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RMNewsletter 5th 06212026 A Father's Day Solstice https://open.substack.com/pub/rmnewsletter/p/rmnewsletter-5th-06212026?r=xit0b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

In my humble opinion, Curiosity, a desire to learn, explore, or investigate the world around us, and Reading, which can enrich and fulfill that curiosity, are the two most important talents a person can have. And interestingly, both are virtually free. Not a day goes by that I don't search for an answer about something I don't understand and/or read about it. Below is several excerpts from the last chapter of my novel, The Short Happy Life of Wyatt Outlaw. Wyatt was trying to teach his children to read before a gang of white men broke into his house, brutalized his three children and mother, Jemimah, and dragged Wyatt to the courthouse square to be hanged. Julius stands tall in the early morning sunshine, trying his best to be brave. The slight breeze stirring the white blossoms makes the dogwood trees look like ghosts in the surrounding yard and woods. He knows how scared he feels, and he senses that the lingering fear must be much worse for his little brothers. At least he’s not still trembling at every unexpected noise. It’s a perfect day to be outside. Julius tries to focus on all the green leaves and birds, especially the robins, hopping around looking for worms. It’s much better outside where he can see if anyone bad is coming; when he’s inside the cabin, even though it’s a different house, he keeps hearing the door exploding and people yelling. Julius holds up a perfectly Y-shaped piece of a dogwood branch and says, “I been lookin for a week. See what I found, Mama. I’m tryin to make myself a slingshot so I can shoot somebody. Maybe I can kill a rabbit or squirrel to eat.” Oscar sits quietly on the cool ground. He still doesn’t understand that his daddy isn’t ever coming home again. A red ant crawls up his leg, and he screams and squashes it between his fingers. Jip lies patiently beside Oscar; since that terrible night, the puppy has stayed within a few feet of Oscar during the day and slept curled up with him at night. Little Wyatt asks, “Can I play with my sticks? I’m gonna make me a spear. Me and Julius can go huntin. We’ll be safe together, won’t we, Mama?” “No playin today, at least not til you work on your letters some more. Nancy Outlaw, she gonna help us again. You all did good yesterday. Your daddy said readin and writin are the most important things you can do to help yourself, and I believes him. I’m sorry I can’t do much good with writin, but at least I can read some.” Just then Nancy Outlaw walks up carrying a small book and hands it to Jemimah. It’s a dirty, beat-up Freedman’s Spelling Book she scrounged from a local Quaker friend. Its brown-spotted cover reminds Jemimah of a dried-up tobacco leaf. “Do we have to?” Little Wyatt and Oscar whine in unison. Jemimah looks at Julius. He’s eager, already opening the book and pointing his finger at the word T-R-Y. "Say it," Jemimah says. “Then name the letters. Boys, you pay attention to your brother. He knows it’s important. You got to learn to read and write like he is.” Her voice is urgent, pleading with the boys, but also commanding. Julius pronounces the word, then spells the letters. Jemimah says, “Read the words.” Julius wants to, but falters, then looks up at the sky, his eyes searching for his father floating by in the clouds. Julius has been told by Jemimah that Wyatt has gone to heaven. The main thing he remembers is that his daddy promised to talk about a book they had been trying to read together. His daddy promised a lot of things, got them a dog, and played with the boys often, but the one thing he kept insisting was that books and reading are important. That they make a person proud and free. “You boys listen to me. Your daddy gave you a book. He told me his plan. He was gonna read it with you. All three of you, when it was your turn. Don’t be afraid of books. There’s books everywhere. We just couldn’t ever have any cause the law says slaves can’t have no books. But we ain’t slaves no more. Together, we gonna finish your daddy’s plan." Julius looks back down. He finds F-R-E-E. He says the letters and the word clearly, louder than before. Both Little Wyatt and Oscar repeat the letters and then pronounce the word. Jemimah watches her boys hunkered over the page, their eyes tracking the letters like they’re hunting a rabbit or searching for the ripple of a catfish in Jordan Creek. Every syllable they get right is a crack in the courthouse foundation, a kick in the rears of the men in the hoods. Jemimah doesn't need to hear the words pronounced to know she’s winning; she just wants to see her oldest boy’s jaw set firm—just like Wyatt’s was at first when he refused to run. A slate-colored dove lands within arm’s length of Oscar. Ignoring the dove’s cooing, the boys sit transfixed, all their senses focused on Jemimah, expecting a miracle. She breaks the spell, asking, “Do you like that story? What does it tell you about life?” Oscar answers, “We don’t put no chain around Jip’s neck.” Little Wyatt says, “They is dogs and wolfs in the world. I’d rather be a dog.” Pondering, Julius finally responds, “It’s better to be a skinny wolf that’s free than a fat dog that’s kept tied up.” Jemimah and Nancy Outlaw both laugh and say, “That’s good answers.” “Mama,” Julius asks, “is that why them bad men dragged our daddy away? Cause he used to be a slave dog and now he’s free like a wolf?” Little Wyatt yells, “I hate them men in white. They took our daddy away. When I get bigger, I’m gonna kill them. All of them.” “Me too,” says Oscar. “Will you help us, big brother? Will you help us, Mama?” Julius doesn’t answer. Looking directly at Nancy Outlaw, Jemimah replies, “Boys, my boys, I knows how you feel. I wants to kill them, too. They’s bad people. But killing is bad. God says not to kill. “I don’t want to hear no more talk about shooting people or spearing people. We free now. We free to love, or we free to hate. Some people will choose hate, but not us. We done had enough of hate. We needs to choose love. “I knows you remember how much your daddy loved you. Remember him like he was that night, playing the bear. And I loves you, too, more than the sun loves the moon. Promise me you will choose love.”

