Uh-oh!
No need to front. My mind is now thinking – what now is she thinking? I just put in front of the entire world, well, those with Internet accessibility, thoughts that should have been kept to myself. Why do I do such things?
Kadidja S. Hinds.
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Oct 1998
Oct 1998
All week I had been dodging bullets. If it wasn’t one thing, as the cliche doesn’t go, it was three or four others.
I’m usually a patient person, but my situation with the crib, the office, the lack of a driver’s license and one unforgettable trip to Houston, Texas, took me to the threshold of insanity. Only if you knew! So this past Friday, I decided to give myself a day off and simply look at the ceiling all day and all night. I’d simply connect the dots to form shapes of items I don’t have such as energy, transportation, riches and hair — whatever they all look like.
In just a matter of an hour or two, I found myself surrounded by beautiful, educated black women. All of the sudden, revitalized! My trigger finger was snapping photo after photo of lovely after lovely. Four rolls of lovelys and I’d call the night a success. The next morning, I was in the office; my business partner, Vintory, and I were checking out the photos deciding what magic we could apply to them.
As we were flipping through the photos taken at a Bennett College coronation, we kept coming across one lovely after another striking Kodak moment. “Look at these lovelys,” my mind drifted. My eyes glazed, my business partner stared at me as if I was comatosed.
Category: Just Babbling
Tags: Kadidja Hinds, Vintory Moore, Yohance Deloatch
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Aug 1998
Aug 1998
I came to North Carolina A&T State University on a quest to become the editor in chief of the Washington Post. I’ve left A&T as an entrepreneur believing there is nothing in this entire universe I cannot do, except, maybe conform to a society that controls people by the use of fear.
Not quite a communist, I feel a lot of the things Karl Marx said makes more sense than what my teachers were saying. The reason people strive so hard to get a degree is to get a job so they can make a few pennies to live a comfortable life. Though there are some exceptions, most students do not go just for the appreciation of knowledge.
It is this fear Marx spoke about that controls people. The fear of not living comfortable. Then it’s heard on every block and every corner and every television station and every minute of every day that education is the only way. It gives people no chance to seek other options. They spend no time analyzing what it really is that gives them the job they slaved four, five or six years for a degree to get. It is not the degree. It is not the straight As, the 3.6 gpa, the honor societies or countless scholarships.
Category: Passing Thoughts
Tags: Karl Marx, North Carolina A&T
