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ProfD Sure. A person can definitely make decisions that lead to being poor under the systems that control resources. Poverty is a condition of human design. Some may argue that poverty is actually a social construct. Especially given the fact that many people don't even know they're poor UNTIL they compare themselves with others more well off. The anger comes from knowing wealthy people aren't necessarily smarter &/or harder working. Inherited wealth is a great example. In other words, some of that anger is actually DELUSIONAL and unfounded? Because the fact is many wealthy people ARE smarter and harder working than many poor people. Not everyone inherited their wealth, some are self-made. But a poor person full of excuses will push that narrative to avoid taking responsibility for their lack of smarts or poor work ethic. The West exploits other countries. True Many of the leaders of those countries seem to WELCOME that exploitation. They would argue their culture isn't failed. It's just different from ours. I would argue both. Not only are most cultures in Third world poverty stricken nations DIFFERENT than ours but they are also INFERIOR to ours from a financial point of view. I would also suggest that the West COULD be considered more SOCIALLY and MORALLY advanced than a lot of these nations because sexism and slavery was the cultural norm but eventually banned and outlawed in the West....but still exists in full force in many of these other nations. Those cultures have been living the same way for thousands of years. Facts And evidence of this is there lack of advancement for thousands of years. Many of them...like the Afghans...are still living in the stone age. Meanwhile the West has been constantly progressing not only financially but technicologically for hundreds of years and especially since the Industrial revolution. How did the heirs amass that fortune? They inherited it. Usually from family members who thought enough of them to actually leave them something besides a car note, lol. ....or a long lost brother they never knew existed until the funeral, lol. Nope. She self-medicates to temporarily escape the reality of being poor. Or she came from a middle class or working class family, fell in love with the wrong boyfriend and started smoking crack with HIM. Plenty of cases like that too. Many poor people didn't come from poverty, they came from wealth and fucked their lives up with terrible decision making and rebellious attitudes. One of my favorite Richard Pryor punchlines. My man got so many of them.....lol. In that one performance alone! Troy I fell prey to peer pressure wanting to run the streets chasing women, gambling, and drinking. It's hard for me to imagine you shooting dice and drinking cheap wine....lol. No wonder you flipped on the old White woman at the dollar store and cussed her out over some wine! 🤣 What was your favorite: Ripple or Thunderbird?

Sure it does. Every effect has a cause. Just because your EXPLANATION of it doesn't make sense, doesn't mean the behavior itself doesn't make sense or can't be understood. I contend that their behavior isn't "senseless". It's an obvious product of a number of ingredients in various combinations. Among them poor parenting, mental illness, drug use, etc......

We saw this coming in that trial. Especially given the jury demographic. This was rather quick though.

No That couldn't be it, because it makes no sense.

ProfD Money, love, laziness, low self-esteem, children, etc. I can't argue with you there. Money and children will make some of the smartest women stay inside an abusive relationship. The majority of people here in the USA have the ability to learn according to literacy rates. Yeah, how to roll a blunt with one hand....lol. Nearly everybody can learn, but everybody's CAPACITY to learn is different. Meaning some people can only learn to keep their fingers off of a hot stove....while others can learn how to read...while others can learn and get a PhD. It varies depending on ones exposure and intelligence. That woman was trained to be a fighter. Correct. Which means she had to LEARN how to fight...which involves intelligence. If she's stupid, she wouldn't be able to. Most people are not of low intelligence. They can be taught &/or trained. I agree. Most people are of average intelligence. That's why it's called "average" intelligence....lol. Of course they are human. I don't believe that's why you have a soft spot for them especially considering your disdain for n8gglets Aside from being human, they are my distant relatives. There's an ancestral connection that can't be and shouldn't be denied between AfroAmericans and Africans. He needs to man up & handle that situation. Many have tried. And many have ended up laying in a field somewhere with their mouths open and wild mushrooms growing in them. Some Black immigrants bring that smoke on themselves by talking sh8t about AfroAmericans. True. You have ignorant and trouble makers on both sides. We shouldn't let THEM represent our communities. How foolish is it to let the loudest and most ignorant of our people represent or speak for us on a global scale? How much more foolish is it for them to let their loud and ignorant do the same? Trading insults back and forth like a bunch of middle-schoolers.

