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ProfD As long as this line of thinking is the default position, Black folks will never be unified or get UP. Do you think a more "socialist" mentality where most Black people refused to get rich or build wealth unless they did it as a community would produce better results? If so, what's the evidence of that? Is there a Black socialist type country that we can look at as a model of success and wealth? The fact is.... Some....a lot...of Black people are poor and broke because of the POOR CHOICES that they've made in their lives. Especially the Black people in America. Many....not all...but too many are broke because of heavy drug use, criminal activities that fuck up their records, etc.. Ofcourse most of this is as an indirect result of racism, yet it's a fact none the less. A crack head's life is fucked up because they smoked crack. Yes the racists in the government brought it in to destroy the community, yet the fact remains that their life is fucked up because they chose to smoke the crack! You can't put your life or success on hold trying to help dysfunctional or stupid people; especially when they don't want to improve themselves. Rather than lift THEM UP.....many of them will PULL YOU DOWN. There is absolutely no reason that FBA/AfroAmericans should be fighting for Africans. What about for a financial or social/sexual incentive? I do not recall Africans getting on ships and rescuing our ancestors from slavery. Besides the ones who SOLD some of our Ancestors and participated in Slavery who were a small percentage, how many Africans even KNEW we were over here? It is funny that other Black folks expect FBA/AfroAmericans to cape for them despite their delineation from and disrespect towards us. At this point, I don't know how many Africans are even expecting or asking for us to. Many of them just keep away from AfroAmericans and focus on building wealth for their own communities. I hear a lot of Black podcasters claim Africans are begging for help. But whatever help their asking for....it's usually from White folks, not Black Americans...lol. I listen to Dr. Umar Johnson for comedic entertainment Me too. I'm very analytical and can separate the man from his words. He says a lot of good things, has a lot of insight, and much of his social observations are on point. But his effectiveness is very questionable.

ProfD I have always found it amusing that Black folks tried to hold Black rappers to a higher moral standard especially when it came to their lyrics. The same Black folks would watch white produced movies filled with violence and nudity. A white man kill up a bunch of folks and f8ck several women...no problem. Blockbuster at the box office. Blacks folks in theaters grinning and eating popcorn while contributing to the profits of those same movies. I think those AfroAmericans who DO criticize rap music (because they don't do it nearly as much as they used to because they probably figure it's useless now-a-days) do it because they see it as more detrimental to the well being of the AfroAmerican community. What Arnold Schwartznegger or Sylvester Stallone does in a movie doesn't have nearly as much of an impact on the Black community as what NWA and other rappers who have the minds of the youth, have because there are far more positive and intellectual White characters and movies to offset the violence they portray. There's more of a BALANCE when it comes to White violence in the entertainment industry. Another point is..... It's CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD in the White community that Rambo, and Total Recall and these other movies are based on FICTION. They don't claim to "represent what's really happening in White America" like rap does. Many rappers are self-proclaimed "representatives" of Black American youth and they claim to "tell it like it is". And if all they're promoting is violence, drug use, and dogging out women and calling them bitches...then they're literally saying that IS "how it is" in our community. Which is not only a lie, but straight up slanderous and damaging. They're doing more damage to our community and how it's portrayed around the world than even the White racists who used to go around and say Black men had "tails"; because they're voluntarily promoting and portraying all of the negative stereotypes White racists have claimed. Somehow, rap music was destroying the Black community.🤔 It certainly helped to bring down the morals of the AfroAmerican community. Except for a few groups like Public Enemy...it hasn't uplifted the community in general. It has made a lot of individual artists rich...which is a positive thing...but at what expense? Nevermind the fact that pimps, prostitutes and dope dealers, gang-bangers and murderers were around before rap music. While this is true, that type of lifestyle wasn't GLORIFIED until movies like Superfly and The Mack came out and later on Gangsta Rap. The difference is the GLORIFICATION of the worst parts of the community. The Mafia existed for hundreds of years, but it wasn't until movies like The Godfather came out that it started being glorified. And a lot of Italians spoke out against it. Every community has it's underground and criminal element. What other community GLORIFIES it though? C. Delores Tucker was probably smoking Virginia Slim cigarettes and sipping on a Singapore Sling while watching those same movies or listening to those *dirty* records too.😁 Maybe, but atleast there was a voice that DID condemn it....lest people around the planet start believing ALL of us were onboard with that immoral garbage. Now the only Black folks who do seems to be the moral voice for Black people are Black Conservatives. And we know most of them are sell outs and Sambos who are doing this to appease and amuse their White racist handlers. But why does it take THEM to point out the trifling and ratchet behavior in our community? Why don't the Progressive and Conscious Black people do it? Like the Nation of Islam. They are STRONGLY critical of the immorality and vices in our community, but in a loving way. We need more of that. Just like blaxploitation movies, some pimps had high-pitched voices and permed hair (jheri curls in the 1980s) too. Not only that, a lot of them were sissified and acted feminine. Many of them had a "feminine" quality about them that actually attracted some women. It shows you how dysfunctional the streets have been for a long time. I find it odd how straight Black men with multiple children often question eachothers masculinity and call eachother "bitch ass nigga" or point at how this behavior or that behavior ain't the behavior of a "real man".... But when it comes to Black men who are OBVIOUSLY gay or feminine and walk around switching and lisping, they are silent on them or grin at them and give THEM a pass and in most cases ignore them. Same thing with a lot of sistaz..... Many of them are quick to slap a dude upside the head and talk about how he ain't a "real man" or tell him "be a man"; but yet don't apply those same standards to their gay male "best friend" or some gay male family member who acts like a straight up woman. I keep telling people the brainwashing and programing is real.

