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.. back when it first started, it logged $1.07 million spent with Black owned businesses in 6 weeks (most of that, probably in the DC area, where the project is based, so I would say nationwide it was 3x that in 2020. Now, I'm sure it's $5-8mill more in 2022) ...

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Terms And Conditions For Admission to the United States of America

We all know that EVERY OTHER GROUP is against us getting #reparations, or even just us getting a fair chance and to not be treated as the bottom caste in a country our literal blood, sweat and tears built for free. They want to come here and benefit from what our ancestors made possible, but think they don’t have to show us any appreciation, or acknowledge us as equal human beings deserving of justice. So I decided to come up with a #TermsAndConditions letter that every immigrant who has come here should be required to agree to before being admitted.


Terms and Conditions for Admission and Residency in the
United States of America

Greetings to all applicants for admission to and residency in the United States of America. As we are certain that you are aware, there are countless benefits and opportunities to being a citizen of the U.S., as well as for visiting students, workers, and tourists. But first, before you can be admitted into the U.S., there are certain terms and conditions you must become familiar with and agree to.
1) You are not allowed to disparage or insult the citizens of America whose ancestors were enslaved here(American Descendants Of Slavery), and whose deaths, pain, and sacrifices enabled America to become the richest nation in the history of the world. You must show them and their ancestors the respect they have earned by creating the wealth and opportunities that have made America the place you have decided to emigrate to, and visit.

2) You are not allowed to use any racial epithets when addressing, talking about, writing about, or depicting these citizens. Just because you may hear certain words or phrases used by them when addressing each other, or describing themselves, in person or in the media, you are not free to use these words or phrases. If you hear others not of ADOS lineage, use those words or phrases, you still are not free to use them.
3) You are not allowed to complain about any benefits or assistance citizens of ADOS lineage are awarded, whether or not you feel those benefits or assistance are fair or deserved. You are not in a position to determine the justness, fairness, deservedness, or legality of the awarding of those benefits and assistance. You are not allowed to try to intentionally stop or hinder the awarding of those benefits and assistance by using tax avoidance, concealment, lawsuits, or other deceptive measures.
4) You are not allowed to represent yourself as being of the ADOS lineage, to gain access to benefits and assistance that are supposed to be awarded to citizens of the U.S. whose lineage is ADOS. Even if you do not proactively try to engage in lineage fraud and/or false representation of your lineage, if institutions or businesses mistakenly believe your lineage to be ADOS, and you are deemed eligible for benefits and assistance created as recompense for those of ADOS lineage, you are required to immediately correct them, and reveal you are not of ADOS lineage, and declare yourself ineligible.You are also not allowed to claim cultural innovations, styles, inventions, and other creations that ADOS citizens clearly created were created by yourself or other non-ADOS people.
5) If you have a business, or are in a position of authority in a business, or in the government, you are not allowed to discriminate against, in any way, the hiring or promotion of ADOS. If you have a business in an area where the majority of residents and/or customers are citizens of ADOS lineage, you are required to ensure that a minimum of 50% of your employees are ADOS.If you possess property, for rent or sale, you are not allowed to discriminate against, in any way, the rental or sale of that property to citizens of ADOS lineage.
5) At the bottom of these Terms and Conditions is a list of non-fiction books that detail some of the history of the enslavement of the ancestors of the ADOS citizens, and of the treatment in the United States of the ADOS peoples since their kidnapping and arrival here in America. These books demonstrate why these Terms and Conditions are necessary to be understood by, and agreed to by all applicants who wish to partake in the opportunities and enjoyment that living in America can offer. In order to ensure that applicants comprehend the necessity of these Terms and Conditions, they are required to read at least 4 books on the list(we actually recommend ALL Americans read the books on this list), and then submit a 1000 word essay, with references and source citations to the books , describing how they show the Terms and Conditions for Admission to the United States are reasonable, fair and necessary to the health and prosperity of the country they wish to come to. This essay will be reviewed by a group of advisors appointed by the builders of the modern American Reparations movement, the American Descendants of Slavery Advocacy Foundation, to determine your grasp of the historical facts, and they will make the final determination regarding your admission.
If you decide that you do not agree to these terms and conditions, have a safe journey back to your home!

Thank you for your application, and good luck!

Book List
Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It by David M. Robertson


American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan


When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson


How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev


Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.


They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers


The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran


Immigration and the Remaking of Black America by Tod G. Hamilton


Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson


The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood 
by Tommy J. Curry (Author)
Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American Illustrated Edition
by G. Cristina Mora (Author)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
by Daina Ramey Berry (Author)
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
by Joshua D. Rothman (Author)
From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
by William A. Darity (Author), A. Kirsten Mullen (Author)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: The Original 1845 Edition (The Autobiography Classics)
by Frederick Douglass (Author)
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition (Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies) Paperback – May 13, 2020
by Ida B. Wells (Author)

Fortnite: Reboot Rally Returns!

