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Not surprised. Da Bears don't wanna have to deal with any potential diva WR. I don't think DJ Moore would've gone that route but sometimes the incentives in a player's contract will make them a bit more demanding. Da Bears do have enough talent on the roster & an offensive-minded head coach who will get the most out of it.😎

Well, the archaeologists had to dig up Within Our Gates from a Spanish copy of the film. They had to edit to clean up/fix & translate it back to English.😁😎

Films depicting slavery aren't going to be very popular. Mainly because it does not make people feel better about themselves. Entertainment is a form of escapism not intended to cause depression.😎

i know this thread is about the late Rev. Jesse Jackson. I think we can take a moment to acknowledge that Rev. Al Sharpton looks like a Pez dispenser.🤣 Facts. The Jackson family should have laid out ground rules &/or talking points if they didn't want folks to speak politics.😎

The government is always speaking with a forked tongue. Believe none of what they say & watch their actions. Gas prices were down 2 weeks ago. Ten (10) days into dropping drones & missiles & gas prices go up. Predictably. Investors stand to make a LOT of money as a result of this dust-up as thousands of people are unalived.😎

It's all good. Leave it in place.😁 When the rubber meets the road, white male patriarchy wins the POTUS. White folks here in the USA are not ready for a woman to run it. IMO, Black folks sitting out the elections do not make a difference in the POTUS result. Black folks did not fail Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Texas either. The Hispanic vote is the swing that is pushing white candidates across the finish line. Supposedly, POTUS OJ cannot run for re-election so ousting him isn't the end goal. Usually, Democrats unseating GOP congress-folks in the midterms would render POTUS OJ a lame duck. However, that doesn't insure that POTUS OJ will be a lame duck because he's doing all types of sh8t without Congress.🤣 Black folks are beginning to realize their vote is 1) taken for granted by Democrats & 2) meaningless to Republicans. White folks decide which direction this country is heading for better or worse. Black politicians benefit from the table crumbs. it's just enough to keep them belly full too.😁😎

Happy b'day to vocalist Bobby McFerrin. IMO, despite his other work, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is the song he will be most remembered for recording back in 1988. D8mn...40 years goes by fast. I respect McFerrin's skill as a singer/vocalist but he would not be my 1st call to work with musically.😎

Don't know if this was a Freudian slip/type but hilarious nonetheless.🤣 The Democratic party definitely needs an infusion of candidates with personality & most importantly an agenda if they really want to slow down the GOP. IMO, merely running as an alternative to POTUS OJ is not enough to galvanize voters to derail the clown car.😎

Right. Because the US & Israel did not *choose* the new leader. The safest bet is to follow the money. Geopolitics usually revolves around manipulation & control of resources.😎

@frankster & @Chevdove...the common *problem* in your discussion is the sources of information. Such is the nature of debate as it relates to prehistoric events & religion. Neither National Geographic nor *scholars* nor anybody else really knows when the Earth split because it happened long before a human could record it. There is no real proof or evidence of such events. A *scholars* word for it is worth as much as the paper written upon.🤣 Otherwise, these topics do make for great discussion/debate. Carry on.😁😎

Gotcha. The Jews have been doing their thing around the world for quite some time. They claim the new Supreme Leader may have been injured from airstrikes. I'd imagine we'll know soon enough whether the Supreme Leader hobbles around outside or gives a speech or he gets dragged through the streets as a martyr. 😎

Dude was Senegalese. He had been living a decent life in the USA for two decades. Somewhere along the way he became radicalized. Now, he's with his 40 virgins.🤣 Black folks know they can vacation & spend money in Dubai. Definitely not in Iran. 🤣😎

You're right. Hilarious. Just close the flip phone. We're done talking bruddah.🤣😎

Right. There's no shortage of missing, exploited & mistreated Black folks. Also, there's nothing to prevent Black folks from establishing search & rescue organizations &/or becoming private investigators & bounty hunters. Yet, for 5 weeks & counting, the media has been obsessed with a missing 84-year-old white woman whose daughter just happens to be a well known news anchor. The local police & FBI & all types of folks are running around trying to find that white woman. Every now & then, the media will catch itself & issue a statement that there are plenty of missing people around the USA. Then, the media goes right back to feeling some kinda way about that one old white woman.😎

