Culture, Race & Economy

I recently came across an article on Reddit speaking on the traumas many black Americans face growing up. Many of the points the author made really resonated with me, the disparities in the black communist does a great deal of harm to all of us whether we know it or not. The most interesting part of the article to me was the idea that the majority don't see as human so they assume we commit crimes because we're just prone to it. But whites are seen as humans, because when they commit crimes they are seen as mentally ill. If there any thoughts about this article let me know, I think this is a problem that needs to be discussed in great detail. I haven't found to many other…

I attended the Mississippi Book Festival this past Saturday. It was held in Jackson, MS. Like most cities in the deep south it is a series of profound contradictions. You'll find both moving testaments to civil rights and blatant signs of racism and its legacy. The book fair had a terrific line up of authors: I got so see Charles Frazier, Rick Bragg, and Jon Meacham just to name a few. There were quite a few Black authors of note as well including Jabari Asim, Janet Dewart Bell, Don Tate, Angie Thomas, Nicola Yoon, Quvenzhané Wallis, and many more. The organizers of the festival commissioned the creation of a street marker dedicated to Ward's w…

Read. President. Obama,And. His. Wife. Talked. About. Kwanzaa.,Did,President. Obama. Suggest. To. The. Black. Political,NAACP,Churches. To. Practice. Kwanzas, To. Uplift. Black,Communities? Churches, NAACP ,Black Political Do Not. Want,Kwanzaa.. That Would Stop The Control Over Black People. Preachers Do Not Want Kwanzaa,That Would Stop Preacher's From,Stealing Money To Buy Cars,Mansions,Fancy Suits,Gold Jewelry . They Do Not Care About Poor Communities And,Poverty..Black Preachers. Have. Been. Arrested. For. Stealing. ,Church. Money...Trump. Supports. Kwanzaa ,After. Christmas,Trump,Praised. Kwanzaa,Tump,This. Nation. Honors The,Contr…

News,Republicans. Trying To. Stop. Abortion. Read ,Since. 1973-Over,,14 -Million. Black. Babies. Killed. By. Abortion.. Don't. Know. ,If,That Is. True. This. Country. Do. Not. Care. About. Children. ,Who,Are, Born. Children. Live In Poverty,Some Have ,Been,Homeless. Families Live In Poverty. Lunatic Trump ,Wants,Billions For A Wall.. Democrats As Bad As Trump. All. ,The,Black Votes They Get. . Black Community. Street ,Gangs,Black,Men Getting Black Boys In Gangs Not. Caring. If. ,They,Lay. Dead. In. Streets,Because. Of Stray. Bullets. Or Gang ,Wars. Black. Men. Having. Lots. Of . Children. ,With. Lots. Of. ,Women,Not,Caring. A…

In the 1930’s, the Public Health Service—a US government entity working with the Tuskegee Institute—intentionally injected 399 African-Americans with syphilis. It goes without saying that they infected otherwise healthy African-American males with sexually transmitted diseases without their consent in the name of science. I would say this was a stain on the fabric of the American government, except this was not an outlier. Experimenting on US citizens is something that our government does as a norm. Fast-forward twenty years and the CIA developed a program that utilized LSD, yet again in the name of science. This time around, the US government used American and Canad…

Posted Monday at 03:51 PM · IP When it came to the Covid vaccine, the U.S.Government sure missed an opportunity to corral black people into the fold. As it is, a sizable number of black anti-vaxxers have become strange bedfellows with defiant Retrumpican magahats. These 2 factions of the conspiracy theory community are now united by a common foe: the ubiquitous "they", the deep state government they believe is currently intent on controlling the population and making it dependent on the output of Big Pharma. What could the Administration have done differently to convert…

The pandemic forced employers to allow folks to work frim home (telework). Productivity didn't seem to suffer. Yet, two years later, companies are looking to bring workers back into their offices even if it's a couple days per week or month. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-musk-says-tesla-needs-070712003.html Tulsa CEO Elon Musk has laid down the gauntlet. Workers can either put 40 hours in the office or pretend to work somewhere else. Musk is also threatening to cut 10% of the workforce due to a "super bad feeling" about the economy. Nevermind that Telsa made about $19 billion during the pandemic. The…

