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  1. Mel Hopkins

    C-NOTE http://nblo.gs/avYbo

  2. Mel Hopkins

    Behind every great man stands a woman. When a man falls; cherchez la femme?! http://bit.ly/8YsvSQ

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    Did you contribute to the problem or vote with dollars to make a change? http://on.fb.me/aSTRjD

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    Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls is making a lot of grown men "cry". It's film. Black men don't have to make it their role of a lifetime.

  5. Mel Hopkins

    Tell the truth, finding old friends on social media is a selfish exploit. What you're really doing is finding & collecting old parts of YOU.

  6. Mel Hopkins

    A major obstacle to growth and maturity (maturation-reads like sell by date) is lack of access to diverse ideals and critical thinking.

  7. Mel Hopkins

    In business etiquette, I prefer to kiss on the cheek than shake hands. Hands go everywhere but your face may have only touched some thighs.

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    "Guidelines are for stupid people who can't make up their own mind" ~Gregory House, MD -'Office Politics' -2010

  9. Mel Hopkins

    was on my way to For Colored Girls and I flashed back right to the time I saw the play. Can't do it. Want to see 'For Colored Boys' instead.

  10. Mel Hopkins
    #FreeKeith Suspension silences Keith Olbermann just like David Shuster because they're both under contract! Non-compete contracts=slavery!
  11. Mel Hopkins

    Y'all better get good at breaking news stories (just the facts ma'am/sir) because this is going to be my only News Source.

  12. Mel Hopkins

    HISTORIA AFRICANA Part 4 http://networkedblogs.com/a79Wt

  13. Mel Hopkins

    "Think outside the barrel. It is time to make a commitment to you".~MH

  14. Mel Hopkins

    Street Teams at election time but for party loyalty, Democrat missionaries have to adopt communities to show how policy is working for us.

  15. Mel Hopkins

    "The only difference between your hobby and your business is the flow of revenue" ~MH.

  16. Mel Hopkins

    "Let me help you help me help you" http://bit.ly/dmxlu0

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    HISTORIA AFRICANA ? http://nblo.gs/9SMWj

  18. Mel Hopkins

    Heard of Political Robocalls? I'm starting a service for parents of college kids called Practice Safe-Sex Texts and Got Condoms? MOMOcalls!

  19. Mel Hopkins

    will vomit if I hear one more person say "I'm a good Wo/Man" We're all capable of being PoS under any given circumstance. Just be.

  20. Mel Hopkins

    we need to remember our true legacy - and it has nothing to do with our marriage but rather what our marriage produces.

  21. Mel Hopkins

    What offends us we know well. What pleases us we strive to be. Where we are neutral is enlightenment!

  22. Mel Hopkins
    Wow! It's amazing how a repetitive message (programming) can even override the sensibilities of someone who has actually seen how the game worked for him. I suspect true fiscal knowledge isn't complicated. The Ponzi scheme we are expected to participate in, is complicated. smh
  23. Mel Hopkins

    You ARE what offends you. Get over it. Get Light.

  24. Mel Hopkins
    Troy, thank you for this thought-provoking review. I didn't bother watching the report although one of my Facebook friends posted it as must-see TV. Personally I learn more from the ruling class's entertainment on how to manage my money than I would from any CNN special report. I have to disagree with about post-slavery economic woes for former slaves. You of all people know that investing and saving is not the way to financial security and solvency - entrepreneurial activities are and have always been the way to become rich. If you look at how many West African people were awarded patents for their inventions post-slavery, you like I, would probably wonder why we start believing in the current bill of goods about saving and home-ownership. After reading that both Mark Zuckerberg and his former Facebook president and Napster creator Sean Parker both rent their homes it got my 20-something year old daughter and me wondering why they rent? We did an exercise which gave an overview of our home-ownership expenses. We pay a mortgage, property taxes, insurance, electricity, gas, and water. Let's say we pay off the mortgage - what are we left with? We will still have to pay property taxes every year for as long as we "own" the property. Let say our property taxes go up to 15,000 before I am able to apply for homestead to freeze it. Now I pay $15,000 plus maintenance, heat, electricity, water and insurance which totals about $20,000+ per year. My cost to live in "my" home is now $20,000 +. How does this benefit me? Well some would say I've built up equity. If I sell my home for $450,000 I really wouldn't have come out ahead or broke even, have I?. Nope, because most likely I would have paid more in finance fees. I'm not surprise Zuckerberg and Parker didn't run to buy a home with their earnings. Their businesses were their equity and there are more loopholes to get around taxes than there is available to sustain property. Troy, I can go on but black people are more slaves today than we were in 1864...at least then we wanted to be free.
  25. Mel Hopkins

    Since we don't pick our parents, I'm raising a glass to my mother and pouring one out for my daddy. Thanks for exposing me to the light.

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