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For real! Two totally different issues and people want to compare Griner to that kind of charge. Craziness. Oh, get this, in that article you posted, @Stefan it reads, Ex-President Donald Trump had one of the most aggressive attacks Thursday, writing on his social media platform Truth Social that Griner is “a basketball player who openly hates our Country” and that it was a “‘stupid’ and unpatriotic embarrassment for the USA” to free her in exchange for Viktor Bout, a notorious Russian arms dealer. He is really off based! How he twisted an African American person in a negative light for not liking police brutality against Breonna Taylor and George Floyd into them/her hating 'her country[!]' is crazy. This is her country. She should have a right to not agree with certain issues.

Well, my opinion is based on a little knowledge and again, a little observation. When I was younger, I did not watch much television, but I later became curious about how certain cartoons and historical fiction shows and also gaming characters were aligned with truth. I began to pay notice to the credits after the show and it seems to me that a lot of cartoons and such are based on a lot of research from learned historians. 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. One of the common terms thrown around in that movies was the derogatory term for Blacks at that time, 'LACKEY' [i.e. Blackey]. So, again, if people don't care about historical acurracy in your depictions, then you will do great, but if people do care, then it might cause your invention to not take off very well.

Oh yes! And, I just learned about that! Apparently King Louis X, sent a flotilla of ships to Haiti and demanded that the slaves pay reparations to the French for their freedom and so, the Haitians did agree. So, over the course of 30 years the Haitians paid reparations!!! And they borrowed from America and Britian and French banks to pay reparations! One recent college professor said that is one of the problems Haitians are having today because of it. She called it the biggest heist in history, that the slaves pay reparations. And, some politicians told France they need to pay it back, but most agree that France basically is laughing at such an idea. That is insane. But what can anyone do if some of the Haitians in power are accepting a lot of bribes and not caring about their people as a whole. Seems like they need a better centralized government. And the young men that are in control need to respect the older men as their leaders. Anger and rage is NOT the answer but Love and fighting a defensive position would yield a much better outcome in my opinion. Too much Black hatred is going on nowadays. smh. Depressing. What about the poor little children.

What is the United Nations Doing About HAITI? And, can anything be done to help the people, especially the children? I read that a Biden Administrator just recently resigned because he disagrees with the Biden administration's actions. Apparently, many Haitian's fled to Mexico and thereabouts after the 2010 earthquake and are now being deported back to Haiti by the Biden administration. And many of them were actually born in Mexico and have never been to Haiti, so obviously many of them being sent to Haiti are children and teen agers! Lately, I have been doing a little research about Haiti and I am honestly very surprised about what I have learned. Did anyone here know that most Haitians are from ancestors that came from Dahomey!? That sounds shocking to me, initially, but then on the other hand, it makes sense because of the extensive slave trading that went on in that region. But if this is true then, my first instincts seem to also be true in that the women warriors were actually victims and mostly enslaved themselves and became victims of the very people that forced them into this warrior women culture. I learned too, that the famous Toussaint Loverture's parents were from Allada and were enslaved by the DaHomey Slave Catchers. Also, the famous Alexander Dumas' father [or, grandfather] were captured by the Dahomey slave catchers too. DID ANYONE HERE KNOW TOO THAT AFTER THE HAITIANS REVOLTED AGAINST SLAVERY THAT MANY OF THEM IMMIGRATED TO LOUISIANA!!!??? I'm like what!? I never learned this in school!? There was NEVER a connection made about the Louisiana Purchase and the Haitian revolt!!! So then, my research revealed that the president at the time, President Andrew Jackson deliberately suppressed the Haitin victory that led to them being a free nation. American did not recognize Haiti until 1862 as being a free nation. But what surprises me is that because the Haitians fought so hard, it was them that became the DIRECT reason the French decided to sale the Lousiana country which comprised a vast area of land from Louisiana to the west and up to Canada around 1803. This kind of history is crazy fascinationg for me. But now, fast forward to now!!! After the 2010 Earthquake that hit Haiti really bad, and the Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and etc. this country has went from bad to worse. I am only beginning to research, however, I believe that this kind of information is important for African Americans to know about. Why, I wonder, is Haiti having all of this horrors? This country is in trouble. It's like worse than being clasified as 'A Third World Country' status. Here are two brief videos that I have recently watched.

In all honesty, I don't believe Trump would have helped her at all. I am so glad that she has been freed. What a nightmare.

