Pandemic Parenting.  Yeah, that’s a thing.         “So, have you given up yet?”  That’s the question I ask myself in the reflection of my coffee every morning.   My answer is always, “If I can taste this coffee, then no.”  But deep down, I contemplate a retreat to some remote mountain village where Buddhist monks live.    […]

Quaker Oats announced this week that it was retiring the Aunt Jemima brand to end it’s ever-persistent racial undertones forever! The far-left danced in the puddles of the far right’s tears and so continued but also heightened the racist arguments on social media. But little did any of us know, Quaker is lying to ALL […]

Posted on February 11, 2013by The Myrtle Beach Diva So now that we’ve had a brief history of African Americans in politics, let’s take a closer look at the progression of the black race as a whole.  In the early 1900’s Jim Crowe laws or Democratic color codes had taken almost all of the wind out the […]

Posted on February 11, 2013by The Myrtle Beach Diva Before the discovery of the historical marker pictured in my previous post , I had no clue that there were black politicians before Jim Clyburn.  After taking a closer look into the history I also noticed the trend that the Republican Party had started by manipulating the black […]

Seven years later, I found this piece that I wrote for my first blog RasinEmReal has very significant purpose and insight to the happenings of today. If you wonder why we riot, if you don’t understand why we protest, this doesn’t explain it all, but it should bring it home.

For a few years now I have boycotted the Superbowl and NFL football as a whole. At first, it was a personal reason, but after watching reactions to Collin Kaepernick’s protest of the National Anthem, it became entirely different for me. My protest is now on several levels and too many for me to go […]