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@Mel HopkinsThere is a way out. Once you free your mind or listen to the voice. it is what inventors and visionaries have always done. I have only realised that I have been trying to do so all of my life. What I posted was inspired.

When there was no Washington DC, the powers that be wanted to form a new federal government that was to be a separate entity from any of the state governments. The feds were to deal with foreign business and leave the states to conduct their own business. Many of the states didn’t go for that, but they got tossed a bone so juicy they couldn’t refuse the offer . First, in exchange for a portion of land from Virginia, and an equal portion from Maryland to establish the new capital in Washington, the federal government agreed to absorb all the debts of the states who all owed money to foreign bankers in Europe which the states used for road construction, schools, hospitals. etc. Quite naturally, the states jumped all over the chance to be debt-free and DC, the federal government, was born. Uncle Sam was a healthy baby but he was in deep debt to foreign bankers. Oh yeah, before I discuss that, let me explain how DC got to be Chocolate City. About mid-century—1950--- real estate agents out to make a quick buck devised a way to beat the ‘rent covenants’ used then to restrict and to bar brothas from living in certain neighborhoods. With help from a buddy on the Supreme Court who also got paid in the scheme, the rent covenants were overturned and just as soon as the ink was dry on the paper, real estate agents went to NC and brought families from there and settled one family on each block. (And that is why to this day, virtually everyone from DC is from NC via their family. When I was locked up in the feds, DC and NC never got along. It was because we were family. NC was DC’s country cousins.) Anyway, this tactic was call Block-Busting. Due to outright prejudice against brothas, this would start a housing panic and the homeowners would sell their property for peanuts to get away from the darkies. The real estate folks got paid. Not only did they get access to cheap property as white flight started, but once they had obtained these fancy cribs, they would inflate the prices of these d4eam homes when they sold them to black folks. Devils got paid on both ends. And DC got its flava. The same Supreme Court Justice who looked out on that also had his hand in something else big. He orchestrated the Brown-v-Board of Education case. He was Felix Frankfurter. History celebrates Thurgood Marshall and that is how they wanted it. (I don’t have my source material on hand so I will free style. Plus, it is on this site from years ago) The short version is that in the days leading up to the decision, the vote was to deny Brown. The vote wasn’t even close. Frankfurter who wanted to outlaw segregation asked that the case be reargued so the Court went on a short break, but the Chief Justice who wanted to doon Brown didn’t make it. He died under mysterious conditions. Washington insiders winked at the so-called mysterious heart attack as they were common in DC among politicians who got in the way. When the deceased man’s son tried to investigate his father’s death, well, he knew what had happened. It was political expediency. Seemed like everyone in DC knew the deal. Anyway, Frankfurter was a gangsta and made some power moves behind the scenes and faster than you can say conspiracy, the Supreme Court changed its vote and Brown was passed. Okay, why would Frankfurter be involved in so dastardly an act? Did he love brothas that much? Naw, He was part of as powerful group of men, Jewish mainly, who had an agenda for us. They were visionaries, thought way ahead of the game. Since brothas were here to stay and they couldn’t kill us, deport us or put us all in jails, the next best thing to do was to manufacture niggas they could control, and would do their bidding to keep the rest of us in line. To be effective, these blacks would need to be highly educated to carry out their duties. They wanted to invent a new black middle class who would be a buffer between them and the regular brothas. They needed Brown so they could educate their individual niggas who they would teach how to keep us in check. In essence , these were to be the new overseers. The teachers who taught us would be taught by them so we would learn exactly what they wanted us to learn. Preachers would go to schools designated and handpicked by them so that preachers would merely parrot what was put before them as knowledge. Through us, they felt they could control us. The job of these token, look-at-me niggas was to ooh and ahh us with their fancy cars and white women, being sure to make it known that we could derive the same benefits if we did what we were told. And that was why Brown was so monumental. We were going to get educated at last but they were going to control what we knew and learned. I mean, was that good strategy or what. If they couldn’t kill or imprison us, the next best thing to do would be to control what we learned. We were taught to keep on being slaves. VOTE!

As an aside my own studies have shown me that things not only happen in time they are shaped by the time in which they happen. And I am just now starting to see and map the contours of time.

OMG @Delano you've been killin' it! I was just thinking about this after finishing a book I purchased from @AALBC bookstore. The book is "Long Shot" (Hoops #1) by Kennedy Ryan. Once I finished it I came to the same conclusion, we "can only work out what type of pawn you are in life" We don't have any innovators - only people who work with what's already available and look for new uses. The King and Queen have already set us up in the industrial mode. Here we can only be apprentice-to-managers in industries, or tradespeople that build upon what is available. If we don't participate then, there's no way to earn a living. While many of us like to think we can make changes - it is not possible without upending the system - and I can assure you there will not be that kind of revolution ever. Just like the characters in the book I just read - we are trapped. As soon as we're born we're programmed to live in this society. Even the most destitute person in America is still living within the trappings of this matrix - and if they haven't given up; they are also looking to raise their profile. In fact the original poster, Guest Garland Gregory, has admitted he's conspired to keep this society intact by teaching young minds how to work with society's policies, not disrupt them. We all support the elite's society. So nope there will be no changes - just more of how to survive (or thrive) in the society we didn't create or control.

You are mistaken White Supremacists, White Racists, and the Elite are not all the same. It's like a chess game your position decides your movement and what you can see. Pawns have the most limited movement, and can only move in one direction. The Rooks are the land holders(those with assets, The Knight is the military(athletes), The Bishop is the Clergy (education), The King and Queen are the ruling elite. The function of Royalty is to set the standard. So the King and Queen define the ultimate Man and Women in the country. Each of piece has a pawn that is in front. Notice they are White Pawns and Black pawns. Just like in the fairy tales after much trials a pawn can elevate Each Pawn occupies a unique position and the position shows their master King Pawn 2 and Queen Pawn 2. So based on that analogy you can work out what type of Pawn you are in life.

