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ProfD Many AfroAmericans have done well for themselves given certain opportunities. Ofcourse. The questions I have about this statement of TRUTH are: 1. What PERCENTAGE of AfroAmericans have and are doing well for themselves vs those who are falling through the cracks, are they are minority or majority? Because that would give us a better perspective and understanding of the overall economic state of our community. There have ALWAYS been "some" or "many" Black folks who were able to prosper...despite....even during Slavery. So we can get geeked up knowing "many" Black folks have made it if the MAJORITY haven't. 2. How many of those who HAVE done well for themselves use that wealth to establish more power for AfroAmericans in their community and society in general to maintain that prosperity? Tilting the playing field requires more than providing labor i.e. working for someone else. True. That's a start though. Real capitalism is building & producing wealth generating institutions. Am*zon is modern example of it. Facts. AfroAmericans can definitely do this on a smaller scale with barbershops and Soul food restaurants....if the desire was there.

ProfD Capitalism isn't bad. The tilted playing field is a major obstacle for certain groups of people. AfroAmericans have had plenty of opportunities...on a smaller scale...to tilt the playing fields in OUR favor but many of us have neglected to do it for ignorant or selfish reasons.

I use the term myself from time to time. I don't think it's offensive, it's just a fact. The term "undocumented" is misleading because it gives the impression that a person is where they belong but just doesn't have their paperwork together....or at best are just working under the table. If you sneak into the nation without proper notification and authority your very presence is breaking the law. You are BEING illegal by simply being here. But what I think IS happening...and I don't think AfroAmericans should allow it to happen....is that the racists in the U.S. are trying to slowly replace AfroAmericans with a more compliant and docile cheap labor source which for the most part will be Latinos. I've seen this at various jobs, where they basically give Latino workers...most of whom ARE illegal....more privileges and treat them with more respect than the AfroAmerican employees. They are allowed more time off to do personal things and they even let them bring in food to feed fellow co-workers at lunch time. I've seen this happen at several jobs. They even make signs and instructions in Spanish to cater to them. Unfortunately because so many young AfroAmericans DON'T want to work on these manual labor jobs anymore.....not only aren't they NOT outraged about what's happening and the plans to replace them....but they don't even care. Which seemingly proves the point OF the racists....that the "niggers are lazy and don't want to work anyway".

China and the so-called Communist Party are nothing more than a giant TEMP service for Western firms and corporations. A place they can find millions of skilled, educated, and dedicated workers for a relatively cheap price. Mao led a communist revolution to keep Western influence OUT of China. If he had any idea that THIS is what China would eventually turn into........ I personally think Capitalism works better than Communism in the grander scheme of things; China realized this and is now transforming itself into a fascist ultra-capitalists state. However the point is....what China is doing today isn't in line with what the original Maoists envisioned.

At this point, I have very little hope in ANY of the current national political parties. Republicans have already made it clear that they intend to do NOTHING for AfroAmericans and the Democrats only promise benefits to us INDIRECTLY at best through half-ass underfunded programs designed to help people who don't even need them; and if some of those people just HAPPEN to be Black or AfroAmerican, oh well. No more jobs or job training programs or funds given directly to Black community organizations like back in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. No talk of Universal Healthcare. It's not even on the radar and that was one of the main issues Liberals were pushing for back in the day. Come on mayne...... Dude is actually building a multimillion dollar BUNKER under the White house! Does that sound like the behavior of someone who is getting ready to move in a couple of years, to you? You don't build an addition to a place you're planning on leaving anytime soon....lol. "So let me get this straight......... You're paying us $45,000 to build a new patio for a house that just got foreclosed on and you're moving out of it in less than a month?"

