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Both of them were and are bad, but it appears that Crack came the closest to almost DESTROYING the Black urban community in a way that Heroin didn't. Heroin has been around for decades...since the 40s atleast....and caused it's problem. But you still had working class functioning Black neighborhoods, numbers running, the prostitutes actually looked decent.....lol. Violence was contained. Crack came along in the early to mid 80s like a bull in a china shop. In just a year or two the decent looking prostitutes and well dressed pimps became replaced with skinny skeleton looking "crack hoes" and the pimps were gone. Violence and automatic weapons appeared right along with it and violence skyrocketed. In Detroit you had "dope dens"....a few designated buildings to shoot up in. When Crack hit, nearly every 4th or 5th building or house became a "crack house".
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ProfD Well..... White folks are still in the Congo aren't they? If White folks are still there, why are they surprised that Ebola, HIV, and other diseases are still there? Duhhhh....... As long as White folks are still there, don't be surprised if some NEW diseases that nobody has heard of before "mysteriously" pop up seemingly out of nowhere and have people dropping like flies.
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The dope epidemic didn't produce as much violence & murder as the crack epidemic. The War on Drugs was declared when Black folks started getting a lotta money & murder rates skyrocketed across the country. POTUS Bill Clinton's 1994 Crime Bill incarcerated a whole lotta Black folks. That's why there are 2 million people being warehoused in US prisons. More prisoners in the US than every other country combined.😎
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Glad to be back. I could actually read the messages, I just couldn't participate without signing in. I started to sign up under another name but thought about all of the history that went into my original handle and decided to wait until I eventually figured out that old email address I used. I happened to read where Troy said he emailed me so I looked for a ping in one of my old emails to find out which one I signed up under.
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Not to be out-done, the Ebola virus has resurfaced in the Congo. A couple hundred folks have died. No cure for the current virus. Folks traveling back to America from over there are being quarantined in the 51st state, er, Canada.🤣😎
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@Pioneer1...looks like the forum upgrade threw you for a loop.🤣 It actually seems to work better. I can post from any device without getting weird Go Daddy messages.😁 Again...welcome back. Missed your input around here.😎
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Mel Yeah, I recall you saying you used to be a stewardess or something of that nature. I also recall something about you meeting.....Bill Cosby???....or some famous Black entertainer on one of the flights.
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I love learning too much to focus on just one subject. A dissertation is limiting, and the only subject I know better than communications and marketing, is scheduled passenger airlines. I initially enrolled in GSU to take some classes and then decided to upgrade my journalism experience by incorporating data science.
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ProfD .....and if you had talked to more than 3 -one of them would have surely snagged you with a smile and you would have been TRAPPED in Michigan for the forseeable future...lol. These African girls are getting pretty good with their lacefront and wore-jeans game....lol.
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More likely just another scare tactic. I'm almost convinced now that if THESE people are actually reporting on it in the media, it's usually not too much of a threat. They usually know more than what they're reporting and already know there's not much too it, so they hype it up to scare the public. It it were a REAL threat, they'd probably keep quiet on it until social media forces their hand and they can no longer hide it from the public. I learned this during the George Floyd riots back in 2020. When it came to minor incidents like a few kids throwing bottles and wrestling with police officers in places like Baltimore and Ferguson Missouri....the media STAYED on the scene showing every detail of people just standing around chanting and yelling and being arrested. But when it came to a full fledged riot/rebellion with building being burned and police being attacked....it took them 2 or 3 hours to even report the first fires being set. Social media had to tell people what was happening.
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Welcome back bro.👍🏿 Thought I was gonna have to roll up to Michigan to find your whereabouts.😁 How so you might ask? I would've started by interrogating African women.🤣😎
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I believe they dangle carrots to 1) keep the conspiracy theorists occupied & 2) justify spending money on UAP/UFO investigations. The Golden Dome in Israel is an example of that technology in use. The US helped build it. The current administration has talked about spending money to build a Golden Dome here. Nevermind the continental US (CONUS) hasn't been invaded by foreigners since the 1800s. For the military history buffs, Pearl Harbor is not CONUS.😉 The stealth technology US military aircraft has is close to having a force field around it. They can attack without being detected by radar systems.😎
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Welcome back! 🙋🏽♀️👋🏽 I was in HIST class while Troy was tinkering and missed the upgrade entirely!
