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93Trayvon Martin Shooting Sad, Sick, Sadistic
The Stand your Ground law is flawed, and Trayvor Martin is a victim of those flaws. It's time to stand up for the victims
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85How To Deal With Someone Who Hates You
Being accepted by others is very important to most people. We all want to be accepted by society, a family or a loving relationship. However, all of us will experience some kind of rejection at some point in our lives if we haven't already. Not...
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85Let's Honestly Discuss Prejudice and Bigotry and Not Sweep it Under the Rug
The Shirley Sherrod doctored viral video episode is the latest example of a racial incident gone awry. The biggest tragedy to my mind is that it appears we are once again going to miss an opportunity to honestly have a national dialogue regarding...
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83The Day I Called the Cops on My Apartment Manager
Have you ever had your apartment manager come up to you while you're waiting for a city bus, and shout in your face that your relative --- who didn't even live at the apartment --- was involved in a "drug deal"? I don't think many people have experienced this. I never had --- until I was sixty (60) years old. Have you ever asked your apartment manager to get away from you, because you were scared --- but she kept following you around, saying she's "the manager".
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83The Help: A Book Review
The New York Times Bestselling novel by Kathryn Stockett is set in Jackson Mississippi, 1962. In it we get an inside look at the tensions and bigotry between white women and their negro maids.
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82RACISM, VULGARITY, BIGOTRY: WORDS CAN HURT
I love 80’s music. I grew up on Van Halen, Metallica, Def Leppard, Billy Joel, and so many other great musicians. There is one that sticks out most of all….Dire Straits. They put out a song that kids loved. Money For Nothing. I used to love that...
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81The Right to Discriminate
This hub, on the rights of private companies to hire and serve who they choose, will annoy some and even anger others. Not because of it's content, but because many will disengage logic and look solely from a "feel good/bad" perspective. I ask that...
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81How To Be A Real Man
I like men. Wait, let me rephrase that: I like real men. At the time of my birth, real men were on already on their way out, but there were still a good number around. Today this breed is all but extinct. Darwin may have had a point or two about...
81There is No Same-Sex Marriage Debate
A hub dealing with the complete lack of sound arguments against gay marriage. Also the eerie similarities that arguments against gay marriage have to those about interracial marriage made decades ago are pointed out.
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