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Well, I hope that doesn’t mean you're going to disappear on us again.😐 If so, provide the forwarding address or coordinates to your cave. 🤣😎

Until @Delano arrives with the time markers, I'll offer the following: The odds of winning the $1.5B lottery are 1 in 292 million. Reinvest the $8 won...no more or less. The Democrats are going to lose the House in the midterm elections. They haven't done enough stop the GOP over the past 2 years. I'll go back to my easy chair now. 😁😎

Sure. As long as they either 1) start businesses and/or 2) have something of value to offer. The hand out looking for a job from far Right white supremacists won't work in that hypothetical situation.😎

@Cynique, when the dust settles from the hypothetical civil war, if the white Right wins, Black folks will be pushed back 100 years. They won't even be able to sellout. Prostitution may not even on the table. 😁😎

I find the backlash against Kanye and Kyrie interesting. I know what the guys were trying to say. The problem is biting the hand that feeds never ends well. Yet, the same sensitive folks have no problem doing business with these dudes whether it's selling music that glorifies Black folks killing each other or paying them to play games. Former POTUS 45 and Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene were not forced to make public apologies and/or lose money when making their antisemitic remarks. The question has to be asked why Black folks are chastised and ruined for anything perceived as antisemitic while white supremacist are allowed to say far worse with impunity,😎

Despite Bill Cosby being the Executive Producer of the show, NBC was able to pull those shenanigans. The folks in control of the money always get the last word. HBCUs are great. While AfroAmericans have made strides in terms of education, we are still lagging behind other minorities and need to shore up our economic infrastructure. The future won't be as bright for a bunch of young AfroAmericans wielding a worthless piece of paper when white supremacists stop offering job opportunities. Right now, there's an effort underway to rollback Affirmative Action. When that shoe drops, doors will close. 😎

The Bears just traded to get WR Chase Claypool from the Steelers. A huge upgrade for their offense. WR Claypool should be able to help QB Fields a lot.😎

The whole thing is a sham. No surprise she lost her appeal. Sista Brittney should have never been convicted and sentenced for that offense. She's a political prisoner. Whenever the Russians and US decide to do a deal sista Brittney will be on 1st thing smoking out of Moscow. 😎

I'm still not convinced that Kanye is mentally unstable. Kanye was a Hip-Hop music producer for decades before he became a celebrity. If that n8gglet was crazy for real, that tea would have been spilled a long time ago. I believe Kanye is milking his 15 minutes of fame. Apparently, he's will to blow through cash in the process. If Kanye keeps running his mouth, he's going to end up back on the South Side of Chicago.🤣😎

Another congratulations to brotha @Troy on being recognized by his peers for his 25 years and counting of service to the literary community. 👍🏿😎

The saddest part is that he's smart enough to know better. Drunk from the kool-aid of fame and celebrity and money, he let his mouth write a check that his azz cash. The Alt-Right is having a field day using him as lighter fluid for their racist BS. But, I knew that slavery was a choice sh8t wasn't the end of his stupidity. 😎

@Cynique and @Pioneer1, I always get a chuckle out your back and forth. Only you two could have turned this thread into something. 🤣😎

That's how I see time in a nutshell. Just a measurement of life events. 😎

Supposedly, they have a call or meeting of some kind lined up. Don't count Orange Julius out just yet. 🤣😎

It just gets worse with Kanye and not being able to keep his pie-hole shut. He has stirred up the hornets nest of antisemitism. Adidas, Gap, Balenciaga, JPMorgan Chase and others are distancing themselves from Kanye. While Kanye insisted on being called a (multi) billionaire, almost overnight, his net worth has dropped to less than half a billion. Falsely, some folks equate money to power. Money is merely an instrument that we use to buy things (products, goods and services). Power makes things happen. Power creates systems and institutions that control human beings. Therein lies the difference. Kanye is learning in real-time that money alone doesn't make one powerful.😎

Great win for the Bears. Considering they are a young team and rebuilding, I'm surprised they won. Also, they played very differently against my Commanders over a week ago. The Bears still need to do a lot of work in order to protect QB Justin Fields. He's a talented athlete. I would hate for his career to be shortened by mismanagement and injuries. 😎

Agreed. Very well done. I totally enjoyed it. 😎

Yep. There are males being raised in such a way that they don't know how to be men. Then, there's the males who have no desire to be men. That's part of reason some of them go back and forth to prison. IMO, AfroAmerican males do not have enough positive role models that they can readily see and/or access within their community or in the media. Kanye West doesn't count. 🤣😎

It does. But, we never seem to be as prepared for it as places up north. No matter how much advanced notice we get that snow is coming, more than 6 inches of it will shut everything down for a day. A foot or more of snow and folks end up on a mini-stay-cation...no school or work except the most essential workers. We haven't gotten a significant snow fall in about 2 years. I predict this winter we'll get some type of blizzard. 😎

Someone like her could be an asset in getting through the Lake effect during those Michigan winters. 😁😎

NF Jr.s belief is not a revelation because 1) lesbianism has been around for a long time and 2) women have been signing up for military service for several decades. There's already plenty active duty women who choose to become soldiers. Many of them are lesbians too. If AfroAmerican men cannot take care of AfroAmerican women financially and physically, they're going to find an alternative. College degrees, professional careers, military service and lesbianism give AfroAmerican women another path.😎

Yes indeed. Natural Black beauty is a welcomed sight as opposed to the eyelashes, hair weave, silicone and heavily made-up sistas running around out in these streets.😁😎

The potential for misinterpretation is high on a public forum where we rely on written words. We do not have the benefit of being able to hear or see body language. But, we get through it by clarification if necessary. If anyone misunderstands anything I write, upon request, I'm willing to clarify my position within reason. Otherwise, I think we fundamentally agree on Lupita's position.😎

Interesting thread topic but I don't believe this particular forum has enough participation or bandwidth to discuss it.😁😎

Unfortunately, this movie will not move the needle of indifference AfroAmericans seem to have to our history nor complacency with the status quo. Like Hidden Figures, Just Mercy, Black KkKlansman and other movies, Till will be more entertainment than education or motivation to insure history doesn't repeat itself. 😎