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@Delano Brother, I can give a few... me, for one. Had to stop a potential assault of a Black woman by her boyfriend. Unfortunately, this has happened a few times in my life where I needed to intervene. Also, this mentality seemed pretty common to me around my peers as well. I remember a Black man explaining to me the necessity of watching over our women at a young age and explaining to me why it wasn't okay to abuse women. Though I was in kindergarten, the message stayed with me for the rest of my life. So I think it's very important that more Black male adults have these conversations with our boys when they are the youngest and most impressionable. Don't wait until they are at an age where we believe they should understand, because we will be surprised at what a 4, 5 or 6 year old may be able to comprehend and what influence these words will have on them forever.

@Delano Brother, though I agree that we can't defend them to the full potential that they deserve, I believe very much that we always come to the aid of our women, more-so than people of any other culture or race. This is why I also believe that white men do not try our sisters in our presence as much, because they know better. It happens but I feel that it is rare when a Black man stands down while another Black woman is being assaulted or even treated poorly. Heck, in certain areas the women even use this to their advantage and abuse that privilege though that is even more rare. From my viewpoint, when it comes to protecting our women, Black men are the most loyal. Again... I can't find much evidence of this on major social networks, but look at who is running that algorithm.

@Delano About the music disrespecting them or protecting them?

@Delano I would have to agree with that statement. Our music needs to be rethought of and the platform needs to be more friendly to our children who listen to the repetitive hypnotizing beats on a consistent basis. This will definitely have an effect on social behavior, which is probably why they allowed the music to go mainstream in the first place. I just bet they didn't realize the crossover potential.

This discussion reminds me of something that is undeniable, which is that Black people do not support Black media. Until that changes, propaganda like this will brainwash the masses. I have noticed something in my attempt to observe and study social behavior that is fascinating to me. I am certain that Black people as a whole are constantly being told what to believe and what to stand for.

Our behavior is definitely engineered, now more than ever! The most damaging thing they could have done to Black people was social media. These are algorithms we usually have no input or control over. Facebook workers have admitted that the platform's algorithm is written in a way that it protects white ideals and pretty much invalidates all others. There are racist concepts presented in their algorithm that go unchallenged by the masses and allows for more coercion than anything.

I do believe that Black men are almost overly protective of Black women to a degree and I am also pretty certain that Black women feel very protected when they are in the presence of Black man. I wouldn't believe this if I went by social media alone. However, in the world, I see this behavior without a doubt. Of course these factors are not as simple as Black and white. You also have to consider such things as class, education, etc. Our behavior changes and varies based on many key factors that a simple article will not be able to effectively address. The behavior of a Black impoverished area in Philadelphia may be hugely more different than a Black impoverished population in Florida, for example.

Our people differ and no two people are the same, but I would say that when it comes to protecting Black women, we do not fall short!

It is necessary for Google to treat all information fairly. They have adopted new algorithms which haven definitely effected web results. I don' t believe the results are better now. I believe certain websites, especially websites I use have been effected, whereas some of results I once dominated are no longer featured by Google. There has been updates to these platforms which could effect results, but I hardly believe to the extent that Google has seemed to drop from consideration. Some of this leading content has proven supreme, in that when I checked, I saw that tons of sites have copied the content making me need to change it. But the link juice is not being considered at all, otherwise, these sites would still dominate these keywords. So I am definitely led to believe that there is something else, and it's not just software. it could be that much of the content goes against traditional political and personal views, which shouldn't be an issue when it comes to information. People should be able to get conflicting viewpoints and then determine their own.

Also, Google controls most of the internet searches. This means they have the power to silence certain platforms or at least make life more difficult for these websites. If you disadvantaged as Black people are when it comes to any type of media, then it becomes quite necessary to make this game more fair. So I agree with changing this behavior because as usual, when there is a monopoly of something, we will always pay the penalty.

