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I guess that would mean I have to get up out of my easy chair and head over to a corner staring at the wall.🤣😎

I didn't write that a well known or popular person could not be a leader. I wrote that being well known or popular doesn't necessarily qualify them be leaders. An individual has to want and/or be willing to be a leader. Of course, I've come to expect nothing less than your opposition to my assertion/opinion.😁😎

Hey @ProfD you better watch yourself or else I'll have to ban you LOL! Seriously, THIS comment is "racist and hurtful?!" Actually, by definition, it is the Karens who are racist and hurtful! It was probably a Karen that requested that the comment be pulled.

It is Obvious as a People we can get along without it....as we have been doing - each in their own way... some succumbing most striving and many thriving. How can you speak for all the Descendants of enslaved Africans....You yourself do not need. Let each Descendants speak for themselves or their interest being represented by our scholars on the issues involved. I agree and some of the money from reparations can go to trade schools and social recreation centers in Black Communities... ...As well as to Prison reform which is taking many black men and black fathers out of their homes Every child has a father so we do have the exactly right amount....what can be lacking is a Dad. The Missing/absent Black fathers.....is a Racist stereotype The Myth Of The Absent Black Father| AJ+ I don't see any Blacks sitting around and waiting....the reason you are talking is because blacks have been demanding it in one form or another ever since the so called abolition of legal force enslavement Many have lift themselves up....yet the demand for Reparation is A Human Right for Violations of our Ancestors Human Rights. They not "PLAYING THE VICTIM" they were and we are Victims....talk about blaming the victim. It is the Law that the perpetrators of Human Rights and Civil Rights Violation must pay some sort of Indemnity...to the victims or society for their actions if not they themselves then those who benefits from their Holdings, Subsidiaries, Estates and or Entails. Haiti paid France Indemnity to the tune of $20 billion over 120 yrs to just a few hundred traffickers in human misery...160 yrs is not too long. If you have Black Blood you are entitle....One drop Rule. Reparation is about being a descendant of enslaved Peoples White Union Soldiers who died helping to set free black men and women was and were doing their duties as Soldiers...I thank them for their service Were they paid for their services??? Are they descendants of enslaved Black Africans?? Yes. Yes.... Prove/make your/their claim/case....Plaintiff/defendant Who or where are the descendants of these christian slaves - who or what will represent the Ottoman Empire(Turkey???!!!!) When Justice is Served....it ends The Quest for Reparations did not Start with the democratic Party....IT goes all the way back to the very early days of the end of legal enslavement where in the formerly enslaved ask for land and a pension(Belinda Sutton/Royall) and Field Order no.15 Welfare....what about it?? We are and we have... Holocaust and Slavery Reparations with Thomas Craemer Your homage to pink floyd...Practitioners of socialistic anarchism is telling of your dissonance - a soul in crisis

True that. Music as art still has to be entertaining on some level. Even a legendary rapper like Rakim can drop knowledge but his persona and delivery still have an element of entertainment too. Flavor Flav can actually rap despite his antics.😎

If anything, they should have kept Professor Griff and ditched Flav.....lol. I still think it was wrong they way they did Griff. He didn't say anything that Public Enemy as a group weren't rapping about anyway. His remarks CERTAINLY weren't nearly as anti-semitic as Ice Cube's were in No Vaseline....yet Ice Cube went on to have a major successful career in Hollywood. Troy Are you talking about this video? .....the video and radio version was the EDITED version, lol. I come to find out later that about a quarter of the actual lyrics were edited out to shorten the song! Here's the song in it's original totality:

@Pioneer1 I don’t think people who are locked up are factored into the poverty figures. The poverty rate also measures income versus a defined figure fora location as more blacks move out of cities where the threshold for poverty is higher to place where the threshold is lower poverty rates will decline (assuming local rates are being used in the graph above. People were still getting stimulus checks, PPE money, extended unemployment in 2022 right? with inflation, rising the cost of energy from utilities to gasoline. The Increased cost of money I can see gains in 2022 being erased.

The solution is even simpler...human beings need to do a better job in taking care of each other. More love. Less greed.😎

I admit that living in Western Michigan, my region isn't the most ideal one to measure and determine how successful Black America collectively is doing, but having grown up in a mostly Black city and having been all over the nation since the 80s.....AND knowing history....I have to question who came out with that report and how did they come to the conclusions they came to. How can more Black Americans be in jail and homeless right now more than in any time in history AND be at a record low poverty rate at the same time???? Black folks....in Michigan atleast....collectively were doing MUCH better in the 80s and early 90s than they are collectively today. Not nearly as many were incarcerated. You didn't see nearly as many homeless. Most lived in houses that they either owned or were buying. Most had good jobs in factories with benefits and decent pay. The percentage is MUCH lower now. More Black folks have college degrees today than in the past....true. But those jobs are very transient and you bounce from one to the other without a retirement, the pay doesn't seem to buy as much, and many don't even get jobs in their field of study. You drive around the nation today and you see pockets where thousands of Black folks are out on the streets begging and many many more thousands are locked up behind bars.....not counted in the economic system. Like the unemployment rate -I don't think they even count incarcerated people when they do poverty statistics. It's like they don't even exist. But being incarcerated is worse than poverty. And being homeless and destitute as so many are today is worse than living on a meager income in the projects as so many were in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

Yep. Americans should be asking themselves why there is poverty at all in the most powerful country on the planet. Of course, it's by design.😎