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Continue reading →: Stand Your Ground
Soooo, now Trayvon Martin went for the gun; then he and Zimmerman struggled. Have you seen the size of the 26 year-old gunman compared to the slight build of a boy that was not yet 17? Have we forgotten that he followed this boy WITH A GUN? That the police told…
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Continue reading →: A Million Hoodies
By now, I am hopeful that everyone has heard the heart-breaking story of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old boy who was shot to death by a civilian man patrolling a Sanford, FL neighborhood where Martin lived. More importantly, I am hopeful that you have been to change.org to sign the…
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Continue reading →: No Sacrament for You!
Sooo…the Catholic Church can not stay out of the news. If I was a cynic, I would say that the institution has made a decision to be in the headlines. There’s no such thing as bad publicity… Anyway. The priest that denied a lesbian parishioner communion at her mother’s funeral last…
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Continue reading →: War…What is it Good For?
Absolutely nuthin… US soldier kills 16 Afghanis including women and children.
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Continue reading →: Kony 2012
Invisible Children’s public education campaign seeks to educate us on the crimes against humanity being perpetrated across Africa. Kony is a rebel leader from Uganda whose LRA has “recruited” tens of thousands of child soldiers and sex slaves to inflict terror on the populace. This campaign uses the power of…
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Continue reading →: Beautiful Boy
In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy, I remember thinking a lot about the parents- maybe because I am a parent. It was not that my mind was not consumed with the sadness of all of the lives that were cut short or that I didn’t grieve for the…
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Continue reading →: Metro’s Politics
We should all rest assured- the sign at Clarendon metro station will come down at the end of the contract, March 11. Wow…so if you are willing to pay Metro for the ad space, you can say whatever you want…freedom of speech and all of that.
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Continue reading →: Religion Governing Insurance, Really?
The GOP was unable to reverse the clause within the healthcare law that requires employers’ insurance to cover the cost of contraception. Thank God! Yeah, I said it. I am so sick of this continued assault on women’s rights! As a woman who was baptized and raised in Catholicism, I…
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Continue reading →: Who Rocked the Red Carpet?
Now that the anticipation is over and the dust has settled, let’s get down to the important details…who rocked the red carpet?!? My teenage daughter and I rushed home on Sunday to look at the Oscars’ Red Carpet coverage. We came up with our favorites and turned up our noses…
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Continue reading →: Gunfire in the Morning
A student opened fire this morning in his high school cafeteria, killing one and injuring four others. Our children are still not safe at school.
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I’m Ayoka
Welcome to Mule Of The World. Musings and rants from this Black woman. Zora Neale Hurston called the Black woman “the mule of the world.”
