The Harder Question: After eight years of President George W. Bush, President Obama came to office with many different ideas about how to run the country. Based on his performance thus far, do you think President Obama will be elected to a second term?

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The Harder Question: BlackWeb 2.0 released a list of The 100 Most Powerful Black Women on Twitter, and several of the comments on the post and on social media sites, like Twitter and FriendFeed, were from people who were upset about some of the women who were identified as “black.” This is interesting.

In your opinion, what and/or who decides/defines who’s “black” and who isn’t?

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The Harder Question: Why is it that when a white person speaks against President Obama the automatic assumption is that the person is racist?

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The Harder Question: Your teenager is in need of a kidney transplant, and fortunately you and your teen’s other parent are both viable donors. You and his/her other parent decide it will be the other parent who gives your teenager the kidney, and the operation is performed successfully. The doctors give your teenager instructions about being very careful to take his/her anti-rejection medications as instructed or the kidney will fail.

For several weeks, your teen does really well with following the doctor’s instructions, but after awhile your teen doesn’t think he/she needs the medication, so he/she stops taking it regularly. Eventually, your teen stops taking the medication all together. You notice your teen is getting sicker and sicker, and every time you ask if he/she is taking the anti-rejection medicine as instructed, he/she tells you yes.

You come home from work to find  your teen passed out on the floor of the kitchen and non-responsive. You call for an ambulance, and you all are rushed to the hospital. After several tense hours, your teen’s doctor comes out to tell you and your teen’s other parent that he/she is going into kidney failure again, because he/she hasn’t been taking his/her anti-rejection medication. The doctor tells you all that another transplant is going to be necessary, because the first transplanted kidney is no longer viable.

What do you do?

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The Harder Question: Why is telling people, “No,” such a challenging ordeal?

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The Harder Question: Studies show that most children don’t remember things that have happened to them if they occur before the age of four. Keeping that in mind, if you are the caregiver of a child, who at the age of three, got hold to a handgun and accidentally shot and killed a sibling/cousin/friend of about the same age, would you eventually tell him/her when he/she’s old enough to understand the ramifications of such actions?

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