ProfD Right. Neither a deity nor drugs will save Black people. Lol, which is why I called it an atheistic/agnostic approach. It is not that binary. You have 2 groups: Black people and White people I suppose an argument can be made over identity and who identifies as what, but in theory...2 solid groups. Scientifically speaking, there is no way they can be the exact same in intelligence. Either one is more intelligent or the other is, even if it's minimally or on a microscopic level. The can't be the exact same 100% Because white people have proven themselves to be extremely violent when necessary & don't mind dying to protect their power & beliefs. Black folks are afraid to die regardless of their intelligence level. Most Black folks are afraid of guns & violence too. You have thousands of Black gang members who have killed and even rap about it. Hundreds of thousands of Black people in the military and thousands in special ops who have killed people by the hundreds. ....and that's in the United States alone. OUTSIDE of America in places like Rwanda and Haiti you have Black people who have made entire rituals out of killing people wholesale by the hundreds and thousands. How do these facts reconcile with what YOU said about Black people being afraid of death and guns and violence? Absolutely not. Mainly because I'm willing to neutralize them. Sounds to me like you're intelligent enough to recognize a threat when you see one and deal with it. Just like the tears & T-shirt protests nowadays, back in the 1960s after the assassination of Black leaders & 1992 after the beating of Rodney King, n8gglets burned up sh8t in their own communities. Does that sound very intelligent to you? And on top of that, many of them were MOVED OUT of those very communities and replaced with Latinos and Arabs. Taking benefits from another man is a debt to him. It has to be paid one way or another. I don't think it's ideal, but...... Neely Fuller Jr. actually said that as a last resort a Black person should beg White folks for money or food. Rather than stealing and ending up in greater confinement. Most of it stems from the greed & corruption in Haiti It's a tropical island where vegetation grows almost overnight in some cases. Are they not intelligent enough to produce enough wealth and resources so that nearly everybody can live a peaceful prosperous life without imposing on his/her neighbor? I know plenty ex-cons & street n8gglets. I tell them to their faces they're lazy. Yeah....uh...be careful with that, lol. You start wandering around down in South East D.C. and get in the WRONG nigga'z face and we won't hear (read) from you in a while....lol. "Nah...we ain't lazy. And just to show you we ain't.... We 'bout to go to work RIGHT NOW on yo ass!"

ProfD Again, what are people doing with that information to make life better for future generations? Your guess is as good as mine, lol. My point was that in modernity, there are Black folks who are perfectly fine with living under s system of racism white supremacy. They don't see it as oppressive as slavery Correct. Or atleast many can't think of a better system to replace it with. So they live under this one. All poverty is created by human greed. So you don't think the individual is at fault in bringing poverty on themselves in atleast some cases? Happiness is relative. Most people don't care or know whether they're poor orbl rich until they compare themselves to others. Correct, and that's one of my points. Pocket watching others. Angry....not because they don't have enough wealth....but because somebody else has more wealth than them. The Western value system of what matters in life is terrible especially between the systems of racism white supremacy & capitalism. I agree that it's not the best. But when you compare it to OTHER systems, where you have gangs of young men roaming around with rifles on the back of mopeds raiding villages and killing other people and TAKING what little wealthy there is....the Western system is much better. The systems promote both sides of that equation. The majority of people on the planet will never have more than they need to survive. But is that the fault of the West, or is much of it the fault of a FAILED CULTURE in which they are not taught how to prepare for famine, drought, winter, and hard times? Too busy spreading carpets out on sand and dirt floors throwing weddings and feasts every other week instead of getting their ass out in the field and producing crops, irrigating the land, and building stable infrastructures. Yet, people will be told that through education & hard work they can have more than just enough. Meanwhile, becoming a millionaire or billionaire has little or nothing to do with education &/or hard work. Most millionaires and billionaires INHERITED their wealth....from parents and grandparents who thought enough of them to actually LEAVE them wealth for their future. That's love. A lot of poor people don't even PLAN to have children, let alone plan on having anything to leave them. Reminds me of that Temptations song about Papa was a rolling stone....when he died all the nigga left his kids was ALONE, lol. I can't get angry at the billionaire or millionaire leaving a fortune for their children when you got these some of these poor ass muthasuckaz who ain't leaving shit for their many many children...but a lot debt and car notes. Fortunes are built on everything from someone else's labor to hoarding natural resources to trading in the stock market. So, when the average person is confronted with that reality, it can lead to disenfranchisement or despaire or destructive behavior. So a woman chose to smoke crack....because she was angry about people making a fortune on Wallstreet? Laws are constructed to control &/or contain people who try to buck the systems which can lead up to everything from greater confinement to wars & death. Richard Pryor said the same thing about prisons, until he actually WENT to one and talked with a few of the inmates. He left saying THANK GOD FOR PRISONS 👮🏾‍♂️ -Muthafucka, why did you kill EVERYBODY in the house??? "Well.....they was home!"

