ProfD
-
Posts
3,551 -
Joined
-
Days Won
251
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Events
Posts posted by ProfD
-
-
I'm sure you brothas are already aware of the Black Boule. If not....that's interesting.
I'll just type that they are the Black folks who would least be interested in Reparations.
-
1
-
-
58 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:
The boomers were the youth of the Civil Rights movement and they were the drive of the Black Power movement of the 60s and 70s.
They did their part.Sure. They were also responsible for bringing Generation X into that cycle of poverty created by welfare, broken homes, drug addiction, etc.
At the end of the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam War, we saw the rise of inner city problems. Gen-Xers were born into it.
58 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:Now the CHILDREN of those boomers.....born in 1965 and later...failed to carry the torch.
That Generation X has to take responsibility for it's failures.Many Gen-Xers overcame the odds of poverty and/or the lack of a solid economic infrastructure and managed to become successful.
Unfortunately, many Gen-Xers were conditioned by that cycle of poverty. In turn, they also bred more n8gglets. The cycle continued.
-
@Pioneer1, from reading your posts, I get the impression the most dysfunctional n8gglets were running around from the 1990s up to present. Let me know if that's correct.
The reason I'm asking for clarity is because those n8gglets would be the children and grandchildren of baby boomers. It's important to understand the role they played in the dysfunction of future generations.
The housing projects were indeed started to help minimum wage workers to be able afford accommodations for their families. It was a stepping stone to a better life.
Starting in the 1960s, housing projects became a place for women and their children on welfare aka poverty.
Again, a form of social engineering designed to produce a desired outcome. Baby boomers benefitted to their own detriment.
Poverty breeds all types of social ills. Add drugs and unemployment to the mix and there's a dynamite soup being stirred up over generations.
The n8gglets running around in gangs and selling dope and killing each other were conditioned to be dysfunctional through social engineering within the system of racism white supremacy.
-
23 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:
I don't think ProfD or richardmurray will like what I'm about to say next but.....
I think the '94 Crime Bill the Biden and Clinton got passed did a lot to lock up a lot of violent offenders and keep them off the streets.
Not a position to like or dislike.
The facts are:
1) Black communities had been flooded with drugs since the late 1960s. Drugs were a poison pill to destroy Black folks in more ways than one.
2) The 1994 crime bill did lead to mass incarceration of Black folks. The majority of whom were non-violent offenders.
That 1,2 punch combo did exactly what white folks intended since the days of POTUS Nixon.
Interestingly, we do not see or hear the same tactics being applied to a war against drugs in white communities.
Crystal meth has never been criminalized as harshly as marijuana and cocaine.
Fentanyl and opioid addiction are supposedly a huge problem for white folks but there's no harsh punishments being handed down on them for trafficking in it.
I do hear the media talking heads blaming illegal immigrants for bringing drugs into the USA.
White folks have always been the biggest drug dealers in the world through the pharmaceutical industry and illegal drugs too.
There's no shortage of crime and violence and death on the hands of white folks. Yet, they aren't being punished as harshly.
The main trick of the enemy i.e. white folks is getting Black folks to hate and destroy themselves by any means necessary.
-
2
-
-
Whether real or not, the letter is hilarious when the ex-slave runs the numbers and details how much cash he and his wife need to receive in order to return. Checkmate.
-
4 hours ago, Troy said:
When I was a kid you might catch beat down, but you'd live to see another day.
DC was similar before the crack epidemic. We had crews (gangs) but they only fought. Nobody got shot.
When drugs and money flooded the streets that changed the game. Gun violence has gone down a bit since those days.
Gun violence is still bad enough because these n8gglets aren't beefing and shooting over drugs and money.
These dudes are overly emotional nowadays. No fist-fights. Afraid if they lose the fight it will go viral on TikTok.
-
28 minutes ago, Troy said:
I don’t know what world Richard, and the good professor grew up in, but the New York City of my youth was hellacious. The stress alone sent many adults to the bottle and early graves.
As mentioned, I grew up in DC at the height of its dysfunction in terms of crime.
-
18 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:
Perhaps they are doing as YOU suggest by trying to clean up and prevent the conditions that INFLUENCE the negative music and movies to begin with.
Like every other religious organization, the NOI only seems to have influence over its members. The rapper KAM was heavy NOI at one point. It was reflected in his music.
18 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:In fact, I remember Minister Farrakhan embracing and supporting rappers.
Sure, and so do I....positive ones.
Minister Farrakhan chopped it up with gangsta rappers too. Ice Cube could talk him to him at one point.
18 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:Actor Hill Harper went to Harvard Law school with POTUS Obama.
It appears that he's following in Obama's political footsteps by adopting a major city to call his own and launch his base from.
Right. Remains to be seen how far Hill Harper goes with his political aspirations. He's definitely an intelligent brotha. Hopefully not Boule.
-
As someone who grew up inner city, I totally understand the points @richardmurray is making here.
