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		<title>what narcissism means to me&#8230; a mixtape.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/11/04/what-narcissism-means-to-me-a-mixtape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Clip from taped interview with George W. Bush for Matt Lauer Reports: MATT LAUER: Well, what he said, &#8220;George Bush doesn&#8217;t care about black people.&#8221; PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: That&#8217;s &#8211; &#8220;he&#8217;s a racist.&#8221; And I didn&#8217;t appreciate it then. I don&#8217;t appreciate it now. It&#8217;s one thing to say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t appreciate the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1099&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>scattered thoughts on moderation and restoring sanity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had every intention of going to DC for the Rally to Restore Sanity. The spectacle and clarion call, the gathering of moderates was seductive. However, in typical moderate fashion, I didn&#8217;t figure out a plan to get there. By the time I realized I should have booked a bus ticket on MegaBus or Bolt, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1071&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;who is this america dem speak of today?&#8217; cont.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/09/01/who-is-this-america-dem-speak-of-today-cont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russell Banks says so much more eloquently than I but below is a highlight: After long reflection, I&#8217;ve come to believe that the single defining, likened sequence of stories that all Americans, north, south, and meso- share, regardless of our racial characteristics or ethnic cultural backgrounds, the one narrative that we all participate in, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=922&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;you used to be alright. what happened?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/08/27/you-used-to-be-alright-what-happened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(saunters in&#8230;takes earbuds out ears) Oh, Hey. Wassup?? So I’ve neglected my favorite space for a grip. Sorry about that. I think I needed more time and space to unpack the assault of information, misinformation, opinion, rss feeds, tweets, status updates, check-ins, mayorships, blogs, rants, compounded by some of the banality of daily living. So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=875&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on independence.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/07/04/on-independence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While some grill meats, unite with families, picnic with friends and drink beer, and others question identity, question what is American, blindly quote words of our founding fathers and reflect on wise yet provocative and controversial words from one of our greatest thinkers of our shared history, I turn to one of the greatest collaborations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=836&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Did you ever stop to notice, this crying Earth its weeping shores?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/06/25/did-you-ever-stop-to-notice-this-crying-earth-its-weeping-shores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<title>the art of storytelling part 1.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/04/26/the-art-of-storytelling-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confession: I love Auditorium. Here&#8217;s the thing: I&#8217;m not really a hip-hop head. I don&#8217;t have a vast encyclopedia of knowledge of beats, rhymes and tracks of everything produce over the past 30 years. I know certain songs from memory because the beat was so sick it moved me, or the lyricism was so ill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=770&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the black tea partier&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/03/28/the-black-tea-partier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last year&#8217;s Tax Day Rally in New Dorp, Staten Island, I did in fact, meet ONE black Tea Party supporter. I&#8217;m not sure if he&#8217;s still kickin&#8217; it with them today. He was a curious oddity to me. I don&#8217;t remember his name, but I do remember that he was a Cuban immigrant, naturalized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=759&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>lost in translation.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/01/22/lost-in-transation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: This is an extremely meta post. In response to a recent NYT article in which I was quoted, a very clever reader I assume, googled me, found my Facebook profile and proceeded to send me the following message: Speak for yourself. Asian and Indian men are raised pretty much by doctors and engineers, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=698&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>there&#8217;s a party at the crossroads&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/01/11/theres-a-party-at-the-crossroads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months back this earworm invaded my mental mind and prompted me to post it as a stub. Today, it&#8217;s my writing prompt as I re-read Pygmalion and think about the code/switch. For the uninitiated, here is a sampling of X-Clan&#8217;s tome to the complexity of black identity in the black and white imagination: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=681&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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