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  1. What’s going on in Sudan? White interference – as always. Some of you maybe familiar with the Wagner Group, the Russian private army that acts as a brutal spearhead for Vladimir Putin’s military in Ukraine and Africa. In reality, Wagner Group is a collection of mercenaries that are extremely violent and commit atrocity after atrocity. Wagner also steals diamonds and gold as well as spreads disinformation and props up autocrats to expand Russia’s influence in Africa. Wagner has been operating in South Sudan for more than a year, interrupting and taking over gold mining operations to help finance Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Most of the rapes, summary executions of men, women and children in Ukraine have been committed by militia men from Wagner. The closest comparison I can offer to the horrors of Wagner Group are the mass murders committed by the Einsatzgruppen, the para military death squads of the Nazi Wehrmacht. The Einsatzgruppen operated in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s invasion of Russia. Human Rights Watch has accused Wagner of committing atrocities in Mali and the Central African Republic as Russia re-establishes the political dominance it enjoyed on the continent in the 1970’s. However, what Russia really wants is the same thing China and the U.S. want in Africa: Access to rare earth minerals, seaports and airbases and control of local political scenes. Like China, Russia dangles contracts purportedly for commercial concessions that often enrich only the rulers of a nation or territory. The real problem is there is no financial trail that can tie Wagner assets acquired directly in Africa to the fighting in Ukraine or Sudan. So, there’s no way to reliably pin down which fighting group in Sudan benefits. All that diplomats, analysts and pundits and the public can see that Black people are suffering and dying. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is plainly idiotic and hasn’t delivered to Putin the prestige, riches and accolades he was hoping for. The war has cost him plenty in men and war materiel as evidenced the lone tank glimpsed at Moscow’s May Day Parade. It seems Russian armor is needed at the Ukrainian front. I said the Ukrainian invasion was never an attempt by Putin to reconstitute the Warsaw Pact as one person on here claimed it was. Clearly, Putin will not “get his band back together.” And Black Americans cannot turn the violence tide in Sudan as another poster said they could. There’s plenty of news stories and some rather well written analysis pieces on Wagner Group and what it’s doing in Africa. People should read them before spouting uninformed nonsense from their keyboards. Reading one will not suffice. One must look at three or four to get a reasonable intellectual handle on the situation. Here are two: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/02/08/russias-wagner-group-in-africa-influence-commercial-concessions-rights-violations-and-counterinsurgency-failure/ https://www.dw.com/en/more-than-mercenaries-russias-wagner-group-in-africa/a-64822234
  2. @richardmurray Too freaking bad. You're no great sage and you're a horrible writer. Sequentially.
  3. As thousands of migrants prepare to storm the country's southern border, they will definitely vie for scarce housing, medical and educational resources with Black Americans. To believe otherwise is foolish. Shelters, even emergency ones, are already jam packed, New York City and Chicago's Mayors said. So, millions will be spent housing migrants in hotels. In New York, city workers are being asked to work overtime and special pay has been earmarked for those who speak Spanish. Despite contending with two recent horrible mass shootings, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott just cannot stop attacking Latino migrants. Neither can Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “The cartels are working in collaboration with President [Joe] Biden and the federal government to facilitate that illegal cross-border,” Abbott said. “We are being overrun by our own federal government. Texas is being undermined by our own federal government in our efforts to secure our border.” ( https://newrepublic.com/post/172543/greg-abbott-demonizes-migrants-first-address-since-tragedies-texas ) Nice. He attacks the sitting U.S. President. I guess he wants the migrants machine gunned. But DeSantis won't let Abbott steal all the anti-migrant spotlight, which brought a sharp rebuke from Mexico's leader. “Why does [DeSantis] have to take advantage of people’s pain, of migrants’ pain, of people’s need for political gain,” Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked at a Monday press conference. “This is immoral. This is politicking.” The measure will guarantee $12 million to fly migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, according to Politico. “Now I found out that the Florida governor — imagine, Florida, which is full of migrants — is taking repressive, inhumane measures against migrants in Florida because he wants to be a candidate,” López Obrador said. “Can’t he not make another proposal to convince people?” ( https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/08/mexican-president-lopez-obrador-florida-immigration-00095828 ) Caught in the middle are Black Americans - with no choice but to accept cuts to municipal budgets for local mental illness, law enforcement, medical and education programs as funding is switched to help migrants. It's why Jordan Neely, the Black homeless and emotionally troubled NYC subway Michael Jackson imitator and performer, was choked to death by a White former Marine. Neely was clearly in need of mental help - but never got it.