I know quite a few criminals and killers. I know victims. I've never been victimized.
As I've mentioned before, there's a method to the madness when it comes to crime; surviving and avoiding it. Police can't fix it.
The trick of the system especially in the form of media has conditioned many Black folks to either hate and/or fear themselves.
-
1
-
-
5 hours ago, Troy said:
I think Harris spent so much time talking about Gaza because the perception is Black people don’t like the US funding Israel’s bombardment over Gaza. So her speech was an attempt to create a counter narrative.
Yeah, I think she would’ve been better served not addressing the issue at all particularly at that event.
Black are indifferent about the US funding these conflicts (Gaza and Ukrainian) because those are not our fight/struggle.
VP Kamala Harris like every other BIFO (Black in face only) person showed up to a Black commemorative event in full shill mode.
Unless FBA continuously calls out this foolish, it will keep happening. BIFOs are like whack-a-moles.
-
26 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:
I said we COULD...I didn't say we WOULD, lol.
Gotcha.
26 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:However, for what it's worth.....I have just as much confidence that Black politicians will get us Reparations as you have that Black folks will somehow "codify"...lol
Right. No reason to bet the farm or lose any sleep.
-
1
-
-
45 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:
I keep saying over and over that WE can give OURSELVES Reparations.
There are enough FBA in Congress as well as in various political positions all over the nation who can organize and push a massive national Reparations plan that would benefit us and our progeny for generations to come.
The only one's keeping us from doing it is us.
Yep. You keep saying it.
But, you haven't acknowledged a full understanding of how government works.
Nothing I've written has changed your belief one way or another.
What we have on that point is an impasse.
Those FBAs in Congress are BIFOs (Black in face only).
That's why the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) ain't worth sh8t.
The CBC has zero interest in Reparations for FBA. But, they're quick to vote on legislation for other groups of people.
That's like asking VP Kamala Harris if she was going to do anything for Black folks and while cackling she said....nooo.
-
3 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:
I showed you the video of Dr.Wesley Muhammad exposing the nefarious plot to negatively influence Black youth through frequency in the music as well as promoting violence and criminality.
Got it. Dr. Wesley Muhammad is one man though.
I was referring to throwing the whole weight of the NOI into getting Black folks to stop making negative music and movies.
In fact, I remember Minister Farrakhan embracing and supporting rappers.
3 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:Our late sister Delores Tucker headed a campaign back in the 90s to check some of these gangster rappers who were promoting violence and criminality in the community, but she didn't get the support or recognition I thought she deserved.
AfroAmericans told C. Delores Tucker to shut up and go sat down somewhere. She was tool of the dominant society.
3 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:It was caused by a jacked up brain...lol.
That's the mental health issue I was referring to which certainly needs to be dealt with clinically before it becomes a menace to society.
3 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:Infact, there is a Black actor...Harper Hill....who is running for U.S. senator of Michigan who lives in one of them.
Actor Hill Harper went to Harvard Law school with POTUS Obama.
-
19 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:
ProfD
I think we be listening to the same social media channels....lol.Probably so especially it's within New Black Media.
-
1
-
-
37 minutes ago, Troy said:
Google perverted their search engine. AI's ability to Seach the web is a refreshing improvement over Google search. However, AI hurts websites, which further hurts Google.
I'd imagine Google will be heavily invested in AI technology. It only makes sense and more money. No pain.
Smaller companies will have to adapt or feast or famine.
Those who invented or thrived on [insert obsolete technology here] had to roll with the changes brought along by new technology whether it was investment or adaptation or cashing out.
That cycle of change and planned obsolescence has been ongoing for at least a half-century and counting.
A UBI (Universal Basic Income) will provide a softer landing for future generations.
-
1 hour ago, Troy said:
As the culture shifts to providing people with a minimal standard of living (including education and medical care), people will learn how to utilize their free time to discover and peruse their passions.
This country would be a better place. We have the financial resources to do this too.
I believe the country is slowly heading in that direction.
Having the majority of people living a life of leisure would 1) bug the sh8t out of the 1 percenters and 2) upset the apple cart of a capitalism.
Some geniuses decided a society built on a system of controlled chaos was better for human beings.
-
5 hours ago, Stefan said:
What are the charges you would lay on anyone in the vicinity of the McClain incident?
Three (3) police officers and two (2) paramedics were on the only people on the scene of the murder of Elijah McClain.
All five (5) of them should have been charged and put behind bars.
Hopefully, the writing emphasis and math are comprehensible.
-
Not a day goes by that I don't ask myself, why am I still here.
Then, I'll get a text message or a phone call that somebody needs something.
Sure enough, those people will find another benefactor when I'm dead and gone.
I'd hate to believe the universe has determined that my purpose for being here is to help people over a few more decades.
Like a Greek philosopher, I'd prefer to have that luxury to plop down at my piano and play music all day.
Nope...for the man to whom much is given or earned, much is required and/or expected to be returned.
