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Thursday September 03, 2015 · 6:00 AM PDT

2015/09/03 · 06:00

I had imagined that I would write a brilliant introduction to this series of diaries I have titled Free Cordellia. A series about me growing up in Kansas and all the pitfalls of finding or more aptly fighting my way into adulthood. Some how it seems to me that I managed to find every single pit there was to hit as I came of age in Topeka post Brown v. Board of Education. My memories of Kansas as some of you know from other diaries I have posted are vividly linked to the music that played on the radio as I struggled to find myself in the Bible-Belt. This diary was not the first planned post of this series and I suppose not particularly brilliant either. Recently, I received a phone call from my cousin in the early morning hours telling me my beloved uncle had passed away unexpectedly. I am blessed to have had this uncle in my life. A strong Black man who showed me by example. If you have a moment, you are with sincerity invited down memory lane.

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Saturday August 22, 2015 · 9:46 PM PDT

2015/08/22 · 21:46

I need help with this...Read an excellent diary today that did not receive much attention. Trump the Shark http://www.dailykos.com/... While I am a TU I don't think I have the super power to republish. If I do have that super power how do I use it? If someone who has that superpower wouldn't mind taking a look at the diary and republishing on Sunday so it can get some air time that would be wonderfulness. I hope there is a night owl out there that can help. I did edit the tags to add community in hope that would help.
Thank you l2l.

Essay: I, Racist.

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Sunday July 19, 2015 · 1:11 PM PDT

2015/07/19 · 13:11

I saw this essay on FB a couple of days ago. I thought it applicable to many conversations I see happening on the Kos today. This Essay speaks to many of the reasons I don't write or comment much here (Daily Kos) anymore. I feel like it real captures the conversation that we African Americans have always had among ourselves (In house). I, Racist, spells out the struggle...no bullshit just some much needed truth that needs to be added to the context of discussion happening here and elsewhere. I feel that if I posted bits of this essay here it would not have the same flavor. Go ahead read it. I won't be mad at you.

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https://thsppl.com/...

A Good Laugh!

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Monday February 16, 2015 · 4:07 PM PST

2015/02/16 · 16:07

In response to Boehoner's admission about why he didn't inform the White House of his invite to the Israeli PM to speak at congress:
First off, you drunken fuck, if the DHS bill was just that, without all the amendments, I'm sure it wouldn't meet much resistance in the Senate. Second, you don't unilaterally invite the head of a foreign government to speak to Congress without first involving your own president. You just did this because you wanted to snub our president

If Nancy Pelosi had pulled a stunt like this, you and your fascists, along with all the right wing windbags, would have wanted her to resign.

Go crawl back in your bottle, you drunken fuck, you're nothing more than a seditious sot who should be impeached.
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Waiting on Louis Farrakhan

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Wednesday September 10, 2014 · 6:28 PM PDT

2014/09/10 · 18:28

I have been fighting off getting full blown sick. Today my body claimed as a day of rest. While I've been sleeping off and on waking every so often checking Kos for some diaries to lurk in, my floaty light headiness recalled something from the way back. Louis Farrakhan. I believe he said he was going be silent while Barack Obama campaigned and through his presidency. (I could be lying because I’m sick) I seem remember something to the effect of Louis Farrakhan stating he would self censor through Barack Obama’s Presidency so that his words would not be used against President Obama. I bet he didn't count on another four years. Stewing on this I am feeling like I got a drink of Kool-Aid with no sugar in it. And Kool-Aid with no sugar might as well be the cheap version--Flavor-Aid. I miss Farrakhan. Love him or hate him by word he will bring conversation to the table; it will be more than surface fluff. I can’t help but to wonder what he is thinking about Ferguson and all the events of the last few years of Barack Obama’s Presidency.

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Wednesday May 21, 2014 · 9:53 AM PDT

2014/05/21 · 09:53

I wish I had a Hallmark worthy adage I could tell you about parents as they get older. Unfortunately, I don't have anything like that to tell you.

However,I did find Jesus when I visited my mom for a few weeks last summer. I was searching my mother's fridge in an attempt to soothe my sweet tooth when I spotted it. I asked my mom if I could have the candy bar I found in the freezer. “Don’t eat it!” she yelled. “It’s The Last Supper!” Disbelief filled me; I pulled out the chocolate out of the freezer. Sure enough, when I peeled back the silver foil, I saw Jesus. The disciples were there too. At the time, I thought that Jesus probably would've wanted me to eat it on principle alone because, really, who imprints The Last Supper on a chocolate bar?

I wrestled with myself. How long would it take her figure out I ate the candy? A day? A week? I sighed standing there wrestling with the devil because he’s always in the details. How could I arrange the freezer so she would not know the chocolate was gone? Would she be really mad? Did it even matter if I ate it?