The same white people who invented both the technology & system & start wars.😎

I'm not accusing the Chinese of mistreating Africans. They're just rude as h8ll.🤣 In talking to Africans, they're not enthused with the way African leadership is bending over backwards to accommodate Chinese development & giving away resources to white folks & Arabs. Right. That's a very short-sighted view of a real reparations package. I'm not interested in merely handing out checks so Black folks can give the money right back to non-Black folks. That would be terrible.😎

That's where strategic alliances among Black people are beneficial. Anytime a man sacrifices his home, land, women, children, etc., to another man, they will all become slaves to him. Depending on the Chinese is no different from being colonized by white folks. You're hung up on the minutiae of the larger point. Despite these organizations, there are still divisions among Black people that exist to this day. As mentioned above, there's some reprogramming necessary among Black people to remove the scales of ignorance from their eyes including the 3rd. Reparations is not about excluding the poor &/or hungry. Reparations is not just about handing out checks. The plan I envision goes much deeper. However, it ultimately benefits ALL Black people.😎

Pan-Africanism at its best would have developed multinational companies to circulate wealth among Black people. There is no reason that Chinese people should have a major foothold investing & developing African countries. No. I used it as an example of the division that already exists among Black people. The Jamaicans did not see themselves as *brothers* to FBA/AfroAmericans. Sure. I spend a great deal of time re-educating the Africans in my own family. Every time my African family members fall off the wagon & start regurgitating the BS white media feeds them about Black folks, I have to bring them back from the brink of ignorance. Talking to & taking them on field trips to see Black folks at their best can be exhausting.🤣 Right. There is no shortage of work to do. it may not be a *failed* relationship but there are definitely levels of dysfunction within it. Again, I do not believe FBA/AfroAmericans have to permanently sever ties with other Black folks. However, I do not have a problem with the movement trying to determine who should receive reparations for America's original sin. For example, not all Black people in the USA should be entitled to reparations if their lineage does not trace back to slavery here. That's a different conversation though.😎

This fella went on a shooting spree down in Texas in wake of the US & Israeli airstrikes on Iran. The shooter killed 3 & injured a dozen or so before law enforcement laid him down. For the most part, Black folks have done a great job in minding their own bizness & staying out of these conflicts. There will be a few stray Black folks who decide to drink the Kool-Aid & ride with the BS. They do not represent the rest of us.😎

@frankster...for a very long time, FBA/AfroAmericans have tried to form alliances with Black folks across the diaspora. Pan-Africanism hasn't really developed & taken off in a major way. Mainly because of the propaganda you mentioned that has brainwashed Africans & other Black folks. West Indian Blacks were extremely hostile back in the heyday of the drug epidemic. Where I'm from, FBA/AfroAmericans & Jamaicans were killing each other. There's a mutual respect & mostly indifference now. I'm not for dividing Black folks (tribes) as a permanent solution. Again, I would love to see all Black folks united especially against the system of racism white supremacy & its proxies. However, I do believe a tribe has to be unified internally before they can form strategic alliances with other tribes. FBA/AfroAmericans have some work to do within before getting into situations with others. Like any human entanglement, one must heal & eliminate unnecessary baggage from a failed relationship prior to getting into a new situation.😎

In other news, Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as their new Supreme Leader. Mojtaba is the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was recently killed by US airstrike along with 40 members of his leadership circle. Remains to be seen how long the US & Israel will allow Mojtaba Khamenei to stay in power.😎

That would bring white racists out like vampires in the daytime.🤣 White folks do not want a woman of any color in charge as POTUS. A couple of sassy sistaz don't stand a snowballs chance in h8ll of running the USA.😁😎

Every pork chop preacher gets the same response on Sundays & during other speaking engagements.🤣 POTUS FDR's His mandate was to pull white folks out of the Great Depression. That's no reason to gatekeep a wife. She's generating more wealth for them. That's not embarrassment. The Obamas are running the same playbook. As I mentioned in previous threads, rich & powerful men think differently when it comes to women. It's hard to become wealthy & keep it. Women come a dime a dozen especially to rich & powerful men. Most Black women stand by their men regardless of whether he's rich & powerful or more broke than a bag of glass.🤣😎

Surely, in certain cultures they do. That's part of the reason Iran is catching drones & missiles as we type.🤣 My guess would be either women or the alphabet soup community. One huge problem there...Black folks don't have that kind of power in the USA. We don't *own* this country.😁 White folks can barely who comes in & stays here in the USA. They're trying to address it now & catching h8ll.🤣😎

Yet, they have figured how to become the most powerful people on the planet.😎