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ProfD

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  1. I would still teach the basics of computing. No different from teaching alphabets & words to children. They'll figure out soon if/when they need to use a dictionary or library or internet. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is another tool in the box. Folks wil use it to get things done faster &/or more cost effectively. Surely, some folks will use AI to enrich themselves & put others out of work. Such is life especially when it comes to technology.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  2. Again, I'll restate some people need to stop procreating. They're not too lazy to stop f8cking but cannot afford their offspring. Makes zero sense. It is selfish for people to bring children into the world & not be able to provide shelter, food & clothing for them. Broke men & women should get themselves fixed. That way, they can f8ck from sun up to sun down & not have to worry about bringing someone else into poverty & homelessness.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  3. Qualifications are determined & taught by subject matter experts in a given field. Reads like your relatives didn't hire the *right* lawyers. Many people &/or their families have won medical malpractice lawsuits. Doctors with a track record of failure lose their medical licenses. All jurisdictions put a certain amount aside for civil litigation. Some law enforcement officers have been stripped of their badges or fired or imprisoned for committing crimes. Failure of banking systems is a function of greed fueled by risky & bad investments. The qualified people know exactly what they're doing even if it means running a business into the ground. Experience & track record among other factors separates the amateurs & pros. There are penalties for failure. We don't always hear about it. Qualifications do not equal perfection. Humans are flawed. They will make mistakes too. However, I believe legitimate doctors save more lives than they lose.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  4. IMO, Al Jarreau's musical legacy will be bringing Jazz vocal stylings & scat to R&B & Pop music.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  5. Sly Stone was very important to music. He gave R&B an edge & inspired Jazz musicians to embrace electronic instruments. Sly was a huge influence on Miles Davis & by extension, the list of musicians who came through Davis' finishing school.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  6. I would prefer that a brain surgeon be *qualified* to perform that work. Nobody wants their head cut open & brain exposed by someone who watched a few Youtube videos & think they got it.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  7. Right. At one point during the pandemic, they kept mentioning how elderly people were more susceptible to & likely to die from the virus. They had old people shook. During that time, NF Jr. must have been in that number. He wasn't too concerned about the tricks &/or *poison* white supremacists mandated. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜Ž
  8. Sure, i believe in 1st come 1st served in hiring as long as folks are *qualified* to do the *work*.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  9. As an elderly person, he was afraid to get the virus & die. We see how that worked out.๐Ÿคฃ Understood. The code is just a guide. It was never promoted or intended to be gospel.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  10. Using one's *power* to get s8xual favors is small ball & totally different from exercising a minor role in upholding & maintaining the system of racism white supremacy. NF Jr. had something to say about s8x & when & how it should be utilized too.๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜Ž
  11. There have been short-lived movements that promoted Black love & pride. Back in the 1970s, James Brown & Muhammad Ali were heavy promoters of Black love & pride. Movies were made featuring Black folks in our own natural looks, fashion, speech & flavor. The Native Tongues (Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul) & Public Enemy, KRS-One, Brand Nubian, Nas, Gang Starr, Common, The Roots, & many others within the Hip-Hop commmunity were Pro-Black. Same goes for R&B artists like D'Angelo, Angie Stone, Meshell NdegeOcello, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, India.Arie, etc. TV shows & movies have been made showing Black beauty & love & pride. The argument can be made that FBA/AfroAmericans have done far more especially through entertainment & education to promote Black love & pride. Surely, we see Black women lightening themselves with cosmetics & dyeing their hair & wearing wigs. In fairness, Black women have been doing this for many decades. It isn't new. Colorism started way back on the slave plantations. Centuries of conditioning & programming. Gonna take a long time to undo.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  12. Bro...that's small ball. Literally.๐Ÿคฃ I'm referring to FBA/AfroAmericans having the power to build strategic alliances with other groups of Black folks. The power of racism white supremacy is stronger.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  13. The funniest part is n8gglets are using white platforms to talk sh8t about the system of racism white supremacy. To complain about being censored by the same white folks you're talking about on their sh8t is ridiculous. Imagine a n8gglet moving into your house & complaining about everything in it. Your 1st response would or should be...get the f8ck out.