NubianFellow

Wow brother! Sorry so late with my response. Let me just say this... We need to have morals and expectations in our communities. Believing it's okay for a man to rape or molest children because he may have contributed something worthy to the black cause is a treasonous thing to believe. In the breath you say that, you saying F**k those black women he has taken advantage of... who have probably birthed children, that will certainly be affected by those kid's negative experiences as well... and the cycle continues. Now we have to deal with children who have been corrupted since before they were born because we accepted terrible, repugnant behavior which we were supposed to condemn. We have to be careful of what we accept. We have to be careful that we don't support behavior that is not of us nor associated with who we truly are. Our ancestors beliefs never made it to America. They were stripped of these beliefs. You are practicing what other people believe and stories told from the perspectives of others. Not to put down anyone's religion if anyone is Muslim or any other religion but I oppose all forms of religion. The Muslim religion is not ours and never was ours. The NOI was started by a white infiltrator who was working for the feds. We must not forget the history of these religions and how they have cursed our people and talked down to our people since their inception. Jesus was a cracker! He wasn't black. No matter how bad black people need to feel included in the whole religion nonsense that cleverly plays on our need to be accepted and serve something higher than ourselves. I believe the biggest flaw that most of our black leaders have had was their religion. It kept us in line. It made slaves not run away. It kept slaves obedient to their so-called masters. Religion has fed us propaganda and lies for an extremely long period of time. And I believe that the intention of all religion was to control melanated people. Even more interestingly, black people by percentage who worship these comic book gods believe in and teach this nonsense in a vast larger percentage than their counterparts. The belief rate is up past 90 percent for black people who at least believe in some form of religion. The percentage of white believers is down to less than 40 percent. I refuse to say that they are smarter than us because a lot of this is caused by social engineering, but we need to start waking up. It's so embarrassing for me to know that somewhere in some black church, a poor black family is giving away all their hard earned money to a god that doesn't exist so they can be blessed. And to prove their love for this god, they are flying around their church talking bout they have the holy ghost! Come again? My family's church was a prime example of this nonsense I was unfortunate enough to witness on too many Sundays! Any man in the physical form, and I don't care if you believe he is almighty Jesus himself, deserves death if he touches any women with his religion as an excuse to rape or molest them. A believer shouldn't have to lower their moral standards to practice their religion, which should exhibit higher standards. All gods have fallen short in matters with dealing with black people and that is not an opinion. It's a fact! And I keep hearing in defense of this nonsense that god has a plan. More b.s. Why would it take a god, master of the universe, hundreds of years to enact his "plan?" All religion does one thing to black folk. It brainwashes us and compels us to conform. Though some may feel that it does good, that is only an illusion and the good it supposedly does is coincidence. Of course, all pain feels like a burning sensation or fire. So it was pure genius to include in the stupid bible that if you don't follow it or accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior, then you will burn in hell for all of eternity. Sounds more foolish than some stupid films I saw but people don't surprise me because this has been practiced for at least thousands of years. Wow! People have a long way to go still. I say this to the black man... "You are on your own and always have been, Black man."

