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December 26, 2017 – 12:52 pm | No Comment Rupe Mad Musings of Rupert Lawson user

This Week 7’s (12.14 – 12.31) Affirmation: Mindfulness – I will reach for mindfulness each day.
Date – 12.26.17
B-Book 44: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The key message in this book: Often we stop dead in our tracks …

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    Part 4: America in Black and White – Looking Ahead (BBC)

    February 1, 2016 – 5:57 pm | No Comment Rupe Mad Musings of Rupert Lawson user
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    Part 3: America in Black and White – Segregation (BBC)

    February 1, 2016 – 5:54 pm | No Comment Rupe Mad Musings of Rupert Lawson user
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    Part 2: America in Black and White – Economic Opportunity (BBC)

    February 1, 2016 – 5:50 pm | No Comment Rupe Mad Musings of Rupert Lawson user
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    Part 1: America in Black and White – Criminal Justice (BBC)

    February 1, 2016 – 3:52 pm | No Comment Rupe Mad Musings of Rupert Lawson user
Mad Musings


First category I added when I started this blog many moons ago. I jot stuff here I can't otherwise categorize.

what the...?


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These are areas I am very much interested in. From time to time, as I am so moved, I free think here as well

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Michelle Alexander
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The New Jim Crow:  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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Midnight’s Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
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The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
The New Jim Crow:  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
When Breath Becomes Air
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    Calls For Reforms In Wake Of Police Shooting Death Continue In Chicago

    Jimmie Williams joins demonstrators in a protest outside of City Hall calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign on December 11, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. A recently released video of the shooting of Laquan McDonald …

    Stop Punishing Black Children Just Because They’re Black

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    There are neighborhoods in Baltimore in which the life expectancy is 19 years less than other neighborhoods in the same city. Residents of the Downtown/Seaton Hill neighborhood have a life expectancy lower than 229 other …

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    It’s irresistible, enticing and addicting.  And, it’s available 24-hours a day all over the world to billions of people. Facebook beckons to users seemingly with a two-prong approach – both the pressure and pleasure to …

    For the poor in the Ivy League, a full ride isn’t always what they imagined

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    Money pressures lead many to scrimp on textbooks, meals and other expenses.
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