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The email below was sent to me by the Wall Street Journal. Now You can guess the skin color of the people and social economic status of the people exempt from the rules Facebook imposes on the rest of us. Why Black people (any people really) continue to willingly provide free content to enrich Facebook AND subject themselves to this is beyond me: Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook allows its more than nearly three billion users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture and journalism, and that its standards of behavior apply to everyone, no matter their status or fame. In private, the company has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. At times, the documents show, the system has protected public figures whose posts contain harassment or incitement to violence, violations that would typically lead to sanctions for regular users. A 2019 internal review of the program, marked attorney-client privileged, found such favoritism to be both widespread and “not publicly defensible.” In a written statement, Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said criticism of the program was fair, but added that the system “was designed for an important reason: to create an additional step so we can accurately enforce policies on content that could require more understanding.” Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled by flaws that cause harm in the real world, according to an extensive array of internal company communications reviewed by the Journal. Moreover, the documents show, it often lacks the will or the ability to address them. This is the first in a series of articles based on those documents and on interviews with dozens of current and former employees.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/09/diet-could-affect-coronavirus-risk-according-to-mgh-study/

I have to admit Nicki Minaj has a point here. The media insatiable design to create "news" out of nothing has them trolling the internet to create News stories. The fact that Joy Ann Reid has been used to publicly diss another Black woman is disheartening at best. I actually read a few of Minaj's tweets. She wrote she will get the vaccine, as she has to tour. She also wrote that she did not discourage others from getting vaccinated. While I may Minaj's with her reasoning for not yet getting the vaccine herself. I know many people who have the same opinion. The difference is the people are not slamming them on TV for it. Celebrity does have a price. Comments made by celebrities -- even ones with almost 23 million followers on Twitter can not be the source of our news. Why not use the time to talk about the science behind Covid or, if you have to troll social media, amplify the celebrities spreading objectively factually information? I discovered this after checking my messages on Twitter, and an author I follow retweeted a retweet of Minaj's tweet (below). Interestingly the author's interpretation of Minaj's original tweet was distorted too -- just like the old telephone game. Normally I ignore all of this stuff, but sometimes I too fall prey to this crap too I'm only human.

***************************************************************************** Joy Ann Reid looks foolish with her various wigs and when she opens her mouth it confirms that she's gone off the rails. Most of the things she says don't even make sense anymore. I don't care for Nicki either, but what she is saying needs to be said. Unfortunately, she's spent her entire career exposing her boobs and twerking her behind so most people don't take her seriously, and that's too bad because this topic is extremely important. Black people are NOT monolithic so individuals need to decide for themselves whether to take the COVID vaccine or not. *****************************************************************************

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I thought this was just common sense.... Ofcourse eating a proper diet full of nutrients will make you healthier, strengthen your immune system, and make you more resistant against diseases of all sorts. This one of the reasons the racists try to keep "food deserts" in most Black communities and even in some Black nations. They promote a diet of junk foods and "plastic" foods with no nutritional value to heal you so that you are more likely to get sick and buy THEIR medicines. If you noticed.... Most of the oldest people in the country happen to be AFROAMERICANS. Most of those over 100 are AfroAmericans more so than any other race or group. Black folks who grew up down South and ate off of what THEY grew and raised themselves lived a lot longer and were much healthier than a lot of Black folks who grew up in the city eating what the Caucasians put out today like Doritos, chili cheese fries, nachobell grandes and shit. Black folks down South even had their own medicines called HOODOO where they would prepare roots and herbs to heal themselves. Even delivered their own babies by midwives without the aid of a Caucasian doctor or nurse pumping the mother and the baby full of toxins. Now they CLAIM (if we can believe them) that the infant mortality rate for Black babies was higher then than today....but even if we were to BELIEVE that.....the children who lived were much stronger and healthier than a lot of these slop-pots running around in the streets today. You didn't hear about as many Black children being obese, having autism, asthma, and other problems. They may have been buck-toothed but they could run 10 miles straight and never got sick.

************************************************** @Delano This is an informative article so thanks for posting it. I think it is amazing that we can boost our immune systems by eating more healthy foods, and that we can even fend off a severe case of COVID. Most plant-based foods are not that expensive so there’s no valid reason why people are not eating more of them. I understand that everyone doesn't have access to fresh produce but most people do and we can even grow some of our own. This is a great motivator for us to eat better. **************************************************

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