I also don't think it is a coincidence that at the moment, when you type in buck breaking article, the most accurate account of the history is placed nicely at the bottom of the page below a Snopes Fact Check article that says the information is only partially accurate but repudiates the part about buck breaking. I don't think that's a coincidence.

I also look at the fact that the more popular certain content gets, the less Google will feature and send traffic. For the past half year, Google has went from sending the sites in question most of it's traffic to hardly sending any traffic. The site gets more traffic on its own but I still smell a rat!

If I had the power to send an unbiased team to investigate the algorithm itself, I'm sure we would easily find that these algorithms are written to protest supremacy.

We now know the power of the internet. The content we produce has the power to change and effect people's minds and behavior, just like any other media. We also know that because people carry the internet with them in their pockets, the internet could easily get the title of the most influential media in the universe.

This is odd. I tried to write a recommendation on your facebook page but I wasn't allowed. I also liked the page through some of my other facebook pages as well. Nevertheless, Black media sites need to be more visible all around the board.

I hate the fact that Black people are resistant when it comes to spending money with Black people. The problem is embedded deep within our culture and I notice certain social behavior that appears to be prevalent among all Black societies everywhere on the planet that I know of. There is a basic flaw that Black people have about doing business with their people. Of the biggest flaw I notice, it is being disingenuous when it comes to finance.

I kind of feel like the Hotep community has become a playground for conscious pimps who are set at exploiting the Black community for money and personal gain. It's not cute. As a result, you have certain platforms that appeal to the community for money to grow their needed business. While I do feel that all Black businesses are necessary and deserve the support of the Black community, I feel like many of these platforms use Black empowerment to empower themselves. Anytime I notice disingenuous in the Black community when it comes to finance, I immediately turn away from these businesses or platforms.

Black businesses need to stop duping our people when it comes to how we deal with their money. If this behavior is prevalent in the Black community, then it certifies that Black people have a reason not to trust these businesses and also businesses with good intentions due to their bad experiences with businesses, full black owned, that have taken money and lied about how that money was spent. There is no bigger crime in the Black community than this. It pains me to hear a story of a Black person who donated money to a Black business and later learns that this money was not spent how it was supposed to be spent. Unfortunately, this appears to be typical behavior in the Black community.

We have to stop looking at our people as suckers and stop taking money from our people with crooked intentions. I have noticed that Facebook as well as YouTube has become a haven for scammers and Hotep pimps looking to take advantage of the Black community, simply to enhance their own pockets. This backwards behavior must cease in the Black community. We need to be able to trust each other. We need to feel comfortable and safe spending money with each other, which is how we will empower Black businesses and hold on to the Black dollar longer, which is imperative to building as a people.

Furthermore, this behavior of stealing from our people is not who we are. I believe this behavior has been engineered socially. It's been programmed into us by our music and through Black media as well as mainstream media, which we haven't had proper control of. It appears that once many of our new generation leaders get a certain amount of pull or popularity in the Black conscious community, money becomes their religion. I love money as next as the next man, but I refuse to worship money. Understanding how it works is necessary. Valuing wealth is paramount. But making money your god is the wrong religion and will not lead to wealth, which supersedes money because money is superficial.

Building respect, honor and integrity in the Black community has to be a priority, especially for the conscious community, which hopefully someday will evolve into a group of our most elite and forward thinking members of our race and culture. But we must not allow money to control our social behavior and influence our morality since money doesn't actually exist. True wealth lies in our cultural behavior as a people. True wealth relies upon moral foundation and principle. Once we get that back, then we have achieved wealth. Wealth should be and needs to be the goal. This flaw is something that must be corrected in the Black community.

I love science fiction so I'm always ready to read a decent science fiction novel written by a Black person. I will be frequenting this section for interesting reads.

" Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier" sounds like a good read, but this should be common sense, especially when it comes to Black people. I don't understand the behavior. Of all people, Black people seem more addicted to Facebook than anyone else. Then complain about the level of activity on Black social networks. Like, hello, maybe it's because you are all on Facebook! LMAO! Speaking of science fiction, the behavior here would be a great script. I'm sure the author could have a lot of fun with that concept. It would probably be more like sci fi comedy.