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ProfD Or maybe he's still trying to climb out of the rubble of the OLD website format that was demolished without warning....lol. Right before everything collapsed, I read something about Troy changing his mind about updating or reformatting the website. Next thing I know, the site vanished and when it re-appeared it required me to use some old email address for over a decade ago to access it again....which took me 2 months to dig up, lol.
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@richardmurray did you do any research on TicTok and China, or are gonna ignore that? Conflating all of these people (Frederick Douglass, Clarence Thomas, Michelle Obama, Clarence Williams, STanley Couch , You , Michael Jordan are all in the spirit of James Forten) you are painting with a very broad brush. That shortcut ignores is easy and avoids nuance which leads to false conclusions. Your rejection of the we ignored the fact that the "we" is responsible for all human progress. If is built into us, sure in can also lead to conflict but ethnicities and civilization would be impossible without it.So was it my imagination remembering him in drag? Just a garden variety cis-gendered gay dude huh? Going back to the original. @aka Contrarian It seems rather than entertaining the sisters (it is a Black platform) it seems the article was designed to rile them up by rubbing in their faces how intentional Miss Ann has been about beating their time. How are we served by that? If people need diversions from the BS of the day, folks can try reading a book 😉At @ProfD, that is an interesting reaction? Why do you think they bothered to released that video? So you think the US has force field technology now? It is possible, but sheesh why keep that a secret? You know the Trump administration would do more civilization ending if our aircraft had force fields. 😉My youngests were born in 92 and nd 93 and we lived in BK until 2001 or so. My car was stolen in 1992 that was the only problem we had, but I was in Park Slope so that might have been the difference. I remember thinking how much better Brooklyn was than when we were in High School. From my experience, Brooklyn (the entire city) was much worse in the 1970s. I know in the 90s they started locking brothers up left and right.Nothing is eating at me. In the forum I have always said the black populace in the usa is a collection of tribes, disimilar from each other , which is a heritage, what is carreid from the very infancy of the usa. James Forten was a business owner, black, fought alongside whites colonist who aided or abetted in the enslavement of black people , to initialize the usa. Harry Wahsington was enslaved to george washington, James Forten's general and leader, and fought against the creation of the USA and lef tto Nova Scotia and then to Sierra Leone. The ninety percent of black people enslaved to white colonists who remained enslaved after the usa was initialized. who i am 100% certain hated whites and the usa as James BAldwin admitted to his father, who retained said black folsk dislike of whites and dislike of the usa or absent desire to be part of the usa, . I paraphrase, my father never once spoke ill or attacked a white man and hated white people to the bone to the day he died. And Frederick Douglass, Clarence Thomas, Michelle Obama, Clarence Williams, STanley Couch , You , Michael Jordan are all in the spirit of James Forten. That is ok. No crime, but I must admit that there is no WE in the black populace in the usa, and never was, and i think it is important, because it is the truth. And i think the truth is always warranted.Magic's son EJ appears to just be a gay dude. Don't believe he's an athlete. 😎If Congress is investigating UAP/UFO, it's a distraction from everything else the current administration is doing. Yet, none of these countries has released those recordings or material proof of UAPs/UFOs. Unless the US has bought them off...monopoly. My 1st thought upon hearing that a Tomahawk missile bounced off a UAP was that the US military must have been testing new technology.😁😎Brooklyn was a bloodbath in the 90s -I had to hit the deck a couple of times with the twins in my arms because they were shooting in the playground across from my Bed-Stuy home. One night DEA and Narc cops from NYPD jumped my mother's fence chasing drug dealers. Her Clinton-Hill brownstone was on the corner and our drive-in garage sat on the side of the house that bordered our backyard. It was a perfect getaway. Nope you didn't have to be in the drug trade to get runover by it. I was terrified for my girls. You were lucky to be oblivious to the crime - it was ugly. I'll never forget walking to the J Train and stepping over brainmatter. This became a regular occurence for me. That's exactly why we left. I wanted better for my girls. I got it too! The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 1990-1994 Actually it started in the 1980s maybe even before my father's off-duty shooting The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 1980-1985@ProfD I might have missed it; did you ever express an opinion on the UAP that was hit with a Tomahawk missile only for it to bounce off/ Clearly something was there. Clearly it was displayed technology far superior to what is known based on how it manuvered. The only thing we don't know is where it came from. It could be a number of things, but given What I saw "Alien" is not off the table. What do you think?I guess I could look it up, but I don't want to shift through the trash. Hi Magic's some gay and/or trans? I seem to remember seeing him dressed like a woman. If he is trans should he be allowed to play in the WNBA with the cisgender women?