-
1
-
-
19 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:
My problem is with SOME artists who promote violence and dysfunction to get paid.
It's not making money off the music that's the problem, it's the PROMOTION of violence and dysfunction that is.
It's easy to protest against the promotion of violence and dysfunction in music and movies. I wonder why the Nation of Islam and other Black organizations aren't protesting against it.
19 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:I prefer a more wholistic approach where every level of a problem is addressed at the necessary intensity needed to correct it.
The wholistic approach means attacking the system responsible for the conditions.
19 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:Yes, we should correct the condition that produce the thug and murderer but sometimes HIS BRAIN is the "condition" that produced his behavior, not his environment.
Mental health is a very real issue in America that isn't being addressed well enough.
19 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:While you're correct, we all have to live together in a CIVIL society and we can't let violent criminals, sexual deviants, and psychopaths as we lament not having a code that unites the people and place everyone on the same page as to what is right and wrong.
Sure. The criminal justice system strives to protect the citizens from the worst of us.
That should not keep us from protecting ourselves too. That means dealing with dysfunctional sh8t before it becomes a problem.
19 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:Well everyone doesn't have the luxury of living in the DMV or Atlanta.
Those are the two hotspots for AfroAmerican success in the United States.Those two areas get mentioned a lot but there are enclaves of successful Black folks in every major city in America.
19 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:However you'd be surprised at the amount of Black wealth that exists in Michigan....especially in the Detroit area.
I would not be surprised. I'm sure Detroit is one of those cities that has an enclave of successful Black folks living in the suburbs of it.
The reality is that only a handful of Black folks give a sh8t about the system of racism white supremacy and reparations.
It makes FBA/ADOS look similar to those Black Hebrew Israelites standing around on corners yelling at, er, preaching to folks as they pass by.
-
VP Kamala Harris showed up to commemorate the Selma bridge crossing.
VP Harris spends the 1st 7 minutes of her speech talking about the Gaza conflict:
We don't hear any other group of people talking about AfroAmericans during commemorations and/or when addressing issues affecting them.
Yet, Democrats are wondering why Black voters are becoming disenfranchised with them.
To express their feelings regarding the Gaza conflict, several thousand Muslims voted Uncommitted in a Michigan Democratic primary. That's how a group of people exercises political power and gets their attention.
We have a person of color as Vice President and she chose to use an AfroAmerican commemorative event to talk about an issue that has nothing to do with us.
-
1
-
-
@Troy, in my eternal optimism, I don't believe your business will be adversely affected by AI.
As a smart guy, I think you will either be using AI to make your work/life easier or successfully retired.
The generation before ours thought the world was going to h8ll in a handbasket as technology improved. Yet, we still made it here.
Don't sweat it mayne. The future will be OK too.
-
It must have been a nice life as a Greek philosopher to sit around all day eating grapes and...thinking. These men didn't work or produce anything anything tangible. No science or engineering. Just thoughts.
-
1
-
-
3 hours ago, Stefan said:
I don't need to attend meetings or take medications.
Getting past denial is the 1st step towards recovery.
3 hours ago, Stefan said:It was YOU who believed Marion Barry was a political and intellectual standard whom by which all Black men should be judged.
I never wrote that.
I did point out that mayor Marion Barry was DC's mayor for life as recognized by the city.
Every DC mayor elected after mayor Barry recognizes him. There are landmarks in DC named after mayor Marion Barry.
I'm not alone in recognizing mayor Marion Barry as a leader in DC politics. There are a couple million folks who echo the sentiment.
3 hours ago, Stefan said:I always thought of Barry as a rank idiot who knew he had to project an in your face attitide - which you thought made him a king
He was little more than a clown a lot of times.You're certainly entitled to that opinion. I be slightly curious to know what you've done for DC or any other city.
3 hours ago, Stefan said:You simply cannot solve me. So, I irk you. Too bad, boy.
Nah bro. To the contrary, I find your posts amusing as h8ll.
I wouldn't change one word of your journalistic masterpieces.
Keep that energy until you run out of gas.
-
No matter how much I clown someone, I'm never wishing the worst for them unless they truly deserve it.
Wendy's situation is rough. Like everyone else here, I hope that she pulls through it to enjoy a healthier and happier life all things considered.
@aka Contrarian, I think da Bears head coach has one more season to get his sh8t together or he'll be standing in the unemployment line.
NYC's NYPD cost the city and state alot of money but should it be more?
in Culture, Race & Economy
Posted
Definitely not taking their work in the struggle away and/or for granted.
Just pointing out where I think that partying and celebrating i.e. complacency led baby boomers to fall asleep at the wheel.
Unlike my fellow Gen-Xers, I never felt the struggle was over.
As young fella, I'm sure my preaching got on my parents nerves too.
I agree that we should be policing ourselves instead of putting it in the hands of the enemy.
@richardmurray, you're corrrect...Black folks have always been several hundred years behind other groups of people from a financial standpoint.