Hey, I'm with you. I'm impatient too. There are many areas we need to work on. I see these discussions as a tiny part of that work. I also think the worst thing we could do is mimic what has been successful in people we do not admire. As a kid, I decided I don't want to get financial security using methods proven successful time and time again by people in my community I did not respect. I also don't want my people to seek social domination using tactics I consider wicked. Of course, I don't think anything you wrote suggests we mimic them. I would like to think as we progress, we are looking for a new or different way. Not just a role reversal.

I've always admired the passion and sincerity of your posts, but I strongly disagree with the premise implied. Domination does not equate intelligence nor superiority. In astronomy, it's well accepted that the largest and brightest stars are ALWAYS the shortest-lived. If longevity or resilience are at all a metric, remember, the tortoise and the tyrannosaurus walked the earth at the same time. Only one remains now . . . stationary plants have been around long before either of those creatures . . . the average book worm tends to have a more profitable life than the average athlete. etc. We seem to be discussing a very small fraction of human history. Shortsightedness may make aggression and conquest only seem a winning strategy. Maybe violence / aggression / domination are part of a long-term losing life strategy.

@Pioneer1 you over looked this statement do you agree with it? When has that ever happened? I'm talking about reasoning, critical thinking, history, math, etc, not how to dominate others.

Your premise is flawed. The right to vote has nothing to do with the taxes you pay. However our representation is a function if how much money you have. The very wealthy control our government. The U.S. is a plutocracy. Party does not really matter very much. Real change, to @Pioneer1's point, will only come through revolution. The civil war was needed to end slavery. Real change only comes after some pain Voting only really matters in the short term, real change, at least one that will make our government truly representative and enable everyone to share in the country's prosperity won't come easily.

I can feel you on that. No doubt, there is a white way of doing things in America and it usually works for whites as they understand the nuances of what is to be done and exactly how it is to be done to reap the benefits. First, they have the complexion and the connections. Mainly, when a white kid needs a job, he doesn't have to scan the want ads. He merely makes a phone call and someone he knows know someone who knows someone. He has a job. It is that simple, sometimes. Any system, whether in nature or in America, tends to supports and upholds the needs of the people who put it in place. They do so that when the people at the top eat and the leftovers begin to trickle down, they want to make sure that the ones who benefit from their labors are those who look like them. And we, as outsiders, not knowing exactly how nepotism and the old boy network operates, we think we can get in where we fit in under that system and we get our butt kicked. They make it look so easy and we think we can do it. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it does not. Why? Because when they follow the signs or the rules put in place by their own people, it like they using a paint-by-numbers plan. They can't lose. On the other hand we playing the game with blindfolds on. We get tricked into believing that if the system works for Mr. Charlie, it will produce for me as well. We believe that if if works for them it will works for us. It works for them because it was meant for them. When I was a peewee, when I got a cut, I would grab a band-aid. On the box, it said flesh-colored but when I put it on, it did not match my flesh. It was made for them and they are openly let you know it. This band-aid is flesh-colored because it matches the skin tone of the people it was meant for. When we use it, it doesn't perform as advertised. It may do the job, but it sure as hell exposed me by making me stand out. And that is what happens when we try to apply white solutions to our problems. Our game gets exposed and we get busted. Or what about when you go to the doctor and they give you meds that don't work. Why? because the dosage of most meds were medically measured to suit the needs of a 110 pound white woman. Quite naturally, the dosage won't do shit for you, but it wasn't you that had in mind when they set the game up. You are nothing more than collateral damage. So, your first order of business is to 'screw your head on right" so you can peep the bullshit that they don't want you to see. My brotha, excuse my french, but fuck the players of the game. It's the coach or the rule book you want. Knowing the rules takes the guesswork out of the equation and when you know what you are doing, your chances for success go way up. A lot of times, brothas shoot for the wrong prize. A brotha will be in an office flirting with the big-butt secretary when the person he needs to trying to get under is the cracker inside the office who can give him what he wants. But, this is my personal thought. I learned a long time ago that in order to break the law, you must understand the law. I think that in order to crack the code to how white folks play the game, you, first, gotta understand the game. Well, let me back up because I have already started off with a bad piece of advice, and this is old school science. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE PLAYING A GAME, THEN YOU HAVE ALREADY LOST! Brothers play the "dope game" but to white folks, it's a WAR on drugs. And that's how they confront it, as a WAR. Brothas be playing checkers, crackers be playing chess. It's the way of the system to make a brotha get less than he is worth because they know that if you don't value your worth, then you are going to always come up short. We don't value ourselves or our skills. Check this out. You can take a white boy and a brother and equip them with the exact same skills. Let's say that both are automotive geniuses and can really handle a car. The white guy will go ahead and drive a race car for NASCAR whereas a brotha with the same skills will probably end up being a get-away driver for a crew of stick-up kids. or what about two kids, one black, one white who are charismatic and have the gift of gab. The white boy will become a highly paid motivational speaker. The brotha will use this same gift of persuasion to turn bitches out and have them on the corner selling ass. Anyway, like I said, get the rulebook because once you know and understand the rules you can adapt them to fit your purposes. Data, like truth, is static and does not discriminate. It is what it is. Truth, under any and all circumstances will perform the same. It can't change or be altered. It's like a trusted recipe. It's always going to do what it do. And that is how it goes when you understand the rules Once I learn the rules to anything, it is no longer a white or a black thing----it's simply knowledge which will work for me just like it works for the whites .