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Black Love and the pursuit of peace amongst all

I had to post pone my original blog post to address black love. What is black love? Well I know what I would like it to be. It deeply saddens me to see people like Raven Symone, Stacey Dash and Lark Voorhies denounce who they are. On the one hand you can say that they are thinking ahead of their time, to a time where the color of our skin does not matter. That is fine and they are entitled to that opinion. We all have traveled our own twisting and dark roads and we are all at different points in that journey. It is not just high profile celebrities. The lack of black love and self hate can be seen everywhere. Memes degrading our black men, painting them to be womanizing, no good hucksters who only show up to claim their children for the tax money. Black women painting each other as whores, gold diggers, food stamp selling, neglecting their kids for weaves/wigs, big bootied baffoons. I see husbands and wives that cannot even hold each other up and be happy for one another. It is sad. ...