Black businesses are a complete waste of time. I used to wonder why Black people weren't supporting Black businesses, then I noticed something myself... black people still crave inclusion. Though many will not understand this about themselves or admit it, but it's true. Black people like to be included with others. Think about most of the recent protesting you have witnessed on mass media. It's usually black people upset about not being included. Black people want mainstream businesses to cater to them which shows that they are not interested in only patronizing black businesses. Some will claim it is impossible, however, other races and cultures of people will O N L Y buy from themselves in very high percentages. Take China for instance... a large number of Chinese people will not even use Facebook or Twitter. They have their own social networks and they could care less who is there or isn't there. I have even noticed this behavior with Indians as well. These groups of people have no problem practicing group economics. I did a post on a popular social network some time ago asking Black people why they would never support Black businesses and the feedback was abundant and alarming. I heard very many different reasons of why black businesses are inferior to non-black owned businesses. Here is some of the comments I received: This is the question I asked: "Would you invest in a Black business and do you think Black people support Black businesses enough?" Here are some of the responses to that question. Black businesses don't have good customer service. Black businesses charge too much. Black businesses don't support the community and give back. Black businesses can't compete with other businesses. Black entrepreneurs lack entrepreneur spirit. Doesn’t matter! If it’s successful, they’ll buy you out or kill you! Facts! ( Unless you take the oath) Black businesses exploit black people. Can't trust them. Not professional enough. Too many negative experiences. The list can go on for quite a while but these were the top concerns about patronizing a black business. And get this, these were comments made by other black users. There appears to be so many reasons not to support black businesses. This is a behavioral problem. Yet, if these same people are not choosing to support black businesses, it must mean that they are comfortable spending their money with non-black people! I once heard of a case where black folk were protesting because they experienced bad service from a non-black restaurant. They mentioned boycotting but that is temporary. A boycott means that once the business fixes whatever the problem is, then they will be patronized again. But think about it (and this is the reason I won't eat out anymore, especially from non-black establishments), if someone is in control of your food then they have the ability to spit in it, wipe themselves in it, pluck whatever they choose into the food, or even poison it! Why would Black people make it part of black culture to eat at Chinese food restaurants or any other restaurant that doesn't even serve native black food? And I say that because in every ghetto or urban area there are tons of Chinese food restaurants and corner stores that black people patronize willingly every single day without batting an eyelash. And what about fashion? It's strange to me that if there is one fashion label that is owned by a black owned company, then it would make sense to buy only that particular brand with an understanding that a certain percentage of the profits will go back to the black community and they use black owned banks. If we have the chance to buy black at reasonable prices and high quality, why ever buy anything else? Because we have been socially programmed to want to be included in with everyone else. If we are not included, then it appears as though we are missing out, regardless of the repercussions of this behavior. And because of our desire to be included, it appears that all black owned businesses with the exception of entertainment, will fall short of supplying black people with an unmet need. This is the fundamental goal of all businesses which includes websites. I have found from further search and experimentation that (from my own observation of data that I have personally collected) though there is a demand for black businesses to thrive, the desire to patronize these businesses just isn't there. Black people are more likely to support a non-black owned business than one they are certain is black owned. This speaks volumes about so many social issues that black people undergo on a daily basis but the behavior speaks for itself. There seems to be something that is locked in the subconscious of black people that makes them feel black businesses are primarily inefficient and not good enough to serve their needs. I believe this thinking may go back to as far as slavery. Admitting, I am no psychologist so I must state that these are only my personal observations. Another problem in the black community concerning black businesses is the common fact that black people do not practice group economics. People from other races and cultures are quick to put their money into a pot and go into a family operated business together. It's far less common with black people. Historically, black people just haven't been able to practice group economics except for when it became necessary to do so like with black wall street. To sum it all up, black people are still not willing to support black businesses because on the surface they feel that there is no need for it as long as everyone else is willing to sell to them. If black people could only buy products from other black people and exclude outsiders, then there would be rioting, marching and protesting involved... factor in tears, fainting and hyperventilating. The reality of the matter is that if this was the case, the circumstances of Black people would change relatively overnight and these circumstances would change for the better. Until black people are willing to change cultural behavior that has been pushed on us by mass media, radio, news, magazine, Hollywood, Broadway, and the likes, things are not going to change anytime soon. In order for black businesses to get supported by the black community, our entire culture has to change. It's simply a requirement. Black Americans and other Diaspora blacks don't have to feel left out. As it appears, Africa seems to exhibit symptoms of the same non-progressive behavior.

@Cynique It's interesting you say that because I have been looking for this NBC special about slavery that came on and I didn't get a chance to watch the whole thing. But the part I saw did describe men who called themselves slave masters would train the slaves to behave like barbarians. Many were raised as children to become savages. They would have them kill and fight each other, or whatever they chose for their own entertainment or amusement, and when they were done with them they took them back to Africa. These were people who probably started civilizations in coming years built on these particular experiences they went through. I can imagine the practices they and their children would dream up from this starting point, so it makes you wonder. In Central Asia there is a country called Kyrgyzstan where the people were once terrorized by enemies who would kidnap and rape their wives and make them new wives. Astonishingly enough, the people adopted this behavior eventually as tradition and to this day they suffer a crisis in which they kidnap wives as custom. Many of the women suffer from great depression and sometimes kill themselves because they could have been planning on going to school or starting their futures, which become ruined when they get kidnapped and are forced by their own families to marry the men who kidnapped them. It's customary. When people are terrorized throughout history, it seems, they adopt the behavior of the people who mistreated them or their ancestors. We do it in the US and call it "keeping it real." In Africa, if you steal something, you could have your arms or legs cut off in the Congo. These are the same people who endured the wrath of Leopold who cut off the limbs of children merely to impress his soldiers in which his small army is rumored to have killed over 10 million of the native people. So I definitely agree about them being influenced by outsiders. This seems to follow historically similar behavior patterns.

