ProfD

The streets have always known how Puffy rolls. He made a lot of money in the entertainment business. He enjoys all of the excesses that come with his lifestyle.

Anything someone does in the dark that  involves other people is a liability. There are receipts that can be produced at any time.

Puffy has done something to p8ss off white supremacists. Maybe it's the lawsuit he brought against the liquor company. Whatever it is he has to weather the storm. 

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

What modern society functions like this, though?

What nation can we point to as an example where the majority of people  (not a wealthy few) are getting their basic needs met without working for pay?

Middle East. Scandavia.

The operative phrase is they  don't have to work in order to meet basic needs. 

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

See...there you go.

They need workers so they are IMPORTING immigrants to do the menial and manual labor jobs.

Foreigners are allowed to do jobs the citizens may not feel like doing because they don't have to work.

The foreigners get to come and work to make money for themselves and their families back home. Just like here in the US.

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Now how do you think that will work out in the United States?
Especially for AfroAmericans?

The welfare system is an example of how it works in the USA.

As jobs are being phased out by technology, the US will have to come up with a UBI (Universal Basic Income). Glorified welfare.

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Well, show me a nation with a system Socialist, Communist, or otherwise where most of the people of that nation DON'T have to work for a living.

It may be ideal, but I'd like a living example to KNOW it works.

Mentioned above. 

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

The other part is producing goods and services for people to spend that money on.

Human beings are slowly being replaced by robots and AI.

The UBI will allow humans to consume at a certain level. They will have to find some kind of work to make extra money. 

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Even if everything is manufactured OUTSIDE the U.S., someone still has to drive the trucks to move the goods...

Drones and self-driving vehicles will eventually move a lot of products. 

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

open up the stores to sell them...

Many stores are going to self-checkout.

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

....operate the gas station to fuel the cars and trucks that move them.

Folks pump their own gas in most states. No cashier or attendant. Drive up at 3 a.m. Pay at the pump and gas up and  go. 

I don't know if we'll be around to see the implementation of it but eventually the US will have fewer social classes.

The work week will be reduced. Unemployment as we know it will be different too. 

The system of racism white supremacy will always remind its AfroAmerican tools that they can be broken at any time no matter how much money they'e made for them. 

Arrogance and ignorance is dangerous mixture and a weak shield when it comes to dealing with the most powerful force on the planet. 

Puffy has enough money to make this situation go away if he promises white supremacists he won't get too far out of pocket again. 

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

They don't have to watch the news to realize that there is dysfunction in the AfroAmerican community; all they have to do is go to nearly any major city and SEE it live and in flesh.

Interestingly, there's no highlight on the many thriving AfroAmerican communities in every major city throughout the USA.

Maybe it's a great thing for AfroAmericans who live in thriving communities to stay on the low.

That's why I make it my business to re-educate folks who come here on that BS.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Not only do we have to clean up the dysfunction of our community but we have to produce and control OUR OWN narratives and what the rest of the world sees of us.

Takes a strong individual or group of AfroAmerican leadership from that community to clean it up and change the narrative.

The mayor of Baltimore is a young educated AfroAmerican man. He looks and walks and talks like the residents of B-more. I've heard  he's doing a good job there. That's a step in the right direction.

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

For how long?

How long you can go without a pay check also defines your socio-economic class.

Don't need a paycheck as long as basic needs are met. 

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

....menial and service industry jobs are being performed by FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS

Sure. They've imported them the same way white folks allow immigrants to work here.

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

You think it's false?
I think it's human nature.
Most people need a good reason (like a pay check) to wake up early in the morning, punch a clock and be told what to do and yelled at from time to time....else they wouldn't do it.

Difference between lazy and industrious. 

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Most adults around the planet don't have that luxury of having their needs already met so they can engage in their favorite hobbies...lol.

That's by design especially in capitalistic systems.

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Well, not necessarily as a janitor.

But I do believe the economy should be structured to where most people HAVE TO get up and work to support themselves and their families.

If you want to keep the economy and society strong.

The economy is predicated on people spending money. Doesn't matter how they get it.

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

We disagree on the definition of rich.

What you described, I would call "comfortable".
In my opinion, in this society rich would be a worth of atleast $10 Million or above.

There's 8 billion people on the planet. Only 2.8 million of them are worth $10 million or more.

A whole lot more than 2.8 million people live beyond comfortably well with less than $10 million.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

It was meant for us too.
If it weren't they would have easily barred our people from receiving it.

Black folks didn't benefit from the New Deal nearly as much as white folks if at all.

As a result, back in the 1930s, Black folks were either self-sufficient in their own communities or they took on jobs white folks didn't want to do.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

I think some of that is Black Republican propaganda to try to divert attention from the fact that with the arguable exception of  Lincoln...