More comedy... did anyone know that Facebook has been caught red-handed using the data they collect on their site, to not only discriminate against Black people on their website, but also discriminate with housing. It's like Black people purposely sign up to an FBI website to be further discriminated against! I don't have the words to describe whatever is going on. But the irony is that's where you find tons of information that is supposed to empower Black people. LOL The contradiction is too much!

I wish someone could explain the behavior to me. Just about any Black website I attend is like a ghost site. Even though Black Planet is a white owned site, I sure miss those days when that was the spot. Sentimental I suppose.

Has anyone read from a Black sci fi author who writes about an alien invasion? I would love to experience an alien invasion from a Black author's point of view.

"Dear Black people: Facebook hates you. They are Racist as fuck! That's it. " sparked outrage in a conscious group on Facebook. Not enough of us see the importance of moving to Black media. Then Black people complain that Black websites don't have the people that white media has. Duh.. that's because they are on Facebook talking about group economics and building Black businesses. See how contradictory this thinking is? Black people will support Black businesses offline as much as they support them online. What we have is a love story between white and Black people. A love-hate relationship if you will. (Black people still fight for inclusion) In order to build Black businesses online and off, we must first have an interest in doing so. The interest isn't there. By all right, this site should be waaaay more popular and good content hear too. So why are Black people on white media? If they chose to support Black media, these conversations would be null and void, and advertisers would finally start paying Black websites what they are worth for advertising and take us more seriously. But our people make taking advantage of us... too easy!

I want to share this but the video played on youtube and not this page. Is it my internet or does this video not play here?

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@Pioneer1 I agree that Native Americans are very much like us and much of our history can probably be traced back to these people. I also don't entirely object to the fact that much of our own history can be traced back to these groups of people. In understanding slavery, it only makes sense that if Black people were already over here, then they would have become slaves once they were slaughtered after they fought. I have traced my own lineage back to Nat Love, who was kidnapped by the Indians and then escaped after them wanting him to join their tribe. Indians are very tribal people. So they must have been able to identify with Black people to let them join their tribes. I often question if we were the same people. What if the Native Americans were Black? 

As far as intelligence, I agree that Black people, for whatever reason, have historically made terrible decisions. I blame many factors on things, such as slavery, screwing with our genetic lines, buck breaking, trauma, and all the other atrocities that our people faced. But yes, it would be nice to have leaders who actually cared about benefiting the people and did actions that not only empowered themselves but empowered their people as well. But in the past 8 years, I have noticed that Black people have ignored the benefits of Black leadership and accepted having a "symbol" of power.

In my observations of dealing with other cultures in the Northeast, it appears that the people who embrace and identify most closely to being Black are the Latino's. It also appears that Black people most easily accept these groups of outsiders the most. It could be because many Native Americans assume African identity. My uncle who passed recently worked on a board in a reservation. Besides having a very straight grade of hair, you could not distinguish him from an African American. There is literally no difference between African Americans and true Native Americans. And I don't mean the 5 dollar Indians either.

@Delano To organize with my brothers and sisters and create a power base. Control Black businesses and promote group economics.

11 hours ago, Troy said:

My fight is not against white people, but the systems that create white racists.

@Troy I understand this sentiment, but not sure I necessarily agree with it. My fight is also against the system that creates racists. My fight is also with the actual racists and anyone who benefits from that system or is not adamant about opposing it. True, I wouldn't expect most people to oppose a system they benefit from. Perks. That's to be expected. However, until that system is destroyed, white people are in fact, my enemies by default. This is how I felt since perhaps earlier than kindergarten before I personally experienced racism. And though I was raised to love my identity, this wasn't something that was embedded in me. It was instinct. And I never opposed my intuition because, for me, it was basic common sense. Doesn't mean I will walk around being mean to white people and wishing bad things happen to them or even go around seeking my revenge for what they did and are doing. It just means that in my mind, I know who my enemies are. Though some people, including me, could easily argue that we are our own worst enemies, white people get it by default. I think the Matrix explains it best!