@Mel Hopkins Absolutely and without a doubt on the arranged marriages. I have family from parts of Africa and this is a big problem there. The girls are thrown into marriage before they are able to finish their childhood and this causes a lot of depression and even suicide. It is also the cause of the spread of many diseases, such as a case where a "Hyena" (a man who is requested to have sex with little girls to bring them into adulthood) has infected his victims with AIDS and when asked about it, he replied that it was tradition. I was so disgusted at this. He did finally face charges once western nations put pressure on the incident after a journalist bought the story to light. https://tv.nubianplanet.com/watch/sexual-cleansing-custom-in-malawi-on-spotlight-following-039-hyena-039-s-039-arrest_qLCmIeBGwWKbyhp.html Some things are just not right regardless of tradition or beliefs and there is no way to justify what we describe legally as child abuse in this country. Many of the traditions and beliefs of various societies in Africa should be viewed as history and left behind.

About Black people destined to be at odds with each other, I think that in the context of discussion, there is nothing wrong with having different viewpoints. It doesn't mean Black people are at odds if discussion is happening. This is how we arrive to the most effective solutions. Viewpoints change throughout our lives. If I was having this conversation a few years ago or perhaps maybe even a year ago, my opinions could be a lot different than the opinions I possess now. I actually appreciate when I don't see eye to eye with my people because it means that I will either learn something or educate someone or perhaps both. Besides, without reasonable discourse, how would we agree on which point of view is the correct one?

@Pioneer1 I disagree implicitly with all you have said brother. Most African families aim to be American families or some other European nation at the end of the day. Yes, there are wealthy Africans but their wealth does not compare to ours. You are referring to less than 1 percent of African wealth. You pointed out their divorce rate is low. Perhaps the divorce rate would be lower if a woman knew her penalty for divorcing her mate was death. Enough said on that patriarchal system. You said their households make more money. This is fiction. I would love to know where you got this information from. Most countries in Africa are third world countries and our brothers and sisters over there are adamant about us "coming home" to help them build. Slavery hurt Africa in the worst way imaginable and they have never recovered from that poor decision of their corrupt governments. Finally, you said they outperform us in school. This is part is true. We have the highest dropout rates and we celebrate behavior that keeps us from excelling as a collective. African kids are more ambitious about learning than our kids and retain much more information and this needs to be addressed more heavily in the Diaspora. American Black kids reject knowledge while other races of children are thirsty for it. We also lack the discipline that exists within African societies. The sad part is that our children are super smart and intelligent but there is a problem embedded deep within our social structure that produces poor results. I don't say these things to put my African brothers and sisters down because they are me, but let's not be influenced by things that are propagandized and totally false information. As far as following the European model, the only thing I disagree with is doing things in the name of their god or jesus, which is a fictitious and mythical character that was stolen from our history books, ironically, because Egyptian mythology actually makes sense, unlike Greek mythology which is dumb in my opinion. If white people are saying that forced marriages are wrong then I can't argue with that perspective. If they think it's shameful that people are setting their brothers and sisters on fire and exhibiting cannibal behavior, I won't argue with that either. I love Africa and I dream of going back home someday, to the motherland. However, wrong is wrong and right is right. We know enough to call out the bs and we should. We need to stop praising tribal behavior and end the fascination of primitive rituals and cultures that keeps our people the most far behind on this planet. I'm for the ascension of the Black race. I'm for African empowerment. I will not cosign backwards behavior, simply because I love home.

For the record, most Black men I know are good dads, they support their wives and children, they protect their families and most of the Black mothers I know personally strive to be the best mothers they know how to be. In the age of us waking up, of course they are not perfect parents, but they love their children and do their best. As a whole, my opinion of Black people is that we are unique, highly intelligent (in our own special way), have the best genes and the most soul out of anyone else. I don't buy the b.s. narrative that Black men are too effeminate or that Black women are thots and other bad words. But these people have an agenda and they have mastered the ability to make us turn on ourselves. The solution is simple. If you go to any ghetto on the planet, you will see that the crime rate is high and the property value is low. However, take any borough in NYC; the properties are valued at about 150k and up. However, if you change the mindset of those who inhabit these areas, the property values would shoot to the millions of dollars. If our thinking changes to a certain extent, we will have already increased our wealth without doing anything else.

