Kalexander2

@Pioneer1. The means, brother, is any ‘best’ option available that grants one the ability to excel beyond the ordinary. An ‘end’ is just that, the end which everyone eventually approaches. Education, unless you have a better ‘best’ option, is the most available best option where our people get the rare opportunity to face the ‘end’ with dignity and on terms other than at another’s mercy. Anyone who endeavors an education to beg someone else for an opportunity, or for the sole purpose of getting rich had already lost. Thus, the term “educated fools.” No, education is the vehicle whereby we make our motion better. Make her/his actions meaningful and effective. All things considered, modernism, post-reconstruction, providing one’s own living standards; building houses, etc. is no easy feat. I understand ancient African nations lived off the “fat of the land” with little more than community cooperation. But then came domestication of livestock, controlled agriculture, all controlled by someone else. Instead of ancient “hunting and gathering” on an as-needed chore. America is not Africa, and even African cannot survive by today’s standards Additionally, the system you assert White men set-up wasn’t set-up by White men at all. There were over 1000 universities in Africa while White folk was still eating raw meat. And as beholden to White folk, fuck debt, try to collect it when I’m dead because my children will know how to keep you out of their pockets. Institutions you claim we should establish just won’t happen without approval from the Government, I guarantee we won’t get since it is already their effort to keep us uninformed and dependent on construction jobs and in factories at non-livable wages. Finally, show me a Black adult or youth person who is unable to learn, or lack the capacity, discipline to commit to learning advanced information and I’ll show a person who has mental emotional disadvantages; burdens of which are not an asset to the community. Thank God for jails, mental hospitals, and prisons that separate the sane who are awake, from insane who may never come out of slumber. I refuse to believe someone who understands how to solve a quadratic equation won’t crave learning analytical calculus. Or conversing with our Black scholars won’t lead them to learn philosophic logic and reasoning. In-fact a Black person has the capacity for the sciences and academics to levels unheard of if committed to the discipline. Please, don’t mimic Gorka, Bannon, Betsy Davis and the other White ethnocentric mentalities that advocate inferiority of Black folk. Change your mind about higher education!

@Troy, wrong one. I attempted to download to my google drive and share with you. Please delete that file it's what I use pre-write posts. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kJ8qO5jl3-nY3uQco_hf8ehepl8ijES7/view

We, humans, are programmed to survive by any means necessary. Education, brother @Pioneer1 is not an easy undertaking, wouldn't be worth the while if it were. However, I'd prefer my brothers and sisters get into debt way, way over their heads in student loans than chance deviant behavior in today's America. I recently communicated with a brother serving 12 years in a Federal USP max, he says the biggest fear the inmates there have is the possibility of the Bureau of Prisons killing inmates in time of foreign war on US soil, some standing order which I'm still unable to find. What I'm saying is, please don't knock education, it may be the last bit hope we have. While I agree that education is not necessarily a solution to poverty or other barriers to Black advancement, it is probably the only solution in the form of hope. You know, that aspirin that temporarily alleviates certain ailments, not meant to cure or end suffering only allow some comfort. Like, brother @Troy alluded to earlier, technology has come a long way and promises to leave the uninformed behind; that unless we are able to exercise some form of disciplined creativity there's no way to even know to where to start surviving. Disciplined creativity comes from advance information, education. I sincerely hope you don't encourage people to see education as a useless tool!

Well, it's new to me and I require for data analysis and coding formation.

The ladder is more likely the case. An overachiever to be sure. I cannot see Ben Carson being bullied by anybody, too intelligent for that and too detailed oriented. Fitting in was probably never a probably issue either. He see himself above White men which is why ran for the oval office, short-lived when he realized his first love, any success at any cost. That brother is too ambiguous, a problem he sees as it is, a problem but it brought him too far to check it. I do believe.

GREAT!! I'm using SPSS. Ah ha, cocky too! Though I may overconfidence.

@Troy, the order to me means your first impression of a White person crying is BS but open to empathy, meaning you are a normal compassionate person. A realist without blinders You brother @Pioneer1, are probably a cynical person who look for advantages, manipulation of anyone who wrongs you and regret it later. Like I said, it's just a research question, the information will be entered into a statistics data app I learning to use.