@Troy I like your site. It has a nice atmosphere. I do agree that we need more. But more importantly, we need to learn to embrace Black businesses, products, services, and yes... black websites too. As far as many brown Hispanics identifying as white, we got a lot of Black brown people who also identify as white, egyptian, israelites, indian and the list goes on brother. I do agree with you about race being more of a social construct. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. In this reality, race is used to control conscious Black social behavior. Think about it, if our people are messed up socially, then how can we ever get anything together on any other higher level? If we can't cooperate with ourselves socially,  we won't be empowered enough to run anything else, not even our own businesses.

Before I make my next point, let me say that I love going to Black businesses because they support me the most, and I get the feeling that the owners and people who work there see me more as a person than just dollar signs. Black businesses are also least likely to rip Black people off, despite many of our people exclaiming differently. They had a bad experience with one or two Black businesses and then so easily decide that Black businesses are the worst on the planet. Once upon a time when I worked with mortgages, surprisingly a Black woman called up and asked me if I was Black (I assumed she was searching for a Black person to do business with), but when I verified, she asked for someone white and told me of her experiences dealing with Black people and how she was preyed upon. No problem. I worked out the commission anyway and made more money on the deal than I would have made if I didn't send her to a fellow white coworker. But the point is, when we are racist against our own, it backfires every single time. Now I do notice that some (a very small number) of Black businesses don't value their Black customers. And to me, that's buffoonery and coonery. These same businesses who didn't value or treat their black customers like people are the same ones that will complain that Black people don't support them. I feel that we need to honor our businesses that look out for the people and make more of an effort to connect with our own, for the good of all Black people everywhere and humanity itself!

Scientifically, there may only be one race, but in this reality, we have acknowledged racial, cultural and ethnic identities exist and that affects the fabric of our existence on this planet. I would love for us to be in a position someday where we can embrace everyone. But that day has not come yet. Until Black people learn to embrace themselves, everyone else will not respect us as a collective. We will continue to be looked down upon as a group and continue to be treated the worst. The first thing Black people must learn to do again is what everyone else does... embrace our own and stop trying to be content serving white people, or our race will be doomed forever.

@Troy It is possible that the article was written from an emotional perspective more than a logical one. Nevertheless, the findings speak for themselves. I only present a mere 'what if?' Could this be wishful thinking on my part? Yes, it very well could be. Once you read something like, https://www.nubianplanet.com/history/king-leopold-ii-heinous-barbaric-genocide-people-congo/ you start to want some revenge, much less, right in America, we faced https://www.nubianplanet.com/nubian/buck-breaking-heinous-act-purposely-erased-history/. Our history has been brutal. But you know what, I don't hold what happened in the past against the whites of today. As they say, they are not responsible for what their ancestors did. I despise them for how they still treat us even though they pretend that Black people have it the best and invented this illusion they call Black privilege to take the focus off of white privilege. Some tricky evil monsters. Am I racist? Perhaps, but the deeper question is probably whether or not I should be. Is it my dream to see white people magically die off and leave the planet to us? Nah, truthfully, I know better. The next people in line to rule the planet wouldn't be us. In fact, as it stands now, we'd be last in line to rule anything, and I am not convinced that the Chinese wouldn't be more brutal with us than white people are now. I honestly don't feel Black people are ready to rule the planet. I wish I didn't feel that way, but that's what my gut tells me. 

As far as Latinos being white, I think I would disagree with that. Not saying they are Black, but most have a higher mixture of Black. That's probably why they are socially treated about the same as Black people. Behaviorally, growing up around Latinos in the hood too, you can't tell the difference. I don't think this is all social behavior, but genetically imprinted behavior. Besides, I believe we mostly see white Latinos on media and in the states, but as I understand many of these Latin nations and countries are heavily imprinted with African Latinos. White Latinos are about as much Latino as white Indians.

