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Well, it only took the jury less than 2 hours of deliberation to issue a guity verdict. Karmelo Anthony is now facing 5-99 years in prison on a murder conviction. The sentencing phase lies in the hands of the judge. To be continued....😎

Wyatt Outlaw was a Black American hero that history has tried to forget. I’m trying to get my new novel, The Short Happy Life of Wyatt Outlaw, listed on AALBC but so far haven’t figured out how. It’s available on am*zon, B&N, Ingrams, and other sources. Little is known about Wyatt Outlaw’s life, but his tragic death is well documented. My novel imagines Wyatt Outlaw as a son, husband, and father. The novel is framed with the murderous events that occur in Graham, North Carolina, on February 26, 1870. The atmosphere is thick with political tension and impending violence. Wyatt Outlaw, a Black town commissioner, master carpenter, and Union veteran, is marked for death by the White Brotherhood and KKK. Born the unacknowledged son of a white planter and an enslaved mother, Wyatt is sold to protect his father's fragile public image. After years of working as a slave on a tobacco farm and then being brutally beaten by a patroller or “pattyroller,” Wyatt's world improves when he meets Rachel. Because marriage is forbidden for slaves, their romance culminates in a secret jumping-the-broom ceremony. They begin a family, but when a violent clash with a pattyroller—to defend Rachel—forces Wyatt to make an impossible choice to flee North, he joins the United States Colored Cavalry to fight against the system that enslaved him. Following the Civil War, Wyatt returns to Graham a free man and a proud combat veteran. With the help of his strong mother, who takes care of his three sons, Wyatt attempts to create harmony out of the ashes of the Civil War. He builds a successful woodworking business. He is appointed town commissioner and becomes a leader in the Union League, working to forge a political alliance between newly enfranchised Black voters and poor white farmers. But this coalition is a threat to the old Southern aristocracy, and the planter class unleashes the White Brotherhood and KKK to crush Wyatt’s organizing efforts through terror, triggering a ticking-clock countdown leading to the Kirk-Holden War. The narrative is followed by a Book Club Discussion Guide that offers readers and book club groups a profound look at what it costs to build a family and community when the world wants to forget you.

@Del at the risk of being repetitive, the community where I spent my formative years is what shaped my identity and influenced my approach to life. The suburb of Chicago where I was born and raised during the Depression was unique in many ways. It was racially integrated to the extent that Whites, many of whom were Jewish, could and did live anywhere they chose, but because of restrictive convenance regulations, Blacks could only live in a certain area, - not by the railroad tracks surprisingly, but in the middle of town; a little black "island" surrounded by a Caucasian "sea", where the interracial population co-existed and where it was not unusual for Blacks to have white neighbors who didn't flee their homestead when Blacks began moving in. This quaint little village had, overa period of time, become the final destination of Negroes leaving the South seeking a better life via The Great Migration. Although ny father was from Missouri and my mother from Tennessee, most of the slave descendants in my hometown had roots in Mississippi, Alabama. and Georgia. Because Colored and Whites observed an unwritten rule of staying in their own lanes, at that time there was very little racial strife in my town. I always suspected that this was because we Blacks were comfortable and content in our own community which could be described as a carbon copy of its white counterpart, and we were secretly amused by the idea that, in our own special way, we could match the white initiatives when it came to any civic or social undertakings. And we did. No separate but equal scenarios when it came to education, however. Whites and Blacks all attended the same high school, which back then had the reputation of being one of the best in the state. Therefore, an excellent education was ours for the taking and what I learned during my 4 years there, benefitted me throughout the rest of my life. Amongst ourselves,we black residents of this town, also had our own codes and customs. Colorism, for instance, was incidental, superceded by achievement and accomplishment. Those 2 assets were what took priority and gave status, and they always remained at the core of my value system. Nor were we deluded about the plague of the racism that sent our elders fleeing from the South. But we had the luxury of humoring our antagonists. We snickered at their notions of racial superiority and this somehow neutralized them, an approach that I use to this day, arguing on Face Book with MAGAs. Incidently the "we" I refer to, consisted mostly of the circle of people I grew up with during the 1950s, an era often described as being "bland", something that may account for the compromises that defined our lives back then. These folk are all dead now but they remained my friends throughout the years, as we always kept up with each other, always finding things to laugh about, always reminding ourselves of the carefree days of our youth, forever marveling at how we somehow managed to circumvent discrimination, always removed from turmoil which is why I do not claim that my upbringing was typical or ideal . It was, what it was.... I cite all these examples of how growing up where I did, influenced how I later maneuvered through a world where I gradually realized that Life is a crap shoot. Sometimes you get lucky. I am truly a child of the 1950s era. I was very much influenced by the music of those times; both the modern jazz and the luscious melodic ballads and the poetry that was their lyrics. I loved the wry intellectual humor of the comedic satirists popular back then and the film noir movies that always had an ironic twist. The fads and trends that followed temporarily captivated me, but they never replaced my affinity for those idyllic times that first enchanted me. zzzzzzzzzzz

