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ProfD I know EXACTLY what you mean my man, I like to meet women IN PERSON and get to know them IN PERSON...not through some lame ass dating app. I personally thought that was designed for White dudes anyway. Men who are too afraid to approach women or flirt with them and need "perfect conditions" and a guarantee of no failure in order to make a move...lol. Old school Detroit way is you get your game on ANYWHERE. On the street, at the train station, at the mall, in the Denny's, at school, on the bus, picking up groceries, ect...anywhere you see something you like, lol Them old dudes didn't care....lol Mzuri Well I've had numerous jobs but at the job I just left in the 8 years I've been there I only had 2 real "work-wives". One was AfroAmerican and the other was Mexican. The AfroAmerican woman left for North Carolina a few years ago and the Mexican woman is still there and we have eachother's numbers but we don't contact eachother much outside of the work place because she has a boyfriend and children. I respect her space. As for me, I'm still looking and trying to figure out the next moves I'm going to make. I take it day by day. I'm hoping for a societal collapse....seriously. I hope this society collapses so I don't have to worry about constantly bouncing from one job to the next based on mandates, low wages, inflation, and the other problems that seem to be on the rise in this society. I hear a record number of people are quitting their jobs...probably for the same reasons we left. Mandates, low pay, and too much bullshit to put up with.

ProfD @ProfD Nowadays, AM radio is the equivalent of what a rotary phone with a cord on it would be to a generation of folks growing up with smartphones. "Ahhhhhh but..... AM radio is the CHIEF tool that Conservatives have used to consistently get their message out to the masses from the 80s all the way up to this very moment! Unlike other groups who have to subscribe to cable channels, satelite radio, or subscribe and sign up to social media platforms and jump through hoops and go through mazes just to hear their favorite social/political leader.... All Jared or Billy Ray has to do is hop in his F-150 truck and turn push a button on AM radio to get hours and hours and hours of racist right-wing people like Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck pumping Nazi propaganda in his ear while he's driving or putting shingles on a roof. It's STILL that way...AM radio is STILL going strong among certain demographics and it's absolutely FREE to listen to! "We're headed to the swamp! We're gonna help Trump drain it!" It makes me tingle just THINKING about what if intelligent Black people owned just 2 national AM radio stations! Man...UMPH....just TWO national radio stations where all you had to do is just turn the knob or click a button and can listen to a Black agenda for as long as you like anywhere in the country.

Daniel That’s a very selfish question and doesn’t reflect the difference in states of being. Many parts of my life have nothing to do with America. My personal life has been getting better and better. Since Biden has become President??? I say go to your more perfect country if you feel you are a slave.! Why on Earth would I run away and leave the problem for someone else to solve? If your house get's infested with rats and roaches, would you just pack up and LEAVE for another one....or would you try to clean it up and solve the pest problem? "I see he got on that damn FOX NEWS again. I should chew the nicca's cable box up."

G. Gordon Liddy! The mastermind of Nixon's Watergate scandal. And Conservative Republican Hero! Reduced to pedaling 5-karat gold on late night infomercials.