The report about unwed mothers is staggering and shameful. This also speaks volumes about exactly what's happening in the Black social construct. It is perhaps the biggest problem that we face as a race and culture. Cause these Black boys without dads around are now becoming grown. Not saying single Black mothers can't raise Black children, but my common sense tells me that's not going to work in Black people's favor.

@Troy Separate studies have proved that even though our population is decreasing, our birth rates are not. This was not the only study done. For instance, this one has a chart. This post talks about death rates.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3984874/More-whites-die-born-states-New-research-reveals-changing-demographics-amidst-soaring-Caucasian-death-rates.html

The only thing responsible for our shrinking population is poverty. Here is another report that backs up evidence that Black birth rates are not shrinking.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/05/17/explaining-why-minority-births-now-outnumber-white-births/

These influences in mortality rates could be a definite factor in the extreme prejudice we witness when police annihilate us.

@Del The majority of the stories are a part of an SEO campaign. However, a large portion of the readers is female. Facebook and Google do not send the same traffic. I am certain that Google is sending traffic to the least relevant content. Audience from Facebook is much more targeted. A large following also flows over from other networked content and websites. Also, much of the content has been removed. All of this affects traffic which is decided by algorithms on other websites as well as search engines. The traffic is diverse, however.

@Del Good morning brother Del. The website is registered to me.

I understand your concerns with this information due to the source. Here is a link to a more established website: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/health/sperm-counts-declining-study/index.html I did check the information with major sites and news websites and the information is exactly the same. However, the only difference I noticed is that they do not point to white men, instead, they point to western men, which is not true at all. There is no decline in the reproduction of Black people. This is why I like going to Black websites. The good ones don't whitewash the information in the same way that some of your more popular and organized websites do (same companies that printed racist articles about Black people for hundreds of years).

On CNN"S article, please note: " By comparison, the researchers found no significant declines in the sperm counts and sperm concentrations of men living in South America, Asia and Africa. "

In contrast, I believe the reason why some Black empowered sites do like to exclude listing sources sometimes could be due to the fact that they are contributing to validating these sources of information as supreme. It not only promotes these websites, but also validates their findings. When we do this, intellectually, we begin to trust them as official sources of information, and not websites like this that give information from our own perspective. We need our own reliable sources for information verification.

@Mel Hopkins I totally agree with this sentiment. Even though I sense a tinge of sarcasm, your comment is so on point sistah.

@Mel Hopkins Please share. I would like to visit these websites. Thank you queen.

I am glad that you composed a list of Black oriented websites. Unfortunately, there are many that wouldn't make my list. Huff Post is white owned, So is Essence that seems to definitely have an agenda with some of the articles I have read on that site. One recent story Essence did was this one. MTO News revealed this clownish article (see thumbnail). They also did an article on why the Black women should date white men. Considering the speculation that white people are having trouble breeding, which is backed by their own science, it's interesting. I thought it was crazy when I first heard but the more I learn about the scientific aspect, the more intrigued I become. Black Planet disrespected their website and haven't done anything to even try and keep their traffic, which they admit, only serves as an advertising platform for their network of radio stations.

AtlantaBlackStar, I'm not too sure about. I spoke with someone who claimed to be the developer of that website and they have held the claim that it is Black owned so I left it alone. But we have to be certain that when we support something to try and empower our people, we are supporting us. For instance, Blackpeoplemeetdotcom is the largest dating website for Black people, yet they are white owned as well.

Our people drop the ball when it comes to technology. Of course, we were once the most technologically advanced at one point. But due to supremacy, which I refer to as inferiority, the jobs were more scarce for us in technology fields. It became the tradition to aim lower because white people wouldn't hire qualified Black scientists and doctors.(this article is enlightening) Low expectations became the new Black standard. 

As far as the use of social media, I am against it in many ways but experience has allowed me to understand its relevance. Facebook, recognizes Nubian Planet for the search term Black Planet which validates the impact and relevance of that social network. Nubian Planet also has a larger presence on Facebook and Google. The site has really gone down.

