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"When I see Harris & her husband, I see us. Will more BW begin to see the same potential 4 romantic love w/white men? Harris' next 4 yrs in the WH could help provide an answer. The power of Harris'

 Black men, you are officially expendable, at least have the media tell you. And black women, to hell w/black men. White people will reward you handsomely following Harris' lead. Never forget this country was founded on breaking up black families. I predicted this would happen.
Make Michelle Obama white & Barack Obama's campaign doesn't sniff an ounce of support from black women. The reason being was that the picture of an intact black family in power was a beautiful sight for black women & fulfilled their greatest dreams. There is nothing wrong w/this.
There is nothing wrong w/wanting to see black people in love together in power. It's a beautiful sight, but what of Harris? If the Obama's marriage communicated to black people the power of black love in power, what does Kamala Harris' marriage to a white man communicate?
That black men are expendable & that 2 rise in a white world, black men are baggage that U need 2 discard. Think I'm off kilter w/this? Consider the fact that many black women in powerful positions either say little of or attribute little of their success 2 their black fathers.
Think Serena Williams, whose father is responsible for everything her & sister Venus have, but did NOT attend her wedding to a white man. And what about Kamala Harris whose campaign constantly promoted the idea about the possibility of her being the first black woman President,
but said little to nothing about the very man who was genetically responsible 4 giving her blackness, her father Dr. Donald Harris. I could go on & on about this, but the point is simply this, there is a strong narrative on this country's media airwaves that is pro-black women &
anti-black me. Sadly many of our women are falling 4 it. Black women get more opportunity in this country, not b/c they are smarter than black men, but b/c they are less threatening & promoting them over black men either forces a switch of breadwinner roles in black households or
it prevents black people from coupling b/c most black women will not want to be with an unemployed black male even if white society rendered him unemployable. Couple this w/mass incarceration of black males & rendering huge portions of black males convicted felons, America-
brutally shrinks the dating pool for many black women. These are the ingredients 4 breaking up current & future black families that have replaced the auction blocks of slavery where the premier way for breaking up black families was simply selling slaves off 2 another plantation.
Whats maddening is most of our people, especially our women dont see it. Many black women think they are where they are b/c black women worked hard & black men are not b/c they are lazy. The fact that a black woman sees no other black men in her work environment is NOT accidental
This is by design. Think of it this way. When an army invades a foreign land, often the first thing they do is kill all then boys & men. They then take the women for their own as spoils of war. Put simply, whether black women realize it or not, they are the spoils of a war-
started long ago that decimated black families, killed off or incarcerated most black men & the few black men left are rendered unemployable in a white dominated society that refuses 2 hire them or allowed to eke out a living entertaining white people w/many of them marry-
white women. Many black people think their behavior & choices are wholesale independent & made of free will, but economists & actuarial scientists alike know that all human behavior in a capitalistic society is manipulated by capitalistic forces that rewards conformity & punishes
nonconformity. This is why when I encounter black men who swear 2 me their attraction, dating, & marriage to whitewomen is of their own volition, I call bullshit. When interrogated on the genesis of how their mind developed the signals to communicate 2 them what 2 B attracted to,
they are clueless. What you find attractive does not occur in a vacuum. Your mind is constantly taking cues about the world all around you & a good deal of that is influenced by media imagery including television, movies & advertising. Some years ago, my wife & I were in a-
Victoria Secret' in Chicago when I noticed that all the women photographed on the wall were white. Thus, from looking at the walls in that Victoria Secrets, I would think the only beautiful women in the world were white women. U see this in a ton of other things in this society.
European standards of beauty dominate the media airwaves. All media is meant 2 massage ideas n2 the human psyche. For many black men they have been unknowingly inundated w/these standards of beauty since they were little boys. Think of the psychological reprogramming required to-
make a black man view his own mother & sister as ugly & unfit 4 marrying, but view their oppressors as beautiful & desirable. We have no idea the depth 2 which white supremacy has corrupted our brains. I became aware of this yrs ago while reading a study on black women's hair.
The study researched why so many black women who had long hair as little girls had a hard time growing their hair as adults. The research discovered it was due to hair straightening chemicals & overtight braids. I immediately went to my wife & apologized to her for criticizing-
her in undergrad for her hairstyle choices. In those days, I too was brainwashed by European standards of beauty & I wanted her hair long & straight just like the women I saw on tv, in videos & in the movies. Now to be clear, I have never interracially dated or did anything w/a
white woman, but I was still under the influence of European standards of beauty, in particular how a woman should wear her hair. After apologizing to the wife, I told her I loved her just the way she was & I never again wanted her to feel like she had to change her physical-
appearance for me. From that day, I became hell bent on searching every nook & cranny of my brain 2 discover where I'd learned to find somethings beautiful & other things ugly. This deep self analysis took me to some very unflattering & uncomfortable places, but I came out more-
in love w/my wife & more in love w/features of black women gifted 2 them by God. Give me high cheekbones, black skin, thick lips, wide hips, curly hair & a big ass all day long. Many of us are in need of a white supremacy detox before we can ever find each other attractive again.
We have been conquered as a people, but all is not lost. Coupling, tripling, or quadrupling, w/a black person or black people (for all my polyamory Negroes) can be a radical act of countering the effects of white supremacy. Or forget everything I've said here & listen to Kamala.

