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I figure it's like pouring water on a gremlin. Eventually they will shrivel up and disappear. 😁😎

Greg, You do know this is a literature website?... Despite your low opinion of black people, you know we learned how to read, right? And guess what? Over here, we read A LOT! So let me gift you this article - - https://wapo.st/3HQOf9L Dude may have given out some checks, but the lion's share of forgivable loans, $6.6 Billion and counting, went to white folks.

@GregFor somebody who is always yakking about using proper English, you could benefit from doing so yourself. Your sentence that says: "All of our issues in our Black community is self inflicted and has nothing to do with hardworking Asians, Whites, of Hispanics "etc. should say: "All of our issues in our black community are self inflicted and have nothing to with Asians, whites, or Hispanics etc... Sheeze! In fact, you are a light weight in other areas when it comes to assessing what you mis-label as the "black community". You are incapable of looking at the big picture, or peering past your nose. No deep thinker, you lack the capacity to comprehend that the pendulum of humanity's clock has been wound up and is now on the swing from back to forth. Other ethnicities inspiring your dismay at being victimized by black thugs are collateral damage representing what happens when payback rears its ugly head and justice disappears. Like now. What's being demonstrated as the black aberrations descended from slaves avenge what normal whites did to those slaves long ago. The outcome? Shit happens. If you weren't so busy carping about proper English and unwed pregnancies, and lack of ambition you'd have time to develop some intellectual muscle instead of being stuck on stupid. You could benefit from a little profound cogitation, maybe become enlightened about how CIVILIZATION unfolds, doing what it does, rising and falling, progressing and stumbling, moving on, lurching ahead, time bringing change that reverts back to sameness. In the scheme of things what is now being perpetrated by black criminals is out of control and cannot be fixed. It will have to sort itself out with what will undoubtedly be tragic results. Self Genocide. Martial Law. Race War. That's life. Or will the ghetto culture and mindset that so offends you change over night or even at all. A collective consciousness is deeply entrenched and preserved by an environment that society perpetuates because it needs scapegoats and others to blame for why things are the way they are. You cannot conceive of the idea that your world vision blurs in the face of reality and you are wasting your time and that of those who you harass with your demands. So, as far as the "Greg Project" goes, all of your bitching and lecturing is just drivel. You serve no purpose except to the white puppet masters who pull your strings. Attempting to be the paternalistic arbitrator of what the black community needs to do to be worthy of white approval is an exercise in futility because you are neither a super hero nor a role model. - just a naggin wanna-be. Stefan thinks it's not a good idea to engage with trolls, but you provide me with a way to amuse myself. Ha-Ha.

Support these bigoted stereotypical generalizations with evidence or you both win the "greg/nels troll award for the day"...

Yes!” Fall Back and regroup” That is definitely a Black woman thing. After the decision was handed down -a black out should have followed. With leaders and others saying “No comment. Then every women retreating indoors. Just go home or stay home. We would act like we were “sitting shiva” over a dead relative. One - It would have been unexpected and two - it would have absolutely scared the sh*t out of SCOTUS and the world. It would have been “a world without women” even if it only lasted 7 hours. But of course, here in the U.S., white women must perform. And of course, some dude ran over them with a truck. Phoenix law enforcement tear-gassed protesters. A Black woman, who is running for state senate in RI decided to march, only to get punched in the face twice by her republican opponent who is also works as a cop. It might have worked in her favor, since he dropped out of the race but the optics distract while reinforcing the message of brute force against women. The State was prepared for disruption. But total silence and no presence would h e rocked them to the core. Sort of like when a Black woman says, “I’m Fine.” But you know, All Hell is about to break loose and you’re about to have a come-to-Jesus meeting”

good point one i had never considered. Someone without a historical perspective now telling people to read. Hitler did not pop up in a vacuum; he emerged because of an environment you obviously know little about, so you are incapable of drawing parallels to today and comprehending Mel’s point.

You're wrong on that point. The political right is pushing us towards authoritarianism. And with Trump and his followers Fascism comes next.

