ProfD

Rest assured that many Black student college educations have been financed by gangster activities. As mentioned early, it's not too different from what the white mafia has done to take care of their families and enrich themselves. I'm not glorifying or condoning that life. Just providing perspective.

No surprise how they're trying to spin this non-story. I'm sure the killer won't get as much press.

I grew up with a lot of brothas who were very intelligent and did well academically too. Yet, for many of those cats *school* didn’t seem to offer a pathway to real prosperity and wealth. Nor did they want to work for white folks. So, they did *illegal* sh8t to build legitimate businesses. That gangster who is intelligent, charismatic and strong is usually the CEO of a corporation under different circumstances.

Yep. The fact that hardly anyone knew Death Row sold at auction was by design. Regardless of how anyone feels about the music produced by Death Row, there goes Black intellectual property into the hands on non-Black folks.

Begs a few questions: 1) why do people still live in such an expensive place 2) what are they doing to improve their lives 3) why are people still reproducing if they cannot afford to take care of themselves. One must take a personal responsibility and accountability to thrive and survive wherever they choose to live. Waiting on white folks to hand out jobs, lower rents, make quality healthcare accessible and affordable, etc., doesn't seem to be working.

I heard there are folks losing their lives doing dumbazz challenges like surfing subway trains. Prime candidates for a Darwin award.

For the sake of clarity, I should have typed every generation will have folks who believe the future generation will be worse.

Every generation thinks the future will be worse off. Human beings are adaptable creatures. The children will be fine. They no longer write in cursive. No pretty handwriting or signature. Everything is printed. But, the younger folks can type and work the h8ll outta of a cell phone, tablet or computer almost before they can walk and talk. I predict the future generation of humans beings won't any more or less confused than the current or past generation. There's nothing new under the sun.

That was fast. Seems like just yesterday the movie was in theaters but it was released back in April.

Because they march to their own drumbeat and prefer solitude over everything else, Sigma males may not appeal to women who are needy and/or clingy. A self-sufficient woman who does her own thing will have a greater appreciation for a Sigma male.

He's a Harvard educated guy (attended with former POTUS Obama), therefore, he has the intellectual capacity to be a public servant. The orange former POTUS wasn't a politician before he ran for office either. We see how that turned out over 4 years. Millions of people still love him.

Fair enough. I've read your thesis so I'm not surprised.

Hill Harper admits that he's not a politician. Hus campaign is grassroots and funded by donations through his website. No superPACs. I think Hill Harper would really try to help the state of Michigan. Hopefully, he wouln't get corrupted by DC.

Mainly because most Black leaders knew militancy could have led to a race war resulting in the wholesale massacre of most AfroAmericans. Even if they so desired. AfroAmericans would not have been able to amass enough weapons and bloodlust to launch a military campaign against their oppressors. Instead, AfroAmericans settled for integration, faith, hope and the belief that one day we'll all be free and that white folks would treat us fair and equal.

Knowing the history behind it, I saw the movie when it was in theaters. It was entertaining enough.

As I mentioned in another thread, most wealth is in the cloud. A paranoid billionaire couldn't have a Brinks truck pull up and drop all of their money in the front yard. It's conceivable that the US treasury could produce large denomination bank notes for such individuals. Otherwise, as long as Oprah cannot touch or cash in her wealth, she's a mouse click away from losing it all especially if she p8sses off white folks. Remember how Kanye's fortune dropped like the Dow Jones over that claim of antisemitism. Death Row Records was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Someone bought it for pennies on the dollar when it was sold at auction. Oprah's business assets are worth a few billion dollars as long as she's cooperative and white folks are in agreement. My house is only worth a half million dollars as long as someone is wiling to pay that much for it.

Yep...rest the dead...that brotha ruffled a lot of feathers as it relates to male/female dynamics.

As sista @Chevdove pointed out, women are attracted to men for different reasons. It depends on a woman's needs, wants and desires of which they can have many and it can be ever-changing. However, I believe man's intelligence, confidence, strength, character, ability to be a provider and protector and his wisdom are things that make him most attractive to women. Alpha-males rule the roost. An alpha-male has some combination of qualities that women find attractive and are willingly to submit. An alpha-male *knows* his woman isn't going anywhere for any reason. His only competition is another alpha-male. The Beta and Gamma dudes pick up the slack. This is the majority of men. These dudes will most often have the hardest time maintaining a woman's attraction especially when either 1) the woman wasn't really attracted to him in the 1st place and/or 2) a better opportunity comes along (usually another Beta or Gamma). Men are relatively simple when it comes to attraction. It's usually a physical attribute. As a man gets to know a woman, she may have other qualities that can be assets. A man should be able to take care of himself. A man's basic needs when it comes to a woman are sex and respect (trustworthy). If a woman is intelligent, cooks, maternal, etc., that's a bonus. Yet, the laws of mutual attraction prevail. When the *right* man and woman find each other, everything else falls into place. If/when a man/woman has issue(s) finding and/or keeping someone...look no further than the common denominator (self). Human beings tend to be their own worse enemy.