Exactly. They are making mockery of it.

San Francisco mayor quietly signs reparations fund that could lead to $5M payments per person San Francisco mayor quietly signs reparations fund that could lead to $5M payments per person They know good and dog gone well this plan won't lead to anybody getting Reparations. Just like that crap they're doing over in Maryland. .... just a trick or gimmick. CITIES AND STATES DO NOT PAY REPARATIONS Especially cities and states where slavery didn't officially exist...like Portland Oregon or San Francisco California. Reparations are only paid by National/Federal Governments. They KNOW this is going nowhere. The mayor knows it and the media outlets that report on it know it. It's just another bullshit trick-n-pony show designed to piss off and anger White people who read it. That's the ONLY purpose of these "studies" and "proposals" as well as the media coverage of them. Stories like this were designed TO spark controversy and argument and serve as a lightning rod or strawman built up for racist Whites to point to and focus on to justify their anger. Now racist Conservatives have more bullshit to cry about on their podcasts and radio shows. They can point to San Francisco and claim the city is "giving $5 million checks to it's Black residents", just to generate outrage. Just like the entire "critical race theory" controversy a few years ago. It wasn't designed to benefit or help AfroAmericans or truly educate people about AfroAmerican history. Since when did academic curriculums Universities offered, get discussed in the national media? The media purposely reported on it in a way that would anger White people and generate outrage.

Although I travel from time to time, I haven't really been to an actual movie theater OUTSIDE of West Michigan in years so it's hard to compare prices but for $100....two adults AND a couple or even 3 children can still have a pretty decent time at a movie theater as long as yall ain't eating or drinking too much....lol. The tickets themselves will be around $15-$20 per adult and $10-$10 per child depending on age. The bulk of the money is with concessions. Now that's the AVERAGE theater....in the day time. If you're trying to go to a ritzy type of theater at night....there's no telling how much it will cost. I don't like to go to theaters when they're crowded anyway. Some of the children in my family wanted to go see that Wicked shit, but we have yet to take them, lol. I would suspect that the prices of entertainment like most other things would be much more expensive in the DMV area or East coast in general than in Western Michigan. The cost of living in the Detroit area is twice as expensive and it's in the same state....lol.

