With all of the opinions, talent, information, insight, energy, passion, and collectiveness available on this site (every board included), Why hasn't OkayPlayer become a driving force behind many of the hot topics within social media? Why haven't we become iconic and massive change agents? Our networking and ability to effect change could be formidable and unstoppable if we applied ourselves. Just think about how many people are on this entire site and then magnify that by at least 30 additional people that we influence within our personal circles and then multiply that and so on.

OKP should be driving trending topics everyday on Twitter and other platforms. News sources should be engaging our feeds looking for the next topic of discussion, leading edge issues and social conversation.

So what's the deal? What's limiting our capacity to become change agents and leaders of relevant conversation on multiple fronts?

When I see this site I see unlimited potential and power that's not being used to do what it should be doing. It's like looking at someone driving a Lamborghini Aventador 80 miles an hr on the autobahn.

We should be making headlines not just posting about them. We should be driving political and social change. We should be organizing movements with precision and elevating real agendas for the betterment of our communities.

What's keeping us and holding us from being what we can be?





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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

On Twitter, you can reach the world

Rallies, Marches, Movements, Tends, Conversation, etc. Our messages would be on CNN, MSNBC, FOXNews, ESPN, Music Mags, Movies Sites.

Bro. This place is like a Nuclear Hogwarts.



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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

this is/was the incubator.

Real talk. Just imagine if we had at least 40 people like Desus to take over Twitter.



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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

To untrained eyes, OKP could very well be stormfront @ first glance.

I kind of like the space it operates in personally. It's almost like the underground comedy club where the greats go to polish up their game or test out new material.

OKP is an incubator....

"Get ready..for your blessing..."

enough of it's users. If we actually championed and encouraged people to do their best in their lanes then we could become a real force for positive change.

Businesses would be born, books written, speaking opportunities created, etc..



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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

impressive? or are we only typing about general discussion?

are you making the case that OKP message board admins owe us something? or should be doing more than keeping the lights on?

>impressive? or are we only typing about general discussion?
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>are you making the case that OKP message board admins owe us
>something? or should be doing more than keeping the lights
>on?


I'm not talking about any of this. Did you even read the OP?


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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

i don't think we do. we seem pretty content in our little okbubble.

>i don't think we do. we seem pretty content in our little
>okbubble.

I believe we can burst the bubble.





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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

i like our semi-private space.

even less eyes here now that 15 has "abandoned" us LOL

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

check yo self.

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

we have corny ass #thatsite t-shirts being sold now

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson


"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

you mean like shut twitter down?

have the most popular hashtags?

you want an automatic tweet function?

you're a madman.

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

Social media and 140 characters on twitter eliminated the hesitation and fear for awkward people.

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

or acknowledge they're even involved. As the demo's gotten older, I'm surprised that aesthetic still exists or that this place is even still around.

Streets won't let me chill.

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

But the internet expanded, and this message board style became somewhat outmoded (even though I still love it and don't want it to change.)

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

hub of the Neo-Soul movement, and that movement represents the generation that's currently about 33 - 45, or so. Most of the activism we're seeing now is being really carried by people from college age to about 35, or so, so there's not as much overlap.

>hub of the Neo-Soul movement, and that movement represents
>the generation that's currently about 33 - 45, or so. Most of
>the activism we're seeing now is being really carried by
>people from college age to about 35, or so, so there's not as
>much overlap.


Young people have always been on the forefront of the Activist movements in this country. That's not new. But that's not the point or the blockage. I'm making an observation about the sustained potential that can lead to complete awesomeness and relevant voices.

I know that some people can't get past the comfort and apathy of not going beyond the borders of the box. But I'm seeing another opportunity to do something now.

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

because this site represents music and culture that mainly their older cousins (us) and in some cases parents, like, not what they like.

If Kanye or Drake or Kendrick or whoever these kids listen to and consider a thought leader now decided tomorrow to make a site just like this one, THAT site would be what you're talking about.

I clearly said that the platform was and how OKP can use it in collaboration.
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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

too settled in their lives to get into that kind of activism.

And lack of vision.

this feels like one of those speeches I get from niggas that's been out of work too long.

not typing that this is baseless, but you kinda just want something to happen RIGHT NOW, and you ain't hardly got 'a plan', more like a rally cry.

there are people growing all around us, so there's no problem there.

do you want there to be more pep rallies? you want us to publish each other's work? someone else typed - what if we don't want that. and that may be the case.

just like my man who ain't had a job in a while, but gets high and then suddenly presents an exciting master plan - that stops just short of the actual plan, but somehow involves all of us.

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

writers get thoughts from here.
activists refine their ideas here.

people get a sense of what ppl that don't think like them are thinking here.

ppl here dissect religion, mysticism, pop culture, politics, sex, and Blackness here.

it's a collective hive mind of
left of center Black ppl.
it's a place to talk where you find that you are not the only
person in the world that is left of center.


