrow-nosed, and stringy-haired. The yellow and red-boned seemed to be the shizzle. This was way before Tyson Beckford, Tiger Woods and so forth and so on. I didn’t know the BEAUTY of my different darkness. And then I learned things about my ancestry which […]

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Tags: Ethnic Minority · ManPics · PeoplePics

Who likes Hugo Chavez?

March 6th, 2006 · No Comments

There are good reasons Venezuelans like Chavez (February 28, 2006, MCall.com)
By Gary Olson, Ph.D., Chair of the Political Science Department at Moravian College in Bethlehem.
Very interesting piece. You might want to read it.

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Tags: Ethnic Minority · General · Health

Seattle a NON-World-Class city?

March 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

Marcus Stringer / Stringmages.com

End in sight for historic church building - Seattle P-I
Developer strikes deal for property
Comment: I totally support the Seattle First United Methodist Church’s attempt to be a social mission in the city. However this type of stuff (destroying architecturally rich historic buildings before re-developing parking lots and parking garages) is why for […]

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Tags: Arts · Environment · General

Gay Marriage: A Seattle Black Man on Black Man Debate

March 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Pastor Ken Hutcherson is black. His wife is white. This used to be illegal.
“Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay, and red, and he placed them on separate continents,” a Virginia trial judge wrote in 1959 when he ordered an interracial couple to leave the state. “And but for the interference with […]

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Tags: General

Wassup? = What’s going on in Kenya?

March 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Daylight time. What are black Kenyans doing to black Kenyans, and why is a black gay American even interested?
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Last Updated: Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:13 GMT
‘Police’ raids close Kenya paper
Staff say they were beaten and forced to lie on the floor
Masked gunmen believed to be police have stormed one of […]

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Tags: Ethnic Minority · General