ProfD The sacrifice would be for the greater good of future generations of our people. Dr. MLK Jr. and brother Malcolm X had naysayers while they were alive. It didn't stop them from doing the work. They had a CALLING...Divine in my opinion...to do what they did. If you have a Divine Calling....nothing will stop you except FOR the Divine. However the vast majority of laborers in any movement will not be Divine but will be rank and file human beings looking for human benefits like wealth, fame, prestige, and respect. If they don't see a way of getting those benefits, they aren't going to bother putting in the work. Nobody wants to work their ass off and put their lives in danger only to be called a "coon" or "sell out" by the next generation of youngsters who weren't around to know how much work they put in or how far we actually came. It takes a special person who's willing to lay down their life for others. Especially knowing some are ungrateful and undeserving of the sacrifice. Facts. No intelligent person will expect ALL of the people of a community to appreciate their work and sacrifice. But when it gets to the point where MOST of the people are indifferent to your efforts and don't appreciate them, then the human part of you begins to wonder what's the point of even doing it? That's why so many people end up selling out. They don't see any benefit or reward in being loyal to people who don't care or appreciate one way or the other. The Nigerians agreed with the strike. They didn't execute it themselves. Well, if they truly agreed with it...then there's no problem The blood isn't on their hands. Let another man fight the battles and rest assured that he'll take over the house, bed and women too. Unless he is so powerful he could have done that already IF he wanted to. That's why a handful of Nigerians are driving Bentleys and Benzes on dirt roads up to mansions in the middle of nothing. 1. If America wants to control the oil in Nigeria...they will find a way to do it anyway, strike or no strike...and there's little the Nigerians can do about it. 2. Who's to say that America and the West isn't ALREADY controlling Nigeria's oil reserves? Like Saudi Arabia and these other oil rich nations; they ultimately have to come to the West with their oil to get it refined, on the market, and exchanged for currency anyway. 3. This may sound a little callous but it's better for a HANDFUL of Nigerians to be driving Bentleys and Benzes than for NONE of them to be. People can be broke and poor all by themselves, poverty doesn't need company. You don't help poor people by staying poor yourself, lol. Eliminate the problem. Kill the abuser or have them killed. Most abused people don't have that mentality. If they did, they wouldn't have gotten abused in the first place. Everybody can't be Miss Sofia....lol. "I loves Harpo....Lord knows I do. But I'LL KILL 'EM DEAD 'fo I let him beat on me!" We literally cannot afford to walk and chew gum at the same time in that regard. Let's look at this carefully...... We DIDN'T fight for Africans -and we weren't getting Reparations. We're NOT fighting for Africans right now -and we're STILL not getting Reparations as of right now. Looks to me like NOT fighting for Africans didn't help us...lol. In fact, it was no contact until we had our own sh8t together. If you're waiting until niggaz get their shit together before making contact with others, then..... You're gonna be waiting a minute.....lol. Other than religion, Black men usually do not follow other men who talk a lot and produce nothing. If there is an inkling or proof that a man is full of sh8t, another man definitely won't be following him. Some.Black men gave Dr. Umar Johnson a pass for a little over a decade before they cashed in their chips and left the table. If Dr. Umar Johnson had produced something tangible instead of grifting under the guise of building a school, he would potentially be a leader of men. Most dudes could see through Dr. Umar Johnson within 10 minutes of him talking and blinking and repeating himself. I take it YOU didn't donate to the FDMG Academy! Shame on you Prof D! Just for that, you won't be allowed to visit the school on opening day in the year 20.........LOL

ProfD The older generation didn't think much of those rappers. C. Delores Tucker wasn't impressed with them. She lobbied to get that Parental Advisory sticker on tapes and CDs. Great example. Ms Tucker was right to a certain extent, many of them did disrespect women. I can't blame them. They thought they were contributing to immorality and indecency in the Black community. Actually, Mayor Coleman Young had NWA arrested when they came to Detroit...lol. Today's artists do far more interviews than their predecessors did 35 years ago. But not sit-to-the-table press conferences like NWA and Public Enemy used to do. They do a lot of laid back sitting on the couch interviews while smoking and drinking. Neither them not the hosts are very professional or formal. Many folks clowned Eazy-E's high pitched voice. Definitely had to respect his business acumen His height and his voice. Part of what made him entertaining was that he SOUNDED like how he LOOKED. Actually, his voice is what made him a decent rapper! Like DJ Quik, he had a hollow voice that sounded well on wax and the lyrics came through clearly.

