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Hopefully, the current administration will be unsuccessful in removing the educational requirements it takes to become a nurse. If they make it easier for folks to get into nursing, the salary will drop. Cheapen the profession. Like tradespeople, folks with CDL (commercial drivers license) credentials never seem to have a problem finding a job. Also, many folks are doing extremely well for themselves as owners of tractors, dump trucks, buses, limousines, etc. Self-driving vehicles have many hurdles to jump before taking over the transportation industry. UPS, FedEx, am*zon & other companies are still using human drivers. Sure. I'm looking for the Black-owned equivalent of am*zon, Google, Microsoft, etc. These companies employ thousands of people. Like a dam or levee, the system does just enough for its people to keep them in check. White people aren't interested in giving up their privilege & benefits under the system of racism. I believe it will take a natual disaster or major catastrophic event to force people into taking better care of each other.😎

Which jobs do you recommend Black folks pursue? I understand your perspective. My point was that someone started the companies. If Black folks do nothing...that's exactly what we'll end up with in the longer run. January 6th was nothing in comparison to the h8ll that could break loose. The system is a bit more sophisticated. However, Alligator Alcatraz comes to mind.🤣😎

Right. Especially for people with non-technical degrees. However, schools can always use more teachers. Major trades will remain immune from AI. There will always be a demand for heavy construction, building maintenance & heavy equipment repairs. An electrician will never be out of work. Not impossible. The largest companies were started by people with a vision. True. Monopolies happen over time. There are still busineses that can be started immune to monopolization. People have to be willing to do the kind of work the business entails. For example, transportation is the life blood of the USA. Products & goods have to move throughout the country. There will always be a demand for trucking companies & CDL drivers. Neither self-driving vehicles nor AI nor drones will be able to do the heaviest lifting. AI.will make small businesses more efficient but it won't go out & find more customers. Yet, companies large & small (am*zon, Google, Microsoft) were started by individuals. I can already imagine what @Pioneer1 is going to type.🤣 The government is not going to save Black people. Foregone conclusion. Less than 1% of the population controls the majority of wealth in the world. People can change that too. If/when white men truly feel threatened or left out, they will get active & start tearing sh8t up.😎

Reads like older Black graduates did not start enough companies i.e. build a ladder for successive generations to climb. This is what happens when Black folks have to depend on white folks for employment. The question is who else can Black folks claim for limited job opportunities. I'm wondering if there will be a point in time where white folks outright say..."we have carried you people long enough".🤣😎

I knew Foster Sylvers passed away a couple weeks ago. Moved on to something else before starting thread. Thanks @Troy . Foster Sylvers & his siblings produced a lot of music. Foster's song "Misdemeanor" has been been heavily sampled: Thanks for the music. RIP Mr. Foster Sylvers.😎

One possible line item in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the US & Iran is $300 billion dollar to rebuild Iran's infrastructure destroyed during Operation Epic Fury. That's $300 billion dollars on top of the money spent blowing up sh8t over there. Then, the US military wants $1 trillion to build more defense systems. Yet, several months ago, the US government claimed it had to cut SNAP benefits & jack up health insurance costs. Gas & food prices are going up as a result of the pointless conflicts. The American people have to decide when they have had enough of this BS.😎

I'm waiting for this chess move to win out. I don't believe it will. As controlled opposition, I think Democrats purposefully allow Republicans to run over them. Both parties are in agreement when it comes to maintaining the system of racism white supremacy. POTUS OJ is further enriching other people too. That's why Congress isn't willing to challenge him or get in his way.😎

