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  1. Fuel for thought. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/15-characteristics-of-people-who-make-things-happen_b_6999282
  2. @Chevdove what i forgot to think about to the purposes is the negative internet industrial complex. Meaning, the reality is, negativity makes money. it is the simple truth. Rush limbaugh i never cared for but he did comprehend a simple truth in modern media. Which I can prove through reactions to various posts in various places online. positive post never get the reaction negative posts do, it is the simple truth. People can argue the computers heuristics are weighted towards the negative but I am not certain. If I make a blog: Women Are Bitches #youknowWAB many people connected to me will probably disconnect but the reality is, regardless of what I truly think, if I keep up that messaging, men will reply, your right rich and women will reply, f- u Rich! and thus the storm is made between two mobs that can only grow as long as I maintain the theme and don't betray it. Those are the rules to the NIIC , 1)never betray the negativity - look at limbaugh or schrumpft, never do they give up on it. And that includes sensationalism. if on my blog women are bitches, if i say , on the hundredth day anniversary I will expose the three biggest bitches in the world. whomever I name doens't matter, the sensationalism matters. if someone asks me, what about my mother. i have to call my mother a foul name. why? because that is staying loyal to the negativity. 2)do it as much as you can, daily, hourly, secondly, look at Schrumpft on twitter. I never followed him on twitter but I knew people offline who did, or was acquaintance to people online who did but the thing is, both sets of people said they hated/disliked him. but the question then is, why follow? And the answer is simple. they love to argue, to be part of a mob.and they know that like the reformation the counter reformation is always right behind so people like schrumpf or others who peddle in negativity, always create two groups, that are very vocal online.The group that supports them and the group that opposes them. And this connects to the woman king. Negativity concerning the woman king film is attracting users online likes bees to pollen. And I even argue that viola davis may have aided and abetted this, by replying the way she did. In the same way I think jk rowling did with her continued replies with the lgbtq+ community. I do think people like to play the opposite of limbaugh's and schrumpfts and not start the mob but give it breadcrumbs. People will analyze every posts viola davis makes and dissect it concerning the woman king. The fact that viola davis is in Black Adam while Lupita Nyongo is in Black Panther and both were supposed to be in The Woman King and Lupita Nyongo or Viola Davis are small time media manipulators ... it leads to a complex web. And the general audience is the sucker falling for all these traps.
  3. Thank you for posting this video, @Mel Hopkins, it was spellbounding! I was so caught up into it. Lupita is so lovely. The women were so so so beautiful! One of the women, the Agoutie woman warrior, had eyes like the late Mandela, in fact, the photos, seems to show this trait, and this strikes me and leads me to believe that some of these people are from the east world. The leopard idols and the skulls, and the headhunting expeditions, seems to match other ancient warrior civilizations, such as the ancient Maya too and in the Old Mediterranean Baal cults. Yes all that we can do is speculate as to why Lupita pulled out of it unless she says something. However, for her to go to Benin and produce this amazing film and then pull out, does seem like she may have pulled out for something about the truth. LOL! You're so rightt! However, that's me. I loved the film Black Panther, so much so, I bought the dvd. But I did not like some of the women warrior scenes nor did I like some of the fight scenes of the males either. I still don't have any opinions one way or the other about the Women King movie. I agree with the summaries given though, in the documentary and what you said, in that the Aguojie warrior women were both victims and warriors. I think that many of them were forced into it and as Lupita said, too, I think I probably would have been dragged into it because I am not a submissive person, and so, I would have been sought out and forced into it, I believe. Yes, @richardmurray maybe. You may be right because I don't have a problem with viola or the film, I just wondering now, what the hype is about.
  4. I don't know his agenda but he has written a book that outlines a compensatory counter-racist code for dealing with the system of racism white supremacy. 😎
  5. What is Neely Fuller's agenda? As for Lupita - she went to the source and filmed a documentary in what looks like 2019. But she didn't pull out of the film until 2020, as announced by JuVee, Viola's production company, when they announced director Gina Prince-Bythewood' would join the project. Maybe she pulled out of the film because of the director? I suggest scheduling. Maybe contract negotiations broke down. Maybe Viola's production company needed to raise more money to pay her salary. Perhaps she got COVID? Anyway, folks are so fickle. No one had a problem with the Black Panther film, a 100 percent black woman empowerment movie. The women were warriors, the women were technologists, and the women were necromancers... The women were 100 percent in control of every facet of Wakanda, and the men were mere figureheads, but no one seemed to mind. Anyway, suppose you go to timecode 36:48 in this film. Here, Lupita discusses Dahomey's human trafficking, and the women share how they glorify the warriors while honoring their loved ones who were harmed by the history...Lupita concludes the people are both warriors and victims. Much like how we Black Americans celebrate our excellence. Even though there are young Black men, who have been tried and convicted for trafficking our Black girls into sex slavery. She also says it wasn't the women warriors but the order of the King to traffic people into slavery. As I inferred in the beginning when asking about Fuller's plan. No one is one thing. We are all very much like the two-faced god Janus. Yet, only the adults in our culture understand this aspect of humanity. When Black people finally wake up to this part of human nature, we'll stop living through this perpetual "ground hog" day. Also you can find the video on the Smithsonian channel too https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/episodes/zv150s/warrior-women-with-lupita-nyong-o-warrior-women-with-lupita-nyong-o-ep-1
  6. Congrats @Milton https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9798985733631
  7. Agreed. Organizing that 500 Black folks and getting them on code to solve a problem is a challenge. I feel that we missed a huge opportunity during the Million Man March in unifying Black men. So much more positive could have come out of that movement in terms of progress. 😎
  8. Do not deprive yourself of oxygen (hold your breath) waiting to see Black police officers arresting white folks for voter intimidation or anything without permission. For that reason, Black police officers won't be assigned to voting stations to monitor voter intimidation. But, they'll show up wth sirens blaring if someone breaks in line or steals a ballot. 🤣 Look no further than the January 6th insurrection. That video shows everything one needs to know about how white folks are handled by law enforcement. They were instructed to stand down. Do not fire a shot. January 6th would have been totally different if the rioters were people of color. It would have been a massacre with hundreds shot dead and/or imprisoned. There would be no investigation or senate select sub-committee hearings except to create a new public holiday...Put Em Down Day. White folks have privileges here that aren't extended or afforded to anyone else when it comes to crime and punishment. 😎
  9. @Pioneer1, AfroAmericans have been in Cali for a long time. Like everywhere else in the USA, it's unfortunate that our folks didn't build an economic infrastructure out there. AfroAmericans should own a huge chunk of the entertainment industry and ancillary businesses feeding from it. 😎
  10. I hope our sister will be freed and I think she will. However it may not be until after the media makes a big deal out of her being a lesbian and shows her and her Black "wife". The plan is to show the entire world how perverse and sexually confused Black Americans have become, and this story is a great opportunity for them to take advantage of.
  11. I believe sista Britney Grinder will be freed when the politicians decide to make a deal. Everything else is a sham.😎

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