@Pioneer1 I have to comment on what you said here because frankly, this was a bad example: "I'm sure you remember that in the older days some of our grandmothers and great grandmother's were being married BY THEIR FATHERS to older men at 15 and 16 years of age! I don't advocate that, however from their perspective I'm sure they were looking out for their and their children's interests by trying to pair them with men they thought would take care of them." These practices happen in dark nations today and in all cases it's sad. When a parent makes a child marry someone to achieve a certain position or higher standard of living they are not looking out for the child's interest. They are looking out for their own and though this exists throughout our world, it's terrible culture. In some cultures they practice bride kidnapping which is just as deplorable. White people came into their land and kidnapped and raped these people's wives and they adapted it as culture. Same thing with Africa. Many of these "traditions" were created out of being tormented by white people. Yet we celebrate these things and refer to these things as positive culture, which it is not. White publications point out how backwards these things are as if they are so advanced, but fail to mention the existence of white people are the reason many of these "traditions" exist in the first place. Because their ancestors and them have had and still have a hell of a time raping our people and killing us off. I love my African identity - don't get me wrong. But I can't cosign bs. As a people, we must not. Arranged marriages destroy lives and many of these women actually commit suicide and become exposed to the most diseases. It's a form of slavery and it should not be our way. Do we have to become chattel slaves again before we learn that slavery is wrong, on all fronts? @DelanoThe Black woman is the most unprotected woman on the planet, but not due to the Black man not protecting her to his best ability individually. The problem is systemic in that there is a system put in place to keep us powerless. And do I blame the Black man? Absolutely! One hundred percent. Its only because I see the Black man as a god, which means we don't have the luxury of excuses. But our collective behavior is low vibration. And we need to vibrate higher and become effectively more organized, unified and militant in our behavior. But today, our behavior collectively, is the opposite of militant. We've become used to mediocrity and the men always are supposed to lead. But where are we leading our women too? We are messing up. If you are talking about protecting the Black women to the best of our ability - collectively, then the Black man has not only failed the Black woman, but he has failed his race, the kids and hope for our future. And I put everything that's wrong with Black people on the shoulder and back of the Black man. It's our job to repair what we have allowed to become destroyed. And if we don't do that, who the hell are we not to accept accountability, even if that means our own extinction, from which it appears, we will be the biggest participants of.

@Troy LOL. Hope I wasn't being too candid. We all do dumb things at the end of the day. Reading this confession made me think of some of the dumb things I did too in my earlier years and I guess it just struck a nerve. Wasn't so much mad at the fact that he gave the money back but I think it had to do more with the dynamics in this scenario. I guess sometimes I am just a little bit too old skool. @Willie J Moye I was being sarcastic to prove a point but I get it brother, you messed up. That's a part of life. We live and learn. If we never make mistakes, then we never grow.

@Willie J Moye I have to admit brother, you were a single Black dad of two beautiful daughters who was broke! (Times 3) You also had a memory of the god you praise of working in mysterious ways. At this point, the universe was talking to you. You prayed for a miracle and you found a stash of 6.5k. If you still believe in that white jesus you worship, he answered your prayers and delivered you the answer to your prayers. Instead of feeding your daughters (who were depending on you to provide for them) the slave mentality kicks in (your religion) and tells you that even though the universe is finally in your favor, what you need to do is return the money, so you and your kids can stay hungry and some old racist white man can laugh at you while you hand over his money to him. In your mind, you were brainwashed to believe that you were doing a greater good for your jesus that you serve and obey. Even when it would be easy to reason that he was actually trying to assist you. At this point, the buffoonery is so pathetic that even Jesus is laughing at you even though he only exists in your mind anyway. I want to give you a break because I understand many of my brothers and sisters are in love with these nonsense religions, but bruh... you had 2 daughters! Shame on you! When your children are starving, no one needs money more than they do. You put a white man's well-being over your own children? Your story is a reflection of slave mentality. When the Africans came over to the America's they wondered why the salves weren't rebelling or trying to escape. It's because the white man knew one thing about us, which was the fact that slaves are made in the mind first. You have every reason to be haunted by those actions. Because your children could have benefited from you being just a little bit smarter. At the end of the day, that white man did what he was supposed to do. He probably wanted to pet you and say, "Good job!" Side note: Did it even occur to you to take something for yourself and family and then return the rest of the funds anonymously or was it important that he knew the person who was doing the kind deed? Well, it was kind to that white man. No kind deed was being done to your children. Sorry brother, but I have to ask, if put in that same position with all you have learned since then, would you still make the same decision? To answer your question about what I would have given you, I'm not sure. If I knew your situation and how much need you were in, I'd probably have given you half, depending on my situation. Because at least I would have seen you as a human being. Whatever I gave you, I would have asked you if it was enough. All of this is assuming that we look alike. If you didn't look like me, I would have probably told you thanks before I left while counting my money to make sure every dollar is there. This is the part of your story that sent chills down my spine.

