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kenyatta yamel

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    kenyatta yamel and PictureThe Forlano Factor are now friends

    2012-03-23 10:30:16View | Delete
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    kenyatta yamel wrote a new diary post: Embracing My Gay and Lesbian Brothers and Sisters

    2012-01-16 17:25:22View | Delete

    The first time I ever heard about anyone being gay or lesbian was one of my cousins, Jeffrey, who moved to Toronto in the 1960s. My younger sister Karin was closer to Jeffrey than me and must have had some sense of empathy. My immediate family, which included my other siblings and my mother, were [...]

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    kenyatta yamel wrote a new diary post: Murder Most Foul: Who Killed Nick Christie?

    2012-01-12 06:22:44View | Delete

    ThumbnailThis morning I saw a picture of a body,  that of Nick Christie, bright orange after being pepper sprayed , stripped of  his dignity, denied medication, kept in restraints until his body gave out. The story by reporter Radley Balko in the  Huffington Post noted that Nick Christie’s wife of 40 years, Joyce Christie, had contacted police before he left [...]

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    kenyatta yamel wrote a new diary post: Things I Left Behind in 2011

    2012-01-09 21:30:05View | Delete

    It has been 2012 for damn near an hour in the Central Time zone and I thought I should take about my new series: things I left behind. Stuff that got too heavy to carry like, guilt, grown ass lazy sons and daughters, what  I used to be and the idea that I was anything [...]

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    kenyatta yamel wrote a new diary post: Join a Support Group!

    2012-01-09 21:22:09View | Delete

    ThumbnailAs a peer specialist part of my job is finding resources for people who are experiencing emotional distress. Having revitalized my wildly successful blog last year I have been flooded with tips for my many dedicated followers. These are among the many support groups I recently uncovered PTAA, Post Traumatic Alien Abductions. If you’ve ever met someone [...]

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    kenyatta yamel commented on the diary post Don’t Iraq Iran… by CTuttle.

    2012-01-08 19:44:29View | Delete

    Thank you, let’s stop the madness now.

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    kenyatta yamel wrote a new diary post: The Revolution Will Be in the Mind

    2012-01-08 09:33:29View | Delete

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    I was not at yesterday’s NAACP Summit, that Eugene Kane wrote about in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . I was conducting my own summit at work. But I feel there is a strong connection between the work that I do and the realization of the goals of the NAACP. [...]

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    kenyatta yamel wrote a new diary post: Fatherhood

    2012-01-08 09:26:26View | Delete

    ThumbnailYesterday I met a strong black man on the bus Friday morning who I need to tell you about. Months ago I told a story about something ordinary. A poor black man with his daughter waiting at the bust stop. But Friday I was at the bus stop, got on and a black woman driver asked [...]

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    kenyatta yamel commented on the diary post Should Progressives Boycott The Presidential Elections? by terridi.

    2011-12-27 17:48:12View | Delete

    I vote every time possible. My 87 year old mother plans on taking people to the polls in November.

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    kenyatta yamel commented on the diary post Stop Picking on the Poor Plutocrats by David Swanson.

    2011-12-27 17:44:08View | Delete

    probably Fox News viewers

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    kenyatta yamel commented on the diary post Christmas Flames In Hollywood Dumpster by Cindi Burkey.

    2011-12-27 17:42:27View | Delete

    sounds terrible

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    kenyatta yamel wrote a new diary post: Have Yourself a Merry, Inclusive Holiday

    2011-12-27 15:21:05View | Delete

    This is a holiday shared by many different traditions. Jews, Christians, pagans, capitalists, con men and war planners have all found December to be fruitful. I am a man for all seasons and I don’t mind sharing. I am celebrating the holidays with my family but we have not said grace. They respect my non-religious [...]

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    kenyatta yamel wrote a new diary post: Christmas with Grace

    2011-12-27 15:13:29View | Delete

    Tomorrow morning I will be on the flight back to Milwaukee via Detroit. In the afternoon I will be seeing my cat and getting a lot of stern looks from her for my absence.  I hope that by next Christmas I will be living in a better environment and be able to hire a trainer to help [...]

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    kenyatta yamel and PictureTwain are now friends

    2011-12-11 18:51:58View | Delete
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    kenyatta yamel and PictureKellia Ramares-Watson are now friends

    2011-12-11 12:03:44View | Delete
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    kenyatta yamel wrote a new diary post: Seriously, You’re a CEO and You Don’t Know Where That Billion Dollars Went?

    2011-12-11 08:14:48View | Delete

    Standup comic Jon S. Corzine, former CEO of MF Global testified yesterday before a House Committee investigating the scandal surrounding the collapse of the company which declared bankruptcy and announced that over $1 billion in customer accounts was missing. Corzine’s testimony wold have you believe that he had no idea where any  of that money [...]

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    kenyatta yamel commented on the diary post Newt’s Gone Wild! (and so have lots of others): Laugh with The Ironic News Report (Video) by IronicNews.

    2011-12-11 07:58:46View | Delete

    great. i will subscribe

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    kenyatta yamel commented on the diary post “My Occupy LA arrest”, by Patrick Meighan by Vote Socialist.

    2011-12-11 07:53:22View | Delete

    This is awful. Tragedy in LA. Recall the mayor.

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    kenyatta yamel and PictureJanet Rhodes are now friends

    2011-12-11 07:49:30View | Delete
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    kenyatta yamel commented on the blog post Knives Come Out Against Martha Coakley, Who Dares Try to Hold Banks Accountable

    2011-12-10 07:50:18View | Delete

    sounds like some arrests need to be made, that would make the banks stops this shit faster than some bull about negotiating.

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