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Black people I don’t want you to call the Drop Squad on me but I need to ask, is wine new to us? I mean, it’s really bad when I see black bloggers touting the dessert wine Moscato as if it’s some top shelf miracle drink that goes well with any meal. One would think that with the wonderful search that Google and Yahoo provides one could simply look up a drink before touting it but day after day after day since that soft rapper Drake mentioned it more black folks are embracing this wine. Look I know that it’s nothing new, we have gone down this road a million times before and just like before it smacks of ignorance and the willingness to take a rapper’s word on anything. I respect Jay-Z but I have never been inclined to try one of those fruity champagnes that he rhymes about, nor was I on the… [Read more]

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For every plan, for every idea, and for every invention, there is a hater in the shadows telling you that you shouldn’t do it because it’s been done a million times before. I’ve heard this same feedback about sites that I’ve created, about ideas that I have come up with and about articles that I’ve written. These people aren’t adding anything towards the discourse, they aren’t helping you out, they are are not even trying to motivate you with formulating a replacement idea if need be. They just want to tell you not to try. It is very important that you tune these people out or just get them out of your life, period. When someone gives you that kind of feedback then you probably don’t need to go back to them for advice about anything. These people drain your creative juices, they are parasites to invention. Their feedback is not necessary, it’s not valuable,… [Read more]