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Crossing Color Lines for Love; The Extinction of Black Love

As you can see from the title, this is about to be an EXTREMELY deep post, so get ready! Let's start by discussing Sanaa Lathan . She's an extremely diverse actress in my eyes. She can portray a character who everyone LOVES (Brown Sugar, Love & Basketball), as well as everyone hates (A Family That Preys). That in my eyes is a flexible and awesome actress, off topic but anyway, you get the point. So, in Brown Sugar, Sanaa Lathan plays the PERFECT black woman. Great career, driven, ambitious, beautiful, all a man could ever want in a woman! Yet, she's alone. About to move back to her native town of NYC to be editor of XXL Magazine. She has been in love with her "best friend" Dre (Diggs) for fucking EVER, but admitted she was too scared to attempt anything for sake of her career. Dre describes his fiancee (which Lathan's character painfully witnessed the propasal) as "Brown Sugar". Everything his fiancee seemingly appeared was everything Sidne...

Is this REAL??????

As May 2012 quickly approaches, I can't help to feel as if this is all so surreal. I've always envisioned attending college, but never imagined that I'd graduate. I would constantly daydream about my career. In hindsight, I can see them for the twisted fantasies they were. As I have said in a previous post, I feel as though I lost passion. How do I know this you may ask? Because as I type this, I should be sitting in my Special Topics class for Marketing. Sometimes I feel like such a fuckup. But I'm human. So I guess theoretically, its one and the same. I often get frustrated with myself because I have never felt like I belonged to anything. Always an outcast, never included in the script. Sometimes I think, was it all worth it? I really do want to continue with my studies on the graduate level, but I have to get through this stage first. Ever been on a roller coaster? Well, this feels like that awkward climb up when you look down and around at the world below you; ever...