Hug Life

If you haven't figured it out yet, there's two sides to The Mulatto. In actuality there's many more than that, but for any given subject, there's two sides. If we're talking about color, there's the black and the white of it, and so on.

Let's talk about life. What is Hug Life? It's an ode to the late great Tupac Shakur who had Thug Life tatted across the abdomen. It's an homage to hip hop music which he helped to make great. It's the darkness behind that music. It's a dedication to the hood that a lot of us who make and appreciate the music came from.

On the other hand, it's about the good things in life. It's about taking hold of those wonderful things. It's an idea and an action. Hug Life is about that life.. The life of embrace. The life of love for family and friends.. It's also about loving life in general with as simple a gesture as a hug. What it do, life? Gimme a hug.

Not Sure

44th

Yesterday was MLK Jr. Day. Also yesterday, the first black President of the United States was inaugurated as President for a second time. As a product of a relationship between a black man and a white woman I can't help but feel like the stars aligned for a moment. Yesterday indeed felt like something to behold.

GIFs From Me To You

Found this hilarity today:

That inspired me to make this:

Which I intended to set as my twitter avatar but then I realized twitter doesn't allow animated GIFs anymore since September. :( 

Oh well..

Imani

Today is Ujima for those who celebrate Kwanzaa. I don't really celebrate Kwanzaa so here's what Wikipedia says:

Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.

I studied Kwanzaa growing up because I went to an all black (and one mulatto *wink*) Catholic school in the hood of Detroit with enough black teachers (and a black Jesus!) to learn a thing or two about African roots. 

I used to know all the days of Kwanzaa. The one that I remembered with no effort at all is the seventh day: Imani, which means Faith.

Lately I have wondered if I wanted to bring children into this world. This world scares me. I ask myself if I feel I am strong enough to grow a human being from acorn to mighty oak in a world where gravity is law and everything falls.

I have confidence issues and am the ultimate worrier with worst case scenario kernels popping in my brain at will. Not to mention my other issues with my personal growth. You ever look at your life and feel like you are moving in reverse more often than not? 

I always told myself I wanted to get it all together before I have kids. Can anybody really become that prepared for children? Probably not. I don't know. I won't know until I do it. Only experience can teach these kinds of things. 

So I decided today that I will have children. I decided that I will name my first child (more likely first girl) after the seventh day of Kwanzaa. Faith is a necessity for having children and accomplishing most anything in life. So if I am given the blessing of a child, I will let her be my faith. In addition, Imani is the same day as New Years, which I recently realized is my favorite holiday. I love new beginnings more than anything. I love forgiving yourself for your shortcomings and trying one year harder to be more. This new year, it's all about doing more in 2013. Just Do More. 

Thus, this year I will commit to having a child in the future and I will complete my mixtape. I will let faith guide me. It's gonna be a good year y'all. I'll see you there.

~Rem

#DoMoreIn2013

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