  4. Open Google or your favorite search engine and type "Hidden Black History Facts." No one is hiding anything.
  5. @richardmurray Sequentially again? It means in a consecutive manner.
  6. Barack Obama - Coalition Building. This approach propelled this little known-community activist to the U.S. Senate and then the Oval Office. No Black man or woman in the U.S. had ever been as successful politically and socially as Obama.
  7. Was the non-violent path charted by Dr. King, his associates and hundreds of others been worth it? Sure it was. However, times have changed. If you really think that Black people can take on the vicious and heavily armed members of White Supremacy groups, then paint up some signs and begin advocating for it. Or did you miss the latest mall shooting in Texas? The killer was dressed in military fatigues, was armed with an AR-15, the go-to tool of many mass killers and fools and also sported a patch beloved by those who cannot stand us that said "Right Wing Death Squad." Now, if ya'll need a treatise on the non-violent approach meaning something that is no way symbolically or philosophically connected to Dr. King - then get someone competent and knowledgeable to author it. I just cannot see gathering up a bunch of Black folks and getting violent over years of poor sewage. There are more intelligent ways to address that problem.
  8. China will end up ruling the world. Napoleon Bonaparte predicted this a couple of centuries ago. The Asian giant is already laying claim to multiple deposits of rare earth minerals in Africa and it wants to dominate large swaths of the Pacific Ocean. It continues interfering in the U.S. legal system, swipes high tech without letup and is biding its time in preparation for an air/sea invasion of Taiwan. Chinese ship captains are itching to prove their mettle against the U.S. Navy. China outfoxed the U.S. when it notched a cooperation pact between arch rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia, secretly aids Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine and does its best to dissuade economic independence for certain African nations. While all of this appears to catch Joe Biden and the Democrats flatfooted, it does not seem to alarm Republicans. Since most in the GOP despise the whole of Black Africa anyway. Unless they can steal its vast mineral wealth, commit mass murder and get away with it. This has nothing to do with me personally anyway. I saw this coming years ago. And have written posts about it.
  9. It really comes down to whom young Black females emulate and look up to. I still shoot the occasional portrait and always aimed to produce an image a client would be willing to pay for or at least show off. It can prove daunting to try to achieve a happy and lasting smile on a female who has been maligned, labeled unattractive and suffers from low esteem. But that's a photographer's task. The main dilemma shooters face are unrealistic expectations on the part of some clients, being lied to and believing naysayers. However everyone is different and I concentrated on women, families and parties.
  10. Fox Spews will always claim it is a news network. The company's next challenge is fending off a defamation lawsuit from Smartmatic USA. This company sued Fox News and its anchors Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro and Maria Bartiromo in New York, seeking $2.7 billion. The lawsuit alleges Fox pushed also conspiracy theories through Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. If Fox wants to close the case quickly and avoid a trial, I hope Smartmatic takes the settlement money. That would the most intelligent thing to do. Smartmatic partners with Los Angeles County. None of these cases will stop the GOP from lying most of the time and attempting to foster the murders of Black people though.
  11. Trump has too much support. I already how misguided and stupid so many Black people are. Because deep down inside, they view intelligent Blacks and Latinos as beneath them. You can always tell how insecure some Black people are on news forums when they intentionally forget all the dumb ass statements they've made previously and opt for silly and juvenile putdowns. They are a comedy show with no audience.
  12. The Green Comet did not generate any upheaval. Our destruction will come from within. As far as Aliens? Surely you jest.
