My Man! Steve Perry is stealing the show!

So I know it’s been a minute since I’ve posted, new film (www.MenToBoys.com) has taken 95% of my attentions, however I had an intriguiinbg phone call from a film critic today arounf the upcoming CNN Black in America: 2. quote “Steve Perry is the superstar of this installment. and isn’t he your boy?”….yeppers. WTG Steve, and now I’m interested in seeing how this thing comes together (this time).

 

UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY

From the creators of the award winning website Black and Married With Kids.com comes a ground breaking documentary set to challenge negative stereotypes surrounding marriage and family in the black community. Release date: Summer 2009

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The Vatican has discovered another way that we are different

Friday, March 13, 2009

The Tridentine Mass, or Roman Rite Mass of the Catholic Church celebrated in Latin, is seeing a revival since a decree to loosen the rules. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)

Feminists have long lectured us that all of the differences between men and women are “socially constructed,” except of course for anatomical plumbing. Now comes the Vatican with more evidence that men and women are fundamentally different – they sin in divergent ways.

Drawing on data from what sins were confessed during the Roman Catholic sacrament of confession, Monsignor Wojciech Giertych, the personal theologian to Pope Benedict XVI, and Jesuit scholar Roberto Busa found that men and women sin in starkly different ways. Their work recently appeared in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.

While the names of sinners and confessors were kept from the two researchers, each priest did categorize each sin confessed as one of the seven deadly sins – lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, anger (or wrath), envy, and pride. The researchers found that the most common sin for women is pride, followed by envy. After that the most dangerous sins for women were, in order, anger, lust, gluttony, avarice, and sloth.

For men the leading sins were lust and gluttony. After those, the most difficult sins for men to face, according to Monsignor Giertych, were sloth, anger, pride, envy and greed in that order.

One of the building blocks of the family is a recognition of (even a celebration of) the differences between men and women. This is the central fact that feminists, all too often at war with the traditional family, would like us to forget. In that sense, this Vatican report is helpful.

But the report worries us as well. Anti-social behavior, which is mostly coterminous with the concept of sin, is on the rise. One reason that it is climbing is that we Americans, as Pope Benedict observed, “are losing the notion of sin.” We are forgetting that certain behaviors have always been banned by all peoples in all times and in all places – and for good reasons. If more Americans committed to keeping their lives inside the guardrails, we would see fewer wrecked lives.

I thought it was “grant me patience”

So let me get this straight…

The 11-5 New England Patriots didn’t make the playoffs, and the 9-7 Arizona Cardnials are in the Super Bowl? something is extremely odd about that, but I can’t think of a witty cliche’ to summarize it…

Eddie Curry’s Baby’s Mother Murdered in Chicago

By Casey Gane-McCalla, Assistant Editor January 25, 2009 12:53 pm

 

An attorney for New York Knicks player Eddy Curry says a woman found slain in Chicago is Curry’s former girlfriend and the mother of his 3-year-old son.

Attorney Kelly Saindon said Sunday in Chicago that Curry — a former player for the Chicago Bulls — is devastated by the slayings of Nova Henry and her infant daughter.

Curry’s 3-year-old son was found unharmed at the scene.

Chicago Police spokeswoman Monique Bond says a relative found the bodies of 24-year-old Henry and her 9-month-old daughter, Ava, in their apartment Saturday evening.

No one had been charged in the case as of Sunday morning.

Bond says police believe the killings on the city’s near South Side were the result of a domestic dispute, but she would not elaborate.

Read The New York Daily News Complete Report

An ‘Obama Effect’ on Blacks’ Test Scores?

Sharon Begley

On only the fourth day of his presidency, it’s obviously way too soon to assess whether Barack Obama’s effect on African-Americans will extend beyond providing hope and inspiration. Will he, for instance, goad black students to higher achievement, since he is living proof that working hard can pay off? One intriguing hint of what researchers led by Ray Friedman of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management calls the “Obama Effect” suggests that maybe, just maybe, Obama will do more for the scholastic achievement of African-Americans than anything since Brown v. Board of Education.

In a paper under review at the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Friedman and colleagues present findings suggesting that Obama might close the black-white gap in scores on standardized tests. That gap reflects, in part, what psychologists call “stereotype threat”. In this now well-established phenomenon, being reminded that you belong to a group that, according to prevailing stereotypes, isn’t good at something causes you to do worse on a test of that something than if you were not so reminded. Similarly, if you are told that you are being assessed on something that stereotypes say your group is not good at (“girls can’t do math”) you do worse than it you’re told the test does not (in this example) detect gender differences. It’s easier to explain by example. When girls who are about to take a math test are reminded of their sex  (basically they just check M or F on a line asking their gender), or when African-Americans about to take a standardized test such as the SAT are reminded of their race, or even when white males take a test that they’re told Asians excel on, they do worse than otherwise. Apparently, students become so anxious about confirming the stereotype that their brains stumble. As the researchers write, “concern about confirming entrenched negative racial stereotypes via poor performance . . . ironically leads to their underperformance on challenging exams.”

So here’s what the new study did. At four different times during 2008 (late August, before the Democratic nominating convention; just after Obama’s acceptance speech; in early October; and right after election day), it asked about 120 college students to take an online test consisting of 20 questions from the Graduate Record Exams (GREs). (Over the four testing periods, 84 black students and 388 white students, matched for education levels, participated.) They were told that the exam was “created by the Massachusetts Aptitude Assessment Center, and is used as a diagnostic tool to assess verbal problem-solving ability”—a ruse meant to activate the stereotype that blacks don’t do as well as whites on aptitude tests. They also had to indicate their race before taking the exam, also known to activate stereotype threat.

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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Hermann Hesse
Swiss (German-born) author (1877 – 1962)

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