Do You Know Where Your Memories Are? Kashmir Hill Sat, December 31, 2022 at 10:14 AM EST I have many fears as a mother. My kindergarten-age daughter recently learned a game on the school bus called “Truth or Force.” My youngest refuses to eat almost anything but Kraft Mac & Cheese. Added to the list this year, alongside outside influences and health concerns, is the possibility that my daughters could inadvertently lock me out of my digital life. That’s what happened to a mother in Colorado whose 9-year-old son used her old smartphone to stream himself naked on YouTube, and a father in San Francisco whose Google account was disabled and deleted bec…

https://apnews.com/article/chicago-mayor-election-johnson-vallas-838d2740994587d0eb0cbbfb04cd55cc Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson will succeed Lori Lightfoot in the Windy City. Mayor Johnson believes he will be able to tackle the crime problem through a holistic approach of 1) more detectives, 2) more job opportunities for young people, 3) better housing and 4) keeping guns out of the city. It would be awesome if the n8gglets in Chicago took it upon themselves to stop killing each other. Getting rid of the gangs would reduce the crime rate overnight. Eliminating drugs would clean up the rest. The reality is there i…

A study recently said that 40% of people who live in nyc were born outside of nyc, that explains the problem, half of the people living in nyc don't know anything about new york city. And this connects to a larger problem, cause that percentage doesn't include people who immigrated from within the usa. To be blunt, my bloodline has lived in nyc for a long time and to those that like NYC in a general sense, this explains the problem with nyc of the past in parallel to nyc of today. People who live outside of NYC come from towns or smaller cities, in the usa or outside of it, or come from big cities that are culturally very different from nyc outside of it, and don't have …

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-cuts-database-tracking-federal-police-misconduct-2025-02-21/ POTUS OJ signed an executive order that shuts down a database that kept track of misconduct by federal law enforcement personnel. In theory, the database would make it harder for law enforcement personnel with bad records to jump from one jurisdiction to another. Interestingly, during his 1st term, POTUS OJ had the Department of Justice establish the database in the wake of George Floyd's murder. POTUS Biden implemented it. Now, POTUS OJ has turned it off. Rolling back a tracking system that now makes it easie…

XEON, what PLANET is this woman living on? (You were posting about some Black people living in the past?)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elections/ Maybe it was inevitable given the tide of hysteria But there was also the clumsy politicking of the Democrats 1) They realized that their base included younger voters,esp college students. Once they had it in the bag instead of keeping all of them involved, like Republicans do their young, they told them to go home and sit down that they had it. Primarily ex legislators, they thought all they needed to do was get some bomb legislation over and everybody would go along. Wrong. 2) They knew they were in trouble when they lost Ted Kennedy's seat. They should have at least been campaigning like they a…

ON THE NEWS PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOWING HIS LOVE FOR ISRAEL.CONDONES ISRAEL ATTACKING IRAN..WHAT ABOUT ISRAEL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION GIVING T O THEM BY THE U.S..THE PRESIDENT SHOULD WORRY ABOUT TERRORIST IN THE U.S. MILITARY.. THERE ARE NEO NAZI TRASH IN THE U.S. MILITARY..THAT HAS BEEN SPOKEN ON THE NEWS..I MENTIONED NEO NAZI VIDEO GAMES MADE IN THE U.S.. NEO NAZI VIDEO GAMES,BLACKS,JEWS AND MUSLIMS ARE KILLED BY CHRISTIAN NEO NAZI'S.......

As far as I can tell the following article was originally written around 2003, but perhaps several years earlier. I discovered it on the Talking Drum Website and they attribute the article to the afronet.com website, which appears to be defunct now (my browser warns me that the domain now hosts malware). As some of you know, I've been on a prolonged rant about the state of the Black internet for the last year or so. It was interesting to read Cinque's article and see mach of what he predicted has actually happened. The alarming thing is that so few people even notice. Of course, the reason is that there are not enough Black platforms to raise the issue or that are…

ART OFFICIAL AGE, becomes available on September 30. I stumbled across this looking for something else. Whatever that something else was I've forgotten what is was as got detracted listening to cuts and reading comments about this upcoming release. I'm not exactly a rabid Prince fan, but he generally gives an excellent live performance. I've seen him twice but I know many who have seen him 10, 20, 30 times. I can't think of any artist I would go through the effort and expense of seeing that many times. At any rate it was interesting to read some people get on Prince for being irrelevant and autotuning to worshiping him believe he is the best thing since m…

REPUBLICANS ARE ALL CHRISTIANS,DEMONIC CHRISTIANS,RELIGION THIS,RELIGION THAT, DISCRIMINATION,WAR,HATRED IN THE NAME OF RELIGION,ALL READING SAME BIBLE BOOK///THERE SHOULD BE BIBLE STUDY BEGINNING WITH GENESIS/WAS MOSES MARRIAGE TO A ETHIOPIAN WOMAN FIRST INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE,DEPENDING WHAT MOSES WAS, COLOR OF CHRIST NOT SAID IN BIBLE,OR GOD//////FORMER BASKETBALL PLAYER CHARLES BARKLEY,SAID,RED NECKS HIDE BEHIND THE BIBLE,SO DOES FAKE PREACHERS WHITE AND BLACK FOR PROFIT.....

