Strategizing « Acts of Faith In Love & Life

Getting To What We Want From Where We Are Pt 1

Have you ever felt disappointment? If you’re a living, breathing human being of course you have! The difference between how we react to it is what distinguishes success from failure in achieving life goals. Well…I may have assumed a bit here. The first thing we need to have ARE life goals. So if you want [...]

While Obama Gives Lip-Service To Our Reproductive Rights We Must Communicate More Effectively With Our Elected Officials

The following note I’m enclosing at the bottom of this post was a response to the Feminist Advisory Board for Obama regarding a letter that was sent to the President asking for a public statement denouncing the murder of Dr. Tiller. A form letter response was sent with a generic “thank you” but it was [...]

Do You Want to Be Strong Or Do You Want to Be Free?

I featured the poem, “The Strong Black Woman Is Dead” by Laini Mataka a few months ago and I’d like to revisit this piece. Here’s some excerpts but please go back and read it in its entirety: On August 15, 1999, at 11:55 p.m., while struggling with the reality of being a human instead of [...]

Is Trouble In the Republican Party A Head Fake Or An Opportunity?

I’ve been tuning out the majority of cable news punditry and other media echo chambers as of late because it’s almost all the same sound: the bleating of sheep and other public whining and arguing. The self-appointed voices of the Republican Party are all gnashing their teeth it seems over the fact that Barack & [...]

Condi Rice Continuing Her Lap Dance of Lies for Bush

Dr. Rice was the solo guest on Rose’s show. She is articulate, intelligent and cunning. I’m certain she has many stories to tell – including a promised book about her parents that I’d definitely read. She is an anomaly and would be considered atypical to the usual portrayals of Black women people are used to [...]

Cashing In Politically 2009 and Beyond

As we begin this new year people often make declarations of all the things they’d like to accomplish with much fanfare. Often that enthusiasm for making sweeping changes does not include a long term plan. For example when we want to lose weight we tend to think we’ll just stop eating x, y or z [...]

Repost: The Latest Rumblings of War and Social Upheaval Are a Lesson in Dominance That We Should Learn Something From

*** I think this post deserves a second look since it got lost in the Holiday schedule *** With news of India and Pakistan shoring up their borders after the violence in Mumbai last month as well as the bombings between Hamas and Israel, there will be plenty of commentary, bluster and hand-wringing. About [...]