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IMO, there's no shortage of articulation and intelligence within the Hip-Hop community. It doesn't sell well. Just as the media picks out the most ig'nant n8gglet when covering a news story...the entertainment community is doing the same thing. The least intelligent form of Hip-Hop is selling like hotcakes. Those who control the media outlets enjoy highlighting it too. Mumble rapper interview...take 1 thru 15. As NF Jr. says, black folks are the entertainment under the system of white supremacy.

Unfortunately, those high emotions are being transferred to black male offspring. As a result, there's a bunch of sensitive azz dudes running around incapable of solving problems using logic and reason. They're making irrational decisions based on how they feel. Now, we've got black men running around snotting and crying when they're upset. Some of these dudes are physical specimens...athletes. Reduced to tears. Will Smith just made an apology video for the slap seen and heard around the world. N8gglets please stop it with the tears and other gross displays of emotion.

For sure, neither the GOP nor Mumble Mouth Walker wants to debate. As a native son, Walker's intellectual acuity would make the entire educational system in the state of Georgia look bad from elementary school through to its institutions of higher learning. I'm a huge proponent of black folks and I do not put them lightly. However, as I've made it my duty to call balls and strikes...that Mumble Mouth n8gglet is dumb. Walker would be the male version of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green if he's allowed to go to Washington.

I believe human beings have moments of heightened awareness but it's not something we can control in such a way to produce constructive results or significant outcomes. I think the world would be a lot different if people could harness and/or access ESP, telepathy, telekinesis, etc. The Supreme Being knew better than to give humans that much power. Gave us just enough mental capacity to *think* about it.

Please let Mumble Mouth Walker debate Senator Warnock on prime-time TV. That would be entertainment worth watching while eating popcorn.

@Troy and @Pioneer1, unanswerable questions require more thought and usually result in confusion.

No way Georgia allows Mumble Mouth Walker to become a Senator. It's ridiculous that the race is even close. Glad I don't live down there.

The thread title is misleading. We may never know the truth whatever that means regarding the virus; response and outcomes. The POTUS can only share as much information as he's provided and/or allowed to disclose.

The downside is that folks shouldn't go hungry or starve because they can't afford food especially concerning how much we throw away.

Really. I'd like to know when that happened.

Going from 8 billion people down to under 1 billion in 3 - 7 years would require a drastic effort. The pandemic didn't even kill a billion people worldwide. However, along the lines of a 10-15% percent reduction, getting the population down from 8 billion to 6.8 billion over a 10 year period seems more plausible. Of course, it's all speculative until folks start dropping like flies.

That's right. Eliminating the population would be 1) bad for business (workers) and 2) destroy a constant source of entertainment. A population reduction somewhere around 10-15% is the manageable goal. That means about 1.2 billion people gotta go.

@Pioneer1, I don't dispute the Willie Lynch Willie Lynch letter either. It definitely explains our behavior towards each other. Unquestionably, Individual AfroAmericans have been thriving and surviving for a very long time. There is no shortage of success among us. The collective I'm referring to ties back to code. It would work like a religion in terms of 1) what we're expected to do and 2) how we treat each other. In order for a handful of us to DO IT...someone has to step up to the plate. To build anything requires a vision and leadership and followers.

Billionaire Bill Gates had been talking about viruses and the need for vaccines back in 2010. I don't believe it's because he's the 2nd coming of Nostradamus either.

Because they can be so divisive, politics and religion are off limit topics of discussion in workplace settings too. The funny part is being able to tell which way folks lean both in politics and religion in an unspoken way.

@Pioneer1, whether it is fictional or not, the "Willie Lynch Letter" provides the explanation for everything we need to know about why it's been harder for AfroAmericans to trust each other and become self-sufficient. It's by design that we have been divided and conquered. Most groups of people have ethnic and cultural ties that bind them. That was stripped away from AfroAmericans. Beyond our skin color, it seems we don't have anything to claim. As a result, many AfroAmericans operate on the belief that the white man's ice is colder. If/when AfroAmericans wake up and realize their supremely given gifts, talent, intelligence, knowledge, skills and abilities, I believe they will come together to pool resources and build wealth for future generations. Personally, I may not live long enough to see it come to fruition. But, the cool thing is that that we live in advanced society technologically that it it can happen very fast and exponentially.

Don't waste your time waiting on it. The plan was to shorten life span. That's why records are sealed for 75 years.

I think you may be referring to George Conway and his wife Kellyanne Conway. They're on opposite sides of the aisle politically.

It was mentioned in another thread but here's my PSA. As the pandemic tries to subside and many folks are comfortable with getting vaccinated, it looks like the WHO (World Health Organization) is throwing a new virus on us. Hot off the press...Monkeypox is becoming a growing health concern. Right now, there are close to 17,000 cases of monkeypox worldwide. Nevermind there are approximately 8 billion people on the planet. The US has ordered 2.5 million doses of monkeypox vaccine. As of today, there are approximately 2,500 cases in the US. i wonder what they know that we don't about this virus. It's been around for a long time. All of sudden it's supposedky spreading like a brush fire.

No problem. I'll stop shooting at those clay targets. It was fun while it lasted.

Just like religion, political views could have an impact on how two Black folks approach a relationship. The more interesting aspect of it is when two folks are already in a relationship and one of their political views changes.

Agreed. I've worked with a whole lot of white folks over 3 decades. They're definitely not intellectually superior to Black folks or any other group of people.

It's all good. We've got a bead on him. Pull.

Yep. The same way white folks romanticize "Bonnie & Clyde" and "Kill Bill", AfroAmerican men could relate to "Set It Off".

See, that's just it....Black folks have to embrace entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency. We can do better than relying on a paternalistic hand out or up. Black folks are intelligent enough to run their own businesses. Back in the 1950s, Berry Gordy started Motown Records which became extremely successful. He laid the blueprint. Early Hip-Hop was independently owned and successfully run by Black folks. Unfortunately, they all eventually cashed out when offered a huge sum of money. Our entrepreneurial foundation remains weak. It's the same situation across the board...entertainers, athletes, small businesses, etc. Many of them refuse to use Black agents and lawyers and/or they sell out to the highest bidder usually a non-Black entity. I've never seen the point in Black folks getting paid to work hard while an agent gets 20% of the earnings to sit around making phone calls *selling* their labor/services. The oldest profession calls it prostitution. There are many similarities considering how often Black folks get screwed in the deal.