After becoming conscious of how this system of white supremacy works (many yeas ago) when i talk to the older people in my family (most are baby boomers) I hear slight coonin' in their reasoning and thinking. I didn't really notice it when i was younger but now I pick up on a lot of things they say. One of my own personal tests i do on them is ask why didn't more black people back Malcom X . I've heard " he's a trouble maker" "he worships that devil stuff" (Islam). I don't really argue back, I just keep it in the back of my mind and keep my distance.
The baby boomer generation really were a bunch of scared negros who wouldn't go against white people. it's sad to see this type of thinking in my family ,sad actually.

anyone with similar issues?

(grammar police, pull pin on this here round thing)

Making it to be a middle aged black man, FBA, has me thinking back on my mindset as it pertains to the racial structure of these here Americas.

One of my most prevalent thoughts in my twenties and thirties was....how are "these people" all acting the same, to various degrees of barbarism, no matter where you are? How is it as a Black man I can go to another Black man anywhere in the country and say "man it's rough out here" -- "man I can't call it" and we instantly know what is being talked about without further clarification?

Well the answer is obvious now as it was then, Media. How do you get an entire population on code while demonizing another? Movie, Books, Music, News.

I'm not here to insult your intelligence, you know these things already, you've seen the overt movies and read the overt books and heard the overt music and news. But do you think it has abated or do you think it's still here?

Just read this article that is part and parcel of a thousand cuts. (LeBron James can't believe 'Squid Game' creator's retort to his criticism)

"The feud we never knew we needed: NBA legend LeBron James facing off with "Squid Game" creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. One would probably win handily on the basketball court. One would probably defeat the other at the Emmys without breaking a sweat."

How is it, arguably the greatest basketball player living can only "handily" beat an Asian movie director in basketball but the Asian movie director can take out LeBron "without breaking a sweat". This falls into their favorite category of implied Black inferiority and plausible deniability. Neither one of them would "break a sweat" making a movie if we want to go there. Notice the words "win" and "defeat", if you can win that means you can lose, if you "defeat", there's no chance of losing.

You as a black person are bombarded with these micro aggressions and you as a black person are suppose to apologize for being offended.


I present to you a filter that once you start using it, you will not "find" but "observe" the anti-black sentiment in all forms of media/movies. It will actually be an onslaught of anti-black negativity that will/should have you disgusted even with your favorite movies (Color Purple, Magnificent Seven, Black Panther etc etc). First and foremost no matter how painful it is...watch "They Live"..this movie will be your template and adjust your mindset. Once you turn on these filters you won't be able to turn them off.

Filters
Black man is never allowed to be a survivable alpha male (Denzel in Magnificent Seven, Will Smith Legend) (Murder at 1600 with Wesley Snipes you say?? at the conclusion of that movie Wesley yells gun and ducks for cover, Diane Lane while handcuffed jumps in front of the bullet)

Black men and Women couples must always show some sort of discomfort or disdain for each other. Pay attention to commercials with a black woman and man, they are mostly never in loving lock step.

Blacks are always some type of coward. (John Boyega in Star Wars)

Blacks are always traitors (Lando in SW, Denzel Training Day, any secondary black saying it can't be done or it's too dangerous)

Blacks are to give their lives for whites (Will Smith Legend, T-dog TWD) (HONORABLE MENTION to Stowaway on Netflix...def watch that)

Blacks are never in charge (who thought Morpheus was in charge in the Matrix only to find out it was some old white dude? How about Shaw and Hobbs, Idris Elba wasn't even fully in charge as the bad guy. Tomorrow War with Chris Pratt, the Black man was already a veteran of the war but was not even considered to lead the expedition)

Black disrespect (The level of disrespect to a black person often comes out of nowhere, it almost hits you like a ton of bricks. For instance in the movie Brian Banks, there's scene of the Black man tossing up and down a banana in a throw away scene! In Jungle Cruise the white woman is NEVER set up to be some sort of drawing artist but on the boat she's arbitrarily drawing a picture of a monkey while looking at Dwayne the Rock and the picture has no plot device except for back room Hollyweird laughter.

Do you think White people and Black people watched the new planet of the apes movies the same way? The answer is no.

It's easy to say if you don't like it blah blah blah or if you don't like it don't watch or you are too sensitive....well in the real world people disrespect you in these very same ways because they see it all day every day. This is where micro aggression comes from and every time you let it go or don't get too worked up about it.....it will continue to happen to YOU.

We fix this by having a collective outrage about it and demanding that it changes. I can complain in the dark on an island or I can hold hands and complain. One of these scenarios gets things done.

