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My divorce from the black race is final. I am no longer wed to this sprawling entity reeling under the spell of the "what black folks need to do" mantra, an insanity that chants the same things over and over again, expecting different results, blaming the same conditions, fixating on the same villains, excusing the same behavior, mesmerized by the same denial, creating the seductive narrative that my diminished appeal couldn't compete with. My own unfaithfulness made things worse. Love didn't conquer all. Now, here i am, on my own, lanquishing under the radar, living out my remaining days, realizing that some things are just not meant to be... Should a great grand child of mine come across this decree 50 years from now, will the words inspire laughter or tears? Anyway, feel free to bid me a rousing good riddance!

You're absolutely correct. For AfroAmericans, the general election is the voting equivalent of children interjecting their thoughts in an adult conversation. There is so much more work to be done at the local and state level when it comes politics. The folks running the school board, courts, mayor, governor, etc., control what's happening where people live, work and play. Even before voting in local and state elections, AfroAmericans need an agenda. A list of things that matter to them as it relates to their community. Citizens have a choice in whether they get more liquor stores and beauty supply stores or black-owned businesses and better schools. When it comes to politics, AfroAmericans have a LOT of work to do in codifying their agenda on local, state and national levels. 😎

Algorithms Of Oppression speaks to the exact problem Facebook is demonstrating by rejecting my ability to sell the book on their website. The book's author, Safiya Umoja Noble, provides "a revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms." Algorithms Of Oppression came out in 2018 but I noticed this problem more than decade ago, as Google's search results displayed a clear bias toward the most negative aspects of Black women authors in their search results. Read how Google search results focused upon Terry McMillan's scandals over the successes. See how Google's search results elevated the most negative aspects of the author Zane. It was not just Google, it was Wikipedia and Facebook as well. Below is a screen shot of an email I got from Facebook after adding the book to my store (an automated process). Facebook rejected the book saying. "...it doesn't comply with our Policies." I guess the capital "P" is for emphasis... Of course a policy that would reject this book is absurd. Facebook does give me the option to request a review of the case, but I sell so few books on Facebook it is not worth the effort. When I first started writing about this problem no one seemed to care, so I was really pleased to discover Noble's book on the subject. I was also very surprised I had not heard about the book previously, given the fact that I troll the internet, on a daily basis, for books and I have a keen interest in and knowledge of the subject. The failure to discover this book before now is not simply the publisher fault but a bias in with the hand full of companies who control the discoverability of things on the World Wide Web -- including this site A friend, who knows my position on this subject, texted me information about the book, which she discovered because Safiya Umoja Noble was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Grant recently.

Black Americans Are Seeing Biden For Who He Is - Dr. Carol Miller Swain https://rumble.com/vnctd1-black-americans-are-seeing-biden-for-who-he-is.html

Well before you walk away..........Can you leave us that black necklace and pendant you got around your neck?YOU might be invisible...but IT ain't....lol

i don't think my decision can be challenged. I am invisible. Nobody pays any attention to old folks. and neither blacks nor whites will be interested in claiming me. I am Vampira; raceless! .o r

************************************************************************************ @Cynique I'm sorry but you can't divorce your race. You and your cat(s) aren't going anywhere! ************************************************************************************

ProfD Self-preservation and self-interest of the COLLECTIVE Nation of Islam, not necessarily individual members. I used to go to the temple a lot when I lived in Detroit and they taught their members to "look out" for your brother. They do believe in collectivism and group economics with EACHOTHER and they also partner up with other Black organizations from time to time. But like I said earlier, like most intelligent people the Nation of Islam is very particular and careful about who they align themselves with. You can just run off and start doing business with dope dealers, gangsters, wife-beaters, drug addicts and other ratchets and counter-productive people in community because they'll ruin themselves and take you along with them. After an attack, sometimes you just gotta let some ships sink and focus on the ones that can be salvaged. Chicago has a Black mayor and a lot of Black people on the police force but hell, even Al Jolson and other racist entertainers wore a Black face too. But their Black face didn't make them any less racist. Mayor Lightfoot's allegiance isn't to the Black community who voted for her; it's to the LGBT community who embraced her, paid her and continues to call the tune she dances to. These negroes are little more than puppets for the White folks who REALLY run the show and control things in city hall and the state capital. "Now wait a minute now! Now HOLD ON now! I thought I told ya befo' You go GIT yo' money! I juss gotta talk to da GUBNA' first...." If Black people expect to change things, it has to start from the grassroots. From the ground up. Like we said, LOCAL POLITICS. That means putting OUR OWN hand picked politicians in.

