Who you Calling Nigga?

(Carefully arranges soap box!)
If there is one thing I hate is the term nigga.I hate it with a passion and those around me, no better than to call me that even if to them it is a ‘term of endearment’.
I hate that such a term which is steeped in a history of negativity and bigotry [...]

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Organized Religion

In times past I found that a number of my non Christian friends were dead set against organized religion in any form. They did not subscribe to the whole legal entity, formalized church aspect of and saw it as another form of brain washing or mind control for money.
Away from the more extreme summary of [...]

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Take Five: Grace is Sufficent

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in [...]

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Increasing Intolerance

I think we seem to be living in an increasingly intolerant world.
It’s like if people cant get their own way they want to throw a hissy fit
Take today I was speaking to a Muslim brother. I was stating to him that I could understand that people would be offended by the cartoon depiction of Mohammed [...]

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Changing Course

high time I lowered my expectations of younot right that I should expect so muchtrying to decide who you areinstead of letting you be yourselfrecognising that you come with strengths,and with weaknesses, far from perfectyet still a friend of minelearning to shut my mouthand be quicker to open my earslearning cues to supress my agendawhen [...]

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Thank You Lord

For blessing me with another year to my life.Thank you for the friends and family around meI pray that I have made you proud of me
your son

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Thirty Seven

A prime number.The number of years since I was born.Had a lovely day thanks.Nearly had to “educate” some teens in Ilford, but thankfully my kids were there and had to think of them first.Got taken shopping by women.Had a great mealOff for a lovely bubbly to wind down the day.
Thanks to all the personal messages [...]

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Poetry: Just Give Me

Give me wordsGive me metaphors, syllables and semanticsGive me a pen, a room and some paperGive me space to tell it as it isGive me iambic pentametersGive me intransitive and reflective verbsGive me phrases which I can juxtaposeGive me thought patternsGive me rhyme and meterGive me a subject and I will predicateGive me phonetics, morphology [...]

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