I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate questions and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.
I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.
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Why Tea Party Lawmakers Are Trying to Conflate Poverty and Drug Addiction
Nationally, a new strategy has crystalized among Tea Party conservatives who wish to turn the recession into a culture war. In a growing number of states, politicians have sought to undermine the economic safety net by suggesting, in the form of law, that irresponsible behavior rather than a busted, unequal economy has kept poor families struggling. The building meme has made it to the top of Republican ranks as well. “It’s a great idea,” Mitt Romney said of the Georgia bill at a February campaign stop. “People who are receiving welfare benefits, government benefits, we should make sure they are not using the money for drugs.”
As Romney implied, the strategy is not limited to cash assistance, which is an already stigmatized and atrophied program. The drug-user canard has now shown up in debates over nearly every economic safety net program. In December, congressional Republicans pushed a bill that would have required all applicants to the unemployment insurance program submit to a drug test. That bill did not become law, but a watered down version did.
There are currently nearly 30 states with bills in play that would implement drug testing requirements on applicants to some combination of cash assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, unemployment insurance and job training programs. It seems everyone wants a piece of the action.
“I so want drug testing. I so want it,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said last September about unemployment insurance. She then spun a tale about workplace drug abuse that a journalist later exposed as a fabrication. In April, the governor of West Virginia issued an executive order requiring federally funded job-training program applicants to pee in a cup. The Tennessee House recently ended the year’s legislative session by sending the governor a bill that would require cash assistance applicants to fill out psychological reviews that are supposed to measure their likelihood of using drugs. Those who fail have to take a test.
tl;dr the Tea Party/Everyone is trying to blame the victims of the economy for the problems caused by the economy.
Yeah this piece of shit legislation has cost the state of Florida how much money? (Or should I say lined the pockets of how many of Douchebag’s cronies …)
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I will not act in another Hollywood picture until the prejudice is removed against colored actors in dramatic roles. Personally, I will not accept any maid parts. I am not a maid and will not [act] like one. - Nina Mae McKinney
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wolfdancer:- Light Candles
"It took me a long time to realize that my partners were having sex with me in part because of the way my body looks, not in spite of the way my body looks. It sounds simple, I know, but when you spend your whole life being told that fat bodies are not sexy, it takes some time to realize that sexiness isn’t that simple. This understanding is not something that happens overnight for most of us. Hell, it can take years. But, the sooner you learn (yes, learn) to feel sexy just the way you are, the sooner you’ll be able to enjoy your sexuality more fully.
Really, this goes for men and women of all sizes, not just fat women. You owe it to yourself and your partner to trust that he or she really desires you and to do the best you can to keep that in mind when you find you have a hard time letting go and really being seen during sex."
Really, this goes for men and women of all sizes, not just fat women. You owe it to yourself and your partner to trust that he or she really desires you and to do the best you can to keep that in mind when you find you have a hard time letting go and really being seen during sex."
— Fat Sex: What Everyone Wants to Know but is Afraid to Ask
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it’s like people don’t want to hear the truth. without hearing the truth, how will there be progress?
sure there might be jealous dark-skinned girls, but there’s a REASON why. people bash on them all the time and clearly give all the tlc to light-skinned girls. no wonder they’re…
DO NOT BE SILENCED. They may not listen but that does not mean you should not speak up and speak out. No one can tell your truth but yourself. The problem with using rap music as the catch all for Black America is it’s one point of view sent out to one type of mind. It’s Black men speaking for themselves and what they believe to be important. Keeping silent to get along will leave you nothing. Nothing but incorrect, vulgar, mean spirited, warmed over male centered rhetoric.
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"And this is why I stopped even approaching men after a while because shit always ended up with the guy saying a horrified “no” like how dare my Black ass actually think I was good enough for him and/or getting clowned on. That’s why I advise young BW not to approach men because men STILL have a butt ton of fucked up notions about us. That may be okay and seen as wonderfully daring from non-Black women, but we all know folks judge us by a much shittier standard.
Deal with men that have the guts to approach you and treat you right. My husband actually had the nuts to approach and pursue ME. If he hadn’t, we wouldn’t have happened. He also didn’t treat me like his dirty, little secret. Like someone said, if he can’t show you to his friends and kinfolk then he ain’t for you. bolded for emphasis, I completely agree. I’m done with approaching people and letting them know I like them. I’m going to make a choice not to drain my self of that emotion, you approach me or nothing. And I’m cool with that coz I’ve never been approached so I’m really not missing anything. And this is why I also tell BW that they canNOT take the advice of their non-Black girlfriends about men. Like I said, we all know shit is completely different for us. Men of all colors will damn near drink the dirty bathwater of mediocre-at-best non-Black women. But a Black woman has to be Miss America/Halle Berry/Playboy Playmate of the Year in looks, have Oprah’s money and Dr. Mae Jemison’s and Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s brains before we even get a glance or a notice."
Deal with men that have the guts to approach you and treat you right. My husband actually had the nuts to approach and pursue ME. If he hadn’t, we wouldn’t have happened. He also didn’t treat me like his dirty, little secret. Like someone said, if he can’t show you to his friends and kinfolk then he ain’t for you. bolded for emphasis, I completely agree. I’m done with approaching people and letting them know I like them. I’m going to make a choice not to drain my self of that emotion, you approach me or nothing. And I’m cool with that coz I’ve never been approached so I’m really not missing anything. And this is why I also tell BW that they canNOT take the advice of their non-Black girlfriends about men. Like I said, we all know shit is completely different for us. Men of all colors will damn near drink the dirty bathwater of mediocre-at-best non-Black women. But a Black woman has to be Miss America/Halle Berry/Playboy Playmate of the Year in looks, have Oprah’s money and Dr. Mae Jemison’s and Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s brains before we even get a glance or a notice."
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