Overall No! But strange things must happen in the next 3 years. Some kind of Trumplosion has to happen. Whether it is an implosion or an explosion I have no idea. Russia is imploding. Why Putin the Putrid hasn't been assassinated by now I don't get.

Vulcan Anarchist Manifesto It is fascinating that we are now living in an Amok Time. The administration of the United States government is reeking havoc in the US and around the world, economically, politically and militarily. It was in the first episode of the second season of "Star Trek" that Leonard Nimoy in the role of Mr. Spock introduced the Vulcan salute 🖖 and greeting "Live Long and Prosper". That episode was titled "Amok Time". As a science fiction artwork "Star Trek" often presented us with the perennial SF problem, what to do with, and how to cope with changing technology. It is possible that we have been failing at that in a major way since the end of World War Two. The Great Depression before WWII may have helped bias economists and politicians to make a serious error. We have been hearing GDP, Gross Domestic Product, on a nearly daily basis since about 1990. Before that it was GNP, Gross National Product. The difference is of no practical importance to the vast majority of people. The increase in what the acronyms stand for has been regarded as Economic Growth, but that is not quite the case. It is Growth in Economic Activity but what it actually increases can depend on the amount of Depreciation. At this point we can raise the Logical Issue of what exactly do we mean by PROSPERITY??? The concept of GNP was developed in the late 1930s when the US and the World were still in the grip of The Depression. Politicians of the day were frantic about UneMployMent and what the unemployed might get up to. A derivative concept NNP, Net National Product, was part of the Economic Concept. NNP = GNP - Depreciation What was meant by Depreciation in 1938 was strictly Capital Goods in the form of machinery and buildings to further production. Samuelson's Economics textbook of 1948 continued teaching that perspective and ignored automobiles and refrigerators purchased by consumers. However in 1948 fewer than 1% of American households had televisions. See where Technology and Star Trek are sneaking into the picture? The Enterprise of economics must expand The Federation. By 1950 almost 10% of American homes had televisions and the percentage grew continuously through the 50s. It reached 90% in 1962. Possibly the fastest spread of a technology in history up to that time. What probably could not be known at the time, but can now be found with computer analysis is that before 1965 "planned obsolescence" was appearing in print more often than 'consumerism' but afterwards consumerism took off and left PO in the dust. Not even Mr Spock could have known. What was TeleVision advertising doing to the minds of Americans? Do we have permanent cultural Brain Damage? The terms can be graphed over time with the N-gram App. So what has advertising and technological change done to society and economics since the 1960s? The Moon Landing was So Long Ago! The Original Star Trek was off the air before Apollo 11, but the next generation of technology was always coming. What have economists been telling us about the Depreciation of consumer technology for Decades? NOTHING! Karl Marx is an infamous name in the subject of Political-Economics. He was an intellectual participant in the Amok Time of the French Revolution of 1848. His "Communist Manifesto" was not a minor incendiary at the event. His name continues to echo down the halls of history getting louder with "Das Kapital" and every economic stumble of Capitalism. Marx said that he was not a Marxist but vast numbers of lesser intellectuals have carried on in his name. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has come and gone in his name but after 177 years political-economics seems on the verge of running amok again. Can the World handle a Trumpression? Can a little historical perspective possibly help us see through this mess? How many horses were there in New York City in 1899, 16 years after Marx's death? Somewhere in the neighborhood of 150,000, there was no great urgency for accuracy. This presented a problem for every major city because each horse produced about 25 pounds of manure per day. 13 thousand Tons per week! There were no automobiles when Marx died. Henry Ford introduced the Model-T in 1908. By 1912 the number of horses, which was already declining, equaled the number of motor vehicles which was rising to crossover at about 110,000. The horse population was down to 56,000 by 1920. Fortunately they did not have to count the flies. The count was at 22,000 by 1930. The gasoline engine made more things possible than automobiles. The Wright brothers' plane of 1903 looked like something only madmen would try to fly but the advances over the next 40 years were remarkable. The fastest planes of World War One topped out at 130 mph. But 30 years after the Model-T engineers were working on the P-38. The first Lightning took to the sky on January 27th of 1939. It's cruising speed of 275 mph was more than double the maximum of machines that fought the Great War. By the end of World War Two a number of planes were getting near the theoretical maximum for propeller driven craft. Technology was affecting the world before Marx died in 1883. Marx wrote about the depreciation of "rolling stock", that is Trains. Only volume 1 of Das Kapital was published by his death, with 11 mentions of 'Depreciation'. Frederick Engles, with what must have required herculean effort, edited and published volumes 2 and 3, with 'depreciation' arising many more times, about 100. Marx must have mentioned Adam Smith more than 100 times in Das Kapital also. What did Smith say that might still be relevant today? He never mentioned 'depreciation' but used the word 'education' Eighty Times and wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times. In 1776 50% of Brits were illiterate, but where are economists advocating mandatory