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I know those around me have never thought very highly of Inyanla, Les Brown or almost any of the people who "may have" rode the coattails of someone with a lot of influence. I think this is a case of what I told someone this morning on Facebook, Unfortunately fame, not knowledge, is the prerequisite for being heard. That is the case in our community. People will listen to Oprah about books because she is famous. They will ignore Troy because he is not famous, but has a ridiculous amount of time and money invested in literature. People will listen to Inyanla because she has be cosigned by famous people. It's interesting though because she and Oprah actually fell out a while back from what I remember and at the point I actually had more respect for her. (go figure).

I saw a re-run of the episode with Debi Thomas where Iyanla did her best to give the impression that she was a wise and qualified people-fixer. But in her effort to keep the show from bombing she persisted in trying to expose Debbie for things that she was not hiding. The result was that an irate Iyanla ended up looking desperate and flustered while Debi remained calm and introspective. Iyanla was finally able to convince Debi and her boyfriend to enter separate rehab centers, she for depression and he for alcoholism.. However a follow-up was added at the end of the show, informing that Debi and her boyfriend both left the rehabs centers early and had reunited with the intent of working things out on their own. There were numerous discussions about this on FaceBook and they were pretty evenly divided in regard to Iyanla's effectiveness. In my opinion, she was not. In general, I've always found Iyanla to be overbearing and over-rated as an advice counselor.

Shirley, where do you live???? I live in a suburb of Chicago but the entire Chicagoland area is caught up in the city's upheaval revolving around the cover-ups in regard to police brutality and unjustified shootings of black males. Believe me, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not regarded as a misunderstood, sympathetic character in this drama; and with good reason. His arrogance and heavy-handed style has alienated him from the black people who put him back in office. The calls for his resignation are the result of the corruption and cronyism that he has aided and abetted by catering to Chicago's rich, clout-heavy, special interest groups instead of the inner city and the ineffective policing of it, not to mention its under performing public schools. Because of his bad judgement Rahm ended up having to fire the high-salaried people whom he hired to run the Board of Education and Police Department. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has betrayed his black constituency on so many levels because his priorities were elsewhere. On the subject of the breakdown of the black family. a sista who is the co-host of a Chicago talk show, interviewed the mother of the 9-year old recently gunned down by gang members who had a beef against the child's absentee father. The mother had previously been dissed on social media because she bought a new car, and spent a week-end in Las Vegas with the money collected to help her out. She also gave her son an elaborate funeral, complete with a shiny red casket. Sporting a long silky hair weave, false eyelashes, purple painted nails and multiple-piercings, this young woman was the epitome of ghetto fabulous. During the interview, she revealed that she was 15 when her son was born and that her grandmother was keeping him at the time of his death. She had no visible means of support and claimed to be suffering from depression. She also mentioned that she was shocked to find out that the suspect in her son's execution was someone she had grown up with. This suspect, incidentally, was reputedly seeking revenge for the gang related murder of his brother and the wounding of his mother. It's hard not to be judgmental about these hapless people, but it's even harder to be optimistic that things will change in this culture of the black underclass. What do black lives matter for??

She did a hatchet job on Debbie Thomas the figure skater I havent seen it though. I am sure it is on YouTube.

I did this a while back Troy. I deleted by author's page and my fan page for my sneaker company. My web traffic actually improved using my personal page. I have since activated my footwear page again, but the interaction is very limited and not many conversions come from that. I use my personal page primarily, but even that is not a very good means of driving traffic to the site. I find the best method of getting traffic is posting an article then sharing it. You know I like reading your data so I can't wait to see what you come up with. I am pretty sure I know what the outcome will be though...

ONLINE NEWS SAID, BEN CARSON'S MANAGER ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS WAS SUED BY HIS FORMER TRAINER,BECAUSE ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS,GRABBED HIS PENIS/THERE OTHER MEN WHO SAID SAME THING/DOES BEN CARSON KNOW/BEN CARSON SOUNDS LIKE THOSE PEOPLE,WITH THAT LIFE STYLE ARE SPAWNS OF SATAN////,WHO WATCHED THE DEBATE,SAW SOME ON NEWS,BEN CARSON SEEMED LOST/ALL THE CANDIDATES, DELUSION IDIOTS///////WILL THE BALTIMORE POLICE GET AWAY WITH MURDERING FREDDIE GRAY/JURY DEADLOCKED/////