http://blackincollege.today.com just one of many who decided she needed a major change... Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:27:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like so many countries occupied by Western forces, Nigeria is in turmoil. When countries are occupied by foreign forces, they become increasingly conservative in order to protect what they see as the occupiers infringing upon their rights to their own culture and political systems. ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/07/31/taliban-copy-cats-in-nigeria/ To the shock and dismay of the universe, a cop said something racist. So... what now? Apparently, Justin Barrett, a 36 year old cop and member of the National Guard called Henry Louis Gates Jr. a "jungle monkey" in an e-mail he sent to some ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/07/30/boston-cop-puts-foot-in-mouth-over-jungle-monkey-comment/ After returning from a trip to China, literary theorist Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a driver were attempting to bring his luggage into his "well-maintained two story home" when the door jammed. Gates went through the backdoor and managed to let his driver in. After the driver left, ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/07/21/henry-louis-gates-jr-arrested-in-front-of-his-own-home-racial-profiling/ Squeezed on the Rutgers bus system yet again, I read something interesting in the Targum. I'm not really sure how I feel about it. The former governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman, came to speak at the Eagleton Institute of Politics a couple days ago. She ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/02/04/eric-holder-america-loves-light-skinned-black-men/ Earlier this afternoon, I thought my precalculus class was supposed to meet at 1:55. After my morning ecology class, I spent the remainder of the late morning and early afternoon doing math homework to catch up with the assignments after my horrible stomach virus. For some reason, it ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/01/29/hurtado-is-spanish-for-pain/ While I was squeezed on a Rutgers bus trying to get to one of my many classes dealing with the various aspects of soil existence, I read in the Daily Targum that apparently President Obama recently called on some pretty influential academics from Rutgers to help him set up a ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/01/28/obama-calls-to-rutgers-professors/ I watched the first couple episodes of "Black. White." with the boyfriend earlier this week, and he was extremely aggravated by the attitudes of the white family. I felt bad for subjecting him to that, because he and I are very open when it comes to discussions/jokes about race. ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/01/16/the-weirdest-black-people-black-white-ep-1-2/ Besides the plethora of bad news regarding the opulent Douglass house, my weekend in Matawan has been decent. The boyfriend and I are not at square one regarding the apartment search because two people unexpectedly bailed out on us. I was so sure we had the Douglass house, ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/01/12/black-white/ I woke up at one o'clock this afternoon with a dry throat, no doubt due to the space heater that's been blasting for days on end. The boyfriend's radiator hasn't worked since the winter started, so every weekend I lug my space heater from above the bar to his ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/01/07/final-gradesnigga-know/ The boyfriend didn't get to sleep until about six o'clock this morning, so he didn't officially wake up until about five o'clock this evening. I woke up this morning a little after nine o'clock--and this has been going on since I returned from Ohio. Our schedules are completely ... http://blackincollege.today.com/2009/01/06/girls-on-film/