If you were certain today was your last day alive, what would you do? Do it.
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Maybe Cheap is Cheap I swear I am not cheap. I shop at Target (instead of Wal-Mart), Cub Food (instead of Aldi). I even have membership at Seward Co-op. When it comes to wear, though I sometimes stray into Marshalls when I’m at the Mall of America, and I thought TJ Maxx was an high-end boutique during my college days, these days it’s Guess, Studiiyo23; hell, I’m a Banana Republic Voxx member for crying out loud! more… |
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Letter to my Children You are not from there I give you what I have With that said… more… |
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The Tie That Binds It's the tie that binds It's the pretty things that would kill you It's the pretty things that would kill you |
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New Year Resolution
As I pulled into the mall on Lindau Lane, winding my way to the parking ramp, I saw a lot of people walking out of Sears. Forget baseball, I said to myself, shopping is America’s favorite pastime....more |
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Occupation Without Movement I am from Africa. No, not that Africa. I was not destitute. Not this Africa either. I am not next in line to any throne, nor am I a son of a politician. I am of that middle group that is too blind to notice they are dirt poor, and know better than to care. If you asked me, I would tell you I came to America to go to school. And that is the truth. But if you boil that down, I came to America for a better opportunity. For the most part, I have found it. College educated, gainfully employed, home owner, blah blah blah. I don’t (or rather shouldn’t) have anything to complain about. more... |
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AtlanticDivide: What is an Apology Between Slaves and Masters? "...an economist could quite successfully argue there was great pressure for the Americas to participate in the economics of slave labor." "...some 150 years since slavery was abolished in the Confederate states, there is still a perpetrator alive and present today that can and should apologize for slavery" |
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International Relations
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Financial Advice from the Edge
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AtlanticDivide: The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action "The White male employee of yesteryears –the most feared group, whom Affirmative Action was to protect minorities from—is dead." "When Workers no longer require the threat of organized strikes to work in safe environments, for reasonable hours and salaries, America will no longer require Affirmative Action" |
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AtlanticRockers
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Misspoken Word If you follow my blogs and other postings closely, you'd notice that I don't talk much about what I do. That is I don't talk much about spoken word, or for that matter writing. I post poems, but when it comes to commentary about the art of spoken word, I keep my opinions to myself. Mostly. I don't talk about the right way to write this, perform it, good or bad pieces, etc. I figure to each his own; eventually, we all arrive at a comfortable place, and in one's own eyes (and my opinion) that is always the right and best place to be. ...more |
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AtlanticDivide: "It all seemed like a festival. But inside my mother was dying. And there was nothing we could do, but wait. Such is the sad state of humanity. With all our "achievement" it gets to a point when all we can do is wait and pray." "The Present, as in the here and now, is life's pacifier; obliging those of us fortunate to exist in it to forgive then consequently forget the most authentic lessons of our past..." |
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Lessons from a Rainbow I love your green, |
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AtlanticVoices
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AtlanticDivide: Africa - The Mother, the Witch and the Shaman "Now, I had a little trouble, actually a lot of trouble, accepting that EVERYONE in Africa was a king or a queen at anytime throughout history." "This was life in Sierra Leone for a young boy born in Guinea. The word Africa was an abstract term we used only in geography classes." |
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Mothers and Sons (for Sarlon on her 50th year since independence)
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| My first "video". By that I mean I actually made it. So please excuse the obvious technical misalignments and other shortcomings. If you like it and encourage me, I might just try another one. Watch it with the words
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Silenced Movie You know the saying, as art imitates life, life imitates art? Well, as life writes poems, poems write life. I had one such moment last night. Few years back I wrote this poem called “At Least Once”. It is basically a list poem that lists some things I believe we should all experience at least once in our lifetime. Toward the end of the poem, I have a line that says, “At least for a day, close your eyes and walk around for a while.”...more |
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Muslim, American and Proud
Twenty years since coming to America. In those twenty years, I have found a new home where I have grown into my own. I am American (in more ways than any piece of paper can give). I have three wonderful children. They too are American. Even when we don’t speak English, we always speak American. Here in this country, from Chicago to St. Cloud, Minneapolis and surroundings, with my friends (most of whom are not Muslim) I have learned independence of the mind; freedom of the spirit and body. In countless lives, indeed countless American lives, I have learned the price of freedom is sometimes death, and when you die fighting for your freedom, you die not as a slave....more |
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It was a weird Sunday evening. After hanging out with some friends, I decided to run to the mall to return some shirts I bought the week before. From uptown, I got on 35W south bound. Few miles later I debated whether I should take highway 62 East or stay on 35W to 494 East. I decided to stay on 35W.
Arabs
are not bad
I’m
not a financial expert by any stretch of the imagination. But whenever
I read an article about personal finance, I always feel like saying
duh, I knew that. So I thought, maybe I know a little more than
the average person. If so, maybe I should share. So here we go.
Memories
flood like oceans through broken levies
