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@ProfD You might have missed the scores of photos on the Internet years ago with pro-gun advocates waltzing through their cities and towns with assault rifles slung over their shoulders. Some of these were Black, but in some areas they were legally able to do this. A home defense system would have not have stopped the Buffalo, N.Y., mass shooting. This is why I pushed back against calls for Blacks to arm themselves. It's also because most who support this idea do not specify what they really mean. If you're going to own a firearm, then you would want an open carry permit. Because without one, you're at the mercy of whatever knucklehead could care less that you're' a living, breathing human being. But never forget, White cops will be more inclined to shoot at you if they even think you have a gun. This is why I push back against Blacks buying guns unless they are for home protection. The Buffalo, N.Y., Tops Supermarket had an armed security guard. But when a mass shooter has already donned body armor, unless they're shot in the head it will difficult to stop them. This proved to be true in Buffalo.

Depending on why you thought I was a millionaire, this might be the best compliment you've ever given me!

@Pioneer1 In my mind you posit a great question. The IRA was only a few hundred people. So from a historical point of view, I see your point. But in my mind, I wonder. The black community in the usa, like the native american , is in a very unique position. Not in terms of being abused as a minority but in the scale of abuse in the country in question. White jews have always been abused in europe but never to the scale. Even during the nazi era in germany, some white jews were given lenience or ease in a way never given to anyone black, or native american, in similar moments in the usa. I ponder the question you posit. you didn't ask it, but it is in there. Your correct and thus maybe one of the problems. Again, when humans talk of a better tomorrow anywhere, they rarely ask about that which has not occurred. thus my point about a black party of governance. I don't know the future. but if we look at what hasn't happened, what hasn't occurred, maybe that can break the boring cycles. Maybe the black populace in the usa has allowed too much individualism in itself. Is the white populace in control in the usa? 100% . I am not suggesting that black people are in control. I am not suggesting anything is easy. but maybe that needs to happen internally in the black populace in the usa. And I am not suggesting most black people in the usa today are onboard with anything like what I suggests as new things to do. But, maybe we go in circles in the usa cause we are doing the same things. and your right, my parents were there and didn't shy away from telling me the truth as a child... I can even argue maybe too many black adults lie to black children about the past. again, another thing we don't do. So many of our forebears didn't speak about the past? was that helpful? perhaps. I am not trying to suggest I have all the answers. but I argue, black people maybe need to tell our children some hard truths early on. stop expecting them to learn them and instead tell them . Cause I am certain most black parents at least, in certain communities in nyc, are very negligent in speaking about our phenotypical history with whites. I am not talking about telling black children to do good, or to be wary of law enforcement. I mean to get to the nitty gritty of what community did what to make the system of things we live in today... I will like to add, black entertainers in the usa have another issue. As entertainers they all to often live by salary to whites with money who govern the system. sequentially, black entertainers are simply not in a strong enough space in their individual lives to risk communicating to black betterment without concern to white backlash. I concur that many entertainers in their actions show a lack of knowledge to the black populace, or black culture or black history. But I want to add, most black entertainers live with a mask on. And make their individual profit in the least secure financial place, which is the arts. I concur to your point but we black people tend to forget, real estate/manufacturing/energy sector, these industries are not dominated by whites by accident. these industries are where real power resides and as our forebears were enslaved, and our leaders from the end of complete slavery to today haven't led us to make our own space in the usa, we have a long way to go to own/control the kind of resources where a black person can speak without reprimand by whites. We need more than entertainers to be the leaders but as a nonviolent peoples and in my opinion, black people in the usa are the most nonviolent behind the native american, entertainment is one of the few places where we can grow. IT will take alot of time for us to be in control of such industries to speak out in the usa.