ProfD Obviously, I feel differently because neither religion nor drugs solves problems. As pollyannish as it may sound.... Sometimes it's not about actually "solving" the problem as it's about being able to deal with it right now until you CAN solve it. There may be a problem a person has to take with them to their grave....like losing a beloved child; but if religion or drugs allows them to deal with that problem then I'm not going to take that away from them. ....UNTIL we find a way to bring dead children back. Black folks may be more populous & successful in other states but we don't have ownership or control of them. Sometimes you have to settle for what you can get. Even if you don't own or control the environment you live in, if you can make money, buy a home, and live a decent life without being harassed and hassled.....that's a leg up compared to some areas. Those same n8gglets could go to predominantly white states & cities & see what white folks allow them to do They should try that too! Try anywhere you think MAY offer a better life that the one you're living. We'll have to agree to disagree that people stay in abusive relationships & situations because they don't have the mental capacity to get out. Ok, then why do YOU think most people are in abusive relationships? Can you give me the top 2 or 3 reasons? Again, for whatever reason you choose to believe intelligence &/or the lack thereof keep people in poverty or abusive relationships & situations & under a system of racism white supremacy. I think low intelligence is ONE reason and the MAIN reason. But there are other factors too. Why should broke & homeless & ex-cons be allowed to take that BS from one place to another? Perhaps because if he moved to another location he may NOT be broke. He may find more opportunities. Just like back in the day when the advice (for White men) was: Go West young man go West! Self-defense has nothing to do with having sense. Almost anyone can be taught how to fight. Being taught requires LEARNING. Learning requires the ABILITY to learn. There are 100-lb women who can beat the sh8t out of man 2x bigger How are they able to? Not sure of why you come up with such a false equivalence. Most people do not have Down's Syndrome. Because they are an example of how impractical it is to expect someone of low intelligence to just "learn" how to defend themselves against those of higher intelligence. Only because you have a soft spot for Black immigrants. Lol, and why shouldn't I? Aren't they human beings too? If he.has the ability to move around, he should have the ability to build. There may be somebody back home who won't LET him build. Every time he tries to build a house, there's a gang of niggaz with rifles and machetes who pull it down and start busting him in the head with his own bricks. Or every time he tries to build a business there's a corrupt President or corrupt Governor who takes half of all the money he makes and steals it for himself making it nearly impossible for him to operate. So he decides to leave that nation and come to one where he can build something in peace...and prosper. Now he comes here and runs into a bunch of greasy faced niggaz on-line cussing him out and calling him every name in the book simply because he's a Black immigrant. ...but they don't say anything too the Asian or Latino immigrant who has been exploiting his community for decades. He loves THEM and want to have sex with their women, so he leaves them alone and picks on the Black immigrant. Poor brutha catching it on both sides of the ocean...lol. Why are they either or welfare &/or facing greeter confinement? Many are in that situation because they don't have sense enough to get out of it. Welfare is easier than making out a resume and applying for jobs only to be fired and having to find another one. Solve the problems. That takes a certain amount of knowledge and intelligence. If you're not smart enough to solve the problem and nobody else will solve it for you, you have to deal with it the best way you can. There's plenty Black folks in Michigan who could have stopped it Yes and no. Yes there are Black folks in Michigan who COULD have stopped it....if they were smart enough to. If Asians were in Michigan at the numbers Black folks were and are in....do you think the Arabs could have taken over THEIR businesses and communities like that? That's stereotypical trope perpetuating anti-Black sentiment for a long time. It doesn't explain how & why so many Black folks are successful. Stereotypes persist for a reason. Most stereotypes have atleast a kernel of truth in them or else they wouldn't persist or make any sense. You don't have stereotypes of ASIAN MEN having big dix do you? It's so far from the truth that it wouldn't make any sense to even entertain. When it comes to our people being lazy though.....lol....come on, YOU know better. Some of these niggaz are too lazy to open their mouth up and pronounce the word properly. It went from: What's Up Cousin? to What up Cuz? to Whadduh Cuh? Some of these niggaz are getting lazier by the year. Put up the effort of fighting deportation but won't stay home & build & fight to protect it. That is backwards thinking. They are fighting for what they perceive to be a "better life". They KNOW what's waiting for them back home. More of their own. Who'll whoop their ass for being dumb enough to come back! They have to put up with however white folks choose to treat them too. Most of them are more than willing to do so, because they KNOW how their own will treat them as soon as they step off that plane! Sudan ia a country filled with Black Muslims. That dysfunctionalsituation makes less sense considering their religious beliefs. Just like a racist is a racist regardless as to what ever religion he proclaims out of his mouth; when you realize a nigga is a nigga regardless of the religion he CLAIMS to belong to......things tend to make more sense.

