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  1. 56 minutes ago, Troy said:

    The divisions in America exist, but they are not nearly as profound and extreme as the media likes to emphasize. I'd argue that the media, social media in particular instigates, exacerbates, and even initiates divisions.

    Agreed. The media definitely generates a lot of money stirring up divisions and using it as source material.

     

    Hopefully, the media won't get folks agitated to the point of grabbing their guns and causing a nationwide riot.

     

    I remember back in 1908 when Jack Johnson beat up Jim Jeffries to win the heavyweight. It drove white folks crazy.🤣😎

  2. 10 hours ago, richardmurray said:

    My position is the black populace in the usa is unrelated to any other black populace in humanity, based on its scenario.

    Fair enough. AfroAmerican history is unique.

     

    10 hours ago, richardmurray said:

    I think the black populace in the usa is financially better off than any other black populace in humanity, though I have to say to any who may read this, financial betterment for one doesn't mean their community is free or powerful.

    AfroAmerican wealth based on consumerism is significant but it hasn't been aggregated into allowing us to exercise real power.

    10 hours ago, richardmurray said:

    also add @ProfD to your reply to pioneer that the usa isn't thousand of years 

    Thanks. I could add that fact to my post but @Pioneer1 doesn't seem to like small numbers where hundreds are thousands and thousands are millions and millions are billions. 🤣😎

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  3. 8 hours ago, Troy said:

    Who is the Civil War supposed to be against...

    It would be similar to the insurrection. Started by folks who believe their country is being overrun by others.

    8 hours ago, Troy said:

    There is not gonna be a Civil War. 

    I hope you're right. The country has been divided without all h8ll breaking loose.😎

  4. 45 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

    But they see (or atleast sell) themselves as a group of professional Black people who formed an organization to look out for their own best interests in a world dominated by White racism.

    I can understand why one would join an organization where they could atleast get SOME benefit, wealth, power, and prestige.

    Yep. It's not uncommon for prisoners, er, people to join certain clicks, groups, organizations, etc., for a sense of power and/or protection.😎 

  5. IMO, marriage should always be a choice and not an expectation or obligation. Especially in countries where it's contractual. 

     

    4 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

    It seems that some men just TRY to make it work....I mean they try REAL HARD to make it work no matter how many times they fail.

    Unfortunately, that social conditioning leads them into trying live up to an expectation. 

     

    4 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

    Some men just aren't meant to be in long term or committed relationships just like some women aren't.

    There's a whole lot of people living their best lives flying solo.

     

    4 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

    As far as our brother Cornel..........smart as he is and as famous...practically a household name in Black America.....I don't see how THAT brother could be struggling financially.

    Intellect and fame don't always translate into a fortune. Making money requires having a product and being a salesman and having a customer base.

    4 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

    I wonder what Tavis Smiley is up to....lol.

    I doubt that Tavis' paper has ever been in jeopardy to a woman. 🤣😎

  6. 34 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

    @ProfD I did say in the usa, not the whole world:) not the whole world, just the usa.

    Understood.

     

    AfroAmericans are several hundred years behind white folks in terms of wealth.

     

    However, considering how the continent of Africa is being carved up by outsiders and same goes for other countries, Black folks have whole countries to themselves but as a group of people they aren't too much better off than AfroAmericans financially.😎

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  7. On 3/9/2024 at 8:19 AM, Pioneer1 said:

    The reality is, most AfroAmericans don't care what's going on overthere.
    They are too preoccupied with trying to live their day to day lives in an increasingly stressful society and workplace in the United States.

     

    And a smaller but growing minority of AfroAmericans....as exemplified by Professor Black Truth....KNOW what's going on overthere but feel that we shouldn't focus our attention on it but on other matters more pertinent to us and our needs.

    Politicians pander to AfroAmericans when it's time vote. 

     

    Some other groups of people feel like AfroAmericans should be empathic to their issues. 

     

    Nope.  AfroAmericans should not be lending their voices to and/or putting on the cape for any other group of people. 

     

    None of those people has ever spoken up for or come to the rescue of AfroAmericans. 

     

    They can save the empty rhetoric about donating to and/or joining NAACP or National Urban League, 

     

    Yet, those same groups of people once relocated to the US will set up businesses in AfroAmerican communities.  

     

    Let them fight their own battles and settle their own affairs. AfroAmericans should remain apathetic.😎

  8. On 3/5/2024 at 1:12 AM, Delano said:

    You have that option

    Surely, I could blow off my responsibilities and sit around playing piano all day. 

     

    So, either my free will won't allow me that luxury or my conscience has placed a higher calling on my purpose.😁

     

    I hope that while I still have the physical and mental capacity, the universe will absolve my responsibilities and reward me with unlimited time to indulge my passion.

     

    Now, the question becomes if today or tomorrow, I said f8ck it all, I'm just gonna do my thing...would that be pre-determined.🤣😎

  9. I'm not surprised that Dr. Cornel West has short paper. Being an intellectual and academician doesn't translate into wealth. 

     

    5 failed marriages suggests to me that Dr. West tried to conform to some aspect of the American Dream.

     

    Every man isn't meant to be married to another person. Some are better off married to their vocation. Even if it means running their mouths and eating grapes like an old Greek philosopher.🤣

     

    I do think it's important for folks like Dr. West to get into politics. Challenges other candidates to bring their brain power to the discussion.😎

  10. 4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

    ProfD


    If the Baby Boomers were guilty of anything, they were guilty of partying and celebrating their PERCEIVED victory too quickly.

    Yes sir, they indeed put in the work to achieve a measure of Civil Rights and "Black Power".
    We can take that away from them brutha....we just can't.

    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.

     

    4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

    The children...me, you, and others...saw this and took the cue that the struggle was over too.

    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.😁

     

    4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

    A certain amount of people in ANY community are just jacked up and self-destructive and an effective and responsible community has measure in place to deal with such people.

    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.😎

  11. 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. 😎

  12. @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. 😎

  13. 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. 😎

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  14. 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. 🤣😎

  15. 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.😁😎

  16. 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.😎

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  17. 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.😁😎

  18. 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. 🤣😎

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  19. 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.😎

  20. 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.😎

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