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It's pretty much just White folks (and a few of their allies of color) practicing more White racism distributing weapons among the people to keep up instability. If it weren't for White folks and Arabs infiltrating Haiti and flooding gangsters and criminals with guns, the government would easily be able to get control of this situation.

Troy No problem. Well, if you really want to take this site in that direction or add Zoom-type forum on to it.....don't let OUR opinions stop you. Go ahead and experiment and see if it gets you what you're looking for. But be forewarned that more comments and members generally lead to more problems. Also, White people will certainly bring more discussion and topics to this site, even when it comes to Black issues. They'll even give you money to support more content. But with that will come more subtle but sure control and influence by them. As for engaging in the other forums and pages I'm not sure why but it's become kind of my thing to stay in my "hood" here, lol. I'd like to think I'm waiting for some sort of special occasion before I go exploring the other forums.

This is why we need more Black (AfroAmerican, African, and AfroLatino) psychologists and psychiatrists not only in the United States but GLOBALLY to deal with the mental problems so many of our people suffer from. I'm of the belief that if we take control of OUR OWN healthcare systems instead of relying on Caucasian systems, we'd come up with not just effective treatments but the actual CURES for most if not all of the ailments so many of our people possess be they mentally or physically. Dr.Sebi cured a lot of diseases by himself as just one individual. Most people who haven't experienced them don't understand how REAL Depression and other mental problems are. They think Depression and Anxiety are like any emotion you can turn on and off at will or calm yourself down after a few moments. Seriously mentally ill people have chemical and in many cases brain structural problems BEYOND their control. This is one of the reasons I KIND OF like what Mayor Adams is doing in New York by forcing a lot of the mentally ill homeless people off the streets and involuntarily institutionalizing them. We have to see where he's going with it, but it HAS to be done and should have been done decades ago. They threw those poor people out on the street without a lifeline hoping they would just die and since then America has been living with it for decades to the point we think it's normal to see crazy people laying around on the sidewalks and piling up on the street. We think it's their "right" to do that, where as in the past they were understood to be sick and needed help.

ProfD But you know brother Malcolm was a RELIGIOUS man and firmly believed that Islam was the key to AfroAmerican salvation. Atleast this was his firm belief in the months before he was taken from us.

Listen to the first few minutes (8:30 to about 10:30 minute mark) of Dr. Umar Johnson's take on the election:

ProfD Actually, knowing what I know now...I believe TRUE Spirituality actually WILL solve our problems. All of them. The key is in understanding what "True Spirituality" is....and what it is not. Spirituality isn't lighting candles, burning incense, or sitting with your legs crossed mumbling jibberish hoping somebody will float down with a sword and save you from your enemies. Spirituality actually includes being able to leave your body to gather information. Spirituality is going to other realms and other worlds to get information and technology to bring back to THIS realm and use to advance your society. White people have been using the above said Spirituality for centuries to advance their society. They used it in the form of Remove Viewing and other secret programs that they learned by studying Indigenous Shaman. They give Negroes FAKE spirituality in the form of religions and charms and superstitions in order to keep them confused and running around in circles doing that which is ineffective, but many of THEM practice the real tried-n-true methods.

ProfD I've said many times before, the Government itself has ways of finding out WHO you are and WHERE you are. That's not the problem....or the biggest one atleast. The bigger problem are these little Alt-Right and racist groups who run around here ALSO doing surveillance on Black websites trying to keep track of members and posters and who is saying and doing what. They don't have the technology that the government has. The only personal information most of them have of you if what you GIVE them by putting it out their online for them to collect. I think that's what gets a lot of our people in trouble. Not thinking and being so bold and naive as to put too much of their business and personal information out there in cyberspace not suspecting the worse. Our people too often put more of an emphasis on being BRAVE than being SMART, and this bravo often costs them their lives.

