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Is “black” at true state of “being”?

I had a conversation with a friend a few weeks back about why black people in America seem to be compounded with problems every generation. From slavery, to Jim Crow, to Civil Rights, to destructive images (aka: coonery in entertainment), to police brutality, to being one of the most unhealthy groups in America, when will this ish end?

According to Locke’s social contract theory, in the “heuristic examination” of the human condition, termed the “state [...]

Every summer, when the temperature increases a few notches, the clothes become more scarce, the skin gets browner, the hair reverts back to the natural curl, a new season of possibility dawns. From summer vacations, to summer jobs – it is a time to meet new people, visit new places, try new things.

This summer I traveled to the motherland for the first time, specifically, Cape Town, South Africa. Of course, it was no accident that I chose to do [...]

I have been a little disturbed about the stories I have been hearing on the news lately. The other day, I heard a news story while I was in my car about a young girl in New Jersey who basically sold her little 7 y/o sister as a prostitute to get money. I was floored – and to honest, I could not help but turn off the radio and have a moment to wipe my tears. That really broke my [...]

2 Timothy 3:1-5 – “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.”

I know by now, may of you get the point. [...]