Finally, I decided that if Mom wanted to meet Jesus at the freezer it was none of my business and I wouldn't eat him. I know wherever she meets Jesus they are both having a good time. What I believe is not necessarily for anyone else but me...and that’s okay. Jesus is part of my Mom’s soul and that’s more than okay with me. That candy obviously had meaning to her.

Chocolate Jesus remained in her freezer until a couple of months later when my sister threw him in the trash without a second thought while we cleaned and packed my Moms house. My heart hiccuped at his demise. I knew I should've eaten Jesus.

It’s not Black or White.

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Saturday May 17, 2014 · 2:56 PM PDT

2014/05/17 · 14:56

The Supreme Court heralded a post racial society in its recent decision on affirmative action. After the decision, Craven Blunder (Cliven Bundy) and Donald Sterling kindly set the nation straight on such notions, and in case you didn't hear a congressman referred to a Black reporter as an ape. Before I could finish this and publish... a rural police commissioner called President Obama a nigger, really, this could all be so simple but some would rather make it hard. It’s not Black or White. We know that The Blunders, Sterlings and Trumps and are not isolated in their thinking they simply express those thoughts in isolated venues with implicit agreement among peers where such thoughts are aired. This is not only a White phenomenon it is also a prevalent Black phenomenon. I will not relate anecdotal examples of the Black version of the phenomena (I know you want me to though), just take my word for it a Black woman sitting here listening to Biggie Smalls while I work this piece of writing into a coherent meaningful artful slice of the written word.

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Sunday April 06, 2014 · 11:08 AM PDT

2014/04/06 · 11:08

(yeah) some call me the gangster of love."

A little more than a year ago I wrote this not truly believing we would ever come to this place.
Serious and potentially far-reaching things happening in Kansas right now so I want to re-post to show my support for Kansas teachers. If you have not read this diary http://www.dailykos.com/.... I invite you too. And the fight is still going on http://www.dailykos.com/.... Thank you tmservo433.The struggle is real.

I been doing some thinking about all the events going on in the world and well I feel a little worn out by all of it. My mind slid back in time to a place when I wasn't bombarded by the constant stream of media all the time and my addiction to the 24/7 news cycle. My ramblings are over the fold and open to comment.

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Tuesday April 01, 2014 · 11:31 AM PDT

2014/04/01 · 11:31

Two young women need to celebrated. I am asking we do so as a community by filling the comments at http://www.baltimoresun.com/... with encouragement. What they did is not easy and highly intellectual and physically demanding, for those not familiar with debate it consumes any free time you might think you have. (I wanted to link the picture but nothing would cooperate this early noon. You will be able to view two incredible young women who won a national debate championship by clicking the link.

A Current Debate and Criticism of OWS

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Saturday October 12, 2013 · 5:41 PM PDT

2013/10/12 · 17:41

This began with a comment I made on a diary last night http://www.dailykos.com/.... It went a little further than I really intended but however since it did. I would like to open it up to those who have their own thoughts. I have long considered Kos a market place of ideas and would like to hear from fellow Kos members. The current arguments are below the fold.

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Friday September 20, 2013 · 10:18 AM PDT

2013/09/20 · 10:18

While I was mopping my kitchen floor after the 100 year or maybe 500 year rain here in Colorado, Bad Mamma Jamma wrapped itself around my kitchen. Not that we sustained any flooding in my part of Denver I just wouldn't mop during the rain because we were tracking in and out through most of it busy with daily life as the rain poured and poured and poured and damn did I mention it poured?

Shes a bad mama jama
Just as fine as she can be, hey
Shes a bad mama jama
Just as fine as she can be

My TARDIS spun back to the 80’s. Damn, there is noway 30 years went by that fast. Spoilers. Reagan is just as popular for neocons in 2013 as he was for neocons in the 80’s. If you feel like stepping out the way back machine with me keep reading.

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Saturday July 13, 2013 · 7:32 PM PDT

2013/07/13 · 19:32

Dear Black Kos,
I am thinking not reacting to the verdict delivered in Fl. I would like to propose the following as an organized response: let us pick a few strategic days to suspend our economic input in a society in which we especially our children are considered expendable. No Black economic input at judiciously chosen times the rest of the year. With all my heart I am righteously angry but always thinking. I would like to know can we make this happen via social networking together?

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Waiting on Louis Farrakhan

I Don't Know Who Jesus is to You.

It’s not Black or White.

"Some people call me the space cowboy (Re-post)

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A Current Debate and Criticism of OWS

Bad Mama Jama; I am not just talking about President Obama either.

Mad, angry and Mad