What I would love to see or be apart of is the development of a Black search engine. Trust me, if I had the right algorithm, one of my sites would be a search engine. This brings me back to your inquiry about knowing technically inclined Black people. I know no one who has the degree of knowledge required to create our technology. I'm sure that there must be some capable, just haven't come across them yet.

@Troy I agree with your perspective brother. But for Black people its baby steps, unfortunately. The biggest disappointment and upsetting thing is that our people are not ready to tear themselves away from white supremacy.  I have seen posts asking Black people what they would do if Facebook went down and some said, kill themselves. I don't think they were kidding. I understand the need to be social, but not the burning desire to be apart of anything that white people do. I know a lot of it has to do with branding and everyone else' leap on us as far as technology. But we can and should be doing better.

That's why you said that it's important that we establish our own media and I agree 1000 percent with that. But in order to do that, it's going to take eyeballs. It's going to take Black people interested and who love all-things Black.

The most important media outlet we own today? Black people own and control no media outlets, at least, no relevant media outlets. Once you compare our wealth with everyone else', you notice how we mainly give it away to everyone else and keep none for ourselves. I don't know if this has to do with programming, ancestry, genetics or why this is the prevalent behavior of our people, but this seems to be the dominant behavior pattern.

@Troy That's the problem with our celebrities. They do NOTHING to empower Black people and Black people respond nonchalantly about it and even make excuses for them not contributing their wealth back to the Black community. This is unheard of in any other culture but not in Black culture, and I would strongly argue, that there is no such thing as Black culture. No principles, customs, ideologies or knowledge that is being passed down that checks us socially. Pretty much, anything goes in the Black community, so much, that a Black man can date a white woman, refer to her as his Nubian queen, and many Black people will cosign nonsense like that. This is why Black men can attack our queens publicly to justify their fantasies of white women. The rabbit hole goes deep. We need to set reasonable expectations socially in our Black communities and we must learn how to control our own media. That is imperative. This website is a needed thing. Our voices are a needed thing. No filters. 

@Delano We didn't disagree brother. We both believe that you can create money or get rich by working for someone else. However, I would argue that being rich and wealthy are not one in the same.

@Troy On a side note, I have posted links to your website on Facebook and Google if that is alright with you. Hopefully, other than branding, it will also bring some visitors and open up more discussion. The group on Facebook is called https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheOfficialNubianPlanetGroup/.  It's a private group about supporting black media and networking.

@Troy I agree with you that these marketing companies are clever. I would argue that there is little that Black men can do about this problem. If we become less responsive to women who wear weave, the women will change and the industry will be forced to change how they market to us. If this ever does change, the boom will shift to natural hair care products, which I am sure will be controlled by the same financial entities who supply the current demand. But truthfully, we spend too much money on things that don't really matter or hold any significant weight. For instance, when I was growing up in an urban area around other poor Black kids, I noticed a terrible flaw. Those kids would want to engage in conversation that would go on for hours about the types of fashion they liked and wanted as well as what their parents were willing to buy them. Ironically, these kids in my neighborhood wore some of the most expensive clothing I have seen people wear at that time. And I am very confident in saying that this was pretty much a ghetto. Not the worst, but a ghetto. 

I think it's the thinking that needs to change. Not just the women, but Black people in general. Too much emphasis is placed on being slaves and not enough emphasis is placed on being kings and queens; gods and goddesses.

@Delano That's good brother. Most Black people with money don't necessarily use their money to empower Black people. In fact, the popular argument I hear in their defense is "why should they have to? They made the money themselves and they should spend it themselves. We should be happy enough with the symbol that we can do the same thing. Let them feed their families and be happy for them. Don't hate." I'm not saying that I agree with this philosophy by any stretch of the imagination, but just to point out the low standards we have for our people and ourselves.

