ProfD

Earlier this evening I was helping my buddy next door repair his fence. He and his wife are Haitian.

The neighbor and I chopped it up the unrest in his home country.  He also mentioned that greed and corruption and colorism were their main problems down there. 

Problems will always arise when people are  either rich or poor and there's nothing in the middle.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

The psychological torture of death row is not having an exact date of your execution.

It could be 20 years away or 20 months....the inmate simply doesn't know and doesn't get much advanced notification.

The psychological torture can't be too bad if the convict isn't willing to take matters into their own hands and turn the lights out.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

Our leaders from Marcus Garvey to Elijah Muhammad have been preaching this to our people for over 100 years now...lol.

They were preaching 100 years ago.

Those men have been resting for a long time now.

The generations who received their teachings and messages figured AfroAmericans were better off with integration and civil rights and affirmative action.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

It's no longer sad to me because I understand, many of our people simply aren't smart enough to realize what's in our best interests.

When we realize and accept this, then we can embark on an intelligent course that WILL work.

Over the several decades, there's been no shortage of brilliant AfroAmericans who have matriculated through institutions of higher learning and they've pursued all types of careers.

Similarly, there's been no shortage of AfroAmericans who helped to build everything in America. We have that knowledge too.

IMO, AfroAmericans do not lack intelligence or work ethic. There's no vision plan or design for what we need. Theres no champion or leadership.

A hospital or school doesn't get built just thinking about it. Requires an architect, engineer, builder, money, materials and manpower.

AfroAmericans can cover every position on the team. We just need motivation and incentive.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

I understand why....lol....OTHER lazy people.

Lazy people tend to hang around eachother and scheme up together to find people who are NOT lazy to mooch off of, lol

I bet we could get a whole bunch of those same lazy people to work on building that hospital or school just by dangling a lucrative hourly rate.

18 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

ProfD
 

Well, whatever the case may be.....
If a man IS in prison and has little chance of getting out it would seem that he'd be pre-occupied with trying to make his stay as comfortable as possible any way he can OR contemplating a solid suicide plan to exit this Reality.

True.

Interestingly, folks sentenced to a life in prison or death row still have a desire to live.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-barbecue-gang-leader-wreaking-havoc-haiti

@Pioneer1, dysfunctional Black folks arent unique to the USA.

All h8ll is breaking lose in Haiti. The de facto dude in charge calls himself Barbecue. 

Last week, the wife of President Jovenel Moïse was charged along with others in his 2021 assassination.

A country run by Black folks can't get right. Of course, foreigners interfere in their affairs but there's no shortage of greed and corruption among the Haitian people too. 

2 hours ago, Troy said:

Wars  have objectives.  If the number of mass school shootings , executed by lone gunman, increase what’s the point? 

Exterminating enemies and instilling fear.

2 hours ago, Troy said:

When Hamas killed all those people at that concert, that was not war. When the Israelis retaliated by leveling Gaza, and killing everyone in sight, that was war. The goal being destroying Hamas regardless of the collateral damage.

Whether intentional or not, Hamas declared war when they killed !,500 Israelis.  Israel is finishing the war Hamas started.

3 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

I stumbled, and fell on my way into a supermarket and busted my knee cap. Now I'm hobbling around, battling the pain. I wonder if in a parallel world I decided not to go grocery shopping, and my knee is fine.

Bummer. Hopefully pain relievers are helping in the battle.

In a parallel world, you would have 1) ordered groceries online and had delivery or 2) wrote out a list and sent one of the great-grand-chil'ren to the grocery store.

That's neither here or there because the reality is a knee injury.

Enjoy cooking and/or eating whatever you bought from the store.

Most importantly, rest and recuperate.

I watched the SOTU address. POTUS PJB accounted well for himself to those concerned about his age.

At times POTUS PJB did sound like an old geezer yelling at kids to stay off his lawn. He has this way of spurting out words in rapid-fire succession as if he needs to run to the bathroom but wants to make a point first. 

POTUS PJB didn't offer Black voters anything new. He did reassure us that Ukraine and Israel will continue getting our money.

Both POTUS PJB and If Orange Julius have secured their party nominations. Rematch of 2020 in November.

Rock 'em Sock 'em robots between two old geezers. One stammers. One stinks supposedly. Let's get it over with already. 

4 minutes ago, Troy said:

So basically rioting.

The intent to kill other people would be a declaration of war against them. 

1 hour ago, Troy said:

OK what the heck does “multivided” mean?

It's a new word Merriam-Webster is thinking about adding to the dictionary. They're also considering prefixes uni-, tri-, quadri-, centi-, sexti-, septi-, octi- and nani-.

52 minutes ago, Troy said:

As sad as this sounds, that sounds more plausible. The question remains who do you think would be doing all these mass shootings and who would they be shooting ? Would this mayhem be orchestrated? 
 

i’ll grant you that it will probably be angry white people doing the shooting as they are the ones most likely to engage in this activity. I know they like to shoot up churches, schools, outdoor concerts, gay clubs, movie theaters, essentially wherever people congregate and are not likely to be armed and on alert.

 

Do you think it would just be a lot more of this type of carnage?
 

If so, to what end?  What could possibly be achieved by more frequent mass shootings?

 Right.

Angry folks stirred up by a zealot or media or some combination of both.

No goal. Just an airing of grievances against others.

21 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

We've been here long enough to build hospitals, factories, and cultivate farms.

Agreed. Since I showed up on this forum, I've mentioned severally that AfroAmericans should already have a solid economic infrastructure which would include everything required to survive. Being a gross consumer and non-producer is detrimental.

21 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

The problem isn't the ABILITY of our pepole....the problem is the WILL and DESIRE.