  13. Yeah, I knew that. What difference does it make? Unless one is trying to derive some pride from this tidbit, it does not mean much. Lots of entertainers, movie stars and sporting giants have Black ancestry
  14. Oh, to be a committed turncoat ... and a loser! Despite all evidence that Republicans positively despise Black people, so many of us still lick their boots. Willingly. Eagerly. Lovingly. Fox News now has to fork of $787.5 million in a settlement in which the creepy network admits that some statements it made I in defense of Trump the Dummy were patently untrue. But anyone with a working brain already knew that.
  15. It does not matter WHY a person embarks on a killing spree. The crucial element is keeping guns and other killing implements away from them. Because you will not stop their mental illnesses. Mentally ill people intent on harming others will use anything that's available to hurt others. Such as rental trucks. Federal jurors are deep into the penalty phase of an Islamic fundamentalist who mowed down bikers and pedestrians on a Hudson River bike path in 2017, killing eight of them. Sayfullo Saipov, 35, was convicted in January of the attack. And on Monday, a dude used to a U-Haul truck he rented in Florida to kill one and injure several others during a rampage on Brooklyn, N.Y. The latest spree shooter, the one from Michigan State
  16. And I also doubt any craft flown by extra terrestrials would be slow enough to be intercepted. Though I am going to admit, I'm disappointed the aliens haven't arrived yet. I guess the aliens cannot get to Earth, especially if they have mass. Because according to some scientists, nothing is faster than the Speed of Light. How fast is the Speed of Light? This guy's writings seem interesting: https://www.odysseymagazine.com/how-fast-is-the-speed-of-light/ But ScienceALERT published an article five years ago that purports there are actually four cosmic phenomena that travel faster than light: https://www.sciencealert.com/4-cosmic-phenomena-that-travel-faster-than-the-speed-of-light-science Still, I'm not sitting at home wearing a tin foil hat.
  17. Choose a country you wish to help. And be mindful that many nations in Africa are ruled by autocrats. You do not want your sympathy or money going to rulers who want to stamp out Free Thought or Free Speech. The link below lists 10 programs in Africa that could use your help Volunteer in Africa
  18. @Pioneer1 Why don't you regale us with more of your unsubstantiated nonsense such as China works for the U.S.? Or ... all Blacks need to leave California Or Haitians need to return to the worship of African spirits because you claim doing this will work wonders for them Or your take that Slavs, who are also Slovenians, were Slaves, too. So I guess you think they suffered for as long and as horribly as Black people in the Americas. Did you know Melania Trump is a Slav? She's Slovenian. When did her people's Slavery stop? When was the last time one of Melania's people was yanked out of their car and beaten to death? I can go on, but I won't. Kindly post another photo of yourself since you think you are one of the smartest men on the planet I've rarely encountered someone online as friggin' off the wall as you. What next? You know the exact chemical composition of the soil on Mars because you dreamed of it?
  19. The White House has already said that the three objects shot out of the sky in the past few days had nothing to do with extra-terrestrials. The Chinese spy balloon is the only object that can be traced. The other three objects, including one over Lake Huron, remain unknown but are believed to be weather balloons. Because they were floating at 40,000 feet, they could have proven hazardous to civilian aviation. But it would be cool if the objects were alien in nature.
  20. The continent of Africa is huge and comprised of 54 countries. You asked the wrong question because each individual nation has its own problems. In the north, Islam prevails. So does drought and famine. Civil war rages in some countries. Political battles may result in bloodshed. No single answer will prove a solution for the whole continent. One cannot boil down Africa's problems into a paragraph. African issues for 2023
  21. Democrats in Texas fought against Governor Greg Abbott's restrictions against voting and lost. They even left the state to avoid arrest. They staged a walkout, voiced their outrage and encouraged the writing of protest letters. To no avail. What the hell do you expect Black elected legislators from other states to do? If a law is passed in Texas and this is appealed to a higher court, then we have to wait on a decision from that higher court. Black activists, church officials and lawyers in other states will have little affect except to bring attention to an issue. But you can do that yourself by highlighting the issue online as I did. Too many Black people care more about celebrities, music and fashion than the overall state of Blacks in the U.S.
  22. @Pioneer1 China does not work for the United States. I have no idea why you make so many really stupid statements. I said IF the United States wanted to spy on its citizens. Reading is fundamental.
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