I absolutely believe this! Especially when White folks are encouraging it. I suspected and discovered a long time ago that many White folks want to join our organizations and live among us not to actually HELP us but to stir up division among us as well as keep an eye on us to see what we're talking about, planning, and doing. It was so frustrating the try and tell other AfroAmericans this only for them to disbelieve it. I also believe that many AfroAmericans who encourage alliances with other groups and stress the importance of working with other races REALLY are inlove with members of those other races and see that strategy as an opportunity to get closer to them and have access to more interracial sex. They don't want to just come right out and admit they're looking for an Asian woman or Latina man to hook up with and marry. No....lol....that's too obvious. They talk a lot of pro-Black talk then start mentioning different events for us to attend where we can link up with them. Next thing you know they're bringing them to meetings and having lunch with them. How many sisters I've had to distance myself from because they got into heavy relationships with White men who they INSISTED weren't White. "What's the problem? That man ain't White....he Italian. Damn!" "How many times we gotta go through this. I told you...he ain't White.....he Polish!"

Chev I don't know about this though, because, just what is FULL AFRICAN? IMO, a lot of AFrican conflicts are based on the same confusion that you have outlined. By "full African" I mean no longer following the so-called Abrahamic religions and going back to seeking help from The SUPREME BEING and The Ancestors and getting in too with Spirituality and what they call "magic". White society may condemn "magic" and what they call "witchcraft" but much of it got Haiti it's freedom. They called on Jesus for centuries and didn't get free, but when they called on their Ancestors and practices that "magic" they got their freedom from the French devils within on decade. YES, what I mean by a 'Catch-22' is that I believe part of the 'destablization' of outsiders is that they encouraged the Haitians to practive Voudu after a while when they came to realize that the Haitians equated their ancestors spirits with the Catholic religious saints. That, imo, is part of the problem with this Spiritual confusion that you so brilliantly stated. Yes, that's what I'm talking about Spiritual Confusion! They mix up the African Deities and their Ancestors with these Catholic "saints"....many of whom are actually Roman Deities and they began to confuse the 2 separate groups. You shouldn't venerate African Deities AND European Deities together. You don't even PRETEND to venerate the Deities of your enemy. The brown Latinos do the same thing with Santeria....mixing Native American and African Deities with the Catholic ones in some effort to "hide" what they're doing. No....TOTALLY reject European religion and morality and TOTALLY embrace African Spirituality and your Ancestors. Then let's see the results. Troy Where are these gangs getting all of these weapons and ammunition? Lol....was that a rhetorical question?

I don't have a problem with the Zoom or face time mode of communiation. I think it's a GOOD thing. As long as we're not FORCED into only having conversations that way. My issue is why when White folks in this society talk about upgrades they ALSO remove the old former models as well? If it's an improvement and beneficial then give the people the CHOICE to shift over to it instead of trying to force them to cross over. As I said before, I suspect this push is just more of a sneaky way to find out who is saying what so people will know who their political enemies are and go after them. You have to know people are analyzing these videos and not only identifying the facial features of the poster but also their background too catching every little detail.

Sad situation. I saw the actual video of the fight she had with another woman in her hotel room before her homicide. At least one and possibly two men were in the room recording these women fight (or Shanquella being beat up rather) and did nothing to break it up but actually ENCOURAGED it. I HATE seeing Black women physically fight each other. It's disgusting. I suppose some men watch it hoping they rip each other's clothes off, but I'm convinced most who DO watch it do it out of sheer savagery and blood lust. How sexy is an ass or pair of titties covered in blood or slobber or with the skin ripped? I'm not sure when it became popular or mainstream for so many Black men to encourage this and do nothing to break it up, but by the early 90s you could catch sistaz outside of school or outside of clubs scrapping with each other like racoons over a cob of corn and a bunch of stupid Black dudes standing around encouraging them and cheering them on. And now it's to the point that some men who DO try to break them up end up getting beat up or killed by the other men who ENCOURAGE them to fight, so most men have learned to just mind their own business and leave it alone. ((shakes head)) Say what you want about Africans but I don't see African women acting like this. And I don't see African men encouraging it either. That's some nigga shit. And some of our people want to sit up and get mad at the Africans because they want to have little to do with our people? At some point RIGHTEOUS Black men are going to have to step up and put a positive period behind this nonsense. Dealing not only with the violent behavior of our girls and women but the ignorant and savage brothers in our community who encourage this madness. If I were near that hotel room and had about 5 good brothers with me Shanquella would probably be alive right now because I would have shut that shit down QUICK. The men with those women might have lost some of their teeth in the process but our sister would be alive and PROBABLY on the arms of one of US instead of the sorry niggas she was with on that vacation.