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POLITICS AS CELEBRITY

I knew this crap was coming sooner or later. People are suffering & these mafuckas out here doing sorority photo shoots. Miss me w/ this bullshit. More of the same. Stop treating politics like its a damn elite club & path 2

Stop playing games w/people's lives & maybe then you wouldn't have so many people suffering. I'm going to file this bullshit next to Michelle Obama's $8,000 Versace dress & $4,000 Balenciaga boots. This shit is

Remember when Barack Obama 1st ran for president & Mrs. Obama was heralded as "The J. Crew" 1st Lady who shopped at Target was just like every other American? That bullshit was a lie. Balenciaga & Versace Michelle is who she always was, but she masked it 2 aid her husband's rise.

Now Kamala Harris, like Michelle Obama, out here w/a Marie Antoinette "let them eat cake" tone deafness while Americans are suffering, the Capitol is burning , a pandemic is raging, people are dying & a civil war is brewing, but Kamala skee-weeing on Vogue covers in pink & green-

like she back on the yard at Howard about to do her probate show. Meanwhile, the Obamas globetrotting w/billionaires, gotta half Bil Netflix deal & hv mansions in Chicago, DC & Marthas Vineyard. Nevermind how they got this entire life of wealth & celebrity was through politics &
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Clock ticking. 2 years until Republicans can take back both houses of Congress. The most important branch of government is not Congress or the presidency. It's the judiciary for they have life appointment. Mitch McConnell understood this

which is why he snatched that Supreme Court appointment from Obama & used Trump to pack the courts w/conservatives. Now Biden & Democrats must respond in kind & make good on a threat FDR made decades ago. PACK THE SUPREME COURT NOW while you have the chance. I say go to 19-

justices & then start term limits of 8 years after all 19 die. No 1 deserves a life appointment for anything. There is no accountability for people w/life appointments. They can do whateva the fuck they want & there is nothing U can do about it. Notice I said after all 19 die.

This would guarantee Biden is able 2 make a serious stamp on the country's future & possible make a complete judiciary break from white supremacy or the judiciary coddling of white supremacy. Never 4get Obama appointed judges who acquitted or let off cops who killed black people.

Congressmen 2 yrs, Presidents 4yrs, Senators 6 yrs & Supreme Court Justices 8 yrs would be a better formula for good government. Supreme Court justices & other federal judges are the true royalty in this country as they serve for life & the ability to remove them by impeachment-
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R.A.F.

Lemme say something-from here on out, whenever U read an article from a major newspaper or watch anything from any public figure in any position, try 2 look up their bio & background. If U cant find anything on them, U should automatically become deeply suspicious

I actually once outed a well known professor for being a fraud. All this started with his British professor colleague joking in class how he loved America b/c most Americans thought he was so brilliant just b/c he had a British accent. He told the class how back home-

he was nothing, but he was given some advice by another British friend that in America he could thrive because they would find him exotic & different. So he left Britain & came to America climbing all the way to the top of the Ivy League. While overseas, I actually ran n2 a Brit-

that knew him & said, "Oh yes, we regarded him as pretty mediocre for our tastes. Many failed British scholars go to America where they can be stars. We send all our mediocrity there." He said that shit very nonchalantly, but with dead seriousness. He said this wasn't just true--

-in academia but in many other fields as well. He called this "the lure of immigrant exotics." He said that human beings have a natural tendency to be attracted to the exotic. He felt many of Britain's failed scholars had cracked the code of parlaying their accent &
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KILLMONGER'S DIARY

Fuck Africa. I'm American. Any African mad at dem words, kick rocks. Don't like it, jump ship. Back 2 Africa. Need receipts. How much yall made off us? U think we didn't know? Mafucka, we the vibranium that made Africa pop. We werent stole. We were sold.

Yall sold us. Then yall hv the audacity 2 come here, pass as American niggas, lecture us about racism & white supremacy, police our emotion, critique our anger & then U have the bravado 2 lecture us about fighting when yall let Europeans come & take yall shit? Fuck out of here.

Immigrants by nature unpatriotic. When times got tough, you left your country. You abdicated the responsibility to make your country better. You didn't fight. You ran. We didn't leave. We stayed. We fighters. Yall runners. Ain't know runner can tell a fighter about a damn thing.

