Real Talk With Amiri

The Colorado Springs shooter identified as non binary.
The Denver shooter identified as trans.
The Aberdeen shooter identified as trans.
The Nashville shooter identified as trans.

“Regardless of the reason for this shooting, the use of violence is reprehensible and we renew our call for common-sense gun safety.”

Three students and three staff members were shot and killed at the Covenant School in Nashville on Monday morning. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department identified the victims as Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9; Mike Hill, 61; William Kinney, 9; Katherine Koonce, 60; Cynthia Peak, 61; and Hallie Scruggs, 9.

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Self-sabotaging behavior refers to intentional action (or inaction) that undermines people's progress and prevents them from accomplishing their goals. Self-sabotage occurs when people hinder their own success. While it seems surprising, some people undermine their own good intentions and long-term goals.Feb 14, 2023

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No Real Topic Yikes
Just talking about what's on my mind...

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Are You Fake? 
Analyze yourself.
Take a look in the mirror.
Are you happy?  Truly Happy...? 

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For Aristotle, a good life facilitates becoming a virtuous person so that you can fulfil your potential as a human being and live with integrity.

Who doesn’t want to live a good life? Everyone wants to have a happy, fulfilling and meaningful existence.

Yet somehow, this is something many of us struggle with: we get caught up in the trivialities of everyday life. The endless cycle of work-stress-recover-repeat leaves little time for anything else. The pressures of modern life seem to get in the way of living the good life.

As technology changes how we work, learn, play, and socialise — finding purpose and meaning in our lives becomes increasingly important.

What is the good life? Great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, and Seneca all proposed their own answers to these questions.

What Is The Good Life?
The word ‘good’ has a very different meaning for very many people; however, there are some aspects of ‘the good life’ that most people can probably agree on such as:

• Material comfort
• Wellbeing
• Engagement in meaningful activities/work,
• Loving relationships (with partners, family, and friends)
• Belonging to a community.

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Just Some Amiri Thoughts 

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By Nathan Arnold

Special to DadsDivorce.com

Dads continue to pay child support payments more often and in larger amounts than mothers, according to new statistics on child support providers and payments released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Men account for 85% of those ordered to pay child support.

Even in the rare instance where the mother is ordered to pay child support, courts are not ordering women to pay as much as male providers. Annual child support payments averaged $5,450 from male providers and $3,500 from female providers, nearly 56% less.

Overall, child support payments averaged $5,150 annually, or $430 per month.

According to the report, 59% of the $41.7 billion ($24.4 billion) in total payments from support providers were for child support for children under 21, paid by 4.8 million parents. The remaining amount was support paid to children over 21, parents, and other adults not living in the provider’s household.

Visit the U.S. Census Bureau website for complete child support statistics.

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Are you playing it correctly? 
Kansas City Missouri

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1)Ginger: power. prosperity, romance, victory.

2) Horehound: Exorcism, Healing, Mental Powers, Protection

3) Chicory Root: Favors, Frugality, Headaches

4) Lemongrass: Repels snakes, Lust, Psychic powers, Tea

5) Fennel: Protection, Healing, Money, Purification

6) Angelica Root: Exorcism, Healing, Protection, Visions

7) Celery seed: Lust, Mental Powers, Psychic powers

8) Mugwort: Strength, Psychic powers, Prophetic dreams

9) Chickweed: Fidelity, love

10) Pine: Cleansing, exorcism, Fertility, healing, Money, Protection

11) Olive Leaf: Healing, Love, Peace, Protection

12) Flax seed: Money, Beauty, Psychic powers, Healing, Protection

46) Eucalyptus: Healing, Protection

47) Ginger Root: Love, Money, Power, Success

48) Shepard's Purse: Healing, Spells, And Rituals

49) Pink Salt: Multiple uses.