Here is pretty much the problem in a nutshell: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/04/25/google-overhauls-search-algorithm-bid-fight-fake-news/ Google is going to use its influence on the net to control what content people see based on what they consider "fake" or "conspiracy news." The average person might say ,"Well heck! That's good news because I get tired of hearing conspiracy theories." But then I ask, what more is a conspiracy theory other than an unpopular opinion or belief? If you limit one websites freedom of speech, you potentially threaten any website with similar viewpoints. For instance, information Black people consider relevant is different than what white people consider relevant for the most part. According to them, buck breaking is a myth and they didn't feed slaves to alligators based on the logic that they would be losing money. This is what Snopes proclaims. However, we seem to have accurate detail of these events and no one can deny the post cards that Snopes said "was in bad humor." It wasn't in bad humor, it was in bad actions by bad people. And this is our history and there is nothing fake or phony about what we endured. And popular to a new right wing claim that slavery was agreed to by the Africans, this is yet another bogus claim that tries to rewrite our history yet again. So much required information is left out with these pieces of biased information that it just simply becomes untrue. But nevertheless, the power of information is not a power to take lightly. When you share information with people, you change their minds, effect their behavior and beliefs and change the world. We too easily leave people with this power who care nothing about our beliefs and who we are. The problem I have with that is also the fact that we rely on this same information that we entrust with people whom we know are not fond of us. How can we not equate this behavior with some type of retardation or sickness in the Black community? Because, it appears to me, that Black people are the only group of people on the planet who allow this behavior.

@Troy I appreciate it brother. This is something that has really been an issue but I was unable to find what the problem was.I will look into that right away! I will also correct the url's. Thanks for pointing that out brother.

@Delano Really? We exchanged viewpoints and ideas without being disrespectful. She gave her viewpoint and I gave mine. This is how I have seen men and ladies interact with each other and in my humble opinion, this is how I love to see my brothers and sisters behave towards one another. What you may consider depressing - I consider maturity. There are billions of us and over 50 million of us in the USA. We won't agree on everything. But that isn't depressing. Can you imagine how ineffective all of our movements would have been if we all agreed on everything instead of being honest about our beliefs? I would hate to imagine what that world would look like. But that would be far more depressing to me than a world where we exchange ideas and viewpoints. Otherwise, social networking is a waste of everyone's time!

@Mel Hopkins What you call ego massaging - I call my truth.

@Mel Hopkins It is feminist anti male rhetoric like this that holds us back as a people sista. You have said a lot, and most of it just doesn't hold weight. Black men are not cowards in any light I have seen Black men in. For the most part we are honorary and protectors of our families. When you say the white man outsmarted Black men, you mean to say white people outsmarted Black people, if that is the position you hold. But this a biased and uneducated view of the reality. In saying that Black men have failed Black women you are saying that because the focus of African societies wasn't to build weapons of mass destruction to conquer other nations that Black men are responsible for what happened to them. This may be a valid point in some lights, however, this is one of the things that have differentiated us from them. While they were pillaging and killing the innocent, it simply wasn't our nature to do the same and therefore we paid a terrible price. I agree we should have been ready.. but I see much of our history through the present. You see queen, we are our ancestors. So what does this mean? Examine Black people's willingness to build together, leave white social media alone except for marketing purposes and focus more on Black social networks. But this is not normal behavior. Black people don't support Black people and one of the biggest reasons for this is due to how we communicate and network. Wanna know my definition of a slave? It's someone who accepts domination with no rebuttal. This is what our people seemingly do when faced with white supremacy. Remember, white supremacy can't exist without Black inferiority. In order for someone to be supreme, someone else must be inferior. By no means do I consider our people inferior, however, the behavior is very flawed and undoubtedly inferior behavior. This is not about men protecting women. It's about people rising to the calling. And our people simply don't step up. This must be how they defeated us in the first place. To put everything on the Black man, who is fathered by the Black woman is just as insulting to the Black woman as it is to the Black man. You can't put down a Black man or woman without putting down all Black people. While it is true that we have flaws as a group, the focus needs to be more on parenting and instilling culture, moral and value into our children. Because we can nit pick all day. Trust me. And if you don't believe me, just go to facebook to see the childish ranting and experience the whole "Black gender war" agenda. And on top of that, the solution, as many are putting it, is to date out. How quickly we abandon our own. Then blame the other for the current situation we are in. Our ancestors would be ashamed of this behavior. Every bad thing you can say about Black men, trust me, they can point out why it's the fault of the Black woman and what you have is a social dysfunction in the Black community that would cease to correct itself. It would quickly turn into the blame game. There is much fault on both sides but you can't fix opinion. All you can do is argue about it. Want to fix something, then go after the behavior of the children's parents who instilled these beliefs into them. Perhaps there is something fundamental that our boys and women are not being taught that could be the cause of the social chaos and confusion that is prevalent in the Black community these days. We need to go deeper.