Reboot Rally Returns in Fortnite: Rally Your Friends and Earn the Snikt! Snikt! Emote and More!

This Reboot Rally runs from
December 13, 2022, at 9 AM ET to January 10, 2023, at 9 AM ET.

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Note: An eligible returning/new player is anyone who has played less than 2 hours of Fortnite in the 30 days leading up to December 12, 2022. An active player is anyone who has played more than 2 hours of Fortnite in the 30 days leading up to December 12, 2022.

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More info: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/reboot-rally-returns-in-fortnite-rally-your-friends-and-earn-the-snikt-snikt-emote-and-more

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Fortnite: Winterfest 2022

Fortnite Winterfest 2022 is here! Unwrap Presents for Free In-Game Items, Use Festive Tools, and More!

Winterfest 2022 runs from Dec. 13, 2022, at 9 AM ET to Jan. 3, 2023, at 9 AM ET.

Winterfest Quests to get extra XP are also available.


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Investing in Stocks and other such risky investments

So I have never invested in anything major, but have always been curious about the inner workings of how stocks work, along with how to invest in them. Has anyone here invested in a stock? Maybe you bought shares in a company or something similar to that.

I wouldn't mind learning myself, because I am always looking for other ways of making money. But I imagine it's also not an easy thing to get into. Does it take a while to learn?

Prefer cold or hot weather?

Which do you prefer, cold or hot weather? I personally prefer more cool/warm. Maybe around 60s-70s. I can't do anything too hot, otherwise I sweat up a storm. I think my limits reach around 80 and up.

On the other hand, I much more prefer colder weather, because I hate to sweat and cooler weather allows me to wear a comfy hoodie and sweatpants.

What's your preference? I like things right about in the middle.

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NBA Unveils New MVP Trophy Named After Michael Jordan

The new Michael Jordan Trophy, which will be given to the NBA's MVP, weighs 23.6 pounds and stands 23.6 inches tall, a mash-up of Jordan's No. 23 jersey and six championship rings.

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LOS ANGELES — As the capstone to a sweeping overhaul of its trophy collection, the NBA on Tuesday unveiled a redesigned MVP trophy that was renamed to honor Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan.
While the Michael Jordan Trophy bears his name and includes several nods to his Hall of Fame career, the 59-year-old insisted during the nine-month design process that the formidable bronze sculpture not be in his likeness.

“For Michael, naming the award in his honor was recognition enough,” said trophy designer Mark Smith, a retired Nike executive and longtime Jordan confidant.
Instead of mimicking the spread-legged dunking pose featured on the Jordan statue outside Chicago’s United Center and on his “Jumpman” logo, the Michael Jordan Trophy features a basketball player soaring out of a rocklike stand and reaching up to grasp a crystal basketball. Smith eschewed other ideas, such as re-creating memorable playoff shots against the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1989 and the Utah Jazz in 1998, in favor of a universal silhouette that symbolizes a player’s rise to greatness. Though the trophy’s figure is bald like Jordan, he isn’t depicted in a Bulls jersey and his shoes don’t bear Nike logos.
Zion Williamson’s dunk made the Suns mad and should put NBA on notice
“[Jordan] wanted the player who wins this trophy to think about his own journey,” said Christopher Arena, who oversaw the redesign as head of the NBA’s on-court and brand partnerships team. “His vision was that the player who wins this would see his own hard work reflected in the trophy, not just a statue of Michael Jordan. He didn’t want the trophy to be him taking the ‘Last Shot’ or jumping and fist-pumping.”

The trophy nevertheless includes several subtle tributes to Jordan, who has owned the Charlotte Hornets since 2010. The trophy weighs 23.6 pounds and stands 23.6 inches tall, a mash-up of Jordan’s No. 23 jersey and six championship rings. Similarly, the trophy boasts a striking 23-sided crystal basketball and a six-sided nameplate. The black base has five sides and descends at a 15-degree angle, referencing Jordan’s five MVP awards and 15-year career with the Bulls and Washington Wizards.
Careful observers of the statue will note that the player’s upper body is lighter and brighter than his lower body. Victor Solomon, a Los Angeles-based artist who will manufacture the Michael Jordan Trophy, said the gradual color change represents the struggles that an MVP must overcome during his career.

The Michael Jordan Trophy features a rock base and a gradient design that symbolize the challenges an MVP must overcome during his career. (Andrew Kenney/NBA)
“This player is breaking out of this rock and breaking out of this raw form,” Solomon said while showing off the finished product at his El Segundo studio. “This hand-burnished gradient technique takes it from that rough grittiness, to symbolize where the player came from, to the warm tone at the top. As you go up the form, the figure becomes more finely tuned and more formally realized. This is the journey from rawness into excellence as they’re reaching up for the diamond ball.”

