A battle has been raging ever since I arrived at college. Since this battle has begun, my friends have chosen sides, switched over and even been in both camps at once.

I“m talking about MySpace and Facebook.

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In 1900, a woman by the name of Mary Church Terrell began honoring Fredrick Douglass on his birthday, Feb. 14, in Washington, D.C.

In 1909, a man named Carter G. Woodson witnessed this yearly celebration for the first time, and in 1926, chose the second week of February as Black History Week. This particular week was chosen because it contains the birthdays of two influential men: Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

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There are times in our lives when we do things we are not very proud of. Most of the mistakes we make are reasonably easy to deal with. Unfortunately, there are those mistakes that stare you right in the face.

Sleeping with someone you see on a daily basis can be perfectly acceptable as long as nothing goes awry. Over the last nine years of being sexually active, I have had intimate relationships with people I work with, go to school with and hang out with. Very rarely is there a problem.

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At 5, we believe our parents when they say “you can be anything.” Unfortunately, it is because we didn“t know better.

We had yet to learn about discrimination. We had yet to learn that we would be paid less because we are women, stereotyped because we are a minority or denied a marriage because of our sexual orientation.

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