Senseless behavior doesn't have to make sense.

I would’ve been better served if I was in fact more like Preach when I was a boy I loved to read and learn, but no, I fell prey to peer pressure wanting to run the streets chasing women, gambling, and drinking. I did ultimately pursue athletics and academics — trying to be “balanced.” I did sport classes like preach so if you saw me, you probably thought nerd:-) until I was about 19 when I started wearing contacts.

If you see a dude with Rasputia... It shows men stay for similar reasons.🤣 Training to be a fighter doesn't require any more intelligence than being a weightlifter. Just matter of discipline & getting in the gym & repetitions. People of average intelligence accomplish a lot. In fact, their hard work enables others to become millionaires & billionaires. Those fake weed smoking, gun-toting wannabe n8gglets could be your distant cousins too.🤣 Nat Turner is a hero. Agreed. Neither group should let the most ignorant represent &/or be its spokesperson. The intelligent among the groups should set the record straight instead of hiding as if they are in the witness protection program. I feel the same way about silent white folks who don't call out their racist brethren & the system of racism white supremacy.😎

Gotcha. I'm just going by the fact it hasn't happened in a couple thousand years & counting. 😁 Dr. Ben Carson is smarter than a whole lot of white folks. There's a whole lotta Black folks who will run rings around white folks intellectually. I knew you were going to mention gang members & African killing sprees. How many of those people kill non-Black people? How many of them start world wars killing millions of people? How many of them have gone on killing sprees to overthrow the system of racism white supremacy? Military members are paid by white people to kill or be killed in the spread of racism white supremacy. It is impossible to control an environment without owmership. Asking for resources versus stealing is a better decision to make. Again, debts have to be paid. Debtors have to be willing to pay up however the lender wants their money back. That's why they say be neither a lender nor a borrower. Haiti doesn't control the money it generates. That debt to France goes into perpetuity. Take a guess where I was born & raised. I'm good money there.😎

My father & mother. Music & books allowed me to see a world beyond my own environment & expand my knowledge respectively. Life experiences & traveling & meeting & kicking it with different people.😎

No That couldn't be it, because it makes no sense.

ProfD Money, love, laziness, low self-esteem, children, etc. I can't argue with you there. Money and children will make some of the smartest women stay inside an abusive relationship. The majority of people here in the USA have the ability to learn according to literacy rates. Yeah, how to roll a blunt with one hand....lol. Nearly everybody can learn, but everybody's CAPACITY to learn is different. Meaning some people can only learn to keep their fingers off of a hot stove....while others can learn how to read...while others can learn and get a PhD. It varies depending on ones exposure and intelligence. That woman was trained to be a fighter. Correct. Which means she had to LEARN how to fight...which involves intelligence. If she's stupid, she wouldn't be able to. Most people are not of low intelligence. They can be taught &/or trained. I agree. Most people are of average intelligence. That's why it's called "average" intelligence....lol. Of course they are human. I don't believe that's why you have a soft spot for them especially considering your disdain for n8gglets Aside from being human, they are my distant relatives. There's an ancestral connection that can't be and shouldn't be denied between AfroAmericans and Africans. He needs to man up & handle that situation. Many have tried. And many have ended up laying in a field somewhere with their mouths open and wild mushrooms growing in them. Some Black immigrants bring that smoke on themselves by talking sh8t about AfroAmericans. True. You have ignorant and trouble makers on both sides. We shouldn't let THEM represent our communities. How foolish is it to let the loudest and most ignorant of our people represent or speak for us on a global scale? How much more foolish is it for them to let their loud and ignorant do the same? Trading insults back and forth like a bunch of middle-schoolers.