I recently read that America is number one in the world with 28% of children having no father in the home. It makes me wonder if this has ties to all these identity crises happening (making up pronouns, being sexually confused, etc) with the youth and all the failed relationships of young adults.

How do you think it impacts boys growing up without a father?
How do you think it impacts girls growing up without a father?

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Funny how they leave out the white father who was apart of this atrocity, and they only show her mugshot for this article...

... according to this young lady.

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I can't agree with this because hip hop ALONE is good based, and there are so many ways to eat the premise of her argument alive. Just wanted to see what your takes are.

I don't know what it's called but someone might have been having lunch and *BOOM* headshot!


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Settlement Reached in Mother Emanuel AME Massacre

Side Note, Dylan Roof deserves to burn in hell.

Government is considering payments of $450,000 per person affected by Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018​

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma.


If you're Black and vote Democrats...let me get around the swear filter.

FUCK YOU AND EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU.

Sorry about the outburst, so unprofessional of me.

Sex in public, has anyone here done it or known anyone who has? Honestly, I did date this one woman who tried to get me to do the deed in public, but I just couldn't push myself to do it. We didn't last too long anyway, she was cool, but wasn't right for me. But, I was reminded of her recently when I heard about these couples who got caught having sex in a walmart.

So, have you ever had sex in public? Have you dated anyone who did or wanted to?

I saw a place around here that's offering a smores date experience. You get a reserved spot around a fire pit and a bunch of ingredients to make smores and hot chocolate. I thought it would make for a fun date night, especially on a colder night! Have you been on any unique dates?

Some actor named Micah Beals vandalized the new statue that was recently unveiled in New York. No idea who this guy is, but I guess he's done some shows and other work. Probably just trying to get his name out there somehow by being an utter douchebag.

What are some of the dumbest and most random things you can buy online? I've seen a fair share of oddities on Amazon especially. But what are some of the weirdest, most random items you can purchase on amazon and other sites. As well, I figure we could list finds that are just out of this world odd. Idk, lets have some fun with it. I'm sure we've all bookmarked some dumb stuff we found online.

For example, I'll begin with something I'm sure you've all seen. But it's a start to what stuff we should post in here.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday at the company’s Connect event that the company’s new name will be Meta. “We are a company that builds technology to connect,” Zuckerberg said. “Together, we can finally put people at the center of our technology. And together, we can unlock a massively bigger creator economy.”

“To reflect who we are and what we hope to build,” he added. He said the name Facebook doesn’t fully encompass everything the company does now, and is still closely linked to one product. “But over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company.”

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Mark Zuckerberg on why Facebook is rebranding to Meta​

Zuckerberg owns the Twitter handle @meta (whose tweets are protected as of this writing) and meta.com, which now redirects to a welcome page on Facebook that outlines the changes.

As The Verge first reported on October 19th, the rebrand is part of the company’s efforts to shift gears away from being known as just a social media company to focus on Zuckerberg’s plans for building the metaverse. In July, he told The Verge that over the next several years, Facebook would “effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”

Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post Thursday that the company’s corporate structure would not be changing, but how it reports financial results will. “Starting with our results for the fourth quarter of 2021, we plan to report on two operating segments: Family of Apps and Reality Labs” he explained. “We also intend to start trading under the new stock ticker we have reserved, MVRS, on December 1. Today’s announcement does not affect how we use or share data.”

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?
Facebook has been under intense scrutiny over the past several weeks, after revelations based on damning internal documents provided to the Wall Street Journal by whistleblower Frances Haugen showed, among other things, that Facebook’s Instagram platform had become a toxic place for teenagers, especially girls. And antitrust regulators are pushing for the company to be broken up, as public trust in the social media platform is flagging.

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On Monday, multiple news outlets published further details of the internal documents disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to Congress in redacted form. They showed the deep concern among Facebook’s researchers that its user base was aging, and the platform was losing traction among younger generations. The documents also showed Facebook had a tiered system to prioritize which countries would receive enhanced protections around elections.

Early speculation focused on a change similar to Google’s 2015 rebrand when it announced it would become one of several companies under the umbrella of a larger holding company called Alphabet. For Facebook, the original “blue” app would join Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus under a parent company.

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I thought since a lot of us are bound to be Christmas shopping, we could use a thread for online sales. I know for me, I do most of my shopping online these days. Just don't wanna deal with people or the hassle of getting eyeballed and lectured in stores. If you come across anything that is on a good sale or was marked down to an insanely low price, feel free to share it here.