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Mr. Brossard, Really Dude? Dear Mr. Brossard: After reading your puff piece in USA Today, I decided that a response was in order. First, it seemed apparent to me that you wrote this article for the people paying your salary at Global Strategy Group. One thing for sure, attempting to guilt black men into voting won’t move the needle. It’s amazing to me how you and so many others like you think that you can lecture grown black men. Black men are men, not children, they do not need the likes of you or anyone else telling them about voting. Since it seems if though you have forgotten about 2016, let me give you a refresher. Black men did not vote in 2016 for Hillary Clinton, “Ms. bring the super predators to heel” because of her history. Although, the majority of the black votes went to her. On the other hand, a large portion of white women and those who wish to be white voted for Donald Trump. From the pictures of the office staff, it appears that this is the group of ‘women’ you should have been lecturing on voting. So, did you lecture them or remind them that they should be voting for Joe Biden since Trump love to grab them by the %#@@? My guest is you didn’t. Political shields like yourself gain their strength from punching down when white capital is the benefactor. Black men, like other groups in this country are becoming politically educated where they are learning to vote for their own interested and that of their families, not party loyalty or the lesser of two evils or any other rationale you may use to continue on this treadmill of ‘yard control’ by the two group who have been fighting each other since they set up the farce of a democracy. It has been less than 60 years since black people gained the right to vote and the white supremacy rule of society has been working overtime to erode away this basic right as a citizen. Meanwhile, Jim Crow Joe Biden promised illegals a path way to citizenship before he got their relatives vote. Perhaps you do you know the history of the black struggle in the divided states of America. Negroes (Spanish for Blacks) have been navigating this evil system for basic citizenship rights since 1640. The priority for them back then is the same for Black men now. Freedom, Family and the pursuit of property, not to continue to be beholding to overseers or Employers. The Ancestors navigated their journeys well over three centuries, so to suggest that Black men are not seizing the moment, I would like to counter your statement by asking seizing what moment? What promises or promise did Biden make “specifically,” to Black people? Not minorities, or brown people or any other weasel words to slip another group into our narrative. I’ll wait? Even if Jim Crow Joe Biden wins, he nor (Copmala) Kamala Harris have not made any promises about prosecuting killer cops. Mr. Biden did make a pledge to the killer police unions for more than a quarter of a million dollars. The saga of police killing unarmed black people continues as I write this response. But, I guess the killing of black people for sport is not as urgent or important as casting a vote for people who have built their careers on writing laws to put black men in cages and/or allowing cops to walk free. If Black men decide to vote, that’s their choice. By the same token, if they decide not to vote, that their choice also. Donald Trump is misusing the laws that Joe Biden helped to write and pass and (Copmala) Kamala Harris served as a collaborator for the police in California for three decades. Black people from the grassroots did not want Kamala Harris, point blank end of story. This was the reason she was the first to drop out of the 2020 presidential race. To suggest that Biden had the Black community’s attention when he picked Kamala Harris is a joke and the joke is on you. Kamala Harris is a white (Elite) insulting the black community who are the descendants from the institution of slavery and Jim Crow. The wealth of this country was built by our Ancestors, therefore the divided states is obligated to pay the debt that is owed to us. Nowhere in your puff piece did you mention “Reparation.” My hunch is you will not saying anything about Reparation if you want to continue to get paid by Global Strategy Group. Martin Luther King caught a bullet because he recognized that the United States owed us a check. Perhaps you need to listen to the speech where King reminded the country that the divided states gave the peasants of Europe land and all kinds of goodies when they arrived after our Ancestors built this %$^&@. Black men who are the descendants from the killing fields of slavery have taken up that mantle. Regardless if the Orange Man gets back into office, or Jim Crow Joe Biden, the goal for the Black Community from the grassroots will be the same. Black men and Black Women are learning to work in the interest of Black families, not parties rather Republicans or Democrats. Your conjecture about ‘blame’ is misguided. The majority of white people put the Orange man in office, not black men. Get your facts straight. I’m out. An Indigenous American, aka A Black Person Chaplain B. iad2bfree@outlook.com 10/28/2020

They were laying hands on him to pray for him. If you had any experience with the church you would know how wrong you are. The sign the woman held was thanking God for sending Trump. Also the India story is a possible fabrication or just an example of a crazy person from a pagan country. The whole question is a dodge from dealing with the substance of survival in a Harris/Biden world. That was more misinformation put out by people like you.

Of curse you would say that. Your morality allows you to reject reality sometimes and accept it other times. Would you share the numbers? Also could it be that the condition is being diagnosed and tracked more? Is the increase limited to only Black people?

