(Fame) I’m gonna live forever I’m gonna learn how to fly (High!!!) I feel it coming together People will see me and cry (Fame) I’m gonna make it to heaven Light up the sky like a flame (Fame!) I’m gonna live forever Baby remember my name (Remember, remember!!! x 10,000,000) Do you remember that show […]
I would add something, but I think she’s said it all. *Stretches*
Ho-ho-ho-ho! Santa? Is that you? Did Christmas come early? Since this is Ghana politics, let me rephrase: GAGAGAGAGGAGAAAA! HEIII!!!! AH-JEISH! I think that’s more in line with Papa Bronia’s merry chuckle. In time, we will figure out to combine the two for the benefit of all. After all, isn’t that why the US is in […]
*Note: I know this will open me up to a great deal of scorn from SOME Black men, but the majority of those are not my regular Random Readers or in the MOM Squad, so…. Yeah. Kick rocks.* Hashtag activism is like the ocean tide: raging one moment, a ripple the next. Sometimes our “hashtag […]
“Black folk don’t get lice. That’s something nasty white folk who don’t wash and live in trailers get.” – Some African American woman I met once when I was a kid living in Labone. And yet there I was: a Black child, in Africa, with lice. I had caught lice from a cousin who’d gone […]
Definitions for today’s post Dada ba: A “spoiled” child/ a child who has never known true hardship/ a child who has grown up with greater than average benefits FUBAR: F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition Ghana: (For people like Ellen DeGeneres) That country that provides most of your chocolate, provided 30% of America’s slave labor, and […]
“Chile, I don’t want you mixed up in all dat revolution, y’hear? They gon’ KILL your scrawny ass!” This phrase was repeated in various forms in Negro homes all across America in the 50s and 60s. Parents who had lived through Jim Crow and whose own parents and grandparents had come out of slavery and […]
Becoming a parent should be a joyous event in everyone’s life; however circumstances surrounding a birth are not always ideal. Some of us are products of rape or incest. Some of us were born into poverty or dysfunctional families. No matter what our circumstances, if you’re reading this blog today, it’s safe to assume you’re […]
Hey there, Reader! Do you have any idea what this is? No, no. Not the white fluffy stuff. That’s easy. We all know that’s cotton. I’m talking about the big wooden thing it’s sitting in. I’ll give you three attempts before I tell you. That, folks, is Eli Whitney’s cotton gin…or a replica of it, […]