I'm inclined to think AfroAmericans don't see the necessity of having our own sh8t.  Either way, it's a sad reality.

21 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

But that muscle bound nicca laying on the couch in a white wife-beater with a neck like Mike Tyson's and his socked pulled half-way down his feet, smoking that fake ass weed that's going to make him even MORE stupid than he already is......ain't SHIT wrong with him physically.
Laziness is MENTAL.

I don't understand why anybody enables or communicates with lazy azz men or women. I have zero bandwidth for useless people.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

Unlike most AfroAmericans whom you often have to keep repeating the same shit over and over to and often times they STILL don't "get it".....many White folks in America just automatically "understand" eachother.

Most AfroAmericans aren't hard-headed. If/when *can't get right* n8gglets are encountered, it doesn't make much sense trying to explain anything to them.

23 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

How much influence does a prisoner have over those on the outside that he can preach to them and warn them not to come in there while locked down himself?

There was a time that prisoners could get word back to the streets via phone calls and kites (letters).

23 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

PRIMARY concern should be with himself and making the rest of his life inside as comfortable as possible given his circumstances.

Most lifers are spending 23 hours in a cell and 1 hour of recreation by themselves.

The movie version of prisoners as Trustees doesn't really exist anymore.

24 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

For me, I concur that china is deemed the strongest rival to the usa in the battleground of the internet which is the source of this issue . I don't know if that is what you are saying. 

I was referring to China as a military adversary. Of course, having access to personal data on Americans helps with cyber attacks on our systems.

2 hours ago, richardmurray said:

Tiktok? complete unity

 

I wonder how much money all the usa based tech firms are giving the government officials?:) 

TikTok is majority owned by ByteDance which is a Chinese company.

As China is seen as the greatest adversary besides Russia, there's consensus among American elected officials to be in lockstep against them.

However, a number of US investors are making money from TikTok so it remains to be seen if there will truly be a USA ban of the platform if it doesn't divest Chinese interest.

53 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

So my point being, is, sadly, regardless of where the black populace is in nyc, which incudes negras- black latinos, whom I think are more anti mestizo/blanco/ while partial to mulatto latinoes. the black elected officials are very much of one particular subrace in the black race in nyc. So to functionalize your position in nyc will need a black party of governance in nyc.

I'm not totally convinced that Black or Brown Latinos truly side with FBA/ADOS.  In fact, I believe they want to replace FBA/ADOS in the populace. 

Black/Brown Latinos are infiltrating city politics.  They can fight for themselves.

I voted no.

I don't think FBA/ADOS elected officials or Black people should be putting on the cape when it comes to defending other groups of people.

The Latino community has more than enough representation throughout NYC to fight for themselves in pushing a counter narrative against the white media regarding their criminalization.

3 hours ago, Troy said:

Based upon that definition, the Civil War never ended. It just morphed. Instead of Chancellorsville, you have Charlottesville.

The civil war I'm referring to would be mass shootings, riots and insurrections happening in multiple places at the same time.

As long as white folks aren't agitated January 6th style, the status quo will remain.

We'll get the monthly mass shootings. No civil war though.

1 hour ago, Troy said:

Yeah, they got a lot of guns but who are the poor whites gonna go after and this so-called Civil War, the rich, Black people, immigrants, Democrats, the LGBTQAI2X+, who?

Whoever they have grievance with would be targets.

Again, I hope it never happens.

1 hour ago, Troy said:

I can tell y’all did not watch fortune video about Dr. West, if you had all the speculation and pondering would be unnecessary.

Watched the Forbes interview enough to know that it mentioned Dr. West has made about $15 million over 30 years. Detailed how his bread was made and lost. Running for POTUS will pull the whole portfolio out of the closet.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

If there IS a Civil War....it will be started by poor and lower middle class Whites.

Facts. They've got the most  guns.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

If you are in a prison.....and sentenced for life without the possibility for parole...why not become a Trustee or seek some high and privileged position inside the prison?

Life without the possibly of parole is usually given to the most serious offenders.

Instead of becoming a trustee or seeking higher privilege inside the prison those individuals should be trying to discourage others from coming there.

23 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Perhaps being a professor doesn't make one a millionaire.....although I heard depending on the University you can make over $100,000 a year plus perks....but didn't brother West author a number of books?
I think he also had a few television and radio shows.

He should still be getting royalties from those endeavors.

So many factors. It depends on how many books sold and syndication rights to any TV or radio programs.

If Dr. West isn't an in-demand public speaker, I cannot think of anything else he's done that would translate into millions of dollars. 

23 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

At any rate, I heard all kinds of jokes about Travis chasing women around his office but keeping it so low key from the persona he gives on his broadcasts.

Tavis did get caught up in some misconduct allegations and ended up having to pay PBS in their counter lawsuit. 

I don't recall Tavis being seriously linked to any women nor Puffy.

40 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Like I said, the Romans, Egyptians, Ethiopians, and other groups were able to do these things for themselves THOUSANDS of years ago.

AfroAmericans haven't had nearly as much time as those groups of people.

On the flip side, those same groups of people aren't too much better off than AfroAmericans now.

The Roman empire collapsed. Ethiopians are still feeling their country. Egypt is not the crown jewel of North Africa, southeast Asia or the Middle East.

40 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

AfroAmericans don't even make TOILET PAPER for ourselves.

If White folks stopped making toilet paper, it'll be a shitty time in America.

I'm a huge proponent that AfroAmericans should be self-sufficient.

However, there's also the belief that one doesn't have to produce something they can afford to buy. 

That's why most folks shop in grocery stores instead of growing their own food.

I know AfroAmericans can produce everything we consume if it was necessary. There's no shortage of very smart people among us.