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Troy Lol @ "written for children". You sound like Stefan...lol But I've been saying (even on this site) for YEARS that they have been deliberately DUMBING DOWN the AfroAmerican community. But do you know why those articles in the old school Ebony were so superbly written? Because back in those days most professional AfroAmericans lived by a code that we had to be TWICE AS GOOD as Caucasians just to qualify for the same career. Which naturally made us better even if we didn't get the recognition for it. At some point that code was abandoned (not exactly sure when) and a lot of our people just stopped trying to compete with Caucasians for school, jobs, housing, ect. We used to stick together and compete with Caucasians. I remember as a kid in school back in the 70s Black schools actually rallied together to compete with the White suburban schools as far as sports, grades, ect.... But then many of our people stopped competing with Caucasians and started competing with EACHOTHER.

This society seems to be collapsing and I've been saying for MONTHS that all of this has to be. This now is the time for us as AfroAmericans to build our own brand new society with our own communities. "Would you believe it if I told you that Capital used to sit RIGHT ON THIS SPOT? I know because I was here 11 years ago when it was still here and they were talking about turning the ground into farm land"

Troy The idea that gambling and drinking in the classroom was allowed in your school tells me that this sort of thing is probably not unusual at all, and that is depressing. Come on man, that was happening in schools all over the city. Students were getting drunk, gambling, fighting, and even having sex in different spots of school in nearly EVERY public high school and junior high school in the city. Some schools were worse than others. Black middle and upper middle class people could have ruled Harlem if they chose to do so, but that would have taken organization and commitment from large groups of people and that is something which is in short supply. They DID rule Harlem (as much as the Caucasian Dominists allowed) right up to the mid to late 60s. But like most AfroAmerican communities all over the nation, once they were allowed to "integrate" into Caucasian society most of the wealthy and professional AfroAmericans LEFT for Caucasian neighborhoods. That's when the AfroAmerican neighborhoods began collapsing since the only people left in them were poor people and criminals. Harlem is not unique, as I move around the country I see the same thing wherever I go. Harlem is just ONE of the Black Wall Streets. One that wasn't destroyed like Greenwood. Most major cities had a Black section where poverty and wealth swirled together. In Detroit it was called Black Bottom/Paradise Valley. Harlem wasn't destroyed because it was in the middle of a major cosmopolitan city and the entire world would have reacted. But MOST Black sections were either burned down or had freeways built through them.

Troy Well, what is the skin color of these oligarchs who maintain power over the masses? What is the skin color of these people who dominate both parties seeking to enrich themselves?

Interesting take......... Let me first stay that the System of Caucasian Domination controls BOTH political parties. And this must be understood and probably should be taught to AfroAmerican children in order to avoid CONFUSION. People often get lost in too much detail and historical info. They want concise information they can clearly understand. Secondly, you make a great observation between Social Conservatives and Economic Conservatives. Social Conservatives seem to dominate the VOTER BASE of the Republican Party while Economic Conservatives seem to dominate the ELECTED OFFICIALS of the party. For most of the 20th Century the Republican Party has been the party of the rich and business owners. But Republicans learned early on as the demographics of the nation began to change and the education of the population began to improve (up until the 1970s) that there wouldn't be enough wealthy Economically Conservative voters available to continue to vote them in and keep them in office...so they had to use OTHER tactics to pull voters away from the Democrat Party. So they used WEDGE ISSUES like race, abortion, unions, religion, ect...to pull voters away from the Democrat Party.

Joan My first advice for you is to NOT argue or even talk to people who believe that Black people are "lower than animal fodder". If they believe this they are either stupid or very racist (or both) and aren't worthy of your discussion. Second, I advice you to focus on praying to The SUPREME BEING and worshiping That BEING as well as following what you sincerely believe in your heart to be the right things INSTEAD of spending a lot of time reading these religious books or allowing religions to tell you what to believe or do. If you do this you will AVOID a lot of confusion in your life. Most of these religious scriptures were designed FOR Cauasians...not us. Which is why much of it doesn't make sense to our people. YOU as a Black woman don't have "guilty feelings" and "blood lust thoughts" in your mind, lol. So when you hear people talk about having to over-come these thoughts...they make no sense to you. Because these religions weren't designed for YOU, they were designed for Caucasians. They were designed to give THEM a sense of morality where they had none. We are the original people with a DIRECT connection to God, thus we have a NATURAL sense of morality and consciousness where we automatically know right from wrong and don't need books to tell us.