You're right. Religious leaders, intellectuals & philosophers seem to occupy the same lane in pointing out the problems/issues & telling people what they need to do whether it is 1) meeting the sky fairy, 2) getting into heaven &/or 3) coping with the system of racism white supremacy. Rarely do these people offer a plan of action & milestones (POAM) providing Black folks with a blueprint in overcoming the system of racism white supremacy. The late Neely Fuller Jr. has come the closest to providing an actionable item in writing The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept book. IMO, beyond their part in the civil rights movement, the NAACP has not done much to help Black folks. After the real Black leaders were assassinated in the late 1960s, the NAACP has collected monies & handed out a few scholarships. Otherwise, I don't see the fruit of the NAACP existence. They remind me of Black fraternities & sororities. Social clubs.😁 The Black folks who marched & died for Civil Rights did the most to help to Black folks. Getting legislation passed for civil & voting rights & Affirmative Action benefitted many Black folks. Unfortunately, their efforts helped other people of color & white women too. Right. AfroAmericans should not be looking for friends &/or allies among other groups of people. Build strategic alliances based on shared interests. Correct. But, the system of racism white supremacy can be toppled like every other empire. True. That is one of the petty aspects of our existence & a thorn in our proverbial side. Definitely makes it more challenging to get more meaningful things done. Black folks definitely need to resolve the petty differences among us if we are ever going to overthrow the system of racism white supremacy. As I mentioned before, you have reached that age in life where racism white supremacy is no longer of concern.🤗 The current situation will not alter &/or make a difference in your life whatsoever. It is really up to the future generations of Black folks to either maintain the status quo or do something to gain more power & control over their existence. That should not stop my generation from planting seeds to encourage &/or enable future generations to overthrow the system of racism white supremacy. Otherwise, the white-washing of history & reinforcing the system of racism of white supremacy will further normalize it. At least until a catastrophic event or natural disaster occurs.😎

Sure. Black folks have taken advantage of Jew charities & employment opportunitites. Nobody should be able to dictate who one h8tes. IMO, Minister Farrakhan highlighted how Jews fuel & benefit from the system of racism white supremacy. No doubt...white folks have been persecuting each other for thousands of years. Yet, chattel slavery was uniquely different from serfdom. Serfs & indentured servants were treated far more humanely than Black slaves. To enslave people for 400 years & build wealth upon it leading up to a system of racism white supremacy is next level. Also, Jews were in the USA when chattel slavery was booming. They were not standing with Black folks to end it. The Jews do not reference the thousands of years of persecution. The holocaust is their primary sympathy card. To be clear, I have nothing against Jews or anyone else. I h8te the system of racism of white supremacy.😎

Arabs still haven't killed nearly as many people as white folks have through wars. Muslim women don't appear to be fleeing the Middle Eadt en masse as a result of their treatment. The Quran/Koran does not condone killing people for no reason. It does permit killing for self-defense, resisting oppression & legal justice. I'm not a Muslim nor do I sympathize with them. Still, I find it interesting how the west demonizes islam through propaganda & its proxies. Chattel slavery was far more brutal & lasted for centuries. The holocaust was a few years & 6 million unalived. Jews were paid for their pain & suffering. The state of Israel receives billions or dollars every year into perpetuity. Black folks are still waiting for reparations. Brotha Malcolm X mentioned that it was not a good idea to allow white folks fo join Black organizations & movements. Jews were able to walk away from the Civil Rights movement without any lasting effects from the exercise. No group is perfect nor is perfection required to do business. Strategic alliances should be built on shared interests & for mutual benefit to all parties involved. Jews have further enriched themselves using Black talent & labor especially the entertainment industry. I don't see any wealthy Black institutions &/or infrastructure that sprung up as the result of a Black-Jew alliance.😎

It makes zero sense that POTUS Obama left the White House a decade ago & the current administration still keeps his name in their mouths. The Democrats aren't raking POTUS OJ over the coals for being married to a prostitute & talking sh8t sbout POTUS Obama. There's no shortage of source material in what POTUS OJ has said & does that is ripe to rip his azz. Yet, nobody does it. Gangsta.😎

Seems to be worse for Gen-Xers who have been losing people since their early 20s. Danny Simmons did 73 years on the rock. Just a few short of average life expectancy here in the USA. May he RIP.😎