ProfD I don't see how what I wrote was atheist or agnostic. You said that Black people shouldn't wait on a "savior" or "sky fairy" to come and save them. You're basically saying that Black people shouldn't look for or expect anyone or anything outside of themselves to come and save them. Which includes a Deity. You're basically saying we're on our own. In your observation, white folks are smarter. That seems pretty obvious to me. Even twins aren't exactly alike and one has to be just a little smarter than the other, even on a microscopic level. So it is with groups, either Black people are smarter or White folks are smarter. Now if WE'RE smarter, there must be some evidence to show for it. White folks are not on top because they are smarter. They are definitely ruthless in their pursuit of domination & power. If Black folks are smarter, why have we allowed them to rule us for so long? Can a fool or stupid person rule over YOU? Those are not the only 2 actions Black folks can take in order to dismantle the system of racism white supremacy. Black folks are actually in a position to burn down from inside the house of racism while supremacy. That's only if White folks LET them do it. Do you think White folks are going to sit back with their legs crossed and let niggaz burn down what THEY built and intend to leave for their children? Try to pull a Rosewood on THEM and see what happens, lol. Remember a lot of our people TRIED to burn down the nation back in the 60s, and White folks stopped many of them. Many of them get hostile if they just SEE a Black man driving around in the neighborhood. He might be the mailman, but they ain't taking no chances....lol. Even Black FedEx drivers get harassed by White folks standing on their lawns with rifles looking crazy. The biggest problem is collectively Black folks are afraid to undo the system of racism white supremacy. Why? Because most Black folks believe White folks are smarter, have more technology and weapons, and will inflict PAIN on they ass if they try to. If you have information contrary to this, please present it. Fear of death & having to be self-sufficient has keep Black folks in check for hundreds of years. True. Which isn't all together illogical considering that the instinct of survival is one of the strongest instincts in human nature AND many Black people have reasoned that they can have more amenities or "goodies" or "treats" (benefits) living under the rule of White folks than they can get living independently on their own. Haiti often comes to mind. It is "considered" an independent Black ruled country...but many Haitians believe that living in America, Canada, and France UNDER the rule of White folks is better than living in their own country ruled by themselves. As a result, Black folks have chosen to live in the prison of racism white supremacy. If you know a lot of people from the streets, many of them will tell you that as bad as prison is...they enjoy living THEIR than living on the streets where they have to worry about working and providing for a roof over their heads and something to eat.