I no longer have delusions or hope.

Cynique Well..... Sorry but you're in this until the END....whether you like it or not. You're STUCK with the people you came to the party with. So put on your big-girl pants, come back to the huddle, and ride this thing through like the rest of us...LOL

Which politician(s) do you suggest Black Americans get behind and support?

Point taken. Self-preservation and self-interest usually win out every time. But, if there is a desire to help dysfunctional AfroAmericans "get right", the village has to take responsibility in cleaning it up. That includes the talented 10% of our population (individuals and organizations). Otherwise, if AfroAmericans of all stripes aren't going to hold themselves accountable for killing each other, there is no reason to grumble, complain, cry and march when racists do the same thing. Also to your point: The city of Chicago has a black mayor. They have a huge police force. If they really wanted to reduce the crime rate, they could wipe out the thugs in less than 30 days. Of course, that could never happen. It would be bad business within the system of white supremacy. Dysfunctional people are the fertilizer that fuels the prison yard.😎

From my perspective, it's pure insanity. “LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ: Gay Rights Movement or Alphabet Soup?” — by Eric Marcus | December 10, 2008 | Hmmm... Which one is it? White supremacy has absolutely nothing to do with this analogy.

You took the words right out of my mouth! I don't know if I could have been more detailed. A good LOCAL political base also helps you if you want to go state-wide and nationally anyway. AfroAmericans need to secure a serious of strong LOCAL powerbases around the nation....especially in predominately Black cities like Atlanta, Detroit, St Louis, ect....and other places with large Black populations like Houston and Philly. We need to secure ourselves locally first...so that we will be a proper shape to have a strong national influence.

