by Reneegede | Nov 28, 2016 | Opinion
I am Toto and Dorothy brought me here today. I will now pull back the curtain and tell you who is the Wizard of Odd behind the closed curtains of American elections in 2016…a mealy-mouthed lot with a penchant for unrequited power who wants candidates to rule...
by Reneegede | Nov 26, 2016 | Opinion
_For Year 2017, a reader’s writing challenge is taking place here at UI._ In the comment section below this article, in 100 words or less, write a complete super-short story – beginning, middle and strong ending. The rules are: There are no rules except...
by Reneegede | Nov 24, 2016 | Opinion
INTRO We Are Not Our Grandparents. We Will Fuck You Up. Now may not be the time to act like you’re offended at the use of the above four-lettered Anglo word that has become a part of everyday language thanks to the non-censoring of television and music. Now may...
by Reneegede | Nov 20, 2016 | Opinion
This is a hard one to write because it’s about the second oldest son, who is now nearly 38 years old and still behaves as if he is 14. His pants, as was the pants of his generation of the mid-1980s, still sling too far below his butt-cheek line. There is nothing...
by Reneegede | Nov 18, 2016 | Opinion
Grammy’s Note: I didn’t say he was TELLING the truth, but that he IS the truth… __________________ When my youngest son explained to me the reason he would have voted for Donald Trump, if he could have, I had no way of defending “my”...
by Reneegede | Nov 14, 2016 | Opinion
BIO Distinguished journalist and television news correspondent Gwen Ifill is one of the most successful female African-American reporters of all time. She worked for the Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC and PBS. She moderated two vice presidential debates and...
by Reneegede | Nov 9, 2016 | Opinion
I wrote a book in 2008 and published it in 2009. It was called “The United States of Georgia.” It was based upon the filth of racist and arrogant unjust whites in the State of Georgia at the time of Obama’s first election, and I already knew that the...
by Reneegede | Oct 25, 2016 | Opinion
And the REALLY good news is … my third eldest son. Some grandmas back in the day referred to the baby before the youngest child as the “nee” baby. I used to think they meant “knee baby,” but an older woman explained it to me. No, it means...
by Reneegede | Oct 23, 2016 | Opinion
Yesterday, I had to give a short and empowering speech on The Importance of Voting to a group of YPD’ers at a local church of which I also happen to be a member. (YPD = Young People’s Department). I titled it “What Do You Think?” I had written...
by Reneegede | Oct 18, 2016 | Opinion
I’ve heard all I can stand about Baby Mama Drama. And Baby Daddy Drama. All of it. Single Black women are nobody’s “baby mama.” Never have been, never will be. We are single mothers, just like any white single mother raising her children alone....
