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Bunny77, Resident BB&W Statistician, Breaks Down Angela Stanley’s BW Marriage Story
Last week, writer Angela Stanley wrote a piece for the New York Times about how the widely known and widely negative statistic that 70% of black women never marry is simply not true. The majority of them do marry. Eventually. Maybe when they’re 30, 40, or 50. And their eggs are shriveled into dust balls. Yes, they marry, right around the time when Greg, Leroy or Ray-Ray laid claim to the very last freak train and is now the joke of the club.
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Me & Maxi Me at the Movie Monstrosity
Well, it was funny hanging with my better-looking, taller and skinnier clone. We pigged out at PF Changs before we saw Breaking Dawn, and…wow. This was a pic taken before I was ready to put the gun in my mouth. Ah…the bliss of ignorance… Sorry Twilight fans.
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Alex Barnett Gives Update on Ivan The Terribly Cute; Raising a Biracial Child, and Pigamoose
Take a read at what’s been going on in the Barnett household since Ivan. Find out what Alex thinks of fatherhood, assigning (or not) a race to his son, and what the heck a Pigamoose is.
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Friday Funny: Look What Happens When You Fall Asleep On Vacay.
Clo Clo did this to her dad while he was napping in our adjoining cabins in Yosemite last week. We’d just come back from a hike to Vernal Falls and were grateful that despite her BEST efforts, The Babster did not fall 100 feet into rushing river water.
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True Stories: Kathy Henry Talks Frankly About No Father, Molestation, and Feelings of Inadequacy
“When I think about the molestation and my father abandoning me, I am filled with so much anger and hurt, it scared me and for years, I blocked it out. How can a man leave his child to fend for herself in such a harsh, cruel world? “
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…Because I Have Don’t Have the Time For 1,000 Words, So Give Me a Break Already!!!
Blame it on Herb Way, photographer extraordinaire and creator of Portraits of Eve, for inspiring me to tinker with photography. THANKS A LOT, HERB!! AS IF I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TO DO!!
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Back Again By Popular Demand: Kevin on Divorce and Flesh-Eating “Amicables”
… amicable… well, it helps that I’m not exactly sure what it means. I’ve got it narrowed down to a general sense of cooperation characterized by good intentions or a kind of South American river fish.
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Newsflash: Not EVERY black man is a “KING†and not EVERY black woman is a “Queen.†Overused Term Makes It Lame!!
Just because you’re black, does that make you a queen? A king? And what the heck are you ruling over because the black community is effed the eff up.
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Madame Noire’s LaShaun Williams Poses a Prickly–Interracial Dating with Non-mixed Kids
Interracial, or rain-beau as it is affectionately called on this site, dating can be a complicated feat in its own—culture clashes, stranger staring, familial disapproval, the list goes on. So, what happens when there are children involved?
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Browncow has a little baby calf!!
Well, we must have a little e-baby shower for one a much-loved BB&W member, “Browncow” who just had her little baby calf. She just mentioned it in another post, sort of in passing. But her news must be PUT ON BLAST! Browncow has been sitting on that little egg since I started the site back [...]
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Friday Funny: Christmas Will Bankrupt Us.
My family of six will be standing out in front of Wal Mart with little tin cups after all this is over.
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