A few months ago I was having a conversation with an older White woman in her 70s and we were talking about the Civil Rights movement and why so many White women today voted for and supported Donald Trump and the Republican party and she said something that made a lot of sense. She said back in the 60s and 70s White women saw the Black Power movement as an opportunity to break the strangle-hold that White men had on the reigns of power in this country and they decided to link up with us and take advantage of that collapse to free themselves. But since then, the Black power movement has waned with integration and White men have slowly gained much of their power back....especially when Reagan got back in office. She said a lot of liberal and radical White women felt betrayed by the Civil Rights generation who decided to stop fighting "the man". She said that White women subconsciously know they can't rely on Black men to protect them from the power of White men so there's no real benefit in being strong allies with us politically or socially. Some people would have been insulted or puzzled by this....but I found it profoundly insightful and it explained a lot.....AND it made sense. There are a lot of people who WOULD like to side with AfroAmericans and help us out against racial abuse, but what benefit would it provide for them and who would come to their rescue when the White Establishment goes after THEM? Why do I bring this up now? Because I believe this abortion decision handed down by the courts is INDIRECTLY our fault. We (especially AfroAmerican men) are hands-down the most feared demographic in this nation. And when WE stand up and put our foot down on something....it get's done. Even when only a percentage of us decide to do it. All it takes is a decisive percentage of Black people to stand up and raise sand about something and we bring society to a halt and things get done. I've seen examples of this more times than you can count . So when Black people STOP fighting. STOP standing up for Progressive idealogy and turn to self-destruction, drug use, indifference, apathy, or just plain juvenile infighting and immature entertainment....it allows the right-wing in this nation to run wild. The election of Trump. The routine stealing of elections since 2000. And this latest abortion ruling is just SOME of the many examples.

The day we "pro-choice" women have secretly been dreading has infortunately arrived with the reversal of Roe vs Wade by the U.S. Extreme Court. With Hillary Clinton's defeat in 2016, I knew then there was a possibility of this ruling be rescinded because the political right was crawling with fetus-worshipping hypocrites frantic to make motherhood a punishment rather than a privilege, - via reinstating a ban on legal abortions. This was why I had been urging Hillary haters to get on board with the Moderates in order to maintain the supreme court liberal majority through appointments made possible by the election of a Democratic president. That majority was what would protect Roe vs Wade for years to come... Wishful thinking. The Supreme Court Justice who wrote the decision that reversed Roe vs. Wade asserted, in part, that the Constitution doesn't protect a woman's right to abortion because no such right exists. That's on a par with saying that slaves had no right to be free because they belonged to their slave masters. On the other hand, privately and publicly bearing arms, whose only purpose is to kill or injure, was a right the Foundling Fathers endowed themselves with while playing fast and loose with the word "inalienable". Now, over 2 centuries later, citizens are still under the thrall of a document that in this country rivals the Bible when it comes to being sacred. In reality, the revered Constitution is flawed and outdated, and those who wrote it were misogynistic, racist, potential murderers, and have been reincarnated in the form of right-wing Conservatives with their skewed interpretations of when a right exists and who is entitled to exercise it. Black folks, beware! Your right to have been emancipated might be challenged next. Lincoln could be ruled ineligible to undo what God let happen. And speaking of rights and legacies, let's focus on the "notorious RBG". This prim, shriveled-up little Jewish lady garnered much acclaim and admiration presumably because of her great legal mind. But Ruth Bader Ginsberg wasn't above thinking small when, in her late 70s, she was approached by an uppity black POTUS daring to suggest she retire so he could appoint a younger person to secure a liberal majority in the high court. Ruth obstinately rejected this idea, implying that this was a request she preferred to grant to Hillary Clinton. But - thanks to that other disastrous ruling known as the "electoral college", Hillary lost, RBG died, Trump appointed, and the rest is history. So, here we are. 2022. Liberals, in jeopardy of being inundated by a conservative tsunami that will wash away all the progress that honored personal choices and privacy, are now left with only one choice: Fall back and regroup. What? Me worry?

welp enjoy your award! 😆

White folks aren't even *papered* for most of the petty crimes and misdemeanors they commit. Police might take white folks to the precinct mainly if they're drunk or high and/or belligerent. They're usually released on personal recognizance if they promise to appear in court. Once white folks show up in court for a petty crime or misdemeanor, the judge will thank them for being a good citizen and showing up and apologize for the inconvenience. 🤣😎

@Pioneer1, while running for POTUS, as Senator John McCain told the white woman who was disparaging future POTUS Barack Obama..."I'm not gonna let you do that...he's a good man."😁 In the grand scheme of things, white women know their place especially within the system of racism. They're always on code. The reason white women aligned their movement with AfroAmerican Civil Rights movement is because white men were vulnerable and listening. White men used the white women's movement as a way to put another layer between themselves and AfroAmericans. That's why white women earn more than black folks. White men got a 2 for 1 deal. They were able to calm down the home front and add another income to the household. IMO, white women weren't betrayed by black men during the Civil Rights struggle. They used it to their benefit. While it may never happen, if there was a race war, rest assured that white women would do as Dolly Parton instructed when she sang...stand by your man. Yep. Lilly will be locked and loaded with an AR-15 or Smith & Wesson busting shots just like her daddy taught her as a teenager. She might even be wearing a p8ssy hat. 🤣😎