ProfD It starts with looking in the mirror. Build strategic alliances with folks who think similarly. For example, the influencers and podcasters do have a following. Grow from there. Most of their following is as a result of sensationalism and friction....not productivity, facts, and building. Most people who support them and give money do so to hear them gossiping and criticizing and fighting against other Black people. If they start talking about let's build a hospital or school or so something positive...their subscribers would drop like hot rocks...lol. They love the drama. I stay on the bumper of non-FBA folks in my clan. They understand both sides of it. I can't say the same. Although I'm intimate with a few, I don't have any Africans or West Indians that I know of in my family. There's always something to be done about it. People don't want to sacrifice anything especially their freedom or life. Can you really blame them? Especially when you look at the type of "thanks" they often get for making that sacrifice. Look at many of the sacrifices the Civil Rights generation made, and look at how some of these young dudes come on social media with nappy beards dogging them and claiming how they didn't do anything for the community and didn't leave a legacy. It used to be sacrilegious to criticize the Civil Rights generation......not anymore. Who wants to sacrifice for a people as ungrateful and obnoxious as that? The Nigerians should have eliminated Isis if they were a problem in their country. Maybe they didn't see them as a problem. About half if not more of Nigeria is Muslim. The West sees them as a problem, but maybe Nigeria didn't. On top of that.....that's Nigeria's problem to deal with, not the West's That's like China launching strikes into Los Angeles and killing people they called "Crips" while claiming they were doing it to save the lives of the Bloods who were being slaughtered through gang warfare. That's none of China's business...lol. Countries should fight their own battles first. I understand. But it wasn't a sincere fight....Trump was just flexing. Some even say it's really about oil and trying to take Nigeria's resources. There's plenty black folks can do to break the system of racism white supremacy. The main thing is we could stop enriching them in everything from providing entertainment to shopping in their establishments. While you're right...this entertainment is the only thing that keeps some of our people from going crazy UNDER the system. It's like taking the drugs away from a drug addict who is being sexually abused. The reason they started using drugs was because of the sexual abuse. Take the drugs away and they'll have no other way to deal with it and may go stone crazy. Entertainment (and drugs) are often OUTLETS for Black people living in an oppressive system they feel they can't escape. Take that entertainment/escape away from them and that may launch them into a feeling of hopelessness. Even YOU say that you are uplifted and motivated by your music and it gets you high. FBA/AfroAmericans won't benefit from an alliance with them. The Somalis have fled a whole country. Also, they're still fighting among themselves over there. Yesterday, it was announced that Somaliland, an enclave within Somalia, has been recognized by Israel as sovereign. They are cozy with the devil as always. I agree, you can't trust them. Even if they DID connect with Black Americans initially....because of their racial confusion and considering themselves closer to Arab than African you couldn't be sure where their loyalty lays. We don't have anything to do with the injustices they're facing. Our focus should be reparations. I agree that our focus should be Reparations, however there are connections between what we go through and what Africans go through that should be recognized. It's part of being well rounded and what Neely Fuller Jr. called: UNIVERSAL MAN and UNIVERSAL WOMAN There's no singular person in charge among most groups of people. Gotta sit down with the heads of various factions within the group. Besides Minister Farrakhan and the Hebrew Israelites, where is the leadership? You know how independent minded so many of our people are. They claim they don't need a leader and don't want anybody telling them what to do. Say what you will about him but Dr. Umar Johnson is one of the most dynamic conscious speakers in our community today and he doesn't even have 10 men following him...lol. Oh they'll listen to him all day, but wouldn't FOLLOW him to the corner store to buy a bag of chips...lol.

No. Although this episode aired during the early to mid stages of the Women's Movement, I believe they didn't go after them for 2 major reasons: 1. Nichel was a Black woman and since the Women's Movement was primarily led by White women, they didn't concern themselves much with the image of Black women 2. The Women's Movement's initial focus was women getting proper pay and not being abused and killed by their husband and fathers with impunity as was the case for centuries in Western society. They weren't too focused on the sexual objectification of women. If you watched Star Trek on the regular like I used to do, you'd notice that MOST of the women were dressed in skimpy sexy clothes and super short skirts. It wasn't really until the mid-70s that the sexual objectification of women turned from being playful and liberating to being demonized by the Women's Movement. I believe it happened when Lesbians started infiltrating the Women's struggle. Many lesbians are jealous of straight feminine women because men and society in general naturally find them more attractive and pleasant and offer them more benefits and show them more attention. They figure taking the sexual factor away from women will "even" the playing field in the eyes of society.

Oh yes...lol. When I was a teenager people were sneaking bottles of liquor into the theaters anyway, so I guess they figured they might as well legalize it and start making money off of it. If it weren't for the indoor smoking ban....they probably would have legalized the use of Marijuana in movie theaters too, lol. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't get around it by allowing gummies and other edible forms of Marijuana in theaters. Anything to make a quick buck off the people.

