I wasn't going to write about this because there have been a glut of comments on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by people far more qualified than I--including the president of the United States. But I do have a few questions that I'd like some ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 4:23PM
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WHY HOLLYWOOD MEN FEAR MARRIAGE
By RM Johnson
The question begs to be asked, why would a celebrity man want marriage anyway? The average A-list celebrity man has more money than the population of some small towns. The mention of his name and the wh ...
Posted Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 at 6:19PM
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Check out my podcast on the new Black In America installment on CNN:
http://www.getgreenbooks.com/AudioPodcasts/index.asp
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Posted Thursday, July 9th 2009 at 11:50AM
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Lesson for the day: Life is really too short!
Today we lost Michael Jackson. I am not going to comment on his accolades or his accomplishments and talk about how much I loved him (which I did).
I got one of the worst spankings after stealing a ...
Posted Thursday, June 25th 2009 at 8:52PM
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Check out an excerpt from a book I'm publishing:
Everyone likes to speak of the Chinese and how disciplined they are. And that's because as a nation, they save more than 50 percent of their income. That alone is impressive considering that the a ...
Posted Wednesday, June 24th 2009 at 8:31AM
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Jon Voight, the actor and the father of Angelina Jolie is trying to etch out some space for himself amid the blithering voices in America calling themselves dissenters against the Obama Administration.
Last week, while delivering a speech at a Rep ...
Posted Wednesday, June 17th 2009 at 1:44PM
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http://whyhewontgethitched.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?blog_id=135890&cid=10
If you liked Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, then check out RM Johnson's new book. More than that, we have a social network devoted to answering a question man ...
Posted Thursday, May 28th 2009 at 2:05PM
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I am so sick of seeing beautiful, talented, intelligent, spiritual women wanting to be in a relationship and unable to find "Mr. Right" or even "Mr. Aight"
Are all the good ones taken?
Do men have so many wonderful choices that they don't have to settle down with just one?
Are the 'hoes o ...
Posted Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 6:45PM
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By Yuri Kageyama
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO – No matter how independent, fashionable or popular she may be, Japan's unwed woman has long been labeled the eternal loser – lonesome during the holidays, dreaming of the child she never had, dreading the ...
Posted Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 4:16PM
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Two Neo-Nazi skinheads were reportedly arrested in a plot uncovered by The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to assassinate Barack Obama and kill 88 blacks high school students in Tennessee.
I hope this is not a symptom of a greater ill.
I w ...
Posted Tuesday, October 28th 2008 at 8:54PM
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While much of America is deciding that Barack Obama is, well, too black to represent this country as president, the rest of the world is moving in for a take out. America, the good old US of A, is perhaps the most vulnerable she’s been since her ince ...
Posted Monday, September 22nd 2008 at 6:03PM
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I worked at the Daily News for 16 years before quitting in 2004 and I have been back a few times since for tours of my classes. SInce that time, I have noticed that little by little the powers that be are being replaced with folks from Great Britain, ...
Posted Tuesday, September 16th 2008 at 6:13PM
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I guess I will be Pepa's unofficial spokesperson and let everybody know that as soon as she gets back, she will drop in and catch up. She and Cheryl are in Los Angeles, so if you're a praying person, please pray for their success in landing a sitcom. ...
Posted Wednesday, September 10th 2008 at 7:01PM
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There has been a lot of talk lately about women and equality to men, sexism and unfair treatment of women with this election. And with the selection of Sarah Pallin as vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party, I think somebody has to say ...
Posted Friday, September 5th 2008 at 9:35PM
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No discussion of hip-hop pioneers should be had without giving props to the contributions of female rap duo Salt-N-Pepa. Sandy Denton and Cheryl James Wray were partners-in-rhyme who held their own in a male-dominated genre without compromising their ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2008 at 9:41PM
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Here's a teaser:
On Sunday afternoons, my friends and I can be found at the pancake house, feasting on chicken apple sausages, waffles, pancakes and cheese grits, a caloric heaven that we have been starving ourselves all week to enjoy.
The break ...
Posted Monday, August 25th 2008 at 12:03AM
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There was a poll released today that showed that 27% of Democrats would be voting for John McCain in November. That's almost a third of all Democrats.
So what does that mean?
If a person is a Democrat they generally believe in universal health ca ...
Posted Sunday, August 24th 2008 at 11:12PM
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An 18-year-old high schools student from Tennessee was suspended more than 40 times for wearing a T-shirt and belt buckle and other items of clothing bearing the Confederate flag. He attends Anderson High School (with only one black student), which h ...
Posted Sunday, August 17th 2008 at 12:14AM
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If you have black skin but speak Spanish, which box will you check on a Census? Black or Hispanic? A member asked how is it possible that the black population will remain about the same in that study that found that whites will no longer be a racial ...
Posted Thursday, August 14th 2008 at 11:50AM
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Please remember this face and know that there is nothing that WE can't do if given the opportunity and the training. Yes, we all know that black people can run fast and play basketball. But now it's time to add a few other things to the repertoire (i ...
Posted Monday, August 11th 2008 at 12:06AM
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There is a story running online about a bar in China (see photo) banning blacks and other "social undesirables."
Here is the link to the story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/19/no-blacks-mongolians-allo_n_113838.html
No. 1: If this is tr ...
Posted Sunday, August 10th 2008 at 12:18AM
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I know you've seen this already where Loreal took the liberty of "whitening" Beyonce in their ad. Today on The Today Show, Kathie Lee Gifford brought up the subject. She suggested that they only did it to showoff the highlights in Beyonce's hair and ...
Posted Friday, August 8th 2008 at 2:14PM
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Okay, it's in Japan. But it shows how far we've gone into the abyss as people. It's bad enough that we glorify prison culture with the baggy jeans (because you can't have belts in prison), the sloppy white Ts and the sneakers without laces (remember ...
Posted Friday, August 8th 2008 at 2:05PM
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