Yeah, there's being a few incidents here and there but it's relatively nothing compared to what we saw back in 2020 during the George Floyd protests and the January 6 Insurrection. Perhaps the mainstream media IS keeping things on the "hush hush" but if the public outrage was THAT big...they wouldn't be able to. Back in the summer of 2020 I didn't need CNN or Fox News to tell me that people in America were protesting and angry. I could walk outside and see and hear it. I didn't have to "dig it up" on the internet to know that it was going on....lol. I live in Michigan but I've traveled to other states around the country as recently as a couple weeks ago and outside of a few middle aged White folks on freeway overpasses holding up banners and signs written in crayon.....I haven't too much protesting. How long has America been fighting an actual hot war with Iran? Months now. That alone used to draw the youth out into the streets because they would be the potential draftees. But so far I haven't seen any protests. Again, nobody is even talking about how high gas is now......except me, lol. I think it's the high potency weed so many people are smoking. It's keeping many of the youth calm and satisfied....lol.

For this being nearly 2 years into Trump's second term, things seem to be eerily quiet in the nation right now as far as public protest. Given the amount of outrage in Minnesota over those 2 citizens being killed back during the Winter when it was cold as fuck, some people predicted much more turmoil and upheaval when the weather got warmer....lol. Look at the gas situation....... People were complaining when the national gas average was $3.75 to almost $4 a gallon. Now it's nearly $5 a gallon (in Michigan atleast) and nobody is saying shit about it. The complaining about gas has all but stopped.

Don't forget "Joy (what else? what else?) and Pain".....lol. May our good brother rest in peace and power.

When Troy said that, it was a foreshadowing of future events. He knew I'd be locked out of the forum for nearly 2 months....lol. .....man, them Harlem niggaz is somethin' else. They'll set you up to be murked with a big SMILE on their face...lol.

Sounds like a mixed up man with mixed up interests driving him to do what he did. It seems as if "whoever" or "whatever" is driving some of these cats to make their moves heard the chatter from the Black community about how most of the shooters have been White and how we said it's not out business. They heard the Black community say "It's White on White crime and we're staying out of it." So they found some "off white" or "half white" dude and put a battery in his back to go on a mission. When Black folks said he wasn't Black enough and insisted on not claiming him, I guess "they" (whoever "they" is) decided to send a SHO'NUFF Black man on the mission. This latest dude they claimed tried to run up on the White house and got neutralized....there's no mistaking whether HE'S Black or not. Now the question is, is he FBA?

Brother Malik Shabaaz (Malcolm X) is one of my favorite Black intellectuals. He was usually sharp on on point as well as witty with both friends and foes. Neely Fuller Jr. is another favorite of mine. Again, usually on point and sharp....even in his 90s.

Mel Yep...lol. I'm curious. Do you remember what year that picture was taken? I'm sure it was before he was incarcerated. Sometimes I like to look at people in pictures and wonder what's on their minds and whether or not they have any idea of their future and what lays ahead for them. When he was sitting there smiling for that picture, I'm sure going through the legal problems he was about to face was one of the furthest things from his mind.

Both of them were and are bad, but it appears that Crack came the closest to almost DESTROYING the Black urban community in a way that Heroin didn't. Heroin has been around for decades...since the 40s atleast....and caused it's problem. But you still had working class functioning Black neighborhoods, numbers running, the prostitutes actually looked decent.....lol. Violence was contained. Crack came along in the early to mid 80s like a bull in a china shop. In just a year or two the decent looking prostitutes and well dressed pimps became replaced with skinny skeleton looking "crack hoes" and the pimps were gone. Violence and automatic weapons appeared right along with it and violence skyrocketed. In Detroit you had "dope dens"....a few designated buildings to shoot up in. When Crack hit, nearly every 4th or 5th building or house became a "crack house".

ProfD Well..... White folks are still in the Congo aren't they? If White folks are still there, why are they surprised that Ebola, HIV, and other diseases are still there? Duhhhh....... As long as White folks are still there, don't be surprised if some NEW diseases that nobody has heard of before "mysteriously" pop up seemingly out of nowhere and have people dropping like flies.

Glad to be back. I could actually read the messages, I just couldn't participate without signing in. I started to sign up under another name but thought about all of the history that went into my original handle and decided to wait until I eventually figured out that old email address I used. I happened to read where Troy said he emailed me so I looked for a ping in one of my old emails to find out which one I signed up under.

Mel Yeah, I recall you saying you used to be a stewardess or something of that nature. I also recall something about you meeting.....Bill Cosby???....or some famous Black entertainer on one of the flights.

