The Power Of Association: Written By Colin Powell

Written by Rahim The Dream. Posted in black people business, blog, everyday blogs, guest blogger

colin powell power of association The Power Of Association: Written By Colin Powell

 

The Power of Association is too real: “The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you to stay where they are. Friends that don’t help you climb will want you to crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don’t increase you will eventually decrease you.

 

Consider this: Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has a right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don’t follow anyone who is not going anywhere. With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it. Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life. Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships. If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl, but if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights.

“A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.” The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate – for the good and the bad. Note: Be not mistaken. This is applicable to family as well as friends.

Just In Case You Did Not Know: Child Support Is The Devil By @Nova Giovanni

Written by Rahim The Dream. Posted in black people business, FUNNY, guest blogger

eff child support get dem rimz Just In Case You Did Not Know: Child Support Is The Devil By @Nova Giovanni

You can read the title, so you know what this is about. But, just in case you’ve missed it — Child support was created to break up the Black family. Child support is the devil. The devil wears Baby Phat and lace-fronts. Child support is the #1 reason why unemployed Black men happen to be unemployed. After seeing child support automatically taken out of his check, it makes him want to quit. Don’t garnish his check and force him to be responsible. God gave us free will, and so should the child support system. It also serves as a barrier between father and child. Whenever my daughter asks me for something, I knee her in the stomach and ask her where my child support is going. If she asks me for a Happy Meal, I quickly let her know that all of my meals are unhappy. Why? Because of child support, of course.

Here are the most recent U.S. government child support statistics:

- 90.2% of fathers with joint custody pay all the support due
- 79.1% of fathers with visitation privileges pay all the support due
- 44.5% of fathers with no visitation pay all the support due
- 37.9% of fathers are denied any visitation
- 66.0% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to inability to pay

You know what I see in those statistics? A bunch of SUCKERS! Instead of paying child support, you should be saving your money to put a hit out on your babymama! Yes, I said it. Okay, I didn’t SAY it – but I WROTE it and that is kind of like saying it. Do you know the reasons why women put men on child support? Just in case you don’t, here are the latest statistics on that:

Reasons why women put men on child support:

-100% of women put men on child support because they are bitter.
-0% of women put men on child support because the man isn’t handling his responsibilities.

There you have it. Men lie, women lie (especially pregnant women), but numbers don’t lie. The only solution to this is for you women to save your souls from hellfire by taking your child/childrens’ father off of child support. Stop forcing that good man to pay you seventy five dollars every month. God bless you all!

Nova Giovanni
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After Breakups Give Your Ex The 10 Point EXit Interview [Professionalism]

Written by Rahim The Dream. Posted in black people business, blog, cheating, Dating, divorce, everyday blogs, guest blogger, INTERVIEWS, PEOPLE, relationships

exit interview After Breakups Give Your Ex The 10 Point EXit Interview [Professionalism]

“I just want to make you never calling me again, and giving me back my sh*t as smooth as possible for you.”

Written by Rahim, Dr J, and Streetz

My manager translation: girlfriend made a joke about my past romances over the weekend, and for whatever reason my mind twists things into possible blog posts now. #welivethis.  Everyone is always saying that being in a relationship is work right? So let’s talk about it.  We basically interview someone (dating), and then we either reject their app, hire ‘em as temps (#nice), employ them (relationships) or make them interns (work with no buns pay). Relationships are at-will, so inevitably, folks get fired/quit. This analogy is nothing new, but how about this — if the break-up is somewhat afficable, why don’t we give each other some kind of exit interviews? We can rate them based on the following:

1. Overall Performance: in and out of the sack

2. Attendance/Period Lateness: yeah, that kind of lateness.

3. Commitment: heaux I looked over your shoulder more than once and caught you lookin’ into other jobs on facebook

4. Company Profits/Losses: this is also known as when we meet up, gimme back my sh*t

…Damn I can’t think of anymore — Streetz, Dr Jay you got me?

Dr J:

LOL.
 
5. Ethics and Compliance: Did you cheat on me and I didn’t find out? Did you have inappropriate contact with any other men and I didn’t find out?

6. “I’m just saying though …” – Is it okay, if I holla at your girl?  Real talk man, it always seem like when i’m dealing with a chick she goes and tells her friends.  So then I go and eff her friends, now her friends ain’t even effing with her.

7. Utilization – It’s rough for a man. Think about it, women get two vacation days every two weeks, and they take four days off a month and call it a period.  That’s leaving you with 28 days, a woman has to maintain to her duties on those 28 days.  Keep track of all the days she took off outside of her 4 days off.

8. Community Service – Sometimes you gotta let me get mine and not get yours.  Women have men hoodwinked now, we working double duty, overtime, and putting in night work.  Sometimes she gotta just let you slide.

Streetz [streetztalk.net]:

Yea…these are all dope. I got a couple

9. The Zuckerberg clause: will you speak out against me in any way following your termination/exodus from the company? what would you say?

10. Transition period/severance: do you need hep finding another boo? Do you need a few $$ to catch this cab because Im not driving you home? etc…

Editor: Did we miss any? How do you think you’re EXES would rank you in these ten categories? EFF with us in the comments below…feel free to add more. If you think you can be more creative. Want to jump in on a multi-writer blog? Hit me up on twitter.

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Are You Suffering From Ungratefulness? Find Out If This Blog Is About You…Or Me.