"Erik U dont understand. We wouldve been killed." So the fuck what. We died fo our shit, but yall weren't willing 2 die for yours & now U come here trying 2 cut the line & take our place & Bitch, dont be calling me by my 1st name. We aint cool like that. Thats Mr. Killmonger 2 U.

& we ain' family. I dont play crayola politics so I dont care we got da same skin color. I ain't got no Melanin infatuation like the rest of deese niggas. I's knows what yall done did to us. I gives as much afuck about Africans as George Jefferson gave about Archie Bunker.
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COMPETENCE NEEDED

Remember him? I don't want to hear shit about foregiveness, love & the blood of White Jesus. Dis mafucka should rot in hell. Any black pastor that does this to black people should be hung on an upside down cross & crucified. Real talk.

I absolutely detest this shit. As a preacher, I actually joked about starting the PBI or the Preacher Bureau of Investigation where I form a group that randomly investigates preachers. In many ways, I have felt some black churches have done great damage to black people.

We need our own investigatory agency that keeps preachers under surveillance. Not like J. Edgar Hoover but more like some "To Catch a Predator" w/Chris Jansen type shit. Its more of this shit going on than U think. What's sicker is how quick Negroes quickly 4give these mafuckas.

Black folk are in dire need of a new theology. This hyperfocus on forgiveness & love will be the end of us. We have perverted the ministry of Jesus Christ. Somehow Christians have gotten a monopoly on the understanding of Christ. There were a group of people who followed Christ -

for almost 100 years before Christianity was ever institutionalized as a religion. They didn't have no church, no choir, no pastor, no offering, or no nothing. They were just armed with a witness of a black man who led a protest against the Roman government & was executed for it.
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1) This pic published in the Daily Mail showing debris left after terrorist attack on US Capitol seems relatively unremarkable. But a man in Sweden noticed something: the red scarf at the top with the name of the northern Swedish city of Skellefteå. Then it got interesting.


2) The man contacted his local paper, pointing out the fact that there was a scarf from a northern Swedish city of just 70,000 in the debris of the attack. The paper published the story, with the headline: "What's a Skellefteå scarf doing inside of Congress?"


3) It turns out that, in 2017, the scarf had been offered as a Christmas gift from the city of Skellefteå to people who had moved away from the area. They were told go to a website and order one. A total of 934 people did so, and had received the scarf.


4) Now, natl Swedish media picked up story, wondering if a Swede had participated in the terrorist attack in Washington. Doing a search, the paper Dagens Nyheter found pictures of the man who was wearing the scarf. The first showed him trying to force his way into the Capitol.


5) After breaking through the barriers, the scarf man was later seen toward the front of the mob, waiving an American flag, and no longer wearing his baseball hat...but an official police helmet and visor. Skellefteå scarf still on.
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The Government is making the same mistakes as it did in the first wave. Except with knowledge.

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This strategy failed. It is impossible to 'cocoon' the vulnerable, as Covid is passed from younger people to older, more vulnerable people.

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Talking with Georgie about the horrible crime committed against Brittany Higgins.

I hope Brittany finds some justice, somehow.

Here's the thing: nothing that matters will change.

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* I initially drafted this and was going to delete it because it's too cynical and very bleak, but it's also the truth and Georgie asked me to be brave and post it.

A Royal Commission has changed nothing.
Paris Street's revelation about St Kevin's changed nothing.
Grace Tame's bravery has changed nothing.
The Pell case has changed nothing.
The Wilson case has changed nothing.
The Redress Scheme has changed nothing.

Georgie burning two careers to jail a serial child rapist has changed nothing.
The National Apology has changed nothing.
The hundreds, if not thousands, of people who report sexual assaults each year have changed nothing.

Because the rules don't apply to the people at the top.

If you're at the top, it doesn't really matter if you're a politician, a political staffer, a journalist, a senior police officer, an ADF officer, a bishop, a business tycoon, or anything else.
If you're in the club, you're in the club.
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At least six people providing security for Roger Stone participated in the Capitol attack, our new Visual Investigation shows. Here's how the guards (all Oath Keepers) went from guarding Trump's longtime confidant to standing inside the Capitol on Jan. 6:

Mr. Stone, a convicted felon who was pardoned by Mr. Trump, has a long history as a self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” political operative. On Jan. 5 and 6, Oath Keepers provided security for him, something he himself confirmed.

We combed through hundreds of videos and photos and drew on research from @CTExposers to visually identify Mr. Stone's guards on Jan. 5 and 6. — from that group, these six entered the Capitol during the insurrection.


Here's how. On Jan. 5, Mr. Stone made two public appearances in D.C. in support of Mr. Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud. In the afternoon, he spoke in front of the Supreme Court. Five of the six Oath Keepers we’re tracking can be seen in this video.


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