Mzuri Good morning queen! Do we even have any Black leaders? Are you referring to someone like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, or someone else? Well to answer your question... (see @Cynique this is how you answer questions....lol) I personally think we have quite a few Black leaders. The question is are they qualified and where are they leading the people? Now when it comes to UN-QUALIFIED AfroAmerican leaders, I can type up a whole page of them from Jay Z, to Obama, to Jesse Lee Peterson, to Meek Mill, to Kevin Hart, to Kanye West, ect... When it comes to UN-QUALIFIED Black leaders, the list can go on and on. "Good moanin' suh! How iz you?" However, those who are actually QUALIFIED to lead are few. I think the QUALIFIED AfroAmerican leaders consist of Minister Louis Farrakhan, Neely Fuller Jr., Tariq Nasheed (though my support for him is wavering), and a few others. People have options for distributing their message through other methods besides TV or radio. There’s social media, YouTube, TikTok, Podcast, etc. If you have a message, you can get it out there and it doesn’t really cost that much to do it. That's for younger people...mostly Gen Z, Millenials, and younger Gen Xers. What about the TENS OF MILLIONS of older Gen Xers and Boomers who aren't very computer literate and don't mess with social media? How would THEY get the message? You shouldn't have to take computer classes just to be able to get a message or warning from a Black leader that the KKK is getting ready to ride through your city and start killing folks. Things like that should be BROADCASTED over a simple media device that doesn't take much thinking and signing-up to engage in. You should just be able to plug in a television or radio where ever you pick up electricity...or better yet use a BATTERY....and be able to pick up the message. This social-media crap is nothing more than an excuse to 1. Keep track of everything your watching and saying 2. Censor people and punish them for saying the "wrong thing" by taking away their platform if they don't conform.

1. I didn't say crashes didn't occur and won't occur in the future. I'm saying YOU'RE BEING LIED TO because the crashes that your Conservative heroes like Hal Lindsey and G. Gordon Liddy have been predicting for nearly 40 years have NOT happened. They're selling you a crock of shit to get you to buy their 5-karat gold or participate in their other investment schemes. 2. If a crash DOES happen...it won't be by accident. It will be a CONTROLLED DEMOLITION just like most recessions and depressions are. Trust that some group at the top has orchestrated it and will benefit from it and all of that fake-gold and crypto-crap you're investing in will do you no good anyway.

What good is "America" being great if it's not making YOUR life any better? What did Malcolm say about the slave running to fetch buckets of water to put the fire out at MASSA'S house??? If you have no dog in the fight or horse in the race....you shouldn't care.

I'm not sure why I had a desire to start this subject. I guess it's because I had a COUPLE of work-wives at my old job and I'm starting to miss them already, lol. How many of you had work-spouses? And by "work-spouse" I mean people you had deep emotional connections to, to the point that you almost (or actually did) fell in love with them. You may or may not have even been having sex with them, but that strong love and bond was there -BUT ONLY AT WORK, lol. And DON'T LIE! Don't you DARE get on here and front like yall don't know what I'm talking about. I've had so many jobs in my life where people were screwing around with each other on the job. Some even took it to another level and their relationships started interfering with their normal everyday lives. So I don't want ANYBODY to come on here scratching their heads or playing stupid....lol "Tell your REAL wife to quit calling up here so damn much. It's interfering with OUR relationship!"

Or retreating all together and letting ALL crime get so out of hand....like they're doing in Chicago...that people will be begging for a police state.

I'd go as far as to say one of the main reasons why our community is so dysfunctional right now is BECAUSE of too many Black folks trying to imitate White people and trying to adopt their social and moral values. What works for them doesn't necessarily work for us. They are different and have a different physical and psychological make-up than we do. Also, a lot of what we THINK they're doing.....aren't what they're actually doing. They PRTEND to do it in public...while doing the exact OPPOSITE in private. But a dumb negro will look at what they do and say in public and try to imitate it and wonder why things are so fucked up for him and not for the White dude. Indeed The RIGHT medicine for the WRONG illness in the WRONG dosage is actually poison.

Absolutely. I'm also a big proponent of BROADCAST television; where all you need is a television set and some electricity and you can pick up the channel. We need to own either one of the big three (NBC, ABC, CBS) or make up our own major national broadcast channel so that ALL of our people can be addressed and accessed without having to subscribe and pay a bill every month. Same thing with radio. Republican Conservatives OWN more than 75% of AM radio, and that's why their message gets to such a broad audience. We need more Black AM radio stations that are broadcasted nationally so if a Black leader wants to make a speech and address the Black nation...they can...without seeking the approval of Caucasian owners first. Back in the old days, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad used to come on over the radio around the nation. This was back in the 50s and 60s! How many Black leaders are putting out messages over the radio today?

