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The celestial orchestra just inherited another star. Thanks for the great body of music; tunes that musicians will play forever. RIP Mr. Wayne Shorter.

My conjecture had nothing to do with NYC. It was in response to your question about the soccer stadium not being built in Maryland. However, I've been alive long enough to know that soccer hasn't been popular among AfroAmericans especially compared to American football.

@Pioneer1, you already know when someone can't beat the bully they pick on a smaller or weaker person. Oppression works the same way. Instead of joining forces and overthrowing the oppressor, stupid, er, disenfranchised people fight each other over dumb sh8t. Gang-bangers fight and kill each other over drugs, money, terrority and things that don't even belong to them.

@Pioneer1, DC Mayor for Life Marion Barry and Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit were those dudes. Today's AfroAmerican politicians are a far cry from them. @richardmurray, I'm not sure of why Prince George's County, Maryland turned down a DC United stadium. If I had to guess, it was probably because AfroAmericans aren't huge soccer fans.

Protecting Taiwan is the reason for any US military build up in the western pacific. The US doesn't want China to pull the same move that Russia is doing against Ukraine.

Disenfranchised groups of people usually resort to destructive sh8t.

Some mainstream media outletd spin sensational news. It has become entertainment. One has to read and watch unbiased news outlets in order to get some semblance of real news and the truth. Everything about the pandemic has become less interesting all of sudden. A year ago, the lab leak would have been in heavy rotation. Now, the war in Ukraine is headline news. Chinese weather balloons. Mass shootings. Some mainstream media outlets are full of it in how they deliver news.

AfroAmericans did very well in Washington DC especially from the 1970s through late 1990s. As Washington DC is becoming less chocolate, the middle-class and affluent AfroAmericans just moved to suburbs on the outskirts of the city. That's why a suburb in Maryland consistently ranks high as one of the most affluent enclaves of predominantly AfroAmericans in the United States. Washington DC deserves much credit for making it happen.

The lab leak theory has been circulating since shortly after the pandemic started. I don't believe a worldwide pandemic escaped from a lab. It's deeper than that but like other things, we'll never know. Keep in mind that they've got a 75 year seal on the vaccine ingredients. That's a long time before we can know what went into it. Most folks who received the vax will already be dead when they open the file.

According to that report from El Salvador, 64,000 folks have been arrested and locked up. The murder rate has gone down 57%. If those numbers are true the question becomes why were the citizens allowing it to happen. Many of those families probably benefitted from the drug trade. No doubt prison has become big business. It is a cheap labor farm. But, there are folks who truly deserve to be locked up for serious crimes. Still, the prison population could be cut by more than half if they released all non-violent offenders. Not going to happen considering the money being made from warehousing people in modern plantations.

Non-violent resistance is how AfroAmericans have been programmed to deal with injustice and file grievance when it comes to the system of racism.

Both men and women should love themselves before they even think about sharing it with someone else and procreation. Broken people usually create or indulge in toxic relationships and breed dysfunction. That cycle tends to repeat itself.

In my view, it's not about patriarchal control. Nature designed it that men build and lead. When natural disasters strike or any form of heavy lifting is required on the planet, women are not expected to be the 1st responders. I still contend that it's only among AfroAmericans that women being empowered over the men. Here in the US, the societal emasculation of men is worse for AfroAmerican men. That Vogue cover is a shining example of it. Despite that Jay-Z has just as much money as Beyonce, the media gives her more props than him. Oprah Winfrey has always been lauded while Steadman Graham is relegated to her side-piece. Yet, when it comes to their white counterparts of similar status, it's not the same. If an NFL team owner most of whom are billionaires has a wife, she's barely noticed. Black folks definitely should not view patriarchy as an encroachment on freedom. In fact, that is the last piece on the chessboard. Do Black folks hate or resent their fathers? I hope not. When Black men are no longer seen as the head and simply a tail, it will become even easier to conquer Black women and children.

Yep. Rihanna has more money than A$AP Rocky. Then again, there's not too many Black men who have as much as she does. Interestingly, no matter how much money a white woman has she's never promoted or considered to be more powerful or bigger than a white man. Jeff Bezos ex-wife hooked up with schoolteacher on the rebound. She's a billionaire. Neither she nor anybody else looked down on the dude. The media hardly mentioned it. Only AfroAmerican women are put in a space where they proclaim to be strong and independent and don't need a man. From Rihanna to Lizzo, the media is having a field day laughing at them.

Rihanna is 5' 8" which is above average for a woman (5' 4"). A$AP Rocky is 5' 10". As mentioned, he only looks shorter because of how the picture was taken. Now, if Rihanna puts on a pair of 4-5 inch heels, A$AP will be looking up.

Nope. Police still beating up and killing folks. Colin made enough money while he was in the NFL to live a very comfortable life away from playing the game.

I'm not surprised by the photo considering their generation and the fact that they are a part of the entertainment committee.

Yep. They got brothas out here dyeing their heads and beards with black shoe polish to look like younger dudes.

The murder of George Floyd led the NFL to acknowledge Colin's protest with these slogans and a $100 million dollar pledge to fight racism and police brutality. For his protest effort, Colin has been blackballed from the NFL for the past 7 years and counting.

True. Protest/boycott works when there are 1) demands and 2) actions. The NFL IS 70% AfroAmerican. If those dudes had refused to play another game....that would have made a huge difference because white men would have lost a lot of money. Bro, you not just gonna casually type our folks out in these streetz protesting, er, twerking and wearing out shoes for no good gotd8mn reason.

Yessir. That's correct. Maybe the race soldiers will cross a line that forces Black folks to explode. But, I doubt it.

Race soldiers become celebrities for killing Black folks. They will never get the death penalty. These killings will continue until Black folks fight back.

Unfortunately, waiting on someone else to fix the *problem*.

Protesting is meaningless especially when it's predictable. They know the playbook. Just wait it out. But, If protest was focused i.e. stop spending money with certain establishments that would get attention and inspire dialog and change real quick. Capitalism doesn't like to lose.

AfroAmericans have a unique history. It's important to know and celebrate it beyond the shortest month of the year. As Black history is under attack and threatened to be whitewashed from the books, it's more important than ever that AfroAmericans preserve it by any means necessary every day.