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Scientifically, we know the Earth is billions of years old. It's on schedule to last another 5 billion years. Humans will not.🤣 Human beings aren't billions of years old. At least, we have not found any evidence. Of course it could be argued that as we're recycling fossil fuels... but I digress.😁 Human beings have spent the better part of their existence trying figure out 1) the best way to survive and 2) how we got here. Humans eventually started using various methods and means of keeping track of their time on the planet and events. That's how we ended up with calendars, dates and times. These are markers and placeholders of our existence on the planet. Date and time could be construed as an arbitrary construct. That would take the joy and fun out celebrating birthdays, holidays and other milestones.😎

The direct answer to your question is that a part of AfroAmerican culture should be encouraging and promoting healthy relationships which extend from family to community. There was a time when a man was forced to marry a woman he knocked up. Out-of-wedlock births weren't cool or normalized. The entire village had a hand in raising children and insuring the well-being of the community. It was a relationship. The lack of solid relationships eventually leads to the breakdown of families and communities. It's the root cause of disunity. 😎

New Year isn't a conspiracy bro.🤣 Winter isn't the same all over the country or planet.😉 For those of us who live in colder climates, the delayed beauty of spring gives us more time to get right in the New Year.😁 Happy New Year AALBC fam. Wishing you all the best in 2023 and beyond. 😎

RIP ANITA POINTER Singer Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has died at age 74 January 1, 20235:57 AM ET The Grammy winner passed away while she was with family members, publicist Roger Neal said in a statement. A cause of death was not immediately revealed. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1146506030/anita-pointer-pointer-sisters-has-died She passed away yesterday, December 31, 2022, at the age of 74. Another celebrity also just passed, Barbara Walters. She died on December 30, 2022 at the age of 93. And remember last year at this time, Betty White died too, December 31, 2021 at the age of 99. May they all RIP. I loved the music of the Pointer Sisters! I just recently read that they were originally from Arkansas and when they were young, their family moved to California. I also did not realize that two other of the Pointer sisters had also passed away. June Pointer died due to cancer in 2003 at the age of 52. And Bonnie Pointer died recently in 2020 at the age of 69. So therefore, that leaves the one with the heavy vocals, Ruth Pointer that is still living and also some beloved brothers are still living. Anita Pointer is said to be one of the main ones to organize the group. She had only one daughter, Jada, but she passed away before her mother. Jada died of cancer in 2003 at the age of 37. I remember that Carol Burnette obviously like them as she featured them at times on her variety show. RIP BONNIE, RIP ANITA *At one point, Bonnie Pointer actually left the group and went solo for a while. And when she did, the other Pointer Sister's did not know if they would make it. However, they continued to make music a few years later. Anita once said that her sister Bonnie is claimed to have been a major factor to their success. Anita, Ruth, Bonnie and June Pointer, born the daughters of a minister, grew up singing in their father's church in Oakland, California. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1146506030/anita-pointer-pointer-sisters-has-died June Pointer died of cancer at the age of 52 in 2006. June Pointer Bonnie Pointer

Facts. Every now and then, the universe will send monsters otherwise known as devils among us. There's no shortage of evil folks of all stripes throughout recorded human history. They are responsible for dysfunctional behaviors. However, the evil that is racism white supremacy is unprecedented. 😎

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I completely ignored the news about this cold snap. But yeah, it was pretty bad. Pipes exploded in my neck of the woods in the Chesapeake Bay area. It's so cold that it couldn't even snow. But now, it very warm.

This is a false statement. Man white people -- even Republicans are completely against Trump's voter fraud conspiracy theory and others were convinced enough to store the Capitol -- not exactly a picture of unity. Alex Jones will almost certainly go to jail because of his false claims that the school was a hoax. White folks in the country have never been "unified," the blood bath known as the civil war demonstrated this quite plainly. The race-wide unity for Black folks you desire is a pipe dream. The social construct of "race" has nothing to do with the people themselves; expecting it to be some unifying factor is naïve. That said, we can certainly rally around the cause of defeating racism. The people unified around this cause can be of any so-called "race."