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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 12:58 pm
and on that note ... Happy Birthday, Michelle!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 6:32 pm
I would guess so Jimmer. But hell they've already been criticized for the fist pound.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 9:16 pm
How is Michelle Obama any less or any more ethnic than Condoleezza Rice? (I ask that in a sincere way.)
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 9:36 pm
Wasn't the criticism on the fist pound because it wasn't "professional" behavior? [I had no problem with it.]
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 9:56 pm
OK, I somehow missed the hoop-a-la over any "fist pound." What was that all about? Mocha are dreds and cornrows considered the same? I thought they were different. I guess it would matter how long the cornrows are left in before being redone? My son's friend has dreds - he's in college though - but my daughter had a guy in her class who had them in HS. The only negative thing I ever heard about them was watching a TV show about make-overs and this guy had them for a long, long time and they mentioned something about things getting stuck in the dreds and not being sanitary (they had a baby on the way.) Would that be the reason or do they just not like the cultural look? Since our kids can wear them up here, I really don't know what the problem would be. That actress Bo Derek in the movie "10" made a whole lot of money from having her hair in cornrows! I remember a lot of white females getting them done after that.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 10:33 pm
I'm not Mocha, and I, personally don't think Condoleeza Rice is any less ethnic than Michelle Obama. I think they are both very classy, successful black women. Some people, however, consider her less ethnic because she dares to serve in a Republican administration. The 'fist bump' was condemned as anything from ghetto to terroristic ... whatever ... Dreds and cornrows are very different. Uneducated people have a problem over what they consider the uncleanliness of dreds, but most people I know with dreds keep them very clean.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 11:00 pm
Thanks for answering Ladytex. I guess as far as the "bump" goes, I never paid attention to stuff written that was stupid, and I'd consider that stupid.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 2:16 am
Same here. I looked around and read about "the bump" and it was such a non-issue to me, I forgot about. I thougth dreds and cornrolls were different - as least from my experience. I just got confused when Mocha said dreds weren't allowed in some schools when someone asked about corn rows. Personally, I think corn rows are really pretty and the 2 people I know w/dreds don't bother me one bit, esp. regarding them being clean. I never would have even thought a thing about cleaniness had I not seen that TV show. Thanks, LT!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 9:22 am
Well I am Mocha lol and I said Condoleeza wasn't ethnic looking. I did not say she wasn't ethnic. An by ethnic looking I meant she doesn't wear cornrows or dreds etc so any issues with that would be a non-issue. Yes she's classy except I have never liked her hairstyle but that's a personal thing for me lol. And since she doesn't have kids who knows if she'd put their hair in cornrows or dreds <shrug> An as Ladyt said dreds an cornrows are very different.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 9:35 am
Yes, she is classy.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 9:50 am
IMO Condoleeza was one of the biggest disappointments in the Bush administration. I remember hearing her speak at the convention and I thought she sounded so intelligent. I thought it was wonderful that a young black woman was becoming so successful in the Republican Party. Oh well. Still, on a positive note it was nice to see that she was able to go as far as she did.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 10:38 am
I love the fist bump! Only I call it the knuckle bump. I taught it to my 3-year old nephew and he just thought it was the coolest thing ever.
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 10:53 am
Sorta' off topic, but we taught Brayden the 'fist pump', but we call it "knuckles" (i.e., "Give me knuckles, Brayden"). So cute!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 11:54 am
Lol the boys an I have done the fist bump for years usually after they made a good play at one of their games.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 12:32 pm
I love the fist bump.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 5:29 am
MSN search has a different background each day.When I went there this morning the picture was one of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. His hands are folded. He is looking off to his left, deep in thought. It is a beautiful photograph of a man who was strong in his convictions and his love for all people.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 10:50 am
CNN is having the most interesting special today on From MLK to Today. They've already shown the entire 'I Have a Dream' speech. Now they are talking about the Birmingham days from 1963 and the Letters from Birmingham jail.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 12:47 pm
I'm listening to a clip at an after party with Jay- Z and Young Jeezy remixing Jeezy's "My President Is Black"... My President is black but his house is all white.... <snapping my fingers>
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 12:49 pm
Another from Jay-Z... "Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly."
