I will remember this day vividly. As I rolled my book bag toward the law school for my 10am class. I am thinking I should have done what my fellow colleagues did today and take an “Obama Day.” Then I think “Obama has his law degree, I need to focus on getting mine” Nevertheless, I would have enjoyed watching all the events in the comfort of my bed.
12:05pm 01/20/08----As I sit in the civil rights room of the Law center, I am getting emotional(not normal for me)
Here are some of the quotes that I found captivating. Enjoy.
“time has come to set aside childish things”(that goes for government as well as individuals)
“The god given quality that all are free”
“Greatness is never a gift it must be earned”
“we need to be Risk takers, the doers”
“raise health care qualities and lower its prices”
“We are the keepers of this legacy”
“The understanding between nations”
Oh, I am looking out in the crowd, I just say John Lewis(spoke at my undergraduate graduation)
“Our spirit is strong and we cannot be outlasted”
“Shaped by every language and culture”
“The old hatreds will someday pass”
“Your people will judge you on what you will build not what you will destruct”
“A man who’s father more than 60 years ago would not have been served is now taking a most sacred oath”
“Quoted George Washington”
Personal responsibility
“Don’t sit on the side line….need to be a society of doing”
Joseph E Lowery gave the benediction-hold on to the spirit of fellowship…let us take it back with us to our schools, our home, our jobs
“… Brown will stick around, yellow will keep it mellow, Where white will choose what is right…….”
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
YEA!! It is a New Year. I am enjoying the time I have had off from school. 7 more days and it is back to teachers who need there ego stroked:)
SO what are my New Year resolutions?....
- Mainly to be a better me.
- Rid myself of wasteful people.
- Let people be, cannot save the world.
- Forget about the past, I cannot change it now.
And that is really all I could think of this year. Not really much I need to perfect...
I am FABULOUS:-)
To a prosperous, healthy 2009.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
FAT HOUSES in Annang Land-NIGERIA
The Annang is a cultur al and ethnic group that lives in the coastal south east Nigeria. At present, the Annangs have eight local government areas of the pr esent thirty-one local government areas in Akwa Ibo m State of Nigeria.
The Fattening Room
Much has been written about the fattening room among the Annang. The fattening of the bride in Annang land, though seen mostly from the point of view of aesthetics, is more than a demonstration of what the culture regards as "beautiful". To the Annangs, plump women were seen as beautiful. It meant that the woman came from a home where the parents were well-to do and it also meant that the husband was also well-to-do. Some western social scientists have theorized that individuals from societies where the food supply was lean and famines frequent were likely to regard being fat as a desirable body structure and to see being fat as beautiful. We in Annang are not surprised by such theories because western scientists who derive their worldview from evolutionary perspectives have always seen Africa and Africans from Darwinian lenses. As Gloria Allred observed, the characteristics of the powerful have always been seen as the ideal while those seen as without power have historically been relegated to the background and often seen as pathological. The destitute-likes-fat explanation disregards the very definition of what a culture is and looks at the world primarily from an ethnocentric perspective. Thus, what is western is ideal and how the other lives becomes primitive. Augustus Comte had divided the cultures of the world into two camps namely: the primitive and the civilized. Under the Comtean classification the European culture was the civilized one and all the others were primitive. What the world has refused to hear in the fattening practice is that the fattening period was a period of education. The young bride was taught house keeping, child care, history, and how to be a wife and citizen of the community. The Annang society was semi-matriarchal before the Christian missionaries destroyed it. It became important therefore for the women to be taught the importance of good citizenship in the fattening period. The fattening room was more than an exercise in primitivity; it was a period to educate and to socialize the young into the values of the society (Ette, 2008)
The Fattening Room
Much has been written about the fattening room among the Annang. The fattening of the bride in Annang land, though seen mostly from the point of view of aesthetics, is more than a demonstration of what the culture regards as "beautiful". To the Annangs, plump women were seen as beautiful. It meant that the woman came from a home where the parents were well-to do and it also meant that the husband was also well-to-do. Some western social scientists have theorized that individuals from societies where the food supply was lean and famines frequent were likely to regard being fat as a desirable body structure and to see being fat as beautiful. We in Annang are not surprised by such theories because western scientists who derive their worldview from evolutionary perspectives have always seen Africa and Africans from Darwinian lenses. As Gloria Allred observed, the characteristics of the powerful have always been seen as the ideal while those seen as without power have historically been relegated to the background and often seen as pathological. The destitute-likes-fat explanation disregards the very definition of what a culture is and looks at the world primarily from an ethnocentric perspective. Thus, what is western is ideal and how the other lives becomes primitive. Augustus Comte had divided the cultures of the world into two camps namely: the primitive and the civilized. Under the Comtean classification the European culture was the civilized one and all the others were primitive. What the world has refused to hear in the fattening practice is that the fattening period was a period of education. The young bride was taught house keeping, child care, history, and how to be a wife and citizen of the community. The Annang society was semi-matriarchal before the Christian missionaries destroyed it. It became important therefore for the women to be taught the importance of good citizenship in the fattening period. The fattening room was more than an exercise in primitivity; it was a period to educate and to socialize the young into the values of the society (Ette, 2008)
It’s a New Year!! So why am I about to repeat the mistakes of last year? Christmas I spent time with him. We exchanged gifts, and he went back to the house we bought together that he now shares with his baby mother. This chick devastated our 8 years together. Not only her fault but the temptation of a desperate woman can really be powerful. During a break up, she gets pregnant and has a baby 3 days from my birthday. What did I do that was so wrong? I tried to stay but I could not deal with it… So I left…..
I was not perfect by far…but of course I don’t see that now. I am pissed I have allowed him back into my circle. I wake up and he is on my mind. I sleep he, her and the baby are in my dreams. I am devastated. I actually do not want him back. I want to pay him back. I am mad, not only at him but at her because it is like she won the fight. She had been battling to be with him for all this time, she has finally won… DAMN!! She doesn’t work, just lays on her sloppy as.s while he makes all the money. SO he works harder to make sure all the bills are paid and they live comfortably. I hate the thought. I called him last night he did not pick up. What was he doing? Were they at church as a family to bring in the New Year? Probably not. I actually found out that he is dating another girl besides his live in rat….
He is not a good man. Glad I left the situation. I just need to make sure this New Year I am on top of it and I don’t make mistakes like last year.
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I was not perfect by far…but of course I don’t see that now. I am pissed I have allowed him back into my circle. I wake up and he is on my mind. I sleep he, her and the baby are in my dreams. I am devastated. I actually do not want him back. I want to pay him back. I am mad, not only at him but at her because it is like she won the fight. She had been battling to be with him for all this time, she has finally won… DAMN!! She doesn’t work, just lays on her sloppy as.s while he makes all the money. SO he works harder to make sure all the bills are paid and they live comfortably. I hate the thought. I called him last night he did not pick up. What was he doing? Were they at church as a family to bring in the New Year? Probably not. I actually found out that he is dating another girl besides his live in rat….
He is not a good man. Glad I left the situation. I just need to make sure this New Year I am on top of it and I don’t make mistakes like last year.
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