How many times over the last few weeks have you read an article on why Black women aren’t married? How about discussion about the world ending in 2012? Global Warming? Healthcare Reform? War? Disease? Etc? Well in the past few days I’ve had to utter the words “Let me give you ten reasons why life is awesome” more than twice. Which is two times too many. So here I am to give the world ten reasons why this is a great time to be alive.

What is our generation’s Jim Crow? What is our form of segregation? We have a Black President. We can eat wherever we want. We can sit wherever we want. We can do whatever we want. Who needs a deep, ardent passion when everything has already been done?