Hmmm...... What I saw in that HIGHLY politicized video wasn't ideas on how to save "conversation on the internet" but a group of people with controversial views going at eachother. Same thing you could see anytime of the day if you flip on Fox News or CNN and watch their "non-news" shows. I have no problem with ADDING a new format like this to the already existing one, however I personally like THIS format where we can text each other back and forth with various ideas and conversations without necessarily showing our faces and backgrounds. I'm not sure why so many people are so naive to believe there's some sort of "honor" in face timing total strangers with highly charged political beliefs and not expect negative consequences from some emotionally unstable maniac who takes things the wrong way or too far. Troy, here comes the CONSPIRACY talk again.....lol. Too often when people talk about "modernizing" and "upgrading" things.....they don't give people the OPTION to stick with the old if they so choose. They ELIMINATE the old way and give you no choice BUT to go along with the new program that they "call" and improvement. I'm inclined to believe that the encouragement to eliminate the text formatting of online discussions and replace it with a more face-time oriented format has NOTHING to do with modernization and upgrading conversations on the internet...but has more to do with subversive groups both IN and OUT of law enforcement being able to identify and nail down those they perceive to be "threats" and "agitator" and put a face with the words so they can be more easily found.

So they thought she may have committed suicide? Not sure why the media would hide this if it were the case, but different people have different motives.

Chev Therefore, I believe that if you want to use an Asian character for a shaolin monk, you should at least do some research on that wise. Right off the top of my thoughts, the word 'Monk' signifies a very early presence of Black African typed 'ancient Sumerians' that were present in the ancient far east and then by the time that the shaolin monk became historical, well, I don't know. But I do believe at the time of these kinds of monks, there were still a significan presence of AFrican-typed 'monks' there too! I remember a recent movie, but the title escapes me though, of a film that showed a lot of historical fiction and I was very well aware of some of the roles played by Asians were actually a depiction of Blacks. Yeah, I wanted to bring up that the first people in China were actually Black and the first Samurai of Japan were Black, but I wasn't sure about the first Shaolin Monks so I left it alone. But thanks for mentioning the history.

@Stefan I remember you said in another thread we as AfroAmericans need to form coalitions and alliances with other groups as a political strategy but I forgot which thread it was. At any rate...... How are we gonna link up with other groups when we haven't even united (to a certain degree atleast) among OURSELVES first? AfroAmericans are one of the most divided demographics of this nation. Divided religiously, politically, socially, even sexually. There's even a massive divide and conflict between several GENERATIONS among our people....all pointing the finger and blaming eachother for current and past problems. When you're weak and suffering from such a low self esteem and high self hatred as the AfroAmerican community is currently....forming an alliance with other groups would basically only be trading in ONE slave master for another. Because other groups will see your weakness and vulnerability and take advantage of it and assume power over you. I've seen it many times. Black folks form meetings with some of these other groups like Latinos and Arabs to try to get some political or social work done and THEY end up dominating the meeting and organization with THEIR agenda. Even start having the meetings being catered with THEIR own ethnic dishes....lol. The group was originally founded by Black activists who INVITED Latinos to join as a Black-Brown coalition....next thing you know fat niggas sitting up in brown leather chairs eating tacos grinning with their eyes bucked while Pedro and Pamela are standing at the head of the table passing out paper and telling US what they "agenda" is gonna be. Now obviously as humans you're not gonna get ALL or even MOST AfroAmericans to unite and agree with eachother for a specific political or social purpose. That has been tried many times. It will take a MIRACLE or some other Divine Act to make that happen. However I say we need to focus on a CORE GROUP of like minded individuals among us and establishing a set agenda that works for US first...then we will be healthy enough as THAT GROUP to form a coalition with others. And when we DO form that coalition, we need to make sure WE are in charge....no co-leadership.....US. The ONLY alliance is the one WE control. If they want to come along for the ride and help us....fine. But if THEY ever want to help take the wheel....the deal is off.