accounting in high schools today? The US could have done that since 1950. Sounds more useful than 4 years of English literature. Vladimir Lenin became an ardent believer in Marxist theory and a central driving figure in the Russian Revolution. Although a believer in Marx, like many other Marxists, he did not say much about Marx's attention to the detail of 'Depreciation'. But the year after his death in 1924 a new techno-economic phenomenon became a feature of the future. In 1925 the Phoebus Cartel was formed to organize the "Planned Obsolescence" of light bulbs. A technology that was struggling to work when Lenin was struggling to walk had become too good for satisfactory corporate profits after his death. It was to have its quality reduced to raise the demand for the quantity desired by the manufacturers. The customers must buy more for the benefit of investors. The Wall Street Crash was 4 years away. The Depression stressed out the entire world but scientific and technological advances continued. The neutron was discovered in 1932 and got greater historical significance in a dozen years. The global economic condition motivated a lot of thought about curing the economic malaise. Bernard London wrote about alleviating the problem with Planned Obsolescence, also in 1932. World War Two provided an eventual solution to unemployment though it came with strings attached, death and destruction, which might be regarded as very high speed depreciation. All things must pass so eventually the War ended, but what did the Depression and the War do to the psyche of America? A fanatical belief in Economic Growth seems to have taken over the Power Elite after the War. Who decided what to do with the technology and the phenomenal productive capacity? In the early 2000s Will Steffen and his colleagues coined the term "The Great Acceleration" for the period beginning immediately after the War. The period that the "Baby Boomers" were born into. The period that Donald Trump was born into, in 1946. But unlike most Boomers, he was born rich. What do children know about Normal? They just see and experience whatever is happening at the time. Post-WWII America was not Normal. Television was a new thing all through the 1950s. Saturday morning cartoons were Normal for 1950s kids but it had never happened to any previous generation. Europe and Japan were rebuilding from the War. The United States was riding higher than Normal with them temporarily out of the picture. What were economists saying about the Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods through the 1950s? Who really cared what Vance Packard had written in "The Waste Makers" in 1960? Grow, grow, rah, rah, rah! The first national presidential debate was broadcast in September of 1960. The post-debate analysis showed that radio listeners thought that Nixon had won but television viewers went with Kennedy. More than 60,000,000 Americans watched the debate. Kennedy won the election and by 1962 90% of American households had televisions. Almost everyone could watch The Beatles, Star Trek and eventually, the Moon Landing. Technologies have changed the road we have been traveling since the turn of the 20th Century. Did the Depression raise our fears causing us to miss a turn at the end of World War Two? Has Planned Obsolescence been a bad idea? What if we had made long lasting products but kept prices down by not changing styles? Consider what happened to Ford Model-T prices from 1908 to 1926. Sliding down from $850 to below $300. In the 1930s John Maynard Keynes was writing about a 15-hour workweek for grandchildren. That might have been the 1990s. Maybe we could have had a 3-day workweek. What have we been doing with automobiles since the end of WWII, and Why? What could be the point of constantly redesigning machines that roll along the ground, mostly at less than 100 mph? Faster than that is usually illegal! Are corporations encouraging us to get our egos wrapped up in useless variations of mature, if not antiquated, technology for their economic benefit, just like light bulbs in 1925? This brings us back to Marx's Depreciation but he was not talking about automobiles, they did not exist at the time. We must deal with the economics and consequences of technologies that Marx never imagined. Shouldn't modern economists compute and report the depreciation of current technologies? Other issues that arose during World War Two were the durability, reliability and repairability of machines under wartime conditions. The engine of a Sherman tank could be replaced in 4 hours. Can auto mechanics replace an engine in that time today? What is a "Bathtub Curve"? How long is a "Mean Time To Repair"? Have corporations been at war with the American consumer since 1950? Have Americans been bleeding money? Where are the economists talking about the NET Domestic Product and Demand-Side Depreciation? This ilLogic has proceeded since the Baby Boomers left high school. Professional economists were not advocating mandatory accounting in high schools back then and have not seen the light since. Apparently they cherry-pick what Adam Smith had to say. That "Invisible Hand" is heard from far more often than it should be. The real Adam Smith only mentioned it ONE Time in 1100 pages. The caricature of Smith that is supposed to inspire our Love of Capitalism never taught Logic at the University of Glasgow in 1751. Would the real Smith call "BS" on modern economists? Real accounting would deal with real depreciation and recognize that Real Planned Obsolescence is causing much of it. We are not in Keynesland any more, Toto! The road to serfdom is paved with techno-trash automobiles. We cannot prosper by spending money on crap.🤑 🖖💰 Live Long & Prosper y'all 💰🖖 SF footnote: Voyage from Yesteryear (1982) by James P Hogan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear First 9 chapters Free! https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0671577980/0671577980.htm - - - - - Review - - - - - http://www.troynovant.com/Proteus/Grube-R/Hogan/Voyage-from-Yesteryear.html

