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They're CALLING this a "shutdown" or "partial shutdown" but I'll say like I said before some months agon when they were going through this same shit and cutting off people's food stamps.... The government itself hasn't shut shit down. They're just picking and choosing where to spend their money and arbitrarily cutting off certain government services at will. Like a factory laying people or even laying off an entire department. The factory isn't shutting down.....it's just laying people off and saving money and re-organizing. Not sure why they decided to focus on the TSA this time as opposed to SNAP like they did before. As far as I'm concerned, they are just playing games and doing experiments at the people's expense.

I wish AfroAmericans had more interests and effort in this particular matter. Not being an officiated body within the U.N....as AfroAmericans we basically have to rely on whoever is representing the United States at the U.N. and hope they have OUR interests at heart. Which in this case....they don't.

What????? See, that's why YOU don't have your own country...lol.

@aka Contrarian ain't workin' right now. Tell her to put the phone down and help you get things going....lol.

ProfD Right. Being scatter-brained is ineffective. However, I don't believe our people are totally clueless. There's no real Black leadership or agenda or consistent message. Either that or there are TOO MANY Black leaders with TOO MANY agendas and messages....lol. Every time you turn around there's yet a new group of niggas on youtube with rags on their heads and rings in their noses preaching some weird ass doctrine and have come up with yet ANOTHER new name for AfroAmericans that they've invented. "See...the problem is we don't know who we REALLY are! We are the members of the lost tribe of the Amalakite nation! As soon as you join us and accept THAT, you will be prosperous! You will be able to defeat all of your racist enemies and make a foot stool out of them!...you will defeat all your enemies. Now hurry up and join us cuz....the police said we had to be off the sidewalk before dark." Niggas with too much time on their hands. Like Don King said: ONLY in America....are niggas free to wrap rags around their heads and run around on the street preaching anything that they can dream up. You KNOW what would happen if they tried to do that in North Korea or Russia. Understood. I just don't see why that sh8t doesn't work in their homeland. Because some old grey bearded nigga with one tooth in his mouth sitting in the middle of the village with a stick over his lap runs is keeping everything the way it's been for a thousand years, and the rest of the village is afraid to challenge him. Young folks in Africa generally don't argue with their elders....they just pack up and try to get to America or Europe where they can find more opportunity. I know many African women who do have deep voices & they are in need of a serious manicure/pedicure services. I haven't met any African women with deep voices. I've met some with MATURE voices that typically occur as a woman ages, but not those deep jarring husky voices that come from drinking Hennessee, smoking Newports, and yelling at little bad ass kids in the ghetto for 40 years. But I know quite a few African women who are long overdue for a pedicure, myself...lol. Sista's feet look like she can kick off them sandals and rake up every leaf in your yard if you dared her too. Hard to argue when millions of people were moved through the transatlantic slave trade. We know they CAME from Africa, but we don't necessarily know how they were acquired. I don't think the European traders were actually printing out receipts and bills of sale to their suppliers. The folks you mentioned above had to put in work in order to assume those positions. That is not a feat of laziness. Correct. However they aren't the majority of our people, especially the majority of the Black workforce of today. Those were the brothers and sisters of the 70s, 80s, and early 90s who benefited from the Civil Rights movements. Black leadership put in a lot of work to get the Civil Rights Act passed. That level of leadership has been non-existent for a half-century & counting. As a result of their efforts to get Civil Rights legislation passed, it provided the opportunities for n8gglets to get positions of power. They enjoy having a good paying job. Facts. And the following generations should have not only maintained what that the Civil Rights generation fought and worked for, but we should have BUILT upon it and took things to higher levels. They/we should have gotten Reparations by now. But too many in our generation was busy smoking weed, watching New Jack City and Spike Lee flix, or making Gangsta Rap videos for the entertainment of a White audience. Black folks stopped marching & stomping shortly after Civil Rights legislation were passed. Ofcourse. THAT mission was accomplished. Time to move on to another. From the 1970s through present, Black folks have enjoyed the crumbs falling from the white man's table i.e. good paying jobs. While this is true, so are the Mexicans and Asians. We both agree that White folks rule this nation....so they are in charge. Ideally, we should be working at our own firms and making our own money....and many of us are. However crumbs from a White man's table is better than starvation. The Latinos and Asians want to take even THOSE crumbs away from Black folks. With better job opportunities, parents softened up in their discipline & expectations of their offspring. That's true also. In the community I came from, it was nice to go to college or start your own business....but you were seen as successful and your people were happy for you for just keeping a job and staying out of jail. Many Black folks have reached middle-class status; buying nice homes & riding around in expensive cars & drinking Starbucks designer coffee.😁 Walk around any HBCU or other college campus in the US. In educational environments, you will see many Black folks who are the polar opposite of your lazy, shiftless, funky weed smoking n8gglets. What's weird about this is...it applied to a lot of AfroAmericans in the 80s and 90s, but now it applies more to Africans and Caribbeans and THEIR descendants. When I see a younger Black person in a nice car, dressed and acting professionally, and speaking proper English...if I enquire them about their background....over 80% of the time they come from a NON-FBA Black family.