ProfD Just like welfare recipients, more white folks are obese than other groups of people. There are more obese White folks because there are just more White folks in the nation in sheer numbers. But the PERCENTAGE of them that are obese aren't the same as the percentages in the AfroAmerican and Latino communities. However what's interesting is that I'm starting to see a reversal in obesity in the AfroAmerican community lately. For the past 10 years or so there seems to be more and more skinny and lanky bruthaz bouncing up and down the street, lol. Black folks created the Western diet. We were just fine when raising, growing and cooking our own food. That diet high in starch and animal fat wasn't good for our people even then, but our people did more physical labor it balanced itself out. Most of our people were burning a lot of calories and getting a lot of exercise laboring in the fields and later on in the factories and that kept the fat and cholesterol down. Black folks and Latinos outside the US are still eating a ton of starch in the form of rice and potatoes. They are consuming the other stuff as well. Can't speak about the Latinos but as far as Africans go..... Most of the rice they eat is whole grain rice so it's more fibrous and healthy and most of the potatoes they eat are the yellow "sweet" potatoes and yams as well as cassava which is more healthy than those Irish potatoes niggaz love to mash together and make potato salad with. The difference is foods are processed differently in other countries. In the capitalistic USA, food is processed in such a way to 1) feed a lot of people and 2) make a lot of money. True dat.

When I look at those videos, it just reminds me of how far the youth have degenerated intellectually. That news conference was done in 1990 back when all of them were in their early 20s. Those bruthaz clearly weren't the smartest members of the community but they were much smarter and clearly more articulate than most of the rappers out there today. Infact, I don't think you could get most rappers today to SIT STILL long enough to do a press conference of that magnitude. I also believe Eazy E's charisma was under estimated. I've seen many of his interviews and when you listened to the dude and how he moved, you couldn't help BUT to like him...lol.