Just another example of how Trump and his cronies will stoop to anything, any falsehood, to further his Kingdom.☹️

The same USA that will allow its own citizens to go unhoused or hungry or work until they drop is giving $300 billion dollars to Iran; a country it was bombing a couple months ago.🙄😎

I was watching a quick video about the mental abuse that Michael Jackson suffered and what prompted him to get plastic surgery and change his appearance so much. He obviously had low self esteem and had the temperament and sensitivity of a child. I can understand a little bit of what he went through because I was called ugly so much as a child...even by other family members. As a kid growing up, I too was told my nose was too big and even though I'm lighter skinned....was often called "Black and Ugly" by some adults and kids. It WILL fuck up your esteem. Some more than others. It's a shame how we as a people often do this to our own children. I look at other races and how they interact with their children and I often see White and Latina mothers smiling at their children, looking deep in their eyes, kissing on them, playing with them, calling them handsome and beautiful.....and then I look at a lot of AfroAmerican mothers who are constantly yelling at their children and cussing at them and barely looking at them except to scold them or express disappointment. How can children be expected to grow up well adjusted when they feel that their own community and sometimes their own parents don't even want them?

Yeah...now you need cable with someone who carries MSNOW to see it when 3 or 4 decades ago an event like this would be aired on one of the national broadcasting stations like NBC, CBS, or ABC.

