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This is possibly going to be my only title that is a true description of what I'm going to talk about.

In recent conversations I have been asked to listen and let the other person speak. This is not a good trait to have. Only because I might miss someone telling me that they a large lump sum for me. Also, a lack of listening skills is running rampant like Adrian Peterson over his oppoents. I have realized that there is a wealth of vital information that is to be grasped. Throughout life the information comes to us in many forms whether in a pamphlets or from the mouth of babes. Americans as a whole do not listen because if we did there would be less children being born with AIDS, less underage mothers and dead beat fathers.

I don't always practice the art of listening because I generally feel that my view is right. In business listening is a key fundamental because you can win over clients because you know exactly what they want. How many people say to themselves “if I would have listened to my mama I wouldn’t be here”!

What is some advice you wish you had listened to?

I like the new stuff. New women, cars, shoes, and clothing! I only date light skin girls who have bodies like models. I'm top of the line with every thing. If I don't get it the first day it comes out I don't want it.

I have always for some reason wanted to be this guy. In a society filled with fads and rap, youth yearn to be these high paid figures who spend incessantly on unnecessary items. I am one of the youth that this affected. The dope boys were the guys I saw with the success and I liked how they looked. I was not one to mimic them but they were cool. I liked the way they dressed and the way they spoke to women, Especially.

I propose The New Shallow be one that is cool for kids to get degrees and Shop at Old Navy. The New Shallow should be one where video Girls are plus sized.

This new shallow is not one that will happen on television. This new shallow is going to be comprehended with grammatical references seen on computer screens and paper. This new shallow is going to be how fast quotes of Dyson and Plato flow from the mouth of babes.

The new shallow will not take place with spinning rims on a five hundred dollar car but on the step of a institution of learning. No, not the building adorned in marble fixtures and doors. The place called Everywhere will house this shallow. Places all over the globe will experience this new shallow. Gratuity and selflessness is the new education. This education is apart of the new Shallow.

This new shallow will say "I want that person on my team of friends because they are essential to my future." This New Shallow will allow teachers to, well teach (laughing) the lessons in the equally supplied materials to all children, and Parents to, well Parent. This New Shallow takes place in judgment free Churches. God will be the new Cool and will be The New Shallow.

Being self absorbed and selfish is so past its prime and is out like gazelle frames on Teddy Riley. Maybe more past its prime like Deion Sanders when he played for the Ravens.

This New shallow is how high you will really be!

What does your new Shallow consist of?

I am sent to change to the world and how people look at it. I want to see the world as a glass that is clouded full of hate and rage. In my heart I can't. My eyes are being opened to this new fog that covers a lot of of the revolutionaries eyes.

I am fighting for change in administration that has done things the same way. I am writing for battle. I am tired of these Neo-revolutionaries who want to fight everything.every situation does not help or hurt the struggle.In a coversation I ,placed myself in like a bull in a china cabinet,this situation was brought up; don't perpetuate the stereotype of all black people looking alike by asking for my ID. I was not then able to dipute this point but now I have time. In college on both sides of every fence people use each others ID.

Example 1: aren't you that guys brother (this being said because we both have locs)

Example 2: you have a friends ID trying to get into a club.

These examples are vastly different. I do not feel that the example number is one to be offended for.

Example 1 is one that I will be mad about every time some one does no matter if they are black, white, cloud, proud,hefty, ashy, classy, nasty, preacher, sinner, mother, son or dirty. No he's not my brother.

Neo-revolutionary ger mad about someone spitting in your face. Not giving you the equal right to achieve. Expose corruptionn. Do away with the degredation of laws' make them use the law correctly. Make yourself a beaken that doesn't easily get offended and does not easily offend. Do what it takes to change the system. Do not comply with the status quo, yet be tactful and dilligent. Do not abuse the powers that be gradually. For example if you trying to torture a POW you slowly cut each finger off. In this case if you slowly cut each finger off the administration will take back the hand. So I propose this in one fell swoop you take the hand completely. This leaves no evidence of the hand yet the bleeding reminds the administration of the wrong it has done.

Maybe, just maybe we need to find a new way?

Does my way work?

The new face of racism is not that of Bull Connor but, the face that is similar to yours and mine. This new face is not red with anger, when African-American people take a seat at lunch counters. This face is not always a face it is thoughts and actions. This new face is a New Danger. (Mos Def).

