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Thankfully, there are plenty TV channels that do not have black commercials. In order to avoid TV commercials altogether, I would recommend this DVD box set:. They might show a black person but their screen time is minimal and they're totally harmless.

White Christians were the some of biggest slaveholders in America. Bible thumping Sunday morning and whipping black folks the same afternoon. POTUS Abraham Lincoln knew slavery was wrong on several levels and untenable. Nor did Lincoln want slavery to spread further west. The institution of slavery as practiced in America was *good* business for the country economically but bad business on every other front. Lincoln had to stop it. Still, it took a whole Civil War for white folks including their Christians to give up slavery. They were still reluctant about it. That's why we have Juneteenth.

@Pioneer1, check out Katt William's latest stand-up special "World War III".

@Pioneer1, when referring to a black man, our women often use the terms handsome and beautiful/gorgeous synonymously. I don't believe our women use the alternative terms (beautiful, gorgeous) to emasculate a black man especially when he trancends handsome. For example, there have been a few black men for whom handsome wasn't enough. Prince comes to mind as a brotha who women thought was beautiful/gorgeous. By all accounts, despite the way he *looked*, Prince was strictly a ladies man.

@Pioneer1, yesterday, I saw that same pic of the brothas when I visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Figured time spent in the NMAAHC was a cool way to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday. Of course it was not my 1st visit to the museum. The NMAAHC is a great place to learn some of our history. It makes me proud of my people and p*sses me off at the same d8mn time.

Now that this thread has opened up a bit...chemistry, knowledge and skill have a lot to do with happy endings. IMO, since some of the taboo has been lifted in the our community, more women *know* their bodies and how to communicate it to their partner. Likewise, a few good men are willing to take instruction and *learn* how to please a woman thoroughly. I believe it's better than it was several decades ago when it was reported that a high percentage of women never experienced an O. But, the real deal is being able to make a woman squirt. That's some next level sh8t. Not too many women or men are hip to it.

I believe that dude was trying to understand how/why black women love *bad* black men (thugs and gangsters for which there is a pathological reason. To Mel's point...rapper Rick Ross controlled the black-tie crowd during his Juneteenth performance this past weekend. The same audience had been stiff throughout the evening. Beyond racism, strong, intelligent black men are taking arrows from all directions including our own brothas and sistas too. Little Emily has planted a seed to confirm the sum of all her daddy's fears.

AfroAmericans already know the Russian/Ukrainian conflict is a dust up among white folks. Also, we would love for Britney Griner to make it back home too. But, AfroAmericans have bigger issues to deal with right here in America. Our folks can't buy a bag of groceries or worship in peace without fearing an AR-15 toting, hate-filled white boy is going to show up and start spraying the place like he's playing a video game.

These fellas may be still recruiting new members.

Congrats are definitely in order for Vice President elect Francia Marquez. At 40 years old, Marquez has already accomplished a lot in her home country of Colombia. Unfortunately, Francia Marquez has a very tall order in providing Colombian leadership while surviving racial attacks and assassination attempts. Governance will not be an easy road for her. Godspeed.

White gun owners are stockpiling firearms for self-defense but they aren't using them in that capacity. America isn't the wild west.

I don't see how legal gun owning, hard-working white folks who buy firearms for self-defense would allow themselves to be robbed by black folks or anyone else for that matter.

The truth (no secret) is that white folks have been using Christianity to mentally enslave black folks for hundreds of years and counting.

By definition, black folks cannot be racist because we do not have the power to discriminate against and/or marginalize another group of people.

The number of legal gun owners and the amount of firearms they possess outnumbers the entire black population in America.

As I mentioned above, I thought the article provided great info and advice and was very well written.

I wonder if it's a coincidence that gas price dropped a dime because oil companies posted record profits. IMO, POTUS or any President/world leader can influence gas prices. POTUS has a good reason for going to that meeting in Saudi Arabia. Maybe get the Saudis an/or OPEC to open the spigot.

Great info and advice. Being open-minded defnitely leads to better communication and understanding and could eventually lead to....knowledge and wisdom.

@Stefan, nor was I calling or implying that you were an extremist. My post was intended to be humorous.

I didn't link the article to avoid driving folks to that ISP. Amalgated Bank submitted an application that would create a merchant code for gun sellers. The merchant code would allow gun and ammunition sales by credit cars to be tracked. The application was denied twice. Yet, several mass shooters have used credit cards to spend thousands of dollars on firearms and ammo. Pushing the responsibility of gun control back k to elected officials seems like a convenient way to allow gun folks to continue making money and keeping privileged Americans armed.

No doubt. It's never too late but it seems our folks are content with the political status quo and its boilerplate agenda.

Yep. Another proverb says pride comes before the fall.

@Pioneer1, I'm hip. The high unemployment I'm referring to will be among college educated folks who will be replaced by robots.

A hate crime has a specific definition according to the FBI. Every crime committed against another group of people doesn't automatically qualify as a hate crime.

@Pioneer1, as we've already discussed, politicians primarily work for special interest groups. Black folks haven't submitted an application, er, provided agenda to become a special interest group. As an advisor to the POTUS, Keisha Lance Bottoms' job will be to help the old.guy keep the juggling balls in the air.