@Pioneer1, don’t be too hard on brother Carson, he’s simply doing what any reasonable person would do to survive. He’s one of the millions of Black folk who’d sell their soul to the devil for a miserable benefit. But I do take a second opinion as to him being brilliant. If he truly were he wouldn’t position himself with DT. His career as a surgeon also comes into question in as much as John Hopkins U. is concerned. Now I’m simply being partial toward obscurity vs. significance to Black needs which he failed. Sorry! Go to this post

@Pioneer1, wow, brother, got to love your passion for the truth. Thanks for the share!

True that!!

@Troy, you really think so? So, you submit White folks are so imbued with hatred and stupidity that they are willing to commit suicide in hope to get their way?

@Delano, but it really is the same world. Yes? And I assure you I live in the same world as you. But what I don’t understand is why, how a brother as yourself victimized by the system in ways most common among our Black brothers, incarceration, poverty, and lack of exposure remain to be suckas and fall for the same hoky dok time and again. What you need, brother, is a check-up from the neck up. And a not a doctor, but some college text books to expand your own horizons.

I for one am very impressed with you profound analysis sister @Zaji. Indeed, we are all subject to the same U.S. State power machine. I wish someone would wake White folks up to that fact so they realize they are the true targets. Black folk has never been that important or powerful to target for anything except a consumerist base. But be careful sister. Are you sure you’re ready to handle the answer about to come to you. WE’RE ALL SCREWED and there is no solution in the end!! The tunnel we’re all going through opens up to a bigger tunnel. Trying to turn back to the light is a mirage. EVERYTHING WILL NOT BE ALRIGHT like our mothers told us. This is a reason I choose to be a 'crisis theorist' instead of a funtionlist because the negative far outweigh the position. Forget the "don't nobody bring me no bad news" proposition of wizard of oz's wicked witch of the north. The good news will prove to be really bad news.

@Troy, I apologize for not replying before now, it was about 5pm when I couldn’t keep my eyes open any more. It’s 11:45am now and after more than 35 hours without sleep the body gives in. The last major American conflict on U.S. soil was a civil war, not a revolution contrary to some opinions. It started, mainly about the railroad spanning north and south; along with some other economic issues. Slavery was a bi-issue solely because the Government needed more soldiers offering freedom from bondage to Blacks who served in the military. Nobody liked it, actually not even the north, but they needed the damn railroad. “John Henry” anyone? At that time war profiteers such as the railroad and others were the “shoddy” millionaires who allegedly sold recycled wool and cardboard shoes to the soldiers. In a logical sense I guess one could say the American civil was the first sign pregnancy diagnosis of what would become - what is now known as corporations right to influence war for personal gain; better known as the international organization ‘North Atlantic Treaty Organization’ (NATO), the real American war machine. It’s important to thoroughly understand all the above to analyse the possibility of an American civil war today, the players and possible outcome. And, of course a civil war would be initiated by Whites against the Government while killing as many Blacks as possible. I can see it happening threefold. Blacks killing whites who arbitrarily attack them, and a partisan U.S. Congress taking sides. The military, National Guard, and State law enforcement also taking sides.

Well said, sister! It’s true, human nature is as unpredictable as the human factor that kicks whenever stimulated. But there’s the possibilities of cause and effect unpredictability that merits more than just questionable expectations that can go either way. Is the wait for Black folks over? That’s yet to be seen, one thing is almost certain; the ‘now’ cause and effect is not at all encouraging.

Please, don't do that either. It's what they want!

"Why" do you need a passport? As another option to keep you from doing something stupid when you realize you’re surrounded and they’re not taking any prisoners. Yes, Fox news does endorse Captain America, Wonder Woman, etc., as White heroes upholding the White spirit of America. But hardly mean we should think the movie Black Panther validates the African American struggle. Where do I spend my money? Across the checkpoint in Palestine (mostly Ramallah) to avoid enriching Israel, directly that is.

Brother @Delano, if it’s an argument vs. a debate you want. You just got it, brother. That’s like saying you have no goals or aspirations to achieving something worthwhile. When in-fact you are ‘engaged’ right now at this very moment. As I previously asserted with great conviction “Black folk really fail to think, rethink, and think again before we express ourselves” have you any idea what it means to be disengaged with the beliefs of other people? I mean, come on, brother, really? I do believe that’s the first time post I’ve read where you make absolutely no sense at all!

