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The bottom line is:

Believe in something, but do not mix religion and politics.

You know there used to be a famous saying:

'If you want to hide something from black people, put it in a book'.

Well this obtuse comment did not work for me. One thing I miss about being a student is the freedom to read until you are blue in the face. As an undergraduate my appetite for reading was insatiable. I would read at home, while travelling abroad, before I went to sleep and first thing in the morning. I am talking about a time when Nelson Mandela was still in prison in South Africa. Hence, at the beginning of the 90s I fondly remember reading Irvine Wallaces book: "The Man"



Wow, what a book! The book was written all the way in 1964. Strangely at the time, I did not think it was conceivable to have a black man as a President. Black guys in films always died early, so you can easily be conditioned to believe Black people will not amount to much. The only way black people were portrayed in the media was in sport and music. Well the President in this book did not die. Society did try to impeach him. The killer point of the book was a powerful lesson for me. If the boxer Mike Tyson had read the book before his February 10th 1992 conviction, he could have ignored the booty call he received late one night. When the President found himself in the company of women alone in the Oval Office, he always left the DOOR OPEN.

Bam!! Beat that for advice. If you can get the book, read it.

I do not comment on religion or politics. However, when President Obama was running for election in USA my immediate thoughts went to this book. Times have sure changed.

I do not have the luxury of reading a lot these days. Here is a list of magazines I read to fill the gap:

http://shecaribbean.com

For those of us from the caribbean:



http://www.oprah.com/omagazine.html

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk

http://www.ninetyninemag.co.uk/index.html

Do you remember the award winning The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996? Man I had fun in them days!

I have to add one of my favourites, a short clip of Will Smith verses Helena in the boxing ring: