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About adoption blogs: “it’s clear to me that if you are an adoptee and want to say something critical about adoption, you had better make it abundantly clear that you truly, absolutely love your mom and dad or you risk getting berated.”
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More about the Dutch vice consul who turned his seven-year-old adopted daughter over to Hong Kong social services, who now says “his daughter was “very sick,” and suffers from a “severe form of fear of emotional attachment.””
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Shocker – POCs are not a monolithic entity! “About three-quarters of Hispanics and about two-thirds of Asians believe they will progress in this country if they work hard…But only 44 %of African-Americans polled said they believed…”
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” Ike Turner, who died Wednesday at age 76 in his suburban San Diego home, changed the course of modern music, scored numerous hits and yet is best known as the scoundrel who abused Tina Turner.”
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“I guess what really pisses me off is the oft repeated allegation that if Obama used drugs, then he must have sold them too, because hey, that’s what black men do. “
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“This past week the death of Pakistani-Canadian teen, Aqsa Parvez, has been in the news in Canada. This terrible tragedy has made headlines because of the nature of her death – she was strangled to death by her own father in their Mississauga, Ontario h
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“Among the school’s accomplishments: Every member of the 2007 graduating class went to college this fall.”
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“FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, has employed white supremacists in key leadershpi roles, has accepted over a million dollars from a eugenics foundation…”
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“King’s radicalism, Ellison’s rugged individualism, and Black Power’s (at times surprising) political pragmatism reminds us that the civil rights movement, far from being monolithic, was in actuality a mosaic of diverse voices and viewpoints. “
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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