Troy Ok you probably know more than I on the subject. I thought many people became depressed at one point maybe they were just sad. You're right, many people DO become depressed at some point in their lives but they don't know what it is or what caused it. You can get DEPRESSION in the middle of success if your chemistry is disrupted. It has little to do with outside events in your life. And it feels much different than regular "sadness". Also, these type of chemical imbalances of the brain is behind MOST of the violence you see going on in the urban areas of the United States. A lot of the violence is caused by literally CRAZY people with undiagnosed psychiatric problems being ALLOWED to roam around in the community. The Caucasian police know who they are and don't do anything about it UNTIL they hurt somebody and run off.....then the police come and take down notes. It ain't happening in THEIR community, so who cares. Sure, I believe it. She is no different than the people who believe autism somes from the MMR v*ccine. Lol....... I think you know by now that I'm an anti-vaxxer. I wouldn't say it's the same thing because their is NO EVIDENCE that autism is caused by possession but there is PLENTY of evidence and some would even say "proof" that autism is caused by v*ccines. I'm not 100% sure where autism comes from but I DO believe it's linked to v*ccination. Autism has been steadily increasing among AfroAmerican males for the past 40 years....something is causing it!

Ok you probably know more than I on the subject. I thought many people became depressed at one point maybe they were just sad. Sure, I believe it. She is no different than the people who believe autism somes from the MMR vaccine.

Troy I don't think @Ann Bray Smith was talking about brain maladies like schizophrenia and other conditions requiring psychiatric help. Perhaps you're right, I'm not sure. But she SHOULD have been if she wasn't because proper psychiatric help is just as important if not more. If someone has a chemical imbalance in the brain causing them problems...all the "therapy" and "counseling" in the world is of little help because the underlying cause is a PHYSICAL one. It's like inviting a woman with a broken leg to sit in on a discussion group thinking that's going to set her leg and mend her broken bone! She was talking about things depression (not clinical) and PTSD. Both Depression (true) and PTSD are psychiatric also. If it's not clinical, it's not Depression. Caucasians (I have to keep going back to Caucasians and White Supremacy because they are the cause) have confused the public about mental health and health in general. Many of THEM know the truth, but they confuse many of our people into NOT knowing the truth so they end up running around in circles THINKING they know what they don't know and wondering why they aren't making much progress. That's why it's important for our people to be PROPERLY EDUCATED on mental health, instead of going by what they THINK they know. Problem is, the arrogance of the average AfroAmerican prevents them from finding out the truth. I had a very religious "church every Sunday and Wednesday" sister argue with me because she thinks autism is caused by "possession". You can't tell her anything different. See, it's bad enough to be ignorant and simply not know. But when you don't know but THINK you know....that's much worse, because now no one can tell you different, especially another AfroAmerican.

True, but I don't think @Ann Bray Smith was talking about brain maladies like schizophrenia and other conditions requiring psychiatric help. She was talking about things depression (not clinical) and PTSD.

Troy This is how I maintain my mental health When you talk about mental health, it seems that you are talking about it strictly from psychological terms. When I was talking about mental health I'm talking about it from both psychological AND psychiatric terms because both are very important. If you have a true psychiatric problem......as many of our people have....simply monitoring what you expose yourself to or removing yourself from social media won't help. If it would...wouldn't have been any schizophrenics or bi-polar people before the internet. but consider what would you do if there were not internet for a week, a month, a year. I'm prepared for that. This is one of the reasons I believe in storing up books and trying to get hard-copies of my favorite books. To be honest, I don't think most people SHOULD have access to the internet anyway because too many of them are using it for the wrong reasons. Like I said in another thread....... You're a mother with an autistic son who sits in the corner of the room drooling all day and all night and instead of using the internet to study the brain and chemistry to maybe come up with a cure or atleast an effective treatment to HELP him, you're hitting the clubs and downloading videos of yourself twerking... "Don't stop.... Get it get it...."

I believe the internet is a tool that can be used for good or evil. The Internet is what you make of it. Personally I have made a conscious decision not to consume information derives from social media. I'm not always successful because I have a social media presence for a AALBC. Each social media platform cleverly requires you to see your feed before you can really do anything. So I use those platforms with blinders on and do the best I can. I don't follow celebrities --I'm defintely not following 45. Indeed I only follow people I actually know and most of the people I know, in the real world are not very engaged in social media anyway. The Internet, technology in general, is too powerful to completely leave alone the world can be a better place with them as long as we don't forget the things that are more important like a human beings and the natural world. This is how I maintain my mental health 🙂 This is a different concern. Sure we should be prepared a loss of the internet. I'm mean don't plan for it like it will happen tomorrow, but consider what would you do if there were not internet for a week, a month, a year. The Internet has already been disrupted. The Internet is under the control of a handful of massively powerful corporations. The people are for more dependent on these companies than they were during early days of the Internet. For this reason the Internet is far less valuable than it could be and I'd argue far more destructive. Sometimes I wonder if the world would be better off without what the WWW has become. I'm not convinced that it is, and this is coming from someone whose livelihood is dependent upon the WWW. One of my concerns is the WWW's impact on our collective mental health.

Pioneer doesn't allow his ignorance to get in the way of being misinformed.

In the past 5 years, astrologer I have made me aware of aspects of my personality I did not know. Correction. I read that decades ago, fortune telling for self discovery and education. Your fortune is also what you possess. Your second house and the part of fortune relate to your moveable possessions. House or land would be the fourth house in Astrology since you can't move them. I would put cars in the third with short term travel. And planes and ships in the 9th with long voyages. Thanks Twin. I am also looking at portents and signs . Since whatever catches the attention has meaning.