Looks like I’ll be keeping that little promise I made to myself not to have sex again until I’m done losing weight. My boyfriend or whatever has better things to do than call or write to me when he says he will, and I know what that means. Eventually I’m going to get a message…
Step right up, folks! Welcome to a world where disagreement in a discussion means harassment, following a link means cyberstalking, and posting a photo, even by mistake, in your blog without wasting the author’s bandwidth is a copyright violation warranting shutting down your site. This is the world of Bene Viera, a writer on Essence.com. As you…
Updated July 28, 2014 A few years ago, I started a discussion at the Essence.com community forum entitled Should a Black Man Be Allowed to Disagree? What set it off was Bene Viera and some others deciding that Obsidian didn’t have the right to speak his mind about the state of relationships in the African American community.…
Obsidian has made a post in the Spearhead about what happened with his blog, and what he’s going to do now.
In light of the recent buzz on “swirling” (White man/Black woman interracial relationships), I’ve decided to post some tips from someone who’s been there. Much like the cougar trend, it’s not really a trend. It’s just something that has become more socially acceptable, and is receiving a fair bit of hype, but that most people…
It has come to light that the fact of Obsidian’s blog being taken out happening on the tail of the swirling discussion was just a matter of coincidence. The true culprit is a “repressed” writer who believes people shouldn’t be allowed to critique her articles: Bene Viera. To get an idea of how petty she is,…