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Purple Rain in a Drought
chinonye.blogspot.com
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Life, love, politics in a time when anyone can have their own soapbox.
#403468 in All , #63 in General politics

Step 2: Read and Be Smart

This was always my default plan in life, school. I enjoy reading when it is well first, interesting and second something I selected for myself. I like writing when I am writing for myself, as you can...

18 may 12

Step 1: Write

Well... I am back from hiatus. No more hiatus. I am back writing with that same feeling in my gut...as when I first started this blog. Ill never forget years ago when I was many dress sizes smaller, ...

15 may 12

Seriously?

Burger King is pulling their Ad featuring Mary J. Blige for some chicken wrap because there has been some controversy about its "racist undertones". Um...huh? There are people dying in the ...

04 apr 12

Where is George Zimmerman? Why dont we know anything?

One of my BFFs made a really good point today, where is George Zimmerman? Ok so yes we know hes in hiding. But so was Casey Anthony which was a big case also here in Florida. The news cameras where a...

23 mar 12

Bigger than Race But Not Much Bigger

CNN depicts another challenge to the Stand Your Ground law here in Florida in Valrico (Tampa suburb) where the race and age of the victim and alleged perpetrator are in a sense reversed of that in th...

22 mar 12

Dont Shoot me I only have Skittles.

Ive been on hiatus for a couple of months now and my last post was titled "I Just Died". My absense may have convinced you otherwise but I did not. But I was gone for good reason, I promise...

21 mar 12

I just died...

Naomi Campbell in the new spring 2012 Roberto Cavalli Campaign Look at that jacket...that handbag! Dead. #Iliveforfineleathergoods

10 jan 12

Happy New Year?

Happy New Year! Did I miss the count down? Am I a bit late? Purple Rain in a Drought has been on hiatus for the last few weeks due to some unforeseen but very exciting circumstances. But I am...

06 jan 12

Black Girl Missing...

As we all know, media coverage for missing persons is skewed towards young white females who are perceived as attractive. Often times the media completely ignores a missing black woman, attractive or...

15 dec 11

No! TJ Holmes Leaving CNN

The very reason I am up early watching the news on a Saturday morning instead of reruns of the Sopranos is this man right here...T.J. Holmes. Born Loutelious Ann Holmes, Jr. *cough*, T.J. is leaving ...

07 dec 11

‎"No poor kids have good work habits unless theyre illegal"

Ive been missing, but with good reason!! In the meantime Uncle Herman has dropped out of the race for the republican presidential nomination amid attacks against his moral character. Newt Gingrich, v...

06 dec 11

I Cant.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As in I just cant speak on it. I have just too much emotion exploding to have anything reasonable come out. Horsing around wi...

15 nov 11

Another story to help me appreciate how lucky I am

...and remember that there is something bigger than all of us. Mark Herzlich was diagnosed with bone cancer while he was a football star at Boston College. Again, I said bone cancer. He beat the canc...

31 oct 11

Told you so...

Condeleeza Rice is releasing her memoir No Higher Honor and reviews/excerpts have been hitting the net. I might read it. Despite the fact that our politics are different, she is a black woman navigat...

25 oct 11

Gaddafi was the richest man in the world?? By far?

There is buzz that as Libya stakes stock of the recent happenings they are adding up Gaddafis wealth and the number being thrown around the Internet is $200 Billion. Yes. This would make him the rich...

25 oct 11

Gaddafi is dead and I feel some kinda way about it...

I said some kinda way. If I knew which kind of way I would have written about it by now. I just cant put my finger on it. I do hate the commentary about him being a "clowninsh" or "fla...

24 oct 11

I wish...

I wish I could just sit around and read fun sh*t all day. There is so much to learn and so much available in the net--blogs, Internet magazines etc. I used to sit around and read all day but it was N...

13 oct 11

From the Facebook News Feed...

"Eventually one of two things will happen; either they will realize youre worth it, or youll realize they arent."And sometimes that takes a REALLY long time.

08 oct 11

The Real Price of Education: A Foreword

Before I get into the real costs of higher education in this current economic climate, I would like to note a what I found in my Facebook feed in reference to the recent passing of Apple creator and ...

07 oct 11

Coupe Dreams

My childhood visions of myself at this age featured a well-paying job, a Chanel handbag and a Porsche coupe. Well, never really imagined myself past the age of 25. Anything after 25 was just happily ...

04 oct 11

Justice in a Post-Racial Society

A recent post from Kevin Powell on Facebook remined me of the story of George Junious Stinney Jr. I watched the movie about this case when I was young. At the age of 14 hes the youngest person to eve...

27 sep 11

Clemency Denied for Troy Davis

Someone killed Officer MacPhail, but how is there enough certainty to pin it all on Troy Davis? Casey Anthony was freed with more evidence linking her to the murder of her little girl yet Troy Davis ...

20 sep 11

From the Facebook Feed

Jealousy is the art of counting someone elses blessing instead of your own. Indeed.

17 sep 11

Say What, Armstrong?

This is the very, very, --oh wait one more--very, rare occasion that the Conservative political commentator Armstrong Williams offers an opinion and I am not literally overpowered by the sheer force ...

13 sep 11

Love, revisited.

I have been forced to reflect lately over the happenings of the last decade or so of my life after I awoke from a dream in which I been suffering from a broken heart. I carried that feeling with me f...

07 sep 11

Rude

Bradley, my 5 year old Boston Terrier woke me up rather early to let him outside this morning. 4:25am. Opening the door, I was met with the horrible, terrible, sensation of cold wind against my skin....

07 sep 11

From the Facebook News Feed...

"Had a lot of fun last night. When certain songs come on I forget Im educated."

24 aug 11

Balance the Crazy (Redux)

An additional note is which is a totally contradicting sentiment from my previous post...whats the point of voting in a Black president that isnt going to do this explicitly for Black people? Thats t...

21 aug 11

Balance the Crazy

While on vacay a couple of weeks ago I caught Bill Maher proposing a liberal version of the Tea Party. Let me preface this by saying he thought that liberals were spineless in the fact that they have...

21 aug 11

From the Facebook News Feed...

"Lets ignore for one second that my political and moral views (i.e. I dont believe in hate) differ from those of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann and focus on the biggest issue I have with them,...

20 aug 11

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