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...stints two and three, but he and his producers decided against using the images. "I couldn't justify it, not with my faith, not with my family," says Bush, who has three daughters, ages, 2, 6 and 8. "Here's a girl who's cracking. She's a young person who's got some problems. They're obvious. We don't need to add to them. I don't want blood on my hands...
Being the token black person is not fun. I am expected to be an authority on the lives of all black people. People think I represent all black people and black culture; however, at the same time, I’m supposed to rise above black culture.What is the token black person? The token is not supposed to be your everyday black person. The token is the good black person. You know, the black person that doesn’t adhere to all the negative stereotypes of black people. People of other races feel a little less threatened...
Being the token black person is not fun. I am expected to be an authority on the lives of all black people. People think I represent all black people and black culture; however, at the same time, I’m supposed to rise above black culture...
...Combat experience] puts you in a position not to think of war as an abstraction but as a very real event of significant suffering. If you don't personally have that experience, then putting people around you who have that experience is important. In the Bush Administration's case, there was only one person who had anything close to that experience, and that was Colin Powell, the one person they listened to least...
...elaborate sky-high headdresses and makeshift tails made of feathers that a peacock would envy. But by far the most noticeable are the decorated bikinis worn by the beauty queens - which leave just enough to the imagination. Of course, it simply isn't enough to just watch; being a person of action, I felt the need to don a costume, as part of the TRIBE band, and enjoy a few drinks, a lot of jumping and "wining" - which is what folks in the Caribbean call a dance in which hips gyrate in sync. You should always do this with...