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Jan 6, 2025 | 
levelman.com | Garrick McFadden
I need you to understand this underreported aspect of this infamous day: January 6th was a failed lynching. On this day, which perpetually haunts this nation and we fail to discuss, then President Donald J. Trump transformed his most fervent supporters into a bloodthirsty lynch mob. This was the largest assembled lynch mob that failed to lynch its intended victims.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
levelman.com | Garrick McFadden
Fifty percent of black men have been arrested. This is an appalling stat if you contemplate it. It is deplorable that we allow this to continue. Our failure to examine why this occurs strikes at the soul of our nation. Allow me to submit to you that we do not ignore this stat, but we embrace it because it feeds into the myth that we have told ourselves: that black people did better with slavery. 50 percent of black men arrested is not a flaw in the system, it is by design.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
levelman.com | Garrick McFadden
Every spring and after the summer tempests that would deluge the ground in torrents of rainwater, the dandelions would make their appearance. The neighborhood mothers would receive varying bouquets and arrangments of these bright yellow weeds. As I got older and understood that my mother feigned glee when presented with these invasive annoyances that existed to make our yard look worse than our white neighbors did, I garner a hatred for them that caused me to root them out wherever I found them.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Garrick McFadden
You Should Always Date Someone With a Library Card and PassportGenerate Key TakeawaysDo you have a library card and a passport? It is a simple question, yet it yields so much information. A library card suggests someone who is rooted in their community. It reveals someone who needed or wanted to borrow something tangible in today’s information technology age. Something that they could grasp and hold. Some people use the library for movies or music. Others might want to borrow a book.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
levelman.com | Garrick McFadden
Dear White Men:You are being grifted. Other white men are lying to you about the pain you feel because it makes them money. They use deception to distract you from the fact that the titans of industry are hoarding more and more of the money that your labor produces. These grifters are primarily white men. They point their finger in your chest and tell you that you are lazy and that is why you don't have anything.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
levelman.com | Garrick McFadden
Although he's no longer the Big Bad of the MCU's Phase 6, Kang the Conqueror is the character I'd most want emulateAllow me to be vulnerable for a moment and share one of my character flaws with you. I am a product of video/computer games, and while my wife views this as a flaw, this is not the character deficiency I am confessing. Like many children of my generation, I was a latch-key kid. My Atari 2600 was my babysitter.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
levelman.com | Garrick McFadden
I grew up in the suburbs of the Twin Cities. There was no gang-banging in my adolescent years, and there did not appear to be any on the horizon of my adult years. Sadly, I was not menacing in high school; I was medically certified to wrestle at 103 pounds my senior year. Most people are not intimidated by anyone who weighs 103 pounds. Compton was where I was from, but my family left in 1977...before it was terraformed by crack.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
levelman.com | Garrick McFadden
The most prized invitation in our society is an invitation to the . It is the ultimate clout currency. I want to unpack what this invitation means and why it is so important. I also want to explore something that troubles me. Why is there no equivalent phrase or term for other races/ethnic groups? Why is it only black folks who invite others to their functions, but no other groups reciprocate? Cooking for someone is a radical act of love. Not all of us are blessed with the ability to cook.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
levelman.com | Allison Gaines |Jeremy Helligar |Garrick McFadden |Jeffrey Kass
As the winds of intolerance are blowing toward Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, we mustn’t forget that any attack on the part of the community is an attack on the whole. When racist rhetoric is normalized, all Black people feel the chill. Consider the falsehood shared by Congressman J.D. Vance and former President Donald Trump that Haitians were kidnapping and eating people’s pets.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
levelman.com | John DeVore |Joshua Adams |Garrick McFadden |Dona Mwiria
Being a bad lover can ruin a wonderful relationship, even if everything else is perfect. Why, you ask? Because satisfying sex is a priority for the vast majority of people. According to a research survey, two thirds of sexually active Americans found bad sex to be an absolute turn-off with a partner. Oh, dear reader, let me regale you with tales of my epic rendezvous, for they are truly the stuff of legend. Back in University I spent quite a bit of time at the gym, that's where I met Michael.
