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Bet Not Come Home Without a Pack of Cigarettes: The Reciprocity Remix

March 14, 2016

Rewind “You bet not come home without a pack of cigarettes.” I was about 14 when my auntie Ernestine uttered those words as I was leaving the family compound on the Southside of Chicago. I didn’t really understand what she meant at first (family say I got a whole bunch of book sense but not a lot of common sense). It eventually dawned on me that she was basically saying, “If you leaving this house to spend time with a man (boy at the time), then you better not come home empty handed.[...]

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You Bet Not Come Home Without a Pack of Cigarettes: On Black Girls, Reciprocity, Nicki Minaj, MBK and #BlackLivesMatter (Track 2)

April 22, 2015

Rewind “You bet not come home without a pack of cigarettes.” I was about 14 when my aunt uttered those words as I left the family compound on the Southside of Chicago. Admittedly, I didn’t give much thought to what she said at that moment. It later dawned on me that she was essentially saying, “If you’re leaving this house to spend time with a man (boy), then you better not come home empty handed.” Wait, what? I know she didn’t mean that I should ask a guy to do something for me[...]

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