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POTUS OJ signed an Executive Order (EO) to place federal employees working in DEI offices on leave immediately. The administration has given agencies a couple months to determine how they are going to strip DEI programs. The administration also wants DEI removed from websites. They are also encouraging private businesses and organizations to do the same. Granted, it will be very easy to place DEI under EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) with Human Resources departments. Like Affirmation Action, EEO has been around for decades. Removing the acronym DEI from the public discourse is a flex by the administration to satisfy their base. It does not necessarily kill the initiative. Merit-based selection is an oxymoron in a land of opportunities built on greed, racism, nepotism, Homestead Act, Jim Crow, redlining and every other obstacle of placed in the path of progress for people who do not carry favor under white supremacy. As America rolls back to the 1950s, hopefully Black folks will use this climate as motivation to consider building infrastructures that are not dependent on the goodies, guarantees and giveaways that white folks bestow upon themselves. For example, investing heavily in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and establishing companies, businesses, institutions, banks, hospitals, etc., that provide opportunities to their graduates is something Black folks can do. There would be no need for Affirmative Action, EEO or DEI if/when Black people could rely on themselves for opportunities instead of white benevolence.😎

TikTok seems to be great for taking advantage of 1) short attention spans and 2) instant gratification. Adults have found their place on TikTok but it was definitely created for young people hence the name of it.😎

Of course I'm of the view that we should fight all this stuff. However there's never anything wrong with self help. Here's what I think : 1. Black people own and start all kinds of businesses all the time. Most of them are very small and don't employ many people. We need to get into growth industries to make money off everybody and create wealth and opportunities. The idea of thriving self contained local ethnic neighborhood based economy as the road to freedom will not work. That's been over. 2. In cities where blacks have political clout and successful companies like Atlanta or others we need to focus on community development with black businesses central to that effort. However it's not enough just to make some blacks richer and part of the elitist 1%. We need look at pulling up all blacks as the focus of public policy in mostly black cities like Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, and Washington DC. 3. If white people don't respect us or our rights then black businesses people, activists, and politicians need to start looking to strategic partnerships with foreigners to do things. We need to also look at boycotts and financial pressure.

@Pioneer1 tiktok was never owned by the chinese government, the firm that owns it in china is bytedance. The issue with china is the chinese constitution which is not in its first iteration but fourth, specifically gives, from the first iteration, the chinese government control over any firm for the interest of china. This stems from the china being split into parts by outsiders including the usa before mao. No firm doing business in china or based in china is about the chinese government, it is their law, from their first constitution and has survived each constitutional restructuring. The reason is simple, most foreign websites simply don't do well. If you look at the internet all the major english speaking websites are from the usa, france/germany/uk/russia have all tried but the english market is dominated by usa websites until bytedance took their short video social media service, duayin [bad anglicized spelling] and made tiktok. Then the implications hit the usa government. The funny thing is, in parallel, the chinese government by its own law, can never allow a firm to do business in china that doesn't have a security arrangement with the government of china. Remember the usa federal government from its very infancy was never designed to be proactive. Rememeber, the articles of confederation was the first idea, and that was merely a militaristic function and nothing more at the federal level. Yes, the constitution gives the executive branch powers, but from the cia/fbi to executive order usa growth, to the expansion of the federal military and the expansion of powers to the president under national security or others, the federal government has grown beyond what it was intended. The idea was the governments of the states would be strong and the federal government would be this military protector to them. The federal government of the usa was never designed to be a centralized authority, like the chinese government from mao. Outside of military affairs the usa federal government is very reactionary, meaning let problems occur in the market and then fix them. @Troy Tiktok is for adults. It has the best numbers for youth among the big websites, especially in the usa but tiktok is heavily used by adults to. From my point of view, it is what twitter is to blogging. The short video si what youtube never was able to implement correct. Tiktok got it correct and the algorithm tkiktok uses is key.I know quite a few artists , adult artists of various genres on there. Email newsletters is the way do you want a follow on fanbase? tell me how the migration goes for you, i have far less tiktok content rmemeber when facebook went down for a day.. this is the modern reality, people who have their money or their lives tied into the esocial services such that their pausal is devastating @ProfD whining:) the influencer industry is a multimillion dollar industry:) I wonder why you use the word whining? Ahhh the I am late so all his talk of early is wasted https://www.fanbase.app/@RMfanbase

Yep. The man of God aka modern day minstrel is the spook sitting on the left.🤣😎