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		<title>The Kids and I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been feeling a certain way about how comprehensively my kids have taken over my life. Nothing has come to symbolized this as how many times I have to reheat my cup of tea, sometimes even before my first sip. Pour the water…“Daddy.” Add the honey… “Daddy?” Lift the cup to my lips…”Daddy!” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Am Voting For</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economic Security I don’t really know what Middle Class is. As far as I can tell it is this wide sea of individuals and families between those that qualify for food stamps and those that live in mansions with enough financial wealth to have their children look forward to their death. I may be somewhere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atlanticrockers: Zaki Ibrahim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought AtlanticRock refered only to those people like myself who were born in a country in Africa and now live in the US, then you might scrach your head about Zaki as an AtlanticRocker. But this has never been my intention. To me AfricanINAmerica has always included children of African immigrants. And the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Djoliba&#8217;s Worth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 05:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was born in Kankan Before being delivered atop old German trucks Full of djoula musos and the wares they peddle Between Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Liberia To Sierra Leone and Back to Kankan I came After the guns knocked on our doors And the grave diggers lost their shovels But Guinea is a hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am Voting No on the MN Marriage Amendment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was born in Guinea, to a strict family in a devout Muslim community. If you have followed my writing for any length of time, you already know this. But it bears repeating here. I was about 15 when I came to America. In the few months before starting high school, I learned America from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Good Thing About Reggae Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems there is a documentary about Bob Marley every few years, and yes, by now if you are half interested in the man, you probably know all there is to publicly know about the man and his music. Well, there is not very much new in the recently released documentary, “Marley”. Except—at least for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election of All Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know who is going to win the next election. Come the day after the elections in November, the next president of the United States is going to be….a millionaire male politician! And after the inauguration in January, in February your life is probably not going to be any different. If it does, it won’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap is Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IBé</dc:creator>
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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>
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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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