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Don't forget Jazz and gospel. There is zero musical culture that white people have created without the influence of Black Americans. You seem to have forgotten whites would have starved with help from the indigenous Americans. Which they repaid by slaughtering their hosts. Here's a hint Hidden Figures. White people all over the world are successful because of stealing and genocide. Read the real history of the Untied States. The suggestion that you either read or think is rhetorical.

Complacency: The space between the rock and the hard place. Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Representative, NY - 12th District, 1969-1983, ahead of time and on time!

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.

In my opinion the real fight is class not race. Which explains why revolutionary thinkers lean more towards socialism. I am thinking primarily of Angela Y. Davis, although I believe this thread was present in the Black Panthers as well. You would know that better than most.

I have been telling people since Trump left office that the Liar in Chief ended his term with less people working than they were when he took the oath. But Trump lovers don't like to read. They just love to fulminate. U.S. lost millions of jobs during Trump administration Memories from the days Lord Dampnut tried to defy world leaders ...

Dude, you want us to know you DID NOT wish harm to President Barack Obama? Even though you opposed everything about him? Well, whoopie doo! Hold on, I'm trying to contact the head office of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

Some may not be aware that decades ago, many Negroes who managed to snag a power position often lorded it over other Negroes who lacked their standing. In company offices, (before the term corporations was universally adopted), we called these ones HNIC's. For Head Nigger in Charge. And man, did many enjoy the little bit of power they had. From some of their actions and sense of entitlement, I vowed that if I ever became a manager, to treat everyone with respect. And I did. It's a sad individual who's been little regarded most of their life and when they get a piece of power, they act as if they're demented sultans. Drunk with the authority to supervise, some will embark on campaigns to make others' lives miserable. You see this is a lot in retail, fast food and in the lower echelons of the job market. We'll always have such folks. But the people I am focusing on are the egocentric knuckleheads who see themselves as superior to other Blacks. These toadies are the dangerous ones. Along with the insecure and envious, these will seek to undermine, frustrate and if they can, destroy any other Black that can do something they cannot. Jealousy kills people. Believe it. Be extremely wary of such individuals and create your own support group and sounding board. This is how we members of the National Association of Black Journalists managed to survive the constant brickbats, lies and phony complaints many of us had to endure from White counterparts.

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@Troy the reason why black folks have to read about black on black crime cause white owned media chooses that to be a genre to emit. It also helps that white asians/white latinos/white women side many other whites enjoy berating the black peoples who are aside them in their particular races, ala black latinos. But the question is the solution. And as this site proves. Black people are the problem. We don't use the media black people own enough. In the same way we don't use the hsbc's enough. If we as a people can't ween off white media it isn't white media's fault that they are doing what is best for them. Your point is correct but the problem is the solution goes against what most black people in the usa say is a solution, ala getting white media to change.

@Stefan, it's not surprising that you were attacked by black right-wing defendants. Black folks supporting racists goes back to slavery. Slaves would snitch on those who had escaped and they would whip those who had been recaptured and/or committed other infractions. Nowadays, black folks (police officers, lawyers, judges, correctional officers, etc.), enforce racist laws against their own people just as effectively if not better than the white folks who put the laws in place. So, politically, there's no shortage of black folks who will see that half full/half empty jar in one direction or the other and drink up the Kool-Aid. I've asked women what their rationale was for staying with someone folks would consider a *no good* man. The response I received fell along the lines of...I'd rather stay with the devil I know rather than pick up a new one. Black folks are faced with the same conundrum. Support a racist that has revealed it or align with a racist suspect. 😎

@Stefan, I would contend that a troll cannot destroy a forum that has well-informed and intelligent folks capable of articulating and defending their position on topics. Trolls or folks incapable of logical thoughts and/or holding a conversation won't stick around for too long. While it would be easier to let a troll thread fall off the main page, we can also use them for target practice. 😁 Here is a *paper trail* of consistency in calling out ignorance and providing truth, facts and reasonable thought. From a positive perspective...our written words is proof that we can and do communicate effectively.😎

Admission...the most uncomfortable thing to me as an AfroAmerican is when it's so d8mn hot outside, I start sweating as soon as I step outta the shower. 🤣😎

@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. 🤣😎

@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.

You know, of course, that Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party was from my home town. Not really a contemporary of his, I, nevertheless, watched him transform from an idealistic NAACP youth council leader into a radicalized black militant. As an onlooker I knew i was witnessing history in the making. A few years later, i stood in the long line to view his body and - to wonder what the future held. And here we are... A bust of Hampton is on display outside of the local swimming pool named in his honor. He promised the young black kids who had no place to swim that he would one day change that. And he did.

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 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.😎

Ok Stefan as i previously wrote the last time you made this claim. You exhibited, continue to exhibit troll like behavior. For example making claims of me that are demonstrably untrue. For example, I have problem with people sharing memes I’ve done it myself. Simply sharing a name die not make a troll.

ProfD But do you know who I blame for this? ANDREW GILLUM Why? Because he actually WON the election for Governor of Florida but just like Al Gore and just like Stacey Abrams who also won their elections....the nigga refused to FIGHT for the office! They know good and dog-gone well that Black voters were suppressed and disenfranchised all over Florida and those racist were throwing away ballots left and right. Had been doing it for DECADES. But instead of challenging the results and taking it all the way to Washington D.C. if necessary.....he bowwed his head and conceded. He let these racist devils inside the Democrat party (just like inside the Republican party) whisper in his ear that it's better not to contest the election and to "move on" and he LISTENED to those bastards. Now he's getting hit with one scandal after another. First he's caught on some yatch passed out drunk, naked, with a sissy sitting next to him grinning. Now he's getting hit with fraud charges. That's the price he said for selling out and letting these racist bastards off the hook when he SHOULD have not only fought for that seat but also launched an investigation to find out all who were involved in the fraud and suppression and prosecute their asses. It's not much to say when a nigga CHOOSES to be a damn slave.