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Remember when Victor Cruz’s fiance sent a catch-all text message to his Side Chicks? A few people sent me the story, along with a bunch of LOLs and SMHs. I totally got the humor, I just couldn’t laugh. Why? Because, I used to be a Main Chick too. I spent years in often painful “monogamous” […]
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I used to think my backstory was boring. I used to think it could only result in relentless mocking because my upbringing was pretty idyllic. I lived very happily as a child. I’ve never been poor, homeless, or hungry. I don’t remember ever not getting something I asked for. As a matter of fact, I […]
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To My White Colleagues Who Wonder How to Appease Them: Here’s my take. No filter. No edits. A prime reason we keep spinning over initiatives like affirmative action, laboring over problems like abhorrent state sanctioned violence in schools and society, struggling with equity issues across groups and communities, and myriad other manifestations of racism, […]
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Have things settled down in McKinney? It seems that incident got co-opted by #Rachel? Then, we moved on. Eric Casebolt, the officer in question, resigned from the McKinney, TX police department. Greg Conley, McKinney’s Chief of Police, has issued a public apology and went so far as to call Casebolt’s actions “indefensible.” Mayor Brian Loughmiller has pledged […]
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