50) Cumin Seed: Anti-theft, Exorcism, Fidelity, Protection

51) White Oak Bark: Healing, Money, health, Fertility, Protection, Luck

52) Blue Vervain: Cleansing, Healing, Love, Money, Peace, Protection, Sleep

53) Orange Peel: Love, Divination, Luck, Money

54) Cedar: Healing, Money, Protection, Purification

55) Bladderwrack: Money, Protection, Psychic powers, Sea spell

56) Strawberry Leaf: Love, Luck

57) Raspberry leaf: Protection, Love, Magic

58) Sesame Seed: Lust, Money, Spells

59) Anise Star: Psychic powers, Protection

60) Oats, Organic: Money, Spells

61) Spearmint Leaf: Augmenting Power, Healing, Love, Luck, Sleep strength

62) Blessed Thistle: Protection, Spiritual Aid

63) Allspice: Healing, luck, money, prosperity, abundance

64) Burdock root: Protection, healing

65) Red Clover: Love, Protection, money, fidelity, success, exorcism

66) Buckthorn Bark: Legal matters, Protectio

67) Elderberry: Protection, Sleep, healing, Prosperity, Exorcism

68) Hyssop: Purification, Protection

69) Rose Hips: Luck, Healing,

70) Wood Betony: Healing, Love, Protection, Prevents nightmares, Purification

71) Rice: Protection, Rain, Fertility, Money, Success

72) Uva Ursi: Psychic workings

73) Dill Seed: Love, Lust, Money, Protection

96) Licorice Root: Fidelity, Love, Lust

97) Frankincense: Protection, Exorcism, Spirituality

98) Valerian: Protection, Purification, Sleep

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The Angry Black Woman

The Sapphire Caricature portrays black women as rude, loud, malicious, stubborn, and overbearing.1 This is the Angry Black Woman (ABW) popularized in the cinema and on television. She is tart-tongued and emasculating, one hand on a hip and the other pointing and jabbing (or arms akimbo), violently and rhythmically rocking her head, mocking African American men for offenses ranging from being unemployed to sexually pursuing white women. She is a shrill nagger with irrational states of anger and indignation and is often mean-spirited and abusive. Although African American men are her primary targets, she has venom for anyone who insults or disrespects her. The Sapphire's desire to dominate and her hyper-sensitivity to injustices make her a perpetual complainer, but she does not criticize to improve things; rather, she criticizes because she is unendingly bitter and wishes that unhappiness on others. The Sapphire Caricature is a harsh portrayal of African American women, but it is more than that; it is a social control mechanism that is employed to punish black women who violate the societal norms that encourage them to be passive, servile, non-threatening, and unseen.


The angry Black woman stereotype exists in many parts of American culture — including the workplace. Studies show people in organizations believe Black women are more likely to have belligerent, contentious, and angry personalities, an assumption not as readily assigned to other men and women. Recent studies suggest this negative perception is a unique phenomenon for Black women, and the researchers suggest that when Black women outwardly express anger at work, her leadership and potential are called into question.close

The angry Black woman stereotype has penetrated many parts of American culture, including the workplace. This pervasive stereotype not only characterizes Black women as more hostile, aggressive, overbearing, illogical, ill-tempered and bitter, but it may also be holding them back from realizing their full potential in the workplace — and shaping their work experiences overall.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says Black women make up nearly 7% of the workforce, and still, they are severely underrepresented in leadership positions, especially among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Ursula Burns, the former CEO of Xerox, became the first Black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 in 2009. As of 2021, Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer and TIAA’s chief executive officer Thasunda Brown Duckett are the only two Black women who currently hold that position. Overall, the U.S. Department of Labor reports that in 2020, Black women’s unemployment rate was 10.9%, compared to 7.6% for white women.

These realities led to our desire to look more closely at the angry Black woman stereotype. We argue that companies could miss out on the full contribution of Black women in their organizations because of this image.

Where The Angry Black Woman Stereotype Came From

Notably, characterizing Black women as loud, irascible, too straightforward — and just plain angry — isn’t a new practice. In her book Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, Rutgers University history professor Deborah Gray White notes that the angry Black woman image is deeply rooted in American culture and dates back to chattel slavery in the U.S.

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