@Troy I created a fan page for this forum on Nubian Planet which is doing pretty good on there https://www.nubianplanet.com/aalbcforum. Some people have gotten confused but the sites are totally different in every way. In fact, I'm not just disappointed at what Black Planet has become, but I'm actually insulted. They were once the largest Black social network on the planet. Now they look like a WordPress site. (Who spends a reported 30 million dollars on a website to use a crappy looking WordPress theme on it? And yet do not advertise the site? I have my speculations of why that happened and how big MySpace and Facebook have gotten when BP was once the largest social network in the world.) And they are white owned which seems like more of a joke being played on us. Also, not too long ago I included this site in a review on https://blackpeoplemoveforward.com/black-media/review-of-top-5-most-impressive-black-media-websites/. It says five sites but one had to be deleted so there are only four sites being reviewed for now.

@Delano I agree with this statement brother. It's their personal experience and it may be accurate. But this topic seems to be more of a generalization. If these women don't feel protected by Black men then that is their reality - but it is only their reality. And that doesn't make it everyone else' reality.

@Cynique I feel like what you said is disingenuous sister. The percentage of Black men that support Trump is less than five percent. And most of them are probably being paid or receive some type of benefit for their support. That's how they play this game, the way we should be playing it. Black women don't look to Black men as their heroes, but that's a problem deeply rooted in our social structure. Like I said, most Black men I have been around will die for a Black queen. Real talk. I am not making that up. And a very small percentage I know would abuse and disrespect Black women simply because they feel entitled. I'm not trying to paint a picture that Black men are saints. But we are not as bad as everyone proclaims. And on the flip side of that coin, Black women are also not as bad as everyone proclaims. Most Black women I know would also die for Black men and go down defending him. These are my personal experiences. And anywhere I have traveled, I have not noticed a shift in this behavior so from my perspective this point of view seems accurate all across the board. Also, Black people need to stop relying on mainstream media. This is where sites like this become so important. They have the power. Google our past history and examine how the number one search engine in the world gives you the results. For instance, Buck Breaking is a myth according to Snopes. White people never fed Black babies to alligators according to Snopes and if you want to discover new things about Nubian people, some of the results may have you believing or questioning if they were white people. This is why the most important information I have about anything is what I can absolutely observe for myself. And when I view information that goes against my own experience, then I will rely on my personal experience. Furthermore, saying Black men don't protect Black women is the same thing as calling Black men cowards. It's funny how they have us believing that Black men are cowards but yet, everyone is extremely afraid of us. I smell a rat and I'm not biting the cheese!

@Troy There is a difference in the behavior brother. Nothing wrong at all with Black businesses receiving money to survive. That's pretty much the point. However, when there are people who misappropriate these funds or have no intentions of using the money to support their network or business, then that's where the problem lies. I see nothing wrong with requesting money to support Black social networking because a lot goes into it. My only problem is when I catch some of these brothers (who may have good intentions) purposely lying to the public so they can get more money from them. That goes against code in my humble opinion and though I don't believe this is the norm, I believe that this behavior will hurt Black businesses who are more upfront. For instance, right now in the conscious community, there is a lot of mistrust. We need to get to a place where there isn't as much mistrust and uphold certain standards in our communities, which will make it more likely that our people will want to patronage us and our businesses. And because this is exceptionally important, especially in the Black community, we don't have much room for error. I actually believe it's important that Black people patronage and donate to Black businesses more, so these businesses can grow. Starting a Black owned business automatically puts us at sort of a disadvantage because such businesses are appealing to only a certain group of people. Therefore, it's crucial that we maintain the excellence and integrity that is necessary in the Black community. This post is not about patronage as so much as it is about dishonesty in our communities. I also don't believe the burden should rely on the people. The burden relies on the businesses to do the right thing and most importantly earn the trust of the people. The more trust we build up, the better Black businesses do as a whole.