2021 is the year of the Great Separation. With Covid 19 spreading and even more contagious strains being introduced into society and shots being mandated....this is an ALARM for AfroAmericans to separate themselves from the Caucasian establishment and build our own society. It's also a time for us as AfroAmericans to separate among OURSELVES. Those of us who are righteous, intelligent, and believe in building a society of our own for ourselves and our progeny must SEPARATE ourselves from those who are stupid, immoral, criminal minded, and have no plans to build or do anything for themselves but ONLY plan to lay around and beg Caucasians for as much as they can and rob from other AfroAmericans. Those type of people we MUST separate ourselves from!

If I had $14 million I would invest in much broader mass media than a magazine....although that is needed. I'd probably buy some sort of television or radio station FIRST because this is where AfroAmericans intellectual stimulation is most needed (outside of an educational system of our own). I'd also drop about $3 or $4 million on Troy's AALBC if he promised to build a warehouse and perhaps a large "walk in" book store with some of it (seriously....I'm not just talking). However if we are strictly talking magazines............. In today's environment, periodicals like magazines and news papers must be geared towards intellectuals and highly educated professionals because they are usually the few who actually take time to READ periodicals on a regular basis. So the entire format of Ebony would have to change from it's traditional entertainment based content. So I would probably aim it the Black Enterprise crowd and the AfroAmerican upper-middle class.

Gibran Plus, I had on a real fly sweatsuit that he commented on. They were only two in the entire city and I had both of them. Had bought them right out of the showroom window. Lol...nigga is you CRAZY???? Something ain't right with you man, LMBAO!!!! If this was 1983 it could have only been Adidas or Fila....lol. The DA demolished my partner who was an ex-con, unemployed, an ex-junkie. He did have that receipt from Traffic Court. I was thinking about that from the other thread. He may not be a good "character witness" but he would be good to corroborate your story. But this is one of the reasons you should always keep your receipts from things like banks, courts, ect...for atleast ONE YEAR. You never know when they may come in handy! The guy had actually did the robbery, confessed to it, but since he had pleaded guilty and all the robberies he had were consolidated as one and due to the law, I couldn't present the info to the court. Wow...this guy admitted to robbing the place I was charged with and I could not address it so what happened is that two people were doing time for the same crime. I was the innocent one and I got more time "for not robbing the place" than he got for robbing it. Ain't that a bitch ((long silence.......shakes head)) So brother....you ended up doing another 8 years on the bid? All one can say is...glad you're out with us today bro.

Gibran I actually wanted to be a lawyer back in my 20s. I always liked debating and I love arguing as you probably can tell....lol. But when I found out how much time you had to spend in school and how strenuous Law School was, I reconsidered...lol. Yes sir, I would like to hear the rest of the story.

Bro Gibran Biggie Smalls said: DAYAMN...them peoples stuck you for your cream and it ain't a dream, things ain't always what they seem! A number of things immediately stood out in your recount.......... -If you were in traffic court with your friend at a certain time BEFORE 9:15....depending on how far away it was from the crime you couldn't have possibly committed it. They had cameras in court even back in 1983. -If you went to see the lawyer AT 9:15 most likely both you and your friend were still there AT 9:30 or 9:45 according to your list of activities, did the lawyer act as a witness to confirm your alibi? -Did your friend act as a witness to confirm your alibi since he was there with you for nearly or over an hour while all of this was taking place?

The brother and his wife walk around a developing part of Dar Salaam (Tanzania). This isn't the best part of the city but a part they are working on constructing and developing:

I believe he's in Tanzania right now. Which reminds me, I should post that video as well. He said he was looking to relocate in one of the East African nations like Kenya or Tanzania but I'm not sure where he's decided to sit his cases down. Oh, I forgot to post this video. More of beautiful Rwanda and this is in a rather upscale neighborhood...........

I'm sure the alligators that were crawling around his yard miss him....or atleast miss their opportunity, lol.

Chev Well that's good that he is conscious and can acknowledge those who still love him and care about him. I know you and many of your family members love him, but ultimately it's not about what your relatives want for him but what HE wants for HIMSELF. When people are suffering in a lot of pain and discomfort...a bunch of loved ones standing over them with sad faces crying and praying that they stay alive may seem like the "nice" thing to do, but is actually often the selfish thing to do because too often people just don't want to let their loved ones to leave them despite their suffering.

