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  Every so often, Hollywood makes a movie about slavery and when the actors and actresses get interviewed and asked by various media outlets, why another slave movie? I'm going to weigh on this topic for a bit and my response would be, if you are going to ask that question, the question should also be directed to the actors and actresses who play in movies about the holocaust. Then, I had to think longer on this topic, and I came to the conclusion that these movies depicting on how African Americans and people of Judaism faith were/are treated, Hollywood needs to make more of these movies because generations to come will learn a bit when watching these movies. The generations to come will have to do some research too if they plan on exploring more on this topic. Also, these movies will shut up the deniers that the holocaust did happen. In history class during my high school career, my teacher said some people still don't believe that holocaust didn't happen. Or in other wo...

This past Saturday, I went to a local bar called the Winchester on the west side of Cleveland. My boss is in a band and the band was playing that night. I like to support people even if that art form is new to me . Me seeing the band was exciting, also it was another big happening that night. I asked if the bartender if she had a boyfriend and unfortunately, she said yes. If she said no, I would have been jumping for joy and after jumping for joy, I would 've then asked her if she wanted to go out on a date and then we skip down the yellow brick road oh so lovely. I was hella sad and what even made me more sad was when she turned on some sad country music. I told myself let me get my ass out of here (LOL). I had a lot of drinks that night because I was celebrating my boss's band performing live for the first time since the stone ages (lol), but for a very long time. Anyways, I had hella drinks that night but thank God I mellowed out by the time I asked her. Imagine if I was ...

A sense of enjoyment was in my heart last night. It was my first time at a burlesque show . I really enjoyed myself and I didn't even have to pay twenty to sixty bucks per song (LOL). Even though dancers at strip clubs and burlesque dancers are similar I believe, there are tiny differences between the two, but I don't know what they are. What I know is that there is a whole movement out there for the burlesque dancers, like communities that support these burlesque dancers. One community that support these dancers are the LGBTQIA community and that community is within the burlesque dancers as well. A sense of community is needed, especially for the people who are outcasted and marginalized. The second thing I noticed is that there is so much sexual freedom of expression and just self expression in general. People outside looking in can be very judgmental because people who don't know what other people's customs or ideologies are, they can get judgy and angry. Honestly, t...

 For the past couple months, I have been experiencing a sense of crossroads in my life. Even though I haven't lived All of my life, it seemed like I was cycling through this constant of uncertainty. I wouldn't call it a midlife crisis, I would say it a younglife crises (lol). Even though that joke was funny in my opinion, I'm being serious! ! For example, I really like my job currently, but I've been there for two years and I want a challenge, a challenge that will be more financially sound. I know money isn't everything but here are the facts: I'm a thirty-year-old man and I want my life to be secured financially when I want to retire.      So, I prayed and I'm continuing to pray and its getting better. In my earlier posts, I said praying centers me and gives me a fresh perspective and praying still gives me that sense of secureness that the Lord has me. I have to stay the course because if I don't stay the course I will keep cycling that uncertainty. ...

 A couple of nights ago, I watched this movie entitled Kajillionaire starring Richard Jenkins and the ravishing Gina Rodriguez on Peacock. The movie had its comedic parts but overall, it is a thought-provoking movie in my opinion. You should watch the movie when you get a chance. Anyways, I'm going to express my feelings towards this movie without hopefully not spoiling the synopsis. There is a mother, daughter and a father who are low level criminals, but the daughter seems aloof from reality, her mind is just set on the low level crimes they do and nothing else until the character played by Gina Rodriguez steps into the low level criminal enterprise. As the daughter played by the ravishing Evan Rachel Wood connects more with Gina Rodriguez's character, the daughter opens up more. A parenting class helped the daughter open up and made her realize her parents didn't love her, they were just having her around as part of the crime team, not as a daughter.       W...

Life is definitely a test, if you want to stand and take the challenge, you can and that's GREAT but if you don't want to take the challenge, you don't have to and from personal experience, I think that's the wrong move because even though we have challenges in life, DON'T GIVE UP ON LIFE, you/we have to go through the obstacle courses. The obstacle courses might be short, they might be long but along the way, you might befriend someone or multiple people to help you figure out how to maneuver through those obstacle courses. Sometimes, you just have to maneuver though obstacle courses by yourself and THAT IS OK, I'm pretty sure maneuvering through those obstacle courses with someone would be special but sometimes IT IS WHAT IT IS, but you/we will get through those obstacle course together via positive energy, positive thinking and positive mantras. Life is a journey too and along that journey, there will be incredible highs and unbearable lows, or we think the l...

 I work in downtown Cleveland and it's no different than any other downtown in a city in regards of the homeless population. Most of the homeless population that I experience around the city of Cleveland ask for money, food and etc., if I have something, I'll give it to them but if I don't have anything they leave me alone. The homeless or the unfortunates around where I work are aggressive verbally. I don't think they mean to, but they are. It's interesting because some days they are really aggressive but the next day, they are so polite. I don't want to assume but my prediction is some of them have mental issues. Sometimes I feel extending grace to them but other times, I have to be firm with them and be slightly aggressive right back. For example, it was an unfortunate individual who wanted food and when an employee of the restaurant said no (in a polite manner), the unfortunate individual said FUCK YOU. The rest of the employees didn't want to have anyt...