Urban Thought Collective

About Me:

ReNina Minter is a former elementary school teacher who followed her passion to make a difference on a larger scale. She earned a Master's in Clinical Psychology and is now a Certified Life Coach. Her editorials are exclusive to UTC.

I want a Barack Obama! After hearing his speech the other night I realized how much I love Black men with all their unexpressed pain and imperfections. I Love them ALL. They are so strong, tenacious and talented, some of which is unrealized. Sometimes Black men don’t see their full potential and that [...]

Did you hear? Black people finally got a long over due apology from the government. Kinda. The House of Representatives, not Congress or any other branch, passed a resolution on Tuesday, July 28, 2008. It apologizes for the slavery of black Americans and the subsequent laws (Jim Crow) that were [...]

There has been a lot of talk about the “N” word lately. There was a discussion last week on The View concerning the use of the “N” word and why black people can use it and white people cannot. It was a passionate debate which included bleeped out “N” words from Whoopi Goldberg, [...]

Jesse, Jesse, Jesse. What were you thinking? The other day our “Beloved” Black Leader, Mr. Jesse Jackson unconsciously put his foot in his mouth. While waiting for an interview with Fox News, Jackson was unaware that he was being recorded on a “hot mic.” He said, “I wanna cut his [Barack Obama's] nuts [...]

My laptop computer crashed a couple of days ago. Doesn’t sound like a tragedy, but I felt as if I was on Gilligan’s island stranded and disconnected from the rest of the world. I woke up in the morning and attempted to turn on the computer like any other morning. To my [...]

A friend told me the other day that “women can’t handle the truth and don’t want the truth.” He said that if they did, they would not react the way they do when they get it.
He compared wanting the truth to wanting a million dollars or a new Mercedes. If a [...]

History was made last week. Barack Obama is the first African American man to receive the democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. Wow. I know that this is profound but I realized just how profound while watching the news the other night. A little black girl who was [...]

Yes. No. Oh hell. Maybe we do. I think that there is some truth to the belief that black women have an attitude. Some do. Not all, but some.
When I say “attitude,” I mean a negative manner, disposition, state of being, or state of mind in relation to [...]

I re-learned a pretty valuable lesson last week. Some things are not worth arguing or debating about because they are just a matter of semantics.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines semantics as the interpretation of the meaning of a word, sentence, or other language form.
I used to argue a lot…go back and forth [...]

Some people are oblivious to the effects of their behavior. How one could be so oblivious may seem like a mystery, but it isn’t. It is purely a lack of self awareness. I not only hold the oblivious person responsible, but also the people closest to that person.
Truth be told…we don’t [...]