How far have we come from the revelations, speculations, stereotypes, and evaluations that are given about us and the labels were give to ourselves. "In our world, however, extremes quickly meet. Sumner believed it “the greatest folly of which man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil and plan out a new social world,” a point of view containing little hope for the underdog. But for all his good works, some of Park’s assumptions were little better. The Negro, he felt, “has al-ways been interested rather in expression than in action; interested in life itself rather than in its reconstruction or reformation. The Negro is, by natural disposition, neither a…

We (me and the other White racist trolls) have come to the conclusion that some of you are confusing SCIENCE with KNOWLEDGE. Science CONTAINS knowledge, but the two are NOT the same. (kind of like the different Pioneers who make up the composite....lol) When you reference different facts and discoveries from ancient African cultures like Kemet and Nubia or talk about what the ancient Native Americans knew, you're not talking about science. You're talking about their knowledge, which may have been based in whatever concept their particular culture used to arrive at those beliefs. SCIENCE is a uniquely Western concept. It's more than just collecting information;…

All of my sistas here have really done themselves proud in offering explanations about their approaches to interacting with other women - as well as men. Each testament was flavored with their individual personalities and provided clues to why they are so impressive. I have concluded that one difference between them and me is that i am more argumentive and when it comes to engaging with men, i like to question everything they say just to be contrary even as, on this forum, i cringed at their written responses that had little regard for being detailed-oriented or proof read, full of disjointed sentences, misspelled, omitted, improperly-used words, and incorrect punctu…

At first we see this tweet by our brother Tariq Nasheed letting us know what's going on in Milwaukee...…. So I dig into the story to try to get some more information from other media sources. And I fine THIS report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Ok, before we go any further let's just stop right here. You have a 13 year old girl and a 15 year old girl who had been missing SINCE Sunday evening, about 2 days before the events took place but they're saying THAT didn't "fit the criteria" for an investigation or even an Amber Alert?????

All I wanted was the elimination of the Individual Mandate, but so much more was gained. Now there are an additional $500 Billion reasons to vote Trump. So I cast my ballot today.

Major League Baseball on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 recognized the Negro Leagues as a major league and will now count the statistics and records of thousands of Black players as part of the game's storied history. The move officially puts Negro League stats into the record book and gives thousands of Black players the official designation of being major-league baseball players. According to ESPN, Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin's big league batting average should climb over .300, and Satchel Paige might add nearly 150 victories to his total. Josh Gibson, the greatest of all Negro League sluggers, might just wind up with a major l…

I wanted to get an honest option on this highly debated topic. It's it culturally insensitive for white people to wear dreadlocks? I'm white and I wore dreadlocks for 5 years when I was in my 20's. My dreads were started by a black woman, and when I moved a black man started working on my dreads. I never felt any negative vibes, I always felt very welcome and comfortable in the black community with my hair. I was wanting to bring back my beloved dreads, but my sister insists that white people can't have dreads and that I will offend people. I've tried to look up the topic and it seems very divided. I don't want to be disrespectful, bu…

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Apparently some of you have the wrong understanding of MY idea of "Black Unity" Apparently......some of you believe that when I talk of and promote Black Unity, I'm speaking of uniting ALL Black folks (or a majority) under one belief for one purpose. Like Harpo said in The Color Purple: "Naw......n-n-n-no such thang!" Not only wouldn't I expect most Black folks to come together, I wouldn't expect HALF or even just 25% of them to! It COULD happen, ofcourse; but it would take a Miracle. I mean a LITERAL Miracle of Divine origin for that to happen. Furthermore, there are a LOT of Black folks I have absolutely NO desir…

This has always true, but the web has made it far worse. A new poster to this forum with the counterintuitive moniker @Wide awake shared an inflammatory video (below). Wide awake has been bombarding the site with a deluge of racist and antisemitic memes and content. "Wide" shared so much content it was impossible to consume it all, let alone address it. One such obviously untrue meme stated a Black man was the first to own a slave in America, suggesting that this Black man single handedly started slavery in America. When I pointed out how the meme could not possibly be true Wide Wake accused me of cherry picking and ignoring the great number of…