I understand the excitement of special election wins by Democrats, Dong Jones, Conor Lamb, etc. And I see the importance of blocking the doors to more of Trump’s nepotism and political opportunists, paving the way for possible impeachment or criminal indictment; but am I unreasonable to condemn African American enthusiasm of a Democratic control of Congress that may only stall the inevitable, whatever that is?

That’s wise to avoid time not well spent. But as a thinking, involved Black man you should be always prepared to question everyone’s belief, including your own.

Perhaps, but the somewhat credible assessment of the media reporting Justice and State Department fears infer probability White nationalists could result to armed retaliation for removal of President Donald Trump from office. The ballot vote on the streets.

No, brother @Delano probably less than you do. I just see his point a different way!

Snap!! But it's hardly over, the Government can't take the chance of an armed uprising from Trump's base. The man's power of persuasion over undeterred White Nationalists is dangerous to say the lease. Not to mention constant chatter of White terrorist group promoting race war.

@Delano & @Zaji, Black Panther, the movie, indeed, stimulated African American emotions as well as White emotions (inspired) but to what end? Seems White folks have more of something to despise and Black folk are seemingly doing nothing more than celebrating the ‘we can make believe too’ or ‘what if’ we had similar imagination. Which is not the call to action or change of thinking which ‘inspiration’ is meant to do. White folk looking at photos of Blacks hanging from trees are inspiration to lynch more or imagine a world where it’s legal and okay to kill Black folk. With the exception of some, Blacks point to the same photo and complain. Inspiration of the Black Panther Party sprung into action from empirical experience living in America. What was the ultimate plight of that movement? The NAACP was inspired observing policies aimed to permanently cement marginalization of Blacks to only end up in the State Department’s pockets. The Nation of Islam was inspired by all the above, especially power of Christianity in Government; to see Malcolm X assassinated after his inspirational pilgrimage to the Kaaba in Mecca. No way was American going to let him bring the message of true Islamic thinking to Black folk, not with the BBP, NAACP, Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and others waking folks for their slumber. Not when it's easier to sway Honorable Elijah Muhammad who had already begun practicing ways of White folk. I apologize for being a bit long-winded here but it’s important brother @Troy be understood. White America’s effort to discourage Blacks has, for the most part, worked. The movie does nothing more than give Blacks some quality family time at the theater, a box of popcorn, and a sense of false pride while the studios make bank deposits. That’s what I think the brother is saying. I invite him to correct me if I’m wrong. Where pure simplicity is a form of complete excellence I am always suspicious of the one-size fits all rationale. That the inspiration of art, ideas makes beauty of the ‘intangible’ an of intellectual importance.

@Delano & sister @Zaji, Black Panther, the movie, indeed, stimulated African American emotions as well as White emotions (inspired) but to what end? Seems White folks have more of something to despise and Black folk are seemingly doing nothing more than celebrating the ‘we can make believe too’ or ‘what if’ we had similar imagination. Which is not the call to action or change of thinking which ‘inspiration’ is meant to do. White folk looking at photos of Blacks hanging from trees are inspiration to lynch more or imagine a world where it’s legal and okay to kill Black folk. With the exception of some, Blacks point to the same photo and complain or uslessly die for fighting back the wrong way. Inspiration of the Black Panther Party sprung into action from empirical experience living in America. What was the ultimate plight of that movement? The NAACP was inspired observing policies aimed to permanently cement marginalization of Blacks to only end up in the State Department’s pockets. The Nation of Islam was inspired by all the above, especially power of Christianity in Government; to see Malcolm X assassinated after his inspirational pilgrimage to the Kaaba in Mecca. No way was American going to let him bring the message of true Islamic thinking to Black folk, not with the BBP, NAACP, Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and others waking folks for their slumber. Not when it's easier to sway Honorable Elijah Muhammad who had already begun practicing ways of White folk. I apologize for being a bit long-winded here but it’s important brother @Troy be understood. White America’s effort to discourage Blacks has, for the most part, worked. The movie does nothing more than give Blacks some quality family time at the theater, a box of popcorn, and a sense of false pride based on nothing more than a usless message through moving images, while the studios make bank deposits. That’s what I think the brother is saying. I invite him to correct me if I’m wrong. Where pure simplicity is a form of complete excellence I am always suspicious of the one-size fits all rationale. That the inspiration of art, ideas makes beauty of the ‘intangible’ and of intellectual importance. That unless you know the fountain-of-youth is, make sure you have a valid passport and some cash handy.