ProfD When have Black folks been united? As a collective mass? ....it's been a while, lol. As an entire community, FBA's ain't really been united since we came together to vote Obama in office. Tribalism still exists. it is heavy among Black folks in other countries. Even within the country, the people are sub-divided. Much of it is fueled by self hatred. I was at a school today and saw how much Black kids went out of their way to try to get along with the White and Latino kids while clowning on eachother. FBA/AfroAmericans do not have any friends/allies outside the USA. Lol...well shit....how many friends/allies do we have INSIDE the USA???? I think individually, there are plenty of AfroAmericans with friends and connections. Not on the level we'd like, but it exists. A lot of FBA are doing good business in Africa and with Africans both here and abroad. My concern is that the rhetoric I'm hearing from a lot of FBA influencers will tarnish that and in some cases ruin the relationship as people are forced to take sides in a petty squabble. Sure, our people could be more mature and not giggle and laugh at other Blacks for getting the racist treatment. However, when Black people bring the BS on themselves especially after delineating from and throwing shade at us, they are going to get clowned. Somalis never delineated....lol....because they didn't consider themselves part of us anyway. I certainly was not advocating that Black folks fight among themselves. I know that. Most of what I'm posting isn't directed at any comments YOU have made but the comments I'm seeing from a lot of other Black influencers and commentators on social media lately....because I know for a fact that many of them read my posts on this site. How long should victimhood be accepted and/or tolerated? For as long as you can't do anything about it. 🤨 I'm going to allow someone to get their azz whupped especially if they are not fighting back. Presuming Nigeria was just fronting and the leadership really DID resent the strikes Trump performed on their nation, what would you have had them do in response? What would YOU do if you were the leader of Nigeria and Trump sent missiles into the nation? At a certain point, when it is clear that they are powerless and/or cannot win, I will step in and break it up. But, I have to see effort first. Oh.... So you want to play the role of Renaldo Rey in Friday, huh? When they step to America and end up getting knocked the fuck out, you want to come running to their rescue to "break it up" only for America to flex on YOU TOO and force you to go scampering back to whatever sand pile or mud hut you hailed from...lol. "Sorry to bother you. Come on fool, and get up and pick your teeth up off the ground. Why you come down here fucking with these people?" Ain't no "stepping in" to help somebody fight America or break it up and keep America off of them. America is CLEARLY the dominant force on the planet as far as nations go and for the time being will do as she pleases. I'm not saying it's right....I'm saying that appears to be the way it is right now. Other countries KNOW this, and they aren't going to put themselves in a position to be made an example of. Nigeria did the right thing based on where they are currently. .....which is sit there and TAKE that shit with a smile and HOPE America doesn't take further action. For whatever reason, you choose not to accept the fact that these n8gglets are powerless. Because they're not, that's the reason. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that our unity is powerful. We have changed the course of this nation both inside and out when we stood together as a people. AfroAmericans aren't powerless....it's that we aren't USING our power as a community and it's laying dormant. I was referring to ALL Black folks allowing racism white supremacy to continue buck-breaking them. What other choice do they have right now, brutha PD? Do you know of a secret weapon Black folks can whip out and defeat the System of Racism with? 🤫You don't have to say what it is on a public forum....lol....just confirm that one exists that YOU know of. FBA/AfroAmericans clowning the Somalis and any other group getting the bizness from racists is par for the course. Remember...those Black folks delineated from and have been throwing shade at us for a long time now. As I said before, the Somalis weren't with our community to begin with and the foolishness I'm seeing from both sides online certainly isn't going to bring the two communities any closer together, lol. As for the rest of the non-FBA Africans.....some were down with us, some were not. We can't throw them all under the bus or use THAT as an excuse not to speak up for the injustices that they face. It goes back to the point that I'm making about trying to justify mistreatment to hide one's powerlessness. If we as Black Americans can't help Africans when they are being mistreated we should either admit that and offer our condolences OR just shut the fuck up about it and focus on our own business. But these niggaz ain't doing that. They're JOINING with the racists to attack and humiliate other Black folks. At some point, I might petition FBA/AfroAmericans to stall out the non-FBA Black folks. In the meantime, you might want to tell those non-FBA Black folks to rethink their strategic alliances too. If they decided to, who's the "head nigga in charge"? With the state of "unity" in our (FBA) community today, where or who is the "leader" that they could actually sit down with and have a conversation with to unite the communities? ...other than Minister Farrakhan, maybe. But some of these weed smoking purple lipped niggaz are so delinquent and rebellious that they can't even get along with or unite with their own family members, let alone be trusted enough to unite with Black people from other cultures. Reminds me of something Neely Fuller Jr. said when somebody called up and asked why don't Africans talk to Black folks when they come to America and see them out on the street? Mr. Fuller responded in that deep baritone voice of his: "Why they don't talk to the Black folks? Talk to the Black folks for what? What would they get out of it? ....besides....maybe..... chased DOWN the street if they stopped and tried to talk to the WRONG Black folks!" 🤣 🤣 🤣 ....that line still has me laughing when I think about it, LMBAO.

Lol........she ain't Black, IMO.

I do...lol. I remember as a child watching the episode where she and some other crew members left the ship and came back as barbarian versions of themselves and when I saw her body in that outfit I INSTANTLY fell in love. She even looked great well up into old age. I don't mean just "great for your age".....great. I mean "take you somewhere and slobber you down".....great, lol.

ProfD It's all a game being played by the global racists. The European racists are in bed with the Arab racists. Both have used their religions, cultures, along with their Black African flunkies to assist them in dividing and conquering Black Africa. The problem is large and complex. My concern is when Black people start turning on eachother....both abroad and at home. Again, your perspective is shaped by your love for and/or bias towards non-FBA Black folks. IMO, ALL Black folks need to stand up and hold their own nuts in fighting against racism white supremacy. Ofcourse. That, and common sense....lol. The Racists don't act independantly....they're GLOBAL and act as a team or unit. So why should the VICTIMS of racism be expected to hold their own and act independently? There is power in UNITY....not everybody trying to hold their own and fight their own separate little battles. But even if we don't fight, the least we can do is not turn on eachother by pointing fingers, giggling, and blaming the victim. Infact, Black Americans can do more to help Nigeria than even Nigeria because this is OUR country in the sense that we have a degree of say so over military actions and can vocally speak out against unjust strikes. You do have Black people in Congress as well as on the SCOTUS and Black folks all over the media who COULD speak out if we were truly interested in justice. The alternative is shut up and bend over for the buck-breaking. They aren't just doing that... Like the Somali fraud situation....they aren't just keeping their mouths shut and staying out of it....they are actually SIDING with Trump and the other Republicans and either blaming Nigeria for being victimized or laughing at them and cheering it on. I said a week ago that when I saw them joining along with Trump's racist attack against the Somalis..... Dog piling on them and laughing at them, it was a sign of how stupid and immature so many of our people are and they'll be doing the same to other Africans next and then when he starts to turn on Black Americans....they'll be participating in THAT TOO. Just like there is no honor among thieves...there is no honor among fools either. Don't think these same Black podcasters who are laughing at or criticizing Africans when they are attacked won't turn around and do the very same things to fellow so-called "FBA" Black folks too....and have some weird ass excuse for doing so.

