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  1. Don't forget "Joy (what else? what else?) and Pain".....lol. May our good brother rest in peace and power.
  2. When Troy said that, it was a foreshadowing of future events. He knew I'd be locked out of the forum for nearly 2 months....lol. .....man, them Harlem niggaz is somethin' else. They'll set you up to be murked with a big SMILE on their face...lol.
  3. Sounds like a mixed up man with mixed up interests driving him to do what he did. It seems as if "whoever" or "whatever" is driving some of these cats to make their moves heard the chatter from the Black community about how most of the shooters have been White and how we said it's not out business. They heard the Black community say "It's White on White crime and we're staying out of it." So they found some "off white" or "half white" dude and put a battery in his back to go on a mission. When Black folks said he wasn't Black enough and insisted on not claiming him, I guess "they" (whoever "they" is) decided to send a SHO'NUFF Black man on the mission. This latest dude they claimed tried to run up on the White house and got neutralized....there's no mistaking whether HE'S Black or not. Now the question is, is he FBA?
  4. Brother Malik Shabaaz (Malcolm X) is one of my favorite Black intellectuals. He was usually sharp on on point as well as witty with both friends and foes. Neely Fuller Jr. is another favorite of mine. Again, usually on point and sharp....even in his 90s.
  5. Mel Yep...lol. I'm curious. Do you remember what year that picture was taken? I'm sure it was before he was incarcerated. Sometimes I like to look at people in pictures and wonder what's on their minds and whether or not they have any idea of their future and what lays ahead for them. When he was sitting there smiling for that picture, I'm sure going through the legal problems he was about to face was one of the furthest things from his mind.
  6. Both of them were and are bad, but it appears that Crack came the closest to almost DESTROYING the Black urban community in a way that Heroin didn't. Heroin has been around for decades...since the 40s atleast....and caused it's problem. But you still had working class functioning Black neighborhoods, numbers running, the prostitutes actually looked decent.....lol. Violence was contained. Crack came along in the early to mid 80s like a bull in a china shop. In just a year or two the decent looking prostitutes and well dressed pimps became replaced with skinny skeleton looking "crack hoes" and the pimps were gone. Violence and automatic weapons appeared right along with it and violence skyrocketed. In Detroit you had "dope dens"....a few designated buildings to shoot up in. When Crack hit, nearly every 4th or 5th building or house became a "crack house".
  7. ProfD Well..... White folks are still in the Congo aren't they? If White folks are still there, why are they surprised that Ebola, HIV, and other diseases are still there? Duhhhh....... As long as White folks are still there, don't be surprised if some NEW diseases that nobody has heard of before "mysteriously" pop up seemingly out of nowhere and have people dropping like flies.
  8. Glad to be back. I could actually read the messages, I just couldn't participate without signing in. I started to sign up under another name but thought about all of the history that went into my original handle and decided to wait until I eventually figured out that old email address I used. I happened to read where Troy said he emailed me so I looked for a ping in one of my old emails to find out which one I signed up under.
  9. Mel Yeah, I recall you saying you used to be a stewardess or something of that nature. I also recall something about you meeting.....Bill Cosby???....or some famous Black entertainer on one of the flights.
  10. ProfD .....and if you had talked to more than 3 -one of them would have surely snagged you with a smile and you would have been TRAPPED in Michigan for the forseeable future...lol. These African girls are getting pretty good with their lacefront and wore-jeans game....lol.
  11. More likely just another scare tactic. I'm almost convinced now that if THESE people are actually reporting on it in the media, it's usually not too much of a threat. They usually know more than what they're reporting and already know there's not much too it, so they hype it up to scare the public. It it were a REAL threat, they'd probably keep quiet on it until social media forces their hand and they can no longer hide it from the public. I learned this during the George Floyd riots back in 2020. When it came to minor incidents like a few kids throwing bottles and wrestling with police officers in places like Baltimore and Ferguson Missouri....the media STAYED on the scene showing every detail of people just standing around chanting and yelling and being arrested. But when it came to a full fledged riot/rebellion with building being burned and police being attacked....it took them 2 or 3 hours to even report the first fires being set. Social media had to tell people what was happening.
  12. ProfD Or maybe he's still trying to climb out of the rubble of the OLD website format that was demolished without warning....lol. Right before everything collapsed, I read something about Troy changing his mind about updating or reformatting the website. Next thing I know, the site vanished and when it re-appeared it required me to use some old email address for over a decade ago to access it again....which took me 2 months to dig up, lol.
  13. ProfD You make a good point about the new hirees. To them, the new system will just be normal business as usual....not realizing how easy and sensible the "old way" was before they got there. I'm not sure if they do things like that to make the process more efficient. The more conspiratorial part of me....inspired by Neely Fuller Jr.....wonders if they don't install shit like this as TRAPS for more people to lose their jobs. If they are in upper management, it would seem that they're smart enough to know that the most complicated and complex they make things....the more people they will confuse because they won't be able to figure it out. They should automatically factor that in.
  14. Sometimes a person doesn't "walk away" from a fight because they can't. They're LAID OUT....lol. Good! Oh. Kind of like an American-Iran Ceasefire? Where people are still shooting missiles at eachother, downing planes, and destroying shit while a "ceasefire" is in place....lol. Or like an Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire....where buildings are still being destroyed and people are still killed by the hundreds DURING the "ceasefire"...lol. "The Ceasefire agreed upon last week is still ineffect but is being strained as 3 more cities were destroyed and 597 people were killed overnight in missile strikes on the eastern side of the country."

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