I am surprised that you don't understand "hood talk"

LOL! Maybe later but for now... I missed you so much! 🥰

Ok fair Ok. I've had this same experience... I misunderstood your perspective - it felt like you were saying we gave up. Because there are so many people fighting to make this better than we found it. And let me tell you, you working to help folks who can't/won't help themselves especially when they want the help is hella sexy. 😍

In 2018, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that 81% of white victims were killed by white offenders, and 89% of Black victims were killed by Black offenders. #ThoughtsandPrayers

Mel I've pulled up enough links today to support my position. So, I'm going to ask you to pull up our record of social and civil movements, voting history and institutions since black men got the right to vote in 1870... That gives you 5 years grace period from enslavement. And then tell me with evidence, that we haven't continuously moved to make this place equitable since 1870. Note: Black Women didn't get to vote until 1920. I didn't say we haven't. That's not my argument. My argument was that: a) Only a HANDFUL of people in our community have been the ones doing the fighting, not the majority or even a sizeable percentage. and b) Our community has been too politically and socially unstable to form alliances with other groups. A few quick examples would be the fact that a Black man (Uncle Tom Thomas) helped overturn Roe vs Wade. Another is that of all people....BLACK people (especially Black men) INCREASED their support for an open racist like Trump: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54972389 https://www.thedailybeast.com/more-black-men-went-with-trump-this-time-i-asked-a-few-of-them-why https://thecincinnatiherald.com/2020/11/one-in-three-black-men-backed-trump-in-blue-wall-states/ Trump displayed more open racism than any President in modern history and for some reason his support among many AfroAmericans INCREASED. I know this to be true based on personal observation. You may have seen some white people out there working with you but they make up the majority of the population. Pareto Principle - If 20 percent of the people do 80 percent of the work then you will see 8,200,000 black people working in the social movements alongside 46,200,000 white folks. AND we don't live in the same states! So please don't say black people aren't working - there are 41 million black people in the U.S. and as usual we are working twice as hard to get half as much. Slow down and CALM down... You are arguing against points that I haven't even made! I said the Whites who WERE working with me were more hyped and ready to fight and take on the system than the Black people there, including the Black people who were homeless. It wasn't a matter of who made up the majority in the organization, it was a matter of DESIRE and who wanted to be in the movement and more importantly who wanted to be ACTIVE in the movements itself. Our movements were founded by Black people like myself, but often times when Whites would join we had to FIGHT TO KEEP THEM FROM TAKING OVER! They'd show up at every meeting and offering all kinds of suggestions while most of the Black folks who DID come would be chilling at the back of the room. They showed more of a DESIRE to confront the system and make changes....even if they weren't sincere about it and had other motives. They atleast put on a good show. I couldn't even get the average negro to do THAT. Couldn't get him to even PRETEND to give a damn...lol.

Clever and what's old becomes new again. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-26/rep-mary-miller-calls-roe-decision-victory-for-white-life

OMG, whyte people CAUSED our history of instability! 😂 Every time we set up shop somewhere, they make laws to knock them down. Are you kidding me? Have you been drinking "Flint Water"... Do you remember the Emergency Manager law in Michigan that led to poisoning the water? https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/law-led-poisoned-flint-water-racially-discriminatory-civil-rights How about the law that Robert Moses used to build the cross Bronx expressway that allowed the Bronx to be decimated? https://pages.vassar.edu/realarchaeology/2019/11/10/the-cross-bronx-expressway-and-the-ruination-of-the-bronx/ How about the law passed in South Carolina that is displacing families... https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/highways-black-homes-removal-racism/ NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Weary-eyed and feeling all of her 85 years, Hattie Anderson doesn't want to fight anymore. For most of her life, she held on to the large plot of land that she and her late husband Samuel pinched pennies to buy — even after the state ran a freeway through their mostly Black community after the city used eminent domain to take nearly nine acres for a sewage drain, and after the state added a beltway. But now, as state officials plan another major road expansion, Anderson is offering to sell them her land and leave. "If they don't take my house," she said, "I'm going to be just in a little corner, in a little hole by myself. Where I am, it's like a dead end." How about the whole ass beach front property whyte folks took from a black family, destroying their legacy, any opportunity to build generational wealth and have a place for black families to go when they weren't allowed anywhere else... After 93 years of fighting, they are finally getting their property back! https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-county-return-bruces-beach-black-family-descendants/2923656/ Black people have never stopped working to get this country to live up to its ideals of a more perfect union that Madison, Hamilton, and 'em drafted. Whyte folks keep displacing us, so we must do our work on the run. But every time they knock us down, we get up again. Eff their disappointment. I call B.S. on those "worthless whyte women."