Maher definitely put his money where his mouth is in donating to the campiagns of POTUS Obama & other candidates too. I don't believe Maher is undercover MAGA but he is Democratic racist suspect. He questions why Black folks don't speak up for Jews as if we should have some type of empathy for them & he seems to think Islam is a threat to white supremacy. I have watched & listened to Bill Maher for a long time. I don't think he would be an ally if a race war popped off.😎

Bill Maher is a rich atheist who smokes weed & likes to bang Black women. Maher is the most dangerous type of controlled opposition. A white man who is unafraid to smile in Black folks faces & f8ck them twice. He has zero love for Muslims.😎

Easy question. Very few people become rich or wealthy without white influence because they control power & money. Anybody can claim to be religious or spiritual or both. Their actions do not lie. People who sanction wars...the murder & destruction of other people are neither religious nor spiritual. At least not in the way Blacks folks believe. For example, POTUS OJ insults & makes a mockery of the Pope who happens to be the most religious figure on the planet. Nobody checks POTUS OJ on it. He has zero respect for religion. The rich & wealthy only give to charity for tax purposes. The more needy or heart-wrenching the cause just makes those same people feel better about themselves having disposable money. 😎

The same Michael Jackson who enriched a whole lotta white folks was flexing for his independence. MJ's efforts to become the 1st Black billionaire rubbed those same white folks the wrong way. 😎

AfroAmericans practically own basketball & football. Soccer hasn't really been our thing here.😎

Where I come from, that's just not how AfroAmericans roll in letting their children spend the night with non-family member grown azz men. Some of the same folks, won't let their children spend the night with family members. MJ definitely exhibited signs of eccentric behavior. But, those same white folks don't have a problem letting their kids spend the night in the woods with the Boy Scouts or hang out in Catholic churches with real pedophiles. MJ started making moves to get out of his contracts and become independent. White folks tried to break MJ by using his love for children against him with those allegations. Although MJ has been in the grave for 17 years & due to the success of the MIchael movie...white folks want to relitigate that whole situation in order to sue & get money from his estate.😎

Nope. As I mentioned in another thread...I wouldn't allow any child to spend the night at MJ's house or that of any grown azz man.😎

Right. Especially since the fortune of Mansa Musa cannot be traced down through descendants. The city of Dubai locatedin the UAE (United Arab Emirates) is a great example of what can be bought with a vast amount of wealth. Architects & engineers & labor imported from African countries built a destination paradise in the middle of the desert. Some of it was built in the Persian Gulf. IOW, the Arabs didn't do anything new. Construction has been around for thousands of years. While I definitely would not diminish the intelligence of Arabs or any other group of people, the threat of violence has a way of shaping thoughts too. Why do Black folks need them at all to become rich or wealthy? Building wealth definitely requires being aligned with certain poeple. Most wealthy people aren't spritual or religious either. They leave that to people who need an opiate to cope with life.😎

Michael Jackson's (MJ) celebrity & persona went through the stratosphere after the success of Thriller. Everything changed for MJ after 1983 but I still don't believe he was a weird pedophile. White folks definitely aren't going to convince me to think otherwise about the King of Pop.😎

IMO, Bill Maher is a comedian who has a platform to use political discourse for entertainment & a distraction away from racism white supremacy while justifying & propping it up. His guests are carefully selected too.😎

The Arabs were not smart &/or forward-thinking. White folks offered them a deal they couldn't refuse. Give up oil voluntarily & get wealthy or have it taken Venezuela style. White folks have reached their quota of rich Black folks. Becoming wealthy or rich is not merely a matter of putting in work. If that was true...a whole lot more people would already be rich.😎

All forms of entertainment including sports serve as an opiate & healthy distraction to keep people from getting too stressed &/or depressed in life. I thought the NBA would force 1 more game & allow the Knicks to win the championship back in NY. Guess the NBA was satisfied with the money haul especially game 3 when POTUS OJ attended the game & drove ticket prices up & shut down areas around Madison Square Garden. Congrats to the Knicks in overcoming a 53-year drought & winning the NBA championship.😎

I've heard from other folks who've seen the movie that it looks like there will be a part 2. Makes sense from a cash perspective.😎