The closest thing Black people have ever had to a Jesus was Barack Obama. Arguably, the most powerful man on the planet for a full 8 years. During this time period, Black people were satisfied with the fact that we appeared to have a Black president. Most cleverly, he created arguments against his opposition that they would not help him. Intellectually, he knew that there was no possibility that they wanted to cooperate with him, but he sold the idea to us that it was their fault because they wouldn't work with him. He made it seem as though certain things were beyond his power, which they were not. His opposition made that clear, laughing about it on a radio show. Obama had no intentions of creating any change that would directly impact Black people. In his defense, I would argue that Black people gave him that platform. It's the symbol that they loved, not what could be gained by having Obama as a president. Even more ironic, Obama will go down in Black history books as a Martin Luther King of our time.  "No scandals."

Black people didn't mind that everyone benefited from Barack's presidency except for Black people. In fact, police have never been more powerful and white supremacy has never been more visible. I don't think nerds with money are the key. I think the solution is to make sure that we have more nerds who care about Black people. They will be the key. If we ever manage to properly organize ourselves in a way that combats our systematic oppression, there will be progress brother!

@Troy Thank you, brother. I think 10 percent is a modest amount of investment to put back into a community that is loyal to the business and ensures that it thrives. This must be the responsibility of the community. If they ensure that Black businesses survive, the payoff for them would be great. Everybody wins as long as nobody goes to Walmart. Of course, these would be local businesses that have direct interaction with their communities.

I understand what you are saying about Black people not buying from you. From my perspective, there are so many reasons for this behavior. But the biggest reason, I believe, is indoctrination. I don't think Black people were so dumb that they just started to criticize Black businesses one day. I remember back in the 80's hearing Black people in Black areas put down Black businesses. It's a shame that we are too easily manipulated, brainwashed to trust anyone else before each other. So we gladly make other's rich and hardly make ourselves rich.

I'm surprised we ever had a Black Wall Street. I wasn't sure why I didn't know this information as a youth. It's because I found out my parents didn't know about it either. When I told my father about Black Wall Street he thought I was making it up. I wanted to believe that Black people got smart and wanted to challenge white supremacy. But as I looked into the history, the only reason Black Wall Street began was that white businesses wouldn't sell to us. Once they destroyed Black Wall Street, they started selling to Black people and even highering them for work - anything to prevent another one from emerging. Think about it, historically when white people attacked us, they didn't think we worth their bullets. They would push us off cliffs. Hang us. Burn us. Cut us. But when they saw we had economic power and was building our own systematic wealth, for the first time in recorded history, white people used a military strike to launch bombs on Black people. What they call a race riot was so much more than that. It was white people enforcing their greatest form of oppression against people of West African descent. They were saying, "Don't ever think about acquiring my money ever again in a systematic way!"

Now I am certain that Black people's behavior is engineered. White people are smart when it comes to their system of oppression. They use keywords.  To my amazement, many Black people don't catch on to the language being used, which allows them to directly insult African people without our knowledge of them even insulting us. No one today holds down Black people more than Black people.

Now it's funny what you said about 99% of those people who buy the books. Guess what brother? That 99 percent of people are also your traffic to this website. Something to ponder. Let me tell you something, on Facebook I created trending content for my website that attracted millions of viewers in a very short period of time. When I researched my traffic and how it trended on Facebook, I saw that some people would go to my website and take content directly from the article and post the entire story on other posts on Facebook. Some people on YouTube even created videos about the same content without mentioning the source of the information, which was unique to my website. I knew that no one else wrote that particular article. It showed me a lot about the behavior and thinking of our people. In fact, the rabbit hole goes much deeper than that...

@Delano I would be inclined to say that you can work for someone else and create money for yourself. You could even get rich working for someone else. The reality that most of us don't grasp is that wealth is set up to be systematic. So I would argue, that you could get rich working for someone else under those conditions that support the systematic structure of the wealth being created. This is why I loved Prince. He put that out there. One of the few musicians of our age who risked everything to x white people out of the picture when it came to building wealth.

I believe that wealth is when we have our own game!