http://www.blackmantime.com Thoughts, opinions, views on Black culture... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:06:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hooray to Team GB for grabbing the biggest haul of Olympic medals (36 so far) in over 100 years! Hooray! Yawn... It's not that I'm bitter at Great Britain winning anything and loving it. I don't care either way... It's not that I see it as hypocritical that a nation which prides ... http://www.blackmantime.com/olympic-elitist-hypocrisy.htm I jokingly accused a former girlfriend of having a delusional mind the other day because it didn't matter what the reality of any situation was, she always seem to only believe the thoughts in her head! A good example of this was when she used to say: "you're okay with me ... http://www.blackmantime.com/living-inside-your-own-mind.htm It seems anything a Jamaican male sprinter can do, a Jamaican female sprinter can do three times better! This was the remarkable message Jamaica's speed trio Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart sent as they dominated the 100m women's Olympic Games finals in Beijing, yesterday. Fraser romped home to victory in ... http://www.blackmantime.com/jamaican-swseeps-up-inna-stylee.htm The best thing about Usain Bolt's record breaking win in Saturday's Beijing Olympic Games 100m win, was the way he did it! It's not that he set a new world record in a time of 9.69 second, but that he had the style and class to match his speed! It wasn't ... http://www.blackmantime.com/jamaica-no-1-in-style.htm I have come to realise one thing about myself: I am an extremist! Now, before you swallow the wrong end of the stick I'm not talking about the kind of extremism where I will go out and bomb innocent people just to make a point. Oh, no! I'm talking about the ... http://www.blackmantime.com/extremist.htm I made a special effort to rise at 02:30 this morning just in time to watch Jamaica's world record running speed triplets Usain Bolt (10.20 secs.), Asafa Powell (10.16 secs.) and Michael Frater (10.15 secs.), qualify in their respective heats of the 100m. It felt as if history was repeating ... http://www.blackmantime.com/jamaican-gold-run.htm Do you have any idea what it's like to be accused of something you just didn't do? How about to be imprisoned for years for a crime you didn't commit? Most people are not able to answer this question at all... This issue is firmly in the public eye currently following ... http://www.blackmantime.com/conviction-by-any-means-necessary.htm It is a very depressing time living in the UK and in London in particular. Maybe this is in keeping with what's happening in the rest of the world in places like the USA. But, the price of everything is high and going up all the time, sometimes put up by ... http://www.blackmantime.com/high-cost-of-living.htm At times it seems you have to suffer in order to learn certain lessons from life and the lessons you learn make up what's called 'wisdom'. But wisdom is such a very misunderstood thing... At the simplest level most people believe you get 'wise' or accumulate wisdom just for growing old ... http://www.blackmantime.com/blessed-wisdom.htm In the space of a few days two leading lights of African culture have gone out. First was comedian Bernie Mac, real name Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, who passed away on Saturday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois after losing his battle with pneumonia, at the relatively young age of 50. Next ... http://www.blackmantime.com/lights-dimmed.htm