ProfD Reformation is possible. It takes stronger leadership & a sustainable effort. Best example of it is the ruse that is Chrsitianity & Black churches. A whole lotta Black folks have stayed the course in that environment. True, which is why I no longer knock a person's religion if it's helping them. Whether it's religions or drugs, if it's keeping you from killing yourself or somebody else....as long as it doesn't negatively affect me I say you should have the right to your beliefs until something better comes along. If Jesus cured you of that "incurable" disease, who is anybody else to tell you it wasn't real? Which state(s) do Black folks own & control? The answer to THAT question is obvious, lol. But perhaps a more practical question is in what states do Black folks have MORE ownership and control? Certainly a lot more states than they do in California. That abused woman will be running from one house to another until she finds benevolent refuge. It is better that woman learns how to provide for & protect herself. Never to be a victim. LEARN...is the objective word. While this is certainly not the case in all domestic abuse situations, in a lot of the cases the wife is in that situation because she CAN'T LEARN how to provide for and protect herself. She doesn't have the mental ability TO do these things. Infact, if she had good sense...she probably wouldn't have ended up in that situation on the first place. Many people are in the situations they are in because they don't have enough knowledge to get themselves out of it and don't have enough INTELLIGENCE to LEARN and GET the knowledge that would improve their situation. In other words, even if you try to help them by telling them and showing them what to do it won't help because they don't have the capacity to understand it. Again I have to say, not all....but many. Self-sufficiency & self-defense applies to a man & a group of people in general. And my explanation on INTELLIGENCE and CAPACITY TO LEARN applies to groups and people in general as well, lol. That's part of the reason white folks here in America have so many guns. They stay ready to protect themselves. (smile) There's a REASON why so many stay ready to protect themselves. ......and don't need a bunch of niggaz with berets on their heads marching around in circles with bullhorns trying to encourage them to do so, either! They don't have to march around pleading with eachother to "unite" and "get together" and "defend ourself". The just DO IT. ....and go have a beer, or cut some grass or whatever else needs to be done. They don't need to be constantly motivated and reminded to do what should be common sense. Just like anywhere else with a significant number of well off Black folks, they don't have to flee. Stand up & build & protect. There's a few. Most of the ones who ARE well off think they ARE protected and don't see a need to stir up the hornet's nest. The ones who are broke and homeless or in and out of jail....THEY are the ones who need to flee, since they don't have much going on for them there. There's no real such thing as a comfortable place under the system of racism white supremacy. Like any prison, some places are better than others. AfroAmericans were born in the United States & built this country through slavery. We're entitled to be wherever we choose to live in this country. There's no reason for AfroAmericans to flee any state or city or town here in the USA. Stand ground & build & fight & protect. Chris Rock said...... "There's a "reason" to do anything! There's a :reason" to kick an old man down a flight of stairs. Just DON'T DO IT." Again, build and fight...if you got SENSE enough to. But if you DON'T have enough sense to defend yourself or provide for yourself....get up and move the hell on. You're just in the way waiting on the inevitable. Stand ground & build & fight & protect. If a kid with Down Syndrome is being bullied in school and having his lunch money took, are you going to roll your eyes and tell him he better stand up and learn how to fight? You know he doesn't have the ability to. The best thing to do is take him out of that school and put him in a more sheltered environment or keep his ass at home. Don't give him responsibilities he clearly doesn't have the ability to handle. Don't overlook the bigger points he's making though. Ofcourse not, he's still my boy and makes excellent points. Very smart and astute and one of the best social commentators of our generation. But his position on African immigrants is rather callous, in my opinion. Here he is sitting up enjoying the amenities of living in a wealthy country but laughing at and shaking his finger at other Black folks not fortunate enough to not have grown up with such wealth. He didn't choose the country he was born in just like they didn't. If s person is broke in one spot, how does fleeing change it? 1. If he moves around he MAY find a spot that offers more opportunity 2. Even if he doesn't find a spot with more opportunity for self-sufficiency, he may find one that offers more charitable benefits with less crime and abuse than the environment he's currently in. In California a lot of poor Black folks barely get welfare and are more subject to violence on the streets, police harassment, and incarceration. Move to another state and even if you still have to be on welfare you might get MORE benefits and don't have to worry about the violence or threat of incarceration you find in California. Again, leave to go where? I've lived in both Arizona and Oregon. Both are better places for Black people to live and most of the Black people in those places were FROM California and chose to leave for that purpose. Even better than those place are Texas, Georgia, and many other states. Dealing with the same system of racism white supremacy in a new location. Some prisons offer better conditions than others. What opportunities or better life will relocating to Arkansas or Oklahoma provide? Not sure. But I know Oregon and Arizona were better. Not the best...but better than Cali. No need to worry about that. I've heard Dearborn, Michigan has a huge Muslim population. Sounds like y'all let the sand n8ggas come over & set up shop nicely.🤣 We didn't "let" them. They were LET IN and ALLOWED to do what they're doing by the same racists who let the Latinos and Asians into California and other places. But the thing about Arab and Asians, they DO take advantage of what White folks offer them. They give them money and permission to go into business...and they operate them EVERY DAY and keep it going. Give a nigga a business and he operates only 3 days out of the week. Have a "will be back in 15 minutes" sign posted on the door for the other 4 days...lol. Nigga ain't been to church since his mama took him, but his business is closed on Sundays....why???? Out of LAZINESS. Black immigrants are catching more h8ll in these predominantly white countries. Beyond their labor, white folks don't really want them around. White folks tolerate non-white folks up to a point. They'd probably beg to differ, lol. As much as they'd march and complain about how they're discriminated against, targeted and abused.....many of them will fight like hell to keep from being deported BACK to the country they just fled from. Atleast in the Canada or England or the United States there are LAWS and PROCESS that allow them to eat, have a roof over their heads, and protect them from violence while the racists try to figure out ways to disenfranchise them. Send them back to Sudan- and if the hunger, drought, and famine doesn't kill them....some curly headed nigga with an AK on the back of a moped his homeboy is driving, will!