POTUS Lincoln didn't free the slaves and plunge America into a Civil War because he loved Black folks.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

.....a Democrat Roosevelt did more to benefit AfroAmericans economically than any president before or since and that's why so many switched over from being Republicans in the 30s.

Whatever FDR did to help AfroAmericans economically wasn't enough to build wealth.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Eleanor Roosevelt was said to be a firm proponent of Civil Rights for AfroAmericans and was a strong influence on her husband Franks policies.

Bless her heart. She had a soft spot for AfroAmericans. Maybe they were her babysitters and servants to her family when she was growing up.

28 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Well, it's good to see that Africans can indeed unite around something besides not liking AfroAmericans....lol.

Africans do not totally dislike AfroAmericans. 

Africans are afraid and wary of us because they have been fed a narrative that AfroAmericans are lazy, ignorant, violent, drug abusers, etc.   

Unfortunately, AfroAmericans have no control over the propaganda that goes out into the world about us.

As I've mentioned several times here, there are quite a few Africans in my tribe. 

I'm a very proud AfroAmerican man in being able to show Africans our success on several levels. 

I tell them to f8ck what you have heard about us...watch me.

I've toured my African brothers and sisters through the streets on which I grew up to where I live in the cradle of AfroAmerican affluence.

Education is priceless.  It is a key to shared understanding and eliminating ignorance. 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

Sometime around the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt and a short time after I believe they were sincere about pushing their agenda....some good and some bad, but not as bad as the Republican agenda.
A lot got done for us.

POTUS FDR came up with the New Deal to pull white folks out of the Depression. 

Since it was back in the  1930s, any benefit of the New Deal to Black folks was incidental.

Otherwise, desegregation in the USA was at least three (3) decades away.

10 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Then I take it you don't believe everything is pre-determined either.

As the resident agnostic around here, h8ll to the naw.

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

And I find that highly suspicious.

Who is doing the construction work?
Who is keeping up the infrastructure like the plumbing, sewers, stocking the grocery stores, etc.?

Who is cleaning the streets?

These jobs are usually done by poor and low income people.

If everyone is living luxuriously, who is doing them?

As I mentioned above, work becomes an avocation.  The people are still doing those jobs.  They just aren't what we define as low income or poor.  They can afford to work for free. 

No different than the offspring of wealthy people.  They just happen to be in a wealthy country.

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

However you will always need a working class MAJORITY to maintain a viable properly ran economy.

I wouldn't sell the idea to our people (here or on the Continent) that you could build a society in which they don't have to work or do manual labor.
That's selling them a dream or false hope.

It's false to believe that people have to be low income or poor or have a carrot dangled in front of them to work. 

There is a difference between lazy and industrious people. 

Lazy people have to be incentivized to work. No amount of money will keep them from being mentally or physically lazy.  The threat of not having food, clothing or shelter is motivation.

Industrious folks like to build and fix things or be of service to others. They will work regardless of money.

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

I think proper investing can also lead to wealth...

Investing is passive income.  It's not the same as trading labor for money i.e. work.

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

But let's not shit on it, because it's a lot better than what many if not most of our people in the U.S. have available for them today.

 

We can shake our heads at people putting on a work uniform and "slaving" at a factory for $25 an hour.
But atleast they ARE working and making money.

I would never sh8t on anyone.  Especially some who is willing to work. 

Folks would not have to slave for money if their basic needs were already met. 

IOW, an adult should not have to work as a janitor in order to feed a family. 

However, some folks enjoy cleaning up.  They would be perfectly happy pushing a broom or mop around in a a luxury hotel.  Get off from work and change clothes and jump into a Mercedes-Benz to to go and kick it with the family in their nice home.

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Compare that to so many of our brothers and sisters who are in and out of jail, on the streets begging, and stuck hopping from one fast food job to another for $12 an hour.

That is a by-product of living in a capitalistic system.

3 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Yes, but you CAN make a living.
Which is fair to ask for since everybody can't be rich.

I'm going to say whether White folks are in charge or Black folks are in charge....the majority of our people will NOT be rich.

Depends on how one defines rich.

I define rich as having all basic needs met (food, clothing, shelter, healthcare and peace).  Accordingly, everybody on this planet can be rich. 

The only obstacle to living a rich life is human greed.  The belief that some folks have to be poor in order for others to be rich is ridiculous.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

Would you say much of your happiness and success was a result of "luck" or because of good decisions you've made?

I believe success is a combination of effort, decision-making and some luck too.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

BTW, you don't exactly see and hear the SAME shit around you.
Things change....maybe not as drastically at times...but they change every moment.

Nothing has significantly changed enough to affect my overall reality.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

I have to admit, I DO like the idea that they want to invent their own currency.
This is a step in the right direction.

It really doesn't have to be recognized on the international market as long as it will buy goods and services on the African continent.