There are 2 major problems with current Black unemployment: 1. Not enough of our people are starting our own businesses and making our own jobs to employ our people. Too many of our people go into business as a "last resort"..... -If they have an extensive criminal record and just can't find a job anywhere else and can't find somebody to mooch off us...they'll get out in the street and hustle up a business and often end up becoming successful. -Or after getting tired of constantly being fired and running into friction with White employers realize they just can't work for or with White folks....they decide to go into business for themselves. 2. There is too much non-Black competition. As AfroAmericans WE are allowing too many immigrants to pour into the country sucking up valuable resources like jobs, healthcare, and certain government positions that could and should go to us. I know we don't totally control immigration or the immigration policies in this nation but we have far more control than we exert. I don't see to many Black people who are even concerned about the massive amount of racist immigrants who are pouring into this nation and pretty much not having anything to do with them. Black people.....especially Black Americans....should be LEADING the charge against immigration and joining ICE like it's the NAACP. Troy There is the gig economy, but that’s more a kin to sharecropping. And it's also incredibly stressful. Not only is it unreliable like most steady 9-5 jobs....but you're dealing with the stresses and headaches of having to run your own business and deal with customers WITHOUT getting the money that owning a business could potentially generate. Gigs and side-hustles used to be a rare thing that only the most ambitious people engaged in to earn enough money to do something specific like go into business or pay off a loan. Now it's almost standard procedure to get by in some areas. Working 2 or 3 jobs at long hours is tough for healthy young people, so the average American with pre-existing health conditions can't work themselves to death at 50 and 60 and 70 hours a week just to make a living.

ProfD I'm waiting for this chess move to win out. I don't believe it will. I don't support that "when they go low" bullshit, but I DO think that if Michelle Obama would have ran for president instead of Kamala, she would have won. As controlled opposition, I think Democrats purposefully allow Republicans to run over them. Ofcourse. The leadership atleast. I believe a lot of rank-n-file Democrats and low level Democrat politicians truly want to win and institute most of the policies they promote and they are sincere...to a certain degree; but the LEADERSHIP of the Democrats are in bed with the Republicans and they purposely lose some as you'd expect from controlled opposition. It's as if the Democrat leaders sit back and watch what works.....and do the exact OPPOSITE to ensure the Republicans keep the upper hand. "We can't call Republicans racist or Nazi sympathizers. That's too low of a blow. We can't promise everybody free healthcare. Sure we'd win every election but it wouldn't be fair to the Republicans." Both parties are in agreement when it comes to maintaining the system of racism white supremacy. Facts. It's actually a game. .....like Good Cop/Bad Cop The Republicans pretty much write and execute the policies while the Democrats pretend to restrain them and hold them back and resist a little so they don't go too far.

Hopefully, the current administration will be unsuccessful in removing the educational requirements it takes to become a nurse. If they make it easier for folks to get into nursing, the salary will drop. Cheapen the profession. Like tradespeople, folks with CDL (commercial drivers license) credentials never seem to have a problem finding a job. Also, many folks are doing extremely well for themselves as owners of tractors, dump trucks, buses, limousines, etc. Self-driving vehicles have many hurdles to jump before taking over the transportation industry. UPS, FedEx, am*zon & other companies are still using human drivers. Sure. I'm looking for the Black-owned equivalent of am*zon, Google, Microsoft, etc. These companies employ thousands of people. Like a dam or levee, the system does just enough for its people to keep them in check. White people aren't interested in giving up their privilege & benefits under the system of racism. I believe it will take a natual disaster or major catastrophic event to force people into taking better care of each other.😎

I enjoy hearing the stories and perspective of people,your age @R. E. Hayes

Well, the answer to that question really depends on how the person wants to spend their life. For example, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone do what I do unless they were really passionate about it. It’s hard to make a living as a full-time musician or artist, but if you’re really passionate about it, you’ll probably figure it out, but I wouldn’t suggest anyone pursuit that as a way to make a living. Now, if you just wanted to make money, I would say do stuff that people really want a human doing or something that would be really hard for a robot or an AI to do. Like nursing Now you mentioned trucking. I wouldn’t recommend that someone pursue that as a vocation because trucks are already self driving. But if you told me you love spending hours on the open road driving then go ahead go for it. Seriously, there is no shortage of company started by Black people — especially in recent years there are all types of incubators funding startups in the tech space. Of course you have the traditional businesses, barbers salons, restaurants all types of service businesses that black folks continue to start. At the rate, I tend to agree with you the proverbial pitchforks will come out. It won’t be pretty, and it will be hard to recover from the aftermath. I just hope people do something before it comes to that. This is a problem that will need to be worked on by people of all so-called races.