Well, if you're going to take the atheist/agnostic approach to the subject..... Since White people are on top, well organized, and with superior weapons: why even resist? To the average observer, clearly the White race is on top because they're smarter and more ruthless. So uniting and even trying to oppose White racism is futile. No matter what moves you make, they're 3 or 4 moves ahead. Perhaps the only REAL options are: 1. Either sell-out and join the "winning team" (as a lot of Black folks have already done anyway) 2. Or jump off the nearest bridge and end it quickly.

ProdD 1) making white folks proud of being white 2) enriching his family & friends 3) keeping minorities in check I can't argue with any of this. Black people aren't unified to any degree significant enough to effectuate any changes collectively. The system of racism white supremacy has done a masterful job in causing all types of division within groups of people & among them. Consciously, Black Americans aren't very unified. But there is a such thing as a Collective SUBCONSCIOUS....and particularly a racial subconscious that unites the group and puts everyone on the same page almost instinctively whether we even know eachother personally or not. The Collective Subconscious was seen back in 2020 when despite the tribes and divisions between regions, generations, sexes, income, etc....AfroAmericans were nearly all on code against what happened to George Floyd and you saw uprising around the nation. It was almost instinctive and you didn't need social media or any other form of technology to make it happen. The Racists can't do anything about this because it's on a much higher level than what they are allowed to control.

ProfD The Nation odlf Islam reformed quite a few. True. Malcolm X was one of the more famous examples of this. However a lot of them were only TEMPORARILY reformed and when the opportunity came, they returned right back to their ganster ways. Using violence and intimidation to control people. Study the Black Mafia out of Philadelphia. A lot of the Panthers were ex-member of the Nation of Islam who used some of the knowledge and wisdom they learned IN the NOI to further advance their criminal careers and tendencies. The FBI was the bigger threat to The Black Panthers. They could have dealt with folks who relapse. Fighting the US government was a bigger hill. Facts. Just like the Europeans were a bigger threat to Africa than African tribalism. However just like tribalism was USED by the Europeans to further exploit and suppress Africa, the FBI USED the criminal element in the Black Panther Party to control and exploit the group. Why should Black folks be run out of their home state & where would they go? It's not really THEIR home or state, it doesn't belong to them. They're just SITTING there...occupying space...but ain't controlling shit. Sure an abused wife is technically "at home" with her husband, but she has no control over the household or how she's being treated. The best thing she can do is LEAVE that house and find a new home where she's treated better. Black folks need to get up out of Cali. It's really not enough of them there to DO anything politically or financially. Black folks need to stop ffleeing their homes & learn how to build & fight & protect their own sh8t. Well brutha.... If you don't have enough sense to fight back and protect yourself OR provide decent jobs and income and make a living for yourself....then perhaps the best thing to do IS to flee. It's easy for Tariq Nasheed sit to the microphone eating crispy snacks and make fun of those who flee because HE'S a mutli-millionaire with a good home and plenty of money. But if you're broke and helpless, no sense in sitting around on milk crates watching the cars pass you buy all day. Sooner or later trouble is going to find you. It's best to get up and move on to "greener pastures"....or atleast LOOK for them. Again, it's no different than being imprisoned where you're either predator or prey or strong enough to stand your ground. But unlike prison, you can actually pack up and LEAVE California. Ain't nobody making most of them niggaz stay there. They just don't want to take the initiative to move away from what what they grew up in and are used to. Many of them go to prison and come out and go right back to the communities and lifestyles that landed them in prison in the first place. ...instead of taking a Greyhound one-way ticket to Oklahoma or Arkansas to start a new life. There's no way we would allow non-Black folks to take over where I live. You're ONE man among thousands. The question is, how many OTHER Black men in your community think like you and are willing to do what it takes to maintain control over their community? Because if you're the only one who thinks like this, and things jump off in the DMV..... I might have to moves some things around in the basement and make a pallet on the floor for you down in my basement until we can figure something else out....LOL. You can come over. Talking about you're a smooth talking bald-headed brutha.....don't mess with any of the females here....but I'll prepare a spot for you while you contemplate your next move, lol.