An African universal currency and passport would definitely be steps in the right direction. 

Of course, that's along with controlling their own resources and taking care of their populations too. 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

I mentioned this before, on this very site...years ago....so I'm not sure if you remember or were here.

 

I said that certain Republicans had went on a convert operation to join and sabotage the Democratic Party.

i do not recall that particular thread.  May have been before my time.

The Democratic agenda (Left) has always been a counter-balance to the Conservative (Right). 

GOP POTUS Richard Nixon allowed drugs into Black communities.  Back in 1971, POTUS Nixon declared a war on drugs. 

Fast-forward 20 years and Democratic POTUS BIll Clinton signed the 1994 Crime Bill which led to the mass incarceration of Black folks.

One author of that bill was former senator and current Democratic POTUS Joe Biden.

When Democrats had the White House and a majority of Congress, they did not codify Voting Rights, Abortion Rights, nominate a Supreme Court justice when they could or raise minimum wage.

OTOH, when the GOP is in control, they steamroll their agenda which enriches the wealthy, packs the Supreme Court and roll back voter rights and abortion rights.

Neither party, GOP or Democrats has ever brought up Reparations and how they plan to atone for America's greatest sin...slavery. 

That's my reason for always posting this two-party political system is two sides of the same coin.

40 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

I also wonder how many people LIVING in Dubai have actually made their wealth IN Dubai.

Inconsequential.   

Black gold aka oil has made the United Arab Emirates wealthy.  The people do not  have to work for a living i.e. in order to survive.  Work is an avocation.  There is no poverty. 

Dubai is Las Vegas on steroids.  A city built in the middle of desert from oil-derived wealth.  They built a paradise.

If African countries were allowed to fully exploit the wealth from their natural resources, they would be in a similar position as the the United Arab Emirates. 

Nigeria is one African country that could be like the United Arab Emirates.  Unfortunately, greed and corruption is their biggest problem. 

South Africa could also be a wealthy Black country if the 55 million Black folks weren't being controlled by the  4 million white folks.

55 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

It may seem next to ridiculous to compare Dubai with Detroit; however Detroit used to be the city where poor Black folks from the South could come up and actually MAKE a lot of money and improve their standard of living and live nicely in the very same city.

There is no comparison. 

Wealth (passive income) is built on natural resources and/or using someone else's labor. 

The city of Detroit was built on an auto industry that was owned by white folks. Their wealth was built on the labor of others.

Active income through labor allowed Black folks to make just enough money to live comfortably.

It's almost impossible to become wealthy working for someone else.

4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

There  are a whole lot of young Black leaders all over the world...but where are they leading the people?

 

I'm not impressed with young brothers picking up arms and talking tough and giving speeches.
I've seen it so much it doesn't impress me anymore.

I want to see the FOLLOW UP.

Once you THINK you've kicked the White folks out, now what are your plans to make the nation BETTER than the way they had it?

Will the busses and trains run on time...or will there BE NO busses or trains anymore?

In our lifetime, we have not seen a Black leader or country with complete autonomy over their resources and the wealth that comes from it.   That insures a higher standard of living for the entire population in that country.

Look no further than oil-rich countries in the Middle East especially the United Arab Emirates. 

The city Dubai with a population of 3 million people is a great example of paradise on Earth.

DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) is the latest buzzword in attacking the *woke* movement that conservatives has manufactured.  

As you know from teachings, all of this sh8t is an attack on Black folks. 

Any opportunity that enables Black folks to advance is labelled (affirmative action, race-based hiring, Rooney Rule, etc.).

DEI falls into that continuum of anti-Black rhetoric.

4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

ProfD

 

 Now I'm wondering if I should feel slighted that I've not been able to participate in the near death experience and jumping around in different realities games. 

 

How do you know you haven't?

 

One Multi-Reality theory claims that every single move is part of a different Reality.
Their theory claims you're constantly moving through BILLIONS of Realities each moment.
 

Maybe so.  For over a half-century and counting, it's felt like the same mono-reality.  Every time I wake up, I see and hear the same sh8t in the world around me.

Surely, if I had jumped into a reality where for the most part, I could just cook and eat; poke that soft and wet and play piano all day, I would have stayed there.

Really, I cannot complain about my mono-reality because I'm in good health and I'm well off and there's no shortage of people who love me unconditionally.  I have a great life all things considered.

 Now I'm wondering if I should feel slighted that I've not been able to participate in the near death experience and jumping around in different realities games. Then again, the omniscient has good reason not to pick me.

On 3/27/2024 at 8:03 PM, Pioneer1 said:

I'm just saying that a Black coalition needs to be led by BLACK PEOPLE.
Not a White nor almost-White "savior".

Agreed.

Gaddafi was definitely on code in how he tried to set Libya up to win. That country hasn't been right since they assassinated him.

