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no tolerance for foolishness!

mahoganyprincess83

About Me

Memphis born and raised. I'm funny,quick witted, love politics. Enjoy being around people who are active in their communities. I'm serious about the plight of my people and organizing for change.

Background from flickr user

My Interests

Music, photography, philosophy, psychology and anything else I can debate. ..

I'd like to meet:

Positive people.

Music:

John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Shea Norman, Sidney Kirk III and IV, and Cidney Joy Kirk, Citizen Cope, Ben Taylor, David Saw, Carlie Simon, Paolo Nutini

Movies:

Ever After, When Harry Met Sally, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the original), Punch Drunk Love, Napoleon Dynamite, Imitation of Life, Muriel's Wedding and Big Fish.

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, 48 Hours, Intervention, and King of Queens.

Books:

The Miseducation of the Negro, Democracy Matters,Race Matters, Do or Die, The Nosey Neighbor, Collection of poems by Amiri Barraka, Autobiography of Assata Barraka, Cornell West Reader, Crimes Against Nature

Heroes:

My daddy, my mom, my grandfather (all broke through doors and paved the way for me) my high school music teacher--Reginald Gaston, Marcus Garvey, Cornell West, Coach Robert Kirby (Mississippi State Univ.), my big sisters Tracy and Joy and my lil bro Sidney for all being a source of suport and beacons of light in my life.

My Blog

Like a child again.

Though I strive for a deeper understanding of self, my mind is often processing too many thoughts to focus on any one thing in particular. But sometimes the universe demands that we slow down and brea...
Posted by no tolerance for foolishness! on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:35:00 PST

Who defines you, Controls you. Gulf b/w middle class and poor blacks

This essay is in response to a broadcast on NPR about recent studies from the Pew Research Center. The study claimed that because of the widening gulf between poor blacks and middle class to wealthy b...
Posted by no tolerance for foolishness! on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:59:00 PST

just me

Life is so beautiful in its simplicity. Many of its lessons are so apparent that we dismiss them as cliche. I was once told that we think that we are humans in search of a spiritual experience, when i...
Posted by no tolerance for foolishness! on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:15:00 PST