ProfD Right. Neither a deity nor drugs will save Black people. Lol, which is why I called it an atheistic/agnostic approach. It is not that binary. You have 2 groups: Black people and White people I suppose an argument can be made over identity and who identifies as what, but in theory...2 solid groups. Scientifically speaking, there is no way they can be the exact same in intelligence. Either one is more intelligent or the other is, even if it's minimally or on a microscopic level. The can't be the exact same 100% Because white people have proven themselves to be extremely violent when necessary & don't mind dying to protect their power & beliefs. Black folks are afraid to die regardless of their intelligence level. Most Black folks are afraid of guns & violence too. You have thousands of Black gang members who have killed and even rap about it. Hundreds of thousands of Black people in the military and thousands in special ops who have killed people by the hundreds. ....and that's in the United States alone. OUTSIDE of America in places like Rwanda and Haiti you have Black people who have made entire rituals out of killing people wholesale by the hundreds and thousands. How do these facts reconcile with what YOU said about Black people being afraid of death and guns and violence? Absolutely not. Mainly because I'm willing to neutralize them. Sounds to me like you're intelligent enough to recognize a threat when you see one and deal with it. Just like the tears & T-shirt protests nowadays, back in the 1960s after the assassination of Black leaders & 1992 after the beating of Rodney King, n8gglets burned up sh8t in their own communities. Does that sound very intelligent to you? And on top of that, many of them were MOVED OUT of those very communities and replaced with Latinos and Arabs. Taking benefits from another man is a debt to him. It has to be paid one way or another. I don't think it's ideal, but...... Neely Fuller Jr. actually said that as a last resort a Black person should beg White folks for money or food. Rather than stealing and ending up in greater confinement. Most of it stems from the greed & corruption in Haiti It's a tropical island where vegetation grows almost overnight in some cases. Are they not intelligent enough to produce enough wealth and resources so that nearly everybody can live a peaceful prosperous life without imposing on his/her neighbor? I know plenty ex-cons & street n8gglets. I tell them to their faces they're lazy. Yeah....uh...be careful with that, lol. You start wandering around down in South East D.C. and get in the WRONG nigga'z face and we won't hear (read) from you in a while....lol. "Nah...we ain't lazy. And just to show you we ain't.... We 'bout to go to work RIGHT NOW on yo ass!"

More than anything, my parents shaped my views growing up, but after a certain age it was school and reading. My parents were religious and not racist, and I don't recall ever hearing the "N" word from them, but they grew up poor in the South, with separate water fountains and facilities. They held distinct views about minorities, especially Black people. Our humble home was right next to what my parents called a "colored" neighborhood. So I frequently saw colored kids but was not allowed to play with them (and I don't think they wanted to play with me). There was only one colored girl in my high school class of 400. As I became a teenager and exposed to the news on TV and reading, I realized there was something fundamentally wrong with our society. Now that I'm am older white man, I see our country recently going backwards towards more unacceptance and hatred of others, especially minorities. It’s scary. To me, MAGA means pull minorities down or send them home to make some white majority greater. That's one of the reasons I wrote my novel, The Short Happy Life of Wyatt Outlaw. It tells the tragic story of an enslaved man that history wants to forget. The novel is framed with the murderous events that occur in Graham, North Carolina, on February 26, 1870. The atmosphere is thick with political tension and impending violence. Wyatt Outlaw, a Black town commissioner, master carpenter, and Union veteran, is marked for death by the White Brotherhood and KKK. To me, Wyatt Outlaw is a hero who overcame great odds to become successful. To me, our country has made great strides in accepting people who are different, but we still have a ways to go. I hate to see us going backwards. It would be nice if, on our 250th anniversary, we could celebrate for all Americans, and not just for a select group.

The philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey.....#1

Who or what shaped your values growing up. How much did media films music and books influence you? Also what if anything either influences you or has made you change your world view?