The black populace in the USA in majority has one prime concern, money. Most Black people are not ignorant of the supreme court law or gun laws or any of those things but those things don't relate to what black people , correctly, care about most and that is money.

Exactly! They are down with the greys nationalism. I read a thread yesterday, where one white woman suggested something similar to what women did in Iceland in 1975 to get equal rights. Nearly every other comment stated "we can't do that" But in Iceland 90% of women in Iceland went on strike for one day 24 October 1975 - and that strike changed their entire trajectory of their country. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34602822 My home girl and rap partner produced this short film. 😁 FYI YouTube won't let me embed the video because YouTube gave it a mature rating 🙄 https://youtu.be/pdjQdT--MNk

The gov't had 50 years to codify Roe v Wade into law. It could have been taken out of the hands of SCOTUS. Rhetorically, I wonder why neither party pursued codification. Now, the politicians want to do what they always do...spend more time *talking* about it. 😎

The application of feudalism will be democratic among those without wealth. Poor people provide entertainment. Will we see real life Hunger or Squid Game(s)?

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We are returning to feudalism. Which will be slavery lite but it would be the first time all men (women) will be equal. The real history of the US is a bit different than the advertised version. Only white male property owners could vote.

The current Governor of Florida is a complete fool. Even scarier to think he's considered a strong GOP candidate for POTUS. America could be going down faster than the Hindenburg if we keep electing these clowns and idiots.😎

It should. Bodily Autonomy is guaranteed in the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution. SCOTUS, in a majority decision, says it’s a states’ right to make laws against someone’s body. Today it’s a woman’s body. So, the question remains who’s next. This was the final step before full-blow fascism. Now we’re here.

Government work used to be an option now it's prison, the military or some other quasi plantation that pays less than market rates, for people that get less than market rates.

@KENNETH Abortion has always been a luke warm issue in the black community because an unplanned pregnancy that results in bringing a baby into an unstable environment is something that dates back to slavery days, and is an experience imprinted on the black psyche, which instinctively adjusts to adverse situations. So having a baby is something many black females just take in their stride... Society doesn't seem to care about this. Nor is there any concern emanating from the conservative ranks of latter day slave masters masquerading as pro-lifers about the plight of such children. There is, however, a tendency among certain blacks to be lax in critical thinking when it comes to this issue. The situation isn't exclusively about abortion; it's about control. Those with the authority to make a woman have a baby, can also force her to not have a baby. The only person who has the right to exercise control over a woman's body is the woman, herself! Black people should be very leery about laws that intrude on an individual's personal choices. These insidious bans can be a gateway to enforcing other restrictions.

I wish the 'right-to-lifers" would be willing to exert the same energy and passion to preserving the lives of those who have actually been born. Support for quality universal health care would be a good start. To answer your question directly, anything that is bad for American people in general is almost always worse for Black people in particular. That said, this decision transcends race. It effects everyone.

That’s probably because you already know the difference between the “C” and the “P” is - inny and outty - and becomes erect with mental / physical stimulation.

See! Black Men know, or should know they are "Most Wanted". Oh snap! So, that had to hurt you. You know, with you being a Black man, and all. 😲

Heh heh heh... 😇 Thank you! I feel exactly the same way! 💓💓💓

Our black people need to admit something that is very uncomfortable. Our grandparents had to fight for civil rights and they got it indeed. Fast forward almost 60 years later and the black community is MUCH more violent than it ever was and a MUCH HIGHER number of Black babies are born out of wedlock despite having more rights and entitlements today than ever. In fact, blacks have WAY more rights and privileges than whites and hispanics. Despite all the work and sacrifices our black relatives made for the sake of civil rights, our community is much more violent and crime infested than ever. In fact, the black communities in America are amongst the most dangerous in the WORLD ! We were literally handed everything on a silver platter and yet we still cant seem to get our acts together, its so frustrating. I guess more rights for Blacks = More violent Blacks? We are not only killing one another, we are victimizing hard working whites, asians, and hispanics. we cant even speak using proper english. We cant even dress ourselves normally. We even have strange hairstyles. How did this ever happen? Are we not capable,of taking care of ourselves???? Do blacks need to be taken care of by the white race and even hispanics?

Threads such as this one are created for one reason and one reason only. To distract you from the real threats both Black genders face. When you respond to actual trolls, you give them a reason to continue posting their infantile diatribes. They exist to get a rise of people. And so many fall for it.