VIDEVATION!!!

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PEACE!

little dude is the truth....

It's 2008 folks!!! Elevate by the way your think!

Okay...so recently I have been really perplexed by the amount of black folks (both men and women) who have such restricted color qualifications in the people they date. I'm tired of hearing people talk about how they can't date someone because they are too dark or not light enough for them. That stuff is played..for real. How could it be that we are coming this far in America tht we as black people are still enslaved by our own minds?? If it isn't instant gratification, it's our own self-hatred against the color of our own skin.

Now, recently, Young Berg made a comment about him not dating women darker that he, and that he doesn't do "dark butts" and that he is "kinda racist"....unfortunately he is just a representation of something that is deeply igrained into the psyche of many African Americans, and especially into the prototype for black females in the industry....come on black people....we gotta do better.

Let's be real....but there are a lot of light skinned women who get crowned with the 'pretty' title, when in fact all they have IS the light skin...and this is not to down anyone, but I really want to see when we stop judging a person's attractiveness by the hughe of their skin...that stuff is for the birds and we have come much to far to still be enslaved by that oppressive mentality...we have spend four hundred years living up to the qualifications of beauty and class of our oppressors, and now we perpetuae them ourselves...when are we goign to define our own standards and set our own ideals of beauty? It's gotta start about the way we think of ourselves...especially when we have dark skinned mothers but won't date dark skinned women...what is it, in essence, that we are saying about our very own mothers? let attractive be defined by much more than color...elevate your mind...



Here's his whack apology here..


“I want to apologize to every woman across the world,” Yung Berg told AllHipHop.com. remorsefully. “I would never want to offend any women of any race because I love women so much. You can tell by the music that I make that women mean the world to me. My mother is a lovely dark skin lady…I’m totally sorry and hope I didn’t offend any of my fans that have love for YB.”


....wow how did I predict that his mother was dark skinned.......

Videvation...Nas "Hero"

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Making it count...

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
- Langston Hughes
"A Dream Deffered"


Since I was a child I always had this yearning, desire, and innate expecation for something bigger, something better, visons of me doing things that many others don't get the opporutnity to do. As I grew older, I took a lot of those dreams and aspirations and burried them...even though the presence of those burried dreams provided constant reminders of what I had hoped for.

When you go to college, I believe that there are three things that happens to you. Some of follow our dreams, some of us learn to dream 'rationally', and some of us forget the dreams as irrational childhood fantasies. As a recent graduate, I realized that those dreams didn't rest in peace, but rather returned with vigor, and the desire for something golden, something that makes life count, has returned with a vengeance.

I made a plan of what I wanted to accomplish in life, but most of these were things that I knew I COULD accomplish, things that required sacrifice, but wasn't as much as a gamble as some of the other things I've always wanted to do with my life. So I'm starting to revamp "The Plan." I have the rest of my life to be a professor, and though building a school is one of my biggest dreams, I know that I will achieve that in due time....what I cannot forgive myself for is the fact that I didn't even TRY to go for the things I so desparately wanted...the Goldeness thatwas promised to me long ago.....and to sacrifice my dreams for eternal pain and disappointment with self is something that I can't live for...and neither should anyone. There are many of you with fesh business plans, crazy ideas, hopes, talents, album concepts, and goals...go for it.

So, today, I ask, what is it that you've been putting off? What is it that you've given up? What is that thought that follows you through every phase of life, that dream that keeps knocking, that feeling in your gut that comes with every thought of it? I urge you, not ot give up on it....at least until you try....because I am confident that fulfillment will come with even the journey of trying.....I'm going to take my own advice and do the same.....living life like it's golden and making it count.

PEACE

it's been a long time...i shouldn't a left u...

haha....yeah i'm finally back in good spirits. For those of you who don't know, I broke my foot on Wednesday after moving the lawn. I ran on a piece of unleveled ground and broke my foot. I was kind of down at the thought of being restricted to a house for the rest of this glorious summer....but i realized, my summer can stil be good (though I do get a little disappointed when my fam is getting ready to go out and I'm stuck in the house)....I read a quote that said "stress and pain are inevitable, misery is optional" and it really stuck to me. I realize that things could be a lot worse than what they are...and when life hits, because it will, we can choose to either weather the storm and try to make life as abundant as we can, or we can suffer in defeat, both physically and spiritually.

That's my little blurb for the day...i got some stuff on my mind and will be expressing it to....until then, be real....