ProfD .....and if you had talked to more than 3 -one of them would have surely snagged you with a smile and you would have been TRAPPED in Michigan for the forseeable future...lol. These African girls are getting pretty good with their lacefront and wore-jeans game....lol.

More likely just another scare tactic. I'm almost convinced now that if THESE people are actually reporting on it in the media, it's usually not too much of a threat. They usually know more than what they're reporting and already know there's not much too it, so they hype it up to scare the public. It it were a REAL threat, they'd probably keep quiet on it until social media forces their hand and they can no longer hide it from the public. I learned this during the George Floyd riots back in 2020. When it came to minor incidents like a few kids throwing bottles and wrestling with police officers in places like Baltimore and Ferguson Missouri....the media STAYED on the scene showing every detail of people just standing around chanting and yelling and being arrested. But when it came to a full fledged riot/rebellion with building being burned and police being attacked....it took them 2 or 3 hours to even report the first fires being set. Social media had to tell people what was happening.

ProfD Or maybe he's still trying to climb out of the rubble of the OLD website format that was demolished without warning....lol. Right before everything collapsed, I read something about Troy changing his mind about updating or reformatting the website. Next thing I know, the site vanished and when it re-appeared it required me to use some old email address for over a decade ago to access it again....which took me 2 months to dig up, lol.

ProfD You make a good point about the new hirees. To them, the new system will just be normal business as usual....not realizing how easy and sensible the "old way" was before they got there. I'm not sure if they do things like that to make the process more efficient. The more conspiratorial part of me....inspired by Neely Fuller Jr.....wonders if they don't install shit like this as TRAPS for more people to lose their jobs. If they are in upper management, it would seem that they're smart enough to know that the most complicated and complex they make things....the more people they will confuse because they won't be able to figure it out. They should automatically factor that in.

Sometimes a person doesn't "walk away" from a fight because they can't. They're LAID OUT....lol. Good! Oh. Kind of like an American-Iran Ceasefire? Where people are still shooting missiles at eachother, downing planes, and destroying shit while a "ceasefire" is in place....lol. Or like an Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire....where buildings are still being destroyed and people are still killed by the hundreds DURING the "ceasefire"...lol. "The Ceasefire agreed upon last week is still ineffect but is being strained as 3 more cities were destroyed and 597 people were killed overnight in missile strikes on the eastern side of the country."

What sparked me to start this thread was the new "call in" system they installed at work. Where as in the past when you wanted to calling to report being absent or late, you simply called HR and talked to one of the staff directly or left a message on their voicemail for the record. They switched it over to a new system that makes you sign-up, log in, use pass words, limit the number of categories you can choose from, ect... People are reporting problems with it already. I can imagine nearly half of the facility getting in trouble for not following the proper procedure for call-ins now. Just making things extra complicated for no reason what so ever. ProfD Demanding opportunities i.e. asking for a job can enrich some people. IMO, creating opportunities generates wealth which is money that extends beyond a couple of generations. You're right. However again, it goes back to INTELLIGENCE and being smart enough to do this. Most people are NOT smart enough to establish and operate a SUCCESSFUL business. If they were, more business would be in operation and successful. A lot more people are ambitious and bold enough to do so, but many of them still lack the brain power to maintain what they start. And when you generate the wealth, you must SAVE it and PROPERLY USE it.....which again requires intelligence. You can't be smoking it up in weed every night as soon as you get it. "Well......might as well. Can't take it with you when you gone." Black people as a group have amassed wealth over several decades. The next is figuring out how to make it grow exponentially True. A good place to start would be becoming more actively involved in the legal system and the decisions being made. A lot of Black wealth disappears in the legal system from lengthy and frivolous lawsuits and criminal trials designed to eat up their money like Pacman.

Speaking of urinals. I saw a rusty yellow stain on one the other day.......... 🥲 -and thought of you, lol. ((wait for it)) .......and ADJUSTED MY AIM, lol.

Lol..... In order to be "rejected" I would have to first make a proposal, a proposition, shoot my shot. When did any of THIS happen?