ProfD As you may have gathered from my posts, I personally have no use for religion. However, I do no begrudge those who have to believe in something in order to manage their existence on the prison yard of white supremacy. If religion keeps foks from being self-destructive and makes them more productive, I think that's great. Brother we have the EXACT same position on religion. I used to go out to disprove and argue against people's religions when I was younger but since have learned that although religion may be a "crutch"...it's the only thing some people have for support. Unless I have something better to offer them that can show them tangible benefits, I feel it's best to leave them to their religions as long as it's not counter-productive to my agenda. I don't believe in "White Jesus"; but if it's gonna keep my sister from jumping off a building or selling her children out of complete hopelessness...then I'd rather her just stay in the church until I can offer her a solution to her problems. I remember the NOI/FOI (Fruit of Islam) providing security in situations that mainly benefitted them. Those brothas were on it when the NOI collected millions of dollars at the Million Man Marches. I was there. I was at the Million Man March too! It was a beautiful event. We had a million people before 8am...and 2 million actually showed up although the media lied about the numbers. But ofcourse the NOI provides security for functions that mainly benefit them. That's what they are supposed to do as a group. They are not the government, they are a private well trained organization that must use their resources wisely. Which they have shown the capability of doing. This particular Nation of Islam has been around since the 1970s, and Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam was around for over 40 years before that since the early 30s. You don't last that long as a Black organization by being stupid and wasting time and energy on thugs, fools, and ratchets who won't appreciate the help you give them anyway. If the city of Chicago is serious about protecting it's citizens then they'd PAY the FOI to secure the projects like they did in the past. They have the money to do so. But it's not the obligation of the FOI or any other private organization to do the work of the police, even if they can...and they can....do a better job. The NOI is headquartered in Chicago which right now I believe it is the deadliest city for black folks in America. I've asked myself why the NOI/FOI hasn't established a presence on the South side dnd West side to stop the violence. Rest assured the NOI compound is heavily secured. I read about how well trained the FOI force is in martial arts and weapons. Brotha James Brown wrote a song called "Talkin Loud and Sayin Nothin". Those dudes seem all dressed up with nohwere to go. Most of the dudes having street crediblity themselves, I would think the FOI could clean up the streets of Chicago. Unless they're getting kickbacks from the dysunction that is plauging the city. Cue up that Jodeci track again... Very interesting observation, that not only you and myself have made over the years but MANY people have made. This actually touches on one of the differences brother Malcolm had with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm wanted to be more involved in the "struggle" and take on more Black causes like the Black Power movements that were taking shape at that time. Elijah wanted the Nation to focus LESS on politics and MORE on financial independence and moral discipline. He understood that the MAIN problem Black America suffered from was a MORAL problem. Problems like eating the wrong food, using dope and alcohol, being lazy, too dependent on White people, fighting and killing eachother, improper sexual relationships, ect.... Like the FERTILE SOIL for dysfunction analogy that I talk about....those things WEAKEN you and make you more vulnerable for the "devil" to mistreat you as an individual and a community. Elijah was wise enough to know this. There is no sense in fighting to free a DYSFUNCTIONAL Black community who will only end up destroying itself or ending up back on another plantation. He wanted us to get righteous first and with that improved morality....success would naturally come. And the same applies today! The Nation of Islam doesn't have the man power or resources and quite frankly doesn't have the DUTY to save self-destructive thugs, dope addicts, and gangsters from slaughtering eachother if that what they CHOOSE to do after "knowledge of self" has come to them. Why waste pearl on swine? Why waste time walking thorough the hood pleading with young gangsters to put their gats down when they want to kill eachother so badly that a week later they're gonna pick them right back up again? Now again..... If the city, state, of feds want to PAY the NOI to coming in and secure certain areas with the manpower they have...that should be fine. I think they should do it and teach others how to do it. But in MY opinion (and I could be wrong) but as long as the Nation of Islam is keeping THEMSELVES safe and guarding THEIR property and can eat and own businesses and be successful. Then they're doing the right thing. If you as a gangter or drug addict or thug want to clean yourself up...you're welcomed to walk through their doors at any time, no one is stopping the thug or gangster from doing that. Even if they're in PRISON they can still accept that discipline. But as far as standing on every street corner in Chicago begging these crazy asss niccaz to stop doing something that a 12 year old with good sense would know better than to do and put themselves in harms way from a stray bullet...not the best strategy. If the people of Chicago and other urban areas WANT a life of dope dealing, gangsterism, and ratchetness...the NOI has no right to FORCE them into desiring other wise. Jodeci said: "Treat 'em like they WANNA be treated....."

As you may have gathered from my posts, I personally have no use for religion. However, I do not begrudge those who have to believe in something in order to manage their existence on the prison yard of white supremacy. If religion keeps folks from being self-destructive and makes them more productive, I think that's great. The Nation of Islam (NOI) appears to be a great exercise in mental and physical discipline. They have taken lost and wayward folks and put them on a path of righteousness. That's great. I remember the NOI/FOI (Fruit of Islam) providing security in situations that mainly benefitted them. Those brothas were on it when the NOI collected millions of dollars at the Million Man Marches. I was there. The NOI is headquartered in Chicago which right now I believe is the deadliest city for black folks in America. I've asked myself why the NOI/FOI hasn't established a presence on the South side and West side to stop the violence. Rest assured the NOI compound is heavily secured. I read about how well trained the FOI force is in martial arts and weapons. Brotha James Brown wrote a song called "Talkin Loud and Sayin Nothin". Those dudes seem all dressed up with nowhere to go. Most of the dudes having street crediblity themselves, I would think the FOI could clean up the streets of Chicago. Unless they're getting kickbacks from the dysunction that is plauging the city. Cue up that Jodeci track again...😎