Right. Neither a deity nor drugs will save Black people. It is not that binary. Because white people have proven themselves to be extremely violent when necessary & don't mind dying to protect their power & beliefs. Black folks are afraid to die regardless of their intelligence level. Most Black folks are afraid of guns & violence too. Absolutely not. Mainly because I'm willing to neutralize them. Of course not. That's why they have so many guns. Just like the tears & T-shirt protests nowadays, back in the 1960s after the assassination of Black leaders & 1992 after the beating of Rodney King, n8gglets burned up sh8t in their own communities. That's totally different from attacking the real instruments & sgents of racism white supremacy. I already wrote it. Taking benefits from another man is a debt to him. It has to be paid one way or another. Most of it stems from the greed & corruption in Haiti. I know plenty ex-cons & street n8gglets. I tell them to their faces they're lazy. The same effort they pour into dumb sh8t could be more constructive in building for our people.😎

That's interesting. I've never seen people getting high &/or wailing away outside an abortion clinic.🤣 Money, love, laziness, low self-esteem, children, etc. Maybe so is he's not lazy. The majority of people here in the USA have the ability to learn according to literacy rates. That woman was trained to be a fighter. Most people are not of low intelligence. They can be taught &/or trained. Of course they are human. I don't believe that's why you have a soft spot for them especially considering your disdain for n8gglets.😁 He needs to man up & handle that situation. I would prefer that we either get along & cooperate or have no contact. There should not be any confusion or confrontation across the Black diaspora. Some Black immigrants bring that smoke on themselves by talking sh8t about AfroAmericans. Fear & laziness are two major obstacles. White folks have imported Asians & Arabs have to keep an eye on them & serve ss a buffer group. No doubt...there's no shortage of lazy n8gglets. 😁 Of course, I don't place any stock in one's religious beliefs.🤣😎

Could be that constantly preaching about racism sends a subliminal message to young Blacks that behaving anyway they choose is a way to demonstrate their equality.

How myopic the above observation is. Nobody here denies the existence of the human race. That's a curious accusation coming from a "forked tongue" patriot.

Sure. A person can definitely make decisions that lead to being poor under the systems that control resources. Poverty is a condition of human design. The anger comes from knowing wealthy people aren't necessarily smarter &/or harder working. Inherited wealth is a great example. Criminals are heading into the system of greater confinement &/or the cemetery.😁 The West exploits other countries. They would argue their culture isn't failed. It's just different from ours. Those cultures have been living the same way for thousands of years. How did the heirs amass that fortune? Nope. She self-medicates to temporarily escape the reality of being poor. One of my favorite Richard Pryor punchlines.🤣😎

ProfD Again, what are people doing with that information to make life better for future generations? Your guess is as good as mine, lol. My point was that in modernity, there are Black folks who are perfectly fine with living under s system of racism white supremacy. They don't see it as oppressive as slavery Correct. Or atleast many can't think of a better system to replace it with. So they live under this one. All poverty is created by human greed. So you don't think the individual is at fault in bringing poverty on themselves in atleast some cases? Happiness is relative. Most people don't care or know whether they're poor orbl rich until they compare themselves to others. Correct, and that's one of my points. Pocket watching others. Angry....not because they don't have enough wealth....but because somebody else has more wealth than them. The Western value system of what matters in life is terrible especially between the systems of racism white supremacy & capitalism. I agree that it's not the best. But when you compare it to OTHER systems, where you have gangs of young men roaming around with rifles on the back of mopeds raiding villages and killing other people and TAKING what little wealthy there is....the Western system is much better. The systems promote both sides of that equation. The majority of people on the planet will never have more than they need to survive. But is that the fault of the West, or is much of it the fault of a FAILED CULTURE in which they are not taught how to prepare for famine, drought, winter, and hard times? Too busy spreading carpets out on sand and dirt floors throwing weddings and feasts every other week instead of getting their ass out in the field and producing crops, irrigating the land, and building stable infrastructures. Yet, people will be told that through education & hard work they can have more than just enough. Meanwhile, becoming a millionaire or billionaire has little or nothing to do with education &/or hard work. Most millionaires and billionaires INHERITED their wealth....from parents and grandparents who thought enough of them to actually LEAVE them wealth for their future. That's love. A lot of poor people don't even PLAN to have children, let alone plan on having anything to leave them. Reminds me of that Temptations song about Papa was a rolling stone....when he died all the nigga left his kids was ALONE, lol. I can't get angry at the billionaire or millionaire leaving a fortune for their children when you got these some of these poor ass muthasuckaz who ain't leaving shit for their many many children...but a lot debt and car notes. Fortunes are built on everything from someone else's labor to hoarding natural resources to trading in the stock market. So, when the average person is confronted with that reality, it can lead to disenfranchisement or despaire or destructive behavior. So a woman chose to smoke crack....because she was angry about people making a fortune on Wallstreet? Laws are constructed to control &/or contain people who try to buck the systems which can lead up to everything from greater confinement to wars & death. Richard Pryor said the same thing about prisons, until he actually WENT to one and talked with a few of the inmates. He left saying THANK GOD FOR PRISONS 👮🏾‍♂️ -Muthafucka, why did you kill EVERYBODY in the house??? "Well.....they was home!"

