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	<title>ithinkyoushould is an opinion-based running commentary about the current happenings - news, politics, editorial - in our culture today. xobolaji</title>
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		<title>My Mother Is Made of Strength, I Hope I Can Follow Suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a single parent household helmed by my Mother, who was [and is] commonly referred to as a “Strong Woman.” I’ll never say that my mother was both Mother and Father, because she wasn’t. She was simply a woman who “did what she had to do;” and like many women of her time, put her children first above all else. If my Mother had any resentment, personal grievances or an inner conflict about what she would have preferred to do, she never aired them. It’s as if she wanted to spare us the guilt of having a.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/my-mother-the-strong-woman/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>You Say, Pink is Evil! I Say, I Don&#8217;t Believe There Is An Insidious Plot to Takeover Girlhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular media culture belief, as the mother of two girl children aged 4 and 6, I do not spend every waking moment of our lives ruminating on the subject of pink politics as it concerns my girls, but the media and certain organizations hell-bent on breaking the so-called mould of stereotypical girlhood would have you believe I do. To date, I have not suddenly become paralyzed with indecision when it comes to choosing pink Lego over non-pink Lego for fear of raising marginalized and/or gender-conforming human beings, nor have I lost sleep over the fact that Mulan now.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/you-say-pink-is-evil-i-say-i-dont-believe-there-is-an-insidious-plot-to-takeover-girlhood/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Toddler World &#8211; Guest post on PhD in Parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent guest post on PHDinParenting, as part of the Carnival of Toddlers, about empowering our children. “Anyone can lead,” even our toddlers. Click through to read the full article! Toddlers are fascinating human beings for a variety of reasons, not least because so much of the ways in which they orient and construct their toddler world has everything to do with the ways in which we, the adults in their lives give them space to do so. For example a toddler who is given freedom to express herself and creative space to self-regulate is generally-speaking a happy child. I.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/toddler-world-guest-post-on-phd-in-parenting/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Things Happen When You Are Unapologetically Opinionated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that I have a lot to say. Some days it just so happens that I have more to say than other days, and some days it just so happens that I have more to say than most people. I can’t help it. Or more accurately I don’t want to help it. Since becoming a Mother I seem to have misplaced my internal mute button. It’s not that it no longer exists, it’s just that I’ve chosen to disregard it. Mind you, in disregarding it, I have felt stronger and more empowered than I’ve ever felt in my.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/things-happen-when-you-are-unapologetically-opinionated/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>In Which The Paycheck From Writing Bank Account Has Officially Been Established</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Friends: So, in between mothering with a small &#8220;m&#8221; and Mothering with a big &#8220;M&#8221; I&#8217;ve been blowing up twitter&#8211;mostly in my mind of course, but I&#8217;ve been blowing it up nonetheless. &#160; Oh, and I&#8217;ve been writing some articles at a online parenting magazine about imperfect parenting. Not sure if I&#8217;m *allowed* to provide any linkage, from my blog to their site, but if you hit me up on Twitter, we can do it all nice and legal&#8217;ish that way. Cool. Oh, and I&#8217;m collecting a paycheck from writing&#8211;did you catch that backflip? Let me do it again.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/in-which-the-paycheck-from-writing-bank-account-has-officially-been-established/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“Stupid Is As Stupid Does”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please consult the “Forrest Gump” Glossary of terms and explanations if you are not familiar with the title of this piece. It is a well-known American cultural reference. &#160; Once upon a time I worked in an international creative design studio that practiced graphic, product and interior design. My employer*, a man whom many considered “smart” and “successful,” assumed that [most] people were stupid. He never actually said “people are stupid,” but he implied, and applied this theory to his creative practice. In many ways he lived in that rarefied world of privilege. His world was filled with luxury and.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/%e2%80%9cstupid-is-as-stupid-does%e2%80%9d/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Media Circus Feeding Frenzy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 22:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From where I sit the term Media Circus seems to have lost “meaning” and “significance” in 2011. Back in the day, a “Media Circus” used to describe a frenzied journalistic approach to the media coverage of what was typically considered “A Big Event.” News agencies would dispatch reporters from far and wide to cover a significant “breaking” news item. It was described as a “circus” for it’s over the top appeal and for the sheer numbers of individuals and news outlets covering it. In more recent times, some of us might recall the televised OJ Simpson Escalade Escape circus, which.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/the-media-circus-feeding-frenzy/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What People Think Oprah Should Do With Her Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 19:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a friend posted this on Facebook. 22 comments later, the comments got kind of heated. It’s always interesting to me what ordinary people [like me] think Rich People [like Oprah] should do with their money. I find that the people who are the most vocal about how Rich People can SAVE MANKIND are fairly typical in their suggestions as to what they presume are the most pressing needs in our world. [Suggestions include: save a country, prevent and cure world hunger and thirst; prevent homicide, matricide, and suicide; cure debt, cure illiteracy, cure and decrease infant mortality, end child.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/what-people-think-oprah-should-do-with-her-money/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>My &#8220;OMG! @Oprah Replied To My Tweet!&#8221; Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8, 2011 was a particularly awesome Mother’s Day to remember. Why? Because it was the first Mother’s Day in 6 years that I actually felt like I earned the title of Mother; and it was the first time in 6 years that I actually felt like I deserved the title of “Mother.” [My daughers are 6 and 3 years old]. Oh, and Oprah returned a tweet of mine. But more on that later. Up until this particular Mother’s Day, I mostly felt like I was going through the motions of Motherhood. You know, mentally checking off.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/my-omg-oprah-replied-to-my-tweet-moment/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Curious Case of &#8220;Mr. Trump,&#8221; and &#8220;Celebrity Charity or Professional Narcissism?&#8221; Revisited.