@Troy I appreciate that brother. And I know exactly what you mean. Our people are addicted to these white social networking platforms that gives people who don't like us the ability to read our minds. I only use Facebook at the moment because of it's ability to send results. But I am also anti Facebook myself. I discovered this site through Google. I will be pleased once we get our people to stop depending on these "mainstream" social networks. They don't like us and for the most part, it doesn't seem like they want us there in the first place other than to study the behavior. I only post links on Facebook myself. That's all they are good for. I don't even chat with family through Facebook anymore because Facebook knows too much already! Thanks once again family! I can also add links about this site to my websites as well.

@Delano I won't agree that Black men don't protect the Black women, especially with this new gender war that exists predominantly in the Black community that was socially engineered. Women against the men? Everyone else does that for laughs. But the Black community, we just take it and run with it. I will agree when we talk about the crime rate and the fact that Black people are exterminating themselves. I will agree that we have praised our women for the wrong reasons for far too long. I will agree that we need to focus and concentrate on the true problems we face as a people, all that seem to have one common truth, which is the fact that Black people have not learned the art of cooperation. Until we learn to cooperate together as a people, there will be no hope for us. I see many flaws in the Black community, but the men not protecting the women is not one of those flaws that I see.

@Delano Their game; their rules. I would hate to see what happens to a Black man trying to go against a race soldier who happens to be the president. We have to pick our battles wisely. Yet, I am sure that most Black men did not side with Trump. Now I admit, if our people were more active in politics, that would be a game changer all across the board. We can't use the excuse that we don't have the numbers anymore and I feel like when Black people say that their votes don't count, that is just weak! Everything we do counts!

@Delano You won't get any opposition from me about how rap music started off calling our women queens and our men kings, and then in less than ten years became hip hop which was the destruction of rap music. That is something else that we don't control, and anytime we give someone else control over us, we pretty much become their b-----s! But these days, surprisingly, Black people have forgotten their power as well as abandoned a trillion dollar contribution to the American economy that everyone else exploits while we are like deer standing on a highway caught in the lights of a truck about to get ran over. Rap music is only a part of that dynamic. Social engineering of our behavior starts before we are even born.

@Delano Here is what I mean by propaganda. Notice that non Hispanic Blacks show that they only account for 16.2 percent of police reported domestic disputes. But then the disputes that have never been reported jump up to surpass the Hispanics. My question here is if these disputes were never reported, then how do we know they even existed? Furthermore, the distinction of Hispanics is also a game that is being played on us. When Latinos do bad things, they get classified as Black Latino but when they are more progressive or elite, they are not classified as Black. I'm not saying by any means that we are a perfect people, but you have to admit, something's not right!

@Delano Yes, I have had to defend Black women from other Black men. But I can also state that there are far more domestic cases of abuse involving the man abusing his women in white homes. This can be proven statistically. The truth, I believe, is that in this new internet age, that is very fresh and heavily evolving on a consistent and daily basis, things tend to be stretched out of proportion. People want engagement online and in order to get that you have to get people's interest. This means spreading propaganda, twisting reality, stretching things out of proportion and making reality seem as exciting as possible. This is the power of social media and what makes it thrive. Some people believe every couple of years that the world is going to soon end, and they become so consumed with these ideas that they will give away possessions and wait for the inevitable end - to the point that when it doesn't happen, they are sad in a way. Black problems in the real world have become stretched out of proportion online for clicks. Yes, we do have a lot of issues that we need to resolve, but most of these issues are behavior faults that lie within our social structure. Though I can admit that not every Black man is going to go out of his way to protect a Black woman, I believe that in any random scenario, the chance is likely that the Black man won't leave his woman to be handled by outsiders. And I have seen several videos online in which Black men always come to the rescue of Black women. Therefore, I believe any other beliefs are merely hype and propaganda.