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Spoken (written) like a true old man. Every generation has a similar complaint about the next.🤣 Keep in mind that we were under 25 years old while bumping Gangsta rap music and watching violent azz movies. Our elders thought we were all going to h8ll in handbaskets. Yet, here we are as middle-aged men. We weren't motivated to rob, steal, kill and sell drugs as a result of music and movies. Don't get me wrong...plenty folks have gone on to be negative but the majority of them were conditioned by environmental factors moreso than entertainment. 😎

Lighten up bro. 🤣 If I thought there was an agenda behind these movies, I would not have seen them and would have been posted a similar concern. While I do believe some movies and music could contain subliminal messages, I listen for it while enjoying the artistic value. It's no different from violent movies and gangsta rap. We have to be mature enough to separate fact from fiction. When it comes to art in general, we should be able to acknowledge and appreciate talent, imagination and creativity. 😎

So the two so-called "best" Black films of 2022 just HAPPEN to be films depicting and encouraging Black women to take on roles as soldiers, fighters, and warriors. Clearly an agenda is afoot.

Regardless of his actions, do you agree with most of what the man actually says and the way he articulates it? A professor doesn't have to PRACTICE law in order to KNOW and TEACH it.

ProfD White folks through eachother under the bus all the time....lol. They just know WHEN to do it, HOW to do it, and WHO to do it around, and most of all they don't let their internal differences get in their way of practicing racism. White folks ostracize, abandon, set-up, lie on, cheat on, and kill eachother all over the planet but they still pretty much agree to put all of that to the side if a "Black threat" comes along threatening to limit or dissolve their power. When it comes to Kanye, it's not so much about throwing him under the bus as it is about CHECKING him and his nonsense. The dude is crazy as hell and like Willie D said he's actually a THREAT to our community: The nigga is just as bad if not worse than the dope dealers and gangster rappers because his platform is so huge and he's getting so much attention....negative attention....that is being painted as representative of the Black community, when it's not. Most Black folks don't talk or think like that clown. As I said time and time again, his face is being used as the NEW MASK of anti-semitism and right-wing doctrine. So now if you try to make the claim that "Black folks" aren't anti-semitic or we don't say silly extremist shit like the right-wing....they can just prove you wrong by pointing at Kanye.

@Conceptart88 use the internet and simply ask monks or asians who are associated with monks. One of the tragedies of the internet is many groups have emails have message systems to communicate with. Use them. Ask them directly, how do you want to be viewed in video games? What are your peeves with how monks are represented? Do you know of some monks who are lesser known, who are not of asian descent but of african descent, indigenous native american descent. Ask about. If I was in your shoes that is what I will do. And when you have a black character? ask the folks here what they think. When you develop a character, beyond it being accepted or culturally suitable, knowing more about a subculture or culture can expand how you see the character and its own plot or usefullness or abilities in the game.

Haiti needs help, but like many countries in humanity, the help it needs is beyond the means for people in the usa who want to help it, cause the usa is the problem. The american continent is the problem. I don't want to sound defeatist, but what many forget to say about haiti is that when black people earned its long fought freedom from usa/france/uk/spain it was surrounded by enemies. Haiti was the first country in the american continent since it became commonly called the american continent that being black was positive. From Argentina to Canada being black wasn't positive. even if slavery didn't exist in one corner of the american continent, Black people being oppressed by whites/blancos/mestizos/mullatoes was present throughout the entire continent outside of haiti. People forget Cuba, the closest country to haiti , didn't have a similar revolution. And black people in cuba were oppressed by whites or mestizoes. Jamaica a little farther but the same. Haiti's problem is, it's environment was totally opposed to one of its founding principles, black power. Now in modernity , after a long time of abuse from neighbors, how can haiti be helped from the outside? Haiti's solution must come from within, but it can't be from haitian's in NYC, or Black folk in the usa or some other country in the american continent still dominated by whites, talking about making it better.