Troy Mel Hopkins graduated from Tech too. Lol....she graduated??? I'm surprised as this is where you usually say something like; "These are race soldiers, who chose to stay in the hood willing to sacrifice themselves to help maintain white racism." Lol, thanks for reminding me because this is actually true but not in ALL cases. In some cases they are genuinely poor or stupid (or both) and have no where else to go. You can't always tell. But there are others like Jeffery Dahmer who weren't stupid and weren't really poor but purposefully stayed in AfroAmerican neighborhoods in order to be close to their victims. He chopped up and ate negro meat. I'm sure despite the racism the teachers and schools were superior in Stefan's generation than mine. The single worse teacher I even had was at Brooklyn Tech. This so called teacher (a retired engineer) allowed us to shoot dice and drink beer in the back of the classroom. All the kids were smart, but we just continued to push boundaries until it became clear there were none. Our "teacher" would read the paper while we gambled. It's funny you said that because I had a couple teachers who let us (not me I didn't shoot dice) do the same thing. Well, to keep it real no teacher let us "knowingly" drink alcohol but they would let us gather in corners and drink drinks that clearly affected our behavior and they also let us openly gamble and "cap" on eachother.......without saying a word. Part of me wonder whether they were doing it for their own safety. Meaning, if they didn't have any security in the building (as my highschool didn't) and couldn't rely on other teachers successfully being able to come to their rescue when one of the boys or girls commenced to whooping on that ass...lol....which actually happened SEVERAL times, perhaps they made the best decision. As I told Stefan, in an ideal world you would have ADEQUATE security in every school for both the students and the staff. In Stefan's generation, and earlier, teaching was a respected profession today teachers are treated like blue collar workers, as a result teaching is not the first job that comes to mind for our brightest people. Teachers were considered part of the "Professional class" by reason of their high education, but most of them aren't making Professional Class money unless they are teaching in a college or university. Like Stefan said, it has to be something you REALLY want to do.

One of the problems is that most AfroAmerican children learn DIFFERNTLY than Caucasian children (especially the boys) and most teachers are trained on how to teach Caucasian children, not children of other races. There was a school in Chicago (I forgot the name of it) which was a special academy of all AfroAmerican children nearly ALL of them turned out to extemely high achievers not only academically but well rounded in music and other fields and I think nearly all of them were able to learn several languages and qualify for prestigious colleges. AfroAmerican children can learn and EXCEED Caucasian children in academics and all other fields and disciplines when taught in the proper environment by the proper teachers. They know this, which is why they keep the educational system the way it is.

This was from 7 years ago....how did you end up digging THIS one up, lol. in my opinion, for most AfroAmericans Kwanzaa is just another excuse to celebrate the same season Caucasians are celebrating. They may call it something different but it's the same theme. It's like a person who rejects Catholicism and swears they're not religious but every Sunday morning they congregate in a building and get lecture to by a man with a white collar and drink bread and wine with him....same theme, different name.

Something tells me this event might end up being an echo chamber. Most AfroAmericans pretty much have their minds already made up about this virus and their response to it and little is going to convince them either way. At this point, the only thing that will influence the behavior of most people are if their benefits or job status is threatened for failure to comply with mandatory policies.

Stefan I'm sure most of the non-AfroAmerican teachers there were racist like most of them tend to be in school all over the the nation in both good and bad schools. Some are just better at concealing it than others. Infact, the racism of many of the teachers and other staff is another part of the reason why these magnate schools were established in the first place. Since they worked in public schools they probably were and are in teacher's unions, which gives them a lot of leverage and options. Under a fair and just system good teachers (racist or not) would be evenly spread to all public schools in proper proportion through out the ENTIRE school district despite the zip-codes and poverty levels of each particular neighborhood. This would ensure that ALL schools had the same amount or atleast a proportionate amount of good teachers (again....racist or not) to reach and teach all those students who are willing and able to learn despite their background and poverty level. Ofcourse the most common argument of these teachers would be that it's not racism that makes working in ghetto neighborhoods so undesirable for them....it's crime and safety. But continuing with my example of a fair and just system...... Ideally every school would have adequate security for staff and student regardless of the environment outside. Not everyone who went to Brooklyn Tech came from impoverished backgrounds. Some came from families that owned profitable businesses and these kids lived in big homes. I'm sure they didn't. Some people who send their children to these schools aren't poor, just not wealthy enough to send their children to prestigious private schools but....like their wealthy counterparts...still recognize their children's high intelligence and potential and want them to receive the best education and future opportunities that come with going to these specialized institutions. On the flip side of the coin.... I went to public schools and met a few kids who weren't so smart but came from wealthy backgrounds and could have went to private schools but their wealthy parents didn't want to "shelter" them and wanted them to get used to interacting with people of less privileged backgrounds!

Speaking of the Magi..... Most people don't realize that the term "Magi" is where we get the term "magic" from because of the metaphysical and occult practices of the Magus secret society that originated in the Persian Empire. Most of the Jews of Palestine at that time were direct descendants of PERSIANS who converted to a new religion called Judaism which itself was made up largely of Persian mythology, Zoroastrian beliefs, and the much of the laws that Musa gave the Caucasians while they were in the caves of the Caucasus. When King Korush (Cyrus) allowed most Jews to go into occupy Palestine and build their temple they brought their new religion (Judaism) with it's heavily by Persian influenced belief system to the land.....including the concept of a "Christ". Going with the Biblical narrative......... What they were calling a "star" moving around and "standing" over a manger sounds more like a flying saucer (they tend to glow brightly in darkness). So the fact that BOTH the Jews and the Magi were looking for a Christ probably explains why 3 non-Jews from Persia called Magi were following a flying saucer and galloping all the way to Palestine looking for a new born baby.