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 7:39 pm
I have never heard that phrase sung, but I love the little thought poem. Just perfect.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 6:52 pm
They even have it on tshirts. Well I cried all during the Inauguration. From the opening thru the Benediction.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, February 02, 2009 - 9:42 am
Alfred L. Cralle An African-American from Virginia who became an inventor and businessman in Pittsburgh, PA. He is best remembered for inventing the lever-operated ice cream scoop in 1897, a practical design still in wide use over 100 years later.
It was while working in Pittsburgh as a porter that Cralle noticed that ice cream, which had become a popular confection, was difficult to dispense. It tended to stick to spoons and ladles, usually requiring use of two hands and at least two implements to serve. To overcome this, he invented a mechanical device now known as the ice cream scoop and applied for a patent. On February 2, 1897, the 30-year old was granted U.S. Patent #576395. Cralle’s ingenious invention, originally called an “Ice Cream Mold and Disher” was designed to be able to keep ice cream and other foods from sticking, and easy to operate with one hand. Strong and durable, effective, inexpensive, it could be constructed in almost any desired shape, such as a cone or a mound, with no delicate parts that could break or malfunction. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Wiki Bio Today in Science History
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 8:03 am
Jack Johnson Arthur John (Jack) Johnson (1878 -1946) was the first black to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. On February 3, 1903, Johnson first became the heavyweight champion of Negro boxing. Jim Jeffries, the white champ at the time, refused to fight Johnson because he was black. He eventually won the world heavyweight title on December 26, 1908, when he fought the Canadian world champion Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia, after following him all over the world, taunting him in the press for a match. This initiated the quest to find a "Great White Hope" to defeat Johnson. He was not officially given the title, though, until 1910 when he finally fought and beat Jeffries in Las Vegas. Jeffries had come out of retirement to become the first of many so-called "great white hopes." Race rioting was sparked after the Johnson-Jeffries fight. The Texas Legislature banned films of his victories over whites for fear of more riots. Jack Johnson received bad publicity by the press for his two marriages, both to Caucasian women. Due to the racist attitudes of the times, interracial marriages were prohibited in most of America. Johnson was convicted in 1912 of violating the Mann Act by transporting his wife across state lines before their marriage and was sentenced to a year in prison. While out on appeal Jack Johnson escaped fearing for his safety. Posing as a member of a black baseball team, he fled to Canada and later Europe. Jack Johnson remained a fugitive for seven years During his exile from the U.S., Johnson lost his championship to a white man, Jess Willard, in Cuba in 1915. In 1920, Johnson opened a night club in Harlem; he sold it three years later to a gangster, Owney Madden, who renamed it the Cotton Club. He returned to the U.S. on July 20, 1920 and was arrested. Sentenced to Leavenworth in Kansas, Johnson was appointed athletic director of the prison. While incarcerated, Johnson found need for a tool that would help tighten loosened fastening devices, and modified a wrench for the task. He patented his improvements on April 18, 1922, as US Patent 1,413,121. There have been recurring proposals to grant Johnson a posthumous Presidential pardon. The latest, a bill requesting President George W. Bush pardon Johnson in 2008, has passed the House, and a companion bill is going through the Senate, sponsored by John McCain. The resolution states that he was “wronged by a racially motivated conviction.” Unfortunately, I can't find a record of this pardon being granted. Upon his release from prison, he returned to boxing, but only participated in exhibition fights after 1938. Johnson died in a car crash June 10, 1946, near Raleigh, North Carolina after racing from a restaurant that refused to serve him. Famous Texans Bio Wiki bio inventors.about.com
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 9:00 am
Thanks for posting this info LadyT. Fascinating reading.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - 6:40 am
Rosa Parks February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005 Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America. Her action was not the first of its kind: Irene Morgan, in 1946, and Sarah Louise Keys, in 1955, had won rulings before the Supreme Court and the Interstate Commerce Commission respectively in the area of interstate bus travel. But unlike these previous individual actions of civil disobedience, Parks' action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. At the time of her action, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Although widely honored in later years for her action, she also suffered for it, losing her job as a seamstress in a local department store. Eventually, she moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she found similar work. From 1965 to 1988 she served as secretary and receptionist to U.S. Representative John Conyers. After retirement from this position, she wrote an autobiography and lived a largely private life in Detroit. achievement.org bio Wiki bio
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