Which jobs do you recommend Black folks pursue? I understand your perspective. My point was that someone started the companies. If Black folks do nothing...that's exactly what we'll end up with in the longer run. January 6th was nothing in comparison to the h8ll that could break loose. The system is a bit more sophisticated. However, Alligator Alcatraz comes to mind.🤣😎

Thanks for the like. I always respected CBS the home of “60 Minutes and intrepid Ed Bradley who died in 2006 age 65 from from complications associated with chronic lymphocytic that he most likely contracted from Agent Orange while reporting on the Vietnam war, America’s first TV war, trucking through the jungle alongside Marine infantrymen. Ed Bradly was born a year after me and was the coolest black man seen on nationwide television. I wanted to be Ed Bradley; he had an earring on, on television, in the early 80’s! Both he and “60”Minutes get a respectful treatment as I introduce him to Denny, the son of the black detective in my novel Duped in America, and is later inadvertently killed by a cop during a stolen car chase. Ed Bradley once interviewed Lena Horne on “60 Minutes” and it was a wonderful telecast showing black peopl seemingly falling in love right then with each other other, she was still beautiful, had dated Joe Louis in his prime, and Ed, a dapper confident handsome young reporter. They dazzled on the screen, remarkable kismet!

Even teachers are at risk some schools have already begun integrating AI into the instruction modality. Until the robots come. No, not impossible but becoming increasingly more difficult. I'm sorry man, but this is not true. There are already self driving trucks on the road right now. This will only increase. Trucking is not a job I would encourage anyone to enter. Sure it will. Again, this is already happening. Agents can be created to secure new customers more efficently. This is a story, a fiction, that is promulgated to create a heartwarming narrative; no different than George Washington's "I cannot tell a lie" Do you really think Jeff was a solo entrepreneur whose goal was to sell books on the web? That is mine story actually -- not Jeff's. Certainly not this one. They have already started. Remember January 6th 2024? All the attackers were granted immunity, and our president is trying to pay them! We are at a critical juncture. Just be glad Trump hasn't built a colosseum and started feeding "Illegal" immigrants and death row convicts to lions.

Right. Especially for people with non-technical degrees. However, schools can always use more teachers. Major trades will remain immune from AI. There will always be a demand for heavy construction, building maintenance & heavy equipment repairs. An electrician will never be out of work. Not impossible. The largest companies were started by people with a vision. True. Monopolies happen over time. There are still busineses that can be started immune to monopolization. People have to be willing to do the kind of work the business entails. For example, transportation is the life blood of the USA. Products & goods have to move throughout the country. There will always be a demand for trucking companies & CDL drivers. Neither self-driving vehicles nor AI nor drones will be able to do the heaviest lifting. AI.will make small businesses more efficient but it won't go out & find more customers. Yet, companies large & small (am*zon, Google, Microsoft) were started by individuals. I can already imagine what @Pioneer1 is going to type.🤣 The government is not going to save Black people. Foregone conclusion. Less than 1% of the population controls the majority of wealth in the world. People can change that too. If/when white men truly feel threatened or left out, they will get active & start tearing sh8t up.😎

We’ve reached that point already. That is the reason for all the pushback against DEI, critical race theory, or anything that has a whiff of affirmative action. This will get worse as more and more people compete for entry level white college jobs. But they’re always the trades we can become electricians plumbers. Those type of jobs will still be in demand although many of us are using AI to help us with repairs and become more handy around the house so even those jobs aren’t completely immune to AI. There is the gig economy, but that’s more a kin to sharecropping. Creating businesses that can provide job opportunities for large numbers of college graduates is not particularly easy. Besides most jobs are created by the government, not private industry, but when you look at private industry, the biggest employers, Amazon Walmart a lot of these companies are effective monopolies and have crowded out competition. AI itself should help increase entrepreneurship, but I personally don’t see that as a long-term solution. Even in my business AI has helped tremendously, but at the same time AI is using my business to train their models. Ultimately AI may make websites obsolete. Expecting Black people to create large companies that only hire other Black people is a tall order. Most businesses, including Black ones a small. Ultimately, we will need governments and the people to actively deal with the threat of AI in the hands of monopolies. Otherwise, we will have a handful of trillionaire’s and billions of others fighting for crumbs. There are white men complaining about reverse discrimination about illegal aliens taking their jobs. This is an old story and it’s getting worse.