Mzuri This is a great idea if it could work, something like the Guardian Angels would be fantastic! The Nation of Islam used to do this in various neighborhoods and housing projects around the country. So I KNOW it can be done. Problem is, too many Black folks have a LAZY mentality where they sit around waiting on racist White cops to "clean up" the crime or wait on gentrification to "clean up" the neighborhood. If THEY clean it up, they're gonna clean it up for THEMSELVES. Remember back in the day when the gangs supposedly took care of their blocks. Whatever happened to that? I'm not sure. I don't remember when street gangs took care of and protected the neighborhood, but I DO remember parts of the 70s and early 80s where if a crime was committed in the neighborhood like a car theft or somebody was robbed...SOMEBODY in the hood knew who did it. And you could go to certain gangsters in that neighborhood and pay them to get your stuff back or find out who did it. That was BEFORE the Crack Era though. I heard from older dudes that gangs protected the neighborhood, but I guess that was before I got old enough to remember it. Most Black gangs around the nation started off as either a break away from the Black Panthers or as protection from racists White gangs who were harassing Black residents. I am so glad that I am not in the inner city, and if I were, I would get away from there. I couldn’t even sleep in a place like that. I don't live in the hood either. Because I wouldn't want to do what I HAD to do to live their. And I'd probably organize with some other brothers to "clean it up"...and I'm not sure how many intelligent strong Black men would be around to help me. A neighborhood is only as bad as the strong men ALLOW it to be. Strong men can either be good or bad. And if they are bad, then the neighborhood will be bad.

Mzuri It amazes me that some of you guys believe in all sorts of conspiracy theories but you refuse to consider that the presidential elections may have been rigged. Not me. I believe EVERY Presidential Election since Roosevelt has been rigged. And probably most of them before him. I also believe there was MASSIVE vote fraud and voter suppression in both the 2000 and 2016 Presidential elections. Hundreds of thousands of Black votes were either ignored or discarded and this was done in plain sight down in Florida back in 2000. This is why I say Black folks should be focusing on LOCAL politics, because national politics right now is pretty much sewn up. Most women don't want a pretty boy. Who wants to be with someone who asks to borrow your eyeliner. 😝 It's funny you said that because after I got out of school and met some of my old classmates..... I noticed that most of the girls who were chasing after the "pretty boys" actually turned out to be LESBIANS. They didn't like boys anyway, and I guess their lust for the "pretty" and "feminine" type boys with a big head of greasy hair was actually the closest thing they could get to being with another female without being exposed as lesbian at that time. Now that things are more open, you see tend to see more people with who they actually want.

That response was not what I expected. You wrote, “Mandingo warrior types, 6 feet, 250+ lbs, and dark.“ At 5’4”, Most men are bigger that you. Your type would seemingly exclude the youthful Denzel Washington and Marvin Gaye. But as Cinque’s wrote, people have the types they like, and it all good to me, But I think I’m more along the line of Del’s response, “Woman.” Let’s start there then go to on to personality… Cause it don’t matter how fine a sister of she if is kray-kray.

FaceBook is my conduit to family: near and far; friends: old and new. i also belong to Pantheist and Quantum physics groups on there, both of which I learn things from. I find social media a diversion and i consider the source of what it reports. i never respond to memes that give instructions or ask questions. I would miss FaceBook if it was gone but I'd find other diversion on line and on TV. The difference between FB and my children and grand kids and dog and cat is that i can click away from it when it bugs me. Not so with them. When all else fails solitude is my haven. And music.

