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Come on man, you KNOW Tipsy is going to eventually respond back with a close up picture of himself or some drag queen...lol. Talking about.... "...and uhh what percentage of Black or Native ancestry would you say THIS person has in them? By the way, check you private message....I have something SPECIAL to tell you!" Come on bro, you get to know people after a while....lol.

Also, what would you guess their relationship to be? I'm conducting a small study on perception and appreciate your responses! I will reveal answer shortly so you can know how close you were.

Troy Maaaaan YOU KNOW Tipsy Turvy! I can't believe you even bothered to ENTERTAIN this question.....lol.🤣

Kenneth Maybe there's no real consensus or even a concern among large numbers of Black voters especially men about race specific policies. How many brothers care about stalled police reform and voting rights legislation in Congress. Are they willing to fight for it ? Did they do anything to press Congress or President Biden or Kamala Harris on such issues ? I bet they didn't. Didn't we just have a series of riots back a few years ago over police brutality? I'm not sure how much clearer Black youth could have made their concerns known if threatening to burn down half of the cities in the U.S. didn't do the job...lol. I think Black Americans and especially Black men have made it CRYSTAL CLEAR that we'd like politicians to do something about police misconduct and brutality as well as criminal justice reform in general. We've also made it clear we need more good paying jobs with benefits. Perhaps a good question would be how much MEDIA TIME is being given to us and our concerns and how much is the mainstream media actually legitimizing them? When it comes to LGBTQIA and White women's issues, the mainstream media focuses on them like a laser beam with commercials, townhall specials, billboards, etc... You can't open up a magazine or look at a billboard without seeing some naked White woman with some "message" tattooed on her ass or across her belly making her concerns crystal clear. There is no mistaking or misunderstandings about her concerns. They don't do that with Black men and our issues. Not to that level anyway. When was the last time you saw a billboard with a picture of a naked Black man on it and a pair of handcuffs dangling off his dick talking about we need to "arrest police brutality and put an end to it now" ??? Moreover how many disinterested brothers really are aware of what Biden has done to benefit us through Student Loan Forgiveness or parts of the Inflation Reduction Act. The former gives us badly needed debt relief while the latter creates thousands of new skilled jobs. Has ANY of these loans actually been forgiven yet? I haven't followed it much but from what I've heard and read he kept trying to push the Act but it kept being tabled or put on hold by the Republicans in Congress (the usual excuse) so it hasn't been Enacted yet. It's easy to get mad and complain or simply drop out. But too many of us don't want to do the hard work thinking, speaking up, and advocating even when there are setbacks. Often the benefits aren't always immediate. Facts. Can't argue with you there. I believe our bruthaz need more support and motivation and this is something we should NOT expect from White people who have a vested interest is keeping us politically INactive. We need this support and motivation from other AfroAmericans politicians who are already in positions of power to do so. But what's worse is the contempt for and opposition to Black women for doing what we men often refuse to do. Kamala Harris might lose this election in part because alot of us brothers will stay home. I actually wanted Michelle Obama...a TRUE Black woman....to run for President. I guess the support wasn't strong enough. What TANGIBLE benefits has Kamala promised Black men specifically that would motivate them to run out and vote for her over Trump? Troy I’m not sure this is true. Most kids have a man in the house, he just may not be the biological father Ahhh, here we go again...lol. Just like the Gangsta Rap encouraging violence debacle; do you need "case studies" and "links" to verify this statement before accepting it? There's a difference between an actual FATHER in the house vs some dude or DIFFERENT DUDES dropping by the house every now and then playing football with you or bar-b-quing on the weekends he comes by to bang the mother. These "men in the house" you speak of that you'd like to compare to a father figure: 1. Are they there in the house virtually every day since the child's birth until they go off to college? 2. Are they at Parent-Teacher conferences with the mother? 3. Are they paying or helping to pay the bills of the home? 4. Are they fixing whatever needs to be fixed around the home or calling up and paying someone who can do it? These are things an actual FATHER does (or should do). It may be a stretch for me to say this but, I don't think MOST (meaning 51% or more) Black American men currently in the United States can say they grew up around men who did that.

Haiti is shining example of Black folks fighting back. Apparently, other Black folks decided poverty into perpetuity and/or dealing with racism white supremacy was better than a possible genocide in going to war against whites. I'm not advocating individual growth over communal growth. I just gave examples of circumstances in which cash payments have been accepted. Some individuals aren't willing to wait on the community to pull itself together in order get whatever they're owed. The establishment already knows that giving money and/or land to folks improperly equipped to handle a windfall of riches will end up back in their hands.😎

@richardmurray, if possible, please lay out how irreparable damages should be redressed.😎

Maybe there's no real consensus or even a concern among large numbers of Black voters especially men about race specific policies. How many brothers care about stalled police reform and voting rights legislation in Congress. Are they willing to fight for it ? Did they do anything to press Congress or President Biden or Kamala Harris on such issues ? I bet they didn't. Moreover how many disinterested brothers really are aware of what Biden has done to benefit us through Student Loan Forgiveness or parts of the Inflation Reduction Act. The former gives us badly needed debt relief while the latter creates thousands of new skilled jobs. It's easy to get mad and complain or simply drop out. But too many of us don't want to do the hard work thinking, speaking up, and advocating even when there are setbacks. Often the benefits aren't always immediate. But what's worse is the contempt for and opposition to Black women for doing what we men often refuse to do. Kamala Harris might lose this election in part because alot of us brothers will stay home.

Divorce, car accidents, crimes, etc., have been litigated with cash payouts to the victims and/or their families. The Jews and Japanese have been given cash and/or land as reparations for their loss, pain and suffering. I don't believe they're still looking for apologies. Especially considering how their countries have been able to thrive and flourish. The aggrieved would be wise to study how those groups were able to receive and accept those *apologies*.😎

@ProfD: These reluctant black male voters would be whining and sulking if they were being ignored and written off. When approached about joining a crusade to ward off the kind of dictatorship that Trump is just salivating to turn America into, all these smug brothas can think about is asking what's in it for them. The answer to that quiery is: a country that will have staved off a theocratic fascistic take over. And just for the record, John Legizamo, Geoge Lopez and Rosie Perez have been urging Hispanics to support Kamala. And the female vote is also being solicited by prominent women from all sectors to gain support for Roe vs Wade. I hate to burst their inflated sense of importance, but these obstinate black men aren't the only ones being asked to volunteer their vote. When Obama was running for POTUS, nobody had to put their foot up the asses of black women to gain their support. They were eager to help him get elected, not looking for anything in return, just glad to participate in a quest for the common good. Not so with these black men, many of whom are the same ones who quickly became disillusioned with Obama because he couldn't overthrow institutionalized racism or overcome a Republican-dominated senate. All of this is just one more reason why I was not enthusiastic about Kamala's candicacy. As I feared, she is being held to a much higher standard than a man. Trump's flaws are overlooked because people identify with his vulgar, petty, incompetence, but as a woman running for president, Kamala Harris is punished for not being perfect. I will be pleasantly surprised if she wins. I can only hope...