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Troy you would absolutely crush it here. Consider the cost of living and your ability to organize, your reach would be a lot stronger as you would only be 8 hours from the Black hotbeds of America (Chicago, Atlanta, Birmingham, Jackson, Ms., New Orleans) I think the America Dream as we know it is dead, but in the right situation it is still attainable. It will take a unified approach though. People will have to work together, but I guess that's just not a realistic thing to pursue. We can only try to fix our worlds and hope that our reach is farther than we know. You are exactly right though about entertainment. Rome had it's gladiators, we have our gladiators. Greece had its plays, we have our television and film. Escapism is a good thing, but ultimately it is dangerous when that escape is not offset by serious thought. Social media hampers and fast responses without research have killed any serious thought almost. I am in the process of teaching an entrepreneurship class at a local high school in an area where the crime rate is 200% higher than any other area in the city. The admin is giving me a 4 week-2 hour window each week to talk business with the kids. The first meeting was an introduction and this week I hope to give them some insight into starting a business without any money or resources. I think all schools need to implement workshops on entrepreneurship and coding with outside small biz people. This will begin to change a lot of the issues in our neighborhoods. These kids need to be more aware of the things that need to be fixed. Right now, they only know that they should go to school and pray for success which isn't going to work for a society that shifts so fast that while they are listening to the next new rap song and buying the next Jordan the world has moved another mile ahead of them technically. It's a dangerous time.

Baynard Rustin who was also one of MLK's strategists was, in addition to being brilliant, blantantly homosexual. Back during the civil rights movement this was, of course, frowned upon. King, himself, was a notorious womanizer. In the Aretha Franklin bio I just recently read it told how her father Reverend C.L. Franklin a prominent Baptist preacher, civil rights crusader and confidant of MLK was screwing half the women in his congregation. The Black Panthers were very chauvinistic, relegating women to subservient roles. Kathleen Cleaver, wife of Panther leader Eldrige Cleaver, finally left him because she got tired of him beating her up. Angela Davis and other female activists also complained about how male -dominated these militant movements were, never allowing women leadership roles. These "black is beautiful" sloganeers also displayed appetites for white women. The Black Muslims banned women from their hierarchy, too, expecting their spouses to obey and serve their husbands to the point of allowing them to practice polygamy. Boxer, Muhammad Ali, took on another "wife", while still married to his first one. "Boys will be boys", and their vices transcend race. Religion has never interfered with sexual debauchery, either. All the biblical patriarchs were playas.

SOME GREAT BLACK HISTORY/WALTER SAMMONS INVENTED THE HOT COMB,HOW MANY BLACK WOMEN ARE AWARE,,BLACK MAN INVENTED THE HOT COMB/RICHARD SPIKES.BLACK PEOPLE NOT AWARE HE INVENTED THE AUTOMATIC CAR WASH.SEE BLACK FOLKS OFTEN AT THE CAR WASH.RICHARD SPIKES ALSO CREATED THE SWINGING BARBER SHOP CHAIR, UN KNOWN BY LOTS OF BROTHERS AT THE BARBER SHOP WHEN THEY SIT DOWN FOR A HAIR CUT, BARBER CHAIR SWINGING INVENTED BY A BLACK INVENTOR/WHEN BLACK PEOPLE BUY AND EAT POTATO CHIPS ,POTATO CHIPS CREATED BY GEORE CRUM////WONDER IF CHILDREN IN SCHOOL ,ALL SCHOOLS ARE TAUGHT ABOUT BLACK INVENTORS INVENTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY.////INVENTIONS BY BLACK INVENTORS USED WORLD WIDE......///