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		<title>speaking of real talk&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/02/03/speaking-of-real-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it seems like ages ago (as we&#8217;re all transfixed on natural disasters and the revolutions in the Middle East) I haven&#8217;t stopped thinking about the State of the Union Address: What’s more, we are the first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea -– the idea that each of us deserves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1219&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>radio silence.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=1134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m burned out from the news. Too much salt, not enough sweet. I&#8217;m trying to catch up yet find myself sinking deep into a malaise, my eyes flood with too much information. It&#8217;s difficult for me to focus on a single item long enough to concentrate. I read somewhere that the internet is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1134&#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>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/10/31/scattered-thoughts-on-moderation-and-restoring-sanity/</link>
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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;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/08/31/who-is-this-america-dem-speak-of-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Either I&#8217;m nobody, or I&#8217;m a nation.&#8217; - Derek Walcott My partner in crime and literati madness, Lynne, and I continued this conversation about America, American identity, narratives, and plurality over the weekend. I summarized my recent post for her at our stomping ground while we were planning the next issue of our literary journal. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=898&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/05/06/%e2%80%9cwhat-difference-do-it-make-if-the-thing-you-scared-of-is-real-or-not%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 17:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A school district in Indiana has decided to ban Toni Morrison&#8217;s Song of Solomon. Students at Franklin Central High School had to return an award-winning but controversial novel halfway through reading it Wednesday after complaints surfaced about its appropriateness. District administrators say Toni Morrison&#8217;s &#8220;Song of Solomon&#8221; is being reviewed after it was pulled from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=792&#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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		<title>&#8216;post-racial&#8217; hubris.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/12/16/post-racial-hubris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone sent me a link to yet another piece of writing admonishing Tiger Woods and its inevitable knee jerk comparison to liberal disappointment with Obama. Le grand sigh. I think my greatest complaint stems from the following paragraph: Both men are of mixed race. Yet the majority of the country, including black Americans, sees them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=642&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bartleby.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/12/16/bartleby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read Bartleby, the Scrivener in the eleventh grade. It was required reading for IB English I at my high school. For the uninitiated, Bartleby was a scrivener, a writer, if you will, who worked for a real estate lawyer. Our modern tongues would define his position as &#8216;administrative assistant&#8217;, or &#8216;paralegal.&#8217; And while the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=619&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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