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Providence...

Is once again graced by my greatness. My corporate whoredom continues for my company, this time in the Rhode Island division. I'm currently living in temp housing provided by said corporate pimps, and loving it very much. It's downtown and the Providence Place Mall is practically in my backyard... until the end of September. The apartment hunt begins.

Pri & Me...

are long distance no more. When I first got here, it took some adjusting, but things are as close to everyday bliss as can be in the real world. I'll leave the blissful musings for the unfortunate close friends of mine who have to listen to my sappy ass.

Public Relations debacle...

for The Red Cross, Kanye West and the Katrina situation. If you don't know about this, google will inform you... just search any combination of "Kanye West Bush Katrina Red Cross" etc.

... pause while you do the knowledge on your google page...

I have a good deal of sympathy for Kanye's position, but as usual, a bold, raw, public statement has brought a crashing wave of idiotic commentary from all directions.

I can't pretend to put together a balanced, intelligent commentary on the situation, but it brings to mind a few things.

I had the chance to go to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center with Reef before leaving the ATL, and it was a different experience than my previous visits, because he is very keen on depth over breadth. We actually skipped a building so that we could do more justice to the rest of the center, which I appreciated in the end. Something that stuck with me is the last cause proposed by Dr. King before his death, that of helping the poor of all ethnicities. Racial violence can sometimes be opposed by legal means, and there are many occasions where the law helps. When you are trying to convince people to question their prejudices, you can appeal to their better nature, their humanity... but you are dealing with improving the financial situation of people, you have to ask folks to give up some of their financial superiority, which is something they are not often ready to do.

"George Bush does not care about Black people"... yes, there is lots of truth to that, but this is not just affecting Black people. Katrina may have been a real bitch, but she wasn't racist. People who have need to help those who don't -- Bush to Blacks, Rich to Poor... and not just with money.

I talk too much.

PUERTO RICOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

SAN JUAN, BITCHES! WE GOIN!!! This will be my first Caribbean vacation, first trip to the island where my mother was born. I'm open to advice about where to go, what to do. I'll have to tell ya'll some more later, I'm going to Borders to look up some books on the island, so I know what to see.