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		<title>Cheap is Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I swear I am not cheap. I shop at Target (instead of Wal-Mart), Cub Food (instead of Aldi). I even have membership at Seward Co-op. When it comes to wear, though I sometimes stray into Marshalls when I’m at the Mall of America, and I thought TJ Maxx was an high-end boutique during my college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to my Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are not from there You are not from here You are from your mom And from your dad You are an African-in-America An African and American Proudly wear them both Wherever you go Knowing home is not a place Except if that place be a space in your heart I give you what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tie That Binds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chehalis Hegner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBé]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the tie that binds The moth to the flame The gold plated chains That would noose you To the height you seek to climb It&#8217;s the pretty things that would kill you The familiar faces that would wake you Up in the middle of the night Soaking wet in your own sweat If it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year Resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AboutTown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mall of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MOA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a weird Sunday evening. After hanging out with some friends, I decided to run to the mall to return some shirts I bought the week before. From uptown, I got on 35W south bound. Few miles later I debated whether I should take highway 62 East or stay on 35W to 494 East. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupation Without Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#Occupy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am from Africa. No, not that Africa. I was not destitute. Not this Africa either. I am not next in line to any throne, nor am I a son of a politician. I am of that middle group that is too blind to notice they are dirt poor, and know better than to care. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel in our Midst (A Poetic Biography of MLK)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biographic Poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a poem I wrote few years ago trying to find a new way to tell an old story to some college students. I enjoyed it, and thought I should do similar for other people I find worthy of such efforts. But years later, beside this, I have only one other: W.E.B. DuBois. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s an Apology Between Slaves and Masters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AtlanticDivide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guinea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerald, the African-American Should the current Administration, by Congressional decree, have apologized in 2009 to African-Americans for slavery and Jim Crow Laws (on behalf of America)? I say no, at least to the slavery part. The fact the current President is African-American makes him no more or no less obligated to do so. I say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Relations</title>
		<link>http://atlanticrock.com/2cents/?p=848</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arabs are not bad It’s just that terrorists Wear turban and say Allah Before blowing themselves up At checkpoints and crowded Roadways among Muslims On their way to offering zakat to the needy Americans are not good It’s just that when food Rains from the sky It has an American flag on it A boy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Advice from the Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budgeting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not a financial expert by any stretch of the imagination. But whenever I read an article about personal finance, I always feel like saying duh, I knew that. So I thought, maybe I know a little more than the average person. If so, maybe I should share. So here we go. You cannot run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AtlanticDivide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IBé, The African-in-America Here is joke for you in the style of “two [whatever] walk into a bar…”: Two Africans walk into a place of employment looking for a job, who do you think is going to get hired? Take your time. Any guesses? Give up? Okay, I’ll tell you. The one whose uncle is [...]]]></description>
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