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Luv Coach Q&A: Interfaith Relationships {Blackvoices Main}
Sep 9th 2008 4:23PM The problem that I am having is related to the degree of religious fervor/faith. My husband and I are both Christians. My beliefs are very simple. I believe in God and I believe that the bible is a wonderful book of stories and examples to help guide us in life. My husband believes in a literal reading of the bible and that every word in is true and written by God. Therefore he doesn't eat certain foods and doesn't want our daughter to eat them. I personally don't believe her soul (or mine) is in danger if we eat catfish (fish without scales shouldn't be eaten according to my husband's reading of the bible!) Christmas and Easter are very important to me and have been throughout my life as a time of family gathering, renewal and thankfulness. My husband says there is nothing in the bible that says Jesus' birth or resurrection should celebrated and that he wasn't born in December, nor was he resurrected in March/April so we shouldn't celebrate either, including no Christmas trees, as he sees that as some pagan ritual. It should be noted that these are his beliefs alone, his family has similar beliefs to me and my family. We knew that this was a difference before we got married, but everything else with us is so wonderful that we chose to hope that it would work out, or rather I hoped that he'd lighten up and he hoped that I'd come around. Now that we have a child, these issues are really pressing on us and Ihave no idea what to do.
Sarah Palin - Babies, lipstick, and politics {ParentDish}
Sep 4th 2008 5:05PM While I totally disagree with Palin's politics, I really like her! I thought her speech was great, the tone, the content, the humor. Ithink she's adorable and strong at the same time. As a bleeding heart liberal, and working mother, I continue to think it is hypocritical for her to tout the "choices" and "decisions" that she and her family have made, yet she wants to deny the rest of us the right to make our own (reproductive) choices and decisions. Anyway, I'm not an Obama fan (yes, even though I am black!) but I don't see myself voting for McCain/Palin because I don't agree with them on the issues that are important to me. But, Governor Palin makes me proud!
Hot Seat: Super Tuesday Bragging Rights {Politics Daily}
Feb 6th 2008 3:54PM I'm a Hillart supporter who used to think she needed a southern governor as her running mate, but now seeing how well Obama performed yesterday in southern/red states, I now badly want a Clinton/Obama ticket. It will quell the criticism of Obama's lack of experience, as he'll certainly gain more as vp. It will get Hillary from under the outrageous racial swift-boating that she has been subjected to. And, it will guarantee a huge democratic turnout at the polls in november. They need to come together and we will have a landslide victory against the republicans.
GENTRIFICATION: Is Your Neighborhood Changing? {Blackvoices Main}
Dec 3rd 2007 3:49PM I can't wait to read this book as I live in the center of gentrification, Harlem, and have lived in other gentrifying neighborhoods in DC and Brooklyn. I am black and when I lived in midtown manhattan (white area) I was offended at the gentrification of Harlem and saddened by the often true mythology of mom and pop shops being forced out by white-owned biz. However, now that I live in Harlem I have softened to gentrification. I want better city services and better commerce. Yes, I think the neighborhood deserved it when it was all black, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate it now that it is more multi-culti. I want a Barnes and Noble, even though I love the local black bookstore Hue-man. I often need a "mainstream" book and the local one doesn't carry those titles. I also want some decent retaurants that aren't all soul food. I love soul food, but it gets tired when that's your only option. As much as I roll my eyes when I see a white woman pushing her baby in a $1000 stroller past a project in Harlem, I must say it's better than seeing another black man or woman walking their enormous dog down the sidewalk and letting it crap all over the place without using a plastic bag to pick it up. All the newbie white neighbors certainly pick up after their dogs. Once I had the cahones to say something to a young black woman who was letting her dog crap all over the place and I said you live her too and you have to walk over it and you know that our streets don't get cleaned as well as those in better hoods, so why not clean up after your dog. All I got was the verbal version of the finger. My condo board in Harlem is predominantly white even though the building is still mostly black (about 65%). At our condo owners meetings, the black owners love to complain, but very few volunteer for a committee or to run for the board. As for Harlem, I'd love for it to regain it's former spendor and beauty, yet remain predominantly of color. But the reality is that it's the whites and upper-income blacks who are responsible for making it beautiful again. Also I loved in DC and the same thin gis happening. The gorgeous, but run-down row houses (DC's version of brownstones) near Hoawrd University and in other black communities are being bought up, renovated and revived by whites (and gays). Areas where hookers and crackheads hung out are literally now home to Whole Foods and other gourmet grocers.
Clinton Pulls African American Support from Obama {Blackvoices Main}
Nov 5th 2007 4:06PM BettyJ,
Wow, you are a real conspiracy theorist,and perhaps a conservative republican in disguise. FOr you to regurgitate all that ridiculous crap about the Clintons and Ron Brown that right-wingers have actually been proven to have made up out of whole-cloth is a real shame. I actually just recently read the biography of Ron Brown, "The Life and Times of Ron Brown" that seemed to lay all that conspiracy stuff to rest. His death was tragic but it wasn't an assasination, and the other people you list as having been murdered by the Clintons shows how completely uninformed you are. The Riaser's, for example were a father and son on a fishing trip in ALaska (the son was 10 years old, so clearly NOT a campaign operative)who died in a plane crash before Clinton was even the president! Unfortunately people die in accidents every day. You have way too much time on your hands. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen or something.
Clinton Pulls African American Support from Obama {Blackvoices Main}
Nov 5th 2007 3:46PM I'm a bleeding heart liberal Democrat and am thrilled to pieces that for once we have a really deep bench. The fact that people feel so passionately about several different Democrats is true progress! I have my eye on Clinton, Obama, Edwards and Biden. Really though, the only reason I'm giving Obama the time of day is because he is black. Any other candidate who had so recently stumbled from the state legislature to the US Senate (I say stumbled because a sex scandal involving the republican who ran against him for senate is what put him there) and had only been in the senate for a second is not qualified to be president. I'm sorry, but going to Harvard is not a qualification. It seems we black folks are so happy he's not another preacher that we don't ask him any tough questions on the issues. But I'm giving him a chance and hopefully we will hear real answers on the economy in the coming months. But don't get it twisted, Obama is in the same hands of special interests as everycandidate for public office. They all get tons of money from lobbyists. As for Edwards and Biden, I agree with them on practically every issue, but I don't think they have the right temperament to be prez. They are both quite smug.(like McCain on the republican side). I'm definitely leaning toward Hillary and not just because I love Bill - because yes his administration did a lot for people of color from job creation to the family medical leave act, to appointing a ton of black people to the cabinet who in turn hired a ton of people of color- I like Hillary because I think she is smart and tough and real. I went to a smallish (200 people)event for her when she was running for reelection to the Senate and I was floored at how amazing she was during the Q&A. She answered every question from the heart withou pause, even the difficult ones. While I don't think our America would elect them, the dream ticket would be Hillary/Obama, but I'd settle for Hillary and almost anyone out of this field. Except maybe Gravel, who I call the drunk uncle!
Not Barack's Backside in Down and Dirty Magazine Cover {Blackvoices Main}
Oct 16th 2007 4:59PM Lighten up ya'll! The magazine cover is hilarious. Since when are politicians above parody? One think I want in our next president is the ability to take a dang joke. Jeez! It's so not offensive, it's funny satire, which is what Radar is all about. There was once a similar mag called Spy which had a cover of Hillary in an S&M get up during the Clinton/Gore campaign. That was funny too.
