SistahSpeak…DWB

Posted by robinswing on October 7, 2011 · 6 Comments 

I know for many DWB stands for Driving While Black. Today for the purposes of this blog DWB stands for Dating While Black. For many DWB is a pretty serious matter. It can be a mess out there. For real. Hit it and quit it. Hit and run Same difference

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Steve Jobs and Prog POC

Posted by dmitcha on October 6, 2011 · 3 Comments 

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Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, has passed away at 56.   It is a loss for technology, our nation, the planet.  He was a brilliant, complicated, demanding, visionary human.  He changed the world. And what, you might say, does that have to do with people of color?  Here is what I connected to in Jobs … Read more

Category Entertainment, Headline

SistahSpeak…The Silence

Posted by robinswing on September 23, 2011 · 6 Comments 

The Blackwoman went silent for most of the day yesterday. For me, the scream is not protest. For this Blackwoman the scream is the fuel that feeds the engines of hatred, callousness,ignorance and fear. Just as anger rather than dissipate, fuels the flames of dissension. The scream is part of the primordial goo holding onto … Read more

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