And then we log off okayplayer and get shit done in the real world.

this place is soil. it's bears fruit.

I am glad ppl don't claim it because honestly if ppl did
the shit would become as sterile as buzzfeed.

I mean Black Twitter is a thing.
Those in the know know where the shit comes from.


I dunno what you want. There are limits to what social media can do.

The folks that are pushing for change are out here pushing it...
Talking to ppl, building relationships, and gradually
reshaping society into what we want it to be.

Okayplayer is a place for folks doing that to flesh out their shit before it goes mainstream.


I mean shit, I have seen shit on OKP end up in think pieces.

It doesn't matter who gets the "credit" for an idea.

Ideas are viruses. If they start here and then end up in the public discourse, it's better for ppl to not know where it came from.


Let the soil be soil.

Okp is fine.

>writers get thoughts from here.
>activists refine their ideas here.
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>people get a sense of what ppl that don't think like them are
>thinking here.
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>ppl here dissect religion, mysticism, pop culture, politics,
>sex, and Blackness here.
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>it's a collective hive mind of
>left of center Black ppl.
>it's a place to talk where you find that you are not the only
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>person in the world that is left of center.
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>And then we log off okayplayer and get shit done in the real
>world.
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>this place is soil. it's bears fruit.
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>I am glad ppl don't claim it because honestly if ppl did
>the shit would become as sterile as buzzfeed.
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>I mean Black Twitter is a thing.
>Those in the know know where the shit comes from.
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>I dunno what you want. There are limits to what social media
>can do.
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>The folks that are pushing for change are out here pushing
>it...
>Talking to ppl, building relationships, and gradually
>reshaping society into what we want it to be.
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>Okayplayer is a place for folks doing that to flesh out their
>shit before it goes mainstream.
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>I mean shit, I have seen shit on OKP end up in think pieces.
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>It doesn't matter who gets the "credit" for an idea.
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>Ideas are viruses. If they start here and then end up in the
>public discourse, it's better for ppl to not know where it
>came from.
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>Let the soil be soil.
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>Okp is fine.


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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

if you want an okayplayer movement, start it yourself.

decide what you want okayplayer to be, show us an example of what you want done, and then ask others to follow you.

who is stopping you from starting the movement you are looking for?

you don't need our permission.

i told you what okayplayer is to ME. but you can build anything you want for YOU.


you made a post asking why the movement you want hasn't started on okayplayer.

the answer is, you haven't started it yet. but that is YOUR self imposed limitation- not ours.

but you can continue blame us for that if you want to.

I have no problem with that.

the key to happiness is not being rich;
it's doing something arduous and
creating something of value and then
being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor

fuck you.

With your logic scientist would never do anything.

You can't even understand that the question is the source for the solution. Questions are what start progress and the asker of the question is just as important as the inventor of the solution. Therefore SMART GUY, I am leading by example, you're just to limited at this time to understand that fact.


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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

anybody can ask a question but if you don't have any follow through and constantly ask why why why, then you don't have much room to complain.

I be busy as a mugg...not much time for surfin', but thanks to y'all, over the last 14/15 yrs....I GETS the scoop.

Wifey be like, "Did you hear...?"...and mid-sentence I cut her off, "Yep"!

It takes all kinds to make up a world, son. -My pops

I just live for the comments -Da wiz

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

people who never visit here are involved with bigger things, some of us are winning in those regards

Real talk. It's like telling someone to look at an apple tree and asking them to tell me what they see. I get disappointed when they tell me they see an apple tree.

Y'all just see an apple tree. I don't.





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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

But to answer you, several. Real talk. They didn't stay because of the negativity or they were not comfortable with the format. Some still ask about it though. But that's not the proposal or question.

I'm talking about going forward. but there are so many people stuck in the past.




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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

you are always the hero you are looking for.

that advice goes for everybody, especially me.

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but YOU PEOPLE are so unimaginative,
you can't even see what YOU need to do.

Somebody that is not me needs to get this movement going.

Explain yourself!

Tell me why YOU haven't done the thing that I haven't figured out how to do.

I don't even know what it is YOU need to start, specifically.
But if I were to start it, it would certainly be better than this bull crap you ppl are doing.


If only somebody ELSE would get off their ass and do something.

You people are so blind."

smh

I guess you want to handed to you. NO. Why don't you join in with some productive ideas and we can mover forward.





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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

i don't want or need okp to be different.

i don't think okp is the best vehicle to get anything I am building off the ground.

It's a great place to think out loud before I take things onto the real world, but that is all I use it for.

YOU are the one that thinks it could or should be different.

Well, that's great.
Maybe you're right.

So do it.

Don't ask me to use my creative juices to build YOUR vision.


Why should ppl help you do that
when you haven't even started the movement you want?

Jesus showed his disciples miracles before he asked them to follow.

What have you shown us?

We don't even need a miracle.
Just start building and ask others to build with you.

Or just keep begging for us to give you what you can't imagine.