ProfD Man, your post pretty much summed it up! I'm not sure what else to add to it except to comment on a few things. I too believe that Eazy E was targeted. Did you see when Suge Knight went on some talk show and BRAGGED about injecting Eazy E with AIDS? I forgot who's show it was, but it was disgusting how he made fun of that man's death. So, it's no surprise that what we're seeing today regarding a lack of sociopolitical consciousness among AfroAmericans are seeds that were planted and germinated several decades ago. You're right. But look at the fertile SOIL of ignorance and immorality that those seeds could be dropped in! Wonder I've taken such a PRAGMATIC instead of overly optimistic view towards the collective progress of the AfroAmerican community? Most of the damage being done to the AfroAmerican community isn't being done directly from outside aggression...but from those INSIDE the community who are mentally and/or morally weak and are easily used as weapons against their own BY the racists. Drugs, Gangsta Rap, and the Gangstaz themselves wouldn't be so prevelant among a people who were collectively intelligent and morally upright. They only thrive in communities where those weaknesses already exist and all you need is a seed dropped in that soil. Look at people like Russel Westbrook and Lil Nas X who come on wearing dresses. Could you even PAY Arab men enough money to go out in public with dresses and high-heels on? We know many of them do it behind closed doors, but they INSTINCTIVELY know to keep it hush-hush even in America. The question we must ask is why is it so easy to PAY and TRICK a negro into doing something like that to begin with??? Mzuri AIDS started in the Caucasoid community with the gay flight attendant. It probably entered our community through some downlow brother that was getting down with fruity whitey. That's the official version of how it happened. However like most diseases that disproportionally impact Black people, it doesn't explain WHY it disproportionally affects Black people. The majority of HIV-AIDS cases are in Sub-Saharan African, where most of the people are neither drug users or homosexuals...but they still have the highest rates which doesn't make any sense if we follow the official story. I've heard different theories but the one I believe the most is that it HIV was a bio-weapon (chemically engineered) that was INJECTED into Black people both on the continent as well as in the U.S. I believe other diseases are being given to our people to. Do I have absolute PROOF of this? No. But it's almost DEFACTO proof because there is no other explanation for how such strange diseases that didn't exist BEFORE contact with Caucasians all of a sudden exist AFTER contact with them. We also have evidence based on law enforcement that Covid-19 is being directly given to certain Black populations. If things like this don't make you want to stay on good terms with The SUPREME BEING and stay in tuned with your Spirituality....I don't know what else will. You're dealing with VERY smart racists. I cannot believe you weren’t a ladies man as smooth-talking as you are now. How often did you stroll through those Canadian malls? "Oh stop it....tee hee hee...." Because smooth talk doesn't necessarily come with smooth looks. I wasn't "pretty" like Prince, so I had to work at mines...LOL. When I lived in Detroit I started going to Canada when I was a teenager because you can drink at 19 over there. When I was in my 20s and 30s I would go once or twice a month, depending which friends I was with. Plus I found out it was much safer in Canada than in Detroit.

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ProfD We should have our own private police force to secure most of our neighborhoods RIGHT NOW...with all of the crime and police brutality plaguing so many Black communities around this nation. The Nation of Islam has an excellent reputation for keeping peace and order in Black events and even in some Black communites. They could be instrumental in this. We need to be more bold in taking the initiative for our independence instead of either being FORCED to by circumstance or waiting on some young White man with long hair and glasses to come up with the idea and then negroes start flocking behind him. Too many of our people are caught up in the Jim Jones mentality of waiting for a White man to initiate things and save them.

What have you invented Jealous Edison? I heard a panel discussion about Prince that Toure hosted. One of the panelist said Prince begs from a position of strength. Power has always been attractive. Not true. Tyka Nelson said Prince felt short changed because his brother was handsome and tall. Which was a line in the Song Lady Cab Driver. So she asked him would he rather be handsome and tall or play music. She said he never brought it up again.

The media, the media, the media. Everybody hates the white mainstream media! Sooo, it must be doing something right. Its crime, of course, is not reflecting the views of all its critics who, themselves, are at odds with each other. That's really what the complaints amount to: being offended by not having one's opinions reinforced. It would also seem that many want the media to ignore anything that is not serious; no gossip. no rumors nor anything that could be construed as being politically biased or racially offensive. Just about shit that happens. If an alien from another planet were to observe the American scene, would this viewer wonder whether things would be different if the status of Blacks and Whites were reversed? Would the white minority be crying "racism" at every turn, and would the black majority be corrupted by the power it had ruthlessly acquired over centuries. Surely black supremacy would be an issue because Blacks definitely think they are superior to Whites. Would this spectator from outer-space conclude that Earthlings are doomed to be in a constant state of discontent? And that, ideally, each race should simply have its own planet so the conflict would not be about superficial differences! Even aliens can dream. 👽 Meanwhile, the third rock from the sun continues to wobble on its axis, rocking its dizzy inhabitants, leaving them to lament its atmosphere of turmoil and bigotry. But there are exceptions. Me? I no longer give a damn. 😑