As Eazy E would call them....STUDIO GANGSTAZ, lol. They're gangsta when it comes to making music and rap videos, or fighting with eachother. But when White folks or even Latinos come around....they start bucking their eyes and sparking up rusty cigarette lighters trying to light up something to smoke while changing the conversation. I learned a long time a go that criminals and gangsters are untrustworthy in general and can't be trusted to even participate in let alone lead any sort of social protest or revolution. The Panthers started finding this out the hard way. Their ranks were filled with a lot of criminals, thugs, and drug addicts. Many of them were reformed....but some of them weren't and were just a step or two away from relapsing. The best thing Black folks can do in California at this point is GET OUT of that state and only come to vacation or visit from time to time...lol.

Cynique I see Delano has finally turned you out, lol. Trump is ushering America.....at lightning speed.....toward her Destiny. He's forcing things to come to a head. If a Democrat or even a moderate Republican would have gotten in office, it would have been more business as usual: 2 steps forward....5 steps back.....8 steps in another direction....3 more steps back forward but not in the same place you started. SOME niggas making it....if they're slick enough...others ending up homeless. You get a college education and do good.....but your children end up gay or on heroin. Some niggas riding around in fancy cars and smoking weed.....others getting locked up .....just a big mess of confusion. Like Neely Fuller Jr. used to say, Black people collectively should FORCE the racists to do either one of two things: Either treat us properly, or eliminate us. No more assing around with legislation and political games and theater.

Only for those who believe in the concept of race...lol. For those who believe that race is just some "social construct" that doesn't really exist......they think things are just fine, lol.

ProfD Sure. We should learn from our mistakes but nothing will undo the past. The Nation of Islam has a saying, "Of all out studies, History is best qualified to reward our research." The purpose of studying the past isn't so much to "undo" it so much as it's to LEARN from it and notice patterns. Right. We don't see how there was anything good about slavery. That's because WE'RE emancipated, lol. We didn't grow up in Slavery and it's various forms and so ALL of it is oppressive to us. But to one who grew up in Slavery, to them.... A master who puts butter on their biscuits may be considered better than one who doesn't. A plantation in which you get Sundays off may be considered a better life than one where you only get half the day off. i was referring to our existence overall. As AfroAmericans, or as humans in general? Sure. However, the majority of human suffering & poverty is caused by greed. Perhaps, but it's still hard to say. A lot of poverty is by COMPARISON. Many of these "poor" people around the planet have been living the same way for hundreds if not thousands of years, and they've been happy UNTIL they compare themselves how people are living in the West. Then all of a sudden they are considered in "poverty" and many become miserable. Too busy pocket watching....lol. Many people aren't happy to have everything they need in THEIR life; they are focused on the millionaires and billionaires and why THEY have so much money and how did they get it and what they're doing with it.

California is billed as a "blue" and "liberal" and "left wing" state, but it's one of the most racist states I've ever been in. Especially Southern California. Not only do AfroAmericans have to deal with a literal "police state" what makes money from locking people up, but they have to deal with the vicious and often open racism from Latinos and Asians.