ProfD Obviously, I feel differently because neither religion nor drugs solves problems. As pollyannish as it may sound.... Sometimes it's not about actually "solving" the problem as it's about being able to deal with it right now until you CAN solve it. There may be a problem a person has to take with them to their grave....like losing a beloved child; but if religion or drugs allows them to deal with that problem then I'm not going to take that away from them. ....UNTIL we find a way to bring dead children back. Black folks may be more populous & successful in other states but we don't have ownership or control of them. Sometimes you have to settle for what you can get. Even if you don't own or control the environment you live in, if you can make money, buy a home, and live a decent life without being harassed and hassled.....that's a leg up compared to some areas. Those same n8gglets could go to predominantly white states & cities & see what white folks allow them to do They should try that too! Try anywhere you think MAY offer a better life that the one you're living. We'll have to agree to disagree that people stay in abusive relationships & situations because they don't have the mental capacity to get out. Ok, then why do YOU think most people are in abusive relationships? Can you give me the top 2 or 3 reasons? Again, for whatever reason you choose to believe intelligence &/or the lack thereof keep people in poverty or abusive relationships & situations & under a system of racism white supremacy. I think low intelligence is ONE reason and the MAIN reason. But there are other factors too. Why should broke & homeless & ex-cons be allowed to take that BS from one place to another? Perhaps because if he moved to another location he may NOT be broke. He may find more opportunities. Just like back in the day when the advice (for White men) was: Go West young man go West! Self-defense has nothing to do with having sense. Almost anyone can be taught how to fight. Being taught requires LEARNING. Learning requires the ABILITY to learn. There are 100-lb women who can beat the sh8t out of man 2x bigger How are they able to? Not sure of why you come up with such a false equivalence. Most people do not have Down's Syndrome. Because they are an example of how impractical it is to expect someone of low intelligence to just "learn" how to defend themselves against those of higher intelligence. Only because you have a soft spot for Black immigrants. Lol, and why shouldn't I? Aren't they human beings too? If he.has the ability to move around, he should have the ability to build. There may be somebody back home who won't LET him build. Every time he tries to build a house, there's a gang of niggaz with rifles and machetes who pull it down and start busting him in the head with his own bricks. Or every time he tries to build a business there's a corrupt President or corrupt Governor who takes half of all the money he makes and steals it for himself making it nearly impossible for him to operate. So he decides to leave that nation and come to one where he can build something in peace...and prosper. Now he comes here and runs into a bunch of greasy faced niggaz on-line cussing him out and calling him every name in the book simply because he's a Black immigrant. ...but they don't say anything too the Asian or Latino immigrant who has been exploiting his community for decades. He loves THEM and want to have sex with their women, so he leaves them alone and picks on the Black immigrant. Poor brutha catching it on both sides of the ocean...lol. Why are they either or welfare &/or facing greeter confinement? Many are in that situation because they don't have sense enough to get out of it. Welfare is easier than making out a resume and applying for jobs only to be fired and having to find another one. Solve the problems. That takes a certain amount of knowledge and intelligence. If you're not smart enough to solve the problem and nobody else will solve it for you, you have to deal with it the best way you can. There's plenty Black folks in Michigan who could have stopped it Yes and no. Yes there are Black folks in Michigan who COULD have stopped it....if they were smart enough to. If Asians were in Michigan at the numbers Black folks were and are in....do you think the Arabs could have taken over THEIR businesses and communities like that? That's stereotypical trope perpetuating anti-Black sentiment for a long time. It doesn't explain how & why so many Black folks are successful. Stereotypes persist for a reason. Most stereotypes have atleast a kernel of truth in them or else they wouldn't persist or make any sense. You don't have stereotypes of ASIAN MEN having big dix do you? It's so far from the truth that it wouldn't make any sense to even entertain. When it comes to our people being lazy though.....lol....come on, YOU know better. Some of these niggaz are too lazy to open their mouth up and pronounce the word properly. It went from: What's Up Cousin? to What up Cuz? to Whadduh Cuh? Some of these niggaz are getting lazier by the year. Put up the effort of fighting deportation but won't stay home & build & fight to protect it. That is backwards thinking. They are fighting for what they perceive to be a "better life". They KNOW what's waiting for them back home. More of their own. Who'll whoop their ass for being dumb enough to come back! They have to put up with however white folks choose to treat them too. Most of them are more than willing to do so, because they KNOW how their own will treat them as soon as they step off that plane! Sudan ia a country filled with Black Muslims. That dysfunctionalsituation makes less sense considering their religious beliefs. Just like a racist is a racist regardless as to what ever religion he proclaims out of his mouth; when you realize a nigga is a nigga regardless of the religion he CLAIMS to belong to......things tend to make more sense.