Yeah....lol....that's what we call them in the Midwest Townhouses. For a long time they weren't building any more of them. You had to go deep into the city to find blocks of townhouses like you found in Philly and Baltimore. And even then you wouldn't find entire NEIGHBORHOODS of them....just a few blocks scattered here and there. Sometime around the early 90s they started building more and more townhouses IN THE SUBURBS of all places and then they started building more of them in the city on top of demolished land areas. And started calling them condos and charging hundreds of thousands of dollars to live in them.

One of the benefits of being less educated (academically atleast) is that you can still think on more simple terms and ask simple questions. For example........ I did some very brief research on both of those high schools (Stuyvesant & Brooklyn Tech) and found that both are supposedly PUBLIC schools designed for high achieving smart students (which made me wonder how Troy got in - he doesn't even know that different races exist.....lol). In my experience of living in different parts of this nation I found that MOST major cities have these type of "public" schools that have been designed to SUCK the "smartest" children from all over the metropolitan area into centralized locations and concentrate them into a hand full of schools with the best teachers and academic programs. In Detroit you had (have?) 2 well known ones: Renaissance and Cass Tech. My question is why don't they keep the neighborhood schools of their respective communities relevant by formulating a curriculum in their own schools as effective as those in these magnate schools designed for high achievers so that they don't have to travel many miles out of their own communities just to get a decent education that keeps up with their intelligence and potential? But that's more of a rhetorical question because I THINK I already know the answer to that question. While private schools were designed for students WITH wealth.... These elite "public" schools were designed to attract intelligent and promising students who come from poor and working-class background who couldn't afford private schools. It was designed to pool and exploit their intelligence. Without having set foot in either one of those schools, I'm willing to wager that just like Renaissance and Cass Tech in Detroit....those schools you two mentioned were MUCH more structured and disciplined and MUCH safer with effective security than over 95% of the other public schools in the city! Would I be wrong?

Well this entire concept of "holiday" or "Holy Day" in Western society is part of their religious and cultural indoctrination. Even if you don't believe in the actual concept they are trying to indoctrinate you with....you look forward to the day because you usually get the day off and even get monetary incentives. So you are being BRIBED into celebrating the day. Those with children who are NOT Christians and try not to indoctrinate their children with these lies often find this time of the year a little rough because you want to keep your children happy and when they see other children getting gifts they don't wanna hear whatever you're saying if THEY aren't getting them too....lol. Next thing you know you're buying them gifts and celebrating Christmas just like other folks. ....now you gotta justify it with a myriad of excuses.

Troy That's what I'm saying....rats all over the place. I had another friend in Brooklyn and had my FIRST experience with some real good street-grilled Jamaican jerk chicken ruined by a HERD of rats....lol. I'm standing on the street with the plate of jerk chicken and rice/peas in my hand talking Black consciousness with the other brothers on Marcus Garvey Blvd. and I hear a scuffle behind me....turn around and saw a HERD of maybe 500 rats run pass us....up a wall....and through a big hole in a building. I stared at the plate....that was the end of that meal. Now I saw rats growing up....one here...a couple there.....but not a HERD of them traveling together by the hundreds, lol. ((shivers)). But my wealthy (wealthy in Midwestern terms) boy......... He's showing me around this supposedly wealthy neighborhood with dog shit "neatly" piled up against buildings and pigeons crowding the sidewalks talking about "John Lennon" did this and "Al Pacino" did that....like I'm supposed to ignore the filth on the street to focus on famous landmarks, lol. "Hey man look over there , look! That's where Big Al Pacino made his first movie! Look nicca..right overthere!!!" Lol.......pigeons and dog shit all over the sidewalk and he's talking about "look overthere". Now....... If I were a Billionaire or Multimillionaire maybe I'd buy a huge condo or maybe buy a well maintained row-house (you're calling it a Brownstone but some of my friends told me that the only difference between a Brownstone and a row house is how well it's maintained) with multiple floors along with some other millionaires and SHARE that unit so we'd have a place to stay (like a permanent hotel room) while we were each in the city for business! But my MAIN place of residence where I would lay my head down at night to go to sleep and relax would definitely be in a quiet suburban (or maybe even rural) type setting. Especially if I had a lot of children to raise. What good is all of that money if you can't enjoy it and live like you WANT to live?