Men and women are different. As a species, the roles of men and women were clearly defined thousands of years ago. In the western world, White men are enabling a fluidity in gender roles mainly to undermine Black men especially when it comes to Black women. Make no mistake about it that regardless of how many white LBGTQ+ folks are running around, they're a minority. The white family is not in peril or jeopardy because a few choose to go astray. No different from women's liberation allowing them to leave behind housewife to work a job, white women are still on code as it relates to their role within their race. Same goes for white men who choose to live an alternative lifestyle. They still try to keep it low. As I mentioned in another thread, there's no other group of women who run around claiming to be strong or boss or anything domineering. They know their role as it relates to men. Look no further than every other culture on the planet. Again, the western world is liberating Black women and promoting LBGTQ+ under the system of racism white supremacy to further marginalize Black men. Men and women are instinctively different. The poison pills being dropped and sprayed in the western world have led to some confusion. However, I believe most men and women still know their roles even if they choose to do something different.

Oprah went from a journalist to a talk show host. White men gave her a platform to entertain their housewives. They paid her a ransom. She's not self-made. Oprah is a beneficiary of being hand selected by white supremacists to be one of few AfroAmericans they were willing to allow make a billion dollars working for them. The fact that Oprah's an AfroAmerican female billionaire was a dagger white folks stuck in Black men. Anything Oprah does charitable for Black folks is commendable. However, you’ll never see her biting the hand that has fed her well.

Drug addiction, alcoholism and promiscuity made many religious AfroAmericans frown on musicians and entertainers back in the 1950s/60s. They weren't thugs and gangsters but their lifestyle choices and performing the devil's music was supposed to be an express ticket to h8ll. Dope became cheaper in the 1970s. It was followed by crack in the 1980s. It's easy to believe gangsta rap made things worse. As a musician, maybe I'm partial to defending art. But, folks were already using and selling drugs and gang-banging and all the negative that comes with it. As Public Enemy's Chuck D said, Hip-Hop music was the black CNN putting a bullseye on a the epidemic plaguing AfroAmericans. No different from Hollywood movies, artists and musicians took a negative aspect of life and monetized it musically. Parents still have the responsibility of raising their children to include what they listen to and watch. Sometimes, the problem is the *parents*. Obviously, Frankie Lymon's life wasn't a cautionary tale considering the number of folks who've fallen into drug addiction and the ills of it including the ultimate cost...no more life.

There is nothing new under the sun. AfroAmericans have been smoking, drinking, pimping and partying ever since they got off the plantation and especially once they headed to major cities. By definition, dysfunction is abnormality or impairment of an organ or system or deviation from normal behavior and regarded as bad. To me, dysfunction is doing sh8t that either doesn't work (unproductive) or causes harm to others (destructive) and/or doesn't provide tangible benefits to the greater good. I don't consider people who drink, smoke, use drugs, sell p8ssy, etc., as dysfunctional. Same applies to sexual orientation. That's their thing. Live and let live. IMO, dysfunctional people are those who do things that aren't constructive and/or productive and serve to harm or weaken the greater good of humanity. I had not heard of this movie until now either.

Black folks shouldn't be interested in these social media platforms especially if they're not going to use it for the tangible benefit of uplifting their own people. We don't need another platform for influencers, bootlicks, shills and other forms of crash dummies to show off on the internet. Besides, the only folks getting richer and adding to their billions are white folks.

Both Justices Thomas and Jackson are the beneficiaries of Affirmative Action and sometimes the end result. They are two Black folks fully integrated into a white society who will do nothing to upset the apple cart of racism.

@Pioneer1, it would be very wise for you to travel to the thriving black communities across America. You will find many well-to-do Black folks who are neither sellouts nor thugs and gangsters. I grew up with the gamut of Black folks and know how to deal with *us* accordingly. There is method to the madness plaguing impoverished Black communities. Thugs and gangsters should be the least of our worries. My *issue* with Black folks is the lack of being code in terms of building an infrastructure and bridge to uplift our own people and dismantle the system of racism white supremacy. I feel that religion, money and politics, etc., have lulled Black folks into a false sense of security as it relates to dealing with the real devil out in these streetz...it's white folks and the system they've built.