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	<title>Comments on: Dream agency aims to empower abused women</title>
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	<description>Rick Badie writes about people, places and issues in Gwinnett County. He can be reached at rbadie@ajc.com.</description>
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		<title>By: The original Mark</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-803</link>
		<dc:creator>The original Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m white, idiot.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m white, idiot&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: party pooper</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-734</link>
		<dc:creator>party pooper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mark is an uncle tom</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mark is an uncle tom</p>
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		<title>By: The original Mark</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-729</link>
		<dc:creator>The original Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Glad to see thay the AJC laid off that mouthy racist Terrence Moore. He was an embarrassment to all the bruthas and sistas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Glad to see thay the AJC laid off that mouthy racist Terrence Moore. He was an embarrassment to all the bruthas and sistas.</p>
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		<title>By: The original Mark</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-728</link>
		<dc:creator>The original Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mark, What has Obama done since in office?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark, What has Obama done since in office?</p>
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		<title>By: Cindy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-711</link>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The third thing is to learn how to function in society as a normal person instead of an oppressed, kept down little puppy, thinking that EVERYBODY knows my secret.  EVERYBODY thinks i&#039;m a push-over, a victim, someone who always needs a hand-out and needs saved.  NO.  It&#039;s part of life.  Not a pleasant part, but a part, all the same.  So many people have gone/are currently going through abuse in one way or another.  It doesn&#039;t define who you are.  Instead it&#039;s what must be overcome.  There are resources because others see the need.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The third thing is to learn how to function in society as a normal person instead of an oppressed, kept down little puppy, thinking that EVERYBODY knows my secret.  EVERYBODY thinks i&#8217;m a push-over, a victim, someone who always needs a hand-out and needs saved.  NO.  It&#8217;s part of life.  Not a pleasant part, but a part, all the same.  So many people have gone/are currently going through abuse in one way or another.  It doesn&#8217;t define who you are.  Instead it&#8217;s what must be overcome.  There are resources because others see the need.</p>
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		<title>By: DawgBite</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-707</link>
		<dc:creator>DawgBite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jais, how does it feel to be married to your sister?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jais, how does it feel to be married to your sister?</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-705</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t believe all tha hate. This is what I have to go through on a daily basis. White people will never understand what it&#039;s like since you get everything you want for practicaly free. Call me names I don&#039;t care, you wouldn&#039;t say it to my face since you are nothing but cowards. Keep hatin on Obama, you didn&#039;t get him in office so it don&#039;t matter none anyways. Name me one president who has done more than Obama has in this little of time. That&#039;s right, you can&#039;t. Read it and weep cowards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe all tha hate. This is what I have to go through on a daily basis. White people will never understand what it&#8217;s like since you get everything you want for practicaly free. Call me names I don&#8217;t care, you wouldn&#8217;t say it to my face since you are nothing but cowards. Keep hatin on Obama, you didn&#8217;t get him in office so it don&#8217;t matter none anyways. Name me one president who has done more than Obama has in this little of time. That&#8217;s right, you can&#8217;t. Read it and weep cowards.</p>
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		<title>By: DawgBite</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-704</link>
		<dc:creator>DawgBite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Which is probably worth way more than your UE check, huh LT5000.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Which is probably worth way more than your UE check, huh LT5000.</p>
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		<title>By: Cindy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-701</link>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The second step is to keep the person who was abused from returning to the previous mentality.  Because the element of danger was removed, people forget how volatile the situation was and can sometimes begin to think &quot;ok, it hasn&#039;t happened in a while, I need to get back home, everybody (extended family) is probably wanting me to come back now.&quot;

It doesn&#039;t work that way.  Yet it&#039;s a common approach...going back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The second step is to keep the person who was abused from returning to the previous mentality.  Because the element of danger was removed, people forget how volatile the situation was and can sometimes begin to think &#8220;ok, it hasn&#8217;t happened in a while, I need to get back home, everybody (extended family) is probably wanting me to come back now.&#8221;</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t work that way.  Yet it&#8217;s a common approach&#8230;going back.</p>
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		<title>By: Omowali2</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/rick-badie-blog/2009/04/11/dream-agency-aims-to-empower-abused-women/comment-page-1/#comment-700</link>
		<dc:creator>Omowali2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unfortunately,domestic violence is an equal opportunity kind of a thing. It&#039;s not Black or white, it&#039;s about power and domination and the willingness of some people to act out their personal pain on the people who love them (and are therefore more vulnerable). Let&#039;s stay on point here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately,domestic violence is an equal opportunity kind of a thing. It&#8217;s not Black or white, it&#8217;s about power and domination and the willingness of some people to act out their personal pain on the people who love them (and are therefore more vulnerable). Let&#8217;s stay on point here.</p>
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