Written by Rahim The Dream. Posted in #ohyoufancyhuh, black movies, black people business, blog, rahim the dream, relationships, removing friends on facebook, Rev Rah

Recently, I posted up on my facebook a quote that I found about 3 types of UNs, and I asked which of them was the worst. The three types were:

uns1 Are You Suffering From Ungratefulness? Find Out If This Blog Is About You...Or Me.

My Facebook Is Poppin, BTW

UNinspired, UNexcited, and the UNgrateful

Yep, I feel inspired and excited to talk about UNgrateful people.

First of all, all of us,  including myself, probably has been or is being ungrateful to someone–right now…and if you don’t think its you, you’re wrong. Trust me someone is o_O ‘ing you right now, thinking ’bout how they lent you fitty cent in the 6th grade that day for chocolate milk cuz you’re broke ass was chokin on butter crunch and forgot to bring extra funds.

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Exclusive: Should’ve Known Better – Written By @Vanessa_Gyan

Written by Rahim The Dream. Posted in bad news, black movies, black people business, blog, cheating, guest blogger, relationships

A few people already know about this situation BUT i’ve decided to just let it ALL out and finally be FREE and NEVER have to mention it again!

scorend Exclusive: Shouldve Known Better   Written By @Vanessa Gyan

oh yeah.

Around 3 years ago, I met a guy (for this blog i’ll call him CHUCK)… I met Chuck in school and we starting talking. The “relationship” was a little bit rushed but at that moment it felt right. About three weeks after just talking, Chuck called me and goes “Hey Vee, Do you have a boyfriend?”. In my mind I was like “umm what is this guy talking about”. So I just played along and said “NO”, and he goes “Well, I wanted to know if I can be your boyfriend?” I found it to be really sweet how he went about asking me and off course I said “Yes”. Two months into the relationship I got Chuck a phone under my name (I know better now lol). We then decided to take a break. During the 1 month break, I didn’t date anyone else or even talk to anyone else. Chuck and I would still speak occasionally. Chuck and I decided to get back together. Everything seemed normal for the next few months. We would talk all the time, see each other.. it was GOOD. It had gotten to the point were we said “I LOVE YOU” to each other.

Then a DRASTIC change happened. Chuck started acting very weird. He was angry at times for no reason. It was just so different. I continued to stick it through though. One night his phone rang and the name that came up was “myspace jumpoff“. LOL! LOL! I asked him who that was and he came up with a whole story. He told me it was a guy around his way that was obsessed with myspace so they named him that. I didn’t think twice to look into it because I was never that type of girl. At around 9 months into the relationship it was just unbearable. Everything I seemed to do was wrong in Chuck’s eyes. If i said left, he would say right. So at that point, I didn’t see the relationship going anywhere. So Chuck and I broke up. I went and got my phone back from him. Chuck did the funniest thing, he handed me the phone without the battery. That alone made me KNOW he had to have been hiding something. So, I put my battery and his phone and that is when EVERYTHING became clear to me. Pictures with other girls and text messages that BLEW my MIND. One message was from a girl suggesting baby names and pleading for him to come see her. Never was I the girl to look through his phone BUT that night I called EVERY girl in his phone. One girl called me back.. and this is how the conversation went…

Female :”Hi, someone called my phone”,
Me: “Yeah, this is Chuck’s girlfriend”,
Female: “Chuck’s girlfriend? Do you know my cousin is having his baby next month”..
Me: ” You know i didn’t know but from messages I saw in his phone, I figured something was going on”.
Female:” WOW, I can’t tell her this because this is going to break her heart”…..

I called Chuck’s other phone and he wouldn’t answer. Then two days later I get a call from the girl who was having his baby. She told me EVERYTHING. Basically it was during the time we were on BREAK and they had sex ONCE and she got pregnant. She didn’t even know him but she kept the baby. She actually made me feel sorry for her and she invited me to the babyshower. LMAO! I became emotionally drained, I didn’t know what to do. Eventually Chuck called me and admitted to me that she was indeed pregnant. He apologized many times and just kept saying he didn’t mean to hurt me and he loves me. BLAH BLAH BLAH.. I literally LOST myself at that point. We didn’t speak again after that. Everything just ENDED!….. I thought about him a few times over the years and I would break down and cry.

I dated again after that but had a wall up and didn’t really give guys an opportunity.

Last year, I was in Soho and who do I bump into??? YUP! Chuck. He was very shocked to see me. He took my number and did call. We started “talking” again. He apologized again for everything that had happened. And all I kept saying was “Why get back with me when at that point you knew she was pregnant”. He said “How do you tell the person you love, the person you thought you would one day marry that you got another girl pregnant”. LOL .. We tried BUT the love I had for him back then just wasn’t how it was when I saw him. He thought that it would be back to those happy days and I would forget everything that happened. How do I forget something like that when the PROOF is right in front of my eyes.

He has a baby girl!!!!!…. Like lets be serious!

This situation was definitely the real life version of Usher “Confessions”

I feel like RIGHT now.. I’m finally free from what I thought me and him could possibly have. I am ready to fully date again and enjoy life!

vanessa1 Exclusive: Shouldve Known Better   Written By @Vanessa Gyan

Vanessa

LADIES: NO MAN IS WORTH YOUR TEARS! IF HE CAN’T BE A MAN ABOUT A SITUATION THEN HE DOESN’T NEED TO BE IN YOUR LIFE! STOP GOING BACK TO THE PERSON WHO PUTS YOU DOWN, CHEATS ON YOU AND MAKES YOU FEEL LESS THEN WHO YOU KNOW YOU ARE!

Signing off,

Vanessa.