Yeeeessssss..........indeed! 🙂

Nigeria didn't have much of a choice BUT to go along with it. They weren't military strong enough to stop it and I doubt any other African nation would have came to their aid.

Let's call it for what it is..... Nigeria got pimp slapped. Nigeria claiming to "ok" this strike or even "ask" for it is just an effort to save face because in reality there wasn't much they could have done to stop it anyway. It's like that DJ Pooh in Friday trying to save face with Deebo by not asking for his bike back.......... He didn't ask for it back because he was AFRAID to. He knew Deebo would only give it back IF he wanted to and WHEN he wanted to and there wasn't shit he could do about it. He knew Deebo could easily beat his ass...lol. His ignorant ass father either didn't know or didn't understand this and tried to FORCE the boy to "stand up" for himself and demand the bike back and the results were as expected: The same situation applies to Nigeria. Trump was going to strike in Nigeria anyway whether the government agreed to it or not and there was little they could do to stop it. Them "objecting" to it or putting up some sort of resistance would have only made things work because they aren't militarily strong enough to do so. But there's another problem......... The REACTION so many Black podcasters are having over this strike. They sound like Pooh's silly ass father when they criticize Nigeria and call them weak or point the finger at them as if they actually could of done otherwise. It shows a level of insensitivity, ignorance, and immaturity that's I'm beginning to expect from them when it comes to criticizing other Black folks for doing or not doing things that THEY clearly aren't in a position to do either. "Why yall let America strike targets in your country like that? Why didn't yall fight back? Man,yall weak....see...that's why yall aren't respected by other nations! They wouldn't have done that to China! Africans need to learn how to be a military force to be respected and reconned with!" These same niggaz on podcasts criticizing Nigeria for "letting" Trump strike inside the country....if the police come up in THEIR house and slap them and their families around and lock them up....ain't shit THEY would be able to do about it besides sit there and cry. So many American Black folks have been beat up and shot down by the police and THEY didn't fight back, but they want to criticize Africans and other Black nations when racism harms them and THEY don't fight back. It is what it is. These Black folks didn't fight back because they weren't strong enough to. Calling themselves "fighting back" ...at this point...would have probably made the situation worse because America would have probably responded with a strike that would have decimated what military power they DO have! We can criticize people for selling out, especially when it's not necessary; however Black people need to stop this habit of attacking fellow victims of racism. It's clearly a cover or way to deal with their own misplaced feelings of helplessness.

Every race has experienced weight gain over the past few decades, however it appears that AfroAmericans and Latinos have experienced the most. A lot of it has to do with the ingredients IN the foods but I believe a lot of it has to do with the foods themselves. On top of the factors that you listed like not getting enough exercise.....our genetics is just different and this Western diet isn't good for most of us. Most Black people are lactose intolerant and shouldn't be drinking milk no matter what being put in it. Most Black people can't handle this large amount of bread and other starches and red meats that are part of a typical Western diet as well as most Whites. The same can be said of Latinos. Most Latinos are really Native Americans who practice a Spanish culture, but the Spaniards of Spain are predominately Caucasian and have different genetics. So you see these Mexicans and other central Americans who are fat and roundish looking because many of them have mixed in their indigenous diets with the Spaniard diet with lots of cheese, milk, red meat, and liquor.

I too noticed the AfroAmerican community started gaining weight right around the early 80s.

Yes. It seems as if she's been making VERY sensible statements lately! Check out this genius in action: If she starts making any MORE sense.......stand up comedians will start using her as a muse....lol.