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  14. The question is how did this fraudulent n8gglet get that close to a prominent member of Congress. Rep. Crockett's team should have done a better job or vetting her security detail.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  15. Power & strength & violence are very real motivators. History proves it. The conditioning Black folks have received through propaganda & the system of racism white supremacy runs deep. IMO, peeling the layers of that onion & reprogramming Black folks to believe in their natural superiority will take a lot of time & effort. Right now, AfroAmericans do not have enough power to influence other Black folks to ride with us. The white stranglehold on their brains is more powerful.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  16. That always reminds me of Diana Ross song "I'm gonna make you love me".๐Ÿคฃ Like any other dysfunctional relationship, the abused &/or oppressed is always trying to do something in hopes that they will be loved & appreciated. Right. Black folks can be OCD when it comes to who made the potato salad for a family dinner depending on how clean they keep house. OTOH, that same person will think nothing of what goes on in the kitchen of a restaurant. They have no idea of the food items that have been dropped or spat on or worse. A lot more of time has gone into conditioning Black folks to hate themselves. Guilty as charged. It's not that I can't curse or use certain words & phrases. It's part etiquette & algorithm. Free speech is still alive & well. Nobody's being arrested for cussing others the f8ck out.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  17. Despite how loud & aggressive some talk especially among themselves, I find many of them to be a little shy & reserved around FBA/AfroAmericans until they feel comfortable. Those alliances will have to occur in pockets on common ground whether it's a job site, educational institution, nightclub or bedroom.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  18. Great question. A small example of why so many people are non-religious.๐Ÿ˜‰ That would make sense to believers in such things.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  19. Even more crazy is dude was arrested several times for theft. He was being investigated for impersonating a police officer. Yet, this dude was able to get a security clearance & start a security company where he hired real off-duty police officers. Unfortunately, that young fella didn't use his skills to get closer to POTUS OJ. Oh well...that fella has been unalived.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  20. Unfortunately, there's a few confused Black folks who've been colonized or radicalized into putting on a cape for a group of people who could give a f8ck less about them. Again, I'm glad FBA/AfroAmericans are staying on the sidelines when it comes to these conflicts. Right. Big pimpin. Leaders enriching themselves.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  21. The normalization & acceptance of state sanctioned, unaliving of people is the crazy part.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  22. Thanks @Pioneer1. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟ Any thread that praises AALBC & @Troy is a great thing. I certainly appreciate him for providing this space for us & everyone who contributes & reads it.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  23. The USA government has been on a bombing & killing campaign since last year. Fishing boats accused of narco-terrorism have been blown up. Operation Midnight Hammer destroyed Iranian nuclear capabilities supposedly. Venezuelan President Maduro was captured & extradited to the US. Right now, Operation Epic Fury, another joint effort with Israel is underway in Iran. Then, there's ICE rounding up & deporting innocent people & shooting white folks who get in their way. Hundreds if not a thousand people have been unalived by way of the US government over the past 12 months or so. The question is who or what sanctioned the US government to go on a killing spree & bring about regime changes. Congress has not voted in favor of these actions. They have been briefed after the fact. Otherwise, hard to tell Congress is not in agreement as they they have been sitting on their hands while POTUS OJ's administration does its business. US citizens are criminalized & punished for killing others. Yet, the US government is killing folks with impunity. The craziest thing is there's no huge public outcry against the US government unaliving people for power & money. They like to believe young folks have been desensitized to violence from playing video games. It could be argued that US citizens have been desensitized to death & destruction through the actions of its government & media.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  24. One has to wonder 1) what the African countries are doing about their citizens being sold into slavery & 2) how complicit are the leaders in those countries in allowing it to happen.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  25. I wrote that slave films aren't going to be very popular. Surely, some people will watch the films & enjoy them in one way or another. Otherwise, films, music, books & other forms of visual & literary art provides entertainment in different ways. Entertainment as escapism doesn't have to be negative in the form of self-hate or low self-esteem. Many people can watch a movie or listen to music & allow it to take them away from their reality for a few minutes up to a couple hours.๐Ÿ˜Ž

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