Arena said selecting Jordan as the MVP trophy’s namesake was a straightforward decision given his accomplishments and his status as one of most revered icons among current players. Jordan’s five MVP awards — he won in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1996 and 1998 — are tied with Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell for second all-time behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s six with the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers.
The NBA renamed its Finals MVP trophy after Russell in 2009 and unveiled a Social Justice Champion award with a trophy in Abdul-Jabbar’s honor in May. Following Kobe Bryant’s death in 2020, the NBA renamed its All-Star Game MVP trophy after the Lakers legend. When the NBA updated its Larry O’Brien Trophy before the 2022 Finals, it also added Eastern Conference finals MVP and Western Conference finals MVP trophies named after Celtics forward Larry Bird and Lakers guard Magic Johnson, respectively.

The MVP trophy was previously named after Maurice Podoloff, the league’s first commissioner. Last week, the NBA announced that it had created a new award, to be presented to the team with the best record at the end of the regular season, that would be named in Podoloff’s honor.

Additionally, the NBA conceived new trophies that honor significant figures from the league’s history in conjunction with its major end-of-season individual awards: the Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy for Defensive Player of the Year, the Wilt Chamberlain Trophy for Rookie of the Year, the George Mikan Trophy for Most Improved Player and the John Havlicek Trophy for Sixth Man of the Year. To complete the lineup, the NBA created the Clutch Player of the Year award and named its trophy after Lakers great Jerry West.
These end-of-season award trophies were designed by Solomon, who sought to create a cohesive feel for the awards with 15-inch crystal cylinders that sport a net design on the back. Suspended inside each cylinder is a gold “Trophy Man” that, Solomon said, was an “anthropomorphized version of the NBA’s logo posed into an orientation that referenced the namesake or the theme of each trophy.”

The Wilt Chamberlain Trophy, given to the NBA's Rookie of the Year, features a suspended gold “Trophy Man” palming basketballs in each hand, a pose inspired by a photo of the Hall of Fame center. (Andrew Kenney/NBA) (NBA)
The Rookie of the Year trophy was inspired by a photograph of Chamberlain palming basketballs with both hands simultaneously, while the Clutch Player of the Year trophy features a West-like figure shooting a jump shot. The Defensive Player of the Year has the figure crouched in a defensive stance with one hand raised, and the Most Improved Player trophy pays homage to the “Mikan Drill” with the player practicing a layup.

The trophy naming process was exhaustive, with input coming from across several departments in the league office and from the National Basketball Players Association’s executive committee as the NBA attempted to “slot” decorated former players alongside its existing awards.
“As we recognize the league’s top performers each season, we also pay tribute to the legends who embody these prestigious awards,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.
Olajuwon, a two-time Defensive Player of the Year, was selected in part because he is the league’s all-time leader in blocked shots. Chamberlain was tabbed for Rookie of the Year because he won the award in 1960 by averaging a league-leading 37.6 points and 27 rebounds. Havlicek, who won eight titles with the Celtics, helped popularize the super-sub role, but he retired before the NBA began handing out its Sixth Man award in 1983. West was nicknamed “Mr. Clutch” for his late-game heroics.

The updated award trophies are intended to last until the NBA’s 100th season, but the league has other new designs in the works, including a trophy that will be named after former commissioner David Stern and a full refresh of the WNBA’s collection.
Jordan will receive the original Michael Jordan Trophy, which Arena said will serve as “the exclamation mark on his five.” Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic will be the first active player to receive a Michael Jordan Trophy in recognition of his 2022 MVP award; the NBA will retroactively bestow its redesigned trophies to the players who won major awards during the NBA’s 75th season.
“When fans look at the Michael Jordan Trophy, I hope they see elegance,” Arena said. “He was such an elegant player.”

December 17th, 2022 10:00 AM PT reparations discussion

Screenshot_20221212-215709.png Lotte's & Briayna's presentation:
The Racial Wealth Gap: Understanding the Economic Basis for Repair
Saturday, December 17th, 2022
10:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM MT / 1:00 PM ET
With Lotte Lieb Dula & Briayna Cuffie
Online!
Please join us for a conversation with Lotte Lieb Dula and Briayna Cuffie creators of reparations4slavery.com as we explore different aspects of the movement for reparations.
We’ll look at the genesis of white wealth in parallel with the historical harms that resulted from the enslavement of African Americans, creating the current 10-to-1 racial wealth gap, using Lotte’s and Briayna’s family histories as the backdrop for our conversation. We’ll also look at retooling harmful family narratives around prosperity that uphold the culture of white supremacy. Includes Q and A session.

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