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Nuff said.

How so? I can hold more than one thought in my head. I'm sure others can too.

I never heard of Mario A. Brossard, and I'm not interested enough to look him or his article up. I see no problem of voting for the lesser if two evils. If you're determined one evil is indeed lesser you should vote for the lesser one. Who is suggesting this, Mario? Who in the Black community wanted a Biden/Harris ticket? I hope so.

True, but I don't think @Ann Bray Smith was talking about brain maladies like schizophrenia and other conditions requiring psychiatric help. She was talking about things depression (not clinical) and PTSD.

Again context is everything. What is the opinion based upon taste, number if calories, health benefits, what? Does science encompass all of reality? Is reality a fiction to you? In any event, I don't understand your well enough to answer it. So then it can't possibly be true huh? I dated a woman who believed this. You can read about people who believe this. Mr. Strawman no one with a brain would age anything that old with that level of precision. Your baseless arguement is not worth the energy to refute. The convictions are moral to the ones holding them. People have different moral values. Those who hold differing moral values see each other as wrong.

I believe the internet is a tool that can be used for good or evil. The Internet is what you make of it. Personally I have made a conscious decision not to consume information derives from social media. I'm not always successful because I have a social media presence for a AALBC. Each social media platform cleverly requires you to see your feed before you can really do anything. So I use those platforms with blinders on and do the best I can. I don't follow celebrities --I'm defintely not following 45. Indeed I only follow people I actually know and most of the people I know, in the real world are not very engaged in social media anyway. The Internet, technology in general, is too powerful to completely leave alone the world can be a better place with them as long as we don't forget the things that are more important like a human beings and the natural world. This is how I maintain my mental health 🙂 This is a different concern. Sure we should be prepared a loss of the internet. I'm mean don't plan for it like it will happen tomorrow, but consider what would you do if there were not internet for a week, a month, a year. The Internet has already been disrupted. The Internet is under the control of a handful of massively powerful corporations. The people are for more dependent on these companies than they were during early days of the Internet. For this reason the Internet is far less valuable than it could be and I'd argue far more destructive. Sometimes I wonder if the world would be better off without what the WWW has become. I'm not convinced that it is, and this is coming from someone whose livelihood is dependent upon the WWW. One of my concerns is the WWW's impact on our collective mental health.

You are playing loose with the definition of words and context my friend. Faith for religious people is based upon relgious doctrine as opposed to proof. Proof the world is billions of years old rather than 6K years old is of no consequence. When one's belief is based solely upon faith. Opinions can certainly be wrong particularly when misinformed. If you believe the world is 6K years old you are wrong.

I liked the film and appreciated seeing actors who at least to my eye fit their parts. I'm not sure the Maya today look the way they looked before the colonizers arrived.

How is this different from The Covenant with Black Amercia Tavis Smiley helped organize. I guess now you gonna make break down read Ice Cube ideas ....

Yeah bootleg. If you like ill send you my legitimate blue ray 📀

I can only imagine. I watched the documentary about Khalif Browder and other Brothers and that is hard for me, so I can't imagine what watching it must be like after having acutally gone through it. Of course being locked up is one thing. But this true in the real world too. People trapped in poverty experience something similar, they stop dreaming, seeing a way out. Once you stop dreaming you die. I've see many Brothers and sisters come out and live life like there is no tomorrow, making the rest of us look like we are standing still. I guess when something valuable is taken from you, and returned you appreciate it more ... as long as you have continued to think and dream.

There are indeed profound differences between the two. One Candice is a celebrity, whose first book has been on the NY Times bestsellers list since it came out. Sowell is a PhD, who is virtually obscure by comparison. Does Candice even have a graduate degree or even a 4 year degree ... if so from where? Sure if a short term income boost is your only criteria. Longer term many of us will be deeply hurt in ways we can not yet envision.

Can you give an example of a religion with a "consistent organization?"

Now, that is a stupid statement; too stupid to even contest. @Pioneer1 I saw Apocalypo recently, I actually own the DVD, there are subtitles. What bootleg version did you watch LOL!

@daniellegfny, look I understand you are a strong trump supporter, but I'm not going to go back and forth with you about whether he what he says is factual or not. You chose to believe him and that your prerogative. I know it is hard to continue to support him and hold in you head the fact that a lot of what his provably false.

How so?

That is a completely different issue than the one you raised Danille a.k.a "Mr. Strawman." You were looking for successful people on Instagram. I'm on Instagram I just don't think it is a the best place to go looking for successful people. Phuleese! All of these are business accounts - these are not people Mr. Strawman. Besides why follow a business on Instagram when you can get everything, and more, from their websites. Just admit it is the pretty pictures and animated gifs pushed to you in your feed that are easily consumed. You just turn off your brain and absorb anything the algorithm dangles in front of you. It is a lot easier than reading a book or long form article.

Reparations is not charity. It is a debt that is owned. A tax break is charity. The President you so revere is the "charity master," I'm sure it is the reason you like him so much.

Hey Gibran, have you ever seen a TV show or Movie, or read a book that accurately describes what prison life is like?

Perhaps it could be my moral convictions don't allow me to understand your perspective @daniellegfny, but the fact is many of your statements concerning your interpretation of Covid-19's severity are demonstrably false. I thought when I showed you that the data you shared revealed that Covid-19 is now the 3rd leading cause of death in the US this year that it might cause to view the pandemic more seriously. The fact that more than a million people have died across the world and you still liken the virus to the common cold -- that defies logic. But again I understand now. Look, I get that shutting down businesses for months on end has and will wreck havoc on the personal lives of millions of people. But you don't fix that problem by putting your head in the sand regarding this illness and making believe it is no worse that the flu. The U.S. has not dealt with the pandemic well. We were ill prepared for it and react poorly. I read somewhere that the deaths could could be off by 100% or more, simply because we are correctly counting the deaths. 600,000+ deaths from Covid-19 could be the an more accurate figure. But again, I know these facts will have no impact on your perspective; science, data, incredible loss of human life, be damned.

No, that is a flawed assumption. I know quite a few successful people. Some of retired NYC Transit workers who, raised a family, and are living a comfortable retirement. None of these people are on Instagram. It was pointless to mention these people because you don't know them, so I mentioned people you would revere like Clarence Thomas. Again MOST adults are not posting on Instagram those who are are trying to selling something. The majority of Instream users are young people, which is one reason it does not interest me very much. Less than 25% people my age or older even have account -- let alone post the jewels of wisdom you seek. Instragam is a video and photo sharing app for young people, a knock off of Snapchat (another app for kids). If you view it as a source of learning how to be successful in life knock yourself out. But you'd be better served investing your time in reading, watching documentaries, or sitting at my knee with a pad in your hand 😉

And we pay billion more in taxes? So what is your point? But again you missed my point. Suppose the money given to Israel (or any other foreign nation) was given to Black people, in the form of direct payments for reparations. No "new" money would need to be extracted. While I don't believe for a split second that he US of A will ever financially compensate Black people for the horrors leveled against our people over the centuries, the reason is not a lack of financial resources.

Man, what a journey! Is your page up to date?

Seems unlikely, but what do I know; I can't bring myself to install the ap on my phone. Seems to me truly successful people would have better things to do than creating Instagram posts useful enough to benefit anyone.