Obviously, I feel differently because neither religion nor drugs solves problems. Millions of people have died from incurable diseases than hsve been saved. Black folks may be more populous & successful in other states but we don't have ownership or control of them. There's already broke & disenfranchised n8gglets wherever those from California choose to flee. Just creating more peoblems. Send s bunch of non-productive n8gglets from California to Atlanta & watch the BS escalate. Those same n8gglets could go to predominantly white states & cities & see what white folks allow them to do.🤣 We'll have to agree to disagree that people stay in abusive relationships & situations because they don't have the mental capacity to get out. Again, for whatever reason you choose to believe intelligence &/or the lack thereof keep people in poverty or abusive relationships & situations & under a system of racism white supremacy. Everything we see & hear from white folks reinforces racism white supremacy which is their code & religion. Why should broke & homeless & ex-cons be allowed to take that BS from one place to another? There's no such thing as a better prison. No different from moving in a new dilapidated house.🤣 Self-defense has nothing to do with having sense. Almost anyone can be taught how to fight. There are 100-lb women who can beat the sh8t out of man 2x bigger Not sure of why you come up with such a false equivalence. Most people do not have Down's Syndrome. Only because you have a soft spot for Black immigrants. If he.has the ability to move around, he should have the ability to build. Why are they either or welfare &/or facing greeter confinement? Solve the problems. It is still prison. Perfect place for lazy people. There's plenty Black folks in Michigan who could have stopped it Sure. The system of racism white supremacy will provide resources to any group of people willing to serve as a buffer between white & AfroAmericans. That's stereotypical trope perpetuating anti-Black sentiment for a long time. It doesn't explain how & why so many Black folks are successful. Put up the effort of fighting deportation but won't stay home & build & fight to protect it. That is backwards thinking. They have to put up with however white folks choose to treat them too. Sudan ia a country filled with Black Muslims. That dysfunctionalsituation makes less sense considering their religious beliefs.😎