Wallowing in the deep abyss called "the new face of racism". This face is deceptive and can be misread. Be careful before throwing out the "R" word. I have misread this face numerous times and coming to the realization that it comes most often from pigmentation like mine.
Let me tease your thoughts for a second or few?
All people have bias whether it is unconscious or overt this is given through nurture of a child. Example, while walking down the street their is a group of unsavory characters in your path you work to avoid them. This a bias because your own discretion, makes them unsavory.
In a crowded room, groups of people are congregated socializing based on: age, similar interest, job orientation, status, and-dare I say it-color. This is not always a clear case of the new face but it can. The reason I added the last statement is because this was used as an example of evident racism. I beg you to let me yell "NO" as I would to a to a whale in a bikini.
This new face is shaped with common friendliness.

"Oh, how did your hair grow like that?"

"You look like, um, that rapper. Um, T-Pain."

"Why are those girls so loud ?"

"Why are you guys dancing like that?"

The metamorphosis of this face depends on your situation. The New face has eloquence and style that insults you.the insults are like dull daggers thrown at you, that are poisonous once they touch you. Personally I think the ingenuity is to be commended because it has adapted to change and weathered the storm of a Mixed President. an example of this inventiveness is filtering inner-city students your small school in the country to keep government funding. Luring them here with the false hopes and programs that do not exist to facilitate their crafts.

I have been grace from God Almighty to be the token kneegrow. "white folks love me, they just love me, Man"! Maybe I'm the next Barack Obama or Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. (laughing at myself). I have not been granted the lxury of the overt experience of the old face of Racism. I sometimes so long for it, I chase it with eagerness and yearning as I do a pretty woman. I guess, I will have to settle for the events that are more literate, well spoken and common the "new face of Racism." Example, I drive an older model car that is box shaped. I get pulled over for random searches. You say "thats normal ", no it is not by whom you think would pull me over. I gets pulled over by the Kneegrows Officers in a predominately white neighborhood. Get this next question I was asked, "Where's your grill at?"

This Face is seen on college coaches who reall despise other races, but recruit them because,"hey, they pay the bills." This face is one the black Women make when they see a white woman and a black man together. This face is not actually a face but an inherent action to things that buck against the system or status quo. The Face is as melodic as Billie Holliday. As Colorful as Warhol or Basqiat. This face is more graceful than an Alvin Ailey Production.

Nobody is exempt from this face, many Kneegrows are uncoscious of the steretypes they put on people. African American internalize events and place those memories all people. If someone uses their freewill and decidesnot to talk you it is not always racism. I don't know just maybe they dont want to talk to you. (laughing).

In college warm and sunny days equal loitering of kneegrow folks. That’s the general stereotype. I fall into it and I happened to be loitering this particular 60 degree in the Midwest. In a crowd of the limited minorities on my campus I was scolded by a professor for saying the word the five to six letter word-depending on the spelling-that kneegrows call each other. I was a little offended by her scolding me to say the least. I took offense, not to her obvious disgust of the word but to her ignorance of the other foul language that came out of my mouth and the others. This is the basis for the article. I simply have the thought that it is a waste of precious to formulate an argument against that one word when there are equally offensive words being said.

I believe that in that case the teacher should have taken offense to all foul language that was said to totally rectify the situation of the word not being used. I think that people get so bound by words. My mother tells me “It’s not what they call you, its what you answer to!” In thinking on this situation I cannot help but to think why did she ignore the other obscenities. I have an answer. She just wanted to be a part of the conversation. She was feeling a little left out sitting forty feet away from the group.

I once heard a poem that gave the history and explained the negativity of the “N” word. Later that night I ran across the same author calling her associates a “B”. This to me is a little odd. In the event this word is uttered partly from my lips I am shunned by young ladies. I think this is flawed and irrational. To excuse one swear and not the other is ludicrous to me. This for me is the equivalent to excusing someone drug dealing and getting mad they stole a car. This is also comparable to not being troubled by foul language but If I say “in the name of Jesus”! “No”, I yell as emphatically as I would a call on the field! This injustice must cease.

I propose these solutions to the problem at hand.

1. Every person be able to use the words they want

2. Be equally disgusted in every word that is uttered from my mouth

3. Mind your own Business!

4. Allow men to use “B” with out interruption if it is warranted.

So what is it going to be?

Let me know what the deal is?