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Companies have a mandate to enrich their shareholders, not the communities in which they exist. The history and etymology of the corporation is illuminating.

Oh one more thing! Thanks to President Obama's Jobs Act, my mother and I have private equity shares in black-owned technology fabless semiconductor company, Espre Technologies, Inc. Equity crowdfunding allows us to support black-owned businesses. And it's the first time we've been able to get in on the ground floor before it goes belly-up or public. The seed money we raised in the first round of regulation crowdfunding allows the inventor to fabricate his Edge device protection SoC (System on a chip). While the proprietary technology is a bit complicated, In short, -it helps wireless channels handle increased data. Without it, autonomous cars could stop processing information when it's most vulnerable. Or it can protect construction cranes from bad actors. The Jobs act allowed a black woman, Linda (Lynn) P. Smith, President/Founder/CEO, in Cincinnati to start a private equity regulation crowdfunding platform to raise money to "buy the block." While many people have probably heard about Bezos's real estate investment platform to allow people to buy shares in rental property, This sister's business helps people crowdfund to property to prevent gentrification. So, again working with who we have serves us. We need more legislators who believe in democracy and equity for all people.

Black women are a monolith when it comes to voting. Black women registered voters typically back Democratic candidates, referendums, and questions by 90%. So far, nothing can shake our position other than suppression. We are the most loyal Democratic voting bloc - and it's because Democratic legislative proposals solve our problems. For example, before the Supreme Court and Republicans started chipping away at the Affordable Care Act - (Obamacare), we paid out of pocket for the minimum primary health care visits - forget about testing because that was cost-prohibitive. After ACA, our uninsured rates went down, and we got our health care issues addressed. Under President Obama and his JOBS Act, we gained access to private equity funding for our startups for the first time. Before legislation passed, President Obama helped black women gain equity in the U.S. Thanks to President Obama's renewed interest in our academic journey from Pre-school to Graduate school, Black women could get undergraduate, professional, and graduate degrees. As I inferred from @Stefan and @ProfD commentary - working with the party that delivers on legislative proposal solutions; and supporting candidates that propose to do the same is how we get a political party representing our community. Attempting to start a new party is laudable -but it reminds me of a Richard Pryor joke when he said," dude told his woman - he was leaving her and going to find some new "P"… She paused for a minute, then told him "if you had two more inches of "D" you'd find some new "P" right here. In that respect, Black women are a monolith because we believe in working with and using the resources we have to prepare enough to feed everyone.

No need for apology. I understand your position and I'm in agreement. It would be great if Native Americans and ADOS got reparations. Just went a step further in lamenting what I see. Guilty as charged. I'm registered as an Independent. The honest truth is that I've voted in every election since I was eligible several decades ago. 😎

I cannot understand some posters on here. You loudly proclaim that you’re neither a Democrat or a Republican? Well, I hope you consider yourself an Independent and that you actually DO vote. Because if you don’t even vote, then you’re crapping all over the memory and legacy of African Americans who longed for, marched for and died for the right to win us The Vote. What major political party chose Barack Obama to be its standard bearer in 2016? And what major political party threw its weight behind this extraordinarily gifted Black man so that he whomped his opponent by seven percentage points in that year’s national election? Again, which major political party? From talking to many Black men on different forums and Websites, I know full well why so many of them cannot stand Barack Obama. They are envious, resentful and hateful of Obama’s communications talents. They could never deliver a long speech that included soaring oratory. They could not author a best-selling book. And they certainly could not garner support from millions of voters of all races to stand with them. Hence, their jealousy of Obama punctures their paper-thin excuses of why they don’t like him. So, to those folks who claim you don’t support either major political party: Do you at least vote? Be honest and truthful. Because if you don’t, White racists all across this country will be so gleeful learning about this, they may laugh all through the night. We do not need another political party, despite what some claim. In this climate of a retracting economy, growing hate against our people and the specter that thousands of us will be dissuaded or prevented from voting, that idea is a non-starter. So, now tell us what you’re going to do, because …

It is unreal how many fall for the distractions. Go ahead, let's have your opinions on Will Smith and Chris Rock? Okay, what about Dave Chappelle? NFT's and the dizzying array of opinions on Cryptocurrency? How Donald Trump is the greatest of the greats, according to those who've deluded themselves that they're going to be invited to clean his kitchen. All women need to keep silent and only listen to men. Yeah, which ones? Discuss. Does your friend have to a right to get angry if you lift their mobile phone they temporarily misplaced? And give it to your friend. Who gives it to their friend. Who tries to sell it back to the original owner even though it has a cracked screen?

Absolutely. I registered to vote to protect my rights as a citizen, but my views changed. I try to read and understand the contention that Black people have about both parties, however, I am not convinced that they benefit Black people. I did not vote for Obama neither time he was on the ballot. I completely disagree with him just as I do with all of the other candidates. I am not against homosexuality if it is a choice but loathe the fact that this issue was pushed on Obama's agenda. The Racial Integrity law was passed as I vaguely remember, aimed at the Native Americans. For this reason, some of the Native Americans remained on the reservations, some bonded with the Black people and about 90% married White women and left the reservation. My late father-in-law told me that he refused to go to war and fight a White man's war. He was the few that bonded with the Black people. He married a Black woman. Long before Tecumseh, there was Hiawatha. Native Americans had major issues with 'phenotype' and Colorism long before the White man came and brought their Black slaves. I tell my son, in no way to you fill out paperwork in college that you have Native American ancestry so that you can be mocked. The Black Indian culture is NO MORE. Many people today are trying to steal your identity as being African American, meanwhile trying to fool you into running away from it. Last year, I stood by my Great grandmother's tombstone, a Tuscarora woman of the Iroquois confederacy. And, I think about how she was stolen as a little girl during the Great Tuscarora War and put into a slave family to raise her. Her death certificate shows her SCOTTISH surname. I remember how my father-in-law told me why he chose not to get the Indian card. I listen to my husband talk about his mother and how her mother was stolen from Montana and forced eastwards and dumped onto a slave plantation in the state of Maryland. I also took a picture of my other Great grandmother's tombstone. And, I think about how, as a little girl, she was stolen from East Africa. My husband is so angry to hear these stories of Black females being stolen for the benefit of America. I am so angry.