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As @aka Contrarian mentioned in another thread, fhe great Jazz saxophonist, Sonny Rollins has joined the celestial orchestra. Sonny Rollins was the last living musician in this 1958 picture A Great Day in Harlem: His legacy as a musician is cemented. Thanks for the music. RIP Mr. Sonny Rollins.😎

Sure. The military plays war games. It's nothing to mobilize troops & send them to different places & sit around. They're getting paid regardless. 😁 At least once a week, POTUS OJ threatens the USA could go back into the conflict. He doesn't mention ground troops though. His pump fake has become hot air.😎

IMO, percentage doesn't matter because it will only be used to discourage &/or as an excuse not to do better. Again, statistics won't lead to action & productivity. AfroAmericans have done it all from slavery to sharecropping to factory work & low wage jobs to running businesses of various sizes. AfroAmericans have not a great job of investing their cumulative wealth in building institutions & heirlooms that provide opportunities to the next generation. IOW, every generation of AfroAmericans has to start from the bottom & work their way up. Usually that means working within the system of racism white supremacy.😎

Sure. I'm extremely pro-Black. However, I don't think it's right to call another human being an illegal alien. Even more insulting when used by the same people who stole this country from the Native Americans. Wait a d8mn minute...what we have here is a false equivalence.🤣 Forcing someone into a s8xual encounter does make the perpetrator a rapist. Whichethnicity comes to mind when you hear the term illegal alien? Right. Low wage jobs aren't meant to be careers. It should be a stepping stone whether summer employment or part-time to finish school. Not to build a life &/or raise a family. A man over 30-years-old who isn't a homeowner or who owns a landscaping company has no business pushing a lawnmower for a living.😁 A low wage job is no good for an adult if it doesn't cover shelter, food, clothing & health insurance, etc. It takes a very long time for a low wage job to lead to high wage opportunities. The failure lies in AfroAmericans depending on someone else for a job instead of creating them. A college degree is not required to build a successful business. Just ask someone with a CDL Commercial Driver's License).😉 Most factory jobs have been out-sourced to other countries where labor is cheaper &/or replaced by automation. As AI is coming down the pike, white folks are encouraging their young people to learn trades. There will always be money to be made in knowing how to build & fix things with one's own hands. Not by pushing a broom or mop. White privilege is very real. Makes sense considering that being in control of the gamethey have tilted the playing field. They take care of their own.😎

That makes you guilty of using a derogatory phrase invented by white racists.😁 Why should AfroAmericans fight for low wage jobs?🤔 Right. AfroAmericans should not be working in such a place. For several decades now, AfroAmericans have been educated to seek better employment opportunities. It only proves that AfroAmericans don't want to work for them. White folks aren't beating down doors for manual labor jobs either.😎

Many AfroAmericans have done well for themselves given certain opportunities. Tilting the playing field requires more than providing labor i.e. working for someone else. Real capitalism is building & producing wealth generating institutions. Am*zon is modern example of it.😎

White folks repeat history, music & everything else they cherish. They don't allow anything treasured &/or that reinforces white supremacy to fall down the memory hole. AfroAmerican/FBA/ADOS should never allow white folks to forget about the legacy of slavery & the reparations they owe us. That also includes attacking the system of racism white supremacy. Many ministers & speakers as a part of their cadence repeat certain words & phrases for emphasis. Repetition makes messages & lessons stick. I'm neither a minister or public speaker but as a musician, I understand the method. We do the same thing with music i.e. repeating certain motifs.😎

The phrase illegal alien is considered derogatory & offensive. Yet, right-leaning media personalities are being allowed to use rhe phrase while they're on-air. Interestingly, there's no public outcry especially from the Hispanic community most affected by the phrase. The same white folks using illegal alien probably wish they could say n8gger & get away with it.😎

Right. Mao killed millions of Chinese people. It didn't keep the population from growing. Capitalism isn't bad. The tilted playing field is a major obstacle for certain groups of people. Money will make folks do something from tame to strange for some change. A population over 1 billion people is a lot of mouths to feed. Gotta put them to work by any means necessary.😎

The USA has not put any boots on the ground in Iran. Whole war has been aerial. So, the chance of a draft are zero. As a result, the war in Iran is a non-issue to young folks. No different from Desert Storm & War in Iraq back in the 1990s & 2000s. No protests during those conflicts either. It's proof that many Americans are doing well enough to grin & bear the escalating price of gas. I would offer that people are doing well enough to keep a roof over their heads, food in the fridge, reliable transportation, alcohol, drugs, etc. & just enough access to money & credit to make ends meet. That's why fewer people are protesting in the streets. Life isn't that bad.😁😎