Mzuri and I think it might be what is hampering more participation. Either that or most people no longer have the mental capacity to engage in an intelligent conversation on a format like a message board. With it's 200 character or less format....social media has dumbed down much of the population to the point they can do little but post a series of emojiis or unpunctuated emotionally driven phrases as responses.

Daniel You will find people with superior skills in different areas. Just because someone excels doesn’t make them part of the ruling entity. It depends on what skills they're superior in. If they're superior in sports or art or music...they may or may not make very good leaders. However if they are superior in planning, Charisma, community organizing, and solving major problems....these are the talents that a GOOD leader should possess. The question is does the governing structure serve the people or the other way around? If that's the question...then the answer is both. A good government is not only served BY the people but SERVES the people quite well. Criminals aren’t good examples to prove suppression of our people. They are if the criminal is the one with his knee on George's neck.

Mzuri EXCELLENT questions......but no answers to them. A whole lot of deflections.....lol....but no answers to your direct questions. Dig that.

LOL.....a-ti-TUUUUUDE.....a-ti-tude! "Don't argue with me.... argue with the hand."

Absolutely! It's about time....now they can use their resources to help more people and go after SERIOUS crimes.

Mzuri LOL....has anybody ever told you that you can have one heck of an ATTIDUDE when you want to? Anyway.....you've answered my question in an indirect way. Thank you.

Right. Great questions!

Daniel The Great Depression never occurred? I thought it occurred nearly 100 years ago back in the 1930s....but perhaps I was misinformed. Anyway, what is your point? Why are you so frightened? They actually allow YOU to get behind the wheel of a moving vehicle! "Hey there boy! Whatcha' know no good.... They JUST gave me my license back. It's time to git into somethin' "

Chev MmmmmHmmm..... I see you ran back up there and CHANGED what you originally said about Jesus raising up after three days, lol. .....sneaky rascal.

Right now I'm gonna get with YOU and ask you a simple question......... How many people do you know PERSONALLY who started off poor or lower class and made over $100,000 investing in crypto-currency , NFT, or those other passive streams?

As if our people aren't already suppressed?

Chev According to the Bible (that YOU believe in)....Jesus died on a Friday evening and rose on a Sunday morning. That's about a day and a half...definitely not even 2 days.

Chev ou know, I was conditioned to never even consider the possibility that people of African descent were anywhere in the South American countries until I worked at an Afro-centered charter school a few years back. It was at that time, that I learned that second to the continent of Africa, Brazil had the largest population of Black Africans. That completely 'Blew my mind!' But then after researching, I did come to realize about the possibility of more. Yes I used to date a Black woman from Brazil. She could barely speak English, but she LOVED Marvin Gaye...lol. I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but, I do. I do feel like there is some type of effort to push some type of movement against people of African descent in certain places in the western league realms of the world. I feel like something strange is going on. And, like, we don't have much economic power, so it baffles me but deep in my heart I feel that I know. They won't teach us the whole truth over here. They won't teach us about the 'African American natives' that dominated these Ancient American continents in ancient times and that there was a movement against these natives when the Europeans came. They wont teach us and it seems like history is trying to repeat itself. I don't expect my enemy to teach me the truth, and neither should you. That's why it's important for us to gather the knowledge for OURSELVES, organize it, and pass it along to our children so that they can compound it with their additional findings. That's the true scientific way. Right now what most Black folks are getting from these universities and other educational institutions isn't real KNOWLEDGE...it's just INFORMATION. And usually FALSE information at that. Real knowledge is ACCURATE information that has been VERIFIED by a trusted source. We need our own archeological teams to get out and dig up the truth for ourselves and not just take the words of White folks "You won't BELIEVE what I just found in these ancient ruins! A bottle of hot sauce and an afro-pick"

Mzuri Lol...I prefer the term "devil" for the racists.