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Category Archives: Huxtable Wisdom
10 Reasons Why This is an Awesome Time to be Alive
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. Continue reading
Posted in Huxtable Wisdom
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Progression Prevents Passion
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? Continue reading
Black Women Stereotypes
Patricia Hill-Collins wrote about the four main stereotypes or controlling images for Black women. These stereotypes are the Mammy, the Matriarch, the Welfare Mother, and finally the Jezebel or the Whore. Continue reading
Posted in Huxtable Wisdom, Where The Black Folks At?
Tagged black women stereotypes, jezebel, mammy, matriarch, welfare mother, whore
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Why We Should Be Like MLK, Jr.
Slavery was a bad time for everyone and then born unto us in Bethlehem was a child by the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. who saved all black people from eternal bondage and then Barack Obama was elected President and racism ended. Continue reading
Posted in Huxtable Wisdom, Racial Disparity, That Dude
Tagged Boondocks, Jr., Jr. Day, Martin Luther King, MLK, MLK Day, Riley, Riley Freeman
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The Pursuit of Happiness.
Have you ever had a Chris Gardner moment in your life? A moment where starting from the bottom just wasn’t an option? What did you do? How did you handle it? Continue reading
Posted in Huxtable Wisdom, I Just Want To Be Successful
Tagged happiness, pursuit of happyness
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The Only Jay-Z Post I Will Ever Write… Ever.
Secret Organization Member or not he’s selling records. If you don’t believe he’s a member keep buying albums, going to concerts, and enjoying your favorite artist. If you do believe he is, stop buying albums, going to concerts, and tweeting about him. Continue reading
Posted in Hip Hop Post of the Day, Huxtable Wisdom
Tagged Blueprint, illuminati, jay-z, mason, on to the next one
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Kwanzaa 2: Now That You Know What It Is
Kwanzaa Post 2: Now That You Know What Kwanzaa Is. Now that you know what it is, here’s the problem with the holiday. Continue reading
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New Semester's Resolutions
It’s the end of the semester for college students everywhere. For us, the end of the semester is basically the end of the year. This is when we make our New Semester’s Resolutions. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Huxtable Wisdom
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World AIDS Day: A DC Perspective
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines an HIV epidemic as a situation where “the overall percentage of disease among residents of a specific geographic area exceeds 1 percent”. Our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. currently has an HIV/AIDS infected rate of 3%. Continue reading
Facebook Privacy. An Oxymoron.
Some people put all their business on Facebook and then get mad when somebody asks about it. There are two types of people who do this. The vague passive-aggressive type and the Facebook Thug type. Continue reading →