There's a reason cable TV airs several programs about World War II every day of the week. Why would white folks have on a continuous loop, a historical event (war) that happened 84 years ago & cost millions of lives? Don't know which generation to which he belongs but I believe @richardmurray would prefer to live in Haiti if unknown circumstances didn't prevent him from relocating there.😎

The comedian Katt Williams' voice popped into my head as I read that line & thought...."is this mf,, er, dude really calling us stupid right now".🤣 @Troy...thanks for providing a more diplomatic response than I thought about typing.😁😎

They are protesting at the ICE facility in Newark, NJ this week. A few folks have been arrested. Last week, Secret Service shot a man near the White House after he opened fire on them. He later died at the hospital. There's a certain amount of F8ck Trump protests happening around the nation. The media is not reporting most public protests because the current administration has them shook. 😎

PBS NewsRead the DNC's full post-election autopsy for the 2024 ca...Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin released a critical study of the party's performance in the 2024 campaign on Thursday, bowing to intense internal pressure from frustrated Democratic opeTo avoid raining on a Democratic win parade, the DNC waited until after the 2025 election of VA Governor Abigail Spanberger & a few other Democratic candidates to release their autopsy of the 2024 election. Of course, anyone who pays attention to the news clearly knows how & why the Democrats lost heavily back in 2024 leading to the re-election of POTUS OJ. To date, the Democratic party still has not offered an alternative plan or solution to the GOP BS Americans are dealing with on a daily basis. Democrats believe they will do well in the mid-terms merely as a result of the GOP's own undoing. They think Americans will be fed up enough to vote blue regardless. While it is possible that mid-terms elections could swing the House back to Democrats, there is no guarantee that it will make POTUS OJ a lame duck. The current administration has already shown & proven that they don't need Congressional approval to do much of anything. IMO, POTUS OJ will continue grifting & enriching his family & friends during the last 2 years of his presidency. That should not prevent Democrats from growing a spine & coming with tangible benefits to the American people for whenever the current dark clouds roll away & POTUS OJ the clown leaves the White House.😎

The government is not above putting out bogus information, files & images. I don't really have any control over whether or not I'll live long enough to see verifiable proof of UAP/UFO/ET.😁😎

An adult person doesn't really have free or leisure time if/when their basic needs are not met. Unless they are eating & sleeping a shelter. Poor & unemployed people do not have free time. Worrying stems from knowing they are skating on thin ice & borrowed time. The possibility of falling through the ice & drowning could happen at any time.😁😎

Thanks for providing it but still looks like same images we've been getting for a long time. You're definitely not alone. There's plenty UAP/UFO/ET enthusiasts. As a non-believer, in my lifetime, I think it would be great if I was proven wrong.😁😎

To date, the public does not have any verifiable proof of anything these people claim as it relates to UAP/UFO/ET. At a certain point, the talking points of the images & files seem to come from the same playbook. Just like any form of entertainment & drugs & alcohol, these distractions provide people with another form of escapism from their routine lives. As long as there are customers/consumers for anything, there will always be pushers/producers...people who know how to capitalize on providing that something.😎

Interesting to consider it truth when there is no verifiable proof. I've watched Ross Coulthart a number of times interviewing on the subject of UAP/UFO. Seems to be how he's earning a living as a journalist. As long as they are not bringing hurt, harm or danger to other people, I do not begrudge how someone else makes their money.😎

I have periodically checked out the rest of the site. However, I'm not that interested in Arsenio Hall's memoir.😁😎

It's been a while since we've mentioned what Black folks need to do.😁 For the most part, Black folks are doing a great job of sitting on the sidelines & watching POTUS OJ & the GOP run amok. A couple of non-white dudes have either gotten arrested or unalived for supposedly trying to get at POTUS OJ. We're not claiming those clowns.🤣 Pop culture works too. I remember Arsenio Hall having a successful late-night TV show & acting in a few movies. Didn't know he released his memoir.😎

Sista @Mel Hopkins ...all is well on my end. Hope you're also doing well especially after passing your history class.😎

Starting back in 1988 up to present, this song has been played everywhere. No party or cookout or gathering is complete without this song. Rob Base born Robert Ginyard passed away from cancer @ 59 years old. RIP.😎

The dope epidemic didn't produce as much violence & murder as the crack epidemic. The War on Drugs was declared when Black folks started getting a lotta money & murder rates skyrocketed across the country. POTUS Bill Clinton's 1994 Crime Bill incarcerated a whole lotta Black folks. That's why there are 2 million people being warehoused in US prisons. More prisoners in the US than every other country combined.😎

Not to be out-done, the Ebola virus has resurfaced in the Congo. A couple hundred folks have died. No cure for the current virus. Folks traveling back to America from over there are being quarantined in the 51st state, er, Canada.🤣😎