Actor Jonathan Majors was found guilty of a misdemeanor and a violation that could result in up to one year prison sentence: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jonathan-majors-trial-verdict-1235759607/ Majors will lose more in job opportunities as a result of this situation. He's already been dropped by his management company. Marvel comics is removing him from their movies. A Black man should know there is a huge target on his back. Any form of success increases the bullseye range. For a Black man, any and every transgression of law especially of a violent nature will be prosecuted to the fullest extent. …

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5305288/trump-fires-chairman-joint-chiefs-of-staff-charles-brown-pentagon POTUS OJ continues upholding his promise to shake up America. On cue, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Charles CQ Brown Jr. has been relieved of his duties at the Pentagon. Here's another situation where durint his 1st term, POTUS OJ made General Brown the 1st Black Joint Chief of the Air Force. POTUS Biden nominated Gen. Brown to be Joint Chiefs Chairman in 2023. In his effort to remove *woke* and DEI from American life, POTUS OJ is replacing minorities in high level positions. Chief of Naval …

Is Rev David Manning right? Is black pride foolish and unwarranted? Or is this deranged Negro off his meds? You decide…. False Black Pride...?

Well, here I go again, filling a void. Guess I just can’t resist taking advantage of a silent forum. If nobody is interested in what I have to say, so be it. My musings will be in cyber space forever and when the ruins of this civilization are discovered, archaeologists of the future will come across my computer hard drive and upon translating its hieroglyphics, will learn something quirky about an ancient culture. Along with everything else that is mercurial about my life, I spent a lot more time than I should playing cards on line; mostly the game of Bridge. When I discovered POGO, which is a free computer game app that includes Bridge in its selections, I was ecst…

Firsthand account of the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina through the eyes of journalis tMSNBC's Brian Williams... Hurricane Katrina-The Untold Story Much respect to Brian Williams for his journalistic integrity and for this very telling program, but most of all for the human factor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grfW5Ud81_Y&feature=related

IN 1930, JAMES CAMERON WAS 16. HE AND HIS 2 FRIENDS WERE CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF A WHITE MAN AND ATTEMPTED RAPE OF HIS GIRL FRIEND.. ALL 3 WERE TAKEN OUT BY A DEMONIC WHITE MOB..IN A TREE BY THE COURT HOUSE CAMERON WATCH HIS FRIENDS LYNCHED..ROPE AROUND HIS NECK, SOMEONE SAID HE WAS INNOCENT BARELY ESCAPING BEING HUNG...CAMERON SAID THE ROPE SCARRED HIS NECK...JAMES CAMERON WAS INVOLVED WITH CIVIL RIGHTS, NAACP AND FOUNDED THE BLACK HOLOCOST MUSEUM...THERE IS A PICTURE OF THOMAS SHIPP AND ABRAM SMITH LYNCHED IN AUGUST IN 1930...JAMES CAMERON IS DECEASED.//

ON OF DR. KING'S BOOKS CALLED WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE,CHAOS OR COMMUNITY/WITH THE MURDERS OF BLACK MALES BY RACIST WHITE POLICE, BLACK AND WHITE REPUBLICANS CONDONE IT, BLACK PREACHERS CONDONED ,SUPPORT WHITE POLICE MURDERING BLACK MALES,THE FUHRER DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST,BLACK PEOPLE HAVE THE BLACK GENOCIDE,CRACK HOUSES,PIMP HOUSES, LEADERS YOU CANNOT TRUST,THE CHURCHES ARE SLAVE CABINS, PIMP HOUSES,PREACHERS MOTIVATED BY MONEY ,PREACHERS ENSLAVING THE SOULS OF BLACK PEOPLE/DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING SHOULD BE DISGUSTED WITH THE CHURCH IF THE SPIRIT…

As Family And Friends Gather To Eat.. Black People Should Be,Grateful For The Black Soldiers Past And Present. Civil Rights,Activist Who Were Beaten Up,Jailed ,Lynched For Us,To ,Have What We Have...Some Black Politicians . Black Preachers,Years Ago,When The Church , Was A Place Of Unity And Strategy . The Black Church Has Become Slave Cabins And Pimp,Houses... Enslaving The Souls Of Black Folks And Worshipping Money.....