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously I posted about the self-congratulatory beast known as “Celebrity Charity’ism.” I and others have come to the natural conclusion that more than dealing in self-less altruism, increasingly these so-called celebrities are engaging in acts of charity for the sole purpose of boosting their public image, and let’s face it, their already inflated egos. And yes, for each celebrity who is able to lead with her heart and not by the ego which is in/securely attached to her public self-worth, increasingly there are more who do it for audience recognition and because they’ve learned that it’s perceived as the right.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/celebrity-charity-or-professional-narcissism-revisited-courtesy-of-mr-trump/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why Tyler Perry’s Films Don’t Bother Me. Or, How Racism Works.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Perry’s films don’t bother me much. And I don’t take it personally when he brings to the big screen larger than life caricatures of what he [and others] perceive to be the ‘essence’ of black American folks and black American culture. I’m not bothered by the fact that what he may or may not do in terms of character development is “representative” or not, because I personally have never had a Madea in my home, nor have I ever come across a Madea in all the years that I’ve been on the planet. I don’t have physically larger than.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/why-tyler-perry%e2%80%99s-films-don%e2%80%99t-bother-me-or-how-racism-works/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Father Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xobolaji</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[father wisdom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t physically grow up with my father. But in many ways I did so emotionally. And the older I get I realize that he and I have a spiritual connection which for me seems to have replaced the physical proximity I never knew. Growing up in a single parent household, my sisters and I never wanted for anything. At least, I never felt like we wanted for anything. [My younger sister might have a different re/memory as younger siblings are wont to do]. When my mother decided to leave my father that fateful day in Nigeria, her decision “sealed.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/father-wisdom/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Writers&#8217; Write May Not Be Right &#8220;For You&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/what-writers-write-may-not-be-right-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xobolaji</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Judd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at 12:35 EST @dreamhampton313 posted the tweet: “Meditating on the difference between cultural criticism and artist. Considering abandoning the first.” dream hampton is none other than Hip Hop&#8217;s well-respected chronicler of Urban Life, among other things. She was  a dear friend of the late Christopher Wallace [AKA Biggie Smalls] and she knew and grew up with many of Hip Hop&#8217;s original MCs.  She is also the silent co-author of Jay-Z&#8217;s, autobiography,  Decoded. dream’s tweet struck a chord with me because as one who endeavours to eek out precious time to occasionally write about cultural “truth,” I often find myself.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/what-writers-write-may-not-be-right-for-you/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Something Happened On My Way To Blog&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/something-happened-on-my-way-to-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xobolaji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All About Me-ish]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elvis Costello]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s true. Something did happen. And you won’t believe it. I hardly believed it myself, but then one day passed into 2 days which passed into 1 week which passed into 10 days, and all off a sudden two weeks have gone by and the “good intention” to blog has left my spirit. But I’ve been busy. Boy, have I been busy. With what, you ask? [Life] With reading. Other People’s Blogs. [Life] And Tweeting. [Life] My “tweeter-addiction” as I fondly like to call it, has zapped my imaginary blog-discipline, and turned the online-expression of my laundry list of personal.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/something-happened-on-my-way-to-blog/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Charity or Professional Narcissism? A Checklist of Corporate Celebrities Who &#8220;Give Back&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/charity-or-professional-narcissism-a-checklist-of-corporate-celebrities-who-give-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xobolaji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me or is anyone else tired of celebrities who seduce us into buying their schlock and then THEY give it to charity? On February 24, 2011, I came across a headline on my Twitter timeline which read: “Why are black pop stars performing at the behest of dictators?” Written by Lori Adelman, the story came courtesy of The Griot an African American online journal. I immediately clicked on the link and was surprised to find that not only had Mariah Carey, Beyonce, and Usher performed for Libyan dictator Mouammar Qaddafi, but they accepted a $1 Million paycheck.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/charity-or-professional-narcissism-a-checklist-of-corporate-celebrities-who-give-back/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Calling All Primary Care-Givers: Please Keep Your Beautiful Sick Children At Home!</title>
		<link>http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/calling-all-primary-care-givers-please-keep-your-beautiful-sick-children-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xobolaji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mom-ish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven’t blogged in awhile. I haven’t visited my blog, much less read the *stats or **number of visits to my site since my last entry. I leave all that stuff, what I consider to be the minutiae of blogging, to my ***husband. It’s not that I don’t care, because I do. “But I don’t, but I do, but I don’t, but I do.” This series of not caring and caring is brought to you courtesy of my youngest. When she was 2—she’s now 3—I would tell her that we “care about everything.” The discussion was brought about because she.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/calling-all-primary-care-givers-please-keep-your-beautiful-sick-children-at-home/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The African American Sex Scandal Tip Sheet by xobolaji</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xobolaji</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anderson Cooper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read the “exclusive” interview by Danielle Belton of The Loop 21/The Black Snob fame about the “anonymous” woman—now known as Yesha Callahan AKA “Fly Black Chick” and outed friend of the author—who had shamed Craigslist Congressman Chris Lee into resigning, I immediately thought it sounded inauthentic. As it turns out, Ms Belton and Ms Callahan are good friends which in the end may have proven disastrous for Ms Callahan since it was Ms Belton who bragged on her blog, “I scored an interview with the woman who Rep. Chris Lee [R-NY] was sending shirtless pictures to.” In order.... <a href="http://www.ithinkyoushould.com/african-american-sex-scandal-tip-sheet-by-xobolaji/">[ Read More ]</a>]]></description>
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