IRENE CARA: DID YOU KNOW THAT SHE WAS BLACK LISTED!? Oh Wow! This popular youtuber showed up on my channel, but I have never heard of her until now. I did not know that Irene Cara was also part Cuban. Her father is a Black man from Puerto Rico and her mother is cuban. Irene Cara was born in the Bronx, New York, so I just learned about a new term that I've never heard of until now regarding Puerto Rican people who whom were born in New York and thereabouts. They have been referred to as "Nuyorican". Interesting. My step-brother is from Buffalo, New York, however, I've never heard him say anything about this. I did not hear of this on this channel but there are a lot of videos now about Irene Cara and this one seems interesting. Anyway, she posted some information about Irene Cara and some other interesting tidbits. I recently heard about the Byron Allen award show and she also said it was a great event. So now, I like this youtuber and plan on listening in on her again. Her name is Patty Jackson, maybe someone has heard of her before. At any rate, I am posting this first video that I have come across. She also said that at the same time the Griot Awards show aired, the Soul Train awards show also aired.

There are conspiracies now and are specualting about her death.

Well, for the sake of the movie, I hope that people can focus on it and not Will Smith's infamous slap of another brother. I read the the movie had mixed reviews. You know, I looked and looked for more information about the true event of Gordon, also known as Whipped Peter, but apparently, after his picture was posted and sent out everywhere, the rest of his life is completely unknown. So then, the movie Emancipation, in that it follows Gordon and gives him a storyline of trying to get back to his family is 'fiction'? I wonder does anyone know what the truth is about the end of Gordon's life. Anyway, I do hope to see the movie, though. I wonder what Chris Rock is saying? And on that note, some sights say that the slave Gordon was actually whipped brutally by another Black man, a slave. What a horror.

Hey! Thanks! I just saw a report and popped in to spread the news, and see that you already did it. Honestly, her freedom happened sooner than I thought, but I am so glad this nightmare is over! More than a decade later, Mr. Bout, 55, has been freed, despite serving less than half of his 25-year prison sentence. He was exchanged on Thursday for the American basketball star Brittney Griner, who had been imprisoned in Russia for 10 months. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/who-is-viktor-bout-arms-dealer-in-swap-for-brittney-griner/ar-AA153jSN?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=8f03de2330d5470f8b3ddd9848a9ddc5

Thank you @Delano

So glad to hear that you made it through! @Cynique Yes, Keep on hanging in. It's not time for you to be going anywhere.

Oh Wow! Very sorry to hear this. She brings back the days of very good memories. I loved that film Flashdance. May she RIP.

This, I believe, in that we are all one race, however, you are not going to convince White Supremacist of that. You are not going to be able to press them to do anything on that wise. It's just not going to happen. So therefore, it would be wrong to try and bully non-Black people into believing that we are all one race, because most of us get that. We believe that, so we are not the problem. It's the bullys that invented this system. And, I would never give any energy to that kind of effort, to try and convince them to change their ways and their beliefs. So, because this law that you speak of was invented by them, that is the very problem. I am not going to waste my time trying to picket and plead with them to acknowledge their laws or to amend their laws to acknowledge that they are deceiving non-Black people into allowing this crooked law to still imprison and enslave people. America needs to be overhauled and that means nonBlack people need to stop trying to press White Supremacist to acknowledge us. We need to confront them on another level, but I do not know the proper way to do that. I wish I did.

Please give me an example here @ProfD I'm all for it, but I am wondering now, what would be a good example in that other cultures won't do as they have done and assume our identity. I really cannot think of anything that other cultures have not tried to steal from us and attempt to say it belonged to them, except maybe our 'hair'. I have even heard once that country music came about as a result of Black music. True! I would not agree with that at all. Why should Black people want to pick up and leave California due to the actions of other cultures? @Pioneer1 Black people, meaning African-typed people have been in that country for a very long time, so why should they need to leave? They should stay and resist. I mean are they getting negativity any worse than other states? Well, please forgive me if I am wrong about this, but i don't really keep up with everything going on today. However, doesn't Orpah Winfrey have her own media company or something? And, what about Tyler Perry, does he not own something in Atlanta? Is there nothing today, that AfroAmericans own that would be a tool to use to help define our culture in a positive way? Yes, I absolutely agree.

