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I lost my friend .....

I know this may sound weird but I really do miss my friend. We would kick it , laugh, smoke , go out everything ... yeah there was sex but I still valued his FRIENDSHIP. We were friends before we got intimate ; I was open to him & working on opening up more. I trusted him & started to believe he only wanted the best for me. I really believed he really did care about my interest , my well being & my happiness . The connection we had was something different, something I really enjoyed . I looked forward to seeing him, chatting with him on FT about my day - the stress, the excitement everything- helping him through his demise. he was really my friend : all the laughs & he never made sex a factor & now he's gone . How ? We were open about everything & now we're nothing . I trusted him- something I don't do for ANYONE not even my parents (another story) & he just booted me. I know he's sensitive & quick to cut people off for his personal reasons; but why me ? I want answers I know I'll never get , I really just came on here to vent . Cause I'm really hurt.... I really do miss my friend . The vent P2

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Race Matters

race1rās/noun - the idea of race assumes humans come from divided several distinct groups, each of which carry a set of innate traits. Those who are members of one race are more genetically similar to each other, and more different from members of another race.

That definition of race is a theory without any scientific proof to back it up. The idea of race is a biological myth. There is actually more scientific proof against this definition than for it. The truth is there is a greater genetic variation in Africa, we all originally come from Africa too. 85% of genetic differences are between 2 people of the same race. In the documentary Race: The Power of an Illusion, it states that a lot of the theories on race is based off of society not actual data. In the early 20th century america had a division between the different races causing high death rates, infant mortality rates and diseases than blaming it on natural causes for example their skin tone. Biology became mistaken for social differences become naturalized. (Herbes-Sommers,2003).

Due to that social difference being mistaken for biology the black community has suffered a great loss. “The unique combination of American terrorism-- Jim Crow and lynching-- as well as American barbarism--slave trade and slave labor-- bears witness to the distinctive American assault on black humanity” (West, 2001, page IIV). According to West, black people in the United states have been taught self hatred, physical violence, and civic correction for the purpose of controlling their minds and exploiting their labor for four hundred years. Fifty years ago black communities were the most civilized and human in America, stereotypes and american society has completely corrupted the black community. American society has made it hard to thrive as a black community with their laws that are completely opposed to black people. “40 percent of black children living in poverty and almost 10 percent of all black young adult men in prison” (West, 2001, page XIX).

Race is not only a biological myth it is also a social class of it’s own that is slowly reeking havoc on the black community. If we do not spread the truth, we will suffer as a nation not only as a race. What we need to do so according to west is to help those rising black leaders who are willing to stand up for the truth and facts without easily backing down.

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Who Am I?

Who Am I, you ask? When I look in the mirror I think about that question as it lingers in the back of my head, who do I identify myself as? I look in the mirror and I see a brown skinned, wide eyed girl, with big glasses, uncertain where life is taking her. I see, a girl with big dreams and a drive to make them reality. I see a girl with a bright and bold patterned scarf wrapped delicately around her head, glistening chocolate brown skin, smiling as though she doesn’t know what the world has in store for her but she knows it’ll be something worth her struggle. All she knows is that she just happens to be muslim and black at the same time, the best combination right? I see a girl who was once friends with many of the people who stare at her now and whisper when she walks by. I see a girl who get’s stared at everywhere she goes, a girl who is willing to come to a place where she is feeling out of place and alienated just so that she can be the first in her family to graduate high school, just to see her moms face light up with pride. She has heard her fair share of “you are so pretty without that thing on your head”, “you sound so white”, “does your dad make you wear that? do you feel oppressed?” and her favorite of them all “do you shower with that on your head?”. The thing is she knows that she is beautiful without her scarf, that’s the main reason why she wears it..She doesn’t sound “white”, she sounds educated… And it is not a thing it is a hijab, a veil that covers her beauty and keeps it hidden for herself, her father isn’t even in her life at the moment, she chooses to wear her hijab herself and if anything this doesn’t oppress her, it liberates her. It’s as if she is a treasure box filled with gold to the brim at the bottom of the atlantic ocean. You see her body is her treasure and it will be hidden to the public. I see, a strong, educated, muslim, black girl. No, I am a strong, educated, muslim, black girl.

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