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Kobe Bryant: Good Teammate or Petulant Whiner?
“Wait you mean they couldn’t get Jason Kidd for Andrew Bynum? Bynum? Who’s that kid anyway”? Kobe Bryant reacting as to why the Lakers wouldn’t trade Andrew Bynum for Jason Kidd during the 2007-08 season…. “Smush Parker was the worst, he shouldn’t have been in the NBA but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard so we let him walk on”……Real stand up isn’t it? Kobe ‘Bean’ Bryant is an extremely talented player, has won many accolades, and is a lock for the Hall Of Fame. He has a silky smooth jump shot, athletic drives to the basket and sometimes he’ll surprise you with a rim rocking…
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8 Ridiculously Lame and Tacky Things People Do (Pt II) | Doin’ the Most
Ladies and fellas, we previously explored a world in which people do things that make you go, “hmmmm” (Doin’ the Most: 11 Examples of Lame Shyt People Do). Well this is the follow up (part II). Again, we’re going to go with the Lame-O-Meter: 1 to 10. ’10’ being a total a**clown and ‘1’ being, “not a big deal, but you could have avoided it”. 1. Internet Thuggin’/Internet Beefs Lame-O-Meter: 10 WHY: The actual term itself gives it a 10. But listen, if you’re going to sit there on a computer in a chatroom and go toe to toe with someone keyboard-ically, especially if you’re the one that instigated it,…
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Hoodrats & Headwraps: Hot Ghetto Mess or Unapologetic Fashionista?
For those who enjoy pointing out the obvious, there will be sweeping generalizations, vacuuming assumptions, mopping presumptions and Swiffering aspersions made throughout this entire post. A dichotomy that is both essential and non-essential to the overall premise. Enjoy with three grains of salt. As the world turns, and as we meander through the days of our lives, we observe relationships in action every single day. Many of our relationship observations (and observations in general) are cognitive. However, others are observed more passively. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that the majority of our observations in life are done passively. In other words, we don’t notice sh*t, but we really do…
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Black Democratic Voters Unchained, Republicans Unchanged: Politics as Usual
In the wake of a paradigm shifting election where evangelical Christians voted overwhelmingly for a devout Mormon, a black man was reelected as president in spite of a stalling economy and the long discussed demographic clout of the growing Hispanic population was finally felt, one voting bloc remained unchanged; black people still continued to vote overwhelmingly democratic. With Charles Krauthammer leading the charge, bringing the Hispanic vote into the republican fold has been agreed upon prescription for future Republican success (and understandably so), but with margins so thin in swing states, why no push to bring the naturally conservative black voter back into the party of Lincoln? Understanding why black…
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11 Examples of Lame Things People Do – Doin’ the Most
You ever go out on the town? Go for a drive? Go to the mall? Go to the club? Or just simply just chill at the crib and see how people flex and you say to yourself, “That’s lame”? Well I’m going to hit on quite a few and I’m sure some of y’all can agree. I also have a ‘lame-o-meter’ and I’m gonna grade them on a scale from 1 to 10: 10 being ‘total a$$ clown’ and 1 being ‘not so bad, but you could have avoided it’. Let’s start shall we? 1. While dancing with a girl at the club, your friend walks by and you give him the “look at…
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And in Last Place Here Comes Mr. Nice Guy, Again. But Why?
Ladies have you ever been with a guy who does everything the ‘right way’ but you seem to tire of him quickly? Have you ever been with a guy who’s a pure gentlemen and damn near kisses the ground you walk on but still not enough? Ok well let’s peep the following scenario shall we? Cliff, a high school principal, is a handsome guy in his early 30’s. He makes good money, has no children and owns a dog. He is somewhere between a gold and platinum if you read the 1st article “All gold Everything: What Type of Man are you Dating?“. Deidre who is also in her early 30’s, is…
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Reflections on the Choices Some Young Women Make – Letters to my Sistah(s)
Dear sister, How are you doing today? I am okay. How was the club last night? Yeah I saw you with your girls. You were in the middle of the dance floor grinding on each other, making all the thirsty guys who don’t know their head from their a** drool with excitement. Then you went to the bar and did shots of patron with your girls acting a fool. I over heard you saying something about your momma watching the baby tonight; your grandmamma watching the baby two nights ago; and how you trynna get one of their fathers to watch both of the kids so you can hit up the club…
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What If – The Sports Scenarios we’ll Never Know
I’m sure there are many sports fans out there, whether you’re a casual fan, a rabid hard core fan, or a “used to be” fan. And I can say there were a lot of heart breaking, soul crushing, gut wrenching moments where you did everything from bite every nail off your fingers relegating them to stubs, to praying and damn near swearing off sports altogether. I know your hometown team has probably been in the dumps for many years, or some have been riding high (i.e., the sports fans for the City of Boston has named themselves “title town” for their 7 sports titles from 2001-2011). Did you ever sit…
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Cultural Stereotypes in Media – Is This Jamaican Accent Phony, Funny or Offensive?
Jamaican me crazy. Over the last few days, there has been a lot of talk in the mainstream media (and social media outlets) surrounding a particular advertisement slated to air during the largest viewed sporting event in America – The Super Bowl. The 60 second ad spot is from German auto-manufacturer, Volkswagen, and features an office worker attempting to spread cheer to his fellow colleagues during what appears to be a very low morale day at the office. Seems innocent enough. Right? Well he speaks with a very thick and noticeable accent to which one might respond, “Nothing wrong with that. Lots of people have accents”. It’s a fake ‘Jamaican’ accent,…