When I read this comment on the internet, from Michael Eric Dyson, I thought about ths comment. … Police killings of unarmed Black individuals like Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Laquan McDonald in Chicago, Illinois gained widespread media attention under the Obama administration, prompting calls for a thorough congressional inquiry and reform of discriminatory policing procedures. Dyson discussed police brutality during the 2016 administration and if it was more severe than it is now. “Obama sent the meter of white supremacy off the chart,” he shared. “They wanted to get Barack, couldn’t get him. Who can you get? Vulnerable Black people,” Dyson stated. “We were his proxies. Can’t shoot him, shoot us. Can’t kill him, kill us.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/michael-eric-dyson-brittney-griner-s-sentencing-was-so-severe-because-she-s-queer-and-black/ar-AA14mXsN?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=78a0d70ec14548b398ff34d5d0eed7da Now, I don't know if I follow his logic though. I think that racsim picked up, not because White racist hated Obama, but I wonder if he was used as 'the pawn' to attack African Americans. I wonder if 'they' put him in office to use him as a 'puppet king' so-to-speak. Whether or not, Obama meant to do us good, didn't matter to the powers that be. They had other plans, imo. True, but I'm pessimistic and feel that because we are mingled in with so many other cultures, no matter what, we won't be able to do much. Just like you say, they steal everything and claim it as their own innovations.

Oh WOW! That is crazy! She looks just like him! @Pioneer1I don't know if African Americans know this but, Obama does claim to be Hebrew Israelite from his Kenyan ancestry. HIs name 'Barack' is an Hebrew name, so this resemblance kind of speaks to this. But his forehead... he got from his Mother.

Exactly! Thank you! @Pioneer1

Oh Wow, did you see the young boy in the back of this picture? He looks like former president Barack Obama! Like Obama, he has the prominent forehead too. Yes, the Oromo people with the lip distortion looks awful. But yes, I read a little about them and agree with what you said. I aslo wonder if that is another reason why the Ethiopians are being ignored by the west. The Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed's father is Oromo and his mother is Amharic! I think he is a beautiful man and reminds me, a little of my own son. Oh Wow. That's interesting. Lol, Oh yes. Absolutely!

Yes, this statement about their form of Colorism is printed! It is written often that the darker skin Beja and mountain people are ignored in favor of the ligher skinned ones. I believe that too, even if the lighter skinned ones do address this issue, the western world will not report it because they hate them Ethiopians so much. Anyway, from a Biblical perspective, those Ethiopian Jews know better! They know what is required of them and until that do so, they will be called on it. If they do NOT elevate someone like Zippora, or Peter, or Bathsheba, etc. when they step in front of the Supreme Being with their light skinned leaders, they gonna get slapped down. They know what they are suppose to do. Their priest though, a lot of them are very dark skinned, but they know that they are suppose to do better. @Pioneer1 OH!!! @ProfD Dat not funny! LOL! OMG! My husband and one of my sons have a big forehead! Dat ain't funny! Those Ethiopians maybe need to check themselves on bonding with their relatives maybe, I don't know, but then, that is a problem over hear in America with the indigenous peoples too. True. The western world do not like those Ethiopians. lol.

I sure hope you're right @Troy. In the past Europeans have a history of infiltrating people's religion, then eventually gaining trust, and then completely separating from it and taking a whole lot of ethnic people with them to embrace their form of 'religion'. smh. Yes, me too! We've been taught by design and from a European POV. Yes, now that Dr. Ben has passed away though, now, other statements are made about him that White people have strategically held back. After checking all of the prominent colleges that Dr. Ben said he had studied at and graduated from such as Cambridge, in London, and elsewhere, he was never enrolled. They knew this, but used select Black people to put out statements to their benefit. Dr. Ben's relatives too, some say that his being Jew and etc. are not true. He was born in Puerto Rico, so that means that he is Puerto Rican, imo. However, Dr. Ben said that both his mother and father were Ethiopian Jews, and I do believe that. Dr. Ben's facial features do attest to that, imo. He looks like he's a Jew. Oh yes. His staunch dis-belief in Jesus, is very typical of a lot of Original Jews of the Diaspora as well, that is a very important aspect of the Black world that we should not ignore. Ehtiopian Jews, however, in AFrica, for the most part absolutely are Coptic and believe in Jesus, but this conflict of Diaspora Jews position has been a great tool used by Europeans to divide and conquer. Now, that Dr. Ben is dead, White people want to stress things about him regarding his many false statement that they themselves challenged him about. smh.