If African leaders could control their resources and kick foreigners out, that would be building blocks to sovereignty. 

As mentioned in the other thread, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Togo seem to be moving in that direction under young Black leadership.

@aka Contrarian, excellent weekly news wrap.

As a correspondent, I'll add...

Former POTUS Orange Julius (POJ)  had his $464 million bond reduced to $175 million. NY AG Letitia James is still holding on to it as a win.

Meanwhile, POJ's Truth Social hits stock market valued at $3.6 billion. IOW, there was reason to reduce the bond above.

As  mentioned above, POJ puts sprinkles on his fortune cake hawking a Bible. Also resurfaced is the infamous picture of him standing in front of a church during the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder. 

Robert Kennedy Jr. doesn't stand a chance of being elected POTUS. Due to a condition that affects his speaking voice, if RFK Jr. leader, his public addresses would be a painful listen. 

CNN caught up with Fani Willis at an event in Atlanta. She was looking good and defiantly said the train is still coming in the case against POJ.

Puffy aka Diddy is definitely in a tub of hot water as the Feds hink he's involved in sex trafficking. It makes no sense to me that a billionaire would pick that as a side hustle. These raids coincide with other allegations against the music mogul. He's been skating on thin ice for decades. 

The Baltimore bridge collapse was an unfortunate catastrophe. It happened about 40 minutes driving from my hood.

9 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

One of the problems is under colonialism....much of the ancient culture and ways of farming and doing things to feed themselves were ERASED as the Europeans imposed a new system of doing things on them.

Black folks have never needed white folks to teach them how to farm or do anything else. 

Europeans stole everything they ever learned from Black folks.

9 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Now it's up to us to discover and invent brand new ways to become independent and self sufficient.....because the way the Europeans taught us certainly isn't working.

As the originators, Black folks don't have to discover or invent ways of doing anything.  We just need to eliminate the system of racism white supremacy.

9 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Many Africans....like many AfroAmericans....simply don't want White folks telling them what to do anymore, but still don't know how to fully take care of themselves and operate a fully functioning society.

As evidenced by the title of this thread, if white folks left Blacks alone and stopped stealing their resources and colonizing them, Black folks would be totally self-sufficient.  

There's enough intelligence among Black folks to do anything we desire.  Just a matter of removing foreigners from our lands and building strategic alliances among ourselves using our collective knowledge, skills and abilities.

Black folks can totally thrive and survive without white folks.

On 3/24/2024 at 7:24 PM, Pioneer1 said:

I don't think he should have been killed...especially in the manner that he did.
However I don't think he should have lead any Black African coalition or movement.
He wasn't a Black African.

 

I'd consider him a friend and ally of Black people, but not to be followed for a number of reasons.

Gaddafi or Castro or any other non-Black person leading an African coalition...even if it was successful....would simply re-enforce the racist belief that Black folks need a "White savior" because they don't have sense enough to do it by themselves.

Gaddafi and Castro were definitely African and Cuban respectively.

The  Honorable Farrakhan who's mixed race himself recognized Gaddafi as a brotha in arms.

Gaddafi and Castro may have seen themselves as Trojan horses and a legitimate liaisons between white supremacy and Black empowerment. 

Of course, we'll never know because nobody has picked up their torches. 

47 minutes ago, aka Contrarian said:

When you tell down trodden people of all colors existing in the throes of oppression/depression, that they will be justly rewarded when they die by going to heaven, a paradise that washes away all their cares....

That part of the movie cracks me up every time. 

47 minutes ago, aka Contrarian said:

...as flawed a formula as this is, it offers HOPE.

That's the reason I haven't started a church crusading against it. 

Religion isn't my thing but I realize folks need a coping mechanism. Probably better for them than becoming a drug addict or alcoholic or some other destructive behavior. 

47 minutes ago, aka Contrarian said:

Nobody asked me, but from my own personal experiences, I imagine that  there is a higher power which you can download into your spiritual computer and program the daily miracles that get you through life.

That makes more sense than the mumbo jumbo folks hooting and hollering and spitting on Sundays from the book of fairy tales.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

The System of White Racism is global and works as a team.

Right. That system has tentacles reaching into Black countries causing them all types of problems.

The people of those countries were surviving just fine before the enemy showed up telling lies and stealing  their resources. 

The biggest mistake Black folks make is allowing a parasitic enemy to come into their homes. It's hard to get rid of it.

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Then the question would be, why do so many of our people keep falling for the same okey doke over and over again?

When people are looking for something they will follow anything. 

All it takes is for someone to come along talking some good sh8t and playing on shortcomings or insecurities.

Religion is the worst form of mind control because parents will drag their children kicking and screaming into it.

Several centuries of mental programming passed down from one generation to the next is one helluva recipe for mind control.