True. And those type of Black folks are often successful because they woke up and realized what time it was. I realize that not all skin folks are kin folks, however you don't have nearly the number of allies and comrades you THINK you have in other races even if we "say" we're all fighting for the same cause. They may claim to want to link up with you to fight economic and social injustice, but even in the meeting rooms where the plans are being laid out with them.....THEY want to be in charge and call the shots on how it's done. Let me say that again.......lol. Here we call ourselves linking up with Latinos or Asians in a meeting to combat White racism, and slowly but surely THEY try to dominate the meeting, bring more of their people in, become the head of it....and even cater it with THEIR ethnic foods and ignore Soul Food...lol. I'd rather Black folks rule this nation, but as long as White folks DO rule it.....we should ATLEAST strive for 2nd place or the number 2 spot. Right now in many parts of this nation Black folks are in the 3rd and 4th position on the social ladder or in many cases NO position at all !

Ofcourse she was blacklisted. She's a Latina who hung around and worked with too many AfroAmericans. She's AfroLatina herself, but like most Black and AfroLatinos....she probably was expected to stay away from AfroAmericans and find either another lighter skinned Latino or White American to marry and have children with and "improve the race". Instead she went the other route singing and dancing with Black folks and playing in Black movies....kissing on Black men, lol.

Ok, thank you! I say go with your first thought and make sure you include as many races and cultures in your work as you desire. Explore your creativity! As an artist, you will live on through your work for many many generations including millennia....so don't limit yourself.

I'm glad our sister is back home safe and sound. I'm wondering will she need counseling to help her with what she went through over in Russia.

What is the United Nations doing about Haiti??? Why...HELPING TO DESTABLIZE IT...ofcourse! Why would we expect White racists and their allies of color to help such a strong Black nation? Based on my LIMITED research (because I haven't actually been to that nation yet), I believe the main problem with Haiti and the major reason it faces so many disasters is because of SPIRITUAL CONFUSION. When they abandoned Catholicism and returned to their Ancestors and traditional African religion back in the late 1700s, it gave them the power to not only fight for and win THEIR freedom but fight for and win the freedom of Black folks all around the Western Hemisphere including the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Columbia, etc... But some years later Haitians began accepting Catholicism and other forms of Christianity and Caucasian religions and morals to the point that many if not most Haitians are officially "Catholic"....but they still practice Vodou to various degrees. This leads to spiritual confusion. You can't serve two masters. You can't dedicate yourself to and serve the TRUE GOD and White folks god at the same time. They must pick one or the other. The Dominican Republic is doing a little better because they pick ONE SIDE....Christianity. It's the WRONG side, but they are less confused. If Haiti goes FULL AFRICAN again and reject all forms of Caucasian religion....I guarantee they will rise overnight!

Oh? What are the Conspiracies?????

I'm glad our sister is freed (from Russia atleast) and back home!

Why? How can a problem be solved if everyone who sees it just looks at it and keeps their mouths shut out of fear of what other's may think of them? Black folks in small circles around the nation were saying for decades that the government was bringing drugs into the Black community to neutralize it, but it was called a silly and baseless conspiracy theory UNTIL even White folks at the San Jose Mercury News confirmed it back in 1996. Now it's acknowledged and hidden or "explained away" but still....what was called a "baseless conspiracy" turned out to be true. If you have suspicion about something going on in society you SHOULD share it because others may have the very same suspicions which may very well speak of an actual problem that can be identified and solved.

Well the media is reporting that Miss Fashionista Sinema just left the Democrat party and registered as an Independent. Something she should have done (or been MADE to do) long before now. But let's see what the Democrats do with their majority. Will they actually push a PROGRESSIVE agenda like building more affordable housing, give us Universal Healthcare, police reform, etc..... Or will they push for more Gay Marriage and Gender/Neutral policies and make THAT their agenda.....while the poverty continues to grow exponentially.

If Democrats can show up in numbers like that for a Senate race, why in the hell didn't they do it for the GOVERNOR'S race where they could have put Stacey Abrams in office? Or did they....and their votes just weren't counted?