Your choice.

>I guess you want to handed to you. NO. Why don't you join in
>with some productive ideas and we can mover forward.
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>"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
>with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
>and believe in your heart that
>God raised him from the dead,
>you will be saved."

or harness the power that it has and you can't even see it.
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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

what do you think can OKP be that it's hasn't been?

what are you doing to get it there?

fuck you.

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

awesome.

so that's what i'm doing too - i'm asking questions and by doing so i'm helping move OKP into the next phase of what it should be according to your vision.

b/c all i have to do is ask questions.

can i do it again?

^^ it's already done.

didn't i do it?

fuck you.

But I'm sure you would have hated on that fact too.


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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

^ that's so deep i just blew your mind.

he who asks the questions controls the universe.

i am your god.

of course you can't see it b/c you have a limited mind. but i see it - i control all things. i am god. b/c i ask questions.

who says i'm not god?

exactly.

it's already done.

fuck you.

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

you can't see where i'm going w/this b/c you don't have the vision.

fuck you.

"did god tell you can't have that fruit, eve?"

see... the question is what did it. the question is an attempt to be god.

Satan asked Jesus questions to tempt him in the wilderness.

Jesus answered his questions with questions, because whoever asks the questions is defining the universe, becoming a god.

Look at case, trying to be God.

you see it.

fuck you.

do you talk about OKP to your congregation?

Kids that get caught with a joint can get a civil citation
instead of an arrest record for life.

We met with legislators,
went to subcommittee meetings,
kept the pressure on until it passed.

Some of the talking points we used came from ppl on this site.
Those ppl don't know it,
but their ideas influenced republican legislators to pass a law.

Now tell me...

What's wrong with okayplayer?
And how can we use it better?

You should set the example.

We are doing us just fine.


What's your plan?

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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

Pastors did it.
Church goers did it.

We did it by getting off our ass and changing ourselves first.

Like Jesus did.

What you got?
Show us the way, if you can.

Or keep complaining about what we're not doing.

Your choice, player.

you're just supposed to ask a question and then VOILA!! you've done it.

just ask the questions. don't do anything else. that's enough. put the question in the universe and sit back and enjoy the glow.

fuck you.

>Real talk. It's like telling someone to look at an apple tree
>and asking them to tell me what they see. I get disappointed
>when they tell me they see an apple tree.
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>Y'all just see an apple tree. I don't.

if you show someone an apple tree, what do you see that they are missing?

>>Real talk. It's like telling someone to look at an apple
>tree
>>and asking them to tell me what they see. I get disappointed
>>when they tell me they see an apple tree.
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>>Y'all just see an apple tree. I don't.
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>if you show someone an apple tree, what do you see that they
>are missing?


Think about out. Most people See an Apple Tree. I see more. I see the potential for more Apple Orchards - Seeds!

The potential for other products and goods such as :

Plain apple slices for food
Apple butter
Pies
Home-canned apple pie filling
Fruit leather
Apple sauce
Apple Kuchen
Apple jelly
Fried apples
Apple pancakes
Dehydrated apple slices
Apple chutney
Baked apples
Apple juice
Apple pectin
Plant apple trees
Apple cider vinegar
Apple crisp
Apple cobbler
Apple turnovers
Apple cider
Apple strudel
Apple jam
Apple cake
Apple fritters
Indian Relish


All most people can see it the obvious. They have no imagination.





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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

>Think about out. Most people See an Apple Tree. I see more. I
>see the potential for more Apple Orchards - Seeds!
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>The potential for other products and goods such as :
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>Plain apple slices for food
>Apple butter
>Pies
>Home-canned apple pie filling
>Fruit leather
>Apple sauce
>Apple Kuchen
>Apple jelly
>Fried apples
>Apple pancakes
>Dehydrated apple slices
>Apple chutney
>Baked apples
>Apple juice
>Apple pectin
>Plant apple trees
>Apple cider vinegar
>Apple crisp
>Apple cobbler
>Apple turnovers
>Apple cider
>Apple strudel
>Apple jam
>Apple cake
>Apple fritters
>Indian Relish
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>"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
>with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
>and believe in your heart that
>God raised him from the dead,
>you will be saved."

the apple tree might be fine as it is.

ever think of that?

Limits. Some people embrace them.


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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare
with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

i see a whole town powered by apple core compost.

i see major motion picture franchises built around Apple Man - a superhero who draws his strength from apples.

...it's fun to just sit around making up random stuff about an apple tree w/o considering logistical matters. especially when i've invited ppl to join me but didn't tell them i want them to brainstorm about possible uses for an apple tree. it's fun for me b/c i get to feel smarter and more imaginative than them even though i kinda hid the ball when i invited them to join me where i didn't reveal my goal for the interaction. it's pretty great.

anyway, i also see a whole civilization built around worshiping an apple as a god figure. temples and such...an entire belief system w/the apple as deity. all life created and sustained by the apple.

fuck you.