ProfD I don't see how what I wrote was atheist or agnostic. You said that Black people shouldn't wait on a "savior" or "sky fairy" to come and save them. You're basically saying that Black people shouldn't look for or expect anyone or anything outside of themselves to come and save them. Which includes a Deity. You're basically saying we're on our own. In your observation, white folks are smarter. That seems pretty obvious to me. Even twins aren't exactly alike and one has to be just a little smarter than the other, even on a microscopic level. So it is with groups, either Black people are smarter or White folks are smarter. Now if WE'RE smarter, there must be some evidence to show for it. White folks are not on top because they are smarter. They are definitely ruthless in their pursuit of domination & power. If Black folks are smarter, why have we allowed them to rule us for so long? Can a fool or stupid person rule over YOU? Those are not the only 2 actions Black folks can take in order to dismantle the system of racism white supremacy. Black folks are actually in a position to burn down from inside the house of racism while supremacy. That's only if White folks LET them do it. Do you think White folks are going to sit back with their legs crossed and let niggaz burn down what THEY built and intend to leave for their children? Try to pull a Rosewood on THEM and see what happens, lol. Remember a lot of our people TRIED to burn down the nation back in the 60s, and White folks stopped many of them. Many of them get hostile if they just SEE a Black man driving around in the neighborhood. He might be the mailman, but they ain't taking no chances....lol. Even Black FedEx drivers get harassed by White folks standing on their lawns with rifles looking crazy. The biggest problem is collectively Black folks are afraid to undo the system of racism white supremacy. Why? Because most Black folks believe White folks are smarter, have more technology and weapons, and will inflict PAIN on they ass if they try to. If you have information contrary to this, please present it. Fear of death & having to be self-sufficient has keep Black folks in check for hundreds of years. True. Which isn't all together illogical considering that the instinct of survival is one of the strongest instincts in human nature AND many Black people have reasoned that they can have more amenities or "goodies" or "treats" (benefits) living under the rule of White folks than they can get living independently on their own. Haiti often comes to mind. It is "considered" an independent Black ruled country...but many Haitians believe that living in America, Canada, and France UNDER the rule of White folks is better than living in their own country ruled by themselves. As a result, Black folks have chosen to live in the prison of racism white supremacy. If you know a lot of people from the streets, many of them will tell you that as bad as prison is...they enjoy living THEIR than living on the streets where they have to worry about working and providing for a roof over their heads and something to eat.

I don't see how what I wrote was atheist or agnostic. In your observation, white folks are smarter. White folks are not on top because they are smarter. They are definitely ruthless in their pursuit of domination & power. Those are not the only 2 actions Black folks can take in order to dismantle the system of racism white supremacy. Black folks are actually in a position to burn down from inside the house of racism while supremacy. The biggest problem is collectively Black folks are afraid to undo the system of racism white supremacy. Why? Fear of death & having to be self-sufficient has keep Black folks in check for hundreds of years. As a result, Black folks have chosen to live in the prison of racism white supremacy. No different from people who choose to stay in abusive relationships for one reason or 10 whether it is financial, security, laziness, low self-esteem, dependents, etc. 😎

ProfD Reformation is possible. It takes stronger leadership & a sustainable effort. Best example of it is the ruse that is Chrsitianity & Black churches. A whole lotta Black folks have stayed the course in that environment. True, which is why I no longer knock a person's religion if it's helping them. Whether it's religions or drugs, if it's keeping you from killing yourself or somebody else....as long as it doesn't negatively affect me I say you should have the right to your beliefs until something better comes along. If Jesus cured you of that "incurable" disease, who is anybody else to tell you it wasn't real? Which state(s) do Black folks own & control? The answer to THAT question is obvious, lol. But perhaps a more practical question is in what states do Black folks have MORE ownership and control? Certainly a lot more states than they do in California. That abused woman will be running from one house to another until she finds benevolent refuge. It is better that woman learns how to provide for & protect herself. Never to be a victim. LEARN...is the objective word. While this is certainly not the case in all domestic abuse situations, in a lot of the cases the wife is in that situation because she CAN'T LEARN how to provide for and protect herself. She doesn't have the mental ability TO do these things. Infact, if she had good sense...she probably wouldn't have ended up in that situation on the first place. Many people are in the situations they are in because they don't have enough knowledge to get themselves out of it and don't have enough INTELLIGENCE to LEARN and GET the knowledge that would improve their situation. In other words, even if you try to help them by telling them and showing them what to do it won't help because they don't have the capacity to understand it. Again I have to say, not all....but many. Self-sufficiency & self-defense applies to a man & a group of people in general. And my explanation on INTELLIGENCE and CAPACITY TO LEARN applies to groups and people in general as well, lol. That's part of the reason white folks here in America have so many guns. They stay ready to protect themselves. (smile) There's a REASON why so many stay ready to protect themselves. ......and don't need a bunch of niggaz with berets on their heads marching around in circles with bullhorns trying to encourage them to do so, either! They don't have to march around pleading with eachother to "unite" and "get together" and "defend ourself". The just DO IT. ....and go have a beer, or cut some grass or whatever else needs to be done. They don't need to be constantly motivated and reminded to do what should be common sense. Just like anywhere else with a significant number of well off Black folks, they don't have to flee. Stand up & build & protect. There's a few. Most of the ones who ARE well off think they ARE protected and don't see a need to stir up the hornet's nest. The ones who are broke and homeless or in and out of jail....THEY are the ones who need to flee, since they don't have much going on for them there. There's no real such thing as a comfortable place under the system of racism white supremacy. Like any prison, some places are better than others. AfroAmericans were born in the United States & built this country through slavery. We're entitled to be wherever we choose to live in this country. There's no reason for AfroAmericans to flee any state or city or town here in the USA. Stand ground & build & fight & protect. Chris Rock said...... "There's a "reason" to do anything! There's a :reason" to kick an old man down a flight of stairs. Just DON'T DO IT." Again, build and fight...if you got SENSE enough to. But if you DON'T have enough sense to defend yourself or provide for yourself....get up and move the hell on. You're just in the way waiting on the inevitable. Stand ground & build & fight & protect. If a kid with Down Syndrome is being bullied in school and having his lunch money took, are you going to roll your eyes and tell him he better stand up and learn how to fight? You know he doesn't have the ability to. The best thing to do is take him out of that school and put him in a more sheltered environment or keep his ass at home. Don't give him responsibilities he clearly doesn't have the ability to handle. Don't overlook the bigger points he's making though. Ofcourse not, he's still my boy and makes excellent points. Very smart and astute and one of the best social commentators of our generation. But his position on African immigrants is rather callous, in my opinion. Here he is sitting up enjoying the amenities of living in a wealthy country but laughing at and shaking his finger at other Black folks not fortunate enough to not have grown up with such wealth. He didn't choose the country he was born in just like they didn't. If s person is broke in one spot, how does fleeing change it? 1. If he moves around he MAY find a spot that offers more opportunity 2. Even if he doesn't find a spot with more opportunity for self-sufficiency, he may find one that offers more charitable benefits with less crime and abuse than the environment he's currently in. In California a lot of poor Black folks barely get welfare and are more subject to violence on the streets, police harassment, and incarceration. Move to another state and even if you still have to be on welfare you might get MORE benefits and don't have to worry about the violence or threat of incarceration you find in California. Again, leave to go where? I've lived in both Arizona and Oregon. Both are better places for Black people to live and most of the Black people in those places were FROM California and chose to leave for that purpose. Even better than those place are Texas, Georgia, and many other states. Dealing with the same system of racism white supremacy in a new location. Some prisons offer better conditions than others. What opportunities or better life will relocating to Arkansas or Oklahoma provide? Not sure. But I know Oregon and Arizona were better. Not the best...but better than Cali. No need to worry about that. I've heard Dearborn, Michigan has a huge Muslim population. Sounds like y'all let the sand n8ggas come over & set up shop nicely.🤣 We didn't "let" them. They were LET IN and ALLOWED to do what they're doing by the same racists who let the Latinos and Asians into California and other places. But the thing about Arab and Asians, they DO take advantage of what White folks offer them. They give them money and permission to go into business...and they operate them EVERY DAY and keep it going. Give a nigga a business and he operates only 3 days out of the week. Have a "will be back in 15 minutes" sign posted on the door for the other 4 days...lol. Nigga ain't been to church since his mama took him, but his business is closed on Sundays....why???? Out of LAZINESS. Black immigrants are catching more h8ll in these predominantly white countries. Beyond their labor, white folks don't really want them around. White folks tolerate non-white folks up to a point. They'd probably beg to differ, lol. As much as they'd march and complain about how they're discriminated against, targeted and abused.....many of them will fight like hell to keep from being deported BACK to the country they just fled from. Atleast in the Canada or England or the United States there are LAWS and PROCESS that allow them to eat, have a roof over their heads, and protect them from violence while the racists try to figure out ways to disenfranchise them. Send them back to Sudan- and if the hunger, drought, and famine doesn't kill them....some curly headed nigga with an AK on the back of a moped his homeboy is driving, will!