ProfD Hindsight always seems to be 20/10 through one's own lens. Looking back, people think life was better &/or they could have done things differently to improve their lot. Not only is this natural, but it makes sense...doesn't it? You didn't start off doing everything perfectly. You made mistakes and hopefully you LEARNED from them and did better. The fact that you're still living to communicate with me tell me you certainly DID learn from some of your mistakes, lol. What is the point of comparing & how does it make life better? Well first of all, how would you even KNOW life is better if you didn't have previous experiences to compare them TO? To somebody 3 generations into Slavery, the best they know is having a good kindly Master. They hadn't experiences a period of Freedom with which to COMPARE their condition to and realize that it's not good. Experiencing different generations and time periods not only give you a point of reference as to what was preferred and beneficial...but it also lets you know when and where something went WRONG and became negative. I clearly remember when Black-owned soul food spots & other businesses sold out to Asians. But you know what else is funny? I remember as a kid Asians occasionally going into Soul Food joints and buying food. Especially pork...like pigs feet and chitterlings. A wise business owner would have paid attention to that. Through my lens, I can see where life has gotten better but we still have a long way to go in making it so for everyone. When you say through YOUR lens life has gotten better.....do you mean for our people collectively or do you mean just for YOU? I don't believe we have to live in a world where some people have to be poor & suffer. There's enough resources on this planet for every man, woman & child to have a good quality of life. True. Is there enough intelligent brains for every man and woman to USE to bring that about? A lot of suffering and poverty....certainly not all...but a lot...is brought upon by stupid and foolish thinking and behavior. A bunch of nomadic people living in the middle of a desert that is constantly plagued by drought and famine........ Do they focus on irrigation projects to fertilize the area and produce agriculture? NO! "Haya! Haya! Haya! Grahhhbaaah!" Instead they constantly get married, throw lavish weddings that using up resources, have a lot of unprotected sex producing child after child that they can't take care of....and when they die of famine or starvation or warfare they think it's some sort of "divine will" that it happens. So they remain in poverty and scarcity generation after generation. You can't blame everything on Western greed. Some of this shit is cultural.

LOL!!! Well, protesting would atleast be a START. As one of my uncles used to say, there's a right way and wrong way to do anything.....and sometimes you have to go through the PROCEDURE to look civilized. You don't start off with a gang of gatted up niccaz with shades on busting through the doors making threat....lol. Efforts should be made to the DA, state officials, as well as trying to get the Federal government involved to correct this imbalance. Meanwhile there should be organized and effective protests on the ground level. You must play CHESS....not just checkers.

Much of that is determined by the amount of racial hostility our people face. The more OPEN racism and hostility AfroAmericans face from non-Black people, the more resilient, independent, and prosperous we tend to become. This is one of the reasons I'm actually GLAD Trump got into the White house instead of Kamala. Not because I'm a huge fan of Trump's. But because I knew that his presidency would rip the bandage off of race relations in this nation and expose it for what it really is.

I still maintain that something is literally "wrong" with the brains of most of these youths (under 30) today. It's not just a cultural or generational thing....although that's a factor. But the mental problems PRODUCE the dysfunctional culture, which in turn produces more dysfunctional offspring with mental problems. A diabolical cycle. This is why you should CRINGE at the thought of things calming down and returning to "normal" as it's been for the past 30 or 40 years. That only means the continued destruction of the AfroAmerican moral fiber.

I'm surprised you guys have been keeping up with this drama......lol. When I log on shit like this would come across my feed....along with what controversial thing Bill Maher said last night or what Democratic Senator John Fetterman did to double-cross the Democrats again.....and I'd brush right passed it to other news and events. I don't think journalism is dead, it's just being EXPOSED for what it has been for decades....the 4 branch of the government. And just like any other government employee, when journalists try to break rank and go rogue from the agenda or script their "superiors" lay out for them.....they get dealt with.

Shows you how much I've been keeping up with things....lol.....I thought BET Plus was still owned by Viacom along with the rest of the BET outlets. I didn't know Tyler Perry had bought it.

ProfD Tears & T-shirts & protests & marches have proven to be ineffective I think in this case protests and marches should be the first line of defense and put into effect to SEE if it helps change the jury. Any competent lawyers for the defense should make it a point that an all White jury is clearly not a jury of "his peers" and demand a new selection before the trial goes forward. At some point, Black folks have to take action to keep ourselves from being victimized & railroaded under the system of racism white supremacy This has been known and preached since atleast the days of the Panthers back in the 60s. Some Black folks have done this...some have not. Troy Is there any surprise a Black man in Texas would not get a fair deal from the criminal justice system. There SHOULD be surprise..... There are literally MILLIONS of Black folks IN Texas! Infact, according to a google search there are nearly 4 million Black folks in Texas making it the state with the largest Black population by numbers. What is the Black population busy doing down there that they can't DEMAND a fair deal from the criminal justice system?