Yeah. So true. @ProfD Lol! WHEW! Somethin is wrong with that picture! @Pioneer1 I agree. BUT then on the flip side, maybe they are using that strategy in elections because of the history of Black people in how the CRM came about. THAT would be a tall order, seeing as how, that is another form of White infiltration, imo. This system has poisoned the minds of Black people and now, it would be difficult to seperate from negative elements within our cultures and within ourselves as well and adopt a positive mindset that would enhance our presence as a unique culture. Over the decades, imo, Black people have signed on to just about everything that used to be 'a white format'. I would love to hear some statements about positive aspects that has made us a unique people, you know, revisit some positivities.

Ha ha! That was crazy. Infiltration. We AfroAmericans over here know we have to say whatever they want, even in a friggin black own shop.

After 100+ Complaints Made an Ohio Judge Was Finally Removed This video came up on my channel a few days ago from Pink Book Lessons blog. Besides my own experience, I never would have imagined that a judge would be allowed to carry on in this manner. But then, she may have learned from watching other White judges who have gotten away with bad behavior and thought that she could do the same type of behavior with no recourse. _____________________________ … to set up a reward system for bad behavior whereby Black people are rewarded to continue to foster Black oppression even to their own detriment … The question should be asked, “Even though government supported racism victimizes all Black African-typed descendants of slaves in general but, does that mean all Blacks who commit crimes against Black humanity be exempt from governmental correction? https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/9840-those-egyptian-eyes-genetics-the-bible-part-ii-introduction~-who-came-first-point-1-8-9-15/ It took over 100 formal complaints before the government finally removed this judge from the bench. And imo, this is rare as I was told that judges are almost completely immune to any type of correction. So, what about the many victims that were so damaged by her actions that they could not make a formal complaint? She ruined people’s lives. This newsbreak interested me because I was victimized as well by a Black female family court judge. She ruined my life and still today, I have never been restored due to her actions.

Ethiopia & Haiti in the News-Demonstrations About three (3) weeks ago, millions of Ethiopians and Eritreans, and other Habesha people went to the streets to protest. Apparently, about a month or so ago, military forces from America under the Biden administration and military forces of several other countries all over the world were deployed to the Horn of Africa to make a show of force to help in a major civil crisis over there in which millions of people have died recently. I’ve heard little bits and pieces about this supposedly, horrible crisis that some experts describe as a genocidal event. However, only a few weeks ago, I heard that somehow, peace has been made amongst the Africans and for this reason, many Africans are now saying that the Western influences have shifted from being instigators to helpful in the restoration of peace. I am very interested in these affairs, however, because I don’t feel that I know much about the core issues, then I do not have an opinion either way. Some of Africans say that much of the problem has to do with western influence in which, they have been giving weapons and aid to a small ruling faction of Tigrayans. I believe that this faction had been the ruling people for many years until the early 1990s. Also, because Eritrea made peace with Ethiopia, the small ruling group became used to divide and conquer and this may be part of the conflict. The BBC interviewed a substantial Tigrayan reporter, and she explained that she herself is also Ethiopian as most Tigrayans are as well. Based on my little understanding too, and what I have heard from a few Ethiopians, therefore, I wonder if a small faction of people from Tigray were brought back into Africa from the northeast world way back around the time of the Crusades and later at the rise of the Arabs, and they were elevated to a high position of which may have caused the division amongst the Habesha people. I do know too, that at the rise of the Egyptian-British regimes and the rule of Muhammad Ali and the East European Turkish government, all of Ethiopia was once referred to as Tigray. At any rate, three weeks ago, millions of Habesha people in several of their major cities came out in the streets and demonstrated about the negative influence they believe they are receiving from the west. Amazingly, around the same time, the Caribbean country of Haiti went through a similar conflict. Three (3) weeks ago, many Haitians came out in the streets and demonstrated against the French involvement in their affairs and were receiving support from Ethiopia and from other African countries. I wonder if this kind of conflict will have any impact on us over here in America. Ethiopians Have Had Enough! Millions Of Ethiopians Went Out To Protest Against Western Interference Haitians and Africans protest against NEO-COLONIALISM and western meddling About Two Months Ago Before Demonstrations-- Biden Sent U.S.Troops To Somalia In May And Now Somalia's Situation Is Getting Worse

So true, @ProfD. There seems to always be some ploy used against us to keep us on the bottom, however, I still believe that things will change, but how this change will come about, I do not know. I wish I knew that answer. I agree that we need to unify, but I believe that type of unity will not happen until AfroAmericans are sifted somewhat to get rid of the extreme Black Hatred.