No, I'm not kidding. Now I freely admit I have not read everything posted on these forums. But I don't recall reading a number of posts that would justify your statement: "Many Black men, and I suspect this of some in this forum, remain insanely jealous of Barack Obama." Please share a single post from this forum that you think would characterize the poster as "insanely jealous" of Obama. I've posted quite a few things critical of Obama on these forums, but I would not characterize myself as jealous of Obama. Were you aware that a full two years into his presidency Obama would not give a Black-owned newspaper an interview? Why do you think Obama chose not to speak with the Black press? George E. Curry editor of the NNPA News Service, complained last week that President Obama was disrespecting the black media, too. “There is a disrespect for the black press that we have not seen in recent years. For example, we have requested — every year — an interview with the president. He can ignore 200 black newspapers and 19 million viewers but he can give one to every stupid white comedian there is on TV, the black ones and the white ones, and has time for all types of buffoonery but they will not respect the black press enough to give us an interview,” Curry said on TVOne’s NewsOneNow with Roland Martin. —from Richard Prince’s Journal-isms™ I think Obama avoided the Black press because they would have attempted to hold him accountable to Black people. White media is not inclined, or even able, to do this. They harped on him being the first Black President and being "so articulate." We HAVE to support our own platforms to be unified. If the first so-called Black president refuses to grant the Black press an interview, that is a SERIOUS problem for Black unity. Am I wrong about this?

"Insanely Jealous" I'm not sure which Black men said what to prompt this conclusion. When people point out that Obama, who has a white mother, is not a descendant of enslaved Africans, was raised quite differently than most Black people and simply is very different than most Black Americans. Acknowledging that difference is not jealousy. Similarly, when people point out that Obama bailed out the crooks in the banking industry, his financial backers, while millions lost homes without getting any relief; that is not jealousy it is calling out inequity that has contributed to accelerating the wealth gap in the country. @frankster The New York Times has a paywall so I read this article regarding the achievement gap Obama closed after his inauguration. To me to give Obama that much credit seems extreme. The study admittedly used a small sample set and has not been peer-reviewed. What are the long-term effects since the study was conducted? Presumably, Black people do not get immediately smarter after Obama was sworn into office. Are we to believe that Obama's election had the immediate effect of reducing test-taking anxiety because of Black people's increased sense of competence among African-Americans after Obama was sworn in -- immediately and completely eliminated differences in test scores? As far as Obama's impact on reducing violence in the Black community, to attribute any declines to one man, even President Obama, is a stretch -- on it's face. Violent crime was on a decline nationwide before Obama was elected. It is like Giuliani taking credit for a decline in crime in NYC because of his "broken windows" policy. Changes in crime are complex and usually not attributable solely to one person. That is like blaming the increase in violent crime, in Chicago, on Lightfoot. Obama is clearly a person who can "think rationally," is great "at public speaking" and, can galvanize "others to be inspired by him." These are fine qualities but there are many Black people with these characteristics, Obama will always be great as he was the first Black president. Now some might be a little jealous of the privilege, riches, and other benefits that come from this 😉 In fact that is probably normal... But "Insane" jealousy against Obama, as demonstrated by what anyone has written here, is hyperbolic.

LOL @Pioneer1 This is one of your favorite movies? I've never heard of it. At any rate, I think that research is a good idea today.

Agreed. I've mentioned before that we need an AfroAmerican security force ro protect our poeple and interests to include maintaining discipline among our own too. The Million Man March is the concept but it doesn't literally require that many strong Black men to form a counsel to oversee codification and enforcement of an AfroAmerican agenda and unification.😎

AND, you are wrong about your understanding of Toussaint Loverture. His name would not be so well known if he had not played a major role in the organization of the revolution. No, @Pioneer1 The Revolution did not occur before him but after he began to better organize the maroon groups. smh. And as far as the religious aspect, you need to read what @Stefan wrote. Your understanding about this subject is so flawed.