In. Austin. Texas, 4th. Bomb. Explodes , The. First. And. Second,Bombs. Killed. 2. Black. Men ,Hispanic. Woman. Injured,The. 4th. Bomb. News. Says. Injured. White. Men,Terrorism. Or. Hate. Crime. They Do. Not. Know. The. ,Kkk ,Neo. Nazi. Trash. ,Training. Themselves. For. A. Race. War,They. Think. Trump. Will. Lead.. Holy. War.. . Domestic,Terror . On. CNN ,Kamou. Bell. Interviewed. The. KKK, Garbage,They. Had. Their. Faces. Covered. ,Walking. Around. With. Guns,Rifles,Any. Other. Race. Walking. Around,With. Their. Faces. Covered. Up,With. Files,Guns,Would,Be. Arrested......

While I was at the Mississippi Book Festival, I attended a panel of booksellers. One of the panelists ran a bookstore in what he described as a resort town in Florida, so I looked it up and saw that it was not far out of my way back home. The store, Sundog Books, is located in Seaside, Florida which is in the middle of the Florida panhandle. It is a fine bookstore. The beach in Seaside was the nicest beach I'd ever seen in the continental US -- the entire area was pristine. The water varied in color from deep blue to light green. The sand was cool and fine, almost like power -- simply beautiful. Seaside, FL was also almost exclusively white. I …

BY SOULFIRE LOOK! THE SELF-REINFORCING THEORY When you take a look at your personal history, the one thing you will be forced to contend with is the fact that what you are doing right now is establishing a reputation that is sure to outlive you. Be advised that right now, at this very moment, you are building your legacy. In essence, you are cementing the posterity you will leave behind to be viewed by your loved ones. Long after you are dead and gone, your deeds will continue to testify either for or against you. Oftentimes, the preacher will embellish his eulogy to make you seem more saintly than you actual…

The. Deadly. Coronavirus-. Where. It. Came. From !The-China-Seafood. Market ,Where-They. Sell. Live. Animals ,Rats,Bats,Snakes,Wolves ,Chinese. People. Eat. These. ,Animals.. A. Video. Shows. A -Chinese. Woman. Eating. Bat-Wings. ,With. Chop-Sticks. . They-Believe. Coronavirus- Came. From. Animals. Another. Reason -Coronavirus. Came. From. -Chinese. Lab,Virus. Leaked. Or -Escaped. .. Not. Spoken. -Biological. ,Warfare. The. Use. Of-Viruses,Bacteria. And. Toxins To-Kill. Humans.. My. Opinion ...

When citizens are dissatisfied with the sociopolitical climate, protest and civil disobedience traditionally ensues. Yet, the subjective experiences of activism ranges widely amongst various groups of change advocates, specifically disabled protesters within the Black community. Read more about "Protesting With Disabilities" on owshowe.com https://owshowe.com/2020/06/25/protesting-while-disabled/

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Hey Troy this happened in your current neck of the woods............... BLACK MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER AFTER SHOOTING WHITE BURGLAR IN OKLAHOMA A report from the Atlanta Black Star confirms that a veteran and father of five is set for trial for first-degree murder after he fatally shot a burglar trying to break into his marijuana business. 34-year-old LaRue Bratcher fatally shot 42-year-old Daniel Hardwick back in May 2020 after Hardwick attempted to break into Bratcher’s grow operation for the second consecutive night in a row. “He was trying to break in when the business owner, w…

I just started making my first NFT. An article and @DCComics pushed me over the edge. I had been hearing about it for awhile. DC Comics gave me my first. I then scanned an article in The Economist which motivated me to take the plunge to create my own. So far I am using OpenSea and Coinbase wallet. I hope to have my first one ready by the end of the weekend. Follow me on OpenSea and let’s see how things develop. https://opensea.io/Daniellegfny

Inspired into the forum by @ProfD the purpose of educational institutions in the english colonies to 2022 in the usa. You have three avenues. White european Indigenous Black White european mass education < meaning schools> was originally for religious teaching. Apprenticeship , was the primary tool for education in the crafts or philosophical arts. The first colleges in the usa had one function, that they all still maintain today, a place where rich white male children can come together and make alliances for the future. ... now going through time, white women gained colleges but they were designed to prepare for wifedom, not work…

Read. June. 1, 1921. Black. Wall. Street. Burned. Down. Destroyed,By,,Racist. White. Trash. Terrorist. ......Racist. White,Just,As. Evil. Vile,Terrorist. Now. As. They. Were. Then.....They,Had. Black. Unity. Back. Then. ...Amazing. We. Cannot,Have. It. Now. Black. Preachers. Are. Money. Stealing ,Snakes. ,Supported. By. Black. Politicians. And. The. NAACP ..You,Cannot. Trust. Any Of. Them. . Black. Street. Gangs ,Pimps ,Crack. Sellers. Genocide. The. Black. Community. Each. Day......

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