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Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
I googled and only got pics of Tavis Smiley. lol

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Are any of these any good?
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The third one reminded me of Mocha, but compared to the others it might not work!

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
So the yellow smiley is a white person? I like one smiley for all races. Unity.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
seems to be the closest we have

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 10:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
i think the most amazing thing is... that any person of color can now tell their children, yes... you can grow up to be president one day. that you can be anything you want to be.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
exactly, landi ... we've always told our kids that, but today maybe we believe it a lil more ...

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Uh I don't see me in that smiley lolol.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
test

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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I found AA antenna toppers http://www.4antennaball.com/likedis.php?prod=0080253

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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lol, I like this one:
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Supergranny
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02-03-2005

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I am so thankful that I saw this in my lifetime. The first time in New Orleans in the early 60's when I saw separate drinking fountains...I was ready for a change right then. This has been a long time coming but with God's Blessing it is finally happening.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 11:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Me too, Ladytex! And I did think of Maya last night.. perhaps the new poet laureate? When I was young and married my last year at Berkeley we did have a TV and KQED was the PBS station from San Francisco (this was a B/W tv in the days when stations were UHF or VHF and this station was on the regular bandwidth.. anyway a younger Maya Angelou had a program and we'd watch and I always told people that I could listen to her read the phone book and enjoy it.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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Commentary: My father, George Wallace, and Barack Obama

<snip>

Healing must come, hope will be our lodestar, humility will reshape the American conscience, and honesty in both word and deed will refresh and invigorate America, and having Barack Obama to lead will give us back our power to heal.

My father lived long enough to come to an understanding of the injustices borne by his deeds and the legacy of suffering that it left behind. History will teach future generations that he was a man who used his political power to promote a philosophy of exclusion.

As his daughter, who witnessed his suffering in the twilight of his years and who witnessed his deeds and heard his words, I am one who believes that the man who, on March 7, 1965, listened to the reports of brutality as they streamed into the Governor's Mansion from Selma, Alabama, was not the same man who, in March of 1995, was welcomed with open arms as he was rolled through a sea of African-American men, women and children who gathered with him to welcome another generation of marchers, retracing in honor and remembrance the historic steps from Selma to Montgomery.

Four years ago, the young Illinois senator who spoke at the National Democratic Convention mesmerized me. I hoped even then that he would one day be my president.

Today, Barack Obama is hope for a better tomorrow for all Americans. He stands on the shoulders of all those people who have incessantly prayed for a day when "justice will run down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream" (Amos 5:24).


<snip>

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 11:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
It was the hair, Mocha!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Oh lolol ok Kitt!!

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 11:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
Wow, Ladytex. Wonderful. So much of what I am reading today is giving me goosebumps.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

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Yep, the hair.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

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Ready to be added to the clipart library ->LadyShades

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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Gracie, I tried to get rid of the white background with a transparency. I don't think I succeeded completely, tho. It could be my aging eyesight, but yours looks sharper and clearer because of the contrast.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

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A Butler Well Served by This Election

For more than three decades Eugene Allen worked in the White House, a black man unknown to the headlines. During some of those years, harsh segregation laws lay upon the land.

He trekked home every night, his wife, Helene, keeping him out of her kitchen.

At the White House, he worked closer to the dirty dishes than to the large desk in the Oval Office. Helene didn't care; she just beamed with pride.

President Truman called him Gene.

President Ford liked to talk golf with him.

He saw eight presidential administrations come and go, often working six days a week. "I never missed a day of work," Allen says.

His is a story from the back pages of history. A figure in the tiniest of print. The man in the kitchen.


<snip>

The Man at the Door Accompanying Slideshow.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

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Damn. Where are my tissues?

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 2:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
What an awesome life and an amazing man!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That is a great story. A little hard to read the ending though but a great story to read.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

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I was smiling (and I sure hope he gets invited to the inauguration and to visit at the WH, but then the ending... kind of hits you in the gut.

Yep, hope he gets to go to the inauguration.. there would be some sadness since so many of his ex employers are gone or disabled.. still he could see the Carters and of course just enjoy the present...

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
"Museum collects Obama artifacts

Curators at the Smithsonian Institution wasted no time snapping up souvenirs from President-elect Barack Obama's historic campaign victory and revealed plans Wednesday to re-create one of the campaign's Virginia field offices in a future exhibit.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture, slated to open in 2015 on the National Mall, scooped up items that had been headed for the trash can -- such as election maps, strategy boards, campaign literature and even a recliner from Obama's campaign office in Falls Church, Va. -- shortly after the election.

Most of the campaign loot would have ended up in the trash or been taken as souvenirs, volunteers said. The items may not be priceless artifacts, but they are "proof that we participated in one of the most historically significant elections in American history," said museum director Lonnie Bunch."

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