The Survival Instinct is real. The Divine (or Nature if that's what you believe) put the instinct to want to live and survive at nearly all costs in human beings and even animals for a reason. As convincing as religion can be, it's hard to over-ride human nature and certain natural instincts. That's why sex and childbirth is often so high even in very religious countries regardless of the punishments. Just like no religion is going to convince most people not to have sex...lol....no religion is going to convince most people to WANT to die.

We know religion is used to manipulate (my uncle used to say "manipple-ate"...lol) people into thinking and behaving a certain way. When used by the racists, it can be used either aggressively or passively.....depending on what's called for. When used by White warmongers....they'll use religion to fire up the troops and put them in the mood to fight. When used by so-called White liberals....they'll use religion on people of color to put them to sleep and make them peaceful, passive, and accepting.

Lol....how can you access something that hasn't been distributed? I'm not sure how often the Final Call comes out with a new edition, but news doesn't occur ONCE A WEEK. Trump don't start wars.....then sit back and wait a week for the publication to write about it and the public to read about it.....then continue the operation a week later, lol. We have to KEEP UP with the times. Too many Black journalists are getting their "news"....not directly from the source of events....but from White journalists; and re-packaging it from a Black perspective.

Ok, I didn't know WHAT you were talking about at first. I had to look up the fact that Stephanie played Dorothy in The Wiz to make the connection to what you were talking about, lol. Personally, I thought Diana Ross was the only one who played that role.

ProfD I'm fine with Black folks self-identifying &/or aligning with a tribe. To a certain extent. But when you have the SAME Black folks from the SAME communities from the SAME lineage and practicing pretty much the SAME culture...calling themselves 15 different things with 20 different identities...that's a problem. Scatter-brained people don't get shit done. More importantly, FBA/ADOS/AfroAmericans/Freedmen need to build stronger strategic alliances with other Black folks & groups of people with shared common interests. Facts. And it's hard to do that when YOU don't even know what you are. Say what you want about the African, but atleast most Africans know who they are when they get here...lol. They know exactly what tribe they are from and their tribal values. Right or wrong....no confusion. When I look at Africans..... The men know what to do and what's expected of them. The women know what to do and what's expected of them. Then I look at the Black American working right next to him and some of these niggaz aren't sure if they are even male or FEMALE or which bathroom to go into. You got a deep voice and a beard....but when you walk your titties are bouncing all over the place and you're staring at ME when you walk pass. I went to the store to get a money order a couple days ago and this little petite older sista at the register greeted me and smiled but when she started talking....her voice was so deep it made the floor vibrate! I've met many older African women and NONE of them have voices as deep as some of these sistaz here in America....lol. Handed me the money order back and the hands were like ostrich claws...lol. Man.... Don't make NO damn sense for some of our people to be in the condition they're in. Millions of Black people were not kidnapped. Moving that many people requires coordination. African leaders were selling people as if they were pieces of gold. I've heard it. I can't argue for or against it. For as long as I've been sitting in an armchair around here, I've mentioned that government & politics do not work that way.😁 Black folks even in the highest-level positions of government do not have enough power to give us anything. Cases in point...POTUS Obama or Justice Uncle Tom Thomas or pick a name. They cannot take unilateral action or make decisions. Everything requires some type of consensus. How much power do we NEED to pass a Reparations bill and start dispersing the money? We have Black Congressmen, Governers, Mayors, Sheriffs, Judges, Lawyers, police officers....with weapons and training. How much power and authority do our people NEED so that it will no longer be used as an excuse for not doing what we SHOULD be doing???? Niggaz got PLENTY of power....it's the WILLINGESS to use it constructively that's the issue. Our people don't have a powerlessness problem....they have a LAZINESSS problem. Many of our people don't want to think or plan, just want to have fun and leave future planning and decision making up to White folks or others. History has shown that Black people can get nearly anything we want in this nation if we are willing to FIGHT for it. The Civil Rights movements and especially the riots of the 60s and 70s and the aggressiveness of the 70s and early 80s have taught us that as long as we are united and focused on our goals...as a people we can accomplish them. We got our Civil Rights AND a lot of good jobs and positions of power and influence in the government as well as in the private sector....from DEMANDING them. Again, the reason so much of it was lost starting in the 90s is because of FEAR and LAZINESS. Niggaz of the new generation started getting lazy and spoiled because THEY didn't have to fight for shit, and got soft. So now many of them don't want to fight and feel their situation is hopeless.

ProfD Neely Fuller Jr. said decades ago that the ultimate plan for the U.S. military was to make super soldiers out of the Black women. They want to keep the Black man out. They want to preserve the White man for "special" fighting. But t hey want to "turn" Black women into lesbians who will join together, fight together, and die together on some foreign battle field.

Not trying to belittle what they're going through, but don't many Muslims like many Christians and other religious people EXPECT to go to a better place if they are killed by their enemies?

You can get USA Today...all day, every day, nearly any where. For a Final Call paper, you have to find a brother on the right corner at the right time....lol. And hope ain't too many cars behind you...lol.

Not too long ago the military stopped allowing "clean shaven" exemptions for soldiers with razor bumps. Some say that this rule was directly aimed at Black men. If you're willing to fight and die for your nation, it shouldn't matter whether you're willing to do it WITH a beard and mustache or without one...lol. But they know that many Black men have problems with razor bumps from shaving too close or using certain types of razors. They know a rule like this would either disqualify them for military service or force them to walk around looking like their faces were dragged through a gravel pit.

I wasn't speaking of the soldiers, but of the civilians. Who knows how many people in the third world are living lives of misery and suffering and WISH for an end to what they're going through. So-called "peace" isn't working out for them. It prolongs their misery. Especially for the very religious people who feel that their death will take them straight to an environment which would be much better and everlasting.

ProfD Right. FBA/ADOS/AfroAmericans are having a hard time getting Black politicians to put forth reparations legislation. Half of these niccaz can't even agree on what to CALL themselves. One group identifies as Black. Another group identifies as African American....but that term is swiftly fading out Another group says FBA Another group says ADOS A handful of us identify as AfroAmerican Then you got some niccaz way over in the corner digging up some old as "Freedmen" name that ain't been used in 200 years...lol. Talk about an identity problem. Of course, if pressed on it, the US & every other country involved in the transatlantic slave trade would turn the tables on the Africans nations that sold folks into slavery I'm beginning to serious question how valid the claim IS that they "sold" us. And how common was that the case, as opposed to being kidnapped? I think there are a few tribes like the Dahomey who may have an oral record or tradition of participating in the Slave trade but besides White folks making the claim, how many Africans themselves have admitted this based on historical information passed down? The movement for reparations requires organization & codification Facts. In actuality, I've been saying for years that we as AfroAmericans can GIVE OURSELVES Reparations if enough of us gain enough power in the Legislative and Executive branches. We'd only need a critical mass of White and Latino politicians to help us do so.

Mel OMG! Do you know that my ex-husband said the same exact thing LOL! Maybe I'm subconsciously auditioning for the same exact role. But then again, maybe saying shit like that is one of the reasons WHY he's your "ex"....lol. ProfD There should be no confusion among FBA/AfroAmericans about where our birthplace stands as it relates to the original sin of slavery & acknowledging it through a series of actions including recognition, apology & reparations to name a few. Both FBA and ADOS have made it crystal clear that ONLY descendants of American slavery are entitled to Reparations from the United States. If Ghana and other African nations had a SERIOUS shot at somehow FINESSING some money and resources out of the West and even the United States in Reparations payments...I wonder would the most outspoken representatives of these movements eat humble pie and get behind their program, lol. That's why it's not good to burn bridges.

Lol...maybe AI will solve THAT problem, soon.

That may be sad, but what's SCARY is that you have a lot of religious fundamentalists who not only believe this but feel it is their duty to INSTIGATE this celestial intervention by CAUSING the global calamities that supposedly precede such an event! In other words.... If wars, famine, and Earthquakes are supposed to precede Jesus' return....then they feel if THEY produce more wars, famines, and Earthquakes...maybe that will "rush" the event and cause Jesus to return sooner. This is their thinking.

Lol....that's why it's "AI" Also, that may be one of the things that would make it POTENTIALLY so dangerous. Imagine AI being used in law enforcement. Think of how many people would be tracked and prosecuted for saying thing and using everyday terms that most humans know and understand to be jokes and figures of speech, but AI would take seriously.

Lol....I don't know where THAT one came from. Most folks don't know how short our cute little sista really is...... I was at an event where she sang for the opening. Man, she hopped off stage and walked past me. I was sitting down and was STILL taller than her...lol. I waved at her and she had to LOOK UP at me to smile....lol.

We need more Black people....especially AfroAmericans....in leadership positions in the military. If this is OUR country....and it is @richardmurray.....then we need to be in leadership positions in all relevant branches of it. Unlike many Black nationalists and Pan-Africanists, I ENCOURAGE Black people to not only join law enforcement but the military also. Every branch. Rise as high as you can rise. The more power and rank we have in it, the more influence we have.

Come on now.... If you're looking for a young man....there are less expensive and time consuming ways to find one, than that.....lol.

Which is crazy because back in the 50s and 60s not only did every Black community have it's own paper but nearly every Black highschool had it's own Black newspaper. You didn't need a Scripts Howard back then. Black students were learning journalism (among other skills and trades) BEFORE they graduated from Highschool.

Yep. Most people don't know that this is where the word "slave" comes from....the Slavs Places like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and Slovenia....the slavic regions of Europe where the Arabs and Africans used to go and get slaves to bring back to the Middle East and North Africa. Called "Mamlukes" So.... Are you done hibernating? Like a bear or groundhog.....lol....you've decided to come outside and join us for the Spring?