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Sunday September 11, 2011 · 10:08 AM PDT

2011/09/11 · 10:08

The blackwoman woke up this morning with a song playing in her head. Two days in a row. How Insensitive. Yesterday I actually walked downstairs and sat at my baby grand piano and tried to play for the first time in over two years. First there was this pesky ruptured disc with as it turned out, a rather large tumor growing on my sciatic nerve. Then there was this stage 3 cancer thing-y that took up the last trimester of year last and the first seven month of the current year. All in all, it was rough going,but I am nothing if not tough. So forgive me if I don't give a flying farknarkle about rantings privilege and stuff like that. When I look at the list I am among friends. Black people and white people who care about racial and social justice. Hypocrisy thy name is Daily Kos.

Robinswing

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Tuesday July 26, 2011 · 9:03 AM PDT

2011/07/26 · 09:03

The Blackwoman has gown weary of segregation. Integration too. At this moment, it would seem that the internet is as segregated as America. I'm just not up for it anymore.

Robinswing

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Thursday July 21, 2011 · 10:11 AM PDT

2011/07/21 · 10:11

Health care for black men is now dependent upon whether or not they are incarcerated. At least this is the case a new study presents.

This article is my WTF??? moment of the week. The Blackwoman is speechless. Almost.

Robinswing

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Wednesday July 20, 2011 · 11:04 AM PDT

2011/07/20 · 11:04

Lately the Blackwoman has been spending time with the long-view. Past and present. There is a reason for the saying 'hindsight is 20/20. Not always. Often enough. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Or some such. Not in the mood to repeat it. I've seen enough angry white folk to last a lifetime. Enough angry black folk too. I've fought against becoming angry most of my life. Anger unless used as motivation just renders you useless.

Robinswing

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Wednesday July 13, 2011 · 10:44 AM PDT

2011/07/13 · 10:44

There is a vantage-point where the political theater we are all witnessing the Blackwoman finds deeply amusing. I personally had to leave the point of view I found disturbing. Way to. Disturbing. To each his reach.

No writer worth their ink would have dared put together a cast of characters that are the stars of this theater, some of which have only been used in tales of moral lessons about the triumph of good over evil.

Sometimes I think too many folks want to live in the America of 1940’s propaganda. I wouldn't mind it myself. If I was white. Maybe there was such a place for Americans of European ancestry. Not for my people.

Even the well-heeled among us lived in a different America.

Robinswing

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Tuesday July 05, 2011 · 9:14 AM PDT

2011/07/05 · 09:14

As I sit propped up in my bed, on an absolutely perfect Pacific Northwest day I am thinking about freedom. Through my window I can see snow-capped mountains. On my desk one of my orchids is in a second time this year bloom. There are twelve blooms and nine buds.

Blooms to be.

As a Blackwoman in America on the 5th of July, freedom for me, is still a bloom to be.

Robinswing

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Friday September 24, 2010 · 10:00 AM PDT

2010/09/24 · 10:00

The Blackwoman grew up in and with Chicago politics. As a result I do not even remember an election in the city where the outcome was not determined during the primaries. In Chicago it comes down to which Democrat wins the primary. In the city of Chicago, republican'ts are a non starter. This is why I am not amazed at the level of contempt and the cynicism shown toward black people by the republican'ts in the state of Illinois. Just disgusted.

Robinswing

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Friday September 17, 2010 · 10:16 AM PDT

2010/09/17 · 10:16

White America is at a crossroads of sorts. It will be interesting to see the turn it takes.

Have Americans had the hope squeezed out? Are they willing to suffer the known rather than continue on a path of progress, the unknown path?

In one direction, there is the no longer closeted racism ship of the republican'ts and their teaparty. At the moment there does not appear to be a captain guiding this ship, though apparently Newt is volunteering.

Robinswing

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Friday September 03, 2010 · 10:05 AM PDT

2010/09/03 · 10:05

One would think that there would be very few ways white folk could surprise the Blackwoman after all these years. One would think. One thing is clear to me. Your blues ain't like mine.

Robinswing

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Friday August 27, 2010 · 10:14 AM PDT

2010/08/27 · 10:14

The Blackwoman started out wanting to write something that might soothe some of the souls wounded by the constant beat of racist drums. Now I'm listening to those drums being beaten (off rhythm I might add) by some of the people on this site who are referring to a 'race' war. Here on Daily Kos

Robinswing

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Friday August 20, 2010 · 10:20 AM PDT

2010/08/20 · 10:20

The Black woman has not a few friends that are disgusted by the open and racist attitudes that can be found all over the news, and the internet. I have a somewhat different attitude . Today. My attitude changes from time to time.

Robinswing

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Friday August 13, 2010 · 10:01 AM PDT

2010/08/13 · 10:01

The blackwoman has been left slack-jawed at some of what passes for dialogue on this site. I've been told today that I am too sensitive because I object to the term 'race card' and find it offensive.

I see where a rad-idiot thinks that saying the word